An interesting little film series has appeared about, and filmed in, the online game Second Life. It’s a tale of someone who has left the real world behind, for the digital one. He then seems to feel a lost connection to his loved ones (in his first life) as he becomes more attached to those in Second Life. He explores these feelings in a film series rendered from game images in Second Life.
Here is the first in the series:
And did you see the Second Life Hustler domain on eBay?
Called Screaming Masterpiece the DVD highlights the music, much of it electronic, that has come out of Iceland. It went on sale yesterday. The musicians featured are Björk and the Sugarcubes, Sigur Rós, Múm, Bang Gang, Mugison, Minus and Slowblow and others. It can be purchased here: http://www.sodapictures.com/
While the manufacturing of the high-definition DVDs apparently have been pushed out, Netflix has readied itself for the new format.
If you will be purchasing a HD DVD player, and have a Netflix account, you can log into your account and select and option that will allow you to rent the HD DVDs when they have them.
One of the developments I never really understood was the huge success of movie sales for the Sony Playstation Portable (PSP). When the gaming platform was launched some time ago, game sales were disappointingly low while movies sales were surprisingly high. So high, in fact, that within weeks every studio seemed to jump the bandwagon and began releasing their movies on UMD discs. Well, the dream is over.
Hardly surprising, UMD sales have taken a sharp turn for the worse and the phenomenal sales figures of the initial months are a thing to be fondly remembered. UMD sales have become so low at this point that many studios currently pull out of the market altogether. Even Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, for example, who is directly tied to the PSP, of course, has decided to pull back on UMD releases for the time being. Don’t expect any more catalog titles to surface on UMD, and don’t expect every new movie to be released for your PSP either. Pickings will become very slim simply because people have stopped purchasing movies for the platform and seem to have – finally – embraced the PSP for what it really is, a gaming platform.
Nonetheless, Sony is not sitting idly and now has plans to talk to third party vendors to push for a series of converters that will allow you to play PSP movies on a TV screen. I am not sure who came up with this harebrained idea but I’m sure it will go down in the annals of the video industry as a joke. In case the folks haven’t realized it yet, but we have a format to play back movies on TVs, and we call it DVD. It works pretty well for most of us and has an adoption rate that is way beyond anything the PSP could ever achieve. The image quality is much better, the extras are much better and richer and many times the DVDs are even cheaper. Why anyone would think people could possibly see the PSP as a real alternative to set top players is beyond me, but that’s Hollywood for you.
This things to die for…or kill for. Who do I have to kill? How many? The two girls in the photo? I can do that. Where do they live?
Well, actually I guess I’d rather have one of the big SEDs when they came out, so ladies in the picture, you can rest easy. Unless of course anyone out there has an SED unit…
The Transformers, a seemingly perfect Techno golem, will be making its comeback soon when Michael Bay brings them to the big screen. Get ready to see more Autobot and Decepticon t-shirts and the transforming bandwagon.
There’s already a web site for the flick out there…not much on it besides pics from their booth at the Comic-Con and the ingenious teaser that is simply a semi drapped in black. Visit the site.