The Summer Sessions

Saturday June 26th from 11AM-4PM SLT

The temperature is rising and the long summer nights are finally here. To celebrate summer and before we all take a well earned break for vacations, POP ART LAB, SL’s premier music sim, welcomes you to a spectacular live music event on Saturday June 26th.

As part of this event, PAL CEO, Claus Uriza, will be giving a talk on the subject of ‘Unexpected Collaborations’ as a guest speaker for the SLB7 celebrations.

We are proud collaborators at PAL and the past year has seen us work with RL media companies, record labels, educational establishments, machinima makers, artists, online television companies and of course-musicians and live performers too.

It’s been a nonstop year and one which has seen PAL grow in new directions to become the world’s leading virtual music platform.

Wishing you all a very happy summer from the RL/SL POP ART LAB team!

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Schedule of events

11 AM: Claus Uriza to give talk at SLB7 auditorium on ‘Unexpected Collaborations’ and the impact of partnership working in virtual music.

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12 PM: Lance Rembrandt-Live music from one of the USA’s most talked about performers

1PM: Engrama-The finest indie pop from Argentina

2 PM-Starflower Orbit-California based Starflower sings laid back, dreamy, summer soaked tunes

3 PM-DJ BRB spinning a mix of the latest pop/dubstep/techno tracks

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/Persia Bravin

The Pop Explosion!

Friday 16^th April 12.00PM-12.00AM SLT

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Pop%20Art%20Lab/151/162/28

Are you ready for the biggest live music and machinima event of 2010? Pop Art Lab invites you to experience a 12 hour trip through the very best music, art, film and television in SL.

To celebrate the launch of our brand new and super futuristic music sim, we have asked guest speakers including Jeska Linden and Wiz Nordberg, musicians such as Lance Rembrandt and Skye Galaxy and a plethora of artists, DJs and machinima makers to collaborate. We will be announcing the winner of our spectacular L$100,000 machinima winner too!

Visit our new sim and travel through a new world of wonderment, exploration and innovation or catch the live streaming on Treet.TV.

Full schedule:

April 16th- European Opening

Host: Persia Bravin

12:00 PM PST/SLT: Opening Ceremony presenting the new sim designs and creators: Claus Uriza CEO and guest speakers Dusan Writer CEO of Remedy/Metanomics and Wiz Nordberg CEO of Treet TV.

Particle show from Abstract Baroque

12:30 PM: Live screening of machinima entries in L$100,000 contest.

1:30 PM: Winning machinima announced by Chantal Harvey plus guest DJ Fine Caliber

2:00 PM: Redzone –Live Music

3:00 PM: MommaLuv Skytower-Live Music

4:00 PM: Lance Rembrandt –Live Music

5:00 PM: Sim exploration and chilled out music.

April 16th US Opening (webcasted live by Treet.TV)

Host: Persia Bravin

7:00 PM/SLT: Opening Ceremony presenting the new sim designs and creators: Claus Uriza CEO and guest speakers Draxtor Despres and Wiz Nordberg CEO of Treet TV.

7:30 PM: Live screening of machinima entries in L$100,000 contest

8:15 PM: Winning machinima announced by Jeska Linden

8:30 PM: Skye Galaxy-Live Music

9:30: PM: Starflower Orbit-Live Music

10:30 PM: MoShang Zhao-Live Music

11:30 PM: DJ Fine Caliber

Representing POP ART LAB

Claus Uriza CEO

Emily Hifeng, Xray Haller, Laggy Homewood and Rico Willis-Sim design and build

Persia Bravin-Press Manager

Guest Speakers

Jeska Linden –Director of Community Linden Labs

Draxtor Drespres-The Drax Files

Dusan Writer -Remedy/Metanomics

Wiz Nordberg -CEO, Treet.tv)

Chantal Harvey- Director of Mamachinima.eu

Television Production and streaming: Treet.TV http://treet.tv/live

Machinima Judges

Jeska Linden, Chantal Harvey, Lisbeth Frølunde (Roskilde University  RL), Claus Uriza

Machinima Contest Partner: Virtual Worlds Research Project – A strategic research project at Roskilde University and Copenhagen Business School  (Denmark).

Machinima Entrants

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.

