Created in Final Cut Express with great cinematography, scoring, and foley work, this is Radar Masukami's tribute to Insilico, one of Second Life's most awe-inspiring cyberpunk cities. (Featured in NWN here.) It's a tad too lengthy as a narrative, but works great as a visual moodscape, and tribute to a neon-drenched city infused with loneliness and foreboding. Ironically, this also seems to be Radar's inadvertent requiem to the metaverse, because the SL blogger and podcaster has since taken an indefinite leave from [commenting on the] the virtual and its many mini-controversies. His opinions will be missed, but at least Murakami left this machinima behind to be remembered by.
Update, 3/30: Amended per Radar's comments below.
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Hi, James, thanks for the unexpected mention here. It's a stumbling effort but it was fun to make regardless.
Regarding my leave, it's just for the blog and podcasting. I'm still in SL, just not extremely often. Time considerations are part of it, and other uses of my time are the other part of it.
What I hope to get away from in SL is the consideration of the metaverse in and of itself and instead just focus what time I do have on using it as a toolbox for things like the above, and working on little projects as I have time. The controversies and listening to people feel like the Lindens are betraying them every other week gets old.
Sometimes people get a little too invested in their own vision of what LL "owes" them and the particular world they've invented inside of it that they're fearful of losing. After awhile one grows slightly jaded and weary of it.
Anyway, thanks again.
Posted by: radar | Sunday, March 29, 2009 at 03:59 PM
Really lovely, love Insilico and this machinima is a beautiful portrait of the world Skills Hak created. Radar, I like your comment above, about the people and the particular world they've invented inside of SL that they're fearful of losing. Very well put. Now if you excuse me, Im going to Insilico to find that club.
Posted by: Skate Foss | Sunday, March 29, 2009 at 05:37 PM
Skate, Skills Hak is amazingly talented. She keeps creating new things on the sims over there that just blow me away. Incredible work.
Posted by: radar | Monday, March 30, 2009 at 01:08 AM
Thanks for the elaboration, Radar, will correct accordingly.
Posted by: Hamlet Au | Monday, March 30, 2009 at 01:57 AM