Its been a long time coming but finally the new Second Life client 1.20 has a new advanced feature hidden in its client/debug menus (advanced/character/enable lip sync) - the ability for the mouth to move roughly in time with the live voice passing through the avatar. Combine this with the already included gestures and you [...]
Over half of all the LAMP projects are in or have been produced to audiences now. üBERgroover.tv was a project that came into our 4th residential on Milson’s Island in 2006 and we have just heard from ex-AFTRS student Tina Lymberis, it’s driving force, of the official launch and plans to take on the world. [...]
Literature and New Media: trope – promoting new writing in Second Life
www.trope.net.au
When/where: Thursday, 22 May 2008, 12pm – 2pm, Bangarra Theatre, Pier 4/5, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay
trope is a new space in Second Life promoting creative writing in virtual environments. The roundtable features trope’s creators alongside writers selected for the first iteration, discussing the [...]
The following clip you are about to see has a Ripley’s Believe it or Not feeling to it. Apparently its straight unedited footage taken from the CCTV of Raffles Place Tower building in Singapore.
It was posted on the internet a few weeks ago and like a piece of viral media, has completely overwhelmed the asian [...]
Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, has a fascinating post on his blog about the sheer amount of brain power invested in television and, in specific, the amount of time we spend watching advertisements. According to Shirky, Americans spend the same amount of brain power watching television advertisements [...]
Very interesting research from Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson who have just researched for ($1.5Mill US) and written a book called “Grand Theft Childhood” which makes the claim that rather than video simulations (games for the oldie readers) being about social rejects the actual opposite is true. Those children who are not exposed to playing [...]
I just captured and uploaded to YouTube a TV show (yes they are still going!) this morning featuring Australia’s leading social network strategist and social network hostess with the mostess, Laurel Papworth - also occasional LAMP mentor and speaker!.
Also featuring Aussie K (who has 102 000 MySpace Friends) they both talk with David and Kim [...]
Just for fun, for all you LAMP’ers who are movie makers and game designers, here is a fascinating article on how you should arm yourself to survive a zombie apocalypse if ever needed for your project…
Step one, Know Your Zombies.
The idea of the zombie derives from Voodoo lore. Voodoo (or voudou or vodun) is [...]
Some of the UK’s best young novelists are working with computer games designers to create digital short stories, each inspired by a classic work of literature though featuring games, blogs and web tools. Six digital fiction stories are being released over six weeks.
Not really cool more enlightening, but Tim Smith a student (ex?) at AFTRS sent me this YouTube link that gets Aussies talking about Australian films and how relevant they are to them. It speaks for itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiCvLFgsbN8
