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 […]
My latest work is very short – ‘Solitude’ – a film poem. I did something that had a similar kind of form last year, but I only discovered earlier this year that the film poem (or poetic avant-garde film, verse-film or verse-documentary) was an existing idea with a history. But there is nothing new in […]
At the end of the last week, an idea came together for another machinima, this time located in Furillen in Second Life. A bleak, open sim, it’s based on a real life place – an island off the northeast coast of Sweden, where a limestone factory was turned into a hotel. Furillen has been recreated […]
Last Sunday marked the final weekend of Nitroglobus Gallery. Dido Haas will be creating a new Hall – with the passing of Nitro Fireguard, her partner in Second Life, she had decided the old Gallery they created together should go. It could never be the same. So in that great space that was characteristic of […]
Early morning mist hangs – Peatonville Bay from Tizzy Canucci on Vimeo. In the last post, I wrote about the two ends of Second Life, representation and escaping the material constraints of the real world. And having covered one end, I come across a sim that exemplifies the other. Peatonville Bay is currently open for […]
This is my contribution to the ‘What Second Life Means to Me’ video project being run for the virtual world’s 12th birthday celebrations. I was not sure about doing this project, but several things came together. It seems appropriate that this should be my 100th blog post. This will be my third video this year. […]
Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist from Erik Wernquist on Vimeo. Beautiful visually, as well as in its poetics and thoughts. We may not all be wanderers, but humans are irresistable travellers. Just some are more adventurous than others in the places they explore and discover. And we choose different places to go. […]
