I write a post about gender fairly regularly1 and as there’s some interesting new research around, I thought I’d return to the subject. But first a bit of background. When I first came into Second Life, gender crossing and deception was a hot issue. I remember reading the provocatively titled Is Your Second Life Woman […]
Insilico is closing. I’d long wanted to make a machinima there but I couldn’t get an idea that didn’t seem clichéd. I felt the need to do something to record the sense of place, and not simply to make a travel documentary. I wanted to extend the ideas and portrayal of dystopia within Insilico to […]
This time I thought I’d talk a bit about the process of putting together a machinima, using the example of my latest, Symphony for a Lost King. The program I use is Lightworks. It’s available on a two week renewable free licence. The limitations compared to the full price version is just in the output […]
As I mentioned in my last post, I had a machinima selected for showing at Supernova 2016. Our Music of the Spheres premiered on the LED screens in the Theatre District of Denver last night. It’s a film poem filmed at The Far Away in Second Life, with thanks to Ziki Questi. Melancholia is a […]
It’s been a long gap since my last post, though nothing like the 99 years between Supernova2016 and the poet Edward Thomas… A video of mine will be shown as part of Denver Digitari‘s Supernova Festival on the 24th September. It will premiere there and go online at about the same time. It is another […]
Does anyone else get a tinge of sadness when old tech goes? Today I ordered a set of components to replace the core of the computer – motherboard, cpu and memory. I can’t see them inside the box, but those old parts made things and built my achievements. They made me money in my business […]
47 years ago, I was making lunar landscapes from polyfilla and coal dust. Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon was still a few years away, as was my musical taste. But I was living through the space race, and the moon landings were better to think about than the other uses of rockets during […]
I have a couple of new exhibitions. I don’t do exhibitions very often. I’ve never been an ‘art’ photographer and I’m too in love with colour to shoot black and white. I’ve photographed the naked body in rl, but it doesn’t really interest me in sl. In machinima I can work with these things to […]
Another machinima! He’s Watching You is a more abstract video this time, combining and overlaying video and audio. He’s Watching You from Tizzy Canucci on Vimeo. The video uses material from a performance last weekend (11 June 2016) by SaveMe Oh, with music provided by Echo Starship. There was a previous performance with SaveMe Oh and […]
Strawberry Singh has revived her Machinima and Movie Poster Challenge for this month. First run in 2013, you can see details and comments about folk’s lists on Strawberry’s blog. The only thing I would add to her post is that there are also a lot of machinima on Vimeo too. Readers of this blog will […]
