Credits of Pop Art Lab

The original 4 parcel PAL designed by RL/SL architect Xray Haller as it looked March 2008. Later on we entitled it “The Walk Through Sounds” concept as we even back then had 4 streams/albums running in each dome.

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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!

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!

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

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-28

• RT @Mamachinima by SatScape Films, shots during #MMIF2010 festival: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5Kd-bgeXy0 (w00t we on stage 0:55) #
• *Nods* Yes! my life just one big RPG Mind-blowing-speech-from-DICE-2010 http://tinyurl.com/ybu85ex (almost via @saevarsson heh) #
• RT @Dusanwriter Oh Dusan Im a librarian haha The rise of the….librarian! http://ow.ly/19Q0H "The whole Web will look like SL one day soon" #
• @spyvproductions Its Emily Hifeng 3rd from rght (in black) and me 4th (in background) Lapiscean Liberty nxt to Toxic http://ow.ly/19RRC MMIF #
• Uploaded pics from #MMIF sim designs as they looked 11 days! before event http://www.flickr.com/groups/popartlab #
• Did my very last blogpost at Blogger we've moved! http://tinyurl.com/yb2oxmp #
• Ty @MirrorWorlds for addin stunning #MMIF pics http://www.flickr.com/groups/popartlab/pool/ #
• Giving D racetrack lessons in 777 League sim in SL… great fun #
• #slviewer2 w00t the html on a prim is like a dream come true just logged into twitter and browsed the just launched http://popartlab.com uhm #
• Added post w. my take on #SLViewer2 + other cool LL actions and pic of @MLindenSL attending MMIF last saturday http://tinyurl.com/yfgzcfx #
• I love Holly Mirandas new album w. TV on The Radio as backing http://www.myspace.com/hollymiranda #
• Pop Art Lab launched new dot com site pls update ur links and subscribe @ http://www.popartlab.com/ RT please! #
• Updated our listing in Solution Provider listing + lots on http://www.popartlab.com too http://tinyurl.com/ybo6elx #
• Testing tweeting from WordPress heh #
• RT @malburns Pop Art Lab: The new site http://bit.ly/9paOo7 (We at the lab love this new design bye bye Blogger) #
• Posted a comment @ Supporting The Arts in Second Life http://www.tinyurl.dk/15070 #
• Am quoted in an article in Danish library mag "Still life in Second Life…" http://www.tinyurl.dk/15071 (quite ok coverage by the journo) #
• Awaits D, J and X to come and we'll take a walk around the lake and feed the ducks and swans… then out for lunch yum yum #
• W00t added to the programme at Dublin RL Metameets conf…. can't wait! http://www.metameets.com/ #
• At carwash finally weather feels like spring on its way #

MMIF: 7 Hours of Machinima + DJs added

Countdown tonights the night! 10 hours of entertainment. Remember to come EARLY before the screening since only two of the four sims are open for the public (9 am – 6 pm SLT/PST). Other sims dedicated to productioncrew, hosts and each machinima artist will come present their film using SL voice! The last sim is dedicated to each machinima artist during full event plus hosts, VIPs etc etc.

When the 7 hours screening of more than 40 artists films are over all fours sims will be opened and afterparty will kick-off in center theatre. Also make sure to check out a giant video dome and artists showrooms.

Details on afterparty: Miss Cyberpink kick off with a set of electro and will show her superb mixing skills. Lastly at 7 pm SLT/PST Gomi Mifume (a regular in the Insilico community) will start. This will definately not be Top 40 but a fine selection of the NOW sounds of tech, noise, industrial and dubstep. To be updated….

Program EU/US

Saturday 20th of February

19:00 CET (= SL 10 am PST) – DOORS OPEN
20:00 CET (= SL 11 am PST) – Opening ceremony + Machinima film screenings
03:00 CET (= SL 6 pm PST) – THE END + After party online

MMIF2010 hosts:

11 am – noon: Blue Linden and Toxic Menges
Noon – 1 pm : Pooky Amsterdam
1 pm – 2 pm: Draxtor Despres and Chantal Harvey
2 pm – 3 pm: Poid Mahovlich and Paisley Beebe
3 pm – 4 pm: Evie Fairchild and CodeWarrior Carling
4 pm – 5 pm: Lauren Weyland
5 pm – 6 pm: Phaylen Fairchild
6 pm -> Afterparty hosted by Pop Art Lab
6 pm – 7 pm: DJ Miss Cyberpink
7 pm – 8 pm: DJ Gome Mfume

All Machinimas will be streamed live by Malburns Writers at Metaverse2 channel, Aview.tv and ofcourse here!

MMIF3 Public Seating Region
MMIF 4 Public Seating Region

For updates follow http://live.MMIF.org, aview.tv and here!

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