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Eccomi nuovamente a parlavi di un’artista che sfrutta Second Life come medium per realizzare immagini spettacolari: Divine Tokyoska. E’ merito (o colpa) di Divine se ho capito, visivamente, cosa voleva dire sfruttare a fondo la possibilità di settaggio ambientale (in particolare l’advanced sky) di Second Life, ma lei, che pure in RL conosce Photoshop come poche altre, tende a non prendersi troppo sul serio e di sé e delle sue immagini dice: “faccio foto a signore di SL carine, non c’è nulla di profondo nel mio lavoro, è tutto sensuale, un divertimento sfacciato”. Sensuali le sue immagini lo sono certamente e le sembra divertirsi per prima nel realizzarle, ma nell’intensità dei colori, persino nelle immagini più cupe, io trovo si nasconda la firma inconfondibile di un’artista di prima grandezza, capace per di più di variare da un’immagine di moda ad una sexy, da uno scatto “horror” alle “pazzie” di Silent Hill. 
Divine è una fotografa di SL molto scenica e forse questo ha qualcosa a che fare col suo essere stata una cantante, inizialmente R&B e poi metal. Una volta lei ricordò quell’esperienza nel suo Flickr (
Non mi stanco mai davvero di alcuna tematica, in RL sono abbastanza irrequieta e questo si riflette nelle mie attività in world. 
L.P.: Come giudichi i risultati fin qui ottenuti?
Here I am again talking about an artist who uses Second Life as a medium to create spectacular images: Divine Tokyoska. Because of Divine (or blame of her) I understood, visually, what it meant to take full advantage of the possibility of environmental settings (especially advanced sky) of Second Life, but even if she knows in RL how to use Photoshop as a few other, she tends not to take herself too seriously and of herself and her images says: I take pics of pretty SLadies (there’s) nothing deep about my work, (is) all about sensual, cheeky fun. Her images are certainly sensual and she seems to enjoy for first in the realization, but in the intensity of color, even in darker images, I find it hides the unmistakable signature of an artist of the first magnitude, one who can changing from an image of fashion to a sexy one, from an "horror" click to the "madness" of Silent Hill. Divine is a very scenic SL photography and perhaps this has something to do with her being a singer initially R&B and then metal. She once recalled that experience in her Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/7268230@N03/):
“leaving the band was really the hardest choice I ever made.....ever.....I loved it...well..I loved the stage” adding “I just wanted to write killer songs and play them, didn't have to be perfect, had to be fun... and by the end there wasn't at all”. But let the word to herself, after having remember this video too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96326igtWiA. 
I learned from various tutorials on Youtube and Deviantart.com. I've always been interested in digital art and found Second Life to be a comfortable medium and learning tool. I'm always pushing myself to try new things, filters, techniques....I try to give avatars a little humanity in their expressions and such without taking away from the essence of Second Life. I don't want to make them look "real"....just enhanced.
D.T.: Well, in the case of Warriors I was inspired by the old Warriors and Mad Max movies. Warriors was the one movie that defined my teenage rebellion back in the day, I loved that movie! For Elf Druid I was inspired by a pic my frind Psy Carnell sent me saing: "Hey, can you do this?” I said: “Probably no, but I can get pretty close I hope”. And well, this is the end result and no… it doesn't look anythng like the original pic, except the pose, the drapes and cape kinda but other then that...no, nothing like the pic. Total time: 4 hours and 25 minutes.
