Writing from Hoover, Alabama. News comes through Reuters of a magnitude 6 earthquake in Italy today. I know at least one Italian Resident, Pier, the master of the Koinup photo hosting service; and there are many others. You might want to check your own contacts, and pray for their safety. There will probably be a [...]

Not long ago, I featured an artist named Lanay in number 40 of Contact Sheet, admiring and praising her work.  Now it appears that I have a history with her that I must meditate on. Lanay declined adding her chosen photos to the Contact Sheet group on Koinup.  I didn’t understand at the time; most [...]

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’ [...]

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’ [...]

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’ [...]

Koinup, the European-based home of virtual artwork, has announced that you may now set your copyright permissions on your works for Creative Commons allowances. The new capability, which you can set either on upload or on each individual item, includes full copyright and all five standard CC settings (Attribution, Attribution NoDerivs, Attribution NonCommercial, Attribution NonCommercial [...]

While cruising Plurk tonight before finishing up another article, I ran across a long conversation thread begun by Strawberry Singh, one of the excellent models to be found in Second Life, and well known as a public face for the couture house of Zaara Kohine for some time.  It took me by surprise, and was [...]

I discovered this delightful machinima while going through my favorites on Koinup this morning.  Filmed by “kyota” and Mermaid Temple, it shows a lovely pair of ballet dancers, performing to music from Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty.  Enjoy this not only for the dancing, but for the wonderful Art Nouveau surroundings, and for the rotating mirrors — [...]

The proof of the above statement?  Check out this Koinup group, Doorways, Gates and Portals, and you will believe.  Please note, though:  the 13 photos here at the moment (all from Second Life) are, in several cases, not boring.  One or two of the artists shows interesting creativity in their composition and subject.  The founder [...]

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’ [...]