Contact Sheet is an irregular column of selected photographs and portraits from Residents of Second Life and other virtual worlds. All rights to featured images are reserved to the artists under appropriate copyright laws. Click on the links as necessary to go to the required blog, Flickr or Koinup page. Please go to these artists’ pages in any case to leave comments, (as well as comments here), if you have an account on the appropriate service.
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Lost Worlds are sims or builds that have disappeared from Second Life for one reason or another — often because the owner/builder can’t afford tier. Sometimes the owner just loses interest and tears the build down. Other times it’s only a temporary site or exhibit, as in artworks or the temporary sims done for various fairs. But for whatever reason, they are gone, with nothing left for us but the photos taken of them.
Let’s take a retrospective of some places that are now gone…. If you know who built some of these places, because it isn’t always clear to me who did them, please leave a comment below for all of us.
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Hitomi Mokusei has documented many lost places, especially the builds of AM Radio, in a Flickr group I’m a member of. She took this shot of gargoyle fountains near a bridge at night in Sanctum Sanctorum back in 2007. The builder appears to be Baron Grayson.
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Raul Crimson showed us the Unicorn Gardens in Deizha. You almost expect to see a maiden here feeding them.
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emvee cuba was a very popular location, made to resemble some streets in old Havana. Petr Vanbeeck gave us this shot of a fruit stand near the waterfront.
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Stephen Venkman worked this shot up as an experiment, if I follow him correctly. The original was taken in La Reve.
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Getting back to AM Radio, Brie Pinazzo gave us this shot of the train in The Far Away, perhaps AM’s most remembered build. This engine mired in a wheatfield was always interesting, and the secret it held never failed to amuse.
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Torley Linden stepped aside from his eternal fascination with watermelon-colored things (Sorry, Torley; had to get that in [grin]) to take this picture of the Grand Staircase in the Opéra Populaire in Intemptesta Nox. The builders chose to “burn it down” not long after I became a Resident, and so I never got to see this lovely place.
Copyright (C) 2007 by Torley Linden
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And, finally, “ZERO-to-ZERO” gives us a pair of contrasts from the great corridors of White Taj and Black Taj:
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Until next time and next theme, I am y’r ob’d’nt servant….
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