Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Maka Orion’s picture “The light of winter is the poetry of patience” struck a chord with me. I immediately recognized the COLD he is portraying. It’s not just his breath condensing in the cold. It’s the way his shoulders hunch forward, how he brings his hands up to warm them despite the gloves, and it’s the effect of black and white. It feels colder. The only thing is he really should unroll his cap and pull it down over his ears. You know it’s cold from the way he holds his body. It’s not below zero (-18 C), though, or the snow flakes would not be so big and soft.
This got me wondering. There are thousands of winter pictures taken by Second Life residents, but how many capture the COLD of winter? After all, in Second Life we have people posing on frozen lakes in bikinis or even less. Most of the snow in Second Life is the soft, fluffy snow of warmer winter days, not the hard dry pellets of a COLD snowy day. I wanted to see the kind of COLD where it has to warm up enough to snow.
To see some real virtual COLD, click here:
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Why Linden Lab Struggles to Communicate to the Second Life Community at Large (Comment of the Week)
Above: The default viewer's log-in announcement message... if you can click it in time
While last Tuesday's main post was mostly about Linden Lab's upcoming features to the SL mobile app, it also noted why Linden Lab is now making such announcements through group video calls:
Prompting author Hari Sutherland to observe:
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Posted on Monday, December 16, 2024 at 05:00 PM in Comment of the Week, Linden Lab News & Analysis | Permalink | Comments (14)
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