More art in virtual worlds. AM Radio rocks.
Back in July I shared Robbie Dingo’s beautiful ‘Watch the World(s)’ machinima. Today I was equally blown away by some of AM Radio’s amazing creations, captured as a video by Aeron Copeland. Both are Eightbar members and long-time explorers and builders in Second Life.
There’s not much I can add to that, other than “wow”. I’m delighted, since I’ve been looking for some examples of art in virtual worlds for a talk I’m giving next month for the IT For Arts community at the Wigmore Hall in London. If you have more examples I should know about (doesn’t have to in Second Life, and could be any sort of art, including theatre, sculpture, …) do feel free to share them.
September 20th, 2007 at 22:27
Great find. I had not seen either of them. I’m simply stunned. It is far more appealing than the spinning signs in world and much of anything you can find on TV. Would someone w/o exposure to Second Life have the same level of appreciation? I am new to Second Life and my pathetic attempts at construction may have altered my level of amazement.
Bowa Karas
September 21st, 2007 at 03:19
[...] Inspiring Artists Published September 21st, 2007 ACMI , AIMIA , Eightbar , Horse Bazaar , John Power , Roo Reynolds , art , design , machinima , virtual worlds When things look good, I love to look. Many thanks to Roo Reynolds who posted the following artistic Secondlife machinima by AM Radio on Eightbar. [...]
September 21st, 2007 at 10:51
Stunning ! I had seen some of AM’s posts on the internal blogs about baking textures etc, the stills always looked great, but this is awesome!
September 21st, 2007 at 12:13
Hi Roo,
Re: Other examples… You’ve probably seen this already as I think it’s had a fair amount of publicity, but I was pretty impressed by the DanCoyote Antonelli exhibit at Arts & Letters. See
http://www.secondlifeinsider.com/2007/08/13/artist-dancoyote-antonelli-redefines-space-and-immersive-art/
It’s important to follow the advice in the landing area about changing the client settings to get the full impact, I think. It is almost “overpowering” at times, but it seemed to me another good example of exploiting some of the capabilities of SL as a medium.
September 21st, 2007 at 12:57
AM Radio’s work has always been impressive to me. I hadn’t seen some of these builds before… Thanks for sharing them epredator. The other thing that I love is that they are not sculpties, but they are built up from primitives. I had AM on my Trippin’ the Verse podcast some time ago and he explained a lot of his technique,
September 21st, 2007 at 17:39
Ultravox: “*cough* This entry was posted on Thursday, September 20th, 2007 by Roo Reynolds”.
PeteJ: thanks for the reminder of DanCoyote Antonelli’s work.
September 21st, 2007 at 22:13
Now I know where all those pieces that AM was working on in the sandbox went to. Very well done, AM and Aeron!
Cheers, Sifu
October 1st, 2007 at 18:44
[...] Roo wrote a post with a nice video here of AM Radio’s delightful piece of art creation. The Cornfield, 1920’s style with a fantastic textured train and some incredible prebaking of textures. We had seen this buidl happen on our internal blogs, and it was good to see it go public. Now AM Radio has decided to raise some funds for the charity heifer.org but selling copies of his work that you can go and view here. Its a subtle yet amazingly detailed set of objects and well worth a look. I will post some stills when they get through the system, but I needed to post this update for all you art appreciating and charity minded individuals out there. [...]