1. Corcosman Voom
2. Fae Varriale
3. Shamus Jefferson
Many thanks to ALL who entered! The jury consisting of four PAL team members had a tough time finding the best. We had almost 10 pictures in the final heat.
Above gallery shows those of which all jury members liked! Please consider all as winners!
Also thanks to all who joined event. Roughly 150-200 stepped by during the 5 hours making it one more historic and successfull PAL event!
A lot can and have been said about virtual worlds but I have to say one of the most fascinating observations is to have the opportunity to meet, dance, chat and share a lot of good music with a global bunch of like-minded. Love it!!
We’ll take a short break here on blog. Meanwhile stay up to date via our Facebook, Twitter or inworld group.
Next event is scheduled in December and themed IDM glitchy tech down in club!
We are currently puzzling with our next music project and if everything works out we’ll launch a project of yet unseen proportions related to music marketing in Virtual Worlds!
November 12. – 12:00-05:00pm SLT/PDT – 21:00-02:00 CET
Time is up! We’ll be announcing the top three winning photos in our contest!
After much thinking, a few arguments, and lots of beers consumed, the judges made from the RL/SL Pop Art Lab team have finally reached a decision. Who will the winner be? Join us to find out.
As always, Pop Art Lab can’t produce an event without having a huge party-and we have the best DJs and live music lined up for you.
A huge thank you to all the participants, to all our friends and business colleagues in both lives and to the whole PAL in world group for your continued support.
Programme!
12:00 pm DJ BRB aka Claus Uriza (DK) Tech DubHop Indie
01:30 pm Winning Annoucements w. Hosts Persia Bravin/Claus Uriza (Pop Art Lab)
02:00 pm Live Music: Engrama (Arg/Esp) Indie
03:00 pm DJ Unknown aka Evil Laa (US) Dubstep
04:00 pm DJ Denard Henry aka Sonic Architect (US) Minimal Tech
05:00 pm Departure – Afterparty
Contacts:
Claus Uriza: CEO RL & SL Pop Art Lab
clausuriza(at)gmail(dot)com
Persia Bravin: Marketing Manager RL & SL Pop Art Lab
Persia(dot)bravin(at)yahoo(dot)com
About Pop Art Lab
Pop Art Lab is a real world music research company that is exploring the use of virtual words such as Second Life as alternative music performance venues. Each week, we stream up to twenty new CD releases from world famous recording artists full length and 24/7 from our class 5 sim, so SL residents can listen to fresh music releases from all genres of music.
We also invite real life musicians, DJs and record labels into SL to encourage creative collaboration; we produce a TV music series in partnership with Treet.TV, and work with machinima makers, virtual artists and many other content creators for mutual benefit.
With a full range of services available, and a team of professional staff, Pop Art Lab is blurring the boundaries between the real and virtual. One recent music video contest gathered over one million hits and as we move into the future, our plans are to expand our activities and services in both worlds.
Above all, our mission is to make music social: by using virtual worlds such as Second Life, people can enjoy music with others from across the globe-and all in real time.
Pop Art Lab presents its first ever photography contest in Second Life™
17th- 31st October 2011
Music and photography have always been natural artistic partners. Think of all the seminal musical moments in history captured through a lens: the concert performances, candid shots of rock stars behaving badly and behind the scenes images that show rock n roll history in all its gritty glory.
Now in its third year in Second Life, Pop Art Lab is inviting photographers from across SL to unleash their artistic vision as part of our anniversary celebrations. If you love taking photographs and like music- we want you to enter!
It’s up to you to decide what is in your shot, but the Pop Art Lab sim must be shown in some way. Apart from this, the creativity is all yours!
The top three winning images will all receive a cash prize, plus they will be seen by real life global record labels, recording artists and media companies who we work with in both worlds.
Prizes
The prizes are as follows:
1st Prize Winner: L$15,000
2nd Prize Winner: L$10,000
3rd Prize Winner: L$5,000
How to enter
1) First join our group in Second Life by searching for: West Coast Pop Art Experimental Lab (this is where all notices and information on this contest will be posted).
2) Visit our sim to find inspiration and a good location to take your shot:
3) Take any type of image you like. There is no restriction on themes and you can include avatars, props etc. The only thing we ask is that some part of the Pop Art Lab sim is featured in your work and is clearly visible
4) Upload your shot to the Pop Art Lab flickr group, with your name and any other information in the description box.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/popartlab/
Contest Requirements
1) All entrants must join our SL group and flickr group to complete their entries
2) Shots MUST feature the Pop Art Lab sim in some way
3) There is no restriction on themes: you have complete freedom to choose composition-anything goes!
4) If you need rezz rights at our sim, contact Claus Uriza
5) Post processing such as Photoshop is allowed
6) By submitting your entry, you give permission for Pop Art Lab to use your images in SL, on its website and for real life promotional purposes
Contact:
Claus Uriza: CEO RL & SL Pop Art Lab
clausuriza(at)gmail(dot)com
Persia Bravin: Marketing Manager RL & SL Pop Art Lab
Persia.bravin(at)yahoo(dot)com
About Pop Art Lab
Pop Art Lab is a real world music research company that is exploring the use of virtual words such as Second Life as alternative music performance venues. Each week, we stream up to twenty new CD releases from world famous recording artists full length and 24/7 from our class 5 sim, so SL residents can listen to fresh music releases from all genres of music.
