Category: Previz

Previsualizations for many of our performance works.

Asian French Maid serving tea and tiny sandwiches to a man and a woman at a cafe table
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Previz #85 – Asian French Maid Avatar Worker Strike

It’s time to fight for Asian French Maid Avatar Worker empowerment! Join us in the streets of Virtual Paris!

photo of a woman, eyes closed and arms in the air, perhaps in a state of ecstatic trance, dancing in a group drum circle
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Previz #84 – Drum Circle

I invite you to join in a drum circle with us. We’ll have drums and hula hoops or you can BYO whatever you like. Rediscover personal ecstasy in your life.

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Previz #83 – Dance Anywhere

Friday at Noon PDT / 19:00 GMT Vanessa Blaylock Company will be joining dancers on 6 continents as part of the 10th annual “Dance Anywhere!”

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Previz #82 – A is for Animation, B is for Baby

George Carlin famously spoke about my stuff and your shit. In this 26-day photo / blog challenge you have the chance to leave your shame over your obscenely large inventory behind and take pride in your brilliant collecting. Share your shit stuff with the world!

photo of a woman eating a slice of bread on a mountaintop as she walks past a makeshift grave marker in the form of a cross
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Previz #81 – Valentine’s Walking Brunch!

You’re invited to Valentine’s Walking Brunch at Izzy’s Gym on Sat 15 Feb! Come hit the VR treadmill: walk, websurf, and hangout with friends.

Photo of Vanessa Blaylock walking on a treadmill desk and reading about the NH Rebellion on her large, flat-screen monitor
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Previz #80 – Year of the Treadmill Desk

2014 is the year of the treadmill desk. Vanessa Blaylock Company is organizing 12 treadmill walking events in 12 months. Please join us!

Vanessa Blaylock and Merriam Galaxy walking down the street in Virtual New Hampshire and wearing "NH Rebellion" t-shirts
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Previz #79 – Virtual New Hampshire Rebellion

Mon 20 Jan from 8:45 – 2p SLT/PST Merriam Galaxy, Vanessa Blaylock, and perhaps YOU will walk 10.2 miles in virtual solidarity with the NH Rebellion walkers on their way from Canterbury to Concord, New Hampshire.

Panoramic photograph of Vanessa Blaylock & Kimika Ying ice skating on the rings of saturn at Oceania Planetary Park at LEA27 in Second Life.
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Previz #78 – Ice Skate on the Rings of Saturn

Join us Sunday 22 Dec from 9-11am SLT for a VBCO Holiday Party. Bring your ice skates, or grab free ones at the party. We’ll be ice skating on the rings of Saturn and skating / dancing to an awesome new party mix from DJ Agnes!

Photo of a crowd of people at night. All holding candles.
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Previz #77 – Candlelight Vigil

Please join us at 6pm Monday PDT / 5am Tuesday MST in Virtual Red Square for a candlelight vigil in support of Russian patriot, inmate, and hunger striker Nadya Tolokno.

Previz #76. Activity #2. Mexico City, 1968. 3 Avatars on a medals podium raise pink gloved fists in a "pussy power salute. The gesture harkening 1968's "black power salute." Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina & Yekaterina Samutsevich, as Tommie Smith, Juan Carlos and Peter Norman.
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Previz #76 – Activity #2: Mexico City, 1968

I propose Mexico City, 1968 a virtual Olympic Games. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina & Yekaterina Samutsevich, as Tommie Smith, Juan Carlos and Peter Norman. 1968 in resonance with 2013. Mexico City with Sochi. Black Gloves with Pink.

Pussy Riot Solidarity Parade. Vanessa Blaylock in a red balaclava. Text: Киска бунт Солидарность парад.
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Previz #75 – Activity #1: Pussy Riot Solidarity Parade!

Previz #75, for VBCO’s first “Activity,” Activity #1 – Pussy Riot Solidarity Parade. A march of avatars at Red Square in Virtual Moscow.

Black & White Dolce & Gabbana ad featuring Madonna scrubbing a floor. Burned in the upper left is the text "VB50"
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Previz #74 — VB50: Farewell

In VB50: Farewell, avatars will clean 15,000 primitive objects and 6.5 hectares of virtual land. VB50 will be the last work in our performance art series.

Photograph of Vanessa Blaylock's chest showing bright red, sunburned skin, and pale, normal flesh colored areas where her bikini top was. Between her breasts, also "sunburned" in is the text "VB49: SPF50, LEA11, Saturday 6 July, 10am - Noon"
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Previz #73 – SPF 50

It started simply enough. I posted an Instagram pix saying that even though it really wasn’t that…

Glitch Art Image - an avatar with unrendered hair that is large polygons of textureless grey
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Previz #72 – Glitch Avatar Pride Parade

OMG AYFKM!? The man, the myth, the legend, Ze Moo has done a previz for a VB/CO…

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Previz #71 – Everyone Loves an Avatar Parade

After the success of last week’s VB42 – Avatar Pride Parade, and yesterday’s VB43 – Animal Parade,…

Animal Parade showing a horse, an eagle, and a number of other animal species superimposed over a background of the Australia (Sydney) region of Second Life
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Previz #70 – Animal Parade

  Our new dramaturge, Trill Zapatero was so inspired by VB42 – Avatar Pride Parade, that she…

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Previz #69 – In Freundschaft (Childhood Dreams)

Maybe it’s all these great diary posts Van has been doing on her grad school performances, but…

Still Photo from Pride Parade
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Previz #68 – Avatar Pride Parade

CIRCUIT LA CORSE, MEEWALH SIM, SECOND LIFE MAINLAND, 9 August — Over the course of VB/CO’s history…

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Previz #67 – Charlotte, Forever

As much as I love Marina Abramovic, Charlotte Moorman holds a special place in my heart. She…

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Previz #66 – Pink & Blue

NEW NEW YORK, 5 June — I was reading a couple of posts by Avital Norman Nathman,…

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Previz #65 – Close Encounters

NEW YORK – CHICAGO – SAN FRANCISCO – ACROSS ANY TABLE, 25 April — If art and…

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Previz #64 – Automattic’s Worldwide WP 5k

MILAN, 10 April — Automattic’s manager of VIP Global Services, Sara Rosso announced the 2nd annual WorldWide…

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Previz #63 – Strange Zeitgeists

SAN FRANCISCO, 11 April — In this Previz we imagine multiverse traveler Ironyca along with performance / new media…

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Previz #62 – Dance Anywhere

TRAFALGAR SQUARE, 30 March — Vaneeesa Blaylock / Company and Gallery Xue / London City will join…

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Previz #61 – Like a Prayer

TUMBLR, INC. 14 March — I hurt a friend this week. It wasn’t my intention, but it…

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Previz #60 – Public Documents

KANDAHAR, 11 March — with the success of yesterday’s bombastic collaboration with Betty Tureaud, VB34 – Net…

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VB Previz #59 – Polymorphic

So this previz isn’t exactly about Helmut Newton’s photograph Big Nude III, Paris 1980, or even about…

poster of avatars in betty tureaud landscape
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VB Previz #58 – Net / Work

VB31 – Demo Days was the brain child of Queen of Demo, Agnes Sharple. Then our gallerist…

image of Vaneeesa and Xue on a farm at Arkansas State
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VB Previz #57 – Sugar Mountain

My daughter Xue is turning 20. This past half year has thankfully been a rather harmonious time…

photo of Aero in SLHS uniform
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VB Previz #56 – Cheer is Life

Aero Bigboots produced Ze Moo’s Rezday Party 2011… and then fell off the face of the virtual…