MachinimUWA V: "Fwd: Evolution"

My MachinimUWA V film entry, "Fwd: Evolution".

Best viewed in 720HD Expanded mode on YouTube but embedded here for convenience.

Credits and a transcript of the text can be found below the embedded video.

Enjoy!

Entry for the University of Western Australia's "MachinimUWA V - Seeking Wisdom" competition.

A Cybernetic Shamen and Cybernetic Dancer travel through space, time and the inner dimensions in the search for wisdom...

Credits:

Filmed in Second Life and Inworldz.

Wisdom was located at...

Abel Dreamscape - Morphe Inc Morphe Northwinds

Adec Alexandria & Debbie Trilling - Rainbow Horizon

Arrehn Oberlander - The Inspiring Orientation, LEA 26

Artee Despres - Huxley, Orwell & Ivory Towers, LEA 22

Betty Tureaud - Araman Galleries, Araman

Blackmamba Sands - The Offworld Colonies, Bladerunner City 2

Cherry Manga - Pirat's Art Space, LEA 28

Claudia222 Jewel - Uglyness & Beauty, UWA Winthrop

Djehan Kidd - Technopunk Deconstructions, Hangers Liquides

Dr. Shane Fairlock - Fairlock Industries Nightclub, Sensual Fantasy

Draco Avium - Wysteria Lane, Isle of Wysteria Lane

Enchantress Sao - Clear Bear Ridge, Gaia Rising

Enchantress Sao - The Astral Plane, Gaia Rising Mysticsea

Lar Jun - Castle Marlar, The Land of Lar ('InWorldz')

Lillith Morgwain - Mysterious Dream, Moodlight Sim

Lupeminith - Natualist Island, Magic Forest

Marcus Inkpen - The Returning, LEA 17

Midare Iwashi & Sojuka Bradley - Mad Ninjaz

Nish Mip - The Last Ocean, UWA Winthrop

Pol Jarvinen - Passages, LEA 25

Rich Greenberg - Trance House, Dance Island

Roya Congrejo - AWK Schrammelburg, XCESS Adventure

Sea Mizin - Symbiont Host, LEA 27

Tranguloid Trefoil - Atoms & Bonds, WASP Land

Yooma Mayo - Dreaming Machine, LEA 15

YuYu Flores - (*^-^*)HPMD, Happy Mood

Further wisdom was provided by...

Adec Alexandria

Debbie Trilling

Ferdy Straff

Iono Allen

Lar Jun

Marcy Palmer-Baxton

Nasty Puddlegum

Paddledog Oh

and Tutsy Navarathna

Cybernauts:

The Cybernetic Shaman - Tutsy Navarathna

The Cybernetic Dancer - Pixie Rain

Resources:

Screen insert newsclips & UWA campus footage - YouTube (Standard Licences)

Additional sound effects: soundjay.com (in accordence ToS)

Soundtrack:

'Re: Evolution' by The Shamen (1992) administered copyright to nemeton.com

Voiceover is an edited sample of Terence Kemp McKenna (1946 - 2000), Cybernetic Philosopher, to whom this machinima is dedicated

Transcript of McKenna's lecture (courtesy of http://www.erowid.org):

If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

Human history represents such a radical break with the natural systems of biological organization that preceded it, that it must be the response to a kind of attractor or dwell point that lies ahead in the temporal dimension.

Persistently Western religions have integrated into their theologies the notion of a kind of end of the world, and I think that a lot of psychedelic experimentation sort of confirms this intuition. I mean, it isn't going to happen according to any of the scenarios of orthodox religion, but the basic intuition that the universe seeks closure in a kind of Omega Point of Transcendence, is confirmed.

It's almost as though this object in Hyperspace, glittering in Hyperspace, throws off reflections of itself, which actually ricochet into the past, illuminating this Mystic, inspiring that Saint or Visionary and that out of these fragmentary glimpses of eternity we can build a kind of map, of not only the past of the Universe and the evolutionary egression into Novelty, but a kind of map of the future. This is what shamanism is always been about.

A Shaman is someone who has been to the end. It's someone who knows how the world really works, and knowing how the world really works means to have risen outside, above, beyond the dimensions of ordinary space, time, and casuistry and actually seen the wiring under the board; stepped outside the confines of learned culture and learned and embedded language into the domain of what Wittgenstein called "The Unspeakable" - the transcendental presence of the other, which can be unsanctioned in various ways to yield systems of knowledge which can be brought back into ordinary social space for the good of the community.

