Spam doesn’t pay..?

Not that long ago I was complaining about unsolicited spam via Second Life residents… well it seemed very topical and apt that I just came across this story about people receiving a hefty fine for email spamming, under New Zealand law: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0812/S00291.htm .
What I’d like to know is how much they actually made from the [...]

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The Couple Picture

My SL art is a constant learning experience; advanced at times by asking questions of those more experienced than me, by reading public tutorials, but mostly by personal trial and error. A new area I’ve moved into is taking pictures of couples – I currently have three sets of couples waiting for me to take [...]

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The Profile Picture, and the search for perfection.

One of my favourite types of pictures to work on in SL are profile pictures. In one image you get to attempt to sum up a person – in the background, pose, their clothes, hair, even the font for the name. And once you’ve done one that the person likes, it ends up being displayed [...]

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Art Criticism on Flickr

I spend more time on Flickr, dealing with my SL art, than I actually spend in SL. So to some extent, the things that happen and get said in Flickr matter just as much to me as what happens in my SL life.
Recently a friend from SL joined Flickr and started looking through my pictures. [...]

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Funny Photoshop Dude

Ok, it’s very likely I’m the last person to discover this guy and his Photoshop tips, but my god has he got the funnies down. He even makes my husband laugh! Now as far as helpfulness goes he’s not high on the scale, especially since I use Gimp rather than Photoshop, and even more so [...]

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