Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Seb decided to shoot “The Untold Story of Captain Nemo” and it’s gorgeous. It’s untold because this scene is not in the book, but comes from Seb’s adventurous imagination.To make it even better, Ethan Lane, the person who posed as Captain Nemo, took his own snaps from his point-of-view:
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
“They say you die twice” is a picture by "Big D" that I almost missed. I stopped to look more closely because I recognized the quote and wanted to see how the picture illustrated. The full quote from Banksy is, “They say you die twice, Once when you stop breathing and again when your name is spoken for the last time.” D's idea is subtle but perfect as the avatar is erased in the diamonds of the fencing, disappearing bit by bit as people’s memories of him disappear.
In the description, he suggests the image is in honor of people he's helped as medical worker in real life: "This is my tribute to all my patients who have gone and those that are about to. They've all enriched my life in their own little ways and they will all live on in my heart." Great concept and done brilliantly.
He also has some very slice-of-life pics like the next one, click here:
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Lula Yue just looks at the world a bit differently than most and that makes her photostream a delight. The title for this picture is a quote from Carl Sagan, “For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.” This picture is actually a fairly simple shot of her sneakers and the shadow she casts, but she turned it 90° and made it magical.
For more examples of finding magic with simple changes in perception, click here:
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Disaster Case is Kirca Rowley’s fashion blog. I am drawn to her posts because she actually wears clothes, something that is always a plus with me. I can see myself wearing this. The sweater is long enough to tuck into the skirt. I’ve never understood cropped sweaters. We wear a sweater to be warmer, so we need the fabric! She also wears her hair short a lot and I have a preference for short hair, too.
For more fun and casual fashion, click here:
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
I love this picture. It’s good to see more women in leadership, behind the lectern, even in Second Life. I also love how natural this looks, one hand resting on the mic while she makes her point. This would have been great for International Women’s Day, but she posted it last May.
For more great portraits, click here:
Continue reading "Today's Flickr Pick: Bria Nova Shoots Avatar Portraits With Great Brio" »
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Monday was International Women’s Day and I checked to see if Second Lifers were honoring the day. Sure enough there are several women noting the day. I enjoyed Silivren Atheria’s “Just a (Not So) Simple Girl” to which she adds a little about herself in all her complexities and contradictions. It’s beautifully done with a simplicity that adds to its intensity.
For more International Women’s Day pictures, click here:
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Eyes Kirschtaria is new to me and I am excited by what I see. He creates scenes from Second Life that are rich in character and vitality. “Go Change Your Clothes” is a great example. There are the two men whose outfits are featured in the microblog in the Flickr description, but then there are the men in the background and the man walking into the frame. There are unmentioned bystanders in a story full of movement and energy.
His take on New Year’s in Japan is next, click here:
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Some people concentrate on shooting raw, unprocessed screencaptures in Second Life. There are groups that feature unprocessed photos, though I think in some of those groups, people misunderstand the meaning of “raw.” There is no such problem with SL Unedited where I discover Thierry Tillier’s lovely “Landscape.” For someone from farm country, that sky is a harbinger of disaster. With the bare trees it must be late fall so the fields should be ready to harvest and at the most vulnerable to hail storms. I am crossing my fingers the hail passes by.
The next picture is literally named SL art, if you can’t resist that, click here:
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Editor’s note: After a hiatus that lasted most of last year, acclaimed metaverse artist Whiskey Monday recently returned to Flickr by storm, creating and uploading dozens of amazing images.
“I usually work through creative stuff by writing,” she says of her relative absence. “When I hit a writer's block, I turn to photos in Second Life to kind of play around with some ideas and clear the junk from my head. So if you see that I take long periods of breaks between photos, it’s usually because my writing is going well. When you see me in SL taking pictures, you can be sure I have writer's block.”
Cajsa appraises Whiskey’s latest work, and speaks with the artist below. - Hamlet Au
I love Whiskey Monday’s “Calm and Sunny” (above) in part because it is such a shift in tone and color from her usual work. Change can be exciting. However, I perceived it as part of a theme of revealing the facade or piercing the fourth wall because there were other unmasking pictures such as “Present Tenses,” “Painted Deserts,” and “Touched in the Head.”
I asked Whiskey about the fourth wall. Well, what I saw and what she said were very different:
“Was there ever a fourth wall? My intent is now, and has always been, to express something I'm having trouble expressing in other ways. My work is selfish; it's less for the viewer and more for me. I get a phrase or a quote stuck in my head and sometimes it makes its way into my writing and other times I can only get it out in SL photos. Sometimes the subject is more universal than others, but always it's me me me.”
In literature, there is much debate about whose perspective matters when considering an author's work. Some look to the author’s biography and the historical context of their work. Semioticians look at the meaning and symbolism of the words, Marxists ask who benefits, Postmodernists ask us what the language really means and can we trust they mean what we think they mean. I was always with the Reader Response critics who recognized that everyone brings their own history to a text and that history influences their perception. I think that works in art criticism, too. We bring our Self to the task of appreciating a picture and our Self determines our reaction far more than the creator’s intent. That does not make our perception more accurate, but without readers, a book is forgotten, so it does make our perception important. I take that view when considering art as well.
For another example of artist saying and viewer seeing very differently, click here:
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
I love Metanoia’s “Therapy”, and the name made me laugh. Of course, science agrees that being outdoors is good for your mental and physical health. Science even suggests that virtual outdoors can help your health, too. So “Therapy” is therapy. It’s also a beautifully-composed picture. His avatar is centered on the vertical line that marks the golden mean and his foot is right on the sweet spot. He also used the geometry of diagonal lines to get us to follow the avatar’s line of vision.
Equally beautiful composition ahead:
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