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Full 44 Minute Machinima of The Wall V-2 in Second Life
September 14, 2008 7:51 amAnother Sensational Machinima in The Wall
August 31, 2008 7:28 pmI spent three early mornings last week capturing three times, in its entirety (a full 43 minutes) CARPs inventive and emotionally driven version of Pink Floyd’s 1980’s album, The Wall. It was a truly international group that spent many hours developing and performing a Virtual Show to music that reaches a new audience every few years. Thanks to NMC as usual for hosting this and other cutting edge Second Life events!I will be editing down the full show in the next few days, in sequence as performed, but this upload is my personal expression of what I experienced.
A well known track from the album was wisely left off by Director Debbie Trilling due to it’s popularity but while I was putting together this ‘mash-up’ compilation I tried a recording of the reunion performance of the Comfortably Numb at Live 8 a few years ago and was entranced by the synergy of visual and song. Hope you do too. Credits after the embed of my film below.
Medium quality (90MB MP4) download available here. Worth playing full screen with the volume up and the lights down 
SECOND LIFE - THE WALL V-2 FILM
A special long form promo edit of the Live Virtual Show…Machinimatography & Editing: GARY HAZLITT
SECOND LIFE - THE WALL V-2
Creative Director: DEBBIE TRILLING Producer: VELAZQUEZ BONETTO
Special thanks for valuable contributions from: Haven Colville, Scio Kamanchi, Gypsy Paz, Lyddyn Tzara, Celeste Moonlight, DJ Jenns, windyy Lane, NMC Campus and George W Bush and, of course, Pink Floyd’s incredible album ‘The Wall’
Song selected for this compilation by Gary Hazlitt, The ‘Live 8′ Version COMFORTABLY NUMB (please note: not featured in the live show)
Creative Director: DEBBIE TRILLING
Producer: VELAZQUEZ BONETTO
Wall Design and Build: ELFOD NEMETH
Animated Puppets: DUGGY BING
Animations: CARAVAGGIO BONETTO
Original Music: JUNIVERS STOCKHOLM & JOSINA BURGESS
Stills Photography: ADEC ALEXANDRIA
Dancing & Joyfulness: KLUTE CUPPLOA & SOUTHERN RIPTID
Filmed & Edited: GARY HAZLITT © JustVirtual.com 2008
SECOND LIFE - THE WALL V-2 FILM “Mother Should I Trust the Government” Full 43 Minute Version Available Soon
Film of the Virtual Pink Floyd ‘The Wall’ Show
August 25, 2008 4:38 pmI was asked by Debbie Trilling, the creative director of this show, to be the machinimatographer on the last two performances of Pink Floyd’s The Wall in Second Life recently. It was great listening to music I remember growing up with being performed by a passionate group of people from all over the world who recreated elements of the film, animated sequences and live show in one of Second Life’s most spectacular displays of creative coordination. It was created by The Cybernetic Art Research Project CARP.
There were audiences of 60+ crammed into the NMC sim which slowed things down a touch, but not noticeably (I was still getting 15 fps or so ). I have a lot of footage to edit into a short 10 minute and the longer full 90 minute film but for now I selectively scanned the footage for interesting frames and created 107 medium resolution photographs which capture a little of the atmosphere and thought put into this.
The performances have received rave reviews over the past few weeks and over 2000 avatars have now seen the show…
- “Amazing. Not so much viewed as it is experienced” ~ Metaverse Messenger
- “All I can say is WOW. GREAT show” ~ Second Arts
- “Nothing short of spectacular. A complete immersion” ~ Looking Glass
- “Impressive, touching and thoughtful. Second Life at its best” ~ MixedRealities
- “Never seen anything like it.20A perfect amalgamation of creativity” ~ sl-newspaper
- “Cutting edge art and performance” ~ NMC Observer
Stills (on this page and on flickr link here) - Taken from Gary Hazlitt’s Machinima of CARP’s “The Wall in Second Life” - video available soon. Stills medium ‘video’ resolution.
