Contact Sheet is an irregular column of selected photographs and portraits from Residents of Second Life and other virtual worlds. Images used in this article are used under permission of the owners via their participation in the Creative Commons license; otherwise, all rights are reserved. 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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It looks like my blog is entering the summer blahs, as the kids are home, on top of which I’m doing solid morning shifts at RL work lately. In fact, I haven’t been in world in a week, which means my IMs and such are surely capped. Thanks goodness I have everything CC’ed to my E-mail.
Well, this means I’ll be filling in with more photographs. That may help relieve the imbalance I’ve accumulated; I want to get up to Volume 36 by November.
And so, forward, onward and upward….
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SerinaJane Loon strikes again with a pair of fashion photos that she is calling Dramatic Tango (Full body, closeup). I’m not sure where this dress comes from; but, paired with the fan and poses, this pair of photos heats up with the spice of a bowl of strong salsa.
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Welcome Kahlan Bingyi to the column with The Great Crossing. I’m not sure here if she is photographing in front of a wall, or if this is a composite done in post, using Photoshop or GIMP; indeed, I have yet to sit down and really work out what’s going on here. The imagery suggests some sort of spiritual crossing or enlightenment, but I think this one is tricky and requires some contemplation instead of a glib assumption. Perhaps easier to work out, but no less worthy of a careful think, is her Cutting. A think about how much our own individual lives may be fragmented and sliced up every day, for instance. It rather invites a discussion of whether or not we should all go and read Thoreau’s Walden again….
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Cristian Rexie, another newcomer to Contact Sheet, gives us this Photoshopped image from Innsmouth sector named Lost Teddy Bear. Perhaps lost innocence is seen here, a longing for the simpler days when friends and a fast ride on a spinning playground merry-go-round were enough to give us happiness…? The quality of the post work is almost painterly, and is an example of what you’ll find in Cristian’s Koinup stream; be sure to click through on his name in the upper right, and then on “Works,” to view more of it.
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Mimi Juneau’s picture here is a simple fashion shoot; the beauty of it, from the dress and boa to the diadem on her uptwisted hairstyle, just capture my attention.
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Di Hoorenbeek also offers a basic fashion photo in a colorful ensemble by Zaara Kohime. Zaara’s delicious Indian sense of color combination seizes your eye, along with the background of a window grille against which Di sits.
Another, even more artistic piece by Di is risen. It’s, of course, ridiculously simple for anyone to “rise” into the air in Second Life — at least in most places — but Di’s post work gives this a special, maybe joyful sensibility.
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The next column should come in a week or two; watch this space — and remember to leave comments here, and at the photographers’ pages as well.
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