It's fun and almost unbelievable to see how videos - called machinimas - are made in SL. They are creative, and unbounded by physical constraints. But what's intriguing as I surfed the net is that I found many of the machinimas are lined with melachonic soundtracks, and with scenes of digital devastation. To be clear, I love these SL videos too; but probably the core SL audience like them even better than me - does that reflect the disillusion of the digitally-savvy? I like this one called VolaVola quite a lot, plus obviously Cao Fei's iMirror which always have an impact on me despite having watch it numerous times - the real emotion beyond the virtual pixels is an important phenomenon in the Net Generation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYq3grSIO0A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD8yZhMWkw0&feature=PlayList&p=BE6D3763D5A96675&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=1
Beyond that, there are the uber-cool "music video" style machinimas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_vgUDPhH3Q
There are also more "traditional" music and performances transported to SL. The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic performed on SL in 2007. So did Lang Lang, who gave a piano performance. A Dutch pianist recorded his performance of Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique and merge that with a SL "video recording"
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/arts/music/18seco.html?scp=10&sq=second%20life&st=cse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVGWeZuxFKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkF9ekLTHdE
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