Sweet POP ART – Aaron Ishelwood – Second Life Machinima

Prior to the judging process, we wanted to share every one of the Machinima Contest submissions. There are some truly talented artists participating in this year’s contest from all avenues of Second Life. Please take a moment to view their videos, and share your feedback with them in the comments section.

Aaron Ishelwood: Sweet POP ART

Passions of POP ART – Tutsy Navarathna – Second Life Machinima

Tutsy Navarathna: Two guys, a girl, a demon.. have a look through the eye of passion, music and dance, which leads us through Pop Art Lab.

Prior to the judging process, we wanted to share every one of the Machinima Contest submissions. There are some truly talented artists participating in this year’s contest from all avenues of Second Life. Please take a moment to view their videos, and share your feedback with them in the comments section.

Pop Art Lab 2010 – Toxic Menges – Second Life Machinima

Prior to the judging process, we wanted to share every one of the Machinima Contest submissions. There are some truly talented artists participating in this year’s contest from all avenues of Second Life. Please take a moment to view their videos, and share your feedback with them in the comments section.

Toxic Menges:

Come film an event!

Want To Be A Film Star?

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 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!

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
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