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		<title>The Dynamic Beta Shadows of a Windlit Second Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been lots of excitement about Second Life becoming a more &#8216;evocative&#8217; engine (visually speaking) for at least 18 months with lots of posts and short demo videos. Recently the Illclan&#8217;ers posted an item suggesting we are quite close to having an official Linden Lab release here, Dynamic Lighting and Shadow Engine Coming to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.justvirtual.com/2009/10/23/the-dynamic-beta-shadows-of-a-windlit-second-life/</link>
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		<title>Machinima &#8216;Speeding Cars&#8217; Imogen Heap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Second Life Machinima by Gary Hayes Song &#8216;Speeding Cars&#8217; by IMOGEN HEAP (used with permission of the artist) Medium rez 48MB MP4 download here Special thanks to Song: IMOGEN HEAP Animations: Sinewave &#38; Abramination Dance consultant: Richard James-Allen Physical.tv Nevada timelapse footage by Gary Hayes &#38; Nadia Warner Machinimatography, editing, avatanimation &#38; concept by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.justvirtual.com/2009/01/27/machinima-speeding-cars-imogen-heap/</link>
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		<title>Machinima &#8211; THE GREAT DANCE, Myth of Nataraja (and Macbeth)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Off the back of a range of research in this area this year and from seminars at SPAA and Museum of Sydney in 2007 (The Mixed Reality Perfect Storm &#8211; slides below) (reminding me of other mixed reality performances back to 1995, where I produced a large dance show at the Birmingham exhibition centre with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.justvirtual.com/2008/12/29/machinima-the-great-dance-myth-of-nataraja-and-macbeth/</link>
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		<title>From Island to Campus &#8211; Deakin Arts University Build</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My build and design of the Deakin University Arts Island almost a year ago in January of 2008. Special thanks to Deakin staff Jenny Grenfell, Fiona Phillips, Jo Raphael and Stephen Seagrave for their guidance. The general brief for this was based around a couple of escher and dali paintings alongside some basic teaching space [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.justvirtual.com/2008/12/12/from-island-to-campus-deakin-arts-university-build/</link>
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		<title>The Vastness of Vastpark &#8211; Halloween 2008 Video Fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another Hazlitt machinima! Lucky to be invited into yet another new world Vastpark (who hail from Melbourne, Australia)&#8230;just down the road, although Melbournians hate Sydneysiders, alledgedly! Even through it is a closed beta demo (called Immersion2) with very limited &#8216;interactivity&#8217; it gives a real sense of the potential of this new platform at least the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.justvirtual.com/2008/10/29/the-vastness-of-vastpark-halloween-2008-video-fun/</link>
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		<title>Hiding and Seeking in Second Life, Cyborg Style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What to do on Easter Saturday afternoon? Why not create a quick &#8220;Cyborg questioning existance, looking for something and some meaning in her life&#8221; 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 &#8216;cyborg&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.justvirtual.com/2008/09/05/hiding-and-seeking-cyborg-style-in-second-life/</link>
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		<title>Another Sensational Machinima in The Wall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I 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&#8217;s 1980&#8242;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.justvirtual.com/2008/08/31/another-sensational-machinima-in-the-wall/</link>
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		<title>Run SilkCharm Run in Alpha City Berlin, Twinity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am continually beta testing up coming virtual worlds and one that is showing early promise is Twinity. Although lacking many of the &#8216;detailed&#8217; features of Second Life it has its own specialities that I will cover in a longer post. One thing that is very impressive off the block is the scale of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.justvirtual.com/2008/08/31/run-silkcharm-run-in-alpha-city-berlin-twinity/</link>
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		<title>Love Makes the Worlds Go Round &#8211; The Soul of Icarus Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8216;The Soul of Icarus&#8221; was composed and sung by Gary Hayes © Cubrisound 2004 and a special thanks to my co-star, SilkCharm for her patience and WoW&#8217;ness. There are some nice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.justvirtual.com/2008/08/26/love-makes-the-worlds-go-round-the-soul-of-icarus-video/</link>
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		<title>True Immersion &#8211; Templum Ex Obscurum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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