JUST VIRTUAL » Celeste Moonlight http://www.justvirtual.com Stories and voices from virtual worlds Wed, 13 Jul 2011 01:09:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Another Sensational Machinima in The Wall http://www.justvirtual.com/2008/08/31/another-sensational-machinima-in-the-wall/ http://www.justvirtual.com/2008/08/31/another-sensational-machinima-in-the-wall/#comments Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:28:11 +0000 Gary Hazlitt http://www.justvirtual.com/?p=361 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 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

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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

]]> http://www.justvirtual.com/2008/08/31/another-sensational-machinima-in-the-wall/feed/ 2 Film of the Virtual Pink Floyd ‘The Wall’ Show http://www.justvirtual.com/2008/08/25/film-of-the-virtual-pink-floyd-the-wall-show/ http://www.justvirtual.com/2008/08/25/film-of-the-virtual-pink-floyd-the-wall-show/#comments Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:38:40 +0000 Gary Hazlitt http://www.justvirtual.com/?p=347

I 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

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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)

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