tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46422413490292409972024-03-05T04:23:48.075-08:00Machine I Amadventures in performancemachine i amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00637349812254191646noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642241349029240997.post-72047131916508302712013-07-30T12:42:00.002-07:002013-07-30T13:51:47.436-07:00the machine - machinima shoot<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Fau and I are working today on <a href="http://www.odysseysimulator,com" target="_blank">Odyssey</a> to create the last machinima sequences for my upcoming release "the machine". Here are a few close ups of the Fairy and WYSIWYG (played by Fau) on one of our virtual sets (designed by Fau).</div>
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<br />machine i amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00637349812254191646noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642241349029240997.post-69684335594499341022013-06-09T12:26:00.003-07:002013-06-09T12:32:06.986-07:00Aurora Virtualis<br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Aurora Virtualis: The Virtual
Light of Liz Solo</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>an essay by Patrick Lichty</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">In many cultures there are
sayings that are related to confidence between friends – between
this and that, you and me, bark and tree, etc. – that I see in a
completely different context from what is normally thought. I see the
‘me’, in the case of the artist as subject, as the body, the
flesh; and the objective “other” as anything that we use to
‘clothe’ ourselves, such as raiment, technology, and society. By
this, I also mean any artifice that augments the body in any social
or creative way, and in so doing, enables the individual to
create. This is especially relevant to our contemporary era in
that the “things” that surround humanity are exploding at an
exponential rate. The space between this subject and object, you and
me, is where artist Liz Solo works. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Performing in this space between
poles evokes a kind of duplicity, a necessity to straddle worlds or
be an inherent polymath in order to encompass the proliferation of
genres and media that bombard us. The same is true of artists. Today,
so many technologies and modes of expression place the artist in a
difficult interdisciplinary embarrassment of riches that challenge
the potential for formal and technical exploration against the
conceptual. The dawn is both an exciting and difficult time for
the artist, and places many in a state of hybridity. Many
artists claim this ground, but few do it successfully. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Liz Solo thrives as a
hybrid. She is a technologist, rock musician/producer, theatre
practitioner, performance artist, festival organizer, and more. To
describe her work, it is almost like looking at Dick Higgins’
Intermedia chart that describes how various art disciplines
intersect, trying to decode where the different genres on the diagram
meet and intersect. In the case of Liz, her diagram is complex;
including dance, rock music production, virtual performance with
groups like Second Front and Avatar Orchestra Metaverse, movie and
festival production. If we step back from the individual genres
of expression, what one sees is that her practice explores
performance in all its forms.</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-v2oe8Txi5-RyRgDXdIITWoL2SALqotY3Zolc9eXvyDUEy2-f4EmEmZawyyYKgkvcv5vdBFG6gAp6sWbdMgX-tu7FH6VTF_lNMoU_mGOgAlvX5GuxFDH8tGiYAuDREYDKQuzlVCtJPvw/s1600/*AlienBirthLizSolo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-v2oe8Txi5-RyRgDXdIITWoL2SALqotY3Zolc9eXvyDUEy2-f4EmEmZawyyYKgkvcv5vdBFG6gAp6sWbdMgX-tu7FH6VTF_lNMoU_mGOgAlvX5GuxFDH8tGiYAuDREYDKQuzlVCtJPvw/s320/*AlienBirthLizSolo.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">At the foundation of much of
Solo’s work is her musical practice in various incarnations of what
is now <span style="font-style: normal;">The Black Bags</span> project
with her long time collaborators, Mike Kean and Marcel Levandier.
A Newfoundland cross between PJ Harvey and The White Stripes, Liz
sings and plays drums while Kean and Levandier wield guitars. This
is the definition, as rock musician and indie producer, that this
writer first was familiar with Solo. Songs like <i>Raining
Hammers</i> have a darkness born of the Canadian Maritimes, but songs
like this bleed into the virtual as she has applied her sonic palette
as accompaniment for virtual performances. One example is in
Second Front’s <i>Infamous Tommy Lee Incident</i> where the band’s
rendition of Michael Wade’s <i>You’ll Get Yours</i> sets the
scene for a raucous concert, call for the band’s helicopter pilot,
and subsequent apprehension by the authorities. Her sound
creates a mythology for the Second Front performance, sculpting a
rock ‘n roll cultural frame like none other in the group can do.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">This musical aspect of
performance, as seen before, emerges in the virtual and the
physical. Her work as one of Avatar Orchestra Metaverse takes
her experience as a rock music performer and producer and expands
that to New Music, founded in 2007 to explore aleatoric music
based on the real-life work, <i>Vicky’s Mosquitos</i>, by Harold
Schellinx. The group contributes various musical pieces,
performed by the use of programmed sonic devices worn on the back of
the avatars on the screen. AOM follows the tradition of John
Cage by questioning the nature of sound, music, and performance, but
in virtual spaces. To date, AOM has performed tens of spatial
sound pieces in festivals around the world.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Liz’s involvement as a
co-founder of the virtual performance art group, Second Front, has
been essential to the development of the conception of performance in
virtual worlds. Second Front was created in 2006 as a 9-person
group, exploring the potentials of avatar actions in the 3D virtual
world, drawing from sources like Dada, Futurism, Surrealism, and
FLUXUS. Her winged blue persona has remained consistent
throughout the life of the group. Her fairy-like persona is both
lyrical and absurd in works like <i>The MoFos of Invention,</i> a
performance where Second Front portray themselves at
australopithecines from <i>2001: A Space </i>Odyssey that first
invent various objects and devices and then club their inventions
into destruction until praying to the great Kubrick monolith. This
presentation also worked particularly well in <i>The Gods Play Pong,</i>
where Second Front are “The New Gods” who inhabit a
Parthenon-like structure that reveals its walls as giant pong paddles
when they supplicate themselves at the brazier at the centre of the
temple. And, in the group photo afterwards, her visage was an
ideal virtual sylph. The continuity yet versatility of Solo’s
“Lizsolo Mathilde” avatar continues to explore the boundaries of
virtual embodiment and notions of virtual narrative and identity. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">This transfers to a third
virtual group that Liz has been pivotal to - Third Faction, a group
performing in the online game, World of Warcraft. One of the
most notable performances by TF is <i>/hug</i> (pronounced
“slash-hug”) which questions the nature of possible actions
available to players in multiuser online games. <i>/hug</i>
places TF members as a kind of barbarian Red Cross, where they roam
the land, “to prevent and alleviate humanoid suffering wherever it
may be found." The name of the intervention comes from one of
the key acts, hugging and conferring game health points rather than
rampaging and pillaging the landscape. This action also shows a
theme of humanity in Solo’s work. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">This quality of the humane is
most evident in her performance where she invited Second Front and
the whole of the online community to participate, called <i>Alien
Home Birth</i>. In this performance, Liz’s avatar, Lizsolo
Mathilde, went through a period of gestation after alien
impregnation. She then gathered her friends and colleagues
around her, and straddled a delivery couch shaped like the Earth, and
proceeded to give birth to everything and everyone who wanted to be
‘born again’ in the virtual. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">This work refers to many sources
in art historical parlance, especially Courbet’s <i>L'Origine du
Monde/The Origin of the World</i>, which places the woman as the
progenitor of the universe. This is also referred to in the
artwork for British singer Kate Bush’s <i>Never For Ever</i> album,
where a plethora of wonders, birds and monsters stream from beneath
her dress. One last referent that could be brought into play is that
of Carolee Schneeman’s <i>Interior Scroll</i>, in which Schneeman
read from a scroll that unfurled from her vagina. <i>Alien Home
Birth</i> revisits the powerful narrative of woman as existential
origin and returns it to question viscerality in the disembodied
