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..my ideal virtual movie screen that is. Still wistfully dreaming of building my own cinema to screen our films in Second Life, I happened to visit Silverscreen Island. A couple of weeks ago this sim was host to the “300″ press event and movie expo. “300″ author Frank Miller, co-writer/director Zack Snyder, and cast members Gerard Butler, Lena Headey and Rodrigo Santoro had custom avatars created especially for the event by Adam & Eve. Absolutely worth a visit if just to pick up free copies of the beautifully designed costumes and accessories by Adam & Eve (see the slideshow, with my avatar doing a Lena Headey impression). Unmissable though is the 3D spartan village movie set, complete with mist, sound effects and a deep pit with animated rodents.

Now, that’s what I call a virtual movie screen! Well, I can dream. Any kind person/s wanting to sponser a Britannica Dreams machinima theatre on that scale, please feel free to contact me ;).

If you have a chance pop along and visit Silverscreen for yourself, take a look at some of the “300″ related Second Life artwork and auditoriums, as well as the amazing movie set.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Silverscreen/127/98/33/

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It’s probably the only cocktail party I’ve been to that I didn’t get a hangover from, but it was a great success and nice opportunity to meet other machinimators. Thanks to Mach (Rohan Fermi) for the pics and to HatHead, who did a tremendous job as party host.

For the rest of the pictures from the party visit the mprem gallery.

Dxvid propping up the bar behind me, guzzling the cherry martinis.

On the dance floor - Sol Bartz (aka Overman), myself and Hiro Quasimodo (aka Paul Marino) doing a swing dance I think, I can’t remember and HatHead.

Ceedj Beaumont (from Pawfect Films) and myself doing a pretty good Torvil and Dean impression, minus the ice skates though!.

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Just a quick note to announce or remind you that today is the cocktail reception for the Online Machinima Film Festival kindly being hosted in Second Life by Hathead:

Join us at a cocktail reception for the Online Machinima Film Festival supporting the One World Action fund charity. Meet machinimators and animators from SL and other 3D engines too. Clips from the festival submissions will be shown, many for the first time in SL.

Live jazz entertainment featuring the incomparable Luigi Volare aka Louis Volare on piano and vocals.

Direct Slurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/HatHead/85/147/607

The OMFF is organized by Machinima Premiere, a leading online machinima resource and web community. For more information please visit: http://www.mprem.com/omf/news.php

Hope to see you there - 1pm PST, 4pm EST, 8pm GMT

Please IM HatHead Rickenbacker for any assistance.

Everyone is welcome, so if you have a Second Life account pop along if you can or if you haven’t got a Second Life account, you can get a basic one for free (note: over 18’s only). My name is Stormy Harker in Second Life, I’d also be happy to help anyone if they need any assistance or are new to Second Life, just send me a PM. Hope to see you there!

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Just a quick post to plug the most gorgeous piece of machinima I’ve seen since Anna. It’s produced by Tom Jantol (Awaken at mprem) and it’s the first part of an experimental series, as Tom has decided to make creating machinima his full-time occupation and will be releasing one episode a month.

The Cuckoo Clock

You can watch, comment and rate The Cuckoo Clock here LINK

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