From Japan to SL

Visited the UWA September round announcement of winners. This is the 11th of 12 monthly rounds for the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge. October will be the final monthly round and this is followed by the Grand Finale across the month of November. Monthly awards of L$100,000, and the total year awards of L$1,400,000! Since all this started in August 2009 more than 400 artists from more than 40 countries have been involved. There were 65 entries for September round. All photos of arts can be seen at the URL below, but it is recommended to see them at the site since many of them are moving.

https://picasaweb.google.com/101346148377346006512/UWA3DOpenArtsChallengeSeptember2011
UWA: http://slurl.com/secondlife/UWA/65/130/249　




The stage was simply set at a corner of the usual gallery with some balloons. Together with the top price announcement, they were released and flew away like all guests from the world returning home. I was reading the chat intently and missed to shoot the release moment and balloons flying away into the sky. This 3D Art Challenge will end with the final October round, but the gallery will remain and there will be some event commemorating 100 anniversary of UWA. Now a new Full-SIM art series has started. Let me introduce them next time.