Here is our recent Pop Vox show feat. Deathline (UK)!
This show was so much fun to make thank you Deathline!
The planned live concert was cancelled due to firewall issues in London! We are currently looking for new date and can’t wait to hear Deathlines raw set! Read more →
Pop Art Lab and Treet.TV Presents:
POP VOX Feat. Deathline (UK)
Date: April 24, 2PM PDT/SLT
Location: Pop Art Lab sim
Hosts: Persia Bravin/Claus Uriza
We are pleased to present 2011s first Pop Vox show feat. Deathline (UK). Be prepared for the most raunchy black noisy Pop Vox ever! Read more →
It’s been awhile! We passed a very successful Machinima Expo 2011. I don’t think I ever managed to review event and unfortunately very few pics seems to exist. However we still have full Treet.TV cast in our archives and Dandi was kind to put this up in our Flickr stream.
Linden Labs Skylight test have been running few weeks now and we’ll recommend everyone to try it out via this link (a lightweight Second Life accessed via webbased cloud rendereing). By now only highspeed connections gets an enter email option bottom of site while running the streaming video.
I tested this several times and must say it’s awesome, fast and an easy way of showing newbies a teaser of what SL have to offer. My good friend Chantal Harvey made a nice post after testing it in our lab and Cyberloom have a good write-up as well. And mentioning Cyberloom please make sure to check out her blog which also featured Bryn Ohs Art Breaker installation lately.
As Skylight test is currently in Beta we’ll have to wait and see how and if Linden Lab wants to develop and expand this service in the future. Judgeing on first few weeks of visitors accessing PAL this way we certainly have to make changes in the way these newbies “meets” our sim. We have seen quite a few stumbling in our cubes which tells us many aren’t familiar navigating using the fly/jump option. Also a noteworthy amount seems to leave as they don’t see an ongoing live event or meet a lot of socializing people. As our lab is pretty much based on auto greeting giving out notecards and chatlines telling what to do we are currently not set to give this type of visitors an optimal arrival. If and as soon as Linden Lab gives us more info on the future plans of Skylight we’ll take steps to improve all this. This can be done by putting up visual signs telling how to access our content. By now testers can’t recieve info through inventory given objects, can’t access our fully lined up 9-12 destinations via teleport centrals (eg. able to see our Art Breaker installations) and can’t see where or when events are happening.
Still though I’ve met very satisfied testers as well and with just a little tweaking we believe PAL can be an awesome landing point for newbies. Let me put in a quote that left me quite optimistic made by Elitär und Spaß dabei (draxtor.despres): “if i show folks the [SL] web version i will either go to Insilico or PAL”.
Ok on to coming actions. We have planned weekly 6 hours events featuring DJs to be hosted down in our club. First of these starts coming Friday November 26 running 12pm-6pm. There’ll be a strong focus on electro, drum’n'bass, dubstep but also touches of indie and underground hiphop.
Have a look below to see location and how last event looked like just before closing.
On coming Pop Vox TV we are currently close getting set up for a December show. More on this as soon artists have confirmed.
As previous mentioned here 2011 will see an increased focus on promotion of Danish artists and music. Few real life meetings with major music orgs have already taken place and two more are confirmed start of December.
When this puzzle is solved expect some serious rockets to hit the grid first Q 2011!
*Update*
Forgot to post full lenghts videos of my speak recently given in Lahti, Finland on “Music and Culture in Second Life”
Also there’s a great panel from there feat. Kenny Hubble, Karl K. Kapp, Bill May, Ian Hughes/Epredator, me and more. Go check it out here!
Both files are Windows so you might have to convert for MAC!
Meanwhile go explore Pop Art Labs 4 streams of constantly changing cool new albums, attend our events or simply have a chill during busy real life of next weeks Thanksgiving and the coming Xmas craze.
Soleil featured in Pop Vox Monday November 1 live from US and Japan.
Producer/Co-Host (SL): Claus Uriza, Pop Art Lab
Co-Producer/Host (SL): Persia Bravin
Artist (SL): Soleil (ColeMarie Soleil, Tasuku Ghost)
TV Studio design (SL): Xray Haller, Emily Hifeng
Moderators (SL): Pop Art Lab
Technical Director: Wiz Norberg, Treet.TV
Cameras: Texas Timtam
Producer (SL): Claus Uriza, Pop Art Lab
Artist (SL): Soleil (ColeMarie Soleil, Tasuku Ghost)
Stage design: Soleil Crew
Sim design: Emily Hifeng
Technical Director: Wiz Norberg, Treet.TV
Cameras: Texas Timtam
We have two cool events coming up coming weeks. The first one is our Pop Vox TV show November 1st featuring the newly formed Soleil. Originally this showdate should’ve featured Canadian Peace Partner project and artist Kevin Thompson. Due to sudden real life implications among our Canadian crew this show will be rescheduled. We are very pleased to announce Soleil will fill out the slot with short time notice. Soleil is one of the most interesting bands right now and an obvious choice for Pop Vox. More on this show coming week.
