9 posts tagged “machinima”
As many of you know parts of my job include creating new media shorts and immersion experiences for large and small audiences. Some of my work is very much designed for a niche audience, in this case those interested in philanthropy, law and the unique community-building challenges that entangle our digital lives. This emerging field of study has been led by USC, MacArthur and others as we try to chart a productive course through the etheric digital universe.
While some wrestle with the relevance of these spaces I am always encouraged to see 100+ leaders gather together for honest dialogue without the cost of travel or carbon in the air. We can do far better and we will continue to learn how to maximize these experiences for the masses. I for one need to learn how to buy new hard drives faster to keep up with the machinima documentary flubug that keeps infecting my mouse trigger key....lost the bulk of the footage today to a full disk!
For today's address before the UN Climate Change Conference the congressman from Massachusetts chose to appear in Second Life rather than fly to Bali and address the crowd directly. His talk on climate change and the metaverse of possibilities echoes the policy reflected at globalwarming.house.gov
Rep.
Markey, head of the House's committee on climate change, fielded questions on education, conservation and the "use" of Nature.....should we consider nature something to be used until those resources no longer exist? Do we have a role in preserving land, planting new forests, considering the greening of our cities?
This historic speech in Second Life wants to prove a point about energy use and climate change. For Rep. Markey to address the crowd for 20 minutes in Bali would take 5.6 tons of carbon emitted in flight from Washington. How many were used in Second Life?
"The technology is moving so fast that this really is just the beginning." Daniel Nelson from OneWorld UK noted. Daniel is also featured at the end of this In Kenzo machinima video attached from today's interactive town hall meeting with Rep. Markey at OneWorld Meetings Island in Second Life.
Those of you who know our work know that we've stopped producing machinima over the last few months. There's a handful of reasons why we've put our machinima releases on hold for 2007:
1) Overheating laptops!
2) Waiting for Windlight
3) Hoping for a Machinima Camera for true broadcast-quality captures (see the pic at right from Hollywood Games Summit for the Gamecaster machinima camera)
4) Unreliable access to platforms and sims
You can help us take on at least one of these challenges by voting for Amoration in the Blackbird/Wikia challenge to win a new HP desktop with a water cooling system that claims to be up to the virtual world overheating challenge. Help us out and vote today, leave us comments and let's move this media forward!
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The Second Life Best Practices in Education Event drew
tons of participants inworld yesterday! We placed booths in the nonprofit sim Outreach along with a machinima poster and slide set at the Rockcliffe poster presentation sim.
Every time we do these events there's a steady stream of new guests and participants on AMO and last night was no exception! Fuzionor Engawa prompted an unscheduled dance party demo at the new AMO Nexus club and we were dancing pretty late into the night....
Check out a few photos from the events and dance party! Special thanks to the integral interactives for getting down with me last night, and of course a big hug for Fuzionor who always knows how to spin it.
The afterparties at SLBPE were great too; in a shark tank somewhere there was a costume party with gorgeous teachers getting down to a Becklike rhythm.
I quickly jetted back to AMO to check out DanCoyote Antonelli's latest installations on AMO, gorgeous interactive pieces and large monoliths...or should it be monoSLyths? They're gorgeous at 700m.
DanCoyote's crow is a work of art too....such a change agent!
In February the last traces of ManorMeta disappeared off Better World Island. Where did this mystical, mythical build end up? After NMConnect we started a new island called AMO Island that will be opening later this month for the Digital Be-In on BioMimicry cohosted in Second Life. The integral community has joined us on AMO and many visionary artists are now coming in to install unique interactive pieces to spark creativity, conversation and compassion amongst avatars.
The ManorMeta community has been nominated for the NetSquared Innovation Awards and you can vote for us THIS WEEK ONLY! Your vote (for up to 10 amazing projects including SL Relay for Life, Info Island, Avatar Action Center and many Omidyar Network endeavors) will go a long way to helping these new innovators grow into vibrant organizations.
So what is ManorMeta? Some call it our Living Learning Lab, a place where innovators connect and explore ideas from science and technology, art and music, spirit and creativity. ManorMeta includes a series written for youth designed to move from TV to web, print and educational gaming. We began building in Second Life in early 2006 and now with our new build will be anchoring a new community of creative leaders from the virtual world. ManorMeta is the place where rockstars, scientists, kids and world leaders can talk and work out solutions for positive change....anything is possible in this space! We encourage you to become a part of the story: get involved with our online forums or visit the Amoration website and photo galleries to see more of the ManorMeta world.
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