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Be part of musical history on Thursday April 1st @ 1:30 pm SLT

‘Pop Art Lab’-SL’s premier music venue is undergoing a massive change soon and will be unveiling a very cool new look. To help us remember our old sim design before we pack it in inventory forever, we have invited SL’s top film makers to come and capture the PAL that has been loved by over 25,000 music fans. The winning filmmaker will win a massive L$100,000 first prize announced at our epic relaunch weekend in mid April.

To help create a musical celebration on film, we are inviting SL residents to join us for a party on Thursday April 1st starting at 1:30pm SLT.

Please note: Various scenes/setups will be made during event according to whatever filmmakers ask us to do!

The lineup includes:
1:30 PM: DJ BRB (warm up)
2 PM: DJ Astrella Lane, Switzerland (funky/soulful house)
3 PM : MommaLuv Skytower, US (Live music). The high priestess of electronica in SL!)
4:00 PM: Lance Rembrandt, US (live music)
5:00 PM: DJ BRB

Wear your fancy stuff and come party! Click this SLurl for taxis!

History, horizons and count down pt. 3

12 days to go and submission deadline for our machinima contest ends. We have no clue about how many filmmakers will enter. What we do know is some very clever ones included but whether we get 5 films or 20 – blank!? By telling this we ofcourse encourage everyone to join the contest. The judge is very varied including a RL PHd who ain’t particular SL machinima expert but make serious research in topic from a professional point of view, Leska Linden who’ve been at LL 5+ years who have strong interests in machinima and Chantal Harvey of whom I expect know tons about technical issues creating machinimas and finally myself who’ll be absolutely noob and mostly only care about issues like “Does the machinima capture Pop Art Labs spirit”!

Somehow we would like being more involved in this contest so we might try set up some kind of events if any out there want to film the sim with audience in. We will inform on such steps by group notes, here on blog, on twitter etc.

Info on winner announcements and sim opening programme can be followed as it expands on an almost daily basis.

This weeks inspirational verse goes for  the Greg Hawkes concert recorded live at Pop Art Lab in December 2008 and of which was our very first feature on the machinima scene! Greg Hawkes is most known for handling the synths in the US major 70s-80s group The Cars!

Sit back and relax to this awesome ukulele led show!!!

What PAL is all about!

While spending some rare free time today just chilling and talking to PAL visitors this chat pretty much tells what the lab is all about:

Presenting greatest new albums full length giving visitors a cool overview of best buys before purchase!

[10:07]  Claus Uriza:

[10:18]  C. Avedon: oh, i’m going to go buy this album today

Pop Art Lab Relaunch: Programme, April 16

To celebrate a brand new sim design of Pop Art Lab and to announce winner of our $L100.000 machinima contest we have set up quite a “production” for April 16. Mark your calenders!

Speakers: Draxtor Drespres (The Drax Files), Dusan Writer (Remedy/Metanomics), Wiz Nordberg (CEO, Treet.tv), Jeska Linden, Chantal Harvey, Claus Uriza

Musicians: Redzone, Starflower Orbit, MommaLuv Skytower, Skye Galaxy, MoShang Zhao, Lance Rembrandt

Machinimas: Rysan Fall, Toxic Menges, Glasz DeCuir, Binary Quandry, Larkworthy Antfarm, Ormand Lionheart, Mindblind Setsuko, Iono Allen, Pickles Karu, Delgado Cinquetti, Michelle Leckrone, Ketk Petrov, Al Peretz, Aaron Ishelwood, Tutsy Navarathna et al.

DJs: Fine Caliber

Sim Design: Emily Hifeng, Xray Haller, Rico Willis

Art Exhibition: Julie Kaye (RL)

Art Installation: Misprint Thursday

Visuals: Abstract Baroque

Machinima Judge: Jeska Linden (speaker), Chantal Harvey (speaker), Lisbeth Frølunde (RL), Claus Uriza

Webcast: Treet.TV (US event!)

Programme – To be modified!

Pop Art Lab Sim Opening & Machinima Event

Judge set, first artists confirmed

The planning of our simopening and machinima contest is maxing up at the moment.

We are glad to announce the jury is finally set:

Jeska Linden: 5 year+ at Linden Lab, Director of Community Development, been Burning Life cordinator plus tons other LL activities.

Chantal Harvey: Recently included in the Linden Endowment for the Arts (LEA) programme and a prime mover in Europes SL based Machinima community.

