For the past couple of weeks I’ve been logging in every day to my favourite gossip blogs to catch up on what’s happening with the filming of the movie Sex and the City. I’ll put the rest of this post under the fold, but beware, all the major spoilers buzzing around the blogosphere are there! Continue reading
Hey, I was on Australian television again! Did anybody see me on the current affairs program called Today Tonight? I think the show aired while I was away in the States. This time I was talking about “The Simpsons”, media and pop culture, and fan fiction. Below is a cleaned up version, more or less, of what I said.
Yay! Here is my final book cover!!!
And here is one of the endorsements:
How lovely of Len Unsworth to write such kind words.
I was fortunate enough to listen to Christy Dena today presenting a truly stimulating lecture on Multi-Platform Art versus Commodity Intertexts. Her point of departure was a quote from Henry Jenkins about transmedia storytelling, which she interrogated by tracing the history of cross-media art forms, from pre-internet media such as Twin Peaks to new forms of 3D animation storytelling/art inside Second Life. She discussed the relationship and tensions between what is transmedia art and what is marketing, and invoked her own theorisation of the features that genuinely characterise transmedia storytelling. She raised some really provocative questions about perceptions of what is art, and how some forms are revalued as aesthetic only when somebody renames them as such. I am guessing Christy will be publishing some of her work so I don’t want to pre-empt that and discuss her theories before she is ready, but you can read more on her blog. It has certainly helped crystallise some of my own thinking.
The TV show The Tudors is airing some of its episodes in Second Life! Here are the details:
Showtime and the Alliance Second Life Library are pleased to announce that episodes one and two of the new series “The Tudors” will be shown on Second Life Library Renaissance Island. “The Tudors” provides a new spin on the early life of King Henry VIII of England and debuted on Showtime on April 1. Episode 1 will be shown on Renaissance Island on Saturday May 12 at 10 am sl and 5 pm sl; Episode 2 will be shown on Renaissance Island on Sunday May 13 at 10 am sl and 5 pm sl. Renaissance Island is one of ten library islands and is an historical roleplay and educational site for teachers, students, and anyone interested in the Elizabethan era of England in the late sixteenth century.
Residents of Second Life can dress in period clothing, rent cottages, a Renaissance era shop, visit a tavern, go to the Globe Theater, participate in music and events and experience life of that time. On some occasions, residents may catch a glimpse of Queen Elizabeth herself, William Shakespeare, or other characters of the period.
For more information contact Rain Noonan in world or by email at rainnoonansl@yahoo.com or Korrigan Keynes at mclindbloom@alliancelibrarysystem.com
