If you've got chills, watch this and they'll be multiplying -- shot in dynamic shadow and swooping camerawork, it's a gorgeously creepy music video created by Canadian government-funded Second Life-based artist Bryn Oh, shot in her latest installation: "The Hand", which is "the story of Flutter, a girl who has something precious in a suitcase and lives in a world of Sleepers."
Click here for the official in-world listing, and read about it on Bryn Oh's blog. Second Life being Second Life, it's an enormous pain to enjoy the optimal experience as the artist intended:
So as with all my work over the past several years you will need to adjust some settings to see it as it was designed. First things first though. In the picture to the right I have turned on transparencies so you can see invisible things. You do that by holding down ctrl and alt at once then clicking T while still holding down the ctrl and alt. Anything invisible in a scene can now be detected as a red semi transparent object. The red in this picture shows two layers of walls. In each wall is a Hud (a display that appears on your screen like a window) and you will be asked to join an experience. If you have already joined the Bryn Oh experience from previous builds you wont be asked to do so again. This just applies to new people to my work. When you walk through the wall the Hud will be added to you automatically if you have accepted the experience. The experience essentially removes the step of people having to go to a kiosk and buying a hud when they then attach to their avatar. This experience bypasses that and directly attaches a HUD to you.
... And on and on it goes, making sure the art viewer suffers as much for the art as the artist herself. Failing that, just watch the video!
Hat tip: LaPiscean
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