Machinima Expo: A Good Day at the Races!

Tutsy, Pixie & Nitro backstage at Machinima Expo Award Ceremony

This year’s Machinima Expo has just concluded – it was a good day at the races!

Of the six major awards, Tutsy’s films were awarded three.

The final results are:

The “Open This End” Award for outstanding film making was awarded equally to three films:

          - The Chapelside Deception by IceAxe (UK, Moviestorm)

- Wulf and Eadwacer by Hypatia Pickens (US, Second Life)

- The Last Syllable of Recorded Time by Tutsy Navarathna (France/India, Second Life)

The 1^st and 2^nd Jury Prizes were awarded to:

          - MetaSex by Tutsy Navarathna

          - The Last Syllable of Recorded Time by Tutsy Navarathna

The 3^rd Jury Prize was awarded to:

-      Wulf and Eadwacer by Hypatia Pickens

The 4^th Jury Prize was awarded to:

          - Unfinished Paintings by Miron Lockett (US, iClone)

The Grand Prize Winning Film was awarded to:

          - The Chapelside Deception by IceAxe (UK, Moviestorm)

If you get the chance, I’d especially recommend watching Miron Locket’s ‘Unfinished Paintings’. This is a great, fun high-tone production made in iClone by a clearly extremely talented guy, musically and visually. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to locate the film on the net to embed here, but when I do I will.

Hypatia Pickens’ ‘Wulf and Eadwacer’ is based on an Old English poem and has a great rhythm and beat. Definitely worth watching.

‘The Chapelside Deception’ by IceAxe is a more conventional narrative film consisting of “a beginning, middle and end”. Created using MovieStorm, it tells the story of corruption in a soccer team during the 1970s.

As part of the Expo, Tutsy was asked to produce a video interview based on questions supplied by Ricky Grove. I provided the translation from French to English.

For the first time, we can now release that interview publically.

Enjoy it best in 720 or 1080HD!

MachinimUWA V: Update

"To describe externals, you become a scientist.

To describe experience, you become an artist."

- Timothy Leary PhD (1920 - 1996)

Tim Deschanel is a Very Happy Man.

Tim is also a prolific photographer who has seemingly attended most all of the significant artistic events, installations and performances in Second Life since October 2007. His flickr consists of over 20,000 individually crafted photographs which document the creativity, individuality and ingenuity of the SL experience.

Dido Haas by Tim Deschanel

I was thrilled to see Tim had taken these pic's of me in my Rabbit Girl Porn Star persona while we were attending the opening of Dido Haas and Nitro Fireguard's new art gallery which exhibits their own work and, until the end of this month, the work of artist Dannyboyo.

Ordinarily I'd blog Dannyboyo's work in its own right, probably also cross-posting over at The Pornstars blog too for greater exposure. However, time pressures have prevented me from doing so, as I'll explain a little later.

Dannyboyo's work comprises of manipulating pornographic images to leave only abstract exaggerated shape and colour. Dannyboyo says, "the ... pieces retain the erotic quality of the original photo, but softened to a dreamlike, painterly state. For me, it brings new meaning." Well worth checking out.

Nitro Fireguard by Tim Deschnel

The reason I haven't blogged Dannyboyo's exhibition more fully is that I am up to my eyeballs working on my UWA "Seeking Wisdom" machinima entry, and have been for a few weeks now.

Sleep is suffering!

But, the film will be ready for the deadline!

It will be released publically on You Tube (and my blog here) sometime on Sunday 1st July.  However, on the evening of Saturday 30th June, Nasty Puddlegum is holding a small "premiere" over at his gaff for a few invited friends.

We'll screen the film and then applause, shout "WOW" and "AWESOME!", play "Woot!" and "Hooo!" gestures and otherwise congratulate each other in that over-sentimental, grossly emotional and vaguely embarrassing way that is a hallmark of Second Life social gatherings. It goes without saying that anyone refusing to participate in this traditional Second Life behaviour will be summarily ejected and banned.

If offered, don't eat the digestive biscuits.