art catalogues cost a good amount to have printed up and are a staple of virtually all art galleries. one of my first projects in Second Lifa was an art gallery for a wonderfully talented Deaf artist who worked in charcoal, watercolour, and oil. her work was pretty straightforward to bring into SL and i enjoyed doing this quite a bit (probably my favourite virtual world project), naturally, the virtual exhibit needed an in-world catalogue for patrons to bring back to their homes inSL. flipbooks are popular inSL and pretty easy to make (i used that commercial product complete with printing press for making unlimited books, at something like $15 USD is was well worth it)

i no longer have her art (we lost touch and i did not want to display it in OpenSim without her permission, but i do have the photographic art of a San Francisco artist in Enclave Harbour

despite having done this work in the past (i also had an art reception for another artist when i was inSL) and having made three in-world flipbook catalogues, i never thought about doing sim-on-a-stick as an art catalogue itself. the cost of a small USB drive would probably be close to the cost of printing a catalogue and even though it will only work for PCs, it certainly would come across as very contemporary. running a laptop of the virtual art catalogue in the reception area of a real life gallery opening would surely generate some additional press as well

Beacara has done exactly that and has a presentation of it next week to a group that is excited about this 21st century leap. to me it’s simply another creative and expressive medium, like the printed catalogue

the video below is the art catalogue that Beacara has created with sim-on-a-stick and it’s rather well done in my opinon  =)