The best of Koinup. This week

BURNING LIFE
It's not easy to sum in a single post the most awesome things done by all the Koinup members during this week. But surely, something very relevant has been created by the Koinup blog team made up by Poid Mahovlich, Soror Nishi, Fiona Haworth. The fab three covered the Burning Life events, with a series of useful posts and with the creation of group that collect hundreds of Burning Life 2009 images.




3D GIRLS CONTEST
The 3D Girls Contest has been not started this week. But it seems that most of the entries were submitted these days, so it make sense include this news in "the best Koinup things of this week". One of the most exciting things about the 3D Girls Contest is that the challenge is open not only to virtual worlds members, but also to creators and artists that use 3D tools as Posers, Daz3D, Maya. So, its a sort of 3D Art manifesto!



(image by Kaya Hansome)


WORLD OF WARCRAFT ARTIST
On the Koinup Facebook Page we daily profile the most interesting Koinup members, groups and artists (so, well, you're clearly invited to join the page and stay tuned with its updates). One of the profiles of the week is from a fantastic artist, mostly active in World of Warcraft: Arowhena. I invite you to browse her amazing gallery of Warcraft images

The best of Koinup. This week

This is the second post of the new Koinup blog column: "The best of Koinup" The column is for those readers tht if though they love Koinup, they don't have so much time to stay in loop daily. So we abstract some of the most interesting stuffs, people and news of the website and place here in this post.

FACE OF KOINUP CONTEST WINNERS
This week, we announced the winners of the Face of Koinup Contest. The pool was filled with hundreds of amazing submissions, and it was really a challenge to pick only a few entries. We picked 8 winners and a bunch of honorary mentions. Read the complete announcement, here




OMNIBUS TAKES ON KINGS AND KNIGHTS
The clever Soror Nishi, guest blogger on this journal, wrote an interesting pieces on an archetypal subject that often feature in virtual worlds images: Kings and Knights. A must read, if you want to go deeper in the secrets of the Virtual World Art




THE ART OF MACHINIMA BY ROCKER FAERIE
Talking about Virtual World Art, you can't miss the art of Rocker Faerie. She is an artist, photographer and mainly an imaginative machinimator. Explore the RockerFaerie portfolio or watch now her new machinima: Circus

The best of Koinup. This week

If you have only a few time, to browse the amazing stuff on Koinup, probably this weekly guide will help you to focus on some selected and worth contents and people. So that you don't have to waste your time.

INTERVIEW WITH BARK
Each week, we're interiewing artists, machinimists and photographers active on Koinup. During an open forum launched on our Koinup FB page, some members suggest us to give the word to Bark. Bark is one of the most quintessential photographers in SL. If you're wondering what's the difference between art and photography, you can't miss the interview






MEET ME IN METAVERSE LANDS TO ZARBI
Fiona_Haworth continues the exploration of the metaverse, browsing and teleporting each day in dozens of fantastic locations. This week, Fiona "send a teleport" to reach her in Zabri. Filled with cathedrals, amazing builds and open scenery, Zabri is really a place you can't miss in SL. Read the full story here






ORANGE ISLAND MEMORIES
One of the most wonderful partners, we ever had the chance to team up unfortunately left Second Life. We're talking about the wonderful community of Orange Island. If you have spent a bit of time on Koinup, you know how much we loved to partner with Orange Island. The Orange Island Memories is an hommage group to share images, memories and observation on this wonderful island and community





OTHER WORLDS ON THE RADAR? EXPLORE AION
If though Koinup is highly popular among social worlds users, there's a part of the Koinup community that its highly active in more traditional mmorpgs. These weeks we see tons of wonderful images taken in a new massive 3d world called: Aion. We invite to browse some of these images in the group Aion, and enjoy this wonderful Aion avatar (created/photographed) by SysperiaPoppy