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This Week On Tonight Live, Great Music! and InWorldz Residents Talk About Their Communty

Sunday 1st May 6pm slt

This week:

MUSIC

ReggieSunset Rookswood who after college played music a bit around his home town, playing in some restaurants and pubs, realized there wasn’t a lot of money playing music went out and got a real job. Reggie fell away from music for a very long time. But In the last 5 years or so, had a resurgence of writing and playing. He plays now in Second Life, and on this weeks show! He has a lovely mellow folksy sound if you love Jim Croce, James Taylor, John Denver, Elvis, Buddy Holly, Sam Cook you’re going to LOVE ReggieSunset Rookswood!

INWORLDZ

This weeks show we interview some residents from InWorldz. Jim Tarber and Lady Skia both now call InWorldz their home. InWorldz is one of the most successfull Open Sim Virtual Worlds. And as you can see from the picture above, the content in InWorldz is really catching up to Second Life. Both Jim and Lady were Second Life residents, and we find out what they are doing in InWorldz what they love about it, and how the community in InWorldz is growing, and welcoming more and more new residents. InWorldz has over 35,000.00 sign ups now. What makes this Open Sim so popular and how is it progressing since our last interview?

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Tonight Live Is UP!!!

This Week On Tonight Live, The Follow, The Machinim UWA III: Journeys Comp & Quest Atlantis

We had a great show this week!

The Machinim UWA III: Journeys

JayJay Zifanwe from UWA showed us some entries from the latest Machinim UWA 111 competition, and talks about what the University of Western Australia is still doing here in Second Life and what their plans are for the future.

The Band “The Follow”

We heard a wonderful song from “The Follow” and found out about their next tour and what Second Life means to them

“Quest Atlantis” Gaming For Education

Sasha Barab is a Professor from Indiana University who is part of a 3D Game development team that has designed a quest and gaming immersive environment to teach kids about themselves and their world, called Quest Atlantis.It was a facinating interview about modern teaching and education.

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This Week On Tonight Live, The Follow, The Machinim UWA III: Journeys Comp & Quest Atlantis

6pm slt Sunday 17th April 2011

The Machinim UWA III: Journeys

The Machinim UWA III: Journeys has a L$530,000 Prize Pool and is the 3rd in the series of machinima challenges run by the University of Western Australia. This year the theme is ‘Journeys’. I’ll be interviewing Jayjay Zifanwe (Jay Jay Jegathesan) this Sunday about the Challenge Jayjay is the founder and lead of The University of Western Australia presence in Second Life, and is the creator & co-host of the UWA Art & Machinima Challenges.

Check these entries to start!

KOBUK FARSHORE (Alaska, USA) – Requiem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM3BXCUrZes&feature=player_embedded

ERIC BOCCARA (Velp, Netherlands) – Juroney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDtjBcuHJAE

SODA LEMONDROP (Monterey, California, USA) – The Journey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stovkH4YqNE&feature=player_embedded

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The Band “The Follow”

The Follow

The Follow have a huge following…ahem…here in Second Life and RL. “The Follow” are Troy Rickertsen, Amy Rickertsen, Mat Matlack in real life, and have been featured on Live n Kickin twice, and on Zen’s Show the Daily Pwn. They have just released their 7th!!! yes Their 7th Album…and also about to embark on their 3rd “World” tour shortly. Tonight Live is proud to present “The Follow” in a premier appearance to talk about the New Album ”Building Machines To Reach The Stars!” They will be showcasing a song from the new album on the show of course.

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The New 2000 Voice Eric Whitacre Virtual Choir Is UP!

Points if you can spot me in it

As you may remember I interviewed the delicious Mr Whitacre in December on the 5th 2010. Below is the SL interview in total that we did on the day. It is an hour long…but well worth listening to every single note!

Here is a shorter clip of it that was made for You Tube if you just want a taste

Congratulations Mr Eric Whitacre you are an inspiration, and I’m thrilled to have met you virtually and interviewed you for Tonight Live.

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Tonight Live with POL Arida, Archaic Redemption Film Maker, & Dramatiques Performance Troupe is UP!

Great Show! and Great Audience this week! Fifty in the Audience not counting Staff guests and Crew! but counting Zombies and other goulish creatures!

