New Video: A Brief Meditation on Digital Shamanism
Extending ideas from the last couple of posts, this video plays around with the idea of using virtual reality to support internal visualization and imagination. In good Transworlders fashion, it was created using elements from Second Life, Frameforge and digital photography of the atomic world.
Botgirl vs Human Trailer: Motion Comic Style
It’s not easy being the figment of someone’s imagination. It makes them think they can take advantage of you just because you’re not “real”. Well, I’ve had enough. This motion comic trailer will introduce you to what’s really been going on behind the scenes.
Click-through for HD viewing, and please, crank up the volume.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pgsGAc-oXk]
Avatars Everywhere
After playing around for a few weeks with extending myself into the Physical World, it seems the time is right for a little campaign to socialize the idea that avatars aren’t just for virtual spaces. Every campaign needs a slogan, I thought “Avatars Everywhere” expressed the concept nicely.
Here’s a draft of a video to promote [...]
“Naturalized” Photo and Video Depict Integration of Virtual and Physical Worlds
The photo above is the latest in a series of images and videos shot with an iPhone. These naturalized images take me into a physical world setting without any green screen tricks to fake my placement in a physical world environment. Outside of clean-up to fix color balance and some minor air-brushing, what was there [...]
Another Recovered Fragment From 1920’s Stag Film Archive
For more information, see Friday’s post.
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7381343&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1
Mysterious Appearance in 1920’s Stag Film Defies Logic and Reason
In the course of my research into my unremembered past, I stumbled upon this video transfer of a 1920’s stag film. The badly damaged celluloid from which it was dubbed, was discovered in an auction of the contents of a recently recovered collection from Louis B. Mayer, co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Fortunately, whatever sordid acts I may [...]
New Video: Botgirl Sneaks into RL – 3D HD Test (Cyan/Red Glasses)
Still playing around with ideas for mixed medium video. Here’s a the first test of Frameforge Previz Studio’s Stereo 3D Version To see the 3D effect, view with cyan/red glasses.
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6984561&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1
Botgirl Sneaks Into The Physical World (Video)
Video sketch of an idea I’ve been romancing.
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6505408&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1
Waking Dream
This video continues the visual meditation on self and non-self from yesterday’s comic panel. It’s an adaptation of the Botgirl vs. Human: Waking Dream web comic.
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6437326&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1
Teaser for Botgirl vs Human: The Real Life Movie
This project will blend the physical and digital worlds in an HD video short. The script and storyboards are almost done and location selected. Shooting should get underway this weekend with release planned by the end of Fall.
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6314413&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1
A Sneek Peak at a Music Video on The Migration of Identity
Back in May of last year, I created the image below to accompany a post on “Identity Surfing Within and Between Worlds“. I’m in the process of transforming the original concept into a 3D visualization that will be used in a music video for the fourworlds song, “Revolver.” The video below is just a [...]
HD Video Trailer for Upcoming “Urban Fantasy” genre Web Comic.
I’ve revived a long-dormant graphic novel project as an upcoming web comic. It’s tentatively titled “Play or Prey.” The series is an urban fantasy set in an alternative universe where various supernatural races have secretly shared the earth with humans throughout history.
The protagonist, Chance Hunter, is a twenty one year old woman who learned about [...]
Video Adaptation of Primates in Virtual Worlds
http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=70848
The Last Vid & Testament of Botgirl Questi
It’s time to take a break from actively blogging and creating content as Botgirl Questi…at least for the foreseeable future. This video provides a glimpse into how I’ve been feeling trying to keep all of my atomic and virtual balls in the air. I will continue to post once in a while and also pop [...]
We interrupt this sharing thread for Ted Talks video of “Understanding Comics” author Scott McCloud
http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf
Studio Artist Software Opens New Dimensions for Second Life Photography and Machinima Making
Studio Artist is an amazing software program that can generate a vast range of paint, vector and image processing effects on stills, video files and even live video streams. The image below shows detail of an original and auto-rotoscoped frame from the video I posted yesterday.
The Macintosh-only software can create effects unlike any other program [...]
My first shot at rotoscoping video created in Second Life
For best viewing, download the 1280 X 720 Quicktime file here by right-clicking and saving to your hard drive.
More Games Our Brains Play
Here’s another video from Ted Talks related to the mental construction of reality. This one is a lecture by Philosopher Philosopher Dan Dennett. It starts off a bit slow, but eventually presents some compelling evidence that “not only don’t we understand our own consciousness, but that half the time our brains are actively fooling us.”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjbWr3ODbAo]
Why Seeing Shouldn’t Be Believing
Yesterday’s images crudely demonstrated how just a little resolution enhancement can ruin one’s enjoyment of erotica. Magnification can break down our typical experience of a virtual world by revealing the underlying absence of detail and complexity. Magnification can cut through our normal perception of the physical world by revealing almost infinite levels of detail and [...]
And the HD Hosting Winner is Blip.tv
The last post linked to versions of an HD test video uploaded to YouTube and Vimeo. Video hosting services don’t stream your original video, but re-encode to fit their particular display formats. So quality can vary quite bit depending upon the specifications of the original video you upload and the particular way a service [...]
My First HD Video: Persona
I put a very short video together to test YouTube’s new HD capability. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to export a format that works well. The video either doesn’t register as HD or the encoding is very choppy.
YouTube HD is working now and can be viewed here. The settings that finally worked were:
.mp4
H.264
5000 kps [...]
