I finally had to bite the bullet and delete all entries from http://moomoney.wordpress.com in order to make a post directing people to this site. I’m going to be tweaking the CSS in the coming weeks to make it the site I want it to be for the future. I’ll still update the content, though. I have plenty I’d love to discuss with everyone. Please have patience and don’t forget to update this site on your feeds! Thanks!

I’ve been promoting and making machinima for over two years now. The time has really flown by. Since the beginning, moo Money and Sasha Rudie, my real life persona, have been one and the same. In so many ways, they still are. However, I need a balance.

I’ve actually splintered off and married myself. I encourage all of you to say hi to Money Moo, my new partner in SL. Freud would have a field day analyzing this relationship! Money Moo will be running the Bayjou Theater in the mainland Linden Department of Public Works city project, Bay City. She’ll be holding regular events, classes, premieres, and displaying machinima.

The 2007 Second Life Community Convention caught me by surprise in so many ways. I was shocked by all of the attention that I received. As some of you may know, I planned the Machinima track. It was attended by very few, as everyone was at the Business and Education tracks. Since then, I’ve been out of the spotlight. However, I haven’t been out of machinima.

What have I been up to? Well, I’m no longer working for Alt-Zoom Studios, but I still help manage Machinimatographers, the group BuhBuhCuh Fairchild and I started two years ago, as well as Lukanida, the free backlot island. It is now restricted to group members only due to squatters. I’ve been working on projects for Linden Lab, Cisco, PBS, and many more companies. In the coming months, I’ll actually put up a *gasp* portfolio, so that you can see all of the cool projects that I’ve worked on in my time in SL. August marks the two year anniversary of my being full-time in SL, and I’ve accomplished a lot. I’ve also been blogging machinima daily for Massively.com and WoWInsider.com.

Some of you may take this to mean that I’ve left all of you for World of Warcraft, but the truth is that since I blogged daily on Massively, the mutual leads over at WoW Insider thought that I could do the same for them. I played WoW years ago, but don’t currently play it at this time. In order to become familiar with the scene, I immersed myself in their community and got to know many talented machinimators, including Baron Soosdon, Ian Beckman, Selserene, Pinkhair, Gnomechewer, Dopefish, Malu05, Olibith, and many others.

In terms of the splitting off that I’ve mentioned earlier, I’m going to keep the professional side of me and the educational side of me separate. SashaRudie.com will be the host of my portfolio, as well as my resume, and professional accomplishments. MooMoney.net will be the host of my personal blog, which I will start trying to regularly update. There’s so much new technology that’s out there and I can’t wait to share it with all of you!

What’s coming up? Well, in about two weeks, you’ll see what I’ve been working on for the last six months. It’s a project that means so much to me emotionally, physically, and spiritually. Many of you participate in the Second Life Relay for Life. I’ve been working on a 17ish minute documentary on how four volunteers spend their time fundraising in SL for this event. The few people that have seen the draft have told me they’ve cried, so that’s my goal. I want all of you to be reaching for your tissues! After it’s released, it will immediately start being refined to take out some branding and cleaned up for real life festival submission. I want the world to know what ACS/SLRFL is accomplishing in Second Life!

I will also be releasing a more detailed tutorial on making machinima. I’ve been seeing a whole new crop of SL machinimators that seem to be solely interested in machinima from the money-making aspect of it, rather than the art. Then there are the people that are blogging a lot of misinformation that I feel is hurting the machinimator community in SL. You’ll be seeing a lot of advice blogging and tips/tricks from me in the near future.

Another of my goals is to ease the transition of machinimators that come from outside of SL. We all know how huge a learning curve this platform is, so imagine how shocked they are! However, a lot of them have been working on machinima a lot longer than we have and have plenty of sage advice for the newer crowd. There have been monthly meetings going on in SL to discuss current events in machinima and I’d like to make the SL crowd more aware of them.

Money Moo was going to be teaching some classes at SL’s 5th Birthday celebration on behalf of Bayjou Theater and the FIlm Appreciation Society. However, not only was it too short notice, but when I looked outside of the plot, there were tons of self-serving machinimator plots everywhere. I saw signs and video screens as high as the sky, glowing, blinking, and rotating. It may as well have been the mainland and their for sale signs. I don’t have a problem with people making money, but I saw portfolios, links to websites, landmarks, and basically everything but giant “hire me!” signs, and I felt that it really took away from the community feel of SL5B. Has Second Life really become every person for themselves? I know and love a better community than that!

The AMAS Machinima Festival skipped last year, but is coming up again in New York in November. The awesome team of Friedrich Kirschner and Frank Dellario are heading it up. I intend to be there and I invite all New Yorkers and anyone within driving distance to check it out!

