Machinima Premiere

OnlineWelten.com launches gaming UGC portal (Digital Media Europe)
OnlineWelten.com, aGermany-based onlinecommunity, has launchedmyGamersVideos, a portal forvideos inspired by videogames, virtual worlds andmachinima. ...

Community Briefs (5/9) (Ahwatukee Foothills News)
The Festival of Lights isgearing up for its EighthAnnual Charity Golf Tournamentat the Foothills Golf Courseon Saturday, June 7. Thisfour-person scramble with a 7a.m. shotgun start willbenefit the Festival of Lightsand the Kiwanis Club ofAhwatukee. ...

14:30 (BST), 08/05/2008 myGamersVideos.com Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS – www.onlinewelten.com, one of the ... (gamesindustry.biz)
– www.onlinewelten.com, oneof the largestyoung-entertainmentonline-communities, announcestoday the start of itsvideo-portal myGamersVideos. ...

Ubisoft and GameTrailers.com Announce Contest Inspired by Haze Video (2º) (InfoBolsa)
Game and Nu Metal Rockers Korn29/04/2008 13:02:00 BusinessWire About Ubisoft Ubisoft isa leading producer, publisherand distributor of interactiveentertainment productsworldwide and has grownconsiderably through a strongand diversified line-up ofproducts and partnerships. ...

Ubisoft and GameTrailers.com Announce Contest Inspired by Haze Video Game and Nu Metal Rockers Korn (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN FRANCISCO----TodayUbisoft, one of the world'slargest video game publishers,and GameTrailers, the premierprovider of video for gamersand a division of ViacomInc.'s MTV NetworksEntertainment Group, announcedthe creation of auser-generated video contestinspired by the video gameHAZE™, ...

Jenna Jameson: Virtual Sex Machine (The Village Voice)
Keeping the now-retired pornstar active in an onlinesimulator game (By BonnieRuberg) ...

10:45 (BST), 21/04/2008 Fyreball/GameVee deal Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS Partnership Builds a Stronger Game ... (gamesindustry.biz)
now have the most efficientway to send and share gamingvideos with their friends andfellow gamers. Fyreball, ...

Ivy Film Festival to begin tonight (Brown Daily Herald)
The primary events of theseventh annual Ivy FilmFestival will bring visitorsfrom colleges and universitiesaround the country to campusto watch student films andattend a class taught byAcademy Award-winning directorMartin Scorsese. ...

Current Issue: (Gateway)
PITTSBURGH (U-WIRE) - Deepinside colorful glass pipesand smoky basements lies aculture that most know about,but few expose: It's calledpot culture. ...

Burma aid 'nowhere near enough'
Relief supplies reachingcyclone-hit Burma are vastlyinadequate despite improvingaccess, agencies say. ...

Serbian reformers claim victory
Serbian President BorisTadic's pro-EU alliancedeclares victory in electionsbut falls short of a majority. ...

Hezbollah rocks eastern villages
A Hezbollah assault forcesseveral villages loyal to apro-government leader to handcontrol to Lebanon's army. ...

Sudan 'drives Darfur rebels back'
Sudan says Darfur rebels haveretreated from Omdurman,Khartoum's twin city, after asurprise attack. ...

Zimbabwe police arrest activists
Nearly 60 opposition activistsare arrested in Zimbabwe astheir leader Morgan Tsvangiraiis set to return forelections. ...

Gaza blackouts as fuel runs low
Electricity blackouts hit Gazaas the territory's only powerstation shuts down, withofficials citing lack of fuel. ...

No agreement on Pakistan judges
Pakistan's main coalitionparties fail to strike a dealon restoring judges sacked byPresident Pervez Musharraf. ...

Hacker leaks 6m Chileans' data
A computer hacker in Chileposts confidential databelonging to six millionpeople on the internet. ...

German band topples Madonna
German techno group Scooter knock Madonna off the numberone spot in the UK albumchart. ...

