Here's why the avatar called BobE Schism likes making machinima in Second Life -- or for that matter, why he likes SL in general: "You can wake up in the morning and say 'I'm gonna build a 2000 meter moving chrome statue of a three-legged, fire-particle breathing Jesus balancing on the top of the Eiffel Tower who sings a bossa nova version of 'Purple Haze' when you sit on his head', and with a bit of perseverance, you can possibly have it constructed by midnight." Which notwithstanding the length and the strangeness, would make for an accurate advertising tagline.
"Alternatively," Mr. Schism continues, "you could perhaps make a film about loss, isolation, hopelessness and being f***ed no matter which way you turn. Or something." He did the latter with a great machinima inspired by a passage from Paul Auster's The Locked Room, which you can watch right here. Then he sent me this mixed reality photo, matching his SL avatar, who usually wears a gas mask, with the human owner. You really need to click it and get a closer look, because he's recreated his real life office and desktop environment near perfectly in SL.
Besides his machinima in Second Life, BobE Schism describes himself as a self-taught musician/producer, and while it's possible you've heard his music before, he prefers not to specify. "I'm not a 'name'," he says grinning, "and that suits me just fine."
More machinima is coming, and he has a few ideas germinating: "John Steinbeck said: Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. Hopefully I'll be OK as long as the farmer doesn't come and shoot all the rabbits. Don't you hate it when that happens?"
BobE's mixed reality photo from his very cool Flickr stream of SL work.
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