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

1. Black Library – Literature, arts, games, and more. (They told me they are moving soon so keep an eye out for the new locaiton). Click here to go there

2. Dragon Moon Resort – Relaxed atmosphere. Regular concerts and events. Click here to go there

3. The Cliffs of BonnyDoon – Newly opened build in Liferain Park. Majestic falls, towering cliffs, a treetop village, and subterranean caverns. Click here to go there

4. Galaxy Sci-Fi Sim – Join Starfleet Academy. The group has regular role play events, tactical training, bi-Annual Banquets and more. Click here to go there

5. Gris-Gris Land – Stunning futuristic architecture by Milo Bellow. “Mad Gods and Englishmen…” Click here to go there

6. Intermundia – Art Space of Nebulosus Severine. Evolving installation work. Click here to go there

7. Little Silent Hill – Re-creation of locations from the survival horror game series. Click here to go there

8. Mars Japanese Gardens – A wild and romantic Japanese park style garden. Click here to go there

9. Nakama – A huge Japanese city, divided into different anime themed regions. Click here to go there

10. Nexus Prime – Vast cyberpunk city. Lots to explore and hidden areas to discover. Click here to go there

11. The Port – Arena for projects which create new links between first and second life. Click here to go there

12. Pot Healer Adventure – Immersive game of exploration and puzzles. Click here to go there

13. Sci-Fi Geeks Museum – Full size starships, interactive holodeck, movies, events, fan art, and more. Click here to go there

14. Suffugium – Dystopian future city with cyberpunk influences. Click here to go there

15. Svarga – A fully functional artificial ecology system. Click here to go there

16. Voted 5 Group Land – Caution! Ego-free zone. Sense of humour advisable. Click here to go there

17. Avalon Island – Beautiful architecture and one of Second Life’s best cinemas play host to a variety of real world companies and organisations. Click here to go there

18. Shiny Things – Shoes and jewellery designed for the most discerning residents of Second Life. Click here to go there

19. Support for Healing Island – offers nightly depression support groups in beautiful surroundings. Click here to go there

20. Sick Cat – Art installation exploring the possibilities of mind uploading. Click here to go there

Some other places that I like visiting

Of course if your passing pop in for tea and see my place – who knows I may be in Gary Hazlitt’s Angels Nest in Blueberry, Click here to go there

Esperance – The AFTRS Island, where I work, some nice art developing Click here to go there

Amsterdam – apparently like some bio place? Click here to go there

Camp Darfur, it makes me sad, confused and angry when I go there Click here to go there

Shivar, Mont Saint Michel au Per – lovely atmosphere and medieval buildings Click here to go there

The Lost Gardens of Apollo – very romantic and special vegetation Click here to go there

Social Simulation Cyber-Research Lab – fun interactive games Click here to go there

Phoenicia Center for Contemporary Art – great 2D art gallery Click here to go there

Other places to be added in upcoming posts from the other side include the Sci-Fi sim (my neighbour), NMC campus then my fav shopping places, great art places, best interactive spots and the hottest clubs – not that I do them a lot – must be my age

Posted by Gary Hazlitt inside Second Life

One of the main items on the lower level was Amoration aka ManorMeta – Crystalline Home by In Kenzo and Common Cure. A magical place of translucent geology and dispersed colours.

Next to Amoration was a truly interactive item called Aqua that required you to enter, a sort of living maze of blue and pink walls that rotated and created never-ending perspectives combined with an element of survival! Created by Selaras Partridge you can also click panels out of (and in to) the way while walking in and through the installation. That black dot is me by the way…

There were a few smaller traditional items and I really liked the very detailed texture and voluptuous shape of the metallic Brass Dragon by Lynnor Richelieu

Another favourite was also the most simple. Giovanni Tweak’s Light Path had 12 changing colour lights, in parallel lines that you walked within. It cast very interesting light patterns on me as I travelled through it. I am wearing a black top hence the bodyless look

I have seen something similar to ‘Primolution’ by Stella Costello on the NMC campus so not sure if this is by the same artist or not. This piece took the concept one step further by having one of us avatars jumping out the end of the piece. Very cute.

In the main New West gallery building there were a lot of two dimensional paintings and moving texture based art works, but I was in a 3D mood and two items that caught my eye were there as decoration I think – in the blurb they were referred to, I think, as 3rd generation Second Life Art, made entirely here in this world and appropriate to this world – and there is me thinking everything was made in here. But Dancoyote Antonelli, who is the featured artist here at the moment, used this principle of 3D fly-through, dna/fractal structures in some of the larger works in the sky I will talk about later. The two here were called ‘Round Flappy Tree’ (according to the edit name) and another untitled (or I couldn’t find it), here they are

Going skywards now and one has two options, to use the teleporter to the top of the Modernist Marvel building here:

and to look at the 2D art on each floor (which I did aswell) or to put on the jet-pack and explore even further vertically. I went to the middle level a hundred metres above this building, an exhibition sandbox, which was fantastic and had my real favourite works. The first really hit my Second Life aesthetic soft-spot, the Morphing Sculpture by Sasun Steinbeck. Here is some blurb before the pics:

This piece was born of my desire to create something beautiful that can only exist in SecondLife, something never before seen that exploits the power of the 3D environment. I wanted something very beautiful to look at, as well as fun for owners to play with. SecondLife gives us all amazing control over the shapes of the prims that we work with – but I wanted to make something that would create beautiful, complex, and unexpected shapes completely on it’s own, as if it were a living thing, morphing into completely different shapes with every touch.

I just so loved this. Think I will go back and buy it as it is the foundation of what I consider ‘my’ art in this world. A similar item on the sandbox platform (here are a couple of overview pictures by the way)

was Orbital Trip-lg by Sabine Stonebender. This reminded me of some of the early works by Clames Clanger, who is another, rotating metallic morphing, particle specialist. This had wonderful pastel colours and lovely smooth motion.

The final item I will talk about on this platform was the Pixel Board by ZenCoyote (who are Dancoyote Antonelli & ZenMondo Wormser). Pixel Board was very minimalist, basically black and white squares but a smaller control board allowed viewers to control the much, much larger screen and create a collaborative, changing grid. Fun to use and see what others have left.

On the way up to the very top platform I bumped into a ZX4 Attack helicopter, literally. Built by David Street I am not sure what it was doing floating here, but thought I would walk on it and grab a photo

And so to the final area I visited on this short exploratory trip was the ZeroG Skydancer Performance Space. There were performances here a few days ago and I have seen videos and it looked staggering. Avatars flew around with long trails behind them and the piece rotated and morphed. Here I am floating in the centre of the performance, fractal/dna type centre piece.

Antonelli calls his art “Hyperformalism” and to quote him “I am using a modernist mode to inch the viewers forward into a 3rd generation mode. First generation is art brought into Second Life, like I have here. Second generation is art made entirely in SL.”

Here is a final shot of the whole performance space in daylight which is probably not the best time to see this, but we can see the audience area, control platforms above and some of the grand, bold and 3rd generation work.

Phew. Great fun looking around and plenty to inspire. I love art that is evolving here in my world, less so the art that is imported from wherever, doesn’t quite fit. Will continue to generate my own works when I get time, and that is the difficult thing when I only seem to be living in here a couple of hours a day? Wish I had a full 24 hour day that I have heard those bios get.

Posted by Gary Hazlitt from inside Second Life