So in the context of ninety percent of human culture the shaman has been the Agent of Evolution because the shaman learns the techniques to go between ordinary reality and the domain of the ideas. This higher dimensional continuum that is somehow parallel to us, available to us, and yet ordinarily occluded by cultural convention out of fear of the Mystery, I believe.

And what shamans are, I believe, are people who have been able to de-condition themselves from the community's instinctual distrust of the Mystery, and to go into it, to go into this bewildering higher dimension, and gain knowledge, recover the jewel lost at the beginning of time, to save souls, cure, commune with the ancestors and so forth and so on.

Shamanism is not a religion - it's a set of techniques, and the principal technique is the use of psychedelic plants. What psychedelics do is they dissolve boundaries and in the presence of dissolved boundaries one cannot continue to close one's eyes to the ruination of the earth, the poisoning of the seas, and the consequences of two thousand years of unchallenged dominator culture based on monotheism, hatred of nature, suppression of the female and so forth and so on. So, what shamans have to do is act as Exemplars by making this cosmic journey to the domain of the Gaian ideas and then bringing them back in the form of Art to t struggle to save the world.

The planet has a kind of intelligence that it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message that nature sends is "transform your language" through a synergy between electronic culture and the psychedelic imagination; a synergy between dance and idea; a synergy between understanding and intuition and dissolve the boundaries that your culture has sanctioned between you - to become part of this Gaian Supermind.

I mean, I think it's fairly profound, it's fairly apocalyptic. History is ending. I mean, we are to be the generation that witnesses the revelation of the purpose of the cosmos. History is the shock wave of the Eschaton. History is the shock wave of eschatology. And what this means for those of us who will live through this transition into Hyperspace is that we will be privileged to see the greatest release of compressed change probably since the birth of the Universe.

The twentieth century is the shudder that announces the approaching cataracts of time over which our species and the destiny of this planet is about to be swept.

We're going to arrive in the third millennium in the middle of an archaic revival, which will mean a revival of these physiologically empowering rhythm signatures, a new Art, a new social vision, a new relationship to Nature, to feminism, to ego.

All of these things are taking hold, and not a moment too soon.

'Showdown' Movie Review by Rayven Baily

A review of ‘Showdown’ by Rayven Baily which originally appeared on her ‘Hell Yea, I’m A Motherfucking Princess’ blog. Reproduced in whole here. I wish to thank Rayven for this generous piece.

‘Showdown’

By Pixie Rain

One thing you can say is Pixie Rain has a different style then a lot others.

You can also say anytime you watch one of her videos you will see a very well edited and professional video.

I think above all now, I really do appreciate the work someone puts in to a very well edited film. Cause' it means they take pride in what they are doing and enjoy entertaining at a high level.

By far my favourite part of the movie was when the two women were trying to find a way to meet for this "Showdown". And what better way then to have a helicopter hat?

The environment at times is very stunning and visually eye catching. The addition of the lens flare effect during the guitar solo was very well done. I'm not sure I understood what exactly happened and why at the end, but it didn't take away that I enjoyed this production.

Overall a video well worth checking out!

Rayven Baily.

Jinx and Pixie Rule Britannia

“I like people with their own beauty”

-         David Bailey CBE (English photographer), 1999

All photographs and interview by Jinx Jiersen. This article was originally published on Emmanuelle Jameson’s ‘The Pornstars’ blog.

Jinx Jiersen: What is your favourite position and why?

Pixie Rain: Doggy position.

I like its animistic and primitive nature. Not being able to look each other "in the eye" creates a feeling of anonymity and disconnection; it is "fucking" rather than "making love".

That is a sexy feeling for me.

JJ: What is your least favourite position and why?

PR: 69’er.

Works perfectly in my imagination but in practice something always seems to go wrong, often with very messy results.

Perhaps I just need more practice.

JJ: What turns you on?

PR: Intelligent humour.

JJ: What turns you off?

PR: Mullet haircuts.

JJ: What sound do you love?

PR: I love the sound of breaking glass.

JJ: What sound do you hate?

PR: The click, whirl and bleep as an ATM cash machine retains my credit card for abusing my limit. Again.

JJ: What is your favourite curse word?

PR: "Bugger".

