Images of Black Swan (Short Project) from Lainy Voom on Vimeo.

Absolutely captures the mood at Black Swan. One of our favorite machinimas of a Rezzable area on the second life grid. Thanks Lainy!

Our favorite visionary of the month--Wizard Gynoid not only built the inside of a surfer dude/physics genius's head--but he showed up to wander through it. Garrett Lisi comes inworld to see a vision of the 8th Dimenson. Huh? Says Hamlet: Wizard Gynoid held the official opening of her E8 Polytope model, which floats in the inky blackness of Rezzable Visions. By the time I arrived, near a dozen avatars were there, furiously discussing the math and physics of her project.  Shortly after I got there, Lisi himself showed up.  Which from one point of view, is sort of like Einstein wandering through a museum diorama about general relativity.

Read more from the New World Notes article here.

After much deliberation selection has been narrowed down to 24 machinimas, that are now up for your consideration.  Only the top 12 will go on to the Rezzable Machinima Festival.  Please take the time to review and vote on who you would like to see at the festival!  This is a chance to celebrate the talented machinima makers by showcasing their work at the festival.  Good luck to everyone.

Wizard Gynoid opens the world of the 8th Dimension on the Second Life virtual world grid today. It is a stunning and intriguing area where math and high concept energize the 3D web. Rezzable is once again proud to host the best of metaverse art and push the barrier of inworld shared experience. And it is really cool place (did we say that already?...)

More details about this stunning build here. Or just go there now and check it out!

Wizzy has a vision of the 8th Dimension. Check it out starting in October over at the Rezzable Visions sim.

She is the first participant in our Visions series where we are giving over a sim to creative people to unleash something amazing and bold. Wizzy is setting the standard very high with this complex and exciting build.

Information and Ideas Behind the Build from the Artist:

What is the E8 Polytope?

A “Polytope” is a higher dimension polyhedron and the E8 Polytope lives in the 8th Dimension.

A dream of the virtual world, drifting through the grid nicely captured by Nitewacket. Short and making me wanna log-on and wander secondlife (er...the virtual world some call second life-- TVWSCSL) Thanks Pye!

Images From Rezzable's "Black Swan " from Nitwacket Machinima on Vimeo.

It was there and then...gone. But many memories of the Garden of NPIRL Delights are still bouncing across the grid. Big thanks to Nitwacket for posting this short vid:

Garden of NPIRL - Closing Day - Second Life from Nitwacket Machinima on Vimeo.

Laurah Oh gives us some more insight into her art now showing at the Dagger Eye Gallery.  She is also sharing some of her RL personality which adds a lot to the strong images in the show.  As much as SL can offer some anonymity to let some artist be freer, it is also great to see people link their rl to their sl art.

From Laurah:

I came to SL some time ago when a teacher at my university (graphic design) asked us to learn about  SL 'cause it had everything what we were talking about--illustration, animation 3d.

Many of the designers for "Passions of Black Swan" were inspired by the beautiful art created within it.  Now we'd like to see how Black Swan inspires passion within your photography!

Black Swan Photography Contest:

Jonny Dusk of 5ifth Order has created poses inspired by some of the art within Black Swan.  We're looking for pictures that bring this art to life using these poses that are available for sale as part of the "Passions of Black Swan" fashion event. Using any (or all!) of the Black Swan poses, become your own piece of art for your chance to win one of three prizes!  You can submit up to 3 pictures to the Passions of Black Swan Flickr group. until 11:59 PM Sunday, September 28th.  The winning photos will be announced during the Final "Passions of Black Swan" Fashion Show on Tuesday, September 30th.