Various Chats September and October

Relevant machinima chats that have assisted in my research of the culture. 

9.25

21:54]  Dash Renoir: Welcome to the MMAC
[21:54]  You: this place is cool
[21:54]  Dash Renoir: thanks
[21:55]  You: i just found it
[21:55]  You: thanks
[21:55]  Dash Renoir: check out http://www.TheMMAC.net for more info
[21:55]  You: do you make films?
[21:56]  Dash Renoir: yes
[21:56]  You: using machinima?
[21:56]  Dash Renoir: not yet
[21:56]  You: my whole class and i heard others are having this problem...but when they use machinima lately SL crashes...
[21:57]  Dash Renoir: while shooting?
[21:57]  You: or when shooting begins
[21:58]  You: do you know any filmmakers using machinima?
[21:58]  Dash Renoir: not really .. but belong to a couple of groups
[21:59]  Dash Renoir: they seems pretty active ...check the groups in my profile
[21:59]  You: ok
[22:01]  You: interesting groups your apart of
[22:01]  Dash Renoir: most to run this place
[22:01]  You: is this place yours?
[22:01]  Dash Renoir: yes
[22:01]  You: wow
[22:01]  You: how did you start it?
[22:02]  Dash Renoir: came his to promote my music & band...
[22:02]  Dash Renoir: did a few gigs
[22:02]  Dash Renoir: learned how to buid
[22:02]  Dash Renoir: build
[22:02]  Dash Renoir: open this six months ago
[22:03]  You: is it popular?
[22:03]  Dash Renoir: so far
[22:03]  You: i really like it
[22:03]  You: glad i found it
[22:04]  You: anytthing cool coming up this weekend?
[22:04]  You: my class is meeting on 2nd life i should bring them here
[22:04]  Dash Renoir: me 2... you'll get event notices from group
[22:04]  Dash Renoir: @ http://Calendar.theMMAC.net has all activities...
[22:04]  Dash Renoir: will be updating it tonight
[22:05]  You: im taking a look
[22:06]  You: what kind of films do you typically screen?
[22:06]  Dash Renoir: indie shorts
[22:07]  You: made in sl or rl?
[22:07]  Dash Renoir: rl
[22:07]  Dash Renoir: playing in cinema now
[22:08]  You: what kind of films do you make?
[22:08]  Dash Renoir: indies and industrials around nyc http://myspace.com/chucksfilmservics
[22:08]  Dash Renoir: http://myspace.com/chucksfilmservices
[22:09]  Dash Renoir: corrected
[22:10]  You: oh your east coast too
[22:10]  Dash Renoir: nj/nyc
[22:10]  You: im in nyc
[22:11]  You: i'm a grad student thats why i'm on sl
[22:11]  You: doing research
[22:11]  You: about machinima....not sure what angle yet..
[22:11]  Dash Renoir: for?
[22:11]  Dash Renoir: oh
[22:12]  You: seems like a lot of people are doing it
[22:12]  Dash Renoir: you should join the groups... they have screenings and festival
[22:12]  You: yea i joined a few that were in your profile
[22:12]  Dash Renoir: eventually will screen it here
[22:13]  Dash Renoir: well getting late 4 me... have a couple of thing to do b4 bed...
[22:13]  Dash Renoir: stop by anything...
[22:13]  You: yea no problem
[22:13]  You: i will stop by
[22:13]  You: thanks dash
[22:13]  Dash Renoir: take care
[22:13]  You: ciao
                      

10.17

19:28]  Kamran Talaj: if you type in machinima in search, you'll find some amazing stuff
[19:28]  You: i want to do something i can use
[19:29]  Kamran Talaj: there is entire film production world
[19:29]  You: i know its overwhelming
[19:30]  Kamran Talaj: well -- write out a draft proposal and we can talk about it in class and afterwards via email, etc

