Digital Images

I created these 3 pics for my image studio class. I was investigating the combining of real and virtual worlds. The virtual world in particular is Second Life though I got thinking about all the other virtual experiences that I've had.




This image has house plans as the base with building scenes from second life overlaid onto reallife building images.




Romance on the internet is such a common virtual experience these days I thought I had to include my take on it. I've incorporated scenes from a very romantic place in secondlife.




This 3rd image has quite a dystopian feel to it. I found this couple dancing in secondlife and added them to my scene. The internet as an escape is my idea for this image. The happily dancing couple can escape the hardships of the actual world.

second life/real life

Been spending a bit of time exploring second life lately and based on of my tech projects on it. I've been looking at Baudrillard's theory's on reality and copies of reality and felt it would fit in well. There's a mall here in Nelson called Fashion Island and I'm pretty sure it's based on a second life mall. So I've taken heaps of photos of Fashion Island and arranged them a la David Hockney. I've also found a mall in Second Life which I've done the same with. Had great fun with photo shop and learnt heaps of new things like how to curl the edges of photo's. I think at one point I was over 300 layers with these. Yes, hours and hours and days of work involved with these. I probably went a bit over the top but I loved it. Only problem is my idea involves ripping these up as a way of stripping back the layers. Yes definitely in line with the last two projects. I will of course keep copies of the complete pictures as well. I'll display these in my workbook so it will be easy to see how they look complete.