through Second Life.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">In addition to her artistic
practice, Solo also manages a virtual art centre called the Odyssey
Art and Performance Simulator, and in the physical, The Black Bag
Media Collective in Newfoundland<span style="color: red;">.</span> Therefore,
Liz is not just a practitioner, but a director, curator, producer and
administrator. She works on both sides of the fence, creating
context for hers and others’ work as well as creating. This is
another testament to her passion and humanity for the arts, and is an
analogical double to her avatar’s gesture in <i>Alien Home Birth.</i>
She embodies the gestures of creation and production. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">As with any intermedia artist,
curators and critics may find a trajectory like hers hard to track,
as it spans music, performance art, dance, theatre, and film, and
equally difficult to encapsulate in anything less than a book. What
is more remarkable is that she has managed to garner recognition for
the work even though she is based in St. John’s, Newfoundland, a
less-known area in the art world. I called this essay <i>Aurora
Virtualis </i>as a play on Aurora Borealis - placing Solo as
analogous to other women artists in Canada, like Emily Carr, who
represent a light in the North. But in this case, I believe
that the light comes from the virtual, alluding to the title of the
classic William Gibson novel. And this is what Liz Solo is –
she is a creative light coming from unexpected spaces.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Patrick Lichty, 2013</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Patrick Lichty is a
Chicago-based critic, curator and artist who has been involved in
media arts for over 20 years. He has worked with many collectives,
including The Yes Men, Second Front, and has shown in the Whitney,
Maribor and Yokohama Biennials.</i></span></span>machine i amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00637349812254191646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642241349029240997.post-85588307286201775432012-07-03T15:04:00.002-07:002012-07-04T08:01:51.255-07:00AOM coming to St. John's<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b><u>Workshop with Liz Solo, Tina Pearson and the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse</u></b> - a workshop in virtual reality sound. Saturday July 14, 1 PM NST, LSPU Hall, St. John's, NL.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Tina and I have been collaborating via the Internet for five years and I am stoked that she is travelling to Newfoundland to be a part of this event in real space. We are going to have a time!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Following the <a href="http://soundsymposium.com/" target="_blank">Sound Symposium</a>, Tina Pearson will be Artist in Residence at the <a href="http://www.theblackbags.com/" target="_blank">Black Bag Media Collective</a> studio July 16 to 21! Details to follow shortly.</span></div>
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Dance has proven more receptive, in my experience, to incorporating new technologies and virtuality than any other traditional discipline. In these photos by Justin Hall I am working without a net in a very spontaneous performance piece that took place last summer - <b><i>Upside Down World, Pearls for Pigs</i></b> - at the <a href="http://www.theblackbags.com/" target="_blank">BBMC studio</a> in St. John's and simultaneously at the <a href="http://www.odysseysimulator.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Odyssey Contemporary Art and Performance Simulator</a> in Second Life. </div>
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Since then I have been actively seeking experiences that feed these impulses to reach, to explore the moment, to expose the boundary. It's just more fun that way. I have been lucky to be able to work with dancers through programs offered by Neighbourhood Danceworks in contact improvisation and choreography. I am also working whenever I can with the amazing dancer/choreographer Tammy MacLeod to develop ideas. We are currently creating a new piece slated for a first viewing as part of Neighbourhood Danceworks' First Look series in July. </div>
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Here is a video of the performance and the avatar audience from the virtual side. The machinima is made by UK artist Arahan Claveau:</div>
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<b><i>Upside Down World (Pearls for Pigs)</i></b> made possible by the support of the <a href="http://www.canadacouncil.ca/" target="_blank">Canada Council for the Arts Media Arts Section</a> and the <a href="http://www.theblackbags.com/" target="_blank">Black Bag Media Collective</a> in cooperation with <a href="http://www.roles4women.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Roles for Women Theatre Company</a>. </div>machine i amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00637349812254191646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642241349029240997.post-88242634584292096602012-06-07T10:30:00.000-07:002012-06-07T10:34:42.319-07:00Super Art League at Low Lives: Occupy!<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/k3Ckb7i_rqY" width="560"></iframe><br />
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Here is a machinima I recently made in DC Universe Online documenting the Super Art League! as we occupy the Metropolis Mercantile Bank in DCU as part of the <a href="http://lowlives.net/home/low-lives-occupy/" target="_blank">2012 Low Lives: Occupy!</a> event.<br />
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In this video: Jeremy Turner/Idea Cyclone, Erik Rzepka/zisuthra szepka, Joseph Delappe/NamJunePaikman, Liz Solo/Slizello, Ben Poynter/Doctor Atramentos, Ben Unterman/The Underliner, Patrick Lichty/The Projector (out of phase).<br />
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We are planning more interventions and there is talk that a comic book featuring the adventures of our super characters is in the works:))machine i amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00637349812254191646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642241349029240997.post-57316131387299292082012-06-07T10:24:00.000-07:002012-06-08T11:07:29.288-07:00the machine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
I have just started to work on the edit for <b><i>the machine</i></b> - my next release. <b><i>the machine</i></b> is a multi-media piece that merges film, video and machinima to create a post apocalyptic fairy tale set in St. John's, Newfoundland. I had the opportunity to work with a fantastic crew during the shoot and learned so much. I also had the pleasure of working with the incomparable actress Melanie Caines, who played the part of the Clown, opposite my hacker character. </div>
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Here are a few shots by Rhonda Pelley from the fourth day of the shoot. Melanie and I take a quick break on the fire escape.</div>
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Gaffer, Tim Murphy, giving awesome input, as he did throughout the whole shoot.<br />
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Asleep at the machine.<br />
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Beauty shot of Melanie Caines.<br />
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I am also working with Fau Ferdinand/Yael Gilks and Jo Ellsmere/Jane Leffler on the machinima portion of the shoot. A great experience, as always, and we are getting some beautiful stuff. A screen captured picture from the set by Fau Ferdinand/Yael Gilks.<br />
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Stay tuned for the release of <b><i>the machine</i></b> in the Fall of 2012.<br />
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Produced by Liz Solo and the <a href="http://www.theblackbags.com/">Black Bag Media Collective</a>. Starring Liz Solo and Melanie Caines with Lutius Elijah Whalen and Zoe Elizabeth Howard; Directed by Liz Solo; 1st Assistant Director Shara Desiree King; Production Design by Barry Newhook; Art Direction by Andy Pyne; Props by Jenn Brown; Costumes by Charlotte Reid; Hair by Mackenzie Geehan; Make-up by Andrew Squires; Camera, Bob Pope; 1st Camera Assistant Jay Hamel; 2nd Camera Assistant Stephen Lewis; Gaffer Tim Murphy; Key Grip Thomas Kelly; Sound Phillip Cairns; Boom Operator Marco Dolle; Continuity, Mitchel Bradbury; Design Consultant Geoff Younghusband; Production Assistant Jacky Cook; Production Assistant/Locations Mike Kean; Craft Services Joanne Stoodley. Online crew: Machinima by Liz Solo and Fau Ferdinand/Yael Gilks; Art Direction by Fau Ferdinand/Yael Gilks; consultant/bots and scripts by Jo Ellsmere/Jane Leffler. All machinima is being shot on the <a href="http://www.odysseysimulator.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Odyssey ContemporaryArt and Performance Simulator</a>.<br />
