I’ve spent quite a bit of time recently looking at the Linden Endowment for the Arts (LEA) sims, but a couple of nights ago I moved off them and headed towards Black Basalt Beach and L’Arc-en-Ciel. I also recently came across a chapter in a book called ‘The Technology of Enchantment and the Enchantment of […]
It took a while before I decided to write a post about sex in Second Life. Well, it’s the stereotype that many folks have – those in Second Life are at it all the time, like proverbial rabbits, let loose with a keyboard and a mouse. And as I write this, bang on cue, an […]
Last year I wrote a blog post about Three Waterworlds, in terms of their place as liminal areas or borderlands in human imagination. So, I was very interested to see that this same topic was being explored on LEA24 in Second Life. Here, the artist, Lemonodo Oh, has used tiles of google maps to create […]
Live, love and care, with kindness. .. with love in her heart .. was a sim that won me over straight away. An enclosed pool of water, a circular inlet of the sea, and a beautiful example of virtual natural art. ‘A simple homestead by the sea… reminiscent of days gone by’, as the sim […]
The gallery space at Artists4SL has had a make-over and is looking very smart and bright. It’s also brought things together so it’s much easier to get round and see the work of the 40 or so excellent artists that are currently putting their work up. I’ve already got mine set up within my own […]
It’s an interesting quandary. What is at the root of digital art that comes out of virtual worlds? Part of what I like about photographing (or image capturing – that debate’s for another day) virtual worlds is the time spent looking. The mindful approach I talked about in my last post. I went along to […]
Beautiful visually, as well as in its poetics and thoughts. We may not all be wanderers, but humans are irresistable travellers. Just some are more adventurous than others in the places they explore and discover. And we choose different places to go. ‘As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. […]
I followed a link the other day to Ricco Saenz’s blog where he discusses Virtual photographing and windlight tips. I’d been discussing windlight earlier in the day and come to a quite different conclusion. What follows is not intended as a contradiction, but a continuing discussion on windlight; in the end, there is no wrong […]
From heat through leaf fall to snow, Second Life mimics the temperate world. But unlike the real thing, you aren’t going to be stranded, freezing and sliding around in ice and snow. It has an idealised, regular and predictable pattern. And even if you think of snow as cold, white wet stuff you could cheerfully […]
The fantastical, created out of Cica Ghost’s imagination – her new creation is Little Town. It’s a delight to find these places. With fantasy, the questions of childhood memory, nostalgia and playfulness are probably at their strongest. You are invited in on a fairy tale pretense – the occupants have gone away for the day, […]