10.18

[22:47]  You: hi
[22:47]  Enniv Zarf: hi
[22:47]  Enniv Zarf: hi mirra
[22:48]  Enniv Zarf: i'm in costume right now actually...lol
[22:48]  Enniv Zarf: not my normal wardrope
[22:48]  You: lol
[22:48]  You: whats it for?
[22:48]  Enniv Zarf: my new series
[22:48]  Enniv Zarf gave you Krystal Traveler Poster.
[22:49]  Enniv Zarf: this one
[22:49]  You: so your shooting now?
[22:49]  You: i mean within these next few weeks...
[22:49]  Enniv Zarf: i have been
[22:49]  Enniv Zarf: about half done
[22:49]  Enniv Zarf: having an actress in town dto do one of the voice tomorrow
[22:49]  Enniv Zarf: i'm doing one myself
[22:50]  You: so where do you shoot?
[22:50]  Enniv Zarf: everywhere
[22:50]  Enniv Zarf: i use both my own set and exisitng places in SL
[22:50]  You: where is your set?
[22:50]  Enniv Zarf: my place
[22:51]  Enniv Zarf: somewhere up in the sky
[22:51]  Enniv Zarf: i have a part of my set there
[22:51]  Enniv Zarf: but I'm also shooting it at my home and other places that I have too
[22:51]  You: what day are you shooting next?
[22:52]  Enniv Zarf: haha...anytiime I feel like it, throughout the day
[22:52]  Enniv Zarf: a few hours here and there
[22:53]  You: would you mind if i observed you shoot one of these days?
[22:53]  You: or like helped out
[22:53]  Enniv Zarf: sure, though you probably won't see much, cause most people can't tell I'm even shooting
[22:54]  You: lol
[22:54]  You: its brilliant
[22:54]  You: i would like to
[22:55]  Enniv Zarf: hehe...sure, I don't mind if you like to come along or something, probably can use some other av in some sceen here and there
[22:55]  You: thats great
[22:56]  Enniv Zarf: :) so have you tried shooting anything?
[22:56]  You: i did a while ago...and when i did my computer crashed...
[22:56]  You: or sl
[22:56]  You: i mean
[22:56]  Enniv Zarf: ic, what program did you use
[22:57]  You: ?
[22:57]  You: im not sure
[22:57]  Enniv Zarf: to make the machinima?
[22:57]  Enniv Zarf: or did you use the build in tool in SL
[22:57]  You: it must have been the build in tool
[22:58]  You: what are the other opttions?
[22:58]  You: options?
[22:58]  Enniv Zarf: depends, my recommendation on PC is Fraps
[22:58]  Enniv Zarf: and on Mac is SnapzPro
[22:59]  You: where do you get them
[22:59]  You: do you use a mac or pc?
[22:59]  Enniv Zarf: mac
[22:59]  Enniv Zarf: you'll have to buy them, but they have free trial version to test out
[23:00]  You: i should look into that
[23:00]  You: i use a mac too
[23:00]  Enniv Zarf: then try snapzPro
[23:01]  Enniv Zarf: there's another one, but it didn't workw ell on my comp
[23:01]  Enniv Zarf: so I had to use snapzpro
[23:01]  You: yea i need to get something i want to shoot in here
[23:01]  You: it looks fun
[23:02]  Enniv Zarf: it is a lot of fun
[23:02]  You: have you been here before?
[23:02]  Enniv Zarf: and there's so much possibilities here
[23:04]  You: so what day do you think your shooting next?
[23:05]  Enniv Zarf: probably later tonight I'll grab some more shots
[23:05]  Enniv Zarf: i'm juust caught in a few IMs right now
[23:05]  You: oh ok
[23:05]  You: well message me when your going to shoot i will try and come meet you even though i'm on east coast time
[23:06]  You: :)
[23:06]  Enniv Zarf: ah, ic
[23:06]  Enniv Zarf: sure, i'll do that
[23:07]  Enniv Zarf: should be able to catch me for sure, cause I have now another commercial to make
[23:07]  You: commercial for what?
[23:08]  Enniv Zarf: for a really awesome friend of mine
[23:08]  Enniv Zarf: he developed a lsl script that will revolutionize SL media
[23:08]  Enniv Zarf: it allows the land to stream multiple media streams without going through the land stream
[23:08]  Enniv Zarf: different people can watch different things at the same time
[23:08]  You: wow
[23:09]  You: im not getting the extent of it but that's only because i'm new
[23:09]  You: i made this account in april and then moved abroad
[23:09]  You: and then started using it again in september
[23:10]  Enniv Zarf: ah, ic
[23:10]  Enniv Zarf: hehe...well it's somethign tons of people wanted, and no one has been able to do
[23:11]  You: it sounds really cool
[23:11]  You: i'm glad we chatted and thanks for talking to me about this stuff
[23:12]  You: i will definitely come on one of your shoots soon...
[23:12]  Enniv Zarf: np, if you ever have any questions, feel free to IM me
[23:12]  You: thanks enniv
[23:12]  You: i will contact you soon
[23:12]  Enniv Zarf: cool
[23:12]  Enniv Zarf: i'll ttyl
[23:12]  You: and i will let people know about your blog
[23:12]  Thanasi Spinotti is Online
[23:12]  Enniv Zarf: thanks
[23:12]  You: byeee
[23:12]  Enniv Zarf: bye

