Second life location Portucalis - Academia.

All this while I am organizing the Machinima Weekly Review event and the Machinima Techniques, 2 events in one where we plan to "travel into weekly machinima release", some positive and constructive talk, Machinima screening, Machinima techniques, goods and bads, commercial use, LL policy etc. Everything we can cover during 1 hour of event. ( this event will be defined soon ). What I can say from now is that we have at least 2 machinimators (it might be possible to make Draxtor join this, awesome no?) making the reviews followed by 2 academic teachers (University of Aveiro).

Stay tune, event might start this weekend, I will keep you posted, for sure.

Watch life recorded event with Machinimators interviews Okay, okay, Mamachinima International festival was extremely beyond my expectations(well not only mine). Although not present in the previous edition of Mmif'09, this issue did not amazed me by the quality of the exhibited works but the diversity of Machinimas shown. We saw works done in Second life (of course), iClone, Moviestorm, The movie, etc, a unique combination where each producer had also the time for Q & A ( interesting no?). An event with a amazing magnetude, so high, spread among the four SIMS there was something like a 350 avatars (yes a brutal lag: D), in a 7 hours event (?), let me say "Brutal!". Everything went as planned except for the fact that there was an "accident in Amsterdam" I understood that the subway very close to Amsterdam planetart (the real life place for the MMIF'10) had any problem, some people were not able to follow the event as originally planned (I assume that in one part of the event they could enter the MMIF2010 @ PLANETART, Amsterdam and at least see a part of the event). The event made a perfectly capable enforcement of the community (the event of the year) and from my part was very gratifying to see the movement that is already created, see also other stakeholders (Linden Labs and Real Life), in what we call easily the new era of art in Machinima. Well, beyond my opinion expressed here you can see on twitter the whole wave of emphasis and ecstasy of the participants, members and visitors. In fact the energy felt yesterday made a positive wave on the producers and public, making a great feedback over the social network (twitt and FB), and reveals a new breath on the Machinima productions, (outstanding no?). So it's quiet easy to understand that this is the best achievement and in time (well we still have plenty of time until MMIF'11 19 Feb, already announced by MMIF), but this is not the only challenge, 2010 reserves a new way to look at Machinima Art & production and making a market filled with content creation and art.

For those who saw the event you know well what I am talking about, for those who didn't I will leave the live streams provided by http://www.aviewtv.com/

About this project

About Iara (from the Brazilian folklore)

The Brazilian mermaid called Iara, lives at the bottom of rivers, on the shade of the forest. It is a Legend that talks about Amazon mysteries, one night an Indian dreamed of a beautiful woman with blond hair, blue eyes and very light skin. This fairy was standing the entrance of a huge castle of crystal covered with gold and sapphires embed on a heavenly music. The couple fell in love at first sight and heard a beautiful woman to propose eternal love. One day by boat, the Indians saw formed on the water and a hut, behind the window, appeared the woman of his dreams that you smile. Passionate and was enchanted by the hut, which floated on the water. The father of the Indian can see that the woman’s body had a tail, like that of a fish, and, grabbing her son, jumped into the water, diving, never to return. Some peoples and shifting cultivators swear to have seen the Iara, as it came to be called. in many rivers and streams. The belief in this myth is so great, that the places he lives in the Iara, according to tradition, no one dares to go at a certain hour in the afternoon. On some occasions, it is said, it shows up with his legs to then turn into a mermaid. It is in this way that attracts its victims. To get rid of the seductive power of Iara, advise the Indians, should be eating lots of garlic and rub it all over the body. Many are the legends around Iara, their spells and tricks. It is the myth that most inspired Brazilian poets. José de Alencar, for example, included the novel “The Payback of Ipe” a tale about a water nymph, in which there is a palace of gold and diamond at the bottom of the sea. The best known symbolism of the mermaid is the deadly seduction. Surely it is a tempting ( “The wing of the mermaid is the love of a woman who is ready to resume and,” writes Pierre de Beauvais). But the passion it inspires flammable is dangerous, because it was the dream and the unconscious, and so it is foolish dream, ghost unreal. To preserve the passion ( “love is blind!&rdquo, You must, like Odysseus clings to the harsh reality of the mast. Under the influence of Egypt, in which the soul of the deceased was represented in the form of a bird with a human head, the mermaid has become the symbolic representation of the soul of the deceased who failed in their destiny and become a vampire. - The word Iara Indian origins. "If there are aquatic beings that somehow may be responsible for the secular legends of the mermaid, the lovely woman-fish of the myths of many people, these are unquestionably the manatees, the representatives of the family of Manatees. This is because of vague resemblance between his body and female body in the chest area: as women, manatees have two pectoral breasts. This is the reason why these beings were called Sirenia, which is a mermaid. The legends are reported by sailors who faced the dugong"

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Some people say that storytelling is like tighten a screw. For me, a tale never loses in the telling. What I know is that every time I tell a tale I add a tail, always come up different. The tale I am about to tell is related to a fisherman. A fisherman called Carlos, who lived near a river at the west side.

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