Send me a picture of your fantasy winter wonderland and i will publish it in our community section!
Jpeg format 520 x 380 pixels preferred email to me at dana.vanmoer (at) gmail.com
(the picture above is my home at skybeam vistare)
Dana
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
Koinup- Murku Second Life Comics Contest
Calling all SL/RL cartoonists! Koinup proudly announces its Comic Strip Contest.The Comic Strip Contest is the first of its kind and Koinup proves again that they are continuously raising the bar on their contests and helping artist to challenge themselves and win big doing it.
For all of you who love to draw and are artistically creative this is definitely a contest designed specifically for you.
The contestants will create their comics by using the Murku Hud, created by Deep Semaphore. Each contestant must contact Deep Semaphore in-world to find out how to get their own personal Hud.
The fabulous prizes for the grand prize winner include $10,000L and a chance to exhibit their creation in the upcoming Museum of Comics. There will also be honorary mentions that will get the chance to have their inventive works viewed in the museum as well.
Each contestant can submit as many entries as they want.
The contest features two categories which are Cartoon and Comic Strip. The Cartoon category consists of a one frame work with graphical comic elements. The Comic Strip category features a small story created as a comic’s book. Submissions can be entered from now until April 26th. Get yours in today!
For more information and how to enter please visit: http://www.koinup.com/group/
Unlike other social networking sites, Koinup is still strictly for virtual worlds, making it the first of its kind. It is easy to create a profile, share your works (i.e. machinima, pictures, stories) on the site, as well as join the groups and participate in the contests. Koinup is growing rapidly and invite you to join so that you may participate in this as well as many of its upcoming contests and events. Koinup is the wave of the future, don't get left behind!
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Is there room for art in SL?
I waited for a while before talking about whether there is room for art in Second Life because of my previous personal involvement in a photo gallery. But having taken a step back, I want to raise the issue.
Is there room for art in Second Life? Can someone sell genuine art, whether it is photography, sculptures, music, or just any creative work?
Having run the Ally's Scenic Views photo gallery for almost a year before, I was highly disappointed with the lack of interest of most people towards art here. Sure, customers who purchased showed their appreciation for the photos, but there are other "industries" in SL that pay more. It is much easier to sell a gadget that took half an hour to script for L$500 than a stunning photo which required a high level of taste and skill to shoot for L$300.
I stopped counting the number of artists who told me that their works in SL do not cover tier for their land. Some lose money. Some have to heavily promote their art for no profit. Some rather provide services for those who want their wedding pictures or custom builds to generate money with their creativity.
The people who are ready to shell out a few cents for a decent piece of art seem few and far between. I even heard some naysayers say that selling a picture L$300 means making L$290 profit for something that can be found on Google Images and uploaded anyway. Such dishonest words.
Is there room for art in SL? Or should content creators focus on clothing, club supplies, skins and sexbeds because it is all that really works? I am afraid of the answer.
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Watermelon houses?
No worries if you spent all your paycheck on rent this month, just dig in. Watermelon houses, good enough to eat!From JunkDNA
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Funniest Box Attachment (contest results)
About a month ago, we launched the Funniest Box Attachment Photo Contest (quite a mouth full, isn't it), and quite frankly, we were overwhelmed by the number of photos coming in. It was our pleasure to see many of our readers taking the effort to go back to their newbie days (or, in the case of actual new residents, exploit that) and send in a picture. Some of you have even sent in more than one picture, and they were all included.
Because of this, we had to number the pictures to make it anonimously and establish a jury consisting of our newspaper staff. Everyone voted and after 3 voting rounds, we finally came up (unanimously) with a winner !!!
And this winner is: Miss Stellata Primrose !!!
We all found this picture funny and romantic, and found the rookie absurdity of it quite typical.
However, we did get in a number of pictures that may not have been as funny as this one, at least in our humble opinion, but maybe were even more so very typical for rookie box attachment mistakes. Therefore, we do want to do a honorable mention to the following picture, made by Magnuz Tomsen. This picture, with what looks like a house attached to him, was certainly something we didn't want to keep from you.
So, with that, this contest has come to a conclusion. The winner has been congratulated and paid the prize of L$ 1000 and both Miss Primrose and Mr Tomsen will both get to do an SL photography workshop with me, Dixie Barbosa. We do hope that the money is spent wisely and that the winners both will enjoy the workshop.
Please look forward to our new contest announcement within days !!
Because of this, we had to number the pictures to make it anonimously and establish a jury consisting of our newspaper staff. Everyone voted and after 3 voting rounds, we finally came up (unanimously) with a winner !!!
And this winner is: Miss Stellata Primrose !!!
We all found this picture funny and romantic, and found the rookie absurdity of it quite typical.
However, we did get in a number of pictures that may not have been as funny as this one, at least in our humble opinion, but maybe were even more so very typical for rookie box attachment mistakes. Therefore, we do want to do a honorable mention to the following picture, made by Magnuz Tomsen. This picture, with what looks like a house attached to him, was certainly something we didn't want to keep from you.
So, with that, this contest has come to a conclusion. The winner has been congratulated and paid the prize of L$ 1000 and both Miss Primrose and Mr Tomsen will both get to do an SL photography workshop with me, Dixie Barbosa. We do hope that the money is spent wisely and that the winners both will enjoy the workshop.
Please look forward to our new contest announcement within days !!
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Photo contest - 4 days left
As you know, we regularly do photo contests. Mostly they're linked to one of our newspaper sections. The current contest is called "Funniest Box Attachment" and the deadline will be there on July 29th. That is 4 days from now !!
Of course you know what this contest is about. We all remember the days when we were new to Second Life, or maybe you still are. And I bet you've all experienced it: wearing something that is in your inventory and then finding out it's just a box or something else that should be on the floor, not on you. Well, just think of something funny to wear and take that photo !!
The prize consists of 2 parts. The most important part to most of you is the very handsome award of L$ 1000. The second part is a private SL photography workshop by me. Of course it's your choice to decide if you need or want this second part, but even if you don't need it, maybe we could have some fun exchanging experiences and maybe learn some small tips & tricks from eachother.
The workshop will consist of a short introduction to see at what level of experience you are. After that, we will take a look at some technical tips to make sure you get the best out of your SL photo's. We'll also explore some of the differences and similarities between RL and SL photography, and of course see how you can utilize them. And of course we'll do some practicing in a professional studio or somewhere on location, whichever you and your friends prefer.
Now, if you are completely inexperienced with taking photo's or snapshots in SL, this contest might be a bit difficult to enter, but just send me an IM and I will show you the basics. I'll be happy to show you, just because I love to see all those funny pictures. And wouldn't it be great to win the L$ 1000 and the workshop?
To enter, you can also drop your snapshot/uploaded texture in my inventory. It might be easier for you if you haven't saved your picture to your harddisk. Or of course e-mail it to dixiebarb@gmail.com, as it says in the poster here.
Good luck & happy photo shooting !!
Dixie Barbosa
Thursday, July 5, 2007
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