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Made with the support of the <a href="http://www.nlac.nf.ca/" target="_blank">Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council</a>, <a href="http://www.nlfdc.ca/" target="_blank">The Newfoundland Film Development Corporation</a>, and resources and sponsorship made possible by the <a href="http://www.lindajoy.com/" target="_blank">Newfoundland Joy Award</a> including <a href="http://www.nifco.org/" target="_blank">NIFCO</a>, <a href="http://www.atlanticstudiosco-operative.ca/" target="_blank">Atlantic Studio Cooperative</a>, KODAK, John Doyle and the CBC. Special thanks to Best Boy Entertainment.<br />
<br />machine i amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00637349812254191646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642241349029240997.post-70072708791670196502012-03-05T17:21:00.005-08:002012-03-05T17:28:07.267-08:00Super Art League!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9RL1q-sVhpbr4CokFOyrLFKPLhbEIPCki38tJdJeHNIdJ3BFwzWVVoZyBR9EW9PWllMi4OnHs9ONssFPVz2ZV2TuhkpDrR6D4jOoF7j1nYSQ1UreDIF2xFjYp84GinP1eYmq6EaNjwOo/s400/keepsal-group.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716588416334436738" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 182px; " /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 20px; font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;font-size:medium;">The Super Art League is a group of performance artist superheroes in DC Universe Online. The league is comprised of established and emerging virtual worlds/video-game performance artists from around the world – including members of the performance art group in Second Life known as <a href="http://www.secondfront.org/">Second Front</a>.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;font-size:100%;color:#555555;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 20px; font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; ">Active members include: Idea Cyclone (Jeremy Owen Turner, Canada), Slizello (Liz Solo, Canada), NamJunePaik Man (Joseph Delappe, USA), Argon Flux (Patrick Lichty, USA), The Underliner (Ben Unterman, Canada), Pyegirl (Pyewacket Kazyanenko, Australia), and Kai Steamer (Colombia).</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; ">There are many other members worldwide (visit our Facebook group for more details - <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#008dcf;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/344213862275316">http://www.facebook.com/groups/344213862275316</a></span>).</p></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYOii37S_LKIFArNAuIiX2xby2UJx4IdGypmW0UKoO_PRagIi5YUxikhCf0eUPkh7naU1NhglSaCSVb63AJnL3rEPILrYjjJaX0GnTAq9fRhs64hchRW2fGAcOQvv-e5qtbrIRGtkD54k/s1600/keepsuperartleague4.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 311px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYOii37S_LKIFArNAuIiX2xby2UJx4IdGypmW0UKoO_PRagIi5YUxikhCf0eUPkh7naU1NhglSaCSVb63AJnL3rEPILrYjjJaX0GnTAq9fRhs64hchRW2fGAcOQvv-e5qtbrIRGtkD54k/s400/keepsuperartleague4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716588437048173234" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXkvzMCz3o8_ApLn5pDWhBU4-1ua4aPGdDDcT2Ijir2-n1Y15QvNXEHreBH0pYLyWCqnrRZUccrftIMuNOmlkJ6M7TRyZ6-85Pw71YLoZYjOWkPYyaIWRKqwMT85oW0htt4pvUkJNlJjc/s1600/keepsuperartleaguesleeping.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXkvzMCz3o8_ApLn5pDWhBU4-1ua4aPGdDDcT2Ijir2-n1Y15QvNXEHreBH0pYLyWCqnrRZUccrftIMuNOmlkJ6M7TRyZ6-85Pw71YLoZYjOWkPYyaIWRKqwMT85oW0htt4pvUkJNlJjc/s400/keepsuperartleaguesleeping.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716588434081329298" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuBhOcp6Cbx2vv43c7iOlkdt1u7wkivlE9bMPgRdbXfm_hWmPSS99MFGpe876NxikfersIykwmoD2MmbgqIykAQaBYOZMBzFoauIYg1_Xe3o85vGlkyQ_2hPrnoOlwgVe-1bZ8XcQJ508/s1600/keepsuperartleague.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 236px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuBhOcp6Cbx2vv43c7iOlkdt1u7wkivlE9bMPgRdbXfm_hWmPSS99MFGpe876NxikfersIykwmoD2MmbgqIykAQaBYOZMBzFoauIYg1_Xe3o85vGlkyQ_2hPrnoOlwgVe-1bZ8XcQJ508/s400/keepsuperartleague.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716588430542260786" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000ee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisMC-6Hrvi6yaR7ZFL7aJNRXAKMpP-PfkDoBVddM_vbNxIetl-kb7TtGzO17fDkfVewHIH2nk0WGwucVmyrKE_G7JqUz7qwrW-0BKmxgm7uPakZXTq2zW_8wxxfRpocFFxkw8B-7wV29k/s400/keepsuperartsleagueready.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716588769023028578" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px; " /></span></span></span></div><div></div><div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000ee;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div>machine i amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00637349812254191646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642241349029240997.post-73571135541497464312012-03-05T17:11:00.002-08:002012-03-05T17:15:36.652-08:00Hybrid Performance with AOM<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 20px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;font-size:100%;">Performing Pauline</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"> Oliveros/Free Noyse’s “Hello Vancouver” with the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#008dcf;"><a href="http://www.avatarorchestra.blogspot.com/">Avatar Orchestra Metaverse</a></span> and Real Life players. This performance was part of a series of demonstrations at the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#008dcf;"><a href="http://www.newmusicnetwork.ca/">New Music Network</a></span> in Montreal.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">See:<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#008dcf;"><a href="http://www.newmusicnetwork.ca/forum2012.e/seances.php#paradigms">http://www.newmusicnetwork.ca/forum2012.e/seances.php#paradigms</a></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#008dcf;"><a href="http://www.newmusicnetwork.ca/forum2012.e/seances.php#stretched">http://www.newmusicnetwork.ca/forum2012.e/seances.php#stretched</a></span></p></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYYcmrvucGwsvjPZReYdEpHR4rHcsMEtZR38BQTGMgG776IiQ8YXSore17SvMWSlhY9-X3UrK7LpkOphN8BsOzgdH9b28AGKBv7t6mHiviKKAq4u3uUWaIdzGZCDnaJo_PkgFpqFkFsOg/s1600/aom_004.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 255px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYYcmrvucGwsvjPZReYdEpHR4rHcsMEtZR38BQTGMgG776IiQ8YXSore17SvMWSlhY9-X3UrK7LpkOphN8BsOzgdH9b28AGKBv7t6mHiviKKAq4u3uUWaIdzGZCDnaJo_PkgFpqFkFsOg/s400/aom_004.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716585912929225394" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLALNMqhIQQBxgMnmBAKUGJjlckmwUTM3ZB3ikVBob3JOJeRxLyNKrd7villtg9sFUpLOYY5X6s538qtvvraN03KmK29VSPVYtNlUkIrBLISMN0GUXDrGWbTkisLDLl7kObZV6_9MxAmQ/s1600/aom_003.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 255px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLALNMqhIQQBxgMnmBAKUGJjlckmwUTM3ZB3ikVBob3JOJeRxLyNKrd7villtg9sFUpLOYY5X6s538qtvvraN03KmK29VSPVYtNlUkIrBLISMN0GUXDrGWbTkisLDLl7kObZV6_9MxAmQ/s400/aom_003.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716585897872292162" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi02gcK8MrJmgD7TVMcK6XpsK73hFP4McpyMqtHsxKjTeKVp9BlHF_-4tsGTTd6_WcbOxXy66L2MfY9l4v3vdU0EdfVtaQTObp-fEWqqBsTBm7v__0omYqAiwQEa0xFrmCica9GPFIzSGU/s1600/aom_002.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 255px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi02gcK8MrJmgD7TVMcK6XpsK73hFP4McpyMqtHsxKjTeKVp9BlHF_-4tsGTTd6_WcbOxXy66L2MfY9l4v3vdU0EdfVtaQTObp-fEWqqBsTBm7v__0omYqAiwQEa0xFrmCica9GPFIzSGU/s400/aom_002.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716585891911815778" /></a>machine i amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00637349812254191646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642241349029240997.post-9044495352645646352012-03-05T16:28:00.004-08:002012-03-05T17:10:27.086-08:00From InWorld<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Here are a couple of screen shots from <b>InWorld</b> - my recent on woman theatre performance piece about a recluse gamer searching the metaverse for her avatar lover, missing in real life wartime. Here Lucy Darling enters the Vortex Pinnacle temple in World of Warcraft.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000ee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTh3As8zucCZvwoo2XBLt1WmFVyPdSsiZzqp5g1TyFC3DadjSXjHhWxRxShKnQpIiB1K82Lrx-IVH20Y5YOOqZQ4feJJ7Ucf_h-xmFhCrIBilPDpviKRHoxXXC5LgYfJzPYF69KPctK7I/s400/06LizSoloInWorld.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716574926553033730" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 216px; " /></span></span></span>Lucy achieves Level 85!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOMJw5Fp0Rr3FNIB3LSrsUqpepUCz07lbsU6RQg6mF5DLDO1lWgvsoBEbYp0WUmoBtY_a0wK9ISuu-WTzbMKIEFTwrUFM08PtVY-kj6jxo9cTxcyzeWn02aVSkm05zcVOptx_rg1cLE0k/s1600/07+LizSoloInWorld.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 205px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOMJw5Fp0Rr3FNIB3LSrsUqpepUCz07lbsU6RQg6mF5DLDO1lWgvsoBEbYp0WUmoBtY_a0wK9ISuu-WTzbMKIEFTwrUFM08PtVY-kj6jxo9cTxcyzeWn02aVSkm05zcVOptx_rg1cLE0k/s400/07+LizSoloInWorld.