New World Notes

See in SL This Month: "“Transcend Struggle”, a Powerful Art Gallery Show

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There is an exhibit at Dido Haas’ Nitroglobus Gallery that might intrigue and fascinate many of you. It’s called “Transcend Struggle”. You want to go soon as it is only for the month of March. [To teleport to the gallery, click here] 

The show features the work of Yann Gyro, who does most of his work for in-world exhibitions rather than Flickr. The exhibition is about illness, struggle, and transcendence. The artist wrote a poem, which you can read by clicking through to the picture on his Flickr. 

Here is the first verse for the above image: 

You faced the fear, when you heard the news

But I was here, and I saw you rise and choose

To find your power, and stand tall with grace

And embrace the challenge, with courage in your face

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Friday Fashion Ideas: Adorable KPop & Cyberpunk Styles from Sparkly Fly

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Sparkly Fly is a kawaii blog by Andyylee. Sing with Me is adorable. Who doesn’t sometimes dream of being a singer?  I love this look, especially the tie tucked into the belt. Such a fun little detail. It’s from Niniplanet at The Arcade. 

 

• / NINIPLANET / UNNATURAL RARE @The Arcade

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Stunning Second Life Landscape Photos Blending Virtual Nature & Civilization

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Is it life or is it Second Life? More and more I wonder. Denny Cioc’s picture “Junction” makes it impossible to tell. Doesn’t it feel like a place you have seen sometimes in your life? Denny has a great eye for landscapes. 

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New Second Life Sim Inspired by China's "Red Beach" is So Amazing, There's a Large Flickr Group Devoted to Photographing It

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Panjin is the first picture in a new Flickr group devoted to pictures taken at a brand new sim of the same name by Jade Koltai, a name familiar to sim connoisseurs. She is a long-time sim designer, working on her own and in collaboration with the late Serene Footman. Panjin has the same spare restraint that makes her work so appealing to Second Life photographers. I love how she uses the foreground to frame the piers in the background.

I love that there are so few colors, yet it is vibrating with color. It is based on the real life Panjin ("Red Beach") in China. The red flower is Suaeda salsa, a member of the Amaranth family.

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Fashion Friday Finds from SL Style Blog Yurin's Happy Sigh

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Yurin has a lovely blog called Happy Sigh. Her most recent post 230313 features the ubiquitous fashion passion for mesh. If you checked out the Oscar and Vanity Fair After Party fashions, mesh and illusion was everywhere with over ever shrinking strategic coverage. This is downright modest by comparison. 

• TOP + *COCO*_FishnetTopWithBra(Black) @FaMESHed which closes March 27th

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Amazing Flickr Group Devoted to Taking Screenshots Looking Up from Second Life's Virtual Water Bodies! Here's Some Beautifully Abstract Examples

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I am a fan of Second Life-themed Flickr groups. They reveal obsessions and nothing gets the creative juices flowing like an obsession. 

One particularly surprising and beautifully maintained group collects underwater pictures, not pictures of folks swimming around underwater, but pictures shot upward toward the non-watery world, the dry world filtered through the lens of the water. Could there be a more intriguing obsession? 

Check it out: Second Life - Underwater Looking Up. This picture above from Cat Mistwalker is extraordinary. The water makes everything abstract,  but this allows us to see the abstraction and imagine what it is, though. 

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Awesome Second Life Avatar Cosplay Tributes to Legendary Authors Sylvia Plath, Karen Blixen, and Virginia Woolf

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Cecilia Nansen has created a special photo album offering her photographic tributes to her favorite authors and a favorite photographer. I didn’t need her description to recognize the iconic features of Virginia Woolf. She even captures how Woolf seemed to be looking inward, interrogating herself as well as the world around her. Click here to compare with the IRL photo.

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Artist Beautifully Photographs The Virtual Tunnels & Corridors of Second Life

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TitanticLynn Ayres is drawn to tunnels, not just in this very obvious and mind-bending picture, but also in how she photographs streets, the grass between buildings, and water leading out to sea. It’s how she finds lines in the world she looks at. She sees the pattern, the repetition, and captures it so we can glimpse those patterns and discover there is always a trajectory. This picture, though, is hypnotic. There is not just the solid tunnel of concrete triangles, there is also a tunnel made of shadows and one made of light. Yet, there is nothing claustrophobic about this tunnel as it is open every few feet to the water and the open air. It’s simply stunning. 

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Friday Fashion & Shopping Tips from SL Blogger Tomomi Homewood

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Tomomi Homewood is my favorite kind of fashion blogger. She wears clothes. She is a microblogger and does not provide links in her Flickr descriptions, but the sheer joy of seeing clothing instead of lingerie  is worth the extra effort of looking for SLURLs and links. It’s March which means it’s The Arcade month. That’s where you will find these overalls. 

☑ [SHIFUKU] Overall look - - - - @The ARCADE

- Overalls Set BOM only / Legacy RARE

- Shoulder Jacket no rig / Legacy

- Tank top / Legacy

- Overalls / Legacy

[To take the A Train to The Arcade, click here]

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Story of a Sad Little Robot Told in Words & Whimsically Beautiful SL Images

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Meet SLLR, the Sad, Lonely, Little Robot. This is Chiara Baroni’s project featuring a little robot and its adventures in Second Life. You can find the pictures in her SLLR album. Her description begins the story: 

It had been weeks since The Wind. Three weeks, six days, 15 hours and 38 minutes, to be exact. The gust of radiation and toxins swept by in less than a second. But it disintegrated every single living thing. Instantly.

The robot, designed to serve the humans in various analytical, physical and strategic capacities, just sat there. For those weeks, days and hours. Waiting for, some sort of, instruction, or, command. Some sign of life. Or, purpose.

But even the crudely sentient program within him, could figure out—eventually—none of that was going to happen. He powered up his servos, and crept out from the makeshift elevated bunker, to scan the landscape. “Nothing.” . . . He thought to himself.

For more of the robot’s story, click here:

Sumptuous SL Roleplay Pics Inspired by Avatar: Way of Water & Beyond

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Mavis Tinúviel’s “The Phoenix” is a great example of how she puts as much effort into her background setting as she does into styling the avatar. I love the fiery strands hanging down in this picture that seems ablaze with heat.

Years ago, a former SL resident used to criticize pictures, asking WTF? One of her peeves was pictures where the outfit and the background were the same color.

Pictures like this show how wrong she was. Yes, contrast does make it easier to see details and sometimes complementary colors create a dynamic interplay, but this picture would not be so striking nor so powerful if the background were not as fiery as the subjects. 

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