Toxic Menges

You know, that’s what I really like about Second Life – where else would I ever have a chance to write a headline to a blog post like that?

All I seem to say on this blog, is the fact that I am remiss – this is trufax, I am, and I will keep saying it til I unremiss myself.

Work in RL is very busy for me at the moment, I am building a fledgling community for a b2b website, and they have just got wind that I can edit videos, so as well as days being full of social media doohickery (yes I get to tweet all day – yay!), I also get to help out a lot with the editing we are doing for vids on the site. Filming in RL is something I haven’t done since my media studies at college – I am a little fascinated with the idea of mixing RL with SL in media, so there may be a flip HD purchased in the near future.

Aaanyway, it’s a bank holiday and it’s time to update on my doings and viddings. First up is Pornosophy – which was challenging to film, a blast to edit, and still makes me chuckle when i toss (scuse the pun brits) the url out to a crowd of people. Certainly something to note is the fantastic, fantastic job done by the amazingly talented and all round nice bloke Xengu Kurka with the soundtrack – he asked me how way out I wanted it to be, and he delivered. If you aren’t into NSFW images, cover the screen and listen to this talented man at the very least!

Next up is my entry for the Rezzable “In the Mood” machinima competition. The Mood is a piece of music – St Louis Blues. The competition runs until May 20th, so all your machinimists – get your skates on, less than 2 weeks to go! I applaud Rezzable for doing this competition, the challenge is good, I know Rezzable understand the importance of Machinima as an emerging artform, and the fact they are encouraging it is really good work on their part (By theway, if you haven’t seen their Egypt installation – you REALLY Must check it out – it’s quite amazing, and they are pushing the boundaries of VW’s and leading the way – bravo Rezzable folks!).

Lastly, and by no means least the first episode of “I Wanna Be a Celebrity” the joint venture between Metaverse TV and Phaylen Fairchild Productions has now premiered. I was lucky enough to be involved in this production (mostly from a position under the ground squished up and filming. The collaboration shown in this programme has me astounded – it’s one ting to be a lonely machinimatographer, rendering and uploading your own footage – imagine what it takes to co-ordinate 4 or 5 people filming, a cast of up to 15, 3 judges, a presenter, a set and the sometime vaguaries of SL Voice, and then get everything together in one place – usually a continent away, so someone can edit it into a programme of this standard is quite amazing. I usually think a 3 minute vid is going to kill me at some point – 25 minutes is a feat of the gods! I hadn’t seen this before yesterday, and even though I know what happens I was still captivated. Watch and enjoy  – new eps air for the next few weeks at 10pm EST/7pm PST every Friday.

Enjoy!