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[starkhaze]

This is awesome work. 

I'm doing a project. Please let me know if this is interesting to you. J'habit a paris pour le moment, mais je suis Anglais. 

I'm a PHD student In London UK. I've been doing a project on a series of events surrounding the suicide of a guy in the USA who had a private collection of animals. I was just there in Ohio filming and interviewing people and I found 288 pages of Police reports. I had the idea to record parts of the reports as voice overs and have reconstructions of the reports as 3d animation. But then i thought that if this could be reconstructed in SL it could become way more collaborative and interesting. So i would like to build the whole situation in SL with some collaborators and film various reconstructions of events as machinima. So as far as i can think at the moment, the elements would include:

-A farm where all this could be staged. Basic buildings with green hills, fences, etc. Pickup trucks and junk, cages for the animals. 

-Cows in a pasture, skinny with bones showing (Thompson had trouble with neighbors because of starving cows). 

-A dead hole near the farm. This is a ravine where animal bones and carcasses are thrown. 

-The animals. Tigers, Lions, Bears, wolves, Apes. More the better. But we can replicate.

-Police avatars

-Terry Thompson avatar, dead and alive would be nice. 

 

Below there's a bit more info. 

What do you think about this? My problem is that i have absolutely no idea how to do it in SL! 

 

Starkhaze

 

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The project opens up event surrounding the suicide of Terry Thompson  October 2011 in Zanesville Ohio.

 

In brief, Thompson had a private animal zoo (menagerie) with over 60 lions tigers bears wolves monkeys etc. In october 2011 he released his animals after cutting the locks off the cages. He then shot himself in the head with an old Ruger 365. Before doing that he had laced his body with chicken parts in order to be consumed by his animals. Sometime later the sheriff received a complaint. A Woman had just seen a lion bounding next to the highway near the parking lot of an abandoned krispy kreme.   She was hysterical. The deputy arrives at the Thompson farm. His cruiser rolls up to the property. Some lions are milling around. A grizzly bear begins to approach. Over by the house a man's body is lying down. A rare bengal tiger is eating the man's head. It is 2 hours to dark. The sheriff makes the call, shoot to kill. The police go on an all night hunt. 

 

This is the event matrix that unpacks a multitude of threads binding society in a tangle of barely seen connections. Private property, the spectacle, fear, wilderness, pioneering etc. I went to Zanesville in October of 2012 and spent 2 weeks filming and interviewing people. The interviews are audio and there will be no talking heads in this film. I also have 288 pages of police after action reports from the event which i will use to record audio reconstructions with actors. 

 

I'm in the process of putting together a structure and a "paper edit" of all the textual material. 

 

Another thing to consider in any question of animated reconstructions, is that previously Thompson had been in trouble for malnourished cattle. Starving cows. A dead hole that he used for the dead animals. All of this was investigated by both the police and the society for the protection of animals. I would like to do reconstructions of that as well.