24 April 2012

Machinima by Hypatia Pickens set in Blue Tsuki's "Adagio"

Hypatia Pickens has created a machinima called Tilt set in Blue Tsuki's Adagio, but with its own narrative and poetry.


Tilt, by Hypatia Pickens

Readers may remember that Hypatia created a machinima called Love Prayer set partly in (and inspired by) soror Nishi's Boogaloo at Split Screen. The machinima won an award from UWA. Her new machinima is similarly excellent!

19 April 2012

More blog posts, photo sets and machinima on "Acquarella" and "Adagio"

The current installations at Split Screen are getting lots of play in cyberspace!  Here's the latest that people have told me about or I came across:

Blog post using Adagio as the background by Harper Beresford
Blog posts on Adagio and Acquarella by Carrie Lexington
Photo stream by Tim Deschanel
Flickr set on Adagio by PJ Trenton
Photo sets by imaginaire on Acquarella and Adagio


Machinima on Adagio by Laurel Leavitt

15 April 2012

That's the Story of My Life (Ow! Stop that--OW!!)

Quan Lavendar blogged about an installation that recently opened (with the usual utter lack of publicity) at LEA24: Pixels Sideways's That's the Story of My Life. Having now seen it, I strenuously object to this title, because clearly it's a representation of my life. So bleaugh! Well, OK, we'll share.

Go in and walk about. Well, try to ... you probably won't get farther than three steps before you get knocked to the side by an invisible something. Good luck getting to any destination. The only way I could take photos was to cam in, and when I released the camera I found that in the meantime I had traveled halfway across the installation. One time I was knocked almost out of the build entirely. One time I tried to TP right into the build -- and promptly died. In the middle is a "home" point that not so reassuringly tells you that "You might be safe here but there are no guarantees."

Many of the elements are in motion or abruptly start moving, including a few large marbles, torsos shot through by an arrow, noobs, and doors that disconcertingly say "Do Not Enter" and "Do Not Exit" on opposite sides. I think I saw a door flung mercilessly off the sim. Here and there, a gigantic arm crushes some unfortunate avatar in its fist. The large spheres looming ominously overhead fortunately stay put, but they look like they could change their minds at any moment.


Pixels writes:
Turning a crap day (week, month, year, life...) into craptacular art is how I would describe this work. The title of the installation and the soundtrack sum up the concept.... I was originally going to entitle the installation "Assault and Battery" and head in a more political direction, but RL events re-shaped the concept and it evolved into one of a more personal nature. Or it could just be a silly fun installation. I'll leave the interpretation up to you. :-)
Be sure to play media and have sounds up. And look for the chicken man.

12 April 2012

Another machinima on "Acquarella"

Spiral Silverstar has made a machinima on Alizarin's "Acquarella."  He recommends that you watch it in HD quality, full screen.



Thanks, Spiral!