Production Credits
The CARP Wall Team:
- Creative Director: Debbie Trilling (UK)
- Producer: Velazquez Bonetto (Germany)
- Wall Design: Elfod Nemeth (UK)
- Animated Puppets: Duggy Bing (US)
- Animations: Caravaggio Bonetto (Austria)
- Original Music: Junivers Stockholm (Sweden) & Josina Burgess (Holland)
- Stills Photography: Adec Alexandria (UK)
- Dancing & Joyfulness: Klute Copploa (France), Southern Riptide (US)
with valuable contributions from:
- Scio Kamanchi (US)
- Gypsy Paz (US)
- Lyddyn Tzara (US)
- Celeste Moonlight (US)
- DJ Jenns (UK)
- George W B ush (US)
Love Makes the Worlds Go Round - The Soul of Icarus Video
August 21, 2008 2:47 pm
A two world machinima I did this week exploring the themes of a cross-world quest for love, mixed-reality and online game relationships. The song ‘The Soul of Icarus” was composed and sung by Gary Hayes © Cubrisound 2004 and a special thanks to my co-star, SilkCharm for her patience and WoW’ness. There are some nice Flickr film stills here too! and I am really spoiling you now a selection of video sites with the film on here - YouTube, Metacafe, Google and Blip.tv
“Come to the edge. We can’t. We’re afraid. Come to the edge. We can’t. We will fall! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew”. - Guillaume Appollinaire
Credits:
- Filmed in World of Warcraft and Second Life sims:
- CityScape from NBC and Marni created by Gary Hazlitt.
- Medium rez download (85MB MP4) available here.
- Machinimatography and editing by Gary Hazlitt © JustVirtual 2008
“And once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you long to return…” - Leonardo Da Vinci
So I will be wearing my worksite hardhat next week and taking apart our ‘creation’ pixel brick by pixel brick. It will make way for a fresh start though, a brave new world, a small patch on ‘Furry’ ABC Island…
and a reminder of what it was like in its opening glory
Now I have had some time back in Second Life nice to visit a very special build, hat tip to Bettina over at NPIRL. As well as being inspired to pop over to this wonderfully rich sim designed and built by Baron Grayson I joined in the challenge of photographing it in stills (flickr set here) and video. Some of these are below and of course the video is a quicky mostly single long shot using the space navigator - of course, what else
So video, then description followed by some more nice stills
A Space Navigator Machinima by GARY HAZLITT. Second Life Island Creation by BARON GRAYSON. Steinway Grand Piano and Martin Backpacker Guitar One Take Improvisation by GARY HAYES © 2008. Medium quality (69.5MB mp4 available here
“filmed in one take, then re-edited, vignette and desaturate filters added in places. Most of the playback made twice speed to improve smoothness as sim had quite low frame rates during capture. Enjoy” The wonderful Second Life 3rd generation sim, Templum ex Obscurum by Baron Grayson, machinima by Gary Hazlitt in one three hour session.
Full Performance Machinima ZeroG SkyDancers “Second Spring”
June 8, 2008 11:18 pmI was lucky to attend another amazing performance, from Dan Coyote and the team, three times and was able to draw on three full length sequences for my edit of the performance. I then set up a Multiclip in Final Cut Pro which allowed me to edit the piece in its entirety as if live with the three parallel continuous shots. The two YouTubes below give a feel for the work but there is also a medium rez 103MB MP4 here. I would have preferred to move the shots and music around a bit as I always have my own take on how the dance, visual and music fit together but this is far more documentary than usual for me. If you liked the other works by the SkyDancers you will not be disappointed by this 16 min special.
UPDATE: We are producing a special DVD so the videos have been temporarily removed for the moment.
The Full Credits for the above film:
- Created by DC Spensley
- Produced and Directed by DanCoyote Antonelli
- Machinamatography by Gary Hazlitt
- Editing by Gary Hayes
- Original Score ZeroOne Paz
- Technical Director ZenMondo Wormser
- Costumes Queue Marlowe
SkyDancers:
- Assistant Director Anhinga Chaika
- Deborah Stranglove - Prima
- Angelique Menoptra - Prima
- Lina Lageos
- Pyper Dollinger
- Buffy Beale - Training Director
- Pielady Smalls
- Tatiana Kurri - Puch
ZeroG SkyDancers are Produced and Directed by real life artist DC Spensley - below is earlier descriptive synopsis of the work.
Second Spring is a completely LIVE story performance. SkyDancers perform in-flight choreography without the benefit of animations or gestures of any kind following cues given in REAL TIME on a private IM channel. DanCoyote “calls” the show to keep time with the score written and performed by ZeroOne Paz.
DanCoyote and Technical Director ZenMondo Wormser have pulled out all the stops this time and created the most dynamic stage set ever. Set pieces will evolve, vanish and change position as the story plays out.
Production Designer Queue Marlowe has created an incredible array of SkyDancer costumes called “cascades” that change many times over the hour long show.
Set pieces have been created by venerable Second Life artists Jopsy Pendragon and Nand Nerd. Expect the unexpected!