POL Arida on Tonight Live With Paisley Beebe Pic SuperDave Spearmann

DRAMATIQUES PERFORMANCE TROUPE

Victoria Sugarplum talked about what the process is for getting MoCap done for dance animations in SL, and discussed the Narnia Production just finished and their up-coming work. We showed a short video of their promotion for Narnia on  the show also. More here: Dramatiques Performance Troupe

POL ARIDA

Musician POL Arida from Edinburgh Scotland sang a rousing song about Government Surveillance “Get Me Out Of Here” And explained why he started writing music again after a 15 years absence and what Second Life means to him.

ARCHAIC REDEMPTION FILM

Anthony Brownrigg real life horror Film Maker, talked about his upcoming film called Archaic Redemption. How it was conceived in Second Life, how Second Life and the role playing sim of City Of Lost Angels was its inspiration and how he used Second Life to workshop the script and plan out the scenes. Tempest Ella was scheduled to appear, but unfortunately due to her situation in Christchurch New Zealand with the recent earth quake destroying her house, she was unable to be online for the show. We were disappointed not to have been able to contact her, and wish her and her family well in this time of great loss and distress. The sim she owns has been raising money for her and her family. And you can go to donate to it. Here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/South%20Gate/136/162/55

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This Is Why!

Watch the interview with Virtual Choir Conductor Eric Whitacre on TED,

It includes a short 2 min preview sample of the upcoming 2000 strong Virtual Choir that I and a few others were involved in this year!

When you watch this TED video you can understand why it was so exiting to interview Eric Whitacre on Tonight Live, which I did last Dec.  I dare you not to like this guy and what he is doing. The video of  Eric’s composition “Sleep” with over 2,000 participants from all over the globe, will be released on YouTube any day now, and I’m so exited to have been a part of the choir, and can’t wait to hear and see it

If you missed it, after you watch this TED talk, where he gets a standing ovation…watch the virtual interview below, I did last December 5th with Eric Whitacre as his virtual self in Second Life talking about the Virtual Choir. He was such a lovely guest. Easily one of the most famous people I’ve ever interviewed and easilly one of the  most humble and nicest. No diva or hystronics about this guy. Refreshingly down to earth, enthusisastic and funny did I mention funny, he charmed all of the Perfect World Team, girls AND guys!

The Interview Below was recorded Dec 5th 2010. And has easily been the most watched video of Tonight Live’s history. It has had a steady rate of hits since its upload, as more and more people want to know about Eric Whitacre and what he is doing. Choirs are taking off all over the world as people are inspired by Eric, and others to see choirs as something that creates community, and connection with others that also celebrate the the beauty of the human voice in harmony. Please pass this on to your friends even non singers and hip Rock fans will smile at this.

The Video below is my first attempt to ever sing this sort of music, so I know Im NOT a classical singer…but like so many others I wanted badly to try. It was a huge challenge for me and a practiced over a month to do it. I know it sounds weird without the rest of the choir. I sung this for my dear friend Delinda Dyrssen, so you can see at some parts I’m a little sad, but the words of the song held a deep meaning for me, as I’m sure they did for so many people who sang. You can find more examples of the singers on YouTube just search for Sleep Virtual Choir. All ages from 9 years old to well into the golden years and from all walks of live and cultures entered a video.

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This Week on Tonight Live With Paisley Beebe

Sunday April 3rd 2011 6pm

VIRTUAL DANCE

Dramatiques Performance Troupe is a new group founded by dance enthusiasts who say they have come together to take performance to another level in Second Life! They are just finishing up their in-world tour of Narnia, and after a short break will start their next production of Alice In Wonderland. Their productions have been called nothing short of incredible.

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MUSIC: POL ARIDA

POL Arida is an accomplished singer songwriter working from Edinburgh, UK. His `Hammer` Guitar style is widely regarded as unique, where the guitar is hit hundreds of times per minute to produce a multi-instrument sound. Pol took to the internet and Second Life to play his music when venues in his home town of Edinburgh got scarce. His music is both part dark, poetic and just plain angry!

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FILM: ARCHAIC REDEMPTION

Anthony Brownrigg is AnthonyB Blackheart in Second Life. In real life he is an independent film maker, who is best known for his horror genre films, and especially his film RedVictoria. Tempest Ella is one of the stars of a new film that Anthony is working on based on a Second Life role play sim called Archaic Redemption. Anthony is an Award winning film producer: