Alt-Zoom mentioned on Wired.com!

Today is now officially known as “the day I couldn’t stop smiling”.

A couple of weeks ago, a Wired reporter contacted me to ask me some questions about my work with Alt-Zoom and the camera. She mentioned that she was doing a piece on “Must-Have SL Gadgets“. Here is what she ended up writing about us:

7. Shouting Out from Second Life
Free

Second Life residents are making in-world movies — called “machinima” — using the wide variety of locations in the 3-D world, as well as on their own virtual movie sets built in world. For smooth camera work and easier retakes, the Alt-Zoom camera (SLurl) is free, part of the Machinima StarterKit available in Lukanida (SLurl). Creator BuhBuhCuh Fairchild, aka Ben Linden (Second Life employees take the last name of Linden), was so enthusiastic about the art he hired his own part-time employee, moo Money, to help run the Take5 Machinima Festival.

This is so exciting! The article even got Boing Boinged!