Episode Four - The Green Fairy of Amoration Studio

Who's On Second? is a podcast about educators and nonprofits who have jacked into the online 3D community called Second Life. In each episode of this podcast, I'll chat with some of most interesting groups and individuals exploring this new online space. This time out, a former chaplin turned Second Life activist, artist and movie maker. I first saw In Kenzo at a meeting of nonprofits in Second Life. She was hard to miss, being green about eight feet tall, and sporting spikey white hair and gossamer but very goth bat wings. In real life, the giant goblin is Evonne Heyning, a young woman who heads up the Los Angeles-based nonprofit Amoration Studio. Amoration tackles a wide variety of creative ventures for corporations, like Telus, a mobile phone company here in Canada, and a host of activist and nonprofit groups like Betterworld, a group which has created the powerful Camp Darfur simulation you'll hear Evonne mention in the interview. Evonne, In Kenzo, is as a machinima producer. Machinima are movies filmed inside virtual worlds like Second Life. I began my interview with Evonne by asking about her multifaceted past. If you'd like to learn more about the studio visit http://evoamo.googlepages.com/amoration [7] If you're part of a educational or nonprofit group doing cool stuff in Second Life and would like to be featured in this podcast, please drop me a line at wmacphail@gmail.com [8]. I'd love to hear from you. This podcast is a part of the rabble podcast network at rabble.ca. You can support this an other great podcasts on the rpn by becoming a rabble member. Please visit rabble.ca to find out how. I'm Wayne MacPhail, Medium Helvetic in Second Life. Drop by if you're in game.

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