Musical Talent

Redzone, Starflower Orbit, MommaLuv Skytower, Skye Galaxy, MoShang Zhao, Lance Rembrandt and DJ Fine Caliber

Contributing Artists

Art Exhibition: Julie Kaye (RL)

Art Installation: Misprint Thursday

Marketing Design-Sabrinaa Nightfire

Visuals: Abstract Baroque

Press Information

Claus Uriza CEO of ‘POP AT LAB’ says of this event:

“We have made lots of progress at PAL over the past year so to celebrate our new sim launch I wanted to involve a lot of live musicians. Then came the idea of documenting the old sim design through a machinima contest, inspired by the recent MMIF. I met so many talented people through the MMIF I wanted their input at PAL too. The addition of some very experienced and cool speakers will add value and diversity to this event and help to connect with the audience. In the future, I hope PAL will grow alongside Second Life and we plan on expanding our presence on the web in general including our new website.”

Persia Bravin-Press Manager says:

*POP ART LAB is a fully immersive environment exploring the viability of virtual worlds as alternative music performance venues. We work with media companies, record labels and educational institutions around the globe. Weekly streaming 10-20 new CDs full length across our social and dynamic sim, POP ART LAB brings together music lovers from across the world.*

http://www.popartlab.com

Live music event Nov. 21

To celebrate the news that we have become member of the Second Life Solution Provider programme and also the world’s first ever virtual jukebox, we are hosting an amazing party on Saturday 21st Nov from 1-5pm SLT. Music will be provided by two of the most talented artists found in-world at the moment; the highly successful and popular Edward Kyomoon followed by MommaLuv Skytower who will perform her first ever official Second Life concert, and live DJ sets to follow.

Expect a free atmosphere, non-formal, crowded and as always celebrating the beauty of creativity inside Pop Art lab.
Edward perform rock with all the right moves, crash sims and MommaLuv brings her awesome voice and mix of selfcomposed rock, electro and hiphop beats!

Watch out here on blog as we expand the programme till showstart!

Saturday November 21.

1 PM SLT/PST
DJ Brb kicks off

2 PM SLT/PST
Edward Kyomoon:
Starting at the age of 16 he began performing live for audiences then went on to play guitar and keyboards in several local rock bands in the early 90′s. He perform rock music and love songs ranging from the 60′s to the present, covering bands and artists such as: The Doors, Pink Floyd, Blue October, Snow Patrol, and Nine Inch Nails. As a recording engineer he produce many of the backing tracks he use for live performances.
For more info and prelistens

3 PM SLT/PST
MommaLuv Skytower:
MommaLuv Skytower is an avatar on SecondLife the alter ego of BJ Di Matteo aka Infaredhaze. Much of her work is on various websites, as she has been on the internet since the summer of August 2004 and has not stopped since. She has worked with artists from Acidplanet & CCmixter & many others from around the Globe. Her cds are sold on i-tunes & CdBAby & many others. She became an avatar upon the encouragement of many friends & has made a life there, enjoying all the perks of SecondLIfe. She also has an open invitation for anyone there to visit the LuvShack Stage & Luvshack Castle located on her LuvShack Beach.
For more info and prelistens

4 PM SLT/PST
DJ Allenclive Beaumont
For more info and prelistens

Pop Vox Up in Archive + Articles

Last Mondays Pop Vox feat. Obe. Wrigglesworth can now be viewed at Treet.TV archive. Both interview hosted by Persia Bravin and the awesome concert have been added. Check it out and enjoy the music!

We hope soon to be back with more Pop Vox.

Also we recieved tons of positive feedback for our 1 year anniversary event. Following blogposts  appeared: Pop Art Lab celebrates its first birthday by Apollo Manga
Happy Birthday Pop Art Labs! by Cyberloom

More feedback and lots of pictures coming up!

Pop Art Lab Server Upgrade

PAL moved sim today and what a relief! Much better performance with next to nothing lag.
Tx so much to Emily Hifeng for a smoothe operation!

Looks forward for first event already

Pop Art Lab ReLoaded

Short notice telling PAL move to C5 sim next to current location this weekend.
Landing Point in Linden Labs Showcase will be changed Monday April 27th.

This means better performance for all and a reloaded PAL with more activities SOON!

We expect opening party next coming Friday.

