This is the first post of the QuickStop Visualisation Project (QSVP). It is intended to be repository for the metadata, paradata and general feedback for the project and feature updates.
The QuickStop Visualisation is located in the southwest corner of the Digital Humanities Island of the of world Second Life, a free online platform. Do drop by and visit and leave a note with your nickname in the garbage can so that you may be notified of events happening there.
Now, for the backstory:
This is a project for the King's College London Digital Culture and Technology programme. It is designed to be an online meeting place for View Askew fans.
The project’s purpose is to help ease the transition from basic text communication systems to a 3D environment using a common and free platform (Second Life) and a familiar fan friendly location. Set in New Jersey the QuickStop is a convenience store which has been a pivotal setting for a series of cult classic films by writer/director/actor Kevin Smith. Because the QuickStop is iconic of the films the project will benefit casual and hardcore fans alike.
The ideal version of QuickStop was filmed in black and white. It is ideal in a visualisation project sense because this is how the QuickStop started in cult history and changes since are merely cosmetic. Building it in colour would not allow the QuickStop much ability to show its historical aspect. By building the QuickStop in black and white fans are transported to the View Askew world, not a location in the real world and are given a glance at the past.
Smith’s View Askew production company has engaged its fan base online since 1997 through the official website. View Askew also has a large, venerable forum deeply rooted in the fan community, an online store, promotional areas and it even has a weekly podcast featuring the two main creators (Scott Mosier and Kevin Smith) which frequently has guests from the View Askew universe.
This high level of expertise with online marketing strategies has led to a large online following. I feel the next step after a website, podcast and forum is a three dimensional world in which users may interact in real time. Second Life is an ideal platform.
The aim/scope of this project is to build the QuickStop with appropriate detail, setting and if possible incorporate sound, so that fans may gather and talk about View Askew in Second Life.
P.S Try clicking on the clerks for an easter egg!
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