Here's another great machinima report by citizen journalist Draxtor Despres on the simulcast of President Obama's speech in Ghana last Saturday into Second Life. This is a much better report than my own raw footage of the simulcast I posted a few days ago. Drax does a great job contextualizing the larger political and societal…
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Interview with Lynette Wallworth, Aussie multimedia installation artist
Here's a cool Second Life interview with Lynette Wallworth, a truly innovative Australian artist who creates emotionally powerful video installations that break the wall between the viewer and the video. I love Lynette's work, which transforms physical space and draws you into the video in a way that a computer screen or even an IMAX…
BAVC Producer’s Institute Finale: Pitching your project!
The culminating event of the BAVC Producer's Institute is a presentation of the eight projects being developed here to a group of potential funders, partners and distributors. The challenge presented to each team was to develop and present a prototype of a participatory media project that creates social change. It's an intense and nerve-wracking experience…
Draxtor’s report on the BAVC Producer’s Institute
Here's the first in a series of machinima reports by my friend Draxtor Despres on the Producer's Institute, run by the Bay Area Video Coalition in San Francisco. Draxtor's first guest is Wendy Levy of BAVC, the coordinator of the Institute, explaining what it's all about.
Shooting machinima at the BAVC Producer’s Institute
Today we started shooting machinima for the presentation for the "Virtual Mine" project, being pitched at the conclusion of the BAVC Producer's Institute on Friday. Yes, it was a lot of work for the team to create the assets, write the shooting script, and arrange the sets for the machinima shoot. But it was also…
Virtual meeting with Claudia Linden at the Producers Institute at BAVC in San Francisco
I've been in San Francisco since Saturday participating in the awesome Producers Institute, organized by the Bay Area Video Coalition. The Producers Institute is an intense week bringing together documentary filmmakers, technologists, activists and educators to brainstorm new forms of participatory media for social change. I feel very lucky to be here as a "Mentor"…
Draxtor’s report on Human Rights in Second Life on PBS Frontline/World
My buddy Draxtor Despres filed his first story for PBS's "Frontline/World" show today, about human rights advocacy within Second Life. Drax focused his reporting on the Virtual Gitmo camp created by Nonny de la Peña and Peggy Weil. And he describes the somewhat mixed reception he got from other human rights activists in Paris when…
Draxtor Despres to report from Second Life on PBS starting in January
I just got the exciting news from my friend, machinima journalist Draxtor Despres, that in the new year he will be filing stories for PBS's Frontline/World television show! Check out this neat interview with Draxtor on KAZU radio in Monterrey, which does a nice profile of this award-winning journalist and broke the news about Drax's…