Nextly we have a 6 hour dubz electro house event Friday November 5th. This event have been on our “in the making” section for long and we are glad we finally ready to announce and showcase some of the most skilled dubstep artists/DJs on the grid. We are tweaking this programme and will update here as well soon.
As other companies (no names need to be mentioned) we have been through tough restructuring to make the PAL team more forcefull and focused. These changes are an ongoing process and we hope you all will see more events and magic entertainment provided by PAL during the coming virtual worlds peak season (the coming months usually brings way more people into virtuality due to the cold winter).
Our Art Breaker exhibition have been very succssfull and will be removed Sunday November the 7th. We are sad to see these amazing installatons disappear but we will guarantee you soon will see other eyeballs of highest quality! We are planning a new area that’ll showcase temporary art exhibitions which will add an extra immersive quality to our visitors.
Good news. Our PAL group have reached the magic 600 members and see a slow but constant growth. Thanks to all who have joined and who have stayed as loyal members for long!
On the radar we can air increased forcus on the Danish contemporary music scene. We are currently in touch with major music organizations and we hope these initiatives will help make them aware of the opportunities Pop Art Lab have to offer and help labels and artists to reach a global audience by using our PR services.
Lastly we passed a fantastic tour in Finland where I presented PAL. I met so many nice people there and hope these new networks will give birth to further new collaborations inside virtuality.
Oh I forgot to mention I was interviewed by Nazz Lane author of Lane’s List and you can read the full post here
The following interview was given right after my presentation October 7th at OEM2010 Confrence, Lahti, Finland.
Finally time for an update!
We passed a very successful launch of our Art Breaker exhibition. More than 1000 visitors stepped by during the weekend and that number is by far doubled now. Parts of the 12 hour opening event can be viewed at Treet.TV. Art Breaker was originally intended to run for 2 months endning start of November. However I managed to make a bummer in official poster that stated October 4th. Anyway it’ll be extended till November 5th!
Also Art Breaker is up in Editors’ Picks at secondlife.com site and we are proud of it! Go support it there
I want to sincerely thanks everyone who have participated and helped making Art Breaker such a fantastic and powerfull exhibition. As late of few days ago I witnessed major companies who brought in classes and gave tours there.
I am pretty sure you haven’t read the last word yet about Art Breaker as we will revamp it with events during October.
And now to the coming up section.
I’ll head to a confrence in Finland next week to make a presentaion about Music in Virtual Worlds and host a panel on Arts as well. This has been scheduled for long and the Finnish connection actually started few years ago when Kiana Writer (Founder of MadPea) hooked me up with Finnish edu sims. Since then I’ve went there twice virtually to give speak to students about Pop Art Lab and Entrepreneurship in virtual worlds. Now it’s time to visit for real.
October 7th I’ll make a 40 min presentation and after lunch I’ll host a 2+ hour Art panel direct from SL and projectored to screen at real confrence. The art panel will include three 30 min presentations by artists Misprint Thursday, Chantal Harvey and Gwenette Writer. We’ll send out inworld invites and hope we can get a thriving art debate during panel virtual and real.
Full schedule and info for “PAL in Finland” will be posted here coming days.
Our next announcement is a very exciting Pop Vox TV music show coming up November 1st. The show will be featuring head of Canadian project “Peace-Partners” as well as live concert by musicians related to the project.
“The adventure started in early 2009. Based on the twin ideals of Peace and Freedom, musician Patrick Lajeunesse founded a group on the music collaboration website of Indaba Music. As a result of those collaborations, around 60 artists from a dozen countries participated. Together, they created more than 40 songs.”
The peace project is non-profit and affilated with Amnesty International and Warchild, Canada.
We are looking much forward to do our very best to bring awareness to this great initiative.
Lastly we’ll continue to showcase Art Breaker and we gladly arrange guided tours up there. Just ping me and we can work out time/date. To visit Art Breaker teleport here!
Our partners Treet.TV host a giant expo this weekend. Pop Art Lab started back in 2008 making the now popular Pop Vox music TV in partnership with Treet.TV. We have set up a showcase booth in the Treet sim and you can get there by using link/SLURL below. For full event programme please go to Treets site
Here’s quote from press release.
“For two days Second Life’s favourite and most watched media network is throwing open its doors in a bonanza of style, content and fun. All your favourite Treet shows have booths and events happening during the two day event which will blow your socks off (even if you’re barefoot).
The Expo will be held on Tropical Treet (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tropical%20Treet/134/214/22) with a mixture of scheduled events and high profile shenanigans going on through out the weekend. There’s hunts, prizes, freebies, music, live shows and a chance for you to be on TV.”
Step by and say hi during weekend!