“Bugger" is a great word because depending on tone of voice and context it can mean either:
1) anal sex by a man with another man or a woman.
2) vaginal intercourse by either a man or woman with an animal.
3) a mild exclamation after an accident or mishap.
4) a term of endearment and affection for a loved one.

The Buggery Act of 1533 remains my favourite legislation of all-time.

JJ: What was your favourite role?

PR: Would it be too corny and predictable to say 'The Kiss' with Jinx Jiersen?

Yeah, I thought so too.

In that case, with Paddledog Oh in 'Showdown'.

JJ: What is your favourite movie?

PR: Difficult one.

Serenity Juneberry has built-up an enviable body of work.

Thorgal McGillivary's 'Dick Tasty' series is fabulously well produced.

Bert Jedburgh's movies will always make me immediately stop whatever I am doing to watch. 'Meow' was definitely one of my personal favourite films of 2011.

But, if I had to go out on a limb to name just one, it would be 'Disturbia' by Aurora Bentham.

JJ: How did you get started in the Adult Movie Industry?

PR: I started making edgy-sexual movies in Second Life in March 2010, soon after I started an account.

I had no idea at that time that SL had a thriving adult machinima community.

After three "inappropriate content" warnings from YouTube I searched for alternative places to post my films. I found NaughtyMachinima and posted them there instead.

My films were noticed by a number of popular bloggers including Emmanuelle, Serenity and Rayven - all of whom have been wonderfully supportive, along with others who have become close friends.

JJ: If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates?

PR: "I've extended your credit limit for Eternity.”

THE SEXIEST® - The Judges Unveiled!

I have great pleasure in introducing you to the fourteen individuals that comprise the judging panel for this year’s THE SEXIEST^® adult machinima contest.

Each of the judges are authorities in their own field and have selflessly donated their time, experience and knowledge into making this contest both fair and fun.

I would like to sincerely thank them for their contributions. I am proud and honoured to be on their Friends List.

Pixie Rain xx

Aspen Huntress (b. 22^nd Feb 2010) is a Second Life photographer whose work is widely admired and respected.

Her talent and aesthetic sensibilities shine through in every picture she publishes.

Aspen is passionate and creative – and sometimes stubborn and obstinate – but always in her work we see a soul seeking expression through her chosen medium.

Aspen is pleased to report that she is feeling much better, and is optimistic for a full recovery, since the permanent restraining order was placed on Spunky Puddlegum.

Barry Lubezki (b. 3^rd Jan 2007) is the creator and owner of the ever-popular ‘The Keyhole Club’.

Barry noticed how people in Second Life loved to watch others having sex and so at first created a live sex theatre.

In September 2008 he came up with the idea of a club designed and built especially for voyeurs and exhibitionists – the aptly named ‘The Keyhole Club’.

It was at the Keyhole that Barry opened Second Life’s first cinema dedicated to machinima pornography – ‘The Keyhole Cinema’ - in 2009.

Today, ‘The Keyhole Club’ attracts many thousands of people, all wanting to watch others or be watched.

And they all still visit the venue’s cinema because, as Bobo Puddlegum is fond of saying, “nobody can resist a good, hot movie!”

Bazz Soulstar (b. 4^th Nov 2009) leads a double-life as a respected pillar of society and an absolute sexual pervert, in approximately equal measure.

Although Bazz has often been called a chameleon, he would rather be thought of as a kaleidoscope.

After a mind-expanding experience involving a nylon sock, a pair of maracas, a tuning fork and a small satsuma, Bazz is much more relaxed about life.

He has always been open and liberally minded and does not care much for censorship, other than that needed to protect children.

Bazz enjoys watching and reading pornography.

He considers 'The Grande Bouffe' and 'Fritz the Cat', two films he watched as a young man, as being instrumental in his development of enjoying erotic and unusual pornography.

Bazz Soulstar was so impressed with Bobo Puddlegum’s Remmington Fleshlight, he brought the company.

Trained by his cousins Solok and Nasty to be a performer at the Albanian State Circus, Bobo Puddlegum (b. 6^th May 2010) has variously been employed as an acrobat, human cannon ball, clown, elephant tamer and pickpocket.

Bobo, always the womaniser, was honoured to be presented with the coveted “Playmate Midget of the Month” award.

Bobo lists his hobbies and interests as dancing, baking, knitting, embroidery, sailing, spanking and anal fingering.

He’ll often he found touring adult venues in Second Life while chewing on a pair of stolen knickers.