RE: Mankind Tracer in Pop Vox TV

What an awesome Pop Vox show last night!
A report and how these shows happen behind the scene.We meet 1 hour before showstart MK, Persia Bravin, Yxes Delacroix (Treet.TV) and me. There we set up mikes and audio to test Skype and SL voice. This may sound as an easy job for an hour and well it can be. But being the director of these shows and not the best to let other people do the job I have to deal with access lists, handing out landmarks, coordinate audio/vids for simulcasted etc! Of course all this is planned and handed out days before shows but somehow people loose their notecards, SLurls, schedule and landmarks (and I sometimes do myself too!). No offence here at all just a note to let ya’ all know Second Life planning ain’t like Real Life planning. And oh to catch up this pre hour set up is high speed work leaving me with tons of IMs I try reply while speaking with 3 people same time on voice. Sorry to those I had to ignore.

*The cover of Mankind Tracers brand new CD*

Anyway!!! Pop Vox started 4:02 and we got it all set inclusive the audience. For the first time we invited the audience to participate in the artist interview by sending me IMs with their questions. It was great fun and after Persia Bravin finished her 20 min. interview I asked MK questions from the audience. After the interview which by the way was streamed live throughout the grid to those who tuned in and at SLCN plus Treet.TVs newly designed site we headed to the Q sim stage area where MK kicked off his 45 min live set at 5 PM. About 100 people saw and heard MK at his absolute TOP playing an awesome gig. I can’t wait to see this in HD widescreen qual. when Treet.TV put up in their archives asap. We could have hoped for more people but it was very late night in Europe and to maximize the TV recording it definately helped the sims didn’t lack performance due to higher traffic. Also of note Videopathic had set up a giant Intelli screen above stage where show could be viewed as seen live on Treet.TV.
To sum up it was prolly the most professional and successful Pop Vox show to date!
Huge respect and thanx to all behind this TV production/show.

CREDITS:
Producer/Co-Host (SL): Claus Uriza Pop Art Lab CEO
Artist: Mankind Tracer aka Seth Regan (RL)
Host (SL): Persia Bravin
Management, Stage+TV design (SL): Emily Hifeng, Pop Art Lab Manager
Architecture (SL): Xray Haller
Mentor/Tech. (SL): Lapiscean Liberty, Videopathic
Pop Art Lab hosts (SL): Mozy Pera, Olivia Saphira
SLCN/Treet.TV (SL): Exe. prod. Starr Sonic, Yxes Delacroix, Texas Timtam

And to all the lovely people who participated in the interview and concert TX you were brilliant!

Update, pics, vids etc comin asap

Baby “Lorenzo” Woodrose at Pop Vox tonight!

Baby Woodrose Pop Vox TV Info

It’s a great pleasure to announce the next Pop Art Lab production! Pop Art Lab presents Baby Woodrose Wednesday March 11th 1 pm – 3 pm slt TV show will include ½ hour interview followed by 45 mins live performance. It will be part of PAL/SLCN.TVs Pop Vox series bringing RL artists into SL.
Baby Woodrose was formed by frontman Lorenzo in late 2001, started out as a side project to the psychedelic stoner group, On Trial, who since the early 90’s released intoxicating drug-induced rock music that turned its users into sheer liquid.One album on Germany’s SPV label and several for the UK based Delerium/Molten Records saw the band tour vigorously in Europe, but one day Lorenzo got tired of sitting behind the drums, so he embarked on a solo project he decided to call Baby Woodrose (named after the Hawaiian flower).Lorenzo, playing all the instruments himself, recorded 15 songs in less than a week and released the album on his own label. Four years later, Baby Woodrose, now a trio, have released numerous 7” singles and 4 full lengths (one of which is a live album and one a full cover/tribute album) on the independent label, Bad Afro Records.
In 2004, Baby Woodrose was nominated for a Danish Music Award (didn’t win it!) but they went on to win Danish National Radio’s most-sought-after Award, The P3 Gold Award. They toured Europe on numerous occasions, among these a much talked about appearance opening Roskilde Festival’s main stage in 2003 in front of a 90.000 audience, a “not so good” drug bust in Norway and various collaborations with some of Scandinavia’s most recognized rock bands.
In 2006, the trio released their most ambitious effort yet, the album “Love Comes Down”. It was released as a joint venture between the band’s own label, Spinello, and Scandinavia’s premier alternative music distributor, Playground Music.
In end of 2007 their next album follwed entitled Chasing Rainbows their most poppy and commercial release AND their most experimental and druggy album so far with the use of instruments like cello, lap-steel, flute and tabla. The Album recieved TOP reviews in entire press locally in Denmark.

Giant Mankind Tracer event Friday!