A look at the 2011 MachinExpo Films - Part 1

I started wading through the screening selections last night. Here are three of my favorites so far:

Scent Memory by Patrick Kendrick - "A fighter pilot regains consciousness next to his wrecked plane, only to find it rusted and aged by decades. As he explores unfamiliar surroundings, he encounters a bizarre cast of characters and confronts decades of layered memories."


Skilled SecondLife machinima tale that is engaging, mysterious and beautiful. The story is a bit floaty (with a seemingly healthy dose of 2001 mixed in) feeling a bit like a dream. Well worth a look.

Sintetic FAITH by Nikolay Rusenov - One of my top 5 favorite Iclone movies. Humanity isnt always human. Excellent work.

What Isn’t Underneath? by Hypatia Pickens - "This short film is an homage to Scottius Polke's eerie art environment called "The Docks," on display through June 30, 2011 at Originalia in Second Life. Since it is due to come down after that, I thought I would try to capture some of its subtle ominousness in a machinima narrative. So Sangreal Arnica and I put our heads together and came up with a story that explained something that really can't be explained. Whenever you do that, you disambiguate something that is ambiguous. I tried to capture all the strange details that Scotty filled his build with."


My favorite viewing of the evening. Dark and poetic secondlife tale that looks a bit like a living painting. Short and wonderful. See it!

Happy Halloween!

Heres a short I put together for the Chris62 HalloweenFest on TMU.

Tan Julius tells a tale wrought with woe, in the end he reeps what he sows.

Paper Theater from myclone.wordpress.com/​

Sounds from freesound.org

Intro piano clip from incomptech.com

Happy Halloween!

Fun Fact + MachinExpo Promo

A flock of crows is called a murder of crows. Huh.



November 19th and 20th 2011.

Sushi Ronin

Here is my latest flick all dudded up using crazytalk animator and Iclone 4. Hope you like!

Soap Box Racing - Brooklyn 2011

This aint machinima but I promise a post soon on some machinima stuff Ive seen lately.

A block party in our hood had some soap box racing going on. There was an excellent crash into the stands that proves that kidfun danger isnt as dead as Ive heard. Yea I feel bad for the guy with bloodied shins and the scared little girl but it was good to see noone called off the race in horror. Of course I woulda sued...hehe. Anywho, heres the pics. and theres Kid MIllions soaking up the fun. A fine summer day.

Ethyl Merman Lies Beneath

More work to add to the Kid Millions Resume.  Just some sillyness and fun.

Nathan Bitner and the Mysterious Tunnel

I ever tell you the story of the Nathan Bitner Expose?  Its a memorable story to me because I myself entered the He-Man character contest back in the 80's.  My character was Hear-O (he had excellent vision...or someting) and I was convinced I was going to win with an idea like that.  Then Bitner came along with his superior drawing skills and his character Photog won the contest.  Years later X-Entertainment writes a little blog about whatever happened to Nathan Bitner and the sordid exploits of his youth and otherwise become public knowledge.  Memorable.

Today I happened upon a little pic on Shorpy,com of a mysterious tunnel from 1924.  Reading through the comments (often almost as fun as seeing the hi-res pics) there were plenty of suggestions of speakeasy tunnels but then someone unearthed the newspaper accounts of a rather extensive tunnel system built by a millionaire entomologist as a hobby.  This was followed information of the man being a bigamist and his failed attempt to get a real divorce of a fake marriage (complicated as bigamy must often be) and then dying 5 years later.  The situation reminded me Bitner (who was understandably horrified when he happened upon the X-Entertainment post with 1000+ comments about his personal life)..  Only it happened in 1925 instead of 1990.  And still people were able to use the ol internet to get to the sordid little details.