MMOvie - a great idea showcased with a short trailer last year. Just spotted on Dwarf Priest’s blog that a 10 minute version has now been put together by VOIG. Check out both the trailer and the 10 min version - WoW spoofs the movies in top machinima fashion - check out how many major film references you can catch :)  I love the fight club moment from the trailer!

Quick non-Wow item, but just wanted to share this story from BRK about an Operational Readiness Inspection as it entertained me. I’ve included an excerpt below.

An ORI? The Air Force has this little thing called an Operational Readiness Inspection where it tests a military base’s capability to respond in time of a war or other surprise. What happens is a plane lands and a high-ranking military official respectfully requests the base commander’s presence. They meet and the base commander is handed a folder that says,

Congratulations, your base is at war. Be prepared to deploy to Location X in 48 hours. Good Luck, your chance at a promotion to Major-General is in the balance. Love, The Chief of Staff of the Air Force.

The base commander has a heart-attack, the vice-commander slaps him back to consciousness, and the base goes into ORI-Mode. Pack this, move them over there, get the airplanes airborne, load all your equipment on the C-5, don’t sleep for 36 hours, then get your duffel bags filled with 2.8 pairs of underwear over to the processing facility to get shipped out. All of this under the watchful eyes of the ORI Inspection Team.

Read the full story at BRK’sOperational Readiness Inspection

There’s some great WoW Machinima out there at the moment and some of the very best is coming from Baron Soosdon. ‘I’m So Sick’ puts a lot of real MTV videos to shame and can be seen at Stage6 and at lower resolution at YouTube.

For a slightly more surreal experience, Snoman’s Ephemeral Dreamscape and its prequel Wandering Dreamscape make changes to the wow models, bringing you views of Azeroth as you’ve never seen it before. Highlights from Ephemeral include Flooded Un-Goro and Frozen Core. Youtube has a low-res version of Ephemeral and low-res Wandering split into 3 parts: part1, part2, part 3, but the high-res versions are recommended for best effect