Fundraiser Event at the Avatrait Gallery

For the first time in Avatrait's history, there will be an event at the gallery, to support another artist with another art form. There are a lot of avatars making beautiful machinima on SL, but yet, this art form has not been directly supported by Avatrait, as it is difficult to frame a movie.
Nevertheless we want to support those artists too, and accepted the request from Noelani Mahana, to organize a Fundraiser Event for her next project.

You can see some of her previous works on YouTube, here and here.

Noelani Mahana is also a novice writer, and you will be able to find her works on Black Lashed.

"This Summer Mahana Machinima is dusting off the reels and embarking on a new machinima production right here in our beloved Second Life.

To finance this movie project Mahana Machinima is hosting a Fundraiser Event at the marvelous Avatrait Gallery on Saturday the 11th of July 2009 between 1-5 p.m. SLT.

Avatrait Gallery

We are honored to send you this invitation and hope to see you there where the owner of Mahana Machinima, Miss Noelani Mahana, will get more into details about this movie project.

This presentation will be followed by a magnificent show by the sensational DJ, Saturn Ariantho.

On behalf of Mahana Machinima I welcome you.

Noelani Mahana "

The art of Iam Yumako will still be displayed during this event, so don't hesitate to visit us, and enjoy the wonderful art of this artist.

Premiere of "The nine deaths of Alex Black"

Last Sunday there was the long expected and first machinima of the “Alex Black” series of Noelani Mahana.

It seemed as if we were in Hollywood, LA, with the screening taking place at a replica of the Chinese Theater. Of course there were not that many people, otherwise we would have crashed and seen nothing.;P
All the actors came one by one over the red carpet, in their finest dresses and suits, to the entrance of the theater, where the public, already arrived before the actors, as it is suppose to, were waiting for them.
Noelani, walking nervous from one place to another, having the looks of Halle Berry for this occasion, gave a small introduction, before the movie started. Luckily for us, not all the seats were taken, so we could stretch our legs, without disturbing our neighbors.;)
This machinima is suppose to be the first in a series of “The nine deaths of Alex Black”. Seeing this first one, I have to admit that it was something we are not used to see from the grid, even with moving lips and mouths when the actors were talking.
There was unfortunately one minor thing, a technical error, which always could happen, and which always will occur when it shouldn’t, and where I can imagine that Noelani was about to freak out, when the last part of the machinima was frozen on the screen, and only the sound was to be heard. It seemed that there was something wrong with the upload of the files. But, finally, Noelani has taken care of it, and uploaded the files to the net, so that everyone can see this first original and really impressive made machinima from Second Life. I think Noelani deserved a break now, before starting or finalizing the second part, but, we are already looking forward to this next part.;))

And after the screening there was a party......

First episode of Alex Black's adventures coming soon.....

It is almost D-Day for Noelani Mahana's first episode of her story: "The nine deaths of Alex Black". And it is expected to be worthwhile to see. She has done a lot of efforts to realize this project.
Unfortunately, she is facing some difficulties in these last days before the screening of the machinima. It seems that her videocard is giving her more trouble than needed. We all hope she will get it fixed, so she can finalize the movie.
If you have been reading my blog lately, you know that I was helping her out with the pictures, so she could make posters of every character. Everything has been well thought through.
The première of the first episode is planned for this weekend, but is only for invitees, as there is not too much place to have a big crowd over there.
I can't tell you all the details yet, but be sure, I will report the happening on this blog, as I will be playing "paparazzo" at this occasion.
She has found a replica of the Chinese Theater, where this première venue will take place, on Sunday, February 3rd.

The Second Life 48 Hour Film Project

Past weekend several Second Life teams submitted their films to the 48 Hour Film Project.
All of the films that were submitted will screen on January 16th and 17th, in Second Life's New Globe Theatre and 48.tv at 5.00 PM SLT. The films will play simultaneously at both venues.
The 48 Hour Film Project is a wild and sleepless weekend in which you and a team make a movie—write, shoot, edit and score it—in just 48 hours. On Friday night, everyone gets a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre, all to include in a movie. 48 hours later, the movie must be complete.
This is the main idea and in 2007, 30.000 filmmakers made films in 55 cities around the world in RL.
This event, with the same brain-twisters has come to the virtual world and the winner will also, besides receiving an interesting amount, be screened at Filmapalooza, a RL event, at the film festival Cinequest in San Jose, California.

This years teams are:

DreamTeam, Dnali Anabuki
The Good Griefers, Cecil Hirvi
GT SLAR, Ashang Jinn
The LifeFactory, LifeFactory Writer
The Machinimatrix, June Brenner
MetaverseTV, Robustus Hax
Team CADE, Sweeny Todd
Team Classy, Lucinda Obviate
Team Harvey, Chantal Harvey
Team Titatovernaar, Titatovernaar Balder
The Vesuvius Group, Rhiannon Chatnoir
Wildcuts, Orpheus Kurosawa

This article is maybe late for you who were interested to compete, but is maybe something to keep in mind for next year's competition. And it will always be interesting to see what those contestants can do in 48 hours with a machinima in a virtual world.
It is not too late to see the last screen at the New Globe Theatre.

Second Life - O Novo Mundo

Having read Winter's blog about this video, I wanted to share this one with you all. Relax and watch this, with sound.
How beautiful Second Life may be.