F1: Massa holds off Hamilton
Felipe Massa wins the TurkishGrand Prix as Lewis Hamilton'sMcLaren holds off KimiRaikkonen for second. ...

Boing Boing

SF fanzines prefigured blogs: Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert traces the rootsof Internet culture to sciencefiction fanzines: Then theuniversity intervened, and Ifound myself publishing TheSpectator (not precisely anoriginal title), a weeklytabloid of arts and politicsat the University of Illinois.I had become too busy forfandom, and foun ...

Polyhedral dice for musicians
Musicians who play tabletopRPGs, rejoice -- here's adetailed guide to usingpolyhedral dice to improveyour musical skills. The d12is Schoenberg’s dream die.Music majors, rejoice! Now thedice gods can determine yourtone row for you. The d12 isalso excellent for all youwind players who have ...

Roboexotica, monochrom's cocktail robot fest, in SF
Scott Beale reminds usthat... Roboexotica USA, acelebration of cocktailrobots, takes place from8pm-2am this Saturday, May10th [that'd be today] atSpace, 354 5th Street in SanFrancisco. I won't be theremyself, but I'll look forwardto the tweets, vloggage, andflickr coverage likely to pour ...

Faubourg Tremé: new New Orleans docu
Premiered recently in SF andNYC. Snip from description:Faubourg Tremé is arguablythe oldest black neighborhoodin America, the birthplace ofthe Civil Rights movement inthe South and the home ofjazz. While the Tremédistrict was damaged when thelevees broke, this is notanother Katrina docu ...

Web Zen: WTF? zen
monoface feed the headfloating head (shown above)pipe cleaner dance ptikobjgamegame globe salesman tom'stales of brilliance greenporno previously on web zen:ummm...oookaaay...zen wha? zenLink, Web Zen Home andArchives, Store (ThanksFrank!)...br style="clear:both;"/>img alt=""style="borde ...

Laptop thieves nabbed with help from Mac software
Glenn Fleishman says, Twoalleged thieves were foundwith stolen computer and A/Vgear taken from threeroommates in White Plains,N.Y., because one of thevictims is a Mac expert. Sheused the notoriouslyhard-to-get-working Back to MyMac feature in Leopard whichallows single sign-in to .Macfor ...

Hilarious money doodles
Flickr's Joe D! has alaugh-out-loud set of 75"refaced" US bank-notes, inwhich the various deadpresidents are reinvented as aseries of ever-funnierdefacements. Link (Thanks toeveryone who suggestedthese!)...br style="clear:both;"/>

Three-year-old boy has never slept; parents maintain 24-hour vigil
A St. Petersburg, FL TVstation reports on a familywith a 3-year-old boy who hasa rare medical condition thatprevents him from sleeping.His parents must watch himaround the clock, taking turnsto sleep during the day. Rhetthas never taken a nap or goneto sleep at night, forcing hisparents to ...

Looking for copyright criminal mugshots
Brett from Open Source Cinemasez, "We're asking people totake photos of themselves witha mug shot plate indicatingtheir copyright criminality.Then we're going to animatethe photos and have themappear in our movie, BasementTapes, an open sourcedocumentary." Link (Thanks,Brett)...br style=" ...

"Learn 2 Play"
img width="160"style="padding-right:3px;float:left;"src="http://www.archive.org/services/get-item-image.php?identifier=myndflame_learn2play&mediatype=movies&collection=machinima"/>p>"Learn 2 Play" isMyndflame's music videofeaturing their original songwith the same title. It wasmade in World of ...

Wandering Dreamscape
img width="160"style="padding-right:3px;float:left;"src="http://www.archive.org/services/get-item-image.php?identifier=soosdon_wandering_dreamscape&mediatype=movies&collection=machinima"/>p>"A tributeto Dopefish and theNogg-aholic community. Thisvideo shows what can be donewith the proper know ...

