Saltburn Digital Village

Welcome to the Animation Event in Saltburn by the Sea.

This is a fringe event as part of the

Animex International Festival of Animation & Computer Games

Hi I am Bozz there is lots of people here that are from lots of different subject areas which is great. A real cross community participation. I go to the media club in Saltburn in Destinations (a UK Online Centre). I am part of the group that have done “THE BONFIRE”. This is an annual bonfire on 5th November, and as part of this major British festival. I put together a blog on it on skinningrove.tv and also I have wiki called Port Mulgrave and am working on an animation connected with the Jetty! Its called Lost Harbours. Please do connect with me in any way I am open and friendly.

You can reach me through Barry Hunt

Kieran and Sharon are both proud to say “Skinningrove Link up is part of something international which hopefully will raise profile of Skinningrove internationally. We are very fortunate to have Barry Hunt who not only happens to be a local resident but an excellent advocate for community matters and woudl like to congratulae him on becoming an Amb”assador to the Uzipis Republic. There is not anybody better.

Jetty! Jetty! Jetty! a Jetty! ” they shout as the Skinningrove battle cry now is.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0067r23/Lisa_McCormick_09_02_2010/

1:16:00 and then it should play. You will hear markus and steve and barry (you don’t have to listen to it

Now we have some post event photos.

Alison Atkinson, Loftus Town Clerk has nimbly translated the Latin motto for the town – vis virtus velocitas – life strength speed. Since 2002 she has been clerk and is delited to come to an IMEX extension and says “We need to drag ourselves kicking and screaming into the 21st century!” Luckily Loftus leads the way -although our website is a classic from the pre-Firefox days!

We are now having crudités, canapés, vol-au-vents or just snacks depending on your perspective. Some of the Film Stars are here, including Mark 1; who is very modest and stardom has not affected him negatively. Though he refuses to give autographs! Also the Mayor of Loftus is here in chains AND suit.

The other shifty character, quite recognizable from the movie is present and the director has dressed down (no tie) as has yours truly, one of Arthur Vader’s White-lightening storm troopers.

After a successful afternoon event with over 140 children and viewers from Austria, Lithuania, Latvia, Finland and elsewhere in the UK we have been preparing for the evening.

There will be no actual Video Bridging during this session, although new content will be published though this live blog. Also the Back Channel will be open where questions and comments are very welcome.

These can be fed back to the Mayors, Home Office rep and police here. Your favorite community hacktavists will be in pole position to include you so please do take part.

Well its filmed in Second Life. You might think that Steve must have been a dab hand with the editing. However, many of the objects and sometimes even the avatars can be bought. They are called artifacts. So the TARDIS and the Star Trek Next Generation transporter were both coded by others and are available to be bought in Second Life.

The currency is something called Linden Dollars. They have a really low real value, but in Second Life can buy many things to improve your appearance etc. The only limiting is the computing power in showing the better quality objects. this is a world much as envisioned by Tad Williams in his Otherland series of books.