Lisbeth Frølunde (RL), PHd, Postdoc: Runs a study on machinima entitled A study of Machinima as a creative practice at RUC University, Denmark

Claus Uriza, Founder of Pop Art Lab, Co-Founder of Pop Vox:  Will call when Espresso ready, serve plates and stay away from the blitz.

As for the live music and DJs the following artists confirmed:

Redzone, Fine Caliber, MommaLuv Skytower, Starflower Orbit

History, horizons and countdown pt. 2

The Pop Art Lab Machinima contest is rolling! Thanks to all who already showed interest and done recordings. We hope to announce the 3rd person/judge coming week. Also please post whatever you like in comments at the [Machinima Contest] header or email, IM your questions.

To those who are new to PAL and to try recover our common memory each week here will feature a new blogpost with news and reports from this ongoing process about the relaunch, contest etc.

Back in September 2008 Pop Art Lab had its official opening. It seems like ages ago but we had like 500 visitors during the weekend.  Linden Lab put us upfront in showcase section one hour before opening (back then music section had like 15 venues included today number is 81!). And ofcourse we also had a cool programme of live music and the now almost legendary “Murder on the Dancefloor” game provided by the über cool Mad Pea crew. Few days later I called in regular PAL goers and asked for help. Most are still frequently supporting PAL at events and I want to thank each tons. For those who want to dig further into our history visit old posts in archives here.

OK shifting gears now as we are currently filling up the programme for our “second” launch April 16. We have decided to schedule one part for the European timezone as well as one for the US.

We would like best artists and creativity to be included so feel free to drop us a line. By now 3-5 artists confirmed and will be aired during next week.

Programme so far:

April 16 European Opening
12:00 PM PST/SLT: Opening Ceremony w. guest speakers + visuals
1:00 PM: Highlights, screening of contest machinimas
1:30 PM: Announcement of the winner of machinima contest plus DJ
2:00 PM: Live music DJs and party
5:00 PM: End

April 16 US Opening
7:00 PM/SLT: Opening Ceremony w. guest speakers + visuals
8:00 PM: Highlights, screening of contest machinimas
8:30 PM: Announcement of the winner of machinima contest plus DJ
9:00 PM: Live music, DJs and party
12:00 AM: End

Inspirational verse this time goes to Chris Dreja who made amazing photographer work in the late sixties and to me known for his fabulous work with The Yardbirds. Check his site!

History, horizons and countdown pt. 1

The re-launch of Pop Art Lab sim is set for April 16. Designs will be completely removed.
We hope machinima contest will help us save the history of our beloved immersive 3D space. April 9 the contest submission ends and PAL might be closed down till opening.

Previous weeks PAL supporters have told me they’ll be crying the day it’s gone. We are sorry! But as soon they see what to come we’re pretty sure the tears turn into lovely smiles.

When we opened back in 2008 I had no idea how PAL would evolve. First many months my counter read 75 visits a day and PAL wasn’t really set for this sudden growth. Due to lack of time we experienced a backclash during 2009 well summer and all that (most stats obsessed people forget RL weather have a huge impact on virtual living!). Anyway the lab kept rolling at daily snooze and huge traffic at events though. And now to the point. Pop Art Lab was never intended to be a traffic fueled club. Infact one of the main reasons I started the lab was I wanted a place to find peace inbetween the hectic, dramatic social Second Life. Maybe others felt same way or well they did and kept support us.
Lastly PAL as it looks now was originally scaled for a 6 parcel design. When we got our own sim we simply did the copy move till we felt ready for a full sim rollout.
OK. Time is up.
The new Pop Art Lab won’t tell ur eyes or make u feel u enter a club! Pop Art Lab is about music and a hybrid of many impressions and I think most designs inworld underestimate the importance of immersive impact. Well we partly did hence my club ramblings.

3-4 weeks to go and meanwhile I would love to hear ur comments on Pop Art Lab during its first few years of existence.

Found this wonderful video done by Jason Chen.

The End of Existence: A Tribute to the Flying Saucer Houses from Jason Chen on Vimeo.

The modern-looking UFO houses were actually built over 30 years ago. Originally developed as a vacation resort, but the building company was forced to stop the construction because of financial problems. This site was abandoned since.
Recently, the local authority announced that the demolition of these buildings has been planned. This desicion makes people coming to see this place for the last time.

