This weekend, Ian Chisholm released Clear Skies 2, a forty-six minute followup to his immensely successful epic sci-fi movie Clear Skies. It is some mighty fine filmmaking (once again), great story, intelligent dialogue, lots of action and humor, heightened suspense... I couldn't recommend it any more strongly.

Download links are below, but I am happy to report that Clear Skies 2 is available to watch on Vimeo, right now! (If you want the higher res original, the download is for you.)

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• Clear Skies 2 is downloadable from this link. The "Download Now" button is a torrent file, if you're able to download that way. If not, there's also a direct download link of the 357MB WMV file in the tiny print just under that button.
• You can watch the original Clear Skies streaming on Machiniplex.

As if that wasn't enough high-tech infused machinima for one week... Dave Tyner just announced that the second installment of his series Doublekill - titled "Jess" - will premiere this Friday at 9 p.m. EST at the following site: http://www.treadster.com/jess The first installment in this series showcased some amazing Unreal Tournament customized animations and voice acting / sound engineering by our friend Ricky Grove. Needless to say, I'm excited.

Anyone feel like doing a Skype chat starting around 8:30 p.m. EST Friday for some live interaction while we watch the release? Dave plans to stream it using the DivX player on his site, thought it might be fun to chat while we watch. Interested? Let me know, we'll organize something. (Sorry, Euro-folks, I know the timing is awful for you)