Wot A Waste! Wot A Waste! But I Don't Mind!

 You chose to play The Fool in a six-piece band,

First night nerves and the one night stands,

I should be glad, to be so inclined,

Wot a waste! Wot a waste!

But I Don't Mind!

Ian Dury & The Blockheads, 1978

NaughtyMachinima is a valuable resource.


I have already received three written warnings from YouTube about the "inappropriate" nature of my films. They told me that, if I ever upload adult machinima to their service again, they would tell my parents of me. 


Or something like that.


However, on NaughtyMachinima (NM) we can upload naughty machinima without our parents ever needing to know!. And we do. By the thousands. In fact, the upload I finished not two minutes ago was upload #4800.


The main alternative to NM is KittyShack run by a really nice fella, Cybercat Bekkers. I would love to be able to do more on KittyShack but sadly it does not (yet) support High Definition (HD). A number of us go to great lengths to create our movies' in HD - it requires more expensive hardware, software, know-how and patience - if we can not then play those films in HD on a particular site, that site is put at a disadvantage.


NM does allow HD.


Both KittyShack and NM are one-man-bands. As a community we are lucky that these fellas are willing to put the effort in to ensure we have somewhere to upload our films to. 


Inevitably, as one-man-bands, things goes wrong. And worse, they go wrong and often there is no backup.


Bah!


I have spent all today re-uploading my whole portfolio of (SL) films onto NM because of a glitch that saw the original source files get deleted. This is not the first time it has occurred - I have had similar happen on KittyShack's predecessor. 


I am on the penultimate re-upload as I speak. Once all are re-loaded, I will then have to update the embed code on all sites which display my films.


All-in-all, fixing this will have taken the lion's share of my weekend. A lot of wasted time.


But, you know what? Such is my gratitude for the valuable service that these fellas provide to the community, I really, simply do not mind.

I have now purchased NM's 'Platimum' service so that I can have a "one-stop shop" for all my movies, in HD.


Please enjoy this cheery ditty from arguably the Best Poet Laureate that England never had....Ian Dury:

Iono Allen & SL Adult Filmmaking

Iono Allen is a French machinima maker who is respected not only for his own work but also for his appreciation of others’ work. He is down-to-earth, friendly and very approachable.

Iono was the winner of the Hosoi Ichiba Machinima Award 2010 for his wonderfully atmospheric “A Question of Honour” (embedded below).

Within the machinima community, Iono is also respected for his measured and balanced views of others’ work. If Iono calls a particular work “great” or “beautiful” then you can pretty much guarantee that it is!

Iono has watched all of my films – either on NaughtyMachinima, on my own blog or in-world and was pleasingly complimentary about them, especially the later films.

In one of his own upcoming films he intends having a love-making scene and asked me to provide a few URLs of SL adult films so that he can not only see how it is best done but also learn what else is happening in the SL adult machinima scene.

The three films I selected are:

'The Executive Encounter' by Deelite Zenovka & Rysan Falls

'Summer Wine' by Quinn Ying

'Pandora's Box' by Arwen and Serenity Juneberry

There are plenty of other films I could have selected but I chose these because I feel that taken as a whole they demonstrate good quality film making, good post-production, good story telling, the willingness to be experimental and evolve – both technically and aesthetically – and also show artistic and creative ability.

I believe they support my view that SL adult filmmakers could very well become a force to reckon with in the next few years and that we will naturally earn the right to be screened at UWA, MMIF and other such SL machinima events.

Enjoy Iono Allen's "A Question of Honour"...