Second Life Documentary Brought To You By HBO
The success of Linden Lab’s MMO Second Life is based entirely of the user created content and economy. The game has gone on to create in-game millionaires (subject to ridicule), promoted real life causes like the human rights campaign for Darfur, and created the first online homeless person, as well as a bustling red light district. From the many tapestries of life the game weaves together, HBO is distributing a documentary of the cultural phenomenon entitled: Molotov's Dispatches in Search of the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey.
The documentary as described by the press release on the website:
In January 2007, a man named Molotov Alva, disappeared from his California home. Recently, a series of video dispatches by a Traveler of the same name have appeared within a popular online world called Second Life.In these dispatches Molotov Alva encounters everything from Furries to Cyberpunks to Neo-Luddites to Sex Slaves to the King of the Hobos, Orhalla Zander, who becomes Molotovs guide as he searches for the creator of their brave new world.
Submarine Channel produced the documentary and interviewed the director about his journey in Second Life:
Most people have never actually been inside an online world. Since this is based in technology, a learning curve is involved, one that requires downloading a computer program, then learning how to walk, talk, explore using... a computer keyboard. It just isn't a natural form of exploration for most people. It's antithetical to the seamless experience they have with other media, be it TV or books or film.
Comprised of seven mini-episodes the documentary runs thirty-five minutes, so HBO is planning on submitting the short film for consideration to the Academy Awards for Animated Short Subject. HBO will be airing the documentary next year, but you can check it out the first episode on the Submarine Channel.
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Posted to Hot Stuff, Television, Video Games on 10 September 2007
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huh? How does one go about being a neo-luddite online?