Reading Radar

Maybe I’m just now paying attention, but it seems to me like the art scene in SL is starting to approach the music scene in terms of presence and popularity. I’m sure I’ll get some flak that it always has been, but I’m not so sure. Usually when I notice something going on around me, it means it’s at least approaching mainstream. And I’m now really noticing a lot of the artistic endeavors in SL.

One of the intersections of art in SL and RL is Filthy Fluno’s counterpART real life and second life galleries.

You can’t help but recognize Filthy when you meet him (constant unavoidable floating name tags notwithstanding).

And his studio in SL on Artropolis is really well done. The mastermind behind it and Artropolis is Esch Snoats.

It’s got an open/ruins/artistic/old/modern feel all in one. I guess that’s my way of saying I know zippo about design, but whatever. I liked it.

I’ll have to have Filthy on the podcast at some point. I was thinking of a roundtable on social aspects of SL. Whatcha think? Sick of roundtables?

More on his Art Gallery here…