John C. Dvorak’s blog alerts us to “The Dumb Man,” a short film created almost entirely in Second Life. Here’s a great post about it over on New World Notes.

More than social networking and in-world marketing, this is the sort of thing that makes Second Life incredibly interesting to me. This is five minutes and five seconds of intense creativity with some truly powerful images.

Projects like these, known as machinima, strike me here at the beginning of the 21st century as the digital equivalent of what Georges Melies was doing with film at the end of the 19th century.

Imagine the possibilities.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 at 6:00 am and is filed under Internet Stuff.