Still from "Avatar" which promises to rock our 3D worlds Sam Worthing plays Sully who plays one of these tall elf-like warriors

 What is an avatar anyway? Kinda like the Matrix on purpose? Trailer for the upcoming "Avatar" film from James Cameron promise "a heroic battle to save civilization." Looks a little counter-culture to me, but wtf do I know. Doesn't seem like you can hit "appearance" so easily in this virtual world as imagined by "Titantic" director James Cameron. Also he made "the Abyss" which had some cool enough aliens and deep water scenes.

John Hughes movies have a speacial warm place in my heart. As I grew up, I have watched many of them over and over again and still watch some with my kids now. There were too many characters I can think of for this challange but I chose Andie in Pretty in Pink . Thank you Achariya for  putting out a challenge in Memory of John Hughes I sort of needed that and I must thank Mavi Beck for giving me wonderful tips in putting this outfit together. Tped to Cupcakes sim to put together my outfit felt like I have walked into Topshop in London Oxford Street. Wonderful, young fashion with great quality in many different stores can be found there. Love the whole collectionin Fab.Pony. So I hope you will feel the same way with this look.

Rezzable set a little challenge for the machinima lovers to produce a short film using the royalty free version of the music 'St. Louis Blues' by William Christopher Handy, written in 1914. Announcing the winners of this challenge:

Ciskovan's 'Men die as dogs' die grabs the first prize with a dramatic and a powerful short film featuring the cast who are the characters of his DREAM ON/OFF movie – you can watch the episodes on his site in a you tube album with the same title. Congratulations to cisko vandeverre on his great work and good luck in his future filming.

An adorable sim, filled with cafes and lil shops offering a variety of items.

Fans have voted, and chosen their top 12 favorites to be shown in the Machinima Festival.  It was great to see people support the machinima makers and to perhaps find new favorites.  On Friday the 24th at the Cannery will be shown the 12 chosen machinimas.  Without further ado I will announce the top 12. 

With a landslide in votes Halden Beaumont took top honors for his beautiful machinima "Beyond Magic".  Next it was Mescaline Tammas with her fun music machinima "Duran Duran Second Life Machinima Mashup" featuring Duran Duran's classic songs.  Krrish Spyker's supernatural machinima "The Vistor" rounds out the top 3.