Debbie Trilling (b. 16^th Oct 2006) is a Creative Director involved in some of the biggest shows to have been staged in Second Life, including ‘The Wall’ and ‘Metropolis’.

For the last three years, she has led the team responsible for the climax of Second Life’s annual ‘Burning Life’ festival, the actual burning of ‘The Man’ itself.

Debbie has produced 80+ videos documenting her own and other 3D artists’ work in Second Life and other virtual worlds.

Her IM’s never get capped.

Debbie has asked that we do not reveal that she has a number of the Puddlegum family on her Friends List. We feel honour-bound to respect that request.

Ever enthusiastic about the creative possibilities inherent within Second Life, Ferdy (b. 9^th Mar 2007) is owner of ‘The Village Café’ - a folk and world music venue that is especially welcoming to the transgender community.

The Village Café is inspired by early 1960s Greenwich Village, NYC.

Ferdy is Nasty Puddlegum’s favourite lover. Bobo fancies her too. And Solok. Even Spunky, for that matter.

Iono Allen (b. 24^th June 2007) is a machinima film maker working from Paris, France.

Respected in the SL art community for his enthusiasm but balanced, honest encouragement, Iono has filmed numerous other artists’ work to great effect, as well as create his own movie stories.

Iono was winner of the 2010 Hosoi Ichiba Machinima Award and recently was awarded joint-fourth place in the prestigious MachinimUWA IV awards.

Iono has confirmed that he is now willing to collaborate on a future film project with Nasty Puddlegum after Nasty offered him a horse’s head that was impossible to refuse.

Lar Jun (b. 26^th Jun 2007) is owner of the immensely popular ‘Old Lar’s House’, one of the few adult venues to be listed in Linden Lab’s ‘Destinations’.

Lar is most often described as a kindly, humorous, benevolent senior citizen and, in fact, is seen by many as being the perfick roll model.

He also has an enviable and deserved reputation as a babe magnet.

Lar is partnered to Marcy Palmer – rumoured to be able to tie knots in spaghetti with her tongue. Even in his senior years, Lar continues to enjoy excellent hand-to-knee co-ordination.

His hobbies include upskirt photography, drooling and drinking copious amounts of Budweiser. He is a regular contributor to ‘Face Sitting Weekly’.

Court records prove that he has had close business ties with the notorious Puddlegum Family as far back as 1964.

Although ‘WarmAnimations Lisa’ was born on 6^th February 2010, her player’s experience as a virtual world entrepreneur actually began three years previously with the creation of two major projects for RL companies with a presence in SL.

After these projects were successfully concluded, and sensing an increasing demand for high quality clothes, she started to provide clothing templates to high-end branded virtual stores.

In 2009 she developed her virtual skills even further by creating animations - leading to the well-known and respected brand ‘Warm Animations’.

Lisa is still as eager as ever to improve and supply the best and most unique animations on the market and fully dedicates herself to developing and improving of the products.

Bobo Puddlegum has found 101 uses for Lisa’s best-selling ‘Dirty Sex Rug’; 102 if you also include using it for dirty sex.

Octavian Venera  (b. 2^nd Nov 2006) has been an SL photographer for over five years.

He specialises in portraiture and erotica. His work is defined by its studious attention to detail and a clean, unfiltered composition.

His work is on display at the ‘SiLK Gallery’, open to the public.

Octavian considers each completed photograph as a small victory in creating beauty. He is fascinated by the process of meeting models that have managed to create their own individual look, and then capturing their unique beauty in a photograph.

Octavian rejected Spunky Puddlegum’s job application to be employed as a camera tripod. He did, however, once employ Bobo as a stand-in fluffer and underwear scrubber.

Paddledog v3.0 (b. 26^th July 2007) is the latest release from Puddlegum Innovations.

Paddledog v3.0 represents a quantum improvement in usability and interactivity over all previous Paddledogs.

Key to this improvement is the patented integration of Random Chaotic Strange Attractor (RCSA) subroutines.

‘Lazy Buddhism’, ‘Exuberant Taoism’, ‘Soft Nietzschean’ and the ever-popular ‘Sacred Secularist’ modules are installed as standard.

To fully enjoy Paddledog v3.0 to her fullest, you will need the following minimum system requirements:

·        CPU Clock Speed: 120 IQ or above

·        Irony, Wit and Humour indexes in the 90^th Percentile

A demonstration video of a fully functioning Paddledog v3.0 can be seen here.