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716574934825331202" /></a>Here is a piece of media adapted from <b>InWorld</b> for the web project <a href="http://www.melissaramos.com.au/exile_writing/index.html">Exile Writing</a> - an ongoing project between an amazing collective of women from around the world that started as a workshop at ISEA. This video sets up the love story.<div><table align="center"><tbody><tr><td align="center"><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/NgOgqrpxUPs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>This is a shot from Lucy's final speech where she says:<i> "To know someone virtually is to know them in a perfect way. You see what they want you to see, and so you see them. You get to know who they are inside, even if you never meet in real life. The only problem is - if someone doesn't sign in again - or if they can't sign in - you may never see them again. There is nothing you can do. You will never know what happened to them."</i></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ6Hs3AKNN66Uyz2UeZVz07XIVpJqNfJKFVC5Gem3X8xG__pOywpK2oOrrpNxYpfR8YFUaDT3FXP3GTYT48WfClGQ0by5Z7PEMCE3OYbY9-uLJYLCVge-rcum1gqIKY85Ux_i3okCDOcg/s1600/04web.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 205px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ6Hs3AKNN66Uyz2UeZVz07XIVpJqNfJKFVC5Gem3X8xG__pOywpK2oOrrpNxYpfR8YFUaDT3FXP3GTYT48WfClGQ0by5Z7PEMCE3OYbY9-uLJYLCVge-rcum1gqIKY85Ux_i3okCDOcg/s400/04web.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716574916045104674" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">Lucy enters her virtual garden to build another tree.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000ee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7oPK6nxkK3kiynwU6jJUKvYGg2JxU2Q3hTd8buHwj3zpk4Yn14uFyeCY0Mep3d3Fn0jZshOXJMKJMf8cI7hNvj5HbNu8tpcTRCinvf2H7ZkjzSackl8VH3nqPzmXnhs4vrwopISWICuI/s400/05+LizSoloInWorld.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716574919774993266" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 205px; " /></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-size:85%;" >This show was made possible thanks to support form the <a href="http://www.canadacouncil.ca">Canada Council for the Arts</a>, Media Arts Section, <a href="http://www.theblackbags.com">The Black Bag Media Collective</a> and the <a href="http://www.nlac.nf.ca">Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council</a>. Produced by <a href="http://www.roles4women.blogspot.com">Roles 4 Women Theatre Company</a> and Liz Solo.</span></div></div></div>machine i amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00637349812254191646noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642241349029240997.post-2441385338635172822012-03-05T16:27:00.000-08:002012-03-05T16:28:22.079-08:00InWorld<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgElN1WRgOR1pP7T0WgOr334_vshENbjB9J2XLsyfkUevyrWNneOOoGmM04M8ulB4z7SozRCV8syhkc_sVcEVOu2dsbQqoRKWUdqmqXm7UGV2jfVPkescH3q4wtZOdZqO3aVaK1OT9sZFk/s1600/in-world-poster-web2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 254px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgElN1WRgOR1pP7T0WgOr334_vshENbjB9J2XLsyfkUevyrWNneOOoGmM04M8ulB4z7SozRCV8syhkc_sVcEVOu2dsbQqoRKWUdqmqXm7UGV2jfVPkescH3q4wtZOdZqO3aVaK1OT9sZFk/s400/in-world-poster-web2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716574334634251362" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; "><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline; ">InWorld</span></strong><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong><em>Roles 4 Women Theatre Company</em></strong> is proud to present the first show of its inaugural season - <strong>Liz Solo</strong>‘s multi-reality performance piece “<strong>InWorld</strong>”, live at the <strong>LSPU Hall Second Space</strong>,<strong>Thursday</strong> <strong>November 24 to Sunday November 27</strong> at 8:30 PM.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; ">A stand up comedienne has given up “the life” and taken to gaming full time. She now lives alone with her puppets and spends her days reliving old comedy routines and leveling her Frost Mage. Merging large-scale projection with live action, video and sound, <strong>InWorld</strong> is a multi-dimensional exploration of online media culture.</p><div>Created by and Starring Liz Solo. Directed by Charlie Tomlinson. Featuring online appearances by members of <strong><em>The Third Faction</em></strong>, <strong><em>Odyssey</em></strong> and <strong><em>The Second Front</em></strong> and puppet appearances by <strong><em>Newf the Baby Harp Seal</em></strong> and <strong><em>Pinky the Bra</em></strong>. Sunday night’s performance will be followed by an Artist’s Talk.<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "></p><div>One-act comedy/drama. Mature themes and language. 45 minutes.<br />Tickets $10 (except: Thursday’s Preview show is PWYC)</div><div>Tickets available only at the door.</div><div></div><div>poster by Jimmy Rose</div></div></span>machine i amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00637349812254191646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642241349029240997.post-27395197245039557892012-03-05T16:22:00.001-08:002012-03-05T16:26:27.417-08:00IO Graphica<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; ">Been having some fun today with <a href="http://iographica.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 141, 207); text-decoration: none; ">IO Graphica</a> – a cool little program I found on the Internet that follows your daily mouse movements and turns them into modern art. It was created by Moscow designer Anatoly Zenkof. You can download the program free <a href="http://iographica.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 141, 207); text-decoration: none; ">Here</a>.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; ">I thought it would be interesting to compare the images generated based on what tasks I was doing. The program is making the images across my two computer screens.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; ">Here is the IOGraphica image of me doing administrative tasks and web updating:</p></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP7H2_sVFTmGaOxExQMii1gzp16QAqh0BO1sMoUYbTsAlHjHS_alHGTnkpIRJcfteGnrtSPb2BqrY1rJmUN3M159WAy1jDSeIAlXrXlwGhxu-Nt34Xj-3XKENEqZDyqliB7Os0hWmDecI/s1600/iographicaskype.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP7H2_sVFTmGaOxExQMii1gzp16QAqh0BO1sMoUYbTsAlHjHS_alHGTnkpIRJcfteGnrtSPb2BqrY1rJmUN3M159WAy1jDSeIAlXrXlwGhxu-Nt34Xj-3XKENEqZDyqliB7Os0hWmDecI/s400/iographicaskype.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716573292552049058" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; ">Here is the image generated by playing World of Warcraft:</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLxIX4yadtk4ngcbjPWj_CojF-ei08Iqp9t-sgEtSNjIQEKK-zVguBSx262dAl4j2oMuucPINtNH1JoJNn3nGonCHF8JFNg1gm41dzAHSdNizJutFBBYwVrrBhSY2v9PxVxzAMCfsYfv8/s1600/iographica-3-6-hours-admin.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLxIX4yadtk4ngcbjPWj_CojF-ei08Iqp9t-sgEtSNjIQEKK-zVguBSx262dAl4j2oMuucPINtNH1JoJNn3nGonCHF8JFNg1gm41dzAHSdNizJutFBBYwVrrBhSY2v9PxVxzAMCfsYfv8/s400/iographica-3-6-hours-admin.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716573286272944370" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; ">Finally, here is an image created while working on <a href="http://www.odysseysimulator.blogspot.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 141, 207); text-decoration: none; ">Odyssey</a> in Second Life while Skyping at the same time.</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfJKYgdR3KSErB_1TcBTMPhxQeiBx-3iCK8t7fXImGeN-YhSrrfMepEOJXKu9PrCdx9e6dFn3cFPWaMS4w2H2ebboIRt17V8qwYuMuMAeUFgsk6Ffy2iBGtHG0Bg747tI8puAJ7__8TzM/s1600/iographica-1-9-hours-wow.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfJKYgdR3KSErB_1TcBTMPhxQeiBx-3iCK8t7fXImGeN-YhSrrfMepEOJXKu9PrCdx9e6dFn3cFPWaMS4w2H2ebboIRt17V8qwYuMuMAeUFgsk6Ffy2iBGtHG0Bg747tI8puAJ7__8TzM/s400/iographica-1-9-hours-wow.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716573271764069970" /></a>machine i amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00637349812254191646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642241349029240997.post-8085969387421833342012-03-05T16:12:00.003-08:002012-03-05T16:21:27.183-08:00Third Faction at ISEA<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 20px; font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;">The <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#008dcf;"><a href="http://www.thirdfaction.org/">Third Faction</a></span> were in Istanbul, Turkey in September where we presented a series of workshops as part of the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#008dcf;"><a href="http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/workshop/dps-demand-player-sovereignty-0">ISEA Istanbul</a></span> conference. Our project “Demand Player Sovereignty” is a civil disobedience workshop focussing on creating interventions in the online MMORPG World of Warcraft and extending these virtual actions into the geophysical “real world”. During our workshops we held Slut Walks in WoW and had attendees</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 20px; font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;"> take part.