Awaken the Giants | Sinisteria and Shriek Metaverse 2021
Medium: Google Tiltbrush, Altspace metaverse
I don't even know where to begin to describe this incredible project that seemed to have dominated my life for most of 2021. Awaken the Giants turned out to be an incredibly popular project especially after a very challenging covid 2020 year of 'hibernation'. I knew then as I know now that the story of what we were experiencing belonged not to each individual, but to a global audience. In order to 'tap' into the common thread, we needed to find shared spaces of hope and transition.
Special Thank you to my co-partner Nicholas Liang for making the technology 'work' in so many platforms and for helping with the difficult, quiet yet essential tasks that have led to our successes.
QUOTES from our world visitors:
"How can anybody think of this? This is so dope! It's story and art combined"!
"This is a masterpiece! How did they do this?"
"You killed it" "This is my favourite world" "Spectacular" "Mind-Blowing"
"Your world was the epitome of Burning Man for me. I have no words".
There were hidden 'easter egg' locations in the world that were created exclusively to bring people together to share poetry, music, musings.
There have been so many highlights this year that I'm still in the midst of sorting everything. Some memorable moments included:
1) having our artwork grace the cover of ScreenRant Magazine!
2) a Shout out and RT from MC Hammer himself
3) Many interviews on so many platforms and channels
4) A chance to discuss art with SUTU and the Hawaii International Film Festival as one of their special XR Guests (I really wanted to be there in person)
5) An amazing moment speaking in session with amazing world creators in Altspace as part of a diversity-led group at the hugely popular WebXR Design Summit.
I look forward to doing more art in the future and opportunities to sell my work as NFT's. Cheers!
