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After seeing the film, it stacks up as quite an accomplishment that the filmmakers were able
to drag these folks away from their computers to attend.
We're talking guys (and gals) who spend upwards of half their waking lives immersed in
adventures such as Everquest and Warcraft, conquering levels until there are none left to
conquer - until a new game version is released. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
released in 2007, and our guys stood in line along with gazillions of others to be the first to a)
get their hands on the new software world, and b) rise to the top of the online gaming heap,
competing against both themselves and the virtual community at large.
It's no coincidence that there's a Matrix poster on the wall of the tiny house in Fort Wayne, Ind.,
where Anthony, Chris, Matt and Andy have created their "Fortress of Dorkitude": their "real"
bodies and outside realities become meaningless to them as they conduct their nightly raids
in WoW (Worlds of Warcraft). Amazingly, a couple of them appear to be are on the verge of
transitioning into productive lives through marriage and parenthood.
A second plot thread follows the initially long-distance and then up-close-and-personal
relationship of Everquest mavens Heather and Kevin, who met through their avatars in that
fantasy world and developed a close (and really weird) bond. When Heather decides she's
had enough of Kevin's flirtations with other svelte female virtual reality characters, she
suggests they get together - and flies from Florida to meet Kevin -sans avatar - at his home in
Houston. [read more]
to drag these folks away from their computers to attend.
We're talking guys (and gals) who spend upwards of half their waking lives immersed in
adventures such as Everquest and Warcraft, conquering levels until there are none left to
conquer - until a new game version is released. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
released in 2007, and our guys stood in line along with gazillions of others to be the first to a)
get their hands on the new software world, and b) rise to the top of the online gaming heap,
competing against both themselves and the virtual community at large.
It's no coincidence that there's a Matrix poster on the wall of the tiny house in Fort Wayne, Ind.,
where Anthony, Chris, Matt and Andy have created their "Fortress of Dorkitude": their "real"
bodies and outside realities become meaningless to them as they conduct their nightly raids
in WoW (Worlds of Warcraft). Amazingly, a couple of them appear to be are on the verge of
transitioning into productive lives through marriage and parenthood.
A second plot thread follows the initially long-distance and then up-close-and-personal
relationship of Everquest mavens Heather and Kevin, who met through their avatars in that
fantasy world and developed a close (and really weird) bond. When Heather decides she's
had enough of Kevin's flirtations with other svelte female virtual reality characters, she
suggests they get together - and flies from Florida to meet Kevin -sans avatar - at his home in
Houston. [read more]
Pegasus News
AUSTIN, TEXAS - Second Skin made its world
premiere on opening night (March 7) at the
South by Southwest Film Festival with director
Juan Carlos Pineiro and his producers in
attendance, along with many of the film's
subjects: virtual reality gamers involved
(heavily) in Massive Multiplayer Online Role
Playing Games (MMORPGs).
AUSTIN, TEXAS - Second Skin made its world
premiere on opening night (March 7) at the
South by Southwest Film Festival with director
Juan Carlos Pineiro and his producers in
attendance, along with many of the film's
subjects: virtual reality gamers involved
(heavily) in Massive Multiplayer Online Role
Playing Games (MMORPGs).
SECOND SKIN MOVIE DEBUTS
AT AUSTIN'S SXSW
AT AUSTIN'S SXSW
George Lucas Talks Live-Action Star Wars TV Series
www.slashfilm.com - "The live-action has [none of the characters from the Star Wars movies],
because it’s after Episode III, so everybody’s dead, basically, or hiding somewhere. You hear
about the Emperor, just like you do in Episode IV, but it’s mostly about a whole different
world. I mean, there are a million stories in the big city — you’ve only seen one of them,”
laughs Lucas. “Some of the characters from the features find their way in there, so it’s not
completely divorced. It’s as if we just went down the street and told a different story. You
know, we were doing, I don’t know, 24, and now we’re going to move down the street here
and do The Wire. Same thing, it’s just different people doing the same thing in the same city.”
[read more]
because it’s after Episode III, so everybody’s dead, basically, or hiding somewhere. You hear
about the Emperor, just like you do in Episode IV, but it’s mostly about a whole different
world. I mean, there are a million stories in the big city — you’ve only seen one of them,”
laughs Lucas. “Some of the characters from the features find their way in there, so it’s not
completely divorced. It’s as if we just went down the street and told a different story. You
know, we were doing, I don’t know, 24, and now we’re going to move down the street here
and do The Wire. Same thing, it’s just different people doing the same thing in the same city.”
[read more]