</span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7FbmDTYo7NweECJMOyGF7ZZfuoHL5oHKxBJczlu8iXsqutnBjIJ0ydUtoSKZEEA7NjCARiSbnBBj_4h-6Tt6G_dXHfcjz3oQPgTEkghCLXMwEsuZiXPukY5teKOjsq4MJipq4sEalZUM/s1600/slutwalkwow2web.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 256px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7FbmDTYo7NweECJMOyGF7ZZfuoHL5oHKxBJczlu8iXsqutnBjIJ0ydUtoSKZEEA7NjCARiSbnBBj_4h-6Tt6G_dXHfcjz3oQPgTEkghCLXMwEsuZiXPukY5teKOjsq4MJipq4sEalZUM/s400/slutwalkwow2web.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716570748498259010" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhacVd_GsusgqtphSYRFrQ862r-Uto2TrOfRit6bGfG1MK7GEfzUDQR2B2QWfKquxdhyphenhyphennJ3A0fVuLBo0k8OXBcTHxY4D2S34dOH0Wv7luPtm3nr5KdJBuMVY71Owghi9rCiyAwYokQowME/s1600/slutwalkwebwow.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 292px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhacVd_GsusgqtphSYRFrQ862r-Uto2TrOfRit6bGfG1MK7GEfzUDQR2B2QWfKquxdhyphenhyphennJ3A0fVuLBo0k8OXBcTHxY4D2S34dOH0Wv7luPtm3nr5KdJBuMVY71Owghi9rCiyAwYokQowME/s400/slutwalkwebwow.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716570744448967602" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 20px; font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;font-size:100%;">Below is a propaganda video I created for the ISEA workshops. Visit The <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#008dcf;"><a href="http://www.thirdfaction.org">Third Faction Website</a></span> to find out more about the DPS and our other projects.</span><br /><table align="center"><tbody><tr><td align="center"><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/tBhmys6QXaI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>machine i amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00637349812254191646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642241349029240997.post-21069463971206218902012-03-05T16:10:00.003-08:002012-03-05T16:21:46.951-08:00Occupy Wall Street Bus<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 20px; font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:7;">Recently, in solidarity with</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"> OWS, I met up with associates in <a href="http://www.bluemars.com/bluemarslite/" style="color: rgb(0, 141, 207); text-decoration: none; ">Blue Mars Lite</a> to find and occupy Wall Street virtually. The event was organized by my friends Jeremy O. Turner and Jacquelene Drinkall.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Blue Mars Lite uses Google Street View as its interface. So your avatar can walk around the streets of the world. The group met up at a NYC landmark and then started trying to find our way to Wall Street. There was so much traffic, though, that things got confusing and we were lost for a little while.</span></p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWncltAWUR9Uym9RYvhyivx6p42lA-W5UO9aJw7-8Ef4EH1Fmadgkx1xznYG3P4VAZU5s9YyiBny3UlJqlrj0Vjn2sBWdY0ukBMUUleuhyaNzFv3DpP7M23fdLrDu_2cCVIfBPFzUCaxE/s1600/occupywallstreetbus21.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWncltAWUR9Uym9RYvhyivx6p42lA-W5UO9aJw7-8Ef4EH1Fmadgkx1xznYG3P4VAZU5s9YyiBny3UlJqlrj0Vjn2sBWdY0ukBMUUleuhyaNzFv3DpP7M23fdLrDu_2cCVIfBPFzUCaxE/s400/occupywallstreetbus21.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716570040344483490" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 20px; font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;">Luckily we found the Wall Street bus! We occupied that for awhile on the way.</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNHaEw4LrnVLqlwq4sqtB1rvVmAJh7154dCfHAjPTWD1RLRUaIcyC6DYB9bL5ukGCuQ19UEIUl-dIarUxJMi5B4ZJoWnAIiI-O2yXmE1AZOD13jjxkqicHmjdk32GnZbNpK5BHhy9-9A0/s1600/occupywallstreetbus1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNHaEw4LrnVLqlwq4sqtB1rvVmAJh7154dCfHAjPTWD1RLRUaIcyC6DYB9bL5ukGCuQ19UEIUl-dIarUxJMi5B4ZJoWnAIiI-O2yXmE1AZOD13jjxkqicHmjdk32GnZbNpK5BHhy9-9A0/s400/occupywallstreetbus1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716570033961604066" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 20px; font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;">Blue Mars Lite works for both Mac and PC and according to the Blue Mars webpage it is possible to take a URL from Google Street View, plug it into the program and it places your avatar right there. I haven’t been able to get that to work yet but will keep trying to sort it out. Good to know for next time.</span></span>machine i amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00637349812254191646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642241349029240997.post-61988077204973158252012-03-05T16:01:00.004-08:002012-03-05T17:16:06.422-08:00Newfoundland Joy Award!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkgU9_UPNFjMjK20D1nMG9HcQsgs8iIvLlTX5rlk5TV1GicoQdHufW-5shbdesC_KTOC4k5IQ23qaq8_RzCypSP7lB8BppUCGyzkdjhzj3CTdJoIk7i7YSnpjYvYOnbjiz35CaVNMh4U8/s1600/scene-02-wireframe_001.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkgU9_UPNFjMjK20D1nMG9HcQsgs8iIvLlTX5rlk5TV1GicoQdHufW-5shbdesC_KTOC4k5IQ23qaq8_RzCypSP7lB8BppUCGyzkdjhzj3CTdJoIk7i7YSnpjYvYOnbjiz35CaVNMh4U8/s400/scene-02-wireframe_001.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716568827932997266" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 20px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 20px; ">While at ISEA in Istanbul this year I got some great news - I am the proud recipient of the 2011 Newfoundland Joy Award for my upcoming hybrid video project "the machine" - </span></div></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 20px; font-family:arial;">merging video, 16 mm film and machinima</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 20px; font-family:arial;">. Woohoo! The award comes with in-kind support from NIFCO, The Atlantic Studio Cooperative, John Doyle, some film from KODAK (we'll see how that goes:) and some cash support from the CBC. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 20px; font-family:arial;">I have been working on this script for awhile, in 2010 it won the Newfoundland Arts and Letters Dramatic Script prize. I go into production in April 2012. Stay tuned for announcements.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 20px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 20px; "> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 20px; "><br /></span></div>photo by Fau Ferdinand from the virtual set of “the machine” in Second Life. </span></span></span>machine i amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00637349812254191646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642241349029240997.post-44486531357851815522010-09-03T16:30:00.001-07:002010-09-03T17:12:11.314-07:00Night Gardening<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3uC3kDjJW08?fs=1&hl=en_US&hd=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3uC3kDjJW08?fs=1&hl=en_US&hd=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br /><br />Night Gardening<br />by lizsolo Mathilde/Liz Solo and Fau Ferdinand/Yael Gilks<br />2010 Odyssey Performance Art Festival<br />People and avatars from around the world garden simultaneously in the virtual world of Second Life and in a quiet backyard in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Starring Liz Solo, Fau Ferdinand, Patrick Lichty, Mike Kean, Anne Pickard and many avatars.<br />More performances to come in this series including Night Swimming and Night Painting. <br /><br />See:<br />Odyssey - http://www.odysseysimulator.blogspot.com<br />Liz Solo - http://www.lizsolo.commachine i amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00637349812254191646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642241349029240997.post-66236896748570804332010-09-03T16:28:00.000-07:002010-09-03T16:32:57.934-07:00Your Discarded Guitar<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ChN5DHyppwg?fs=1&hl=en_US&hd=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ChN5DHyppwg?fs=1&hl=en_US&hd=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>machine i amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00637349812254191646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642241349029240997.post-52446522621807673082010-06-10T15:41:00.001-07:002010-06-10T16:53:54.817-07:00Chromatose<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQS31JDS9Xv8_GhDtSpDrc3jsz98gVQeDL4hq9GpAsYHo3RPahUpejrbf1AU2Ml_aCdWuzSczdhhO4NMO0Okl1vYY6dpNQ6dBoJMVVf2xBeg4_HdhYFIAtVlyhyphenhyphen82SNADhlI342Xv6tK8/s1600/naurisnikanslizsteve4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQS31JDS9Xv8_GhDtSpDrc3jsz98gVQeDL4hq9GpAsYHo3RPahUpejrbf1AU2Ml_aCdWuzSczdhhO4NMO0Okl1vYY6dpNQ6dBoJMVVf2xBeg4_HdhYFIAtVlyhyphenhyphen82SNADhlI342Xv6tK8/s400/naurisnikanslizsteve4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481279541321071234" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Steve Abbott and I had a great time co-hosting this year's </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Chromatose Animation Festival</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> - a presentation of the </span></span><a href="http://rockcanrollrecords.