The Barrens Biohazard
img width="160"style="padding-right:3px;float:left;"src="http://www.archive.org/services/get-item-image.php?identifier=soosdon_the_barrens_biohazard_hd720p&mediatype=movies&collection=machinima"/>p>"Ashort movie showing my firstmodel change for WoW, entitled"The Barrens Biohazard".Sometime in ...

Same As It Ever Was
img width="160"style="padding-right:3px;float:left;"src="http://www.archive.org/services/get-item-image.php?identifier=SameAsItEverWas&mediatype=movies&collection=opensource_movies"/>p>Video gamecritics use the same argumentsagainst gaming as they did formovies, music, television,comics, books ...

The Clefthoof Brigade
img width="160"style="padding-right:3px;float:left;"src="http://www.archive.org/services/get-item-image.php?identifier=Myndflame_Clefthoof_Brigade&mediatype=movies&collection=machinima"/>p>A compilationof scenes originallydistributed via the Ideazonwebsite, with the text,'Blizzard gave Myndfla ...

Snoman Remixed 2
img width="160"style="padding-right:3px;float:left;"src="http://www.archive.org/services/get-item-image.php?identifier=soosdon_snomanremixed2_xvid_hd&mediatype=movies&collection=machinima"/>p>"Here ismy interpretation of the modelchanges done by Snoman. Yousaw all of these at his movie,Wanderi ...

Snoman Remixed
img width="160"style="padding-right:3px;float:left;"src="http://www.archive.org/services/get-item-image.php?identifier=soosdon_snomanremixed_hd720p_xvid&mediatype=movies&collection=machinima"/>p>"NOTE!I have only edited and filmedthis movie. All the model/mapchanging has been done bySnoman. If ...

Chronicles of the Dawn: Operation Scholomance, Part One
img width="160"style="padding-right:3px;float:left;"src="http://www.archive.org/services/get-item-image.php?identifier=soosdon_cotd_opscholo_part01&mediatype=movies&collection=machinima"/>p>"Here itfinally is - after two weeksof editing, rendering,testing, saving, crashing,fixing, sleeping and ...

SavageSword
img width="160"style="padding-right:3px;float:left;"src="http://www.archive.org/services/get-item-image.php?identifier=SavageSword&mediatype=movies&collection=machinima"/>p>Devin Monnens' "Savage Sword"exemplifies his work in anarea that might be calledretro-machinima, machinimabased on older ...

Contra versus Contra
img width="160"style="padding-right:3px;float:left;"src="http://www.archive.org/services/get-item-image.php?identifier=ContraVsContra&mediatype=movies&collection=machinima"/>p>In "Contra vs. Contra,"Devin Monnens mixes Konami'sContra and historical footagerelated to the Iran-Contraaffair to cr ...

The OMFF from where FLeeF stood [Flinging Thoughts]
It’s always good to benervous at an event like theOnline Machinima FilmFestival, especially [...] ...

About [Flight Sim Machinima]
This site provides links tosome of the best flight simmoviescurrently available. Themovies are [...] ...

Annoucement [Flight Sim Machinima]
The Advisory Board of theFlight Sim Movies and theIL2MovieDataBase websiteshereby announces an [...] ...

Announcement [Flight Sim Machinima]
The Advisory Board of theFlight Sim Movies and theIL2MovieDataBase websiteshereby announces an [...] ...

Second Living Pilot Episode [Metaverse TV]
Second Living. Your Life YourNeighborhood. With ReckaWuyts, Angelene Blachere,Vijay Saeed and [...] ...

Machima Info Barf #11 [Shattered Keyboard]
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OMFF 2008 Winners! [MPrem.com News]
The winners of the 2008Festival are now available toview over at the OMFFsite.Upgrade to the [...] ...

Cinemassively: Kake Buk Island, Episode 1 [Cinemassively]
Filed under: World ofWarcraft, Fantasy, Video,Cinemassively, Machinima,Humor(Please note that [...] ...

