{"id":1242,"date":"2011-06-19T20:05:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T19:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2011-06-19T20:26:19","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T19:26:19","slug":"beginning-at-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/06\/19\/beginning-at-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginning at the end"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=epredator\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The last few days I have been here in Amsterdam at the Metameets conference and the MMIF (machinima festival). I have to collect my thoughts and write about the whole thing and some of the ideas that where shared and combined over two days. The good news is I know what they are as I had to pay very close attention to everything as moderator. (A harder job than it sounds, but a blast to MC such an amazing set of speakers and delegates).<\/p>\n<p>However we finished the presentations yesterday with the wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/mamachinima.eu\/\">Chantal Harvey\/MaMachinima<\/a> showing and talking about some great pieces of work. It was also a bombshell moment when she announced she was no longer doing machinima to concentrate on doing a feature film. I think the room was just shocked and stunned, but I think that this is a beginning at an end.<\/p>\n<p>Chantal makes some great very well produced, very well delivered pieces and I know that the scope and the size of any of her projects will not diminish that.<\/p>\n<p>Her swan song &#8220;final piece&#8221; in this phase of the life of machinima was this.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"304\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-cRR7p3pabw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nWatch this space <\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.feedingedge.co.uk%2Fblog%2F2011%2F06%2F19%2Fbeginning-at-the-end%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><div name=\"googleone_share_1\" style=\"position:relative;z-index:5;float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><g:plusone size=\"tall\" count=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/06\/19\/beginning-at-the-end\/\"><\/g:plusone><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last few days I have been here in Amsterdam at the Metameets conference and the MMIF (machinima festival). I have to collect my thoughts and write about the whole thing and some of the ideas that where shared and combined over two days. The good news is I know what they are as I<br \/>\n            <span class=\"excerpt-readmore\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/06\/19\/beginning-at-the-end\/\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[306,205],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference","tag-machinima","tag-metameets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1247,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/1247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}