Instructions from the Dead on How to Recall the Source Code

Please watch on Full Screen, as this wasn't formatted for cellphones. This is based on a poem I wrote for Haveit Neox's "Second Libations," on display in Second Life for all of December. The sim asked for a great deal of creative interactivity: his robots ask for solutions to the situation dramatized at Haveit's exquisite and complex build. The robots wanted to know how to bring water back to their dead, and Haveit "published" visitors' ingenious suggestions in the books exhibited at his virtual library. I told them to turn the clock back. I'm so glad to have had the opportunity to see this and create both a poem and then a film in dedication to an extraordinary artist.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Hypatia Pickens
• machinima
• Second Life
• Second Libations
• Haveit Neox
• Linden Endowment for the Arts

[YesikitaCoppolaSL]

Very beautiful and interesting. Your poem and your voice in combination with your great talent to capture here all the beauty is just amazing!

Art in all its forms. Congratulations Dear Hypatia :)

[textcavation]

@YesikitaCoppolaSL Thanks so much Yesikita. And AviewT, Larkworthy, Iono. I admire you all! Happy creating. :)

[TutsyNavarathna]

After a break of one month due to a cyclone that has devastated and knocked out power... :(

The first machinima Im watching is yours Hypatia ! That make me more happy to come back online. Bravo its very beautiful.

[textcavation]

@TutsyNavarathna OMG, Tutsy! I hope you and your friends are okay. :(

[CGZVIDEO]

Great work! Congrats :)

[textcavation]

@2SenseProductions again. Friday I don't think I answered your question fully. The slumping was the original animation Haveit provided (i.e., the woman dying of thirst). I reversed it to suggest both the reversal of time and the ink being sucked back into the pen. the dark woman with the floating hair serves many purposes: She is the seeker of the code, but she is also the substance of the code, the ink of the poem, lost humanity....time itself....

[AviewT]

Leaves me pondering if we cycle or rewind. Very responsive & thought provoking Poetry.

[textcavation]

@majenh Thanks so much, Pia! Means a lot. Thanks everyone. :)

[textcavation]

@2SenseProductions thanks Friday! I shot those clips in reverse. In fact, after that, all the clips are in reverse: the woman coming backwards up the steps, the wave retreating in the library, the waterfall flowing upwards... to suggest going back in time where brook is reduced into rain, rain called back up into cloud, which is sucked back into the sea where all living codes are written. Thanks for noticing!

[majenh]

Beautiful work. Camera angles, colors, words, music -- all work together to create a beautiful visual composition.