The Second Life birthday is back, as every year around June 23rd! This time is SL8B. the 8th birthday. As i wrote in a post some days ago the team of Soup Radio were working on a space in there. It was great to work on it and filmed the short movie above. Hope you can visit it! Here is the SLurl.

Finally Linden Lab published the official announcement in the Linden Blogs a couple of days ago. Check it and the official SL8B blog for calendars of events and much more updated information. Only remember today, June 20th at 10AM SLT the 21 sims will be opened to the public!

Chantal Harvey, renowned machinima artist and SL8B volunteer, made this video to show us about more about SL8B:

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Some days ago, while exploring around i saw this installation in IDIA’s sims. Actually found it in the Second Life® Destination Guide, he he he, and i so amazed when i saw it that i had to film it!

It is an installation that connects Flickr, Second Life and even mobile phones, depending on your search the pictures turning around will change. It is just amazing and a cool way to show the possibilities of interconnecting social tools.

If you like it, please, visit it in IDIAA Studios (126,193,8).

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LEA Theater (Outside view)

The Linden Endowment for the Arts (LEA) organized a big event about machinima, some like a festival, that will run starting today May 4th to December, the Month of Machinima (MoM).

Today in the LEA Theater (SLurl), in the opening of the event the screens were showing the entrants for May competition, a variety of films from the artistic to the humoristic and even the musical. MoM has its own YouTube channel so you can see some of the movies in it, but in order to see all the entrants is better you go to the LEA Theater and enjoy a bunch of really cool movies filmed by some of your fellow residents.

LEA Theater (Inside)

The LEA was created in 2010, actually for some event in SL7B (Second Life 7th Birthday) but for some reason it was sleeping since then. Probably that was caused for all the changes in Linden Lab, but it was a really good initiative and i’m happy it is back.

The LEA Committee are a group of really good and really well known artist who work in SL and it’s really good Linden Lab decides to support Art in Second Life with this, specially after they decided to not support Burning Life anymore.  In the last times the Lab seemed to be more worried about Merchants than about Artists and, under my point of view, both are REALLY important for what Second Life is and will be. Will speak about this last topic in my next show on Soup Radio and probably will also blog about it some time soon, so lets left the topic until i do it.

Now go to the LEA Theater and enjoy the awesome work of a lot of filmmakers of Second Life:

Also, if you want to know some more about the opening event itself (i was late, hehehe) you should read Inara Pey’s post about it, really interesting. Also Courtney Linden blogged about the event in the Linden Blogs.

And also i wonder… will the LEA organize and event called DaD, that would be pretty cool!

As i posted recently i’ve been working on an exhibit for SL7B, the event will be opened to public from June 21st to June 27th 2010. It will be full of events, if you want to be updated please, join the group “Second Life Birthday” inworld, visit the SL7B Wiki page or visit the SL7B residents blog.

Since the theme of this year’s event is “Unexpected Collaborations” i wanted my exhibit to be interactive, my personal theme is “Change and identity”, this way the “dome of cubes” that covers the exhibit changes every time someone touches any of the cubes. Also those stands that mix images of avatar appearances act only when somebody touches them, some like a child game.

Please, visit the exhibit following this SLurl, but you should do it during the dates indicated above.

I wanted to thanks specially Gahum Riptide, Zinc Karas, Ganymedes Costagravas and Eliza Wierwight for their help, their time and their creativity. Also thanks to Vasean Talamasca and CodeBastard Redgrave for their support.

As i posted before i’m working this days in my exhibit in SL7B, so i wanted to share this cool machinima made my Toxic Menges with some images of the main buildings of SL7B.

Remember SL7B will open next June 21st to June 27th! Find more info in the SL Wiki or in the SL7B residents blog.

Lyrics are really fun, in The Guild video, the dances and the attitude of the band makes it irresistible and the song is, well, catchy!

About the Lowe Runo Second Life version, it transfers all the fun of the song to a machinima. Thanks to the Guild for the song and laughs and thanks to Lowe for his version.

UPDATE: The great Hyang Zhao shared with me in Plurk this parody of the parody filmed in Second Life too.

Isn’t it cool too?

This machinima by Sam Lowry made me smile and remember one of the reasons i have to love Second Life, its beauty, the beauty we build together day by day. Ok, is pretty chaotic too, but well, i presume that’s part of its beauty too.

Sam wrote something as a comment for this video:

Just never forget it’s a chance to live in a world like Second Life…Take care of it

He is right… so right. And i love the song!

Is a 3D object i made for Vain Inc Gallery (SLurl), you can find more info about the gallery in some older posts. The theme this month was Muse.

I really love SLphotography, but at the same time i feel a bit limited in it. This time wanted to explore more techniques. We live in a 3D world (well actually in two 3D worlds) so… why not to make something animated?

Also words are important for me, in SL we communicate by words mainly, because the physical language is limited to gestures. Words are important also in this work, how they appear, how they transform in other words… The Muse is expressed by words, by whispers, by spellings…

They wanted to have a gallery where different resident creators were showing their vision about a theme monthly. In August 2008 the theme was Fantasy.

Last friday Nyla asked me to make a machinima showing my point of view of the gallery during that month, to keep a record of what was the experience. I was really happy with the idea and this is the result:

I liked it and Nyla and Toko liked it too, so… hope you like it too!

You can visit Vain Inc. Gallery following this SLurl, also you can see the Gallery Guidebook here.