Pop Art Lab Machinima Contest 2010 : Contest rules

Pop Art Lab will launch brand new sim design mid April and therefore decided to set up a machinima contest at our “old” sim design as it looks now. By doing this we capture the memories more than 25.000 visitors have seen and quite a few praised since our opening back in 2008.  Pop Art Lab is a music sim streaming each weeks best new albums in pop, rock, electronica and r&b/hiphop.  At the grand opening of our new sim the old one will be completely removed and we will host a huge weekend party where we announce the winner of the machinima contest, screen the best films and have lots of live artists, DJs etc.

CONTEST RULES
The maximum film length is 5 minutes. The theme of your film is entirely open. The only requirements are 90-100% of scenes take place in the Pop Art Lab sim

Each participant who wants to rezz must join the Pop Art Lab group and leave a notecard to Claus Uriza with names. Please remove objects after filming. Scripts will be enabled.
The sim will be open 4 weeks prior to submission deadline so everyone have the time to come record. We kindly ask all of you to act appropriately and show respect and understanding so everyone will be able to record in peace and ensure a fair play.

Send us your machinima by April 9th 2010 and enter the contest for the award of 100.000 Linden dollars.

SUBMIT VIA YOUTUBE
To submit one or more films you need to upload them to YouTube and then send the appropriate link to clausuriza@gmail.com along with your film title, name and contact info. Please add “(Pop Art Lab Contest Entry)” to your film title on YouTube. We will collect entries as favorites on our contest channel and embed finalist films on our blog ‐ http://popartlab.com (Films with highly inappropriate content will be excluded).

PRIZE
$100.000 Lindens. Pop Art Lab Machinima will award cash prize according to the jurys best choice. There is only one winner.

IMPORTANT DATES

• Submission deadline – 12 AM PDT/SLT April 9 , 2010
• Recording period – March 9, 2010 through April 9, 2010
• Winner will be announced ‐ April 16, 2010 at our new Pop Art Lab sim launch.

TERMS OF USE

• You retain all of your ownership rights to your film submission. However, by submitting you also grant us (Pop Art Lab) a license to use, reproduce and distribute your film for promotional and documentary use only.

SUGGESTED FORMAT GUIDELINES

• Resolution: Minimum of 320×240, maximum of 800×600.
• Widescreen: 720p (fine too).
• Frame rate: Minimum 20 frames per second.
• Audio: Minimum 22khz 16‐bit audio.
• Size: 100 Mb

JURY

• Chantal Harvey, Lisbeth Frølunde, Jeska Linden, Claus Uriza

ORGANIZERS

• Pop Art Lab was founded start of 2008 in the virtual world of Second Life. It provides a dynamic immersive environment within which avatars can gather together to share their interest in music, movies & machinima, and attend live concerts and events occurring both entirely within the virtual environment and in mixed realities that merge reality with the metaverse.

Information about Pop Art Lab

PARTNERSHIP

• The contest is co-sponsored by the Virtual Worlds Research Project. This large collaborative project, running from 2008‐2011, joins university researchers at two Danish universities (Roskilde University and Copenhagen Business School) and a range of different partners. The project is funded by the Danish Strategic Research Council, KINO and explores sense‐making and user‐driven innovation in virtual worlds.

Information about the research project: Virtual Worlds Research Project

LANDMARKS:

• Pop Art Lab has lots of exciting “hidden” locations. Here is a list of some charming spots.
• Pop Art Lab Landing Point
  • Red grammophone
  • Microphone
  • Green Radio
  • InterG Spaceship
  • Spaceage Funpark
  • SSY Spaceship
  • Sky Stage
  • Sky Home

Any questions please IM Claus Uriza or Emily Hifeng inworld or send us an email at clausuriza@gmail.com
Print or read above info as Google doc

Pop Art Lab Machinima Contest 2010

We are glad to announce our first evar machinima contest at Pop Art Lab. The idea came up while we planned the grand opening of our brand new design of sim we have been working on for long. How do we say goodbye to the lab as we know it by now? The lab more than 25.000 people have visited and many praised since we launched back then. Well, we invite people in to record some fab machinima so we keep the design as documentary for the future.

We will post exact details, rules etc. asap but by now the following can be aired.
Winning prize is $100.000 Lindens
Maximum length of film is 5 min.
90-100% must be recorded in the Pop Art Lab sim.
There’s total freedom in film script.
Participants will be invited to our group and recieve rights to rezz.
A jury of 3-4 people will find the winner which means no voting.
Winner will be announced at our grand opening of “new” Pop Art Lab in April.
The best films will be screened at opening.

Stay tuned for more details!
Love, Claus