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Black Bag Media Collective</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">. Here we are pictured above in a photo by </span></span><a href="http://www.visitstjohnsnl.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Nauris Nikans</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> admiring one of the videos as it plays in on our monitor. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">The <b>Chromatose Anymation Festival</b> takes it name from an invented word <i>chromatose</i> - meaning <i>critical </i><i>overdose of color</i> (created by me and steve) and the word <i>anymation</i> coined by the Croatian anymator <a href="http://vimeo.com/user193906">Tom Jantol</a>. For a full explanation of the concept of anymation here is a link to Tom's <a href="http://www.rockcanrollrecords.com/AnymationManifesto.pdf">Anymation Manifesto</a>. Tom Jantol is an old friend and friend of the BBMC and I am his number one fan.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Tom's work was featured throughout the festival. The Chromatose Anymation Festival also screened new animations and machinima from around the world, including videos by <a href="http://osprey-therian.blip.tv/">Osprey Therian</a>, Rose Borchovski, Pyewacket Kazyanenko, Robbie Dingo and over two dozen others. The festival also screened <b><i>Eat the Feeling</i></b> - a piece I created for the </span></span><a href="http://www.react2010.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">React 2010</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> exhibit in collaboration with Vancouver's <a href="http://x-o-x-o-x.com/">Erik Hoff Rzepka</a>.</span></span><div><br /><object width="580" height="349"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_AUgUEkhisQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_AUgUEkhisQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="580" height="349"></embed></object><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>machine i amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00637349812254191646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642241349029240997.post-89276288107630279792010-06-09T06:43:00.001-07:002010-06-10T16:55:15.796-07:00Azdel and Echo<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It has been more than a pleasure to have the opportunity to work with </span></span><a href="http://www.transreal.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Micha Cardenas</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and </span></span><a href="http://www.elleelleelle.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Elle Mehrmand</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (a.k.a. Azdel Slade and echolalia Azalee in SL) as machinimatographer. I have been documenting some of their performances in Second Life, most recently </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">virus.circus.touch </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">that took place simultaneously at </span></span><a href="http://www.squeakywheel.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Squeaky Wheel</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> in Buffalo New York and live in the virtual environments of Second Life.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />Here is machinima of the performance from the Second Life Perspective:</span></span><br /><object width="580" height="349"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FzRFpRGVYrU&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FzRFpRGVYrU&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="580" height="349"></embed></object><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">And here I have superimposed the real life video of the performance and the machinima of the performance. Much is suggested here, in terms of ideas for merging live real and virtual performance - in video anyway. (live performance footage starts at about 2 minutes in)</span><br /><object width="580" height="349"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ec2I6IQAcFI&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ec2I6IQAcFI&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="580" height="349"></embed></object><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Here is the video of the live performance from the New York perspective, shot by by Alice Alexandrescu</span></span><br /><object width="400" height="225"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12219412&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12219412&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/12219412"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">virus.circus.touch // micha cárdenas and elle mehrmand</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> from </span><a href="http://vimeo.com/azdelslade"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">azdel slade</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> on </span><a href="http://vimeo.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Vimeo</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">.</span></p></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I love Azdel's guts. And Echo's guts. And guts. </span></div>machine i amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00637349812254191646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642241349029240997.post-87155767110703169552010-05-12T09:50:00.000-07:002010-05-12T09:55:40.536-07:00Expression is Not a Crime<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><div><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/u3Ka9WbGIdY&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/u3Ka9WbGIdY&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal; ">Super 8 film shot as part of a Nickel Film Festival/St. John's International Jazz Festival collaborative project. Filmmakers were challenged to shoot a piece in-camera, with no edits and have it scored by a partner musician. I shot film to reflect my thoughts on the fancy new anti graff writing by-laws brought in by St. John's City Council in 2008. This piece of film was originally called "311" (the phone number citizens can call to report seeing graffiti) and was scored by Russtafari.<br /><br />Today I thought I would edit the rolls to a song I have written on the same subject. After experimenting for awhile I discovered that the reels fit perfectly on top of the song in terms of time, which was kind of freaky. So here is the first reel up above and the second reel below, both edited in camera and laid on top of "Expression is Not a Crime" from my "alien" CD. Mike Kean, Steve Abbott and Alex Pierson play with me on this track.<br /><br />It is pretty funny how some of the images work with the song here:) I may eventually re-edit a new piece using both reels, as so many edits are suggested. Please contact me or just take this footage to re edit if u r so inclined, and please repost if you do:) Lots of recognizable St. John's faces in there.</span></div><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/r_4pfAJJuoY&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/r_4pfAJJuoY&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></span>machine i amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00637349812254191646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642241349029240997.post-79222380567477504172010-05-07T14:52:00.000-07:002010-05-07T16:23:30.762-07:00Melody Neglected at RCAThis month <a href="http://rca.nf.ca">Resource Center for the Arts</a> hosted a live reading of my newest play - <b>Melody Neglected</b> - in the freshly renovated LSPU Hall Second Space. This reading was the final part of the <i>Write On</i> program - an excellent annual playwright workshopping process, this year facilitated by Ed Riche. I had a real dream team of actors working on this one, as you can see below.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr2Ze9I5oGbk2Qs2A88h1BV0tMXXqo-NCjg9ACU357tC61JkUSxLhfDobYXFSMLXPOVCb4QUaopHsTtGUNIye5J8BeepVDS1lFcxDShyQEDNhm8Oyd9m8ukRuJ8QmDO16xKFtRdfd8hZk/s1600/melodyneglectedreading.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr2Ze9I5oGbk2Qs2A88h1BV0tMXXqo-NCjg9ACU357tC61JkUSxLhfDobYXFSMLXPOVCb4QUaopHsTtGUNIye5J8BeepVDS1lFcxDShyQEDNhm8Oyd9m8ukRuJ8QmDO16xKFtRdfd8hZk/s400/melodyneglectedreading.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468650210461107650" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">pictured here: Amy House (RCA Artistic Animateur), Megan Coles, Emily Bridger, Colin Furlong, Geraldine Hollett, Liz Solo, Nicole Rousseau, Neil Butler, Didi Gillard-Rowlings. photo by Peter Rompkey.</span>machine i amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00637349812254191646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642241349029240997.post-65772499306376299702010-05-03T16:10:00.000-07:002010-05-03T16:43:30.976-07:00Slide Show at Eastern Edge<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsj3JWqWcrPd8NJ90ML8tGqfig47crMmaL5X0BLDA_-7wEaTBikZvDRXGqLMA8qHqVesMH-ksMJyR8Pe9L2iU29AI9hwXJ3ZiWEDmGUnTYHKtHEPcjD7SepFn7XsceVx-8Wxo5LTOZ6RM/s1600/wunderkammer.