{"id":710,"date":"2011-03-31T20:28:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T19:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=710"},"modified":"2011-03-31T20:30:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T19:30:17","slug":"machinima-gets-an-official-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=710","title":{"rendered":"Machinima gets an official event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned previously that Linden Lab don&#8217;t do a decent job of showcasing machinima, indeed I&#8217;ve mentioned recently that their own forums and website aren&#8217;t that clever with regards to promoting user generate content full stop. So imagine my surprise when I read that May will be the <a title=\"Inaugral Month of Machinima\" href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.lithium.com\/t5\/Inworld\/Inaugural-Month-of-Machinima-event-kicks-off-in-May\/ba-p\/788315\" target=\"_blank\">Inaugural month of Machinima<\/a>. Although if I&#8217;m nitpicking, I could point out that the blog post should be being promoted within the Machinima forum on the official forums, which isn&#8217;t a forum that is designed to promote machinima&#8230;..seriously, LL, let people promote their wares on your forums!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, you have to be quick if you want to enter, entries need to be received by April 10th, no sex or violence and it can&#8217;t last longer than three minutes, so it was important to point out there&#8217;s no sex allowed as three minutes is a bit of a marathon session. However, if sex or violence are ever the theme, it will be allowed, I await to see if Linden Lab are mature enough to officially allow such submissions.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">local education authority<\/span>, Linden Endownment of Arts, clearly hasn&#8217;t died with the departure of Mark Kingdon, this was something he very much encouraged but we promptly didn&#8217;t see much of. Machinima is a very good use case because, unlike a lot of other art out and about, Machinima isn&#8217;t really competing with other venues, there aren&#8217;t that many places that display machinima inworld, there are Machinima artists such as <a title=\"Toxic Menges\" href=\"http:\/\/www.toxicmenges.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toxic Menges<\/a> who display their wares inworld, but it&#8217;s not a big scene, which is a shame because user created Machinima could be a plus point for Second Life.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pleased to see Linden Lab getting off their backsides and promoting Second Life Machinima, there&#8217;s plenty of other stuff I hope to see them promoting too, and I hope to see them using their own website to promote it, including their own user groups &#8230;.well actually I noticed yesterday they started posting in the forums about user groups, which is long overdue. I also hope to see Linden Lab ease up on the forum restrictions a tad and allow people to promote events, new products and discuss without being reported, new ventures and sims.<\/p>\n<p>This machinima event is a good start, let&#8217;s hope for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned previously that Linden Lab don&#8217;t do a decent job of showcasing machinima, indeed I&#8217;ve mentioned recently that their own forums and website aren&#8217;t that clever with regards to promoting user generate content full stop. So imagine my surprise when I read that May will be the Inaugural month of Machinima. Although if I&#8217;m &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=710\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Machinima gets an official event&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[146,1022],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6rJUK-bs","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}