1. Event: NVision 08 / San Jose, CA; August 25-27, 2008 / Quite an interesting lineup this year, including a concentrated machinima emphasis.
2. Event: 2008 DragonCon Film Festival / Atlanta, GA; August 29 to September 1, 2008 / Currently looking for suggestions, panelist participants, and machinima video submissions.
3. Event: Revelation Perth International Film Festival / Perth, WA, Australia; July 3 to 13, 2008 / Leon Marvell is organizing an experimental machinima exhibition this year in memory of Peter Rasmussen.
4. SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 / Singapore; December 10 to 13, 2008 / They are explicitly calling for machinima submissions; I’m not sure they’ve always done that, have they?
5. Paper: What Counts as a View? - a study of various video-sharing sites to understand this unit of measurement we all use from time to time.
6. Exposition: Experiments in Machinima - A nice treatment of some experimental machinima work, presented by Harrison Heller (Nefarious Guy of Amorphous Blob Productions)
7. Notice: Brightcove Video Sharing Service is discontinuing its Pay Media model
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Nobody in machinima-based anymation is exploring the surreal, the symbolic, the strange… to the degree that Croatian filmmaker Tom Jantol is doing. This stuff is just awe-inspiring.