Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Digital♦ Sea gives us a beautiful visualization of someone being abducted by aliens in Second Life. I am surprised there wasn’t a flood of alien invasion pics after a few retired military pilots testified to having witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) before Congress last summer. Of course, the most surprising testimony was from an intelligence officer that the military had recovered non-human biological material from a crash. Sadly, it was hearsay, what he claimed he had been told, not what he witnessed.
I am certain there is intelligent life in the universe, but not at all certain they have visited us as they have the same physics problems to overcome that we do. However, back in the 90s with my first computer, I began volunteering its background time to Seti@Home, the distributed computing effort to find intelligent life. It’s done collecting data now so now I have my computer working for World Community Grid now and am getting close to 6 million units of work done on medical research.
While I write this column, numbers are crunching in the background. I just set my parameters years ago when I installed the app and let it do its thing and never think of it. It’s probably more useful crunching numbers for vaccines than for intelligent life, but it was more exciting imagining Contact!.
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“Up There” is another visitation. This kind of reminds me of Wyatt Cenac’s genius TV series, “People of Earth” which was sadly canceled after two seasons. I love how there is this fog in the open clearing merging land and sky. Is the fog an effect of the spaceship? If so, it must radiate cold air as this sort of fog comes from warmer ground and cooler air. It’s a cool effect and certainly a spaceship that radiates cold would operate a completely different sort of propulsion system than any we use now. “ETncounter” is another beautiful first contact. The sun shines brilliantly, but its rays are eclipsed by the UAP that casts the earth into shadow. Is that foreboding? I don’t think so, the light is so lovely and blue is a very pacific color.
Digital♦ Sea does a lot more than UAPs, he shoots conceptual portraits like this one, cosplay pics, landscapes, and shots of him exploring SL with his wife. His portrait of her as a mage is like something from a movie. He also re-edits old pics, perhaps from an older Flickr account. His stream is about a year old and has less than a hundred photos and it’s fascinating.
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