Vanessa Blaylock

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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!

Ravanel Griffon & Vanessa Blaylock trying on skins at the LAQ shop in Second Life

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Avatar

Ravanel Griffon Visits Second Life

iRez’ most (virtual) worldly author dropped by Second Life last night for a late night shopping spree. New clothes. Facial. Cut, color & perm. All of it. And why not? Later today we’re taking the annual iRez author photo!

Photo of a crowd of people at night. All holding candles.

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Previz

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.

Photograph of Nadya Tolokno, her husband Pyotr Verzilov, her daughter Gera, and a 4th unknown person. They are in a clearing in the woods. Tolokno fills a bottle with water from a stream. Verzilov holds Gera in his lap.

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Postcards

Dear Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (a letter to) #3

Хорошо, это должно быть время, чтобы утомлять вас другая древняя история фотографии . Опять же из моей бывшей танцевальной карьеры . На этот раз нет ” почти друг ” в фотографии. Это всего лишь я . С 1996 года. Оно было принято на Koninklijk консерватории в Гааге. Мы работали на кусок основанный на жизни Анны Франк .

Dear Nadya. Nadya Tolokno. Nadezhda Andreyevna Tolokonnikova. Наде́жда Андре́евна Толоко́нникова. Nadya Tolokno with 2 friends in a wooded area. Tolokno wears an orange top and white overalls. Her hair is up in a blue bandana. The friends smile for the camera, yet Tolokno seems more pensive.

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Postcards

Dear Nadya (a letter to) #2

Dear Nadezhda,

How has your week been? My week has gone pretty well. I am back at the university now. I teach art there. I have a lot of general education “art appreciation” students. Last week we tried some painting. This week they will be doing a big photography project. I see them tomorrow. After that I will go kayaking for a while.

Photo of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and daughter Gera in the forest with stained hands from something like picking blueberries. Text over the image reads "Dear Nadya (a letter to)

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Postcards

Dear Nadya (a letter to)

How do you write a letter to someone without including anything overtly political when everything you know about her is overtly political? I don’t know. What I do know is that these patriots are still human beings, probably struggling to survive horrific prison conditions. Some letters seem like the least I can do.

Practice Based Research in the Arts. Leslie Hill & Helen Paris. Diptych of images from Hill & Paris Curious performance art company.

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Class Notes

Practice Based Research in the Arts

Vanessa Blaylock has enrolled in Practice Based Research in the Arts taught by Leslie Hill & Helen Paris of Stanford Online / NovoED. The course begins 9 October. Want to join?

Letters to Nadya and Maria in Prison. Photo of the Pussy Riot trial in Russia. Nadya Tolokno. Maria Alyokhina. Yekaterina Samutsevich.

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Postcards

Letters to Nadya and Maria in Prison

As part of the 17 Aug ’13 global Pussy Riot Solidarity Day, VBCO is collecting your letters to Nadya and Maria in prison. We’ll do our best to get your letters to Nadya and Maria.

Asylum in Your Embassy! Grand Opening! Screen Cap of Asylum store on Second Life Marketplace.

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Fashion

Asylum in Your Embassy! Grand Opening!

“Nadya Tolokno,” Agnes Sharple, Trill Zapatero, Vanessa Blaylock & Friends bring you an exciting new fashion experience, ASYLUM IN YOUR EMBASSY! Visit the store on Second Life Marketplace today!

Open Content Program The Getty. Tight detail of Eucharis face from the Jacques-Louis David painting. With text Open Content Program The Getty.

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Museums & Galleries

Open Content Program The Getty

Yesterday James Cuno, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, announced The Open Content Program, a 4,600 image gift to global culture.

If Lessig is Monet, then Stallman is Turner. Collage of pix of Lawrence Lessig, Claude Monet, Richard Stallman, and JMW Turner.

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Free Culture

If Lessig is Monet, then Stallman is Turner

In 1872 Claude Monet was ahead of his time. In 2004 Lawrence Lessig was ahead of his time. But how do we explain the insight of JMW Turner or Richard Stallman 30 years earlier still?

Pussy Riot Week. Montage of Pussy Riot images. Arms raised in front of St. Basil's cathedral. "Free Pussy Riot" written on chained arms. Amnesty International logos written on arms. On top of the images is the text "It's Pussy Riot Week"

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Production

Pussy Riot Week!

We celebrate Pussy Riot Week with a photo shoot Sunday, online shop opening Tuesday, and the Pussy Riot Solidarity Parade on Saturday.

