This machinima is a brief introduction to the virtual world Second Life.
This piece, made for the PBS TV series Frontline's Digital Nation web project, explores friendships made in the virtual world of Second Life. It tells a story about how friendships can span time zones and great distances, as the people (who are by themselves at their computers) experience a closeness while their "avatars," or representations of themselves in the virtual world, are together in Second Life. For more information about TOGGLE, go to: http://tricksterproductions.com/toggle/ Dresses...
Ever wonder what goes on at BIW when you're not there??? After three hours of technical difficulties with a vigilante podcast at Brooklyn Is Watching in Second Life, we finally succeeded in commenting on Penumbra Carter's exceptional and spermy virtual art installation interpretation of William Carlos Williams' poem "so much depends," but only because Sage came along and recorded it for us. We were giddy, and one thing led to another. Solo transformed himself into a sperm avatar before our eye...
Ever wonder what goes on at BIW when you're not there??? After three hours of technical difficulties with a vigilante podcast at Brooklyn Is Watching in Second Life, we finally succeeded in commenting on Penumbra Carter's exceptional and spermy virtual art installation interpretation of William Carlos Williams' poem "so much depends," but only because Sage came along and recorded it for us. We were giddy, and one thing led to another. Solo transformed himself into a sperm avatar before our eye...
Story and machinima by Lori Landay/L1Aura Loire in Second Life. Music done in GarageBand by Lori Landay. Dresses by Lady Thera and Eshi Otawara. I think of this piece as an anchor piece to my larger project, an introduction to some of the issues I see as pertinent to an exploration of virtual subjectivity, and also of an introduction to L1. You're dropped in the middle of an intimate conversation with her, and suddenly she is telling you this incredible story, showing you how she imagines it, ...
This is a 30-second spot for the DBD rose bouquet used in the Imakon Heart's Whisper Valentine's Bouquet: http://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=1217764 Machinima video by L1Aura Loire