Rocky Horror in Second Life, March 1
Finally! I’ve long thought the Rocky Horror Picture Show would be the perfect film to screen in the virtual world of Second Life. After all, it’s the original weird costumed participatory media experience, filled with sex, mad scientists and terrorized newbies — just like SL! Well, start working on your Frank N. Furter avatars, because the Pirate Cinema in Stockholm, Sweden (I think this is the link), is holding a Rocky Horror Picture Show Second Life-a-long that will pair a real-world screening with one in the virtual world.
The event is being held in collaboration with architecture students at Stockholm’s Royal Institute of Technology, who are billing it as “a night in the spirit of Piracy and architecture, an attempt to destroy the firewall between the physical and virtual, to create a fellowship without limits.” The film starts Thursday, March 1, at noon SL time, in »The Office region« of SL.
The great thing about it is that the real-life screening will be streamed into the virtual world. (The SL screening will apparently be streamed to the RL theater as well.) If you’re not a virgin, you know that this means that the SL audience will get to see not only the film itself, but the antics of Sweden’s costumed Rocky Horror fans as they prance and dance onstage, and ask questions and give directions to the actors (which the actors, of course, answer and follow slavishly). One can only imagine what the experience will be like in Second Life. (It would be great to get a regular screening going there to see how the Rocky Horror cult manifests itself in the virtual world.)
Excellent fun.
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Looks like the Crayonistas had some inside info on this…http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/pic.aspx?id=112226&Name=Fiend+Ludwig…in October!
Cool idea for the film; it is perfect for SL! We actually had a few staged adaptations of Rocky Horror in the pre-video days back in 2003/2004. Rafin Grimm was Frank, I was Riff-Raff, Jennyfur was Magenta, and who else but Aimee Weber was Columbia? Good times. :)
I never did script the castle in Indigo to take off, however!
I getr a lot of stick about my predator AV looking like it has fishnets on, well it does sort of. SO that picture means I shoudl pop along and fit right in in a strange way. Mind you strange is the ONLY way with RH.
Come to think of it Algernon Spackler, my partner in crime is a little bald too.
Now all we need is a Waiting for Guffman sing-along.
[…] I just found out about a special event at 12PM SLT on Thursday, March 1st, which will happen in real life and in virtual life. I read about it from a 3pointd.com article and it caught my attention. The Pirate Cinema in Stockholm, Sweden, will be showing the movie to a real audience and will stream the screening in second life as well. They will probably be showing what is happening in second life to the first life audience as well so it’s a real test of virtual interaction. The screening will take place at The Office [237,239,61]. I will try to attend and have some fun! […]
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did it a bunch of times last year already. i was rather fun