10.23

[21:48]  Mirra Fredriksson: done any shooting this week?
[21:48]  Enniv Zarf: no, i'm actually waiting for some new equipment b efore continuing
[21:49]  Enniv Zarf: should be ready in a day or so
[21:49]  Mirra Fredriksson: ohh like what
[21:49]  Enniv Zarf: a joystick flycam ability
[21:49]  Enniv Zarf: to do moving shots
[21:49]  Mirra Fredriksson: oh weird how do you get that?
[21:50]  Enniv Zarf: well for PC most joysticks works, 3dConnection's spacenavi, but for mac it's still questionable
[21:50]  Mirra Fredriksson: ahhh so only on PC
[21:51]  Enniv Zarf: for the most part yes
[21:51]  Enniv Zarf: there are people working on it for macs
[21:51]  Enniv Zarf: nothing official has been released
[21:51]  Mirra Fredriksson: so your maybe shooting tomorrow?
[21:51]  Enniv Zarf: maybe, need to get my equipment
[21:51]  Mirra Fredriksson: ok
[21:51]  Enniv Zarf: keep checking back with me
[21:52]  Mirra Fredriksson: i will
[21:53]  Mirra Fredriksson: I am doing this research on machinima like I said before but I am keeping a blog and I was wondering if it's okay to talk about your blog on there and your avatar so people can check it out to learn more
[21:53]  Mirra Fredriksson: or i mean your site
[21:54]  Enniv Zarf: of course, thats' great
[21:54]  Enniv Zarf: let me know if you need anything
[21:55]  Mirra Fredriksson: yea i think it can be really cool
[21:55]  Mirra Fredriksson: trying to spread the word on my research and what i find/who I run into and what their doing
[21:56]  Enniv Zarf: awesome
[21:58]  Mirra Fredriksson: what are you up to on sl tonight?
[21:59]  Enniv Zarf: working on some graphics for some people
[21:59]  Enniv Zarf: nothing much beyond that
[21:59]  Mirra Fredriksson: i liked the piano the other day
[21:59]  Mirra Fredriksson: it was cool
[22:00]  Enniv Zarf: ty, i do that rather often in SL
[22:00]  Mirra Fredriksson: it was very interesting
[22:01]  Enniv Zarf: i try to do interesting work in SL
[22:02]  Mirra Fredriksson: yea it seems like it
[22:03]  Enniv Zarf: :) well I gotta go for a bit. i'll ttyl
[22:03]  Mirra Fredriksson: ok
[22:03]  Mirra Fredriksson: bye :)