We also invite real life musicians, DJs and record labels into SL to encourage creative collaboration; we produce a TV music series in partnership with Treet.TV, and work with machinima makers, virtual artists and many other content creators for mutual benefit.
With a full range of services available, and a team of professional staff, Pop Art Lab is blurring the boundaries between the real and virtual. One recent music video contest gathered over one million hits and as we move into the future, our plans are to expand our activities and services in both worlds.
Above all, our mission is to make music social: by using virtual worlds such as Second Life, people can enjoy music with others from across the globe-and all in real time.
Been a while since we posted on the PAL blog, but the team have all been busy in real life! But we are back and have some great new things happening at PAL we have to share.
From this week, we have expanded our streams at PAL which means that now, each dome (listening booth) will have a weekly selection rotating 2-4 new albums (not just one!) making it now possible to hear 8-16 instantly compared with our previous static 4. Truth is we have been meaning to do this for some time now but as autumn sets in and everyone stays indoor real life more – this season seemed the perfect time to launch this new service.
We hope you enjoy it. By doing this, we are also able to promote even more music from real life musicians and we hope that after listening to the new streams with us that you are inspired to go out and buy new releases – please don’t forget to support the hard working musicians! This new model of streaming at PAL will be more flexible – just expect the unexpected: so bring your friends, partners, lovers, mothers, pets and neighbours to PAL, and enjoy music shared in real time. [visit recent streams in our music section currently under construction]
To quote Mark Zuckerberg at the recent FB8 Developer Conference on Facebook Music announcements: “Here is how it works: Spotify users who connect to Facebook can now automatically share the songs they’re listening to through Facebook’s new news ticker. Their friends can then click on any of those song links, which will launch the Spotify client in the background and play the very same song in a synchronized fashion. “You discover a huge amount of new music this way,” said Zuckerberg.
In other words: Facebook/Spotify launch a service allowing multiple [connected] users to listen to the same tune real time. This set bells ringing with us at PAL because we have been running “shared real time streaming” for 3 years (without all the “let the data do the work” cool shared social media features FB offers). We really should rezz some data mining inside the lab … someday.
PAL also got a great mention in the October issue of the ‘Best of Second Life’ Magazine where the society reporter, Sonicity Fitzroy, was kind enough to attend our third anniversary event – thanks to BOSL!
Also, in the next week or so look out for other new PAL activities coming up such as more live gigs, our new photography contest, details of Artbreaker 2 plus how PAL and the world of SL fashion will be working together…
We are pleased to present our latest Pop Vox this time featuring pre- and post edited recordings from our latest Emma Acs machinima musicvideo contest/event.
Our previous Pop Vox shows have all been done entirely live recorded by Treet.TV but we are moving towards more independent and flexible productions.
Thanks a lot to our productioncrew Al Peretz and Yesikita Coppola.
It’s been a while since we gave a full update on all PAL activities, but even though we have been quiet, the whole PAL team has been working behind the scenes gearing up for the much busier autumn/winter season in Second Life.
So in-between taking long beach holidays (Claus) surviving the London riots (Persia) and debating the future of the metaverse (Ryan)-what’s been happening? Read more →
Wish we could air more details on our upcoming Emma Acs Machinima event but by now there’s too many unsolved ends!
First of all we are trying to mingle out a date. It ain’t easy as June is full of cool events. We have Chantal Harveys MMIF Int. Machinima Festival, MetaMeets Confrence in Amsterdam, SL8B (the official Second Life 8 years birthday) just to mention a few.
Here is selected feedback from jury as well as prolific machinina makers and experts. We hope you enjoyed the contest and looks forward to launch next!
Jury members was asked to send their Top 3 and you can see their votes below each video of those they selected. To read more about the jury please see previous post.
I hope I have included most important quotes but might add more as these appears on numereous sites and I haven’t got the time right now to run all through.
Thank you so much to all who participated! We hope this feedback will be useful!
If you missed the full broadcast of event it is now available at Treet TVs archive.
Director: Ian Pahute
Adam Hashemi, jury: No. 2 “For its simplicity. Even though it’s a bit boring, it’s the only one with a shred of esthetic quality (according to my taste)”
Claus Uriza: “I love it, nice graphics and maybe the most “accesseble” video for people who are not familiar with machinima. One of my winners!”
Director: Ormand Lionheart
Rhett Linden, jury: No. 1
Adam Hashemi, jury: No. 1 “Has some good dancing moves”
Toxic Menges, jury: No. 2 “Has created a masterful mix of colour and motion that really works well, it’s definite mastery of machinima is evident and the vibrancy works good with the song”
Giana Factory, artist: No. 1 Loui Foo, singer “… Amazingly abstract! It pictures an absurdity and a parallel universe, we could not even imagine existed. We find the colors and the playfulness and creativity in the universe very attractive. It’s unpredictable and avant garde and still pure eye candy, and has an almost burlesque feel to it. Besides that, we think it goes well with the tune and keeps the story untold, and it’s up to the viewer to create their own.”