OMFF 2008 - Behind the Screen [HatHead Snaps]
The second annual OnlineMachinima Film Festival awardswere held yesterday and it allwent off [...] ...

Adobe by Subscription [Mike Jones Digital Basin]
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Wired: Top Stories

May 12, 1941: Fog of War Shrouds Computer Advance
p>strong>1941:/strong> Germanengineer Konrad Zuse unveilsthe Z3, now generallyrecognized as the first fullyfunctional, programmablecomputer./p>p>Because Zuse designedand built his computerinside Nazi Germany, which wasalready at war, his ach ...

Hydrogen Cars Won't Make a Difference for 40 Years
p>President Bush, Gov. ArnoldSchwarzenegger and the bigautomakers agree on this much:They love hydrogen-poweredfuel cell technology and itspromise of a zero-emission,petroleum-free future./p>p>Unfortunately, expertssay it will be 40 years ormore before hydrogen has anymeaningful impact on ...

Carly Fiorina: McCain Different Than Bush on the Environment. Really
McCain is set to lay outspecifics of his position onglobal climate change Monday.His chief surrogate andeconomic advisor Carly Fiorina(remember her?) tries todistance her candidate fromthe Bush administration whenit comes to the environment,talking up the differences ona weekend TV show.br ...

Meet the Pulverizers: New Munitions Tear Up Rock and Concrete Quick
New munitions called Pam,Barnie and Bam Bam tear apartrock and concrete easily --and that's hard to do withtraditional explosives. Thenew blasters use a two-stepprocess: A "shaped charge"drills a hole, then explosivesare fired into the hole, and-- ka-boom.br style="clear:both;"/>a href="ht ...

Families to Plead Case for Vaccine Link to Autism
Claiming that Thimerosal, amercury-based preservative invaccines, triggers autism,attorneys for two Oregon boystake on mainstream medicine ina federal court Monday.brstyle="clear: both;"/>imgalt="" style="border: 0;height:1px; width:1px;"border="0"src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=c16a ...

Tricky Exposes His Roots, Crowdsources Remixes
Adrian Thaws, better known asTricky, has come a long wayfrom his days in MassiveAttack with a successful solocareer and film career. Hisnext CD, cite>Knowle WestBoy/cite>, explores his rootsin a "white ghetto" with apost-punk, Two-Tone, dancehallsound. Fans can remix thesingle "Council Est ...

China to Make Its Own Jumbo Jets
State media reports Sundaythat the Chinese centralgovernment and the Shanghaigovernment are majorshareholders in a homegrowncompany that will makepassenger jumbo jets. The ideais that China CommercialAircraft will make the countryless dependent on Boeing andAirbus.br style="clear:both;"/> ...

Indie Musician's Tumblelog Packs Music, Photos
Singer-songwriter JosephArthur uses his tumblelog,"Bag Is Hot," to build hisnext two EPs and a full-lengthCD, due for release in 2008.Sample the goods on the photoand music journal posted bythe indie musician discoveredand signed by Peter Gabriel.brstyle="clear: both;"/>imgalt="" style="bo ...

Nintendo Taps U.S. Indie Talent in Search of WiiWare Hits
Japanese gaming visionaryShigeru Miyamoto of Nintendosays the most uniquevideogames come from America.Nintendo's games-on-demanddownload service launchesMonday, and the company shiftsits focus from Japanesestudios to U.S. garagedevelopers to find the nextbrilliant game.brstyle="clear: bot ...

News Corp. Pulls Bid for cite>Newsday/cite>
Despite Rupert Murdoch's boastlthat he was about to close adeal for the Long Islandnewspaper, a News Corp. repsays the company has withdrawnits $580 million bid topurchase cite>Newsday/cite>.News Corp. already owns twoNew York papers,cite>WSJ/cite> and cite>NewYork Post/cite>.br style="cle ...

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