Saturday, May 12, 2012

The graphic dreamer of the week is Yasha

According to the staff of MondiVirtuali - the italian virtual world magazine - the Koinup Graphic Dreamer of the week is Yasha. You can read the story here and/or enjoy the artworks of Yasha on Koinup


If you're a digital artist and want to get a mention on mondivirtuali, follow these simple rules:

1. Join the Graphic Dreams group on Koinup
2. Submit your most amazing creations to the pool
3. Check out weekly this blog and/or MondiVirtuali to see if you have been featured (regularly, MondiVirtuali staff reviews contents in the pool and pick a few for the stories)


Above one of the latest pictures of Yasha

Friday, April 27, 2012

Contribute to the Koinup Pinterest Channel

We created an open board: "Koinup. Top of the Top" on our Pinterest channel and we're calling to action all the Koinuppers in order to contribute to it. The rule is basically to pin to this board your own - only made by you - most amazing artwork and/or picture, posted on Koinup. Only one content per member. Your top of the top.



If you're already on Pinterest, you can do it by yourself, by pinning to the board. In order to be added to contributors, leave a comment here with your Pinterest name and we will add promtly to the list of contributors. Then pin your own personal selection.

Other rules to pin:
1. No nudity
2. Only contents made by yourself
3. Only contents posted on Koinup
4. Only one content

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Winners of the Koinup FB Timeline Cover Contest


Koinup Cover on Facebook #3

After one week of time to vote, here's the announcement of the winners of the Koinup FB Timeline Cover Contest - the contest that we launched in order to create a new brand cover for the Koinup Facebook Timeline.

According to the rules, the winning works are the ones with the most higher - cumulative - number of votes (Koinup favorites and Facebook likes are considerated votes). Koinup visitors and members are the judges of the contest.

Here's the winners 


http://www.koinup.com/Jay_Age_H_/work/426405/ 5 favorites, 33 likes = 38 votes
http://www.koinup.com/Vero1324/work/425176/ 6 favorites, 24 likes = 30 votes  http://www.koinup.com/Baroque/work/425836/ 14 favorites, 2 like= 16 votes  http://www.koinup.com/VladMlad/work/425361/ 7 likes, 8 favorites = 15 votes http://www.koinup.com/GuinneV/work/427945/ 15 favorites = 15 votes  http://www.koinup.com/LookatmyBack/work/426066/ 11 favorites, 3 likes= 14votes http://www.koinup.com/LittlebirdTrapt/work/427397/ 5 favorites, 8 likes = 13 votes

The winning images will be featured as covers in the Koinup fanpage and they will be showcased in rotations and in several "milestones" available in the timeline of the page. You can view (and like) the page here

Along with the winners, we like to make an honorary mentions of an other series of works that got a significant number of votes and/or that express with originality the subject requested




Many others works would deserve an honorary mentions or a place in this announcement. What we can say is that the quality of submissions has been pretty high and we -at Koinup - are definitely honored to have around us such amazing creative community. Thanks to all participants

Above one of the winning images by LookatmyBack


Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Vote for your Favorite Koinup Timeline Cover

The submission time for the Koinup Timeline Cover Contest  is closed and now you can express your opinion by "voting" your favorite covers. You can vote simply by "adding an entry to your Koinup Favorites" or by "adding a Facebook like". The submissions with the higher number of "likes" and "favs" will be included (in rotation) in the Koinup Facebook Fan Page. Here's all the entries



Saturday, March 31, 2012

Share your Koinup Contents on Pinterest

We added the Pin Button in all the Koinup pages, allowing visitors and members to share on Pinterest their creations or their favorites contents. We're also running a Koinup Official Pinterest Channel as a central destination for fans - if they want to follow - and for all the people interested in discover amazing art imagery, picked from the best of Koinup.com.





At the moment, we're live with the following boards

Koinup Pic of the Day (most days of the week, we pick an interesting Koinup item and share it on the board)

Favorite Places (this is about awesome places shared in the Koinup Places section)

Digital Fantasy Art

Koinup Repins (a pretty random hommage to people that are sharing Koinup contents, and we will re-share and re-pin them)

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Graphic Dreamer of the week is the IMVU artist Vero1324


According to the staff of MondiVirtuali - the Koinup media partner and sponsor of the Graphic Dreams project on Koinup - the Koinup Graphic Dreamer of the week is the artist Vero1324. Vero is a graphic IMVU artist that use imagery taken from IMVU to create interesting and amazing avatar artworks. I invite you to read the story on MondiVirtuali and/or Enjoy the beautiful Vero gallery on Koinup.

On Any week, the MondiVirtuali staff picks an artist as graphic dreamer of the week. Discover here how to get a mention.

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Mini-Contest for the new Koinup Cover on Facebook


We're running a mini-contest to find the new cover for the Koinup Facebook fan page. In the next days,  all the Facebook pages will be switched to the new timeline format and we're asking the Koinup community to create a cover. If you want to join the contest, you can do that by following this link and submitting your ideas to the group pool.

Above one of the entries by Stephanie Helsein

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Koinup Pinterest Channel

If you're on Pinterest you can now follow the Koinup channel and start to pin your Koinup artworks! Follow this link now . Almost each days, on the channel, you will find the "Koinup pic of the day" and a few of the most interesting contents published on Koinup by the community.  See you there.....




Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Top on Koinup, this week

The Virtual Oscar Fashion Photo Contest is over and Harper Ganesvoort announced the winners on the Around the Grid Blog. Among the winners there are some Koinuppers, so I'm sure you might want to read the announcements. CindyStarostin created a new amazing group focused on the best portraits of avatars: "wonderful portraits". If you love any kind of avatar art, then you can't absolutely miss this group. Join it now. The Second life blogger Felicity Blumenthal is great in using in a great way the Koinup places, the Koinup section that helps you to discover amazing Second Life locations. These days, Felicity landed at 6pi, one of the most popular Second Life locations among Koinuppers, and took some stunning pics..... Read the story.

(image by Felicity Blumenthal)

Friday, February 24, 2012

The Koinup Graphic Dreamer of the week is ToySoldier


The Koinup Graphic Dreamer of the week is the amazing artist ToySoldier. You can read the story on MondiVirtuali and/or enjoy the outstanding ToySoldier art gallery on Koinup. Beyond the images, Toysoldier is well know as builder and author of a variety of art manufacts in Second Life. You can grab all details reading the story on MondiVirtuali.

If you're a metaverse artist, you can get a mention and become graphic dreamer of the week, by joining the Koinup Graphic dreams group and submitting your best artworks to the pool. Good Luck!