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 […]
Tag: Second Life
Borderlands
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 […]
Digital Art: Abstract? Representational?
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 […]
Windlight and Weather: the value of not being in control
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 […]
Autumn to Winter, Leaf fall to Snow
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 […]
Little Town: Fantasy and Immersiveness
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, […]