Pussy Riot Solidarity Parade. Vanessa Blaylock in a red balaclava. Text: Киска бунт Солидарность парад.

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Previz

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.

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Fashion

What I Wear

A visit to the breezy, new Fashion Sharing website What I Wear. Various UI/UX problems hamper the experience, but the overall site is fun and interactive.

Pussy Riot! Photos of Vanessa Blaylock, Agnes Sharple and Monerda Skute. All wear Pussy Riot T-shirts.

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Biography

Pussy Riot! 10 Questions with Scarlett Luv

In the final chapter of Scarlett Luv’s 10 Questions with Vanessa Blaylock we learn of plans for Pussy Riot Solidarity Parade ’13, Divorce ’14, and other events.

Montage of 4 images: Mermaid Bryn (Bryn Michaels) Mermaid Yordie (Yordie Sands) Mermaid Vanessa (Vanessa Blaylock) and Mermaid Hanna (Hanna Lee)

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Biography

Mermaids and Pissants, 10 Questions with Scarlett Luv

In Part 2 of her “10 Questions” Scarlett asks Vanessa about Mermaids and Pissants. Of floating free. Of struggling through the mire.

photo of Monerda Skute with the text "10 Questions with Scarlett Luv: Part 1: Bitches, Feminism & Pussypower (redux) over the image

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Biography

Interview with the Avatar, 10 Questions with Scarlett Luv

Intrepid fashionista Scarlett Luv asked me 10 questions. In this 1st of 3 parts I consider topics Agnes Sharple first wrote about 3 years ago, “Bitches, Feminism & Pussypower.”

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More Challenges

Avatar History Quiz by Mera Kranfel

The virtual world is real because we invest time and soul in developing its narratives. In Mera Kranfel’s Avatar History Quiz you can challenge yourself to pick the Who, When & Where of these virtual life moments.

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Performance Documents

VB47 – Child Avatar Pride Parade

I am a child, I’ll last a while. You can’t conceive of the pleasure in my smile. You hold my hand, rough up my hair, It’s lots of fun to have you there.

Another Internet is Possible: photo of Vanessa Blaylock wearing a Creative Commons t-shirt and operating a DJ console. Typography over the image reads "Another Internet is Possible." The image is caste in the warm tones of gelled, theatrical, tungsten lights. The typography is white lettering in the House Industries typeface Burbank: Condensed, Thin, and fairly tall.

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Virtual Community

Another Internet is Possible

Promised utopia, we got moronic videos to sell crap. Another Internet is possible! Must The Internet serve commodity culture like all media before it?

Black & White Dolce & Gabbana ad featuring Madonna scrubbing a floor. Burned in the upper left is the text "VB50"

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Previz

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.

Alt Ball poster image featuring Storm Sygall dancing in the water in front of the stage at Club Morpheus at Alice in Cornelland at LEA11 in Second Life. Over the photo of her dancing in the water is the text "Alt Ball, Club Morphues, 13 July 13"

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Linden Endowment for the Arts

Dancing Avatars (Alt Avatar Ball Report)

Dancing avatars unite at Alt Avatar Bal Masqué! Secret identities revealed as dancing avatars try to guess each other’s alt identity. Club Morpheus, LEA11, Second Life.

Shoulder length portrait of Vanessa Blaylock against a purple background. Blaylock wears a mask, and has the name "Vaneeesa Oh" over her head. The text on the image reads "Alt Ball: win a date with an Oh, and support The EFF"

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Free Culture

Alt Ball: Win a Date with an Oh & Support The EFF

Avatars can win a date and support the Electronic Frontier Foundation at the Alt Ball at Club Morpheus. Avatars, Identity, Freedom & EFF, everybody wins!

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Performance Documents

VB48 – Glitch Avatar Pride Parade

In VB48 Glitch Avatar Pride Parade virtual performance artists celebrate glitch culture by becoming glitch avatars. VB48 in the streets of Virtual Amsterdam.

Poster image for VB49: SPF50 featuring Calliope Lexington, Scarlett Luv, Harmony Sandalphon, Agnes Sharple, Lizzie Gudkov, and Vanessa Blaylock standing naked on a beach showing different degrees of sunburn skin damage

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Performance Documents

VB49: SPF50

Performance document for VB49: SPF50. Performance artwork about skin & sunburn. In VB49 virtual performance artists present a tableau vivant of sunburnt bodies.