Phillip Sidek (b. 6^th Dec 2006) was born to parents Adam and Eva on a cold, rainy and moonless November night sometime in the early 1940s, as the family fled from Nazi persecution.

Exact details of Phillip’s birth place and date, and all attendant public records, have long been lost but the family solicitor has refused to deny rumours about a certain lowly cattle shed in Palestine.

His mother Eva was a beautiful, highly educated woman with an independent income as a respected piano teacher. Village gossip concerning an alleged long-term love affair with Solok Puddlegum in 1940/41 is almost certainly untrue. However, Eva has never satisfactorily explained how traces of Solok’s contaminated semen were found on her favourite blue dress or in her hair.

Phillip’s father, Adam Sidek III, was a dark, sinister and shadowy character. It is a documented fact that Adam had numerous affairs with the both the house maids and Phillip’s nannies.  An uncorked bottle of ‘Mother’s Ruin’ was always left on a shelf in the kitchen pantry for the female staff to gulp as necessary.

Phillip was Adam and Eva’s only child together. He was principally raised by several caring but very strict nannies. None of them ever spared the rod, nor spoilt the child.

Phillip did, however, have the benefit of private home tuition and the privilege of a University education. He majored in both economics and cosmetic plastic surgery at Prague University in 1964.

Phillip discovered his love for photography during a guided tour of Prague mortuary in 1965. It was here that he met his future wife, Pearl Kira-Sidek, as she ably assisted the coroner in an autopsy on a murder investigation.

Pearl and Phillip married quickly with Phillip photographing every sweet moment of their blossoming love. Pearl, however, found she could not accept Phillip’s extreme sexual appetite or his increasingly intense interest in fetish photography.

Divorce soon followed but not before Phillip had transformed Pearl from a humble mortuary technician to a top-class photographic model, and part-time escort.

Phillip has never had any children of his own, mainly due to his penchant for anal penetration.

Pixie Rain (b. 13^th Feb 2010) - who by some freaky genetic accident is in fact the daughter of Solok *and* Nasty *and* Spunky *and* Bobo Puddlegum - is a digital artist who only gained a University place by sleeping with her college lecturer.

Pixie uses Second Life to practice film making techniques and experiment with artistic concepts that cannot easily be translated into RL films.

Straddling the dual worlds of SL art and SL pornography, Pixie’s combination of sexuality, visual aesthetics and quirky humour result in her unique and distinctive variety of adult-erotic machinima which, much to her surprise and delight, many people seem to enjoy.

Four of her films were nominated in different categories at last year’s THE SEXIEST^® adult machinima contest, with one win. This year, however, Pixie was asked to be head of the jury panel and therefore, naturally, none of her films have been entered.

Pixie Rain has a complex personality – she has an oral fixation but cannot resist crunching down on hard-boiled sweets; a protestant work ethic but detests anal sex; takes pleasure in having penis envy but cannot stand dicks.

She has never had a latency period.

Tutsy Navarathna (b. 21^st May 2008) is one of the foremost filmmakers working in Second Life today.

A French artist currently residing in Southern India, Tutsy was one of the original pioneers of experimental and avant-garde video in the 1980s and ‘90s.

His work has always explored that nebulous boundary line between the imagination and reality. His SL machinima continues to investigate this realm by seamlessly merging RL and SL footage.

Joint-winner of the prestigious MachinimUWA III award, outright winner of MachinimUWA IV and 1^st runner-up of the influential international Machinima Expo 2011 awards, Tutsy’s films are a master-class in technique, composition, imagination, story-telling and simple artistic talent.

Although Tutsy confesses to having met Bobo and Nasty Puddlegum in the gentlemen’s lavatories at Gare de Lyon train station, he swears he didn’t inhale.

Showdown

I heard the song 'Showdown' by Electric Light Orchestra on YouTube in September or October 2010 and knew immediately I wanted to do something with it.


In my mind's eye, I saw a black-haired beautiful lady in one of the lead roles. The lady originally scheduled to take the role mysteriously dropped off my SL Friends List around December time.


Paddledog Oh is a regular at Old Lar's House, and a beautiful and interesting avatar so I asked her. Paddle was originally a little skeptical but watched some of my films. Far from convincing her that this was a good thing to do, it made her even more wary. Apparently 'Blockbuster' and 'PsychoKiller' were not to Paddle's liking at all.


After some discussion and schedule re-arranging we started filming mid-January 2011 and released on 12 March.