Earlier this month, the garden designer, Dan Pearson, was the guest on Desert Island Discs 1 on Radio 4. Early on he spoke about what he thought of gardens: I think they are a place of escape, and a place of immersion. They are somewhere where you can be yourself, completely. I think they provide you […]
In my last post, I talked about Nothing Endures But Change, Whiskey Monday’s experiment with constantly changing sets on LEA10 in Second Life. Here’s my latest piece from there, which is linked to my Flickr stream. Whiskey also has a Flickr account. Additional note, September 2015: An adapted version of this image was put into […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