Claus Uriza: “I don’t think visuals inside Second Life can be made much better right now. Extremely well edited. One of my winners”
Director: Al Peretz
Hamlet Au, New World Notes: No. 2 “Heavy on the cyberpunk action”
Claus Uriza: “Probably the biggest production and very compelling graphics. Very clever editing as well. Maybe too many ideas thrown in the mix”
IcechickenSr, YouTube: “I have no idea what you guys are are all competing in or what the contest is all about. But after looking at a bunch of these done by others I really keep finding myself attracted to this one. I think it has more of a theme or story line happening in the video which naturaly attracts the human eye to it. It’s really a very cool contest and project I like it, the song is very cool too. Good work! Cheers, IC”
Director: Lara Larix
Rhett Linden, jury: No. 3
Claus Uriza: “Love the dark interpretation of the story which at some point fits the lyrics very well”
Director: Kira Madrigal
Claus Uriza: “The script of story is absolutely fantastic and to me maybe the best interpretation of the lyrics of all entries”
Michelle Leckrone, director: “Like the images good look”
Dandilyon Fluff, blogger: “My personal favorite remains the submission by Kira Madrigal, due in a large part to the focus on telling a story visually” … The story plays out well, elicits genuine emotional involvement and fits with the lyrics”
Director: MommaLuv Skytower
Adam Hashemi, jury: No. 3 “Has some great characters, love the weirdness”
Toxic Menges, jury: No. 3 “MommaLuv has made some fantastic images for this – Iove the concept and look”
Claus Uriza: “Knowing this is MommaLuvs debut machinima I have to say: Please make more films this is so talented and full of cool screwed impressions”
Arbit Delacroix, director: “Fantastic! It has such a cool crazy feel and it doesn’t even look like it was shot in SL, which is no small feat in itself! I loved the whole vibe and the RL video hybrid stuff was excellent too”
Mozy Pera, director: “Amazing creativity! I love how you mixed the RL and SL videos together!”
Director: Arbit Delacroix
Toxic Menges, jury: No. 1 “Arbit has used Windlight, depth of field, and beautiful effects and given the piece a narrative edge. It’s visually stunning. I Wish I had made it”
Rhett Linden, jury: No. 2
Adam Hashemi, jury: No. 4 “I guess it’s because I judge from a story aspect, more than a technical one. It bothers me that they try to tell a story but it doesn’t really work for me. It’s nice looking though, and it does get the music through well”
Giana Factory, band: No. 2
Iono Allen, director: No. 1
Hamlet Au, New World Notes: No. 1
Ormand Lionheart, director: “Well I see this as the winner. Awesome job overall. Beautiful scenes, awesome camera work, no lag, amazing attention to detail. Amazing looking avatar”
Claus Uriza: “Absolutely stunning video and seen from my perspective a true classic musicvideo. If I should point out one tricky part it’s the storyline. I had to watch few times before I really got it. One of my winners”
Director: Abdullah Yazimoto
Claus Uriza: “Unfortunately this fantastic video have been withdrawn by director”
I am very sad to hear the news about our beloved Sabrinaa Nightfire passed away yesterday March 6. Sab was included in the cast of our upcoming Art Breaker II installation and I’ve just been inworld to take a snap of her temporary and last rezz up at her slot. (see below)
I first came to know Sab (the nick I always used) back in September 2009. Back then she came help decorate Pop Art Lab for our 1 year anniversary event. Due to a 1 month hiatus of PAL designers members of Caerleon Art Collective was called in to create the magic. Our futuristic lab was transformed into a psychedelic flower power sci-fi world overnight! I think Sab was the first to arrive Friday afternoon and when I logged in Saturday morning (CET) more than 50 flowers and fantastic creations had been rezzed! It was all Sabs.
Later on we edited designs but lots of Sabs designs were left and last years Pop Art Lab Machinima Expo shows her beautiful decorations. About 90% of the flowers in these films were made by her. For full credits please see end of films. I haven’t by now been able to find the film representing her work at its best (there were 14) but below is one.
In December 2009 we set up a huge cast for a now legendary Pop Vox show featuring MommaLuv Skytower (her SL debut actually!). If I remember correctly this was the first time we had Sab in on stage decoratons and she added over the top decos and visuals to Emily Hifengs stage. Have a look!
Lastly Sab was featured in last years Art Breaker and Iono Allen made this amazing promo vid featuring “The Blues” her inter-/reactive soundinstallation plus stagedecorations.
There were two reasons why Sab ended up as our inhouse stage deco specialist. One was her fantastic talent. Secondly but as important she knew the unwritten rules of good behavior among designers. Treat everyone with respect. She was right up our alley.
Few of us knew she were fighting cancer. I IMd her 2-3 days ago but she never replied as she always did even if she was offline. Maybe she knew it was close.
Art Breaker II will be launched in April. It’ll be dedicated to Sab. Her last rezz in Pop Art Lab will remain as a symbol for one of SLs greatest stars.
R.I.P. Sab
If you want to read further Bryn Oh did a nice post earlier today.
