Here’s the schedule of Machinima Festival events that will be broadcast in Second Life today in the Laguna Beach Theater. Be sure and drop in and check them out: Machinima 101 11:30-12:15 Interfacing Creative Expression 12:30-01:30 Intellectual Properties Roundtable 02:00-03:00 Machinima with Issues…
Category: Virtual Worlds
WIRED Mag reports on Machinima Fest in Second Life
WIRED news has a piece on the Machinima Festival in Second Life called "Machinima Fest Goes Virtual" by Sean Captain. It’s a nice write-up and hopefully will get more folks to the festival either in the flesh or in their avatars.
Thanks for coming to the Machinima Fest Preview! See you on Saturday for the awards ceremony, and more!
Thanks, everyone, who came out for the first of two Second Life events in conjunction with the Machinima Festival this weekend in New York. We had a great time, and we hope you did too! Special thanks to the machinimators Phil Rice, Jackie Turnure, Jonah Gold, and Harrison Heller (pictured above) for coming in-world to…
Second Life Machinima Fest Preview tomorrow!
Hurray! The Machinima Festival preview in Second Life is tomorrow night (5pm SLT, 8PM EST)! The Electric Sheep folks have put up some nice signage in advance of the event in the Laguna Beach Theatre where it will take place. I wrote up a little notice for New World Notes as well. See you alls…
Panelists confirmed for Thursday Machinima Fest Pre-screening
We’re only a couple of days away from the first of two Second Life events held in conjunction with the 2006 Machinima Festival in New York. Lots of buzz among the machinimators and blogosphere about this, so I think we’ll get a good turnout. For the Thursday pre-screening (at 8PM EST in the Laguna Beach…
Me and Hiro hanging in Talib’s crib
I love this pic of Hiro Quasimodo (my RL-roommate) and me hanging out in Talib Kweli’s virtual crib. In related news, Spin Martin is working on a cool little hip-hop inspired build nearby in Saijo City (192, 48, 31). Worth a visit just for his ghetto-fied listening stations. Where’s that head-nodding animation?
What can the UN learn from virtual worlds?
There’s a very interesting discussion on the how to use the internet to facilitate broader consultations among internet users as part of the UN-initiated Internet Governance Forum’s deliberations. Apparently whatever platform chosen has to meet several conditions: Has to be open source – so people can trust the interface as accurately posting their views and…
Blog love for the Machinima Fest
We are starting to hear some blogosphere chatter on the 2006 Machinima Festival and the Second Life component of the event, which is super-cool. Among the notable mentions: Kotaku Gaygamer.net! Wonderland Think d2c and Shattered Keyboard Thanks, folks! Keep up that viral news goodness. After the jump, I provide some links to spots in Second…
This is the stuff your avatar should do this week
This is your Second Life cruise director Rik Riel with my picks of interesting events and activities going on in SL for the next few days. Check it out on New World Notes. I’m off to the virtual Plone Fest now to get some open source knowledge.
Plone Conference re-broadcast in Second Life Oct 25-27
SL developer Tao Takashi sends out the cool news that he has organized an in-world re-broadcast of the proceedings of the 2006 Plone Conference taking place from October 25-27 in Seattle, WA. Plone is a powerful open-source web content management system with a large volunteer developer base around the world. It’s both easy to use…