Yay!!! Uses of Blogs, which has my chapter on Fictional Blogs in it, is now available!
Links to the table of contents, chapter one, and the contributors can be found here. This is very exciting!
July 31, 2006
Uses of Blogs
Lip Flap in the News
It’s exciting to see that Lip Flap (the machinima I acted in) has been received so well. Recently it was added to the Second Life site itself as one of the “best made machinimas in Second Life” and now it has received attention from New World Notes here! This is a fabulous list of all the special film techniques Kronos used to achieve certain effects - and even though one comment might mislead people to imagine I was not impressed, trust me, I am incredibly impressed! To me, Kronos wrote a very clever script which was both comical and related to life inside the virtual world. It is the best SL script I have seen - in fact as I commented once before, there seem to be a lack of original scripted narratives being used in favour of experimenting with camera techniques. But Kronos does both - a fun narrative and groundbreaking techniques for machinima makers.
I believe Lip Flap has also been submitted here, so keep an eye out! The youtube version has been viewed over 600 times, which is great. Congratulations to Kronos for pushing machinima to a new level. It is so thrilling to have been a part of it. I have had a few unexpected ims but so far nobody has asked for my autograph *grin*.