Archive for October, 2008
Blogging from the road
Now that our fearless blog admin has enabled mobile blogging I can knock out posts while travelling via iPhone. Fantastic. Limitless. Relentlessness. Below: mommy and Kaleo connect via SL (close supervision, PG sim of course)
But I don’t want to keep praising our admin, but rather wanted to address in this post the regrettable fact, that SL is a 18 and over platform. As you can see from the above picture, my wife and I let our 5- year old log on in a strictly supervised and times setting. He gets tremendously excited about SL and so do we. The educational and communicative possibilities for young children are simply endless. If it is a alternative Columbus Day Parade put on by a native American group, the center for water studies with it’s realistic underwater Eco system, the Tech museum in San Jose, which replicated it’s exhibits in SL or if it is simply driving around with his grandfather (who lives 15000 miles away) in a virtual VW bus along Venice Beach. Just like for adults the immersive nature is invigorating and engaging. For children, who grasp the space without any inhibitions, it is literally a dive into endless knowledge. I feel Linden Lab, above all else ( adding new features or pleasing enterprise and marketing folk) has to figure out a way to restrict access to adult material so youngsters are not excluded from swimming in the pool of wisdom. In “Login2Life” we will surely include the great efforts happening on the Teen Grid by the likes of Global Kids for instance. But in the longrun SL has to open up: not only code-wise, but age-wise!
so glad to be on board!
Finally my first post. Some may know me as Draxtor Despres in world. I am a researcher on this movie.
draxtor despres, in front of a painting by kaleo koenkamp
Others have said, what a great job Daniel did with this trailer (pieced together I believe from over 30 hours of footage) and I wanted to add some more praise: as virtual environments, synthetic worlds, whatever we shall henceforth call them, are maturing and coming into the public focus, we will have to create media to document where it began and where it was at the time the media was published.
By media I mean specifically a feature film documentary, the kind Daniel has in mind.
And now I might be in danger of sounding like a politician, possibly any (prominent?) Obama supporter: I believe Daniel Moshel and the team of producers are uniquely qualified to examine this vast topic in the form of a feature film documentary.
Yes, we had the BBC “Wonderland” TV doc, and we have “Second Skin”, but where are longform docs that look at how transformative these platforms are on a personal level without getting stuck in either the relationship angle or the profiling of obsessive gamer types?
By working with the cast we have on board now, I believe we found a cross-section of unique voices, who are able to provide a peek into a world, which still is sooooo abstract for the onlooker peering in from the mainstream.
In 10 or 20, or maybe 30 years, we and our children will look back at this time to try to find out how this disruptive technology changed interaction, communication, collaboration.
As Gentle said ” I don’t want to be alone”, and the verdict is still out if Second Life and other worlds can bring us closer together, help us overcome the human condition of feeling “apart” from something.
Question is, if technology can ever be tasked to alleviate the pain of separation, which arguably starts at birth.
But just as my grandparents watched in awe the emergence of the car and its victory over other systems of personal transit and my grandfather rejecting the telephone as a dehumanizing piece of plastic, we in the future, as we are witnessing this utter shift to unchartered territory, will be able to draw on films like “Login2Life” to serve as a timecapsule, as a document showing us how it was at the beginning and how strangely hostile some people were towards this new technology and how others reinvented themselves, tapping into creative territory, which lies, hidden sometimes, inside all of us! Thanks Daniel for bringing me on board 
(and thanks for giving me yet another bog to RAMBLE without censorship
300
…not the movie but visitors per day!
We’re very happy to create that much interest!
Meanwhile our team is spread out around the world and builds ‘Login 2 Life’. Every few minutes there’s an email, a skype- or telephone call… it’s inspiring to work on it. As this creative process is based on continuous mutual exchange, mostly performed over the web, we get a chance to experience our own unique virtual story. A story which is now almost one and a half years of age.
This blog shall enable all those interested in the documentary to follow the process of ‘the making of…’, but also to share your input with us. At this Email you can tell us your ideas, hints and questions. Of course you can also leave a comment 
See ya…
First ‘Login 2 Life’ Clip online!
Just got back from Lilles. Completely – and in the most positive sense of the word – exhausted.
Here is the result of 5 weeks of hard work – enjoy…
If you don’t already have it installed, download flashplayer here
You can also watch this Trailer on YouTube
Be a part of it!
VERY IMPORTANT: This post is not the recent one. Update is coming soon.
What, or rather who are we looking for? A female or male person, who is physically handicapped or otherwise challenged and feels as much at home in a MMORPG as he/she does in Second Life – please be aware, the dual residence is a must!
You should have no problem being in front of a camera and have some time available during 2009, when principal photography is scheduled. A short CV and some thoughts on your personal future should be part of the application.
Summary:
. Male/Female
. physically handicapped OR challenged
. solid experience within any MMORPG and SL
. time and interest to be part of the project and in front of a camera
. apply including short CV and thoughts on personal future
Curious? Or even interested? Please mail to: contact@login2life.net
For further information on the project, you can check out this site or go to the production company’s website. Feel free to leave comments and opinions…
VERY IMPORTANT: This post is not the recent one. Update is coming soon.
Four Stop Shop
10 days, 4 cities, 2 intercontinental flights – filming the trailer has brought us to Berlin, New York, Denver, the Sunshine State of Florida and back to Vienna. We’ve talked to Jaynine, Full Stealth, Gentle and Stroker – thanks to all of you for your great hospitality – and we could get a sneak preview of what they are about.
Editing and finishing the trailer is in progress. Hours of real and virtual footage have to be cut down to those essential 2 minutes that are worth so much more than words – thanx to Stefan by the way for the great support and help. The trailer will be screened for the first time at the Docu Regio ‘08 pitch in France. And that’s coming up within a week – tight schedule, but that’s the way we like it.
…and of course we’ll also put the trailer up here a.s.a.p.
We’ll keep you updated!
Vive la France
Lille, we’re coming…
We are currently preparing for our trip to France, where we will be presenting the trailer and pitching the project in front of a selection of European Broadcasters’ commissioning editors. Exciting as this is, we are feverishly working on editing and finishing the trailer and preparing for the pitch.
Stay tuned for more…
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