Pursue the Impossible - Lacy Muircastle reporting ....

Nothing is impossible you say.  Exactly and you have seven days left to prove it.  Do you have ambitions of creating the ultimate piece of machinima?  What are you waiting for? Entries for The 6th UWA Grand Art Challenge & 8th UWA International Short Film Challenge (MachinimUWA VIII)  close at Midnight SLT, 31st October 2015.  The theme is "PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE." Artists & filmmakers can interpret the...

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The Sonic Lab and Machinima World at Virlantis - Lacy Muircastle reporting ....

Sonicity Fitzroy continues to be a trailblazer in Second Life.  Her latest project is a collaboration between Southern Illinois University & the University of Western Australia.  On Saturday 20th July Soni celebrated her RL birthday by launching this new project and its associated sims. The Southern Illinois University-University of Western Australia virtual worlds project at Virlantis, Second Life is an educational themed experiment...

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Digital Rabbit Hole-“Window On A Train” ~ Our Entry For The UWA Vl Machinima Challenge 2013 ~

We needed a train!  Not just any old train, but a 1970′s Diesel Train, detailed and very real looking inside and out. Nat and I scoured every train-store, Marketplace train offering in SL, and could not find what we wanted. One of the reasons I think our production took as long as it did (close to 5 months) was finding that illusive train. So being hopeful, even while we were being  disappointed, “I heard so and so made a train for so and so” and finding all leads running into dead ends, we decided to build a track and maybe..”The...

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UWA NEWS: SL Presented to RCE Network, Facilitated Through the United Nations University

PRESS RELEASE: Friday September 23, 2011 On the 24th of September 2011, the story behind the development of the UWA presence in Second Life was told at the inaugural meeting of the Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) Western Australia: 'Sense of Place' Network. RCEs across the world, facilitated through the United Nations University (UNU), make up the Global Learning Space for Sustainable Development and aspire to achieve the goals of the UN (DESD,...

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UWA NEWS- Twinkle Arrives at North Woodvale Primary School -Univeristy of Western Australia News

School Principal, Greg Brice receives 'Twinkle's Journey' and '100 Treasures from UWA' from Jay Jay Jegathesan, Manager, School of Physics, UWA (and lead of UWA Virtual World projects) on behalf of Bay Sweetwater of California, USA-  UWA NewsRead about what happened with the school http://uwainsl.blogspot.com/2011/06/twinkle-arrives-at-north-woodvale.html The full story http://uwainsl.blogspot.com/2011/05/most-important-thing-i-have-done-in.html  Machinima http://ccmixter.org/files/Loveshadow/26807  ...

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MachinUWA III: Journeys

The 3rd UWA Machinima Challenge is rapidly drawing to a close, in fact the closing date 1st May 2011.The University of Western Australia (UWA) themed their latest machinima challenge simply 'Journeys'. With an amazing prize pool of $L530,000 broken down as follows:1st Prize $L100,0002nd Prize $L70,0003rd Prize $L50,000+ L$310,000 in other prizesEntrants were told that defining what a ‘journey’ was, was entirely up to them; A journey through Second...

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