Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
With this unseasonably warm winter, back in my hometown they are measuring how thick the ice is trying to determine if it’s safe to put their ice houses out on the lake. (See photo at the end of this post!) That made me think how lucky we are in Second Life where the ice is always thick enough, even in July.
Angelus van Engelen captures some of the delight of an ice-covered canal where folks gather just as in a city park, to enjoy the frost in the air and under their feet. There were generally 300 or more houses on our lake, though since there were multiple islands and coves you only saw about a quarter of them at a time. If you want to go to the canal and skate, here is a ticket. [Teleport link here: Canal City]
For more icy adventures, click here:
Angelina Eizenberg snapped a fun picture of a big crowd of skaters at Muddy’’s Music Cafe. It’s always such fun to see a big crowd. This definitely looks like a fun place to visit. [Teleport Link, click here]
Margo Magic has a fun snap of folks warming up and roasting marshmallows over a fire.
There’s nothing like roasting hot dogs and marshmallows on the ice. My dad would plow a big square of ice and string Christmas lights around the perimeter. My parents had outdoor speakers that we would put down by our ad hoc rink and then we would build a big bonfire and have a skating party with friends who lived on the lake and neighboring farms. We always planned to end the party when the fire burned through the ice and fell in, but we all gave in long before it could work through our 15 inches of ice.
Randy Glenfadden gives us a skater with fantastic form. I skate better in Second Life than real life, too.
Aodhan Ravens illustrates a completely different kind of skating, ice hockey. What with ice hockey, field hockey, and floor hockey, a person can play it all year round, but is it really hockey without the ice?
Hope Oakley gives us perhaps the most honest picture of ice skating.
So, are you planning on ice skating? If the weather is too cold, too warm, the ice too thin or nonexistent, considering skating in Second Life where you won’t experience the delight of being cold and warm at the same time but you also won’t break a leg.
By the way (as promised) here's the front balcony view from my RL hometown:
All images copyright the various artists
See all of Cajsa's Choices here. Follow Cajsa on Flickr, on Twitter, on her blog, and on her Ko-Fi.
Want to recommend amazing SL artists for future posts? Posts links to their image feeds in comments here. (Self-promotion welcome!)
Cajsa’s Choices is devoted to unique, artistic, and innovative virtual world-based images and screenshots that showcase the medium as an art form and Second Life as a creative platform. (Generally not images that fit on this Bingo card.)
Cajsa Lilliehook is a seventeen year resident of Second Life, where she owned a photo studio, spent several years as a DJ at The Velvet, and for her first SL job, cleaned up prim trash. She co-founded and runs the It’s Only Fashion blog with her best friend Gidge Uriza. She also has a book review blog, Tonstant Weader Reviews and a cooking blog, Single Serving Recipes. She spends a lot of time researching and reporting on Republican sexual predators. In her first life, she is a retired grassroots leader who has worked for economic and social justice issues most of her life. She is also the minion of a cat named Nora.
Comments