Just thought you might want to know that there is another category of SL Art that you haven’t mentioned. I call it “Primagery”.

http://www.slartmagazine.com/

Sachi and I were partners in SL when we wanted to find a way to create something close to painting in SL. Our relationship evolved and then dissolved 6 weeks ago but we are still creating our art in SL.

Why somebody is getting so worked up about it that s/he feels the need to write long drawn-out comments full of rancor and venom simply beats me.

What a pathetic use of life time.

That’d be great if windlight were even properly implemented yet. You can’t do anything with it right now, as there’s no ablity for landowners to configure the atmosphere seeting for their sims. Windlight, while it generates pretty skys, water and glow effects, is currently living without the use of its limbs.

I have my graphics settings SL cranked up to the absolute max, and I still have trouble finding the ‘inherent beauty’ – but then again I built this machine to run Crysis, not SL.

amirite?

ear picking greasy haired catlady, this place was a cess pool when you were here too, obsessively harping on anything you felt threatened by. which is, as i said above, pretty much anything YOU didn’t think of

now we just have “pixeleen” obsessing on certain topics

same shit, different asshole

Seriously? Have we even had a discussion in recent memory? And when did I ever savage you?

Again, you can’t malign flat art, then boost this derivative piece that in fact puts big boards all around which is, after all, flat art. And yes, aurel *does* malign it as any one can see, as it is treated as a “lesser” form unlike this “innovative and creative” installation. She then tries to back out of doing that, having accomplished the damage.

aurel then scolds me further — a total ass! — as follows:

“No blog, no reporter, no paper in the world would savage a fellow writer from the same publication in print. And I don’t air my opinion of you in public for that very reason it’s, rude, childish and it makes us both look bad.”

Oh, I used to think that, too, in real life, and even in Second Life, when I was more naive. Yeah, tell that to Pixeleen. That’s what I used to say *when I used to work here, which I don’t any longer, for just that reason*. I used to say, why are you allowing other reporters, especially these fake ones you’ve ginned up from griefing groups and parvenus like Jessica Holyoke, to savage me? How can “Ouchquack” get to savage me just because I’ve did a story better than he had? Etc. And the answer is: “because I feel like it, because I’m a bitch”.

I’m writing a rebuttal to aurel’s ill-conceived piece not “because I feel like it and because I’m a bitch” but because *her act* of immorality and moral blindness in trying to follow the Herald’s atrocious abortion story with a “good art” piece is absolutely unconscionable. An act of bad faith of that magnitude is definitely going to draw criticism on that grounds alone; as it happened, there were other things to criticize.

I don’t work at the Herald — and for good reason. But even if I did, I could hardly feel any sense of “solidarity” with such a tacky piece, that wanders all over the most cliched landscape about SL partners, then crows about a work that isn’t demonstratively good as the in-crowd claims, and that slams people bring in their RL created works as replicas as somehow “lesser” just because it’s a 3-D world. It’s incompetence.

I’m suppose to feel “chastized” if aurel tells me that I “only look bad” or “feed the trolls” because I dared to criticize her work — she imagines she’s a RL professional excelling in SL, but it’s all fake, and I’m here to point that out. You can’t shield yourself from legitimate criticism by wielding game-swords like the “troll” meme or MMORPG peer pressure like telling someone they “will look bad”.

Razrcut, just as every people gets the government it deserves, I suppose every public gets the newspaper it deserves, you sound like a member of that public writ large, and you have the lousy rag you deserve.