Month: August 2012
Hosoi Ichiba’s New Beginning
My first Gimme Six article featured the Hosoi Ichiba sim group. Unlike other games, the places we love…
29 August – Not Perfect
In the photo: Strawberry Singh Location: Second Life ALMOST PERFECT BUT NOT QUITE “Almost perfect… but not…
Gamification 2 – Games!
PHILADELPHIA, 29 August — I’m not really at the “Virtual Wharton School” but a Coursera’s Online Virtual…
Gamification 1 – What is Gamification?
PHILADELPHIA, 27 August — Coursera’s Gamification course, taught by Kevin Werbach of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton…
Gimme Six: The Blake Sea – #6
This is the Six of my Gemme Six series. It’s about the Blake Sea but before you think…
Fontbron Academy: Faculty Application
TO: Humane Resources, Fontbron Academy FROM: Vanessa Anne Blaylock RE: Tenure Track Faculty position in Psychopharmacology Dear…
Diary #31 – V Magazine
NEW YORK, 2012 — Gallery Xue / NYC is a real, working art gallery, but it also…
Diary #30 – Docent
THE MAURITSHUIS MUESUM, 1995 — Museum docent Vaneeesa Anne Blaylock dutifully showing Mauritshuis visitors the permanent collection…
Virtual Orchestras
Van’s proposition to turn my “childhood dreams” into virtual world reality got me really excited. And what…
22 August – Virgo
In the photo: Strawberry Singh Location: FATEisland Born in September, I’m really a true Virgo at heart….
Previz #69 – In Freundschaft (Childhood Dreams)
Maybe it’s all these great diary posts Van has been doing on her grad school performances, but…
From Resident to Citizen in Second Life
Like a half-blind newborn, we begin our Second Life rather aimlessly bumping into things as we learn…
Building a community
You know, I have been thinking about community a lot lately. A few weeks ago, Vaneeesa posted…
Whose Rule is it Anyway? An Intro to Digital Citizenship
Lately I have been thinking a lot about the term Digital Citizens. That term is typically used…
Lulu was having second thoughts
Whiskey Monday and I launched the Single Frame Stories challenge a few weeks ago, inviting participants to create a…
God is in the detail
The idiom “God (is) in the detail(s)” expresses the idea that whatever one does should be done…
Enter Heidegger
Given that I am using a Hermeneutic Phenomenological approach, it must come as no surprise that Heidegger’s…
Hello, my name is….
….Krista, and I’m an installation artist/gamer from the midwest. Many a snowy night has been spent in…
iRez @ Chrome Store
THE GOOGLEPLEX, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, 19 August — Hey Chrome users, you can now add iRez to…
iRez on RockMelt
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, 19 August — You have a wonderful lot of web browser choices today —…
19 August – Nefertiti
In the photo: Strawberry Singh Location: Egypt I found this outfit on the second life marketplace a…
19 August – Fiona & Club Republik
NU REPUBLIK, 19 Aug — With Olympic world harmony already a thing of the past, we return…
Diary #29 – Stacey Giachino
KONINKLIJK CONSERVATORIUM, 1995 — The Koninklijk Conservatorium Department of Dance presents Stacey Giachino and Vaneeesa Blaylock in…
Gimme Six: Shopping, Shopping, Shopping – Part 5
It’s Part 5 of my Gemme Six series and I want to take you shopping in Second…
With this ring… Exploring Second Life Weddings
Last night I was invited to be my friend’s Maid of Honour in her upcoming Second Life…
Pride & Prejudice, Dissertation Remix
Given our discussion yesterday on stereotypes and prejudices in SL and other virtual worlds, I thought I’d…
Persuasion
Kat just wrote a great post about body identity and stereotypes amongst avatars in SL. It’s funny….
Pride & Prejudice
Reading Ravanel’s fantastic article on identity in online gaming environments reminded of my initial shock at the…
Avatar & Identity – Introduction
Ever since Vaneeesa invited me over to write a guest post for iRez, I’ve been thinking about…
