"Plant Her": Indie Triphop Band Potlatch Uses Second Life Machinima for Its Latest Music Video

If you love ambient triphop (and I do), you'll like Potlatch, an indie band based in Korea and Australia. If you love Second Life machinima (and I do too), you'll admire Potlatch for using it in their latest music video, below:

Potlatch - "Plant Her" (Music video) from Arbit Delacroix on Vimeo

Shot in the SL sims of Butterdish, China, Pixel Mode, and Cloudcroft, "Plant Her" is a slow motion sexy dream directed and shot by Arbit Delacroix, who also created the great sci-fi machinima I wrote about recently. It's an official video for Potlatch, made by Delacroix after he got in touch with the band in a roundabout way.

"Initially," he remembers, "I had used a track of theirs called 'Vacuum Conversation' for one of my first videos back in December." After using that Potlatch song, he noticed the band was linking to his video. "[S]o I fired them off an email saying that I was glad they had found it but that I'd happily pull it down if they wanted me to." Instead, he got a commission. "We got to talking a little bit and that led directly to me working on the project, which was a really nice full circle type of thing."

Shooting the video, Arbit looked for visuals in Second Life that matched Potlatch's music. "Ultimately I just tried to capture what I like so much about their music and about SL," Delacroix tells me. "Everyone else did all of the heavy lifting. All I did was marry the two and hit record."

You know, there are hundreds of great indie bands who use YouTube and other online video sites to promote their music, but since they're low budget, their videos are often no-frills and not very visually engaging. Wouldn't it be excellent if more talented SL machinima artists started offering to shoot spectacular videos for them, like Arbit Delacroix did? Better promotion for the musician, better exposure for the machinamator -- and much better music videos for us too.

Comments

[Kitty O'toole]

Thank you so much for sharing this, it's stunning and I absolutely love it:)

I'm going to be bleating about this to everyone I know now-RL and SL!

=^..^=

[Sasy Scarborough]

Incredible work, the music is amazing and the video so captures what is beautiful about it and Second Life.

xoxSasyxox