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsj3JWqWcrPd8NJ90ML8tGqfig47crMmaL5X0BLDA_-7wEaTBikZvDRXGqLMA8qHqVesMH-ksMJyR8Pe9L2iU29AI9hwXJ3ZiWEDmGUnTYHKtHEPcjD7SepFn7XsceVx-8Wxo5LTOZ6RM/s400/wunderkammer.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467193412251459042" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I am stoked to have been contacted by </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Elly Clarke</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> of the </span><a href="http://www.clarkegallery.de/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Clarke Gallery</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> in Germany (via our mutual friend <a href="http://kildall.com/">Scott Kildall</a> - thanks Scott!) and asked to present my Slide Show - </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A Trip Around the World</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> by Liz Solo - at the </span><a href="http://www.easternedge.ca/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Eastern Edge Gallery</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> on Saturday, <b>May 8 at 3 PM</b>. This slide presentation is a part of the traveling <b>WUNDERKAMMER</b> show. <b>WUNDERKAMMER</b> is making a one-day appearance at The Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland. The show presents the work of all 11 Berlin-based/Clarke Gallery artists whose work was already shown on 22nd April in Berlin and introduces two new works - by Canadian artists Eryn Foster and Terry Piercey.</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br />Curated by Elly Clarke and Jessica Brouder, Wunderkammer is the German translation <img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqTjn_MXMzBQv-1ARcTl0FOUzPjN1ZVJLif9mQDHePWBGr69RtIKp7LZ9ykINsErPV4lj6rJJ9Kmw34xkzqXCOmop9CeSLagaHmh3K6tI0sjOdibhbnWOTH5Bc7O9G9DWk113v0QioRvY/s200/slideshow.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467186832519856322" />of Cabinet of Curiosities and this is the first Clarke Gallery exhibition to travel beyond the confines of Elly's Berlin apartment. WUNDERKAMMER in St. John's has been brought to Canada from Berlin in Jessica's hand luggage. WUNDERKAMMER in St. John's incorporates sculpture, photography, painting, drawing, performance ephemera and A Slide Show by... Liz Solo (at 3pm).<br /><br />We are very grateful to Eastern Edge Gallery for hosting WUNDERKAMMER in St. John's. Eastern Edge Gallery is Newfoundland and Labrador’s first non-profit artist-run centre established in 1984. Overlooking the St. John’s harbour, Eastern Edge offers support, professional development, a sense of community, information and resource-sharing and a meaningful context for contemporary artistic activity.<br /><br />CLARKE GALLERY PRESENTS:<br />W U N D E R K A M M E R<br />in St. John's<br />8th May 2010, 12pm-5pm<br /><br />With A Slide Show by Liz Solo at 3pm<br /><br />Eastern Edge Gallery<br />EXHIBITING WORK BY THE FOLLOWING ARTISTS:<br />Jessica Brouder<br />Elly Clarke<br />Julian Eicke<br />Eryn Foster<br />Alexander Heaton<br />Liz Fletcher<br />Sophia New and Dan Belasco / plan b<br />Terry Piercey<br />Christian Sievers<br />Vajra Spook<br />Anna-Myga Kasten<br />Kym Ward<br />Andrea Winkler<br /><br />mail@clarkegallery.de<br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><a href="http://www.clarkegallery.de/" onmousedown="UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "98d68", event);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(59, 89, 152); text-decoration: none; ">http://www.clarkegallery.de</a></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><br /></span></div>machine i amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00637349812254191646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642241349029240997.post-36188034435362748322010-04-19T12:58:00.000-07:002010-06-09T08:20:43.002-07:00technésexual<object style="background-image:url(http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/HHWGPu2d9BI/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HHWGPu2d9BI&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HHWGPu2d9BI&hl=en_US&fs=1" width="480" height="295" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">On February 20, 2010 Adzel Slade/Micha Cardenas and ecolalia Azalee/Elle Mehrmand presented <b>technésexual</b> - a hybrid reality performance - simultaneously at East of Odyssey and at the LACE's (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) GUTTED event, curated by Dino Dinco. I had the pleasure of documenting this event from Second Life. Azdel and echolalia are working with ideas here that I also wish to explore - especially the interfacing/connecting of the avatar and the human body via various sensors and and devices - read more about <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">technésexual </span>below. This video documents the Second Life component with sound coming from Real Life via SL's voice interface. Most recently this video was screened at the University of California, San Diego's Open Studios 2010. See: http://ucsdopenstudios.com/2010/<br /><br /><b>About technésexual</b><br />(from www.transreal.org)<br />"In technésexual the performers commit playful erotic acts in physical and virtual space simultaneously, using devices to amplify the sound of their heartbeats for the two audiences. An electrocardiogram was used to monitor the heart rate with an Arduino/Freeduino, playing a recording of the heartbeat at the correct rate using Puredata. Temperature sensors modulate the audio based on touch. DIY biometrics are used to bridge realities with audio, finding ways of exploring the space between realities.<br /><br /><b>technésexual</b> opens discussion on the multitude of sexualities outside of the restrictive LGBT formulation and homo/hetero categories, which are rooted in binary gender assumptions. The mixing of realities in this project can be seen as paralleling our own experiences mixing genders and sexualities, queering new media. Virtual worlds such as Second Life facilitate the development of new identities, allowing for unimagined relations and relationships. technésexual looks closely at these new relationships, how they affect our everyday lives and horizons of possibility."<br />See also:<br />http://www.transreal.org<br />http://bang.calit2.net/elle<br />http://www.flickr.com/photos/lotu5/se...<br />http://odysseysimulator.blogspot.com</span>machine i amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00637349812254191646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642241349029240997.post-9000483083866749522010-04-03T11:02:00.000-07:002010-04-03T11:06:11.628-07:00The Death of An Avatar<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; font-family:'century gothic', Georgia, serif;font-size:13px;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; white-space: pre; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><object width="600" height="361"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/f_hcFTFOseI&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/f_hcFTFOseI&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="600" height="361"></embed></object></span></div><div><br /></div><br /><br />On Valentines Day, 2010, the artist known as Wirxli Flimflam publicly took his own avatar's life over his unrequited love for the artist known as SaveMe Oh. This machinima documents the sad event. To find out more see Wirlxi Flimflam's Memorial Blog:<br /><a href="http://www.wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" title="http://www.wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); text-decoration: none; ">http://www.wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com</a><br />And SaveMe Oh's Blog:<br /><a href="http://www.savemeoh.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" title="http://www.savemeoh.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); text-decoration: none; ">http://www.savemeoh.wordpress.com</a></span>machine i amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00637349812254191646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642241349029240997.post-84944012175298350052010-02-26T10:56:00.000-08:002010-02-26T11:00:18.313-08:00Eat the Feeling<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; white-space: pre; "><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_AUgUEkhisQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_AUgUEkhisQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; white-space: normal; ">Ronald McDonald and his Little Buddy prepare for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.<br />A machinima video created for the React2010.com site by Liz Solo and <a href="http://x-o-x-o-x.com/">Erik Hoff Rzepka</a>. React 2010 is a web and gallery exhibit of the <a href="http://www.alternatorgallery.com/">Alternator Center for Contemporary Art</a> in Kelowna, B.C. - "engaging artists and the global community in a conversation about the values surrounding the Olympics."