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Hosoi Ichiba Machinima Awards 2008 - 50,000 L Award

We are looking for artists that can compose the Best Machinima Impression of our Hosoi Ichiba and surroundings on Virgin Island. Hosoi Ichiba is a Japanese style market enclosed by walls and watch towers, overlooking a beautiful landscape. Outside the walls you will find Hosoi Yu Ch’un, a typical Japanese fishing village and the farming village, “Hosoi Lung Ch’un” The sim is packed with romantic spots for you to build your story around.

Your production must apply to the following conditions
- A good story line
- Use of Windlight
- Min. duration of 100 secs
- High quality video
- Published on Youtube
- Title should contain ‘Hosoi Ichiba’

If possible, use:
- Authentic Japanese avatars
- Background sound and or music

What are the rules?
This contest will take off at 15 April 2008.
Your contribution should be published before 15 June 2008
A qualified jury will vote for the winning production
The winning video will be published on our Hosoi Ichiba blog.
The winning artist will be rewarded with 50,000 L$ in cash.
IM Amiryu Hosoi with the URL to your production (youtube)

More information at:
http://hosoi-ichiba.blogspot.com/

Contributions can be viewed at:
YouTube

Hosoi Ichiba, Japanese Gardens & Lifestyle Second Life URL

Good luck,

Amiryu Hosoi

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Not sure how he does it, but, Torley must love what he’s doing, because he is cranking out video tutorial after video tutorial, this week, he has released 22 more of the quicktips, those 2 minute or less videos that cover the little small things you may have missed, and the little pieces of knowledge that aren’t always passed around from avatar to avatar. Read his post on the Second Life Blog here.

This first one requires no lawyers whatsoever, Adding & divorcing a Partner.

Building materials explained

Changing the time of day

Changing your login location

Hiding the Search panel in the menu bar

Hiding online friend notifications

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Torley is cranking out the Second Life Video Tips, posting eleven new ones today. They have been very popular, Torley said they were the number 2 most viewed dail rank on Youtube last week. Watch HD versions of these videos here and the video tutorial section of the Second Life wiki. The topics covered this time:

The trouble with Linden trees - Second Life Video TuTORial QUICK Tips

Starting Conference IMs - Second Life Video TuTORial QUICK Tips

Notecard attachments - Second Life Video TuTORial QUICK Tips

Getting your system info - Second Life Video TuTORial QUICK Tips

Fun with 2 Inventory windows - Second Life Video TuTORial QUICK Tips

Emptying your Trash - Second Life Video TuTORial QUICK Tips

Deleting duplicate landmarks - Second Life Video TuTORial QUICK Tips

Clearing nametag clutter - Second Life Video TuTORial QUICK Tips

Setting objects to group - Second Life Video TuTORial QUICK Tips

Changing your group title - Second Life Video TuTORial QUICK Tips

Advanced Mouselook options - Second Life Video TuTORial QUICK Tips

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From a group notice:

We will be screening YOUR machinima at ISTE this Thursday, February 21 at 6 PM SLT. Have you been creating machinima that you would like to share with your ISTE colleagues? Send Corinne Fleury an im.

You will probably have to be in the group, but I’ve been wrong before.

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What: The International Society for Technology in Education Machinima Social

When: Thursday, February 7, 2008 @ 6PM SLT

Where: ISTE Island

Description: Have some questions about machinima? HVX Silverstar will be on hand to answer your questions about machinima. Knowclue Kidd will be present as well to discuss the ISTE machinima project.

About the ISTE Collaborative Machinima Project from Knowclue.
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According to posts from James Wagner Au, from New World Notes, and a guide from Geoff Keighley, from Kotaku.com, the Discovery Channel’s Guide to Videogames will feature a Second Life segment in Level Five, the fifth segment. The series will start this Wednesday, November 21st, 2007, at 8pm and continue until the fifth episode on Wednesday, December 19th at 8pm. From the guide posted at Kotaku:

Can a computer game make you cry? With the introduction of PlayStation 2’s “emotion engine” in 1999 game developers had the technology to enable deep, moving stories that tugged at gamers’ heartstrings. The rise of online virtual world games added another emotional dimension, letting players make real connections (including marriages) through a virtual game and helping them escape a world rife with violence and terror. Source: Discovery Channel to Air 5 Hour Videogame Documentary

The documentary will cover the entire history of the videogame industry, from the early 70’s when Atari ruled until today’s virtual worlds, with interviews of Ralph Baer, David Jaffe, Will Wright, Peter Molyneux, and Ken and Roberta Williams, who founded Sierra Online. The series will take a look at how the social and political climate shaped games and game designers throughout the piece. From New World Notes,

The in-world machinima for the SL segment is from the team of Silver and Goldie Goodman, and when they took footage of me at my office, had my avatar sign the virtual release form above. I’m looking forward to seeing this, totally apart from my minimal involvement in the production. Along with every other US-based Resident, I’m among the last to see it– judging by e-mails I’ve been getting about it, this past year, it’s already aired in the UK, Poland, China, and India. Source: Second Life to be featured on the Discovery Channel’s mini-series on videogames

So, apparently this has already aired over seas, and I will be looking forward to seeing it, and will catch, at a minimum, the Second Life, or virtual world portion of it.

Silver and Goldie Goodman produced the following video, Second Life: Get One, winner of the Second Life Trailer Contest.

Second Life: Get One

Posted to Video Tutorials on August 19, 2007

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