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Conifer Dada
Hiya m'dooks!
Join date: 6 Oct 2006
Posts: 3,716
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11-10-2008 06:36
Someone mentioned this set of charming little videos on SLProfiles blog. I watched all 10 of them. A wonderful tale of one resident's quest to become fully immersed in Second Life. Someone who understands the spirit of SL totally!
Links don't work so just look up "Molotov Alva". I'm sure it's OK to mention his name as he deserves to be one of SL's top celebrities.
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Ciaran Laval
Mostly Harmless
Join date: 11 Mar 2007
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11-10-2008 06:45
From: Conifer Dada Someone mentioned this set of charming little videos on SLProfiles blog. I watched all 10 of them. A wonderful tale of one residen't quest to become fully immersed in Second Life. Someone who understands the spirit of SL totally!
Links don't work so just look up "Molotov Alva". I'm sure it's OK to mention his name as he deserves to be one of SL's top celebrities. I've only watched the first one so far but this looks pretty damn good! |
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Conifer Dada
Hiya m'dooks!
Join date: 6 Oct 2006
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11-10-2008 06:47
They get better and some are really funny. But there's a whimsical storyline too. It would be difficult for anyone to do better than these. A huge amount of work must have gone into making the videos too.
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Dnali Anabuki
Still Crazy
Join date: 17 Oct 2006
Posts: 1,633
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11-10-2008 17:24
I believe this is one of the first SL machinima to be shown on RL TV. Bought by HBO I believe...nice to be able to see it since it was not available for quite some time since they wanted to keep it for TV.
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Void Singer
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Join date: 24 Sep 2005
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11-10-2008 18:30
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Desmond Shang
Guvnah of Caledon
Join date: 14 Mar 2005
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11-10-2008 19:56
It was actually available on the internet within a few days of its television showing. Filming was winter of 2006/2007 for a good bit of it, I believe.
Caledon is in episode four, right about in the middle. You can see the hub area and shops near Port Caledon, and Victoria City Park covered in snow. I know the people in those segments too.
It was a brilliant bit of work brought to all of us by Orhalla Zander of the hobo's, and some other great folks I'm embarrassed to say I can't quite remember the names of.
This is the sort of good press for the grid that simply couldn't have been bought at any price, done for the love of it. I think the creators were able to sell the rights to HBO/Cinemax, but whatever they earned, they deserved every penny.
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Howard Sachs
Human Scum
Join date: 4 Nov 2005
Posts: 124
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11-10-2008 20:37
I saw all of the episodes the other day. When I first started watching, I simply could not just walk away without knowing how it would all end. It touched me in a special way, and that kind of surprised me considering my almost complete lack of interest in anything SL for prolonged periods of time.
Other than the hilarous "Red vs Blue" (based on the Halo game engine) seriess, this must be the best machinima project I have seen so far. It is well written and even better executed. If more machinimas were as good as this, I would probably have DVDs with it in my movie collection.
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PeterPan Price
Enthusiastic Amateur
Join date: 20 Nov 2007
Posts: 178
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11-11-2008 01:24
I agree with all of you. These films are brilliant.
They were shown on Dutch TV recently. I'm curious to hear how they went down with the TV audience there. Holland has more Second Life residents per head of population than any other country, but most of the TV audience would still be people who have never heard of SL.
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Ricky Yates
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Join date: 28 Jan 2007
Posts: 809
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11-11-2008 04:26
http://www.molotovalva.com/
Enjoy!
A great piece of work indeed!
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