Second Life Artist, Bryn Oh Resigns

Sadly, it is now official

Bryn Oh Resigns from LEA over LL TOS

‎10-05-2013 10:18 AM

This news had already been mentioned by the newly created United Content Creators of SL (UCCSL), but now she has formally announced it in her own blog with a full explanation of her decision.  This is another MAJOR BLOW to LL's credibility on their recent TOS Change that hi-Jacks IP content rights of all creators and artists of SecondLife.

Bryn Oh, one of SecondLife's most notable and famous Artists and a huge supporter of the art community in SecondLife has decided to resign from the Linden Endowment for the Arts (LEA) committee as a direct result of LL's recent TOS changes on Aug 16th.

Looking for an In World place on Second Life to purchase some of Bryn Oh's pieces such as the ones below?

Click on picture for larger view

You can find them here at Ritual East;

Home of Bryn Oh Pieces for Sale and Display

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/RiTai%20East/197/57/24

Bryn Oh

In her first life, Bryn Oh lives in Toronto, Canada, and makes her living there as a painter whose work is sold by a major galley to collectors around the world. Having received her art education in Toronto and Florence, Italy, her paintings have been exhibited in many galleries in North America and Europe. A meticulous and highly skillful landscape painter, she uses high quality oils and acrylics that she makes herself from raw materials, working the paint with a wide variety of layering and sculptural brush techniques, on large canvasses that engulf the viewer in an almost immersive experience of the human impact on the natural world. In fact it is her interest in immersion that led her to experiment with the art of virtual worlds, and over the past year she has established herself as one of the finest builders and installation artists in Second Life.

Below is one of my favorite snapshots which I took at Immersiva which was one of Bryn's Worlds and I call it, UnScene Understanding.

Juniper

Bryn Oh 58 Videos at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urmhu0jAZD8&list=PL1D675C3129367824

Second Life Real Life Artist: Bryn Oh. Genius! Awesome!

 

 

 

 

Art can be found anywhere. From the whorl of a fingerprint to cloud formations across a clear blue sky. The world is a canvas and creativity abounds. So, I don’t know why I was so surprised to find that stunning works art also exist in virtual reality. Yes, obviously it makes sense in hindsight – computer programmers have done some amazing things with technology.

But I’m not talking about perfectly written HTML (although, a totally compliant script can be a thing of beauty), I’m talking about an artist who, stepping away from his physical canvas, has developed a cult like following for the work he exhibits under his persona on the MMORPG, Second Life (SL).

Bryn Oh (he won’t tell me his real name, which I think adds to the mystique) is a Canadian kid who, like most of us, started from humble beginnings – building little things in the snow (“winter clay”). Before heading to the Ontario College of Art and Design to work on his God-given artistic talent (and spending a requisite semester abroad in Florence, Italy), he tried his hand at studying Psychology in Montreal. He dropped out (to his parents dismay). After OCAD, Seneca to study computer animation, then the Toronto School of Art for Zbrush (a digital sculpting tool that combines 3D/2.5D modeling, texturing, and painting). It seems like such a technical leap from wielding a paint brush, but the end result – whether tactile or purely explorational – is an exceptionally crafted piece of fine art.

“Building in Second Life can be a very social experience with regular feedback from people wandering about, whereas the studio artist often spends months alone in their workspace creating a series of artworks with the social aspect and feedback being mostly just the opening night,” Bryn explains.

Apparently, there are somewhere over 25 million inhabitants world wide wandering around SL. I had only heard of it in passing, so if this is the first time you’ve encountered it, or the mysterious artist Bryn Oh, don’t beat yourself up. He’s something of a phenom in the virtual world, but his creative successes are also garnering international recognition in real life. Case in point? He was recently featured in an issue of Italian Vogue. How’s that for impressive? For the anonymous guy who likes to keep a low profile, even he found the experience “a bit bizarre, to be honest.”

This artist is quite modest, seeing that the fact that he/she was given an entire sim for a year!

Here are some of Bryn Oh's pieces;

 

Some of which are for sale at

STORE http://slurl.com/secondlife/Immersiva/226/122/1153

 

 

 

 

 

My avatars are sitting on the sculptures arm and inside the horse sculpture

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cerulean

 

At this point, it would help to have a bit of a visual. Here’s a video of Cerulean, a side story within an exquisite corpse build done in Second Life.

 

 

 

Virginia Alone is the most recent of Bryn Oh's works in Second Life

Read about it below. Please click on photos to enlarge.

 

 

 

 

UnScene finally reaches Virginia's home and enters...

 

 

 

BEGINNING POINT http://slurl.com/secondlife/Immersiva/12/127/21

VIRGINIA'S HOUSE http://slurl.com/secondlife/Immersiva/151/104/24

 

 

I am sure you will enjoy zooming in on all the small articles scattered around as well as clicking on the notes and letters; and don't forget to visit the cellar.

 

The pipes are done very nicely with the limited items one to work with in Second Life.

 

Listening to the YouTube tapes will surely enhance your experience.

 

 

 

 

Below are some of Bryn Oh's earlier pieces which my avatar and other friends avatars were incorporated into for photo shoots.

I am glad to be able to share this unique artist with you.

 

 

This avatar is inside of a very high sculpture full of moving and rotating objects which are held together by a spiral staircase.  Reaching the top is a difficult endeavor but well woth it.  So many delightful treasures to find along the way up.

Be careful not to fall!

 

Else you will have to begin from the lower level again.

Again, Click photos to enlarge