Comments on: SpaceJunky Virtual Stage Manager Tommy Parrott

By: Barbie

Barbie — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:15:10 +0000

Tommy is a great guy and a visionary. I have worked with him many times through the Space Junky band and you will be hard press to find another stage manager that knows so much about the going ons of SL, lag factors, and other such things. He will even take time to go over simple stuff for you to understand.

He hasn’t quit his job, he cut back, as do most people when they are exploring other possible career choices. He still makes money and goes to work in the RL but has stepped back. He only deals with what clients he already has. Smart idea because the bit he’s talking about as a job is something that has a future.

the interview does seem to go all over the place. If this is a sample of the two hours of interviewing I wonder how the rest of it would portrait Tommy. Overall, it just seems to be scattered.

By: Ping2Weltall Zhongyuan

Ping2Weltall Zhongyuan — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:03:15 +0000

Cutting down 2 hours of Interview to a few lines – well hard to get a opinion. Bird sure has a point and btw. I just shaved 2 day’s ago for a similar reason. But at least I got RL payed for my SL time.
I don’t think SL is really here to stay. Some sure remember CompuServe somewhere in 1992? They all ready has a virtuell world and we could walk inside it even had money to buy clothing but it’s gone same may happen with SL but I hope there smarter.
Fortunatly these day’s where able to save prim content outside SL in OpenSim so it won’t be a complete loss this time hopefully.
But other things like dynamic VRHTML doesn’t stand still but als SL with it’s hand free camara 3d editing is improving. At the end a content creator or whatever we call ourselfes able to rez a prim won’t make a difference just dust in the Metaverse.

By: JayR Cela

JayR Cela — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:42:29 +0000

@Darien / the reason the transcript may seem to be a bit discontinuous could be, that the actual interview took a bit over 2 hours time in order to complete. I used only the current and, important issues being discussed between Tommy an I,and condensed them. Similar to modern sound bites, main stream news media.

JayR Cela :_)

By: Darien Caldwell

Darien Caldwell — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:10:10 +0000

I have to comment that the interview seems very dis-continuous. I feel like I read parts of 5 different interviews, squished into one. It suddenly jumps from subject to subject, with no clear reason why the subject suddenly shifted. From a band, to megaprims, to sculpties, to the economy… What was the subject exactly?

By: lurker at the threshold

lurker at the threshold — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:30:07 +0000

I’ve had dealings with Tommy Parrott several accounts ago. Nice guy, but I’ve always gotten a bad vibe of distrust of him.

By: Rock Ramona

Rock Ramona — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:30:34 +0000

siiigh,another idiot leaves his day job to play in sl,we will see this guy on Dateline NBC a year from now being dragged out of his apartment for non payment,with a long beard and uncut hair screaming,I AM A METEVERSE MILLIONAIRE IM TELLING YOU!!!!so sad:(

By: Bird Lilliehook

Bird Lilliehook — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:29:50 +0000

Tommy is a great creator and have used his work since I started in the business, Space Junky is a great addition for the Live Music venues, and claps at the great interview!