So that’s what comes to mind so far. If you’re reading this, let me know that you’re out there! I would love some helpers that can assist me in mass educating the general public about machinima. Spreading the word is time consuming! I am so proud of everyone that has taken up machinima. You’re doing a wonderful job, and at times it can probably be frustrating, but don’t give up!

Well, this has turned into a giant opus, but the point is, I’m here. I still very much believe in machinima and I want everyone to believe in it too. It’s not only a great tool for educators, but also corporations, individuals, and even as a form of self-expression! Machinima will only become more popular in the coming years and I want each and every one of you to be a part of that with me. What do you say?

Well, it looks like it’s my video card.  I’ve been bluescreening if I do anything intensive, and sometimes nothing intensive. I’ve logged in every now and then to record machinima, but even that is risky for now.  I’ve had a large number of people get angry with me for not being around and I’m actually getting kind of tired of it. Real life happens. I’ve been around for the last 18 months almost night and day.

Why can’t I just go out and buy a new video card? See, that’s the funny part about contracting. You agree to do some work for someone and then suddenly it takes over *4* months to even prepare the contract to start work. I thought it would be done in the beginning of November because it was prepared for final signature. I see no end in sight, but there’s still a tidy January 1st deadline on the project. Since it’s a time-intensive project, I didn’t want to take on a complicated assignment and be pressed for time.

While I have a boatload of money on the way in 20-30 days, I don’t have the advance I’ve been waiting on. Sure, I could RMA the video card, but then I’d be without an entire COMPUTER while I waited for 3-4 weeks. So I’m sure that you can see my dilemma here. I want to be there for people, but I can’t while my computer is flipping out.

I miss socializing with all of you, but I hope you’ll understand why I’m not there.  I don’t normally like to discuss this stuff in public, but I also don’t like the hatemail. If you want to contact me out of SL, I’d be happy to chat with you, but not if it’s something that requires me to log into SL.

See you sometime soon!

My methods of contact are as follows:

AIM: moomoneySL/YIM: sasharudie/MSN: mooofnapa@hotmail.com/Skype: moomoney

~moo Money

Who lives in England or within a train ride of it?  I’m planning and budgeting now.  Let me know!

The good news is that the writers of SLI were wrapped into a monster huge site for everything MMO-related, Massively. There *will* be an adjustment period for this site if you’re used to SLI. It has different tagging, layout, and whatnot. HOWEVER, none of the SLI staff left. You’ll still get the same great news from us. It’s just on a different site.

Here’s the lowdown. There are like 25+ writers that will cover as much about different MMOs as is humanly possible. Some have even chosen to write SL news! There’s even a tag for Second Life news alone. Did you know you can search for posts by your favorite writer? Even CATEGORY!

What does this mean for me? I’ll still be my same old self, writing about SL news. However, I’ll also be writing extensively about Machinima. Right now, I’m doing the Cinemassively feed, which is a daily Machinima or video post at 12:30pm EDT. You should also keep an eye out for my weekly interviews with Machinimists. In addition, there is a Machinima tag for news that doesn’t include video. It’s not just SL Machinima, either. It’s all the Machinima goodness from MMOs and even non-MMOs that you can possibly stomach!

Lists:

• moo Money’s posts
• Cinemassively
• Videos
• Machinima
• Second Life

Feeds:

• General list of feeds
• Second Life
• Machinima
• Videos
• Cinemassively

My contact info is as follows:

• AIM = sashab00ty
• YIM = sasharudie
• MSN = mooofnapa@hotmail.com
• Twitter = moomoney
• Email = machinimoo [at] gmail.com
• Phone # = 254-214-1299

My real name is Sasha, but I also answer to moo.  I am very approachable!  Just look for the blonde midget.

Please be patient with me as I step out of 1996 and learn CSS and PHP, plus every other language that makes me want to stab myself repeatedly.  I love you all! *muah*

• I’m moving to Temecula, CA soon.
• I’m now blonde.
• I’m taking on more machinima projects to help me afford to live in Socal!
• SLRFL is coming up soon!
• The Machinima part of SLCC is going to rock your socks.
• I’m going to try to go to the machimima fest in Europe.
• I just finished this machinima for Manpower:

Click here to view the embedded video.

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Noospherists: Overachievers. Congrats! You’re at the top of the class, guys. You get things done and you have a bright future ahead of you.

FIC 2.0s: Student Council and Jocks. You’re the cool kids. You may not own a business, but your work with others is high profile and you are well-connected. You might not go as far as the honor roll students, but you’ll still have time to party, right?

FIC 2.1s: The bad boys. You’ve been caught smoking in the bathroom and etching your name into your desk. You’re still connected, but your affiliation with the drama club often gets you into trouble.

FIC 1.0s: Underachievers. You thought you could sail through your senior year and it didn’t work out. The principal has just informed you that you’ll be repeating the grade.

With that said, is anyone up for a themed graduation party?  We could do yearbook photos and tell everyone our goals for the future!