Going back to the country, to the rural quiet is a recurrent theme in Second Life, as is abandonment and dereliction. At Sand Hills Country there is both within a compact area. I found some of the trees a bit garish, but this central area is nicely set up.
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Articles about Second Life, many including the photography of Tizzy Canucci.
You are Not Allowed to Fish
This is Rose Borchovski’s installation now at torno Kohime Foundation – the opening night was last night (17th April), where the photograph was taken. It’s the story of Beth and her grandchild Lot, who are forced to leave their home because of a war. The war came to them in stages, starting with rulings about […]
Modelmaking and virtual worlds
The River Wyvern, a photo by Tizzy Canucci. Goatswood is a representation of a Victorian village in rural England, somewhere in the Midlands, loosely based in appearance on Castle Combe in Wiltshire. It is a role play sim, but visitors can obtain a three day pass at Mortchester ticket office. The landing point is at […]
Two kinds of Photographer
Two kinds of Photographer I’ve done it. I’ve just accepted cash to take photographs in Second Life. This reminded to revisit the Seven Levels of Photographers by Ken Rockwell, which ironically (in other words, there’s some hard truths born out of experience) lists the levels of photographer, as seen by other photographers. It’s long, but it’s […]
Zenshi: Water and Towers
I have a liking for this clean modernist approach. I could never aspire to such tidy cleanness, or indeed to anything so conspicuously expensive, in real life. Zenshi is part private residential (thanks to Zzoie Zee for allowing me access), part swish shops. The rural is about desire and romance for many people, but as […]
CGI killing photography? No, not really.
There was a story recently on Wired by Joseph Flaherty about CGI which I picked up on via Michael Zhang on Petalpixel, whose headline read “Extremely Realistic Computer Generated Imagery is Killing Photography Jobs“. Maybe those of us who have had more to do with computers realised a long time ago that those smart boxes […]