=========Earlier Press Release Jan 1, 2008=========
For Immediate Release
New Media Consortium Presents
ZeroG SkyDancers III - Virtual Flight Choreography
Pioneering Performing Arts Soar in the Metaverse - Again - Under the Direction of DanCoyote Antonelli ††
January 1, 2008, (Second Life) - Avatar DanCoyote Antonelli is accustomed to breaking new ground. Even in virtual worlds he is considered avant guarde. The real man controlling that avatar, DC Spensley, has been wowing virtual audiences since 2006 with art installations that would not be possible in real life, but perhaps the most coveted ticket in all of Second Life is one to a performance by his ZeroG SkyDancers. On January 6, 2008, the premiere of the highly anticipated, third, completely redesigned production of ZeroG SkyDancers will debut.
Second Life’s history making, critically acclaimed world performance group, the ZeroG SkyDancers is a new form of ensemble performance that uses the airspace of this virtual world, resulting in a cross between water ballet and aerial acrobatics, in ways that would not be possible in the physical world. Wearing spectacular, flowing costumes called cascades - that are many times larger than their avatars - the SkyDancers move through space, and become part of the stage themselves. Altering and evolving, their flight triggers audio samples, which provide a unique layer to the original musical score commissioned for the production.††
The production, sponsored by the New Media Consortium (NMC), will introduce an all-new reactive-interactive stage set that is repeatedly and dramatically transformed over the hour long performance. The ZeroG SkyDancers III will formally debut at 9PM Pacific Standard Time, Sunday, January 6, 2008 in the virtual world of Second Life. Seating is limited, but the show will run every week during the first 90 days of 2008, to accommodate the most guests possible. Tickets will cost $10 US ($3000 Lindens) a piece. For ticket information, please contact Spensley directly at dc@spensley.com.
Those with tickets will need to complete a 5 minute registration process with Second Life, http://www.secondlife.com , in order to access the ZeroG SkyDancers III performance.† A basic account is absolutely free, includes unlimited access to Second Life’s tools, events and communities.†Spensley recommends that audience members spend a minimum of 15 minutes learning the basic skills of the Second Life world prior to attending the performance. “Familiarizing yourself with basic navigation of Second Life will add even more enjoyment to the show,” said Spensley.
Gary Hazlitt’s video of a ZeroG SkyDancers II performance is available at YouTube and has received more than 10 thousand hits.†† “It’s difficult to convey the dramatic and immersive effects of the Second Life virtual world in a 2-D web environment, however this video by Gary Hazlitt does convey the overall concept of the performance,” said Spensley.
Hazlitt Machinima tracked on TubeMogul
May 7, 2008 9:14 pmHiding and Seeking in Second Life, Cyborg Style
March 23, 2008 12:45 pm
What to do on Easter Saturday afternoon? Why not create a quick “Cyborg questioning existance, looking for something and some meaning in her life” machinima. This idea came about from playing with one of the default characters in CT5 (Crazy Talk 5) and using various imported songs. I quickly made a spaceship so the ‘cyborg’ can be seen in full body, and in which I (the Golem Robot character on the right seat) can sit and drive around various sims. The lip sync character is a CT5 ‘auto lip-sync’ take against one of my long time ago ex students (now a fully fledged pop diva) Imogen Heap’s wonderful track “Hide and Seek” (I wanted something vocoderised, slightly robotic) although this goes a lot deeper thanks to Immi’s great words. Also the subtle head movements and eye positions were recorded in separate live takes withing CT5.
I needed three appropriate sims for the three phases of the song. Ones that had a sense of dawning, evolving and evolved - also that were off the ground, so the spaceship could move around, inside, under, over etc: Three sprang immediately to mind. Planet Mongo a space city (evolved - spelt wrong on video, not Mondo! sorry rush job ;-(), Svarga (dawning) and Deakin (that I built - evolving). The main process was a quick 5 hours but editing took about an hour longer than normal because of rendering, all those green screen shots (the head shots against the reversed Space Navigator backgrounds).
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A medium rez, stereo MP4 52MB version can be downloaded here
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Anyways hope you like this quick ’sketch’ - the following info is mostly duped from the YouTube description.
A machinima by Gary Hazlitt completed on easter Saturday afternoon 2008. The song ‘Hide and Seek’ is by Imogen Heap from the album ‘Speak for Yourself’.
Special thanks to the creators of Second Life sims Planet Mongo built by Lumiere Noir (spelt wrong on video sorry, rushed, not Mondo!) and Svarga built by Svarog Laukosargas. Deakin sim and spaceship for this video built/designed by Gary Hayes.
Lip sync animation created using Crazy Talk 5, green screened in Final Cut. The spaceship shots were filmed live in Second Life.
Avatanimation, machinimatography and editing (in the usual 5 hours total!) by Gary Hazlitt
A JustVirtual Production
© Gary Hazlitt 2008
