5 int’l stops, one so called trailer and no report.
After I injured my knee 3 days ago, I now have time to lean back (right now I do this in the hospital awaiting my upcoming operation) and write something about the shooting background. But first of all I have to state that everyone featured in the trailer was extremely kind and positive concerning my attack on their private life. Everyone confronted me with the say “Come over, it will be fun!” So I did. The first stop in the two weeks of shoot time was Berlin. There I encountered Jaynine Scarborough aka Juliane Gabriel. She is a pretty good musician inworld as well as in rl. She teaches young Berlins in singing, and this she does in her cosy home pretty expressive. It is fun watching her falling completely in immersion when she enforces her pupils to give their best and thus pushing their limits. From Jazz, over Pop, Folklore to Classic, her courses are not genre specific. She is able to teach and perform everything. So in my opinion she is excellent because she puts all her heart into it.
In SL she runs a beautiful big garden named Thousand Rooms. That is why we attended for an interview the garden of the beautiful Max Liebermann House at Berlin’s Wannsee. The Food of the Spanish restaurant she showed my wife and me was absolutely fantastic (@Juliane:please leave a comment with the name and location of this fabulous place!).
It was pretty exciting for me to see how Jaynine got one rl performance booking through her activism in SL. For me this was a nice example how SL and rl is woven together. (Ok, now I just exited the operation room. My head is still dizzy from the spinal injection. So please excuse me if the text seems a bit confusing).
On the day of my departure back to Vienna I spontaneously met Jan and Tobias from ‘You in 3D’. If you are looking for a perfect representation of you, your business, or whatever in SL (or even better in virtual Berlin), here you find some pretty amazing guys who make anything possible you even can’t imagine. But they do more than just business in SL, they are enriching the cultural life of Berlin as well as in SL in organizing loads of events and programs, also intermixing all levels of perception possibilities. I was pretty amazed by her office. Mainly it is divided into two rooms: The first room looks pretty neat with oversized printouts of virtual Berlin plastering the walls. Here Tobias team are representing almost a white collar image. If you step through the narrow gangway to Jan’s working place you are entering a world you thought it exists just in movies. But see for yourself.
Thank you Jan and Tobi for giving me spontaneous insights into your work and even more thank you for the great coffee and the shipping of my wife’s lost mobile phone!
All in all I shot 10 hours of footage in Berlin. After arriving back in Vienna angel Tom (my producer) gave me another 20 Tapes for the upcoming 9 days-trip to the States. 24 hours later I left to NYC. Nate Taylor and his MMOvie was the Focus of my trip to Manhattan.
But this I’ll feature on my next L2L blog entry. My knee needs a little rest .-)
Login 2 Life @ Giga TV
Great News once again:
On Monday, 10th of November, Login 2 Life will be presented on Giga – The Show, live at 20:00h and 22:00h CET. Tune in and watch!
During the first live show at 20:00h CET our Trailer will be presented and the Anchors Eddy and Nils will introduce you to the project. In the second slot at 22:00h CET, director Daniel Moshel will answer questions live on the phone – sorry guys, but there was no way we could make it in time to be there in person; next time we will, promise! – and tell us more of what this documentary is all about.
We would like to thank the Giga Team for their great support and for giving us the chance to present our film. You can watch GigaTV via Astra Digital Satellite or Kabel Digital in Germany, as well as via IPTV on all relevant German platforms (i.e. T-Home, Alice/Hansenet, Arcor, Zattoo, etc.) and on a carrier-independent livestream on Giga.de!
Don’t miss it!
Great People, Great Team!
Hello everybody, and welcome to this Blog from me personally and on behalf of the team – which brings me to my point right away.
One thing I was dying to post here is the fact that we’ve got a great crew working with us on the project. Not only is everybody highly motivated and working their a…. (oops) off to get and keep things moving, but almost all of them are award winners in their respective professions. Daniel, our director is, of course, winner of several awards as a filmmaker. Michael, maker of this very page, is… The producers are… hey, we’re a bunch of wiz-kids!
And so it is a very special honor for us to announce that Draxtor Depres (draxtor on this blog), our researcher, musician and editor in Second Life is designated as winner of the “Every Human has Rights”-Media Award by a Paris, France, based news agency. He will travel from Pacific Grove, California, to Paris December 6th to receive this award at a ceremony with former President Jimmy Carter and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Congratulations. We are so proud to have you onboard!
He is getting this award for his news reporting in Second Life and especially his “Virtual Guantanamo” story, which you can watch on YouTube. You can find more information about the Every Human has Rights-Award here.
And as much as I know about the Draxtor, it will not be the last award he wins! Keep on rockin’!
SLim text/voice chat is out & i am using it!
SL residents do like to complain a lot and there is legitimately a lot to complain about: the recent price hike for open space sims being just the latest badly communicated move by Linden Lab. But I wanted to write a quick praise for the new SLim client, a text/voice chat app, SL minus the immersion so to speak. Now why would we want that? Are we not going in-world to immerse ourselves in a all encompassing 3D environment? Yes of course, but what happens, if friends and/or business partners are waiting for you at a conference or a panel discussion and you are stuck in traffic, on the train or at the office? Currently SLim is only a desktop app, but i see a mobile phone app coming soon and with it i can engage with my SL companions even if i my machine can’t sustain the full client running (with all the other apps in the background sometimes the MacBook Pro sounds like a lawnmower). yes, i for one, want to be able to quickly chat, give my two cents or exchange links with my SL friends WHILE i am working on a mix in Pro Tools, an edit in Final Cut, both apps that take huge resources, not a good idea to run SL as well. The future will hold the ability (as stated by LL) to call into SL from a cell phone, call someone from within SL to a regular phone etc. How is this relevant for our project? i think the merging of virtual and real by bridging the communication gap is a very good thing. The protagonists of our film see the virtual world, broadly speaking, as an extension of their own selves, not as two separate things. While they all have different goals with their projects in SL or WoW (or any other world for that matter), they will benefit from a blurring of the lines. A successful virtual platform needs to reflect a world, where humans, while still fully in control of technology, interact with it more seamlessly. Any move to ease transition from one world to the other is a welcomed improvement.
So complainers: please download the first look client NOW, download SLim NOW & start embracing the interconnectivity that is just starting and is VITAL for the future of Second Life in the virtual worlds race 
as of today a measly 2 friends are on my list who have SLim. sad…..
my online friends in SLim, the ones with the box have SLim too
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
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…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!
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