http://www.justvirtual.com Stories and voices from virtual worlds Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:18:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There has been lots of excitement about Second Life becoming a more 'evocative' engine (visually speaking) for at least 18 months with lots of posts and short demo videos. Recently the Illclan'ers posted an item suggesting we are quite close to having an official Linden Lab release here, Dynamic Lighting ... http://www.justvirtual.com/2009/10/23/the-dynamic-beta-shadows-of-a-windlit-second-life/ A Second Life Machinima by Gary Hayes Song 'Speeding Cars' by IMOGEN HEAP (used with permission of the artist) Medium rez 48MB MP4 download here Special thanks to Song: IMOGEN HEAP Animations: Sinewave & Abramination Dance consultant: Richard James-Allen Physical.tv Nevada timelapse footage by Gary Hayes & Nadia Warner Machinimatography, editing, avatanimation & concept by Gary Hayes LYRICS by Imogen ... http://www.justvirtual.com/2009/01/27/machinima-speeding-cars-imogen-heap/ 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 - slides below) (reminding me of other mixed reality performances back to 1995, where I produced a large dance show at ... http://www.justvirtual.com/2008/12/29/machinima-the-great-dance-myth-of-nataraja-and-macbeth/ 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 ... http://www.justvirtual.com/2008/12/12/from-island-to-campus-deakin-arts-university-build/ Another Hazlitt machinima! Lucky to be invited into yet another new world Vastpark (who hail from Melbourne, Australia)...just down the road, although Melbournians hate Sydneysiders, alledgedly! Even through it is a closed beta demo (called Immersion2) with very limited 'interactivity' it gives a real sense of the potential of this ... http://www.justvirtual.com/2008/10/29/the-vastness-of-vastpark-halloween-2008-video-fun/ 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 ... http://www.justvirtual.com/2008/09/05/hiding-and-seeking-cyborg-style-in-second-life/ 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'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 ... http://www.justvirtual.com/2008/08/31/another-sensational-machinima-in-the-wall/ I am continually beta testing up coming virtual worlds and one that is showing early promise is Twinity. Although lacking many of the 'detailed' 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 ... http://www.justvirtual.com/2008/08/31/run-silkcharm-run-in-alpha-city-berlin-twinity/ 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 ... http://www.justvirtual.com/2008/08/26/love-makes-the-worlds-go-round-the-soul-of-icarus-video/ 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 ... http://www.justvirtual.com/2008/08/26/true-immersion-templum-ex-obscurum/