Second Front at The Gate
Yesterday I went to Second Front at The Gate, which was a performance group being streamed from SL to Brussels through the 2-way streaming portal called The Gate.
It drew a crowd, but was the standard boring stuff we see in SL every day, i.e. fires, oddly-made avs, etc. The same attention-craving people but in a different societal subset from our common-or-garden griefers were displaying what I'm sure they thought was edgy and fascinationg behavior. Alas, it's what we see every day in SL and it's boring. I didn't stay for the entire SF event as it was hours long. Maybe they had a big finish.
It was funnish seeing the Brussels crowd. The Gate is an interesting idea and I really wanted to see at least a still photo of what they were seeing. I think the quality of SL things being streamed will improve if The Gate stays up long enough. At that time yesterday the performance was lame, though.
posted by Osprey at 9:34 AM
6 Comments:
Osprey, quite sorry that you didn't like the Second Front performance. It was intended for two different audiences - and two, very very different contexts - and it was damnly difficult to stage something that could work for both.
I'm sorry, also, that you did't come back to The Gate the following days: we re-arranged the architecture of the Gate, and some nice interactions started between people and avatars... You can see a lot of images from both sides here: http://www.domenicoquaranta.net/blog/2007/10/gate-images.html
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Dom - I think the overall idea is exciting, but the implementation I saw was not interesting to me (perhaps someone new to SL might've found it more interesting, I can't say). I am glad it was a richer experience in the next days - I believe strongly that things need time to grow and expand.
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