<br />See <a href="http://www.react2010.com/" target="_blank" title="http://www.react2010.com" rel="nofollow" dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 51, 204); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; ">http://www.react2010.com</a><br />Special thanks to Gazira Babeli for "McBarfin"</span></span></span></div>machine i amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00637349812254191646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642241349029240997.post-34868864809980742122010-02-21T10:52:00.000-08:002010-02-21T14:46:54.320-08:00"machine i am" at MMIF<div style=""><br /></div><img style="text-align: justify;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 145px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoEZODwdaf4stswuSvFmwZgH4njelmmoAH54ZHoeBa913gAdpgbbIGt5LWJAsO6Bt413zOAiOhFpEwPhw7PrQECZtP5Tp_EQURo_Qwk8kSm8qr-ZL8ZaN37nxkDGlVAd9QMhouG4DeQmE/s200/lizatMMIF3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440774803395345698" /><div style="text-align: justify;">My hybrid machinima/film/video<b> machine i am</b> premiered this weekend in Real Life at the <a href="http://www.mmif.org/">2nd Annual MaMachinima International Festival</a> at Planet Art in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and simultaneously in the virtual world of Second Life. I was tele-present for the whole event via Second Life. The MMIF was an exciting, star-studded, jam-packed day of machinima with entries from all over the world. It was awesome to see so many machinimators in one place and to learn about how they are all working. Machinimatographers are pushing hard in all directions and in multiple dimensions of the metaverse to advance the medium of machinima forward. It was great to be among others working with the same vocabulary and to see how the themes other machinimators are working with resonate and intersect in so many places with the work I am doing. It is downright heart warming, really. Read MMIF founder Chantal Harvey's <a href="http://mamachinima.blogspot.com/2010/02/ladies-and-gentlemen-welcome-to.html">MMIF Opening Remarks</a>, from her blog.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here is a link to <b>machine i am</b> on youtube - this will only be up for a limited amount of time before I do one final tweaking edit and release the finished, finished version. You will have to watch it in three parts, here is Part One, you can find Parts 2 and 3 on my <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/whoisliz">YouTube Channel</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WsjZ-NnljgY&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WsjZ-NnljgY&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There was so much to love at the MMIF - the fabulous Pyewackey Kazyanenko showed a piece of 3D machinima, <b>Double Dutch</b> - and I just happened to have my 3D glasses handy. Trippy! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><img style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 242px; text-align: center; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiODKXTtXRW3wPpumw3s8LBPz0TYCBRQDctIJsFDoFEGKV8Ln4uWTukWdytamyZE6rDBHn1QNY7kA6vwtt2r22XZme4TptsYmC_LXNPx5_ewvMlAI2W3rdhXUOD7J-ayqlFQ2szIWH1Hg4/s400/MMIF_050.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440778528693781874" />Fau Ferdinand submitted Therapy by <a href="http://www.secondfront.org/">The Second Front</a> which I loved to see again - shot by Osprey Therian of one of our performance pieces.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><embed src="http://blip.tv/play/AYG7uG8C" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="300" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I learned about new tools people are using for machinima including In Movies (PC only) and <a href="http://moviestorm.co.uk/">Movie Storm</a> (Mac friendly) - these are not virtual real time spaces but machinima generators. Not as interesting to me as online spaces, because of the missing element of virtual embodiment - but the animations are quite seamless and I have downloaded and am going to experiment a little with Movie Storm. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A very memorable piece from the MMIF was from Ogogoro called <b>In Pursuit of a Third Term</b> - a machinima made in Movie Storm about police corruption in Nigeria. View it by going to the Nollywood Channel - <a href="http://www.nollywood.com/video/In_pursuit_of_a_third_term">In Pursuit of a Third Term</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Like Ogogoro, taking risks and raising consciousness is a focus of many machinimators. There were commentaries on war, especially historical-based pieces and many others with references to the ethos of WW2 - reflecting and questioning our own troubled times. Machinimators are also exploring the classic "fairy tale" through machinima, as well as examining the notion of idealized space and of reconciling our relationship to the natural world via the loving application of technology to nature (and vice versa). I saw these ideas reflected in many pieces, such as Osprey Therian/Vivian Kendal's most awesome sci-fi piece <b>Virtual Reality in the Future</b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> (if you saw my 2002 installation <b>Museum of the Mind</b> this is actually kind of freaky)</span></i><b>:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZJTnChBdmrU&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZJTnChBdmrU&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There was also some downright brilliant artistry, as in this surrealist gorgeousness of Lainy Voom/Trace Sanderson's <b>Push</b></div><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hLeK9Lanh94&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hLeK9Lanh94&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br />There was more and more blurring of the boundaries between different virtual worlds, something I play with in <b>machine i am</b> and illustrated with some fine comedic prowess in Phaylen Fairchild's entry to the festival - <b>Phaylen Seeks a World of Warcraft Guild. </b>Nothing I like more, really, than mixing up one virtual world with another, especially when WoW is involved, so much potential for comedy:<br /><div><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zkZetBxaP2w&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zkZetBxaP2w&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></div><div>In total fifty four machinima pieces were presented at the MMIF. You can view them ALL by going to <a href="http://www.aviewtv.com/miff/index.htm">The MMIF 2010</a> and clicking the On Demand button and then MMIF 2010 selections.</div><div><br /></div><div>Here's a few shots taken by Pyewacket Kazyanenko of lizsolo Mathilde presenting at the MMIF in Second Life, the film playing on the screens in the background.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgncsAxQXaFJYSiHUciumMp6Fn0xG0NzatygxTeYnWA8dJd1j4wo8_A7W9rq-VNwN8iop-MlF6u2DDUyEkqGWhziVccsb-lAvzLTdXiHY8zHO_6RJao6tQRk4vMq9HEgmg3jNWpy6BUCPg/s1600-h/lizatMMIF5.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 290px; text-align: center; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgncsAxQXaFJYSiHUciumMp6Fn0xG0NzatygxTeYnWA8dJd1j4wo8_A7W9rq-VNwN8iop-MlF6u2DDUyEkqGWhziVccsb-lAvzLTdXiHY8zHO_6RJao6tQRk4vMq9HEgmg3jNWpy6BUCPg/s400/lizatMMIF5.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440774591955698514" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3fcyQQ8ajP2ajtQ-H-GZ1zrA3TG1hmKIfMNIlyRdArPFUJfixYsOf4obAxd4Zq7hpE6EE47QsjQox1mx5tfso_Dlq16ezEDTjbHX7u2gDPk45uApUW2RuC8T34RTU4NyA0L2omxuLZ2k/s1600-h/lizatMMIF6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3fcyQQ8ajP2ajtQ-H-GZ1zrA3TG1hmKIfMNIlyRdArPFUJfixYsOf4obAxd4Zq7hpE6EE47QsjQox1mx5tfso_Dlq16ezEDTjbHX7u2gDPk45uApUW2RuC8T34RTU4NyA0L2omxuLZ2k/s400/lizatMMIF6.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440774335630839778" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDRJY0A4pDwhj_KFphNCNDBJeB1yLcbzp41yLLdLOrejjxEsGedVQvR6r88m_jQK6pOcJSZp8rj3404NJFAlW48s5_z0qk_eZoxQn0eo1UpBIpL6J922AHzf2YdRimh2S5LY6J3JEIgWs/s1600-h/lizatMMIF7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDRJY0A4pDwhj_KFphNCNDBJeB1yLcbzp41yLLdLOrejjxEsGedVQvR6r88m_jQK6pOcJSZp8rj3404NJFAlW48s5_z0qk_eZoxQn0eo1UpBIpL6J922AHzf2YdRimh2S5LY6J3JEIgWs/s400/lizatMMIF7.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440774211758976146" /></a>Here you can see me smoking three cigarettes at once. I was a little nervous.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUeBSWBMwCPDmmW7tnrstr43gJkzie81d1SKtcwMYuWgtrY9Fdy0rQYk-Fg0WP0nfG47d0fOstxq__YXsPdeJyCOjiTaXMSKxX7i67SKK6n1esWeKXmf3EMv3BYTE07JXPxyzNz6e4sa4/s1600-h/lizatMMIF2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUeBSWBMwCPDmmW7tnrstr43gJkzie81d1SKtcwMYuWgtrY9Fdy0rQYk-Fg0WP0nfG47d0fOstxq__YXsPdeJyCOjiTaXMSKxX7i67SKK6n1esWeKXmf3EMv3BYTE07JXPxyzNz6e4sa4/s400/lizatMMIF2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440774101682806450" /></a><br /></div>machine i amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00637349812254191646noreply@blogger.com0