Category: City

The virtual century didn’t kill journalism or libraries, it stripped away artifacts on their journey to a golden age. So too virtuality isn’t the end of The City, it is the rebirth. The new, permeable city interacts with many publics in a complex world. Let’s take a ride, and run with the dogs tonight, in Virtual Suburbia.

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Jane’s Walk – A Stroll Through Historic Provence

On Sunday May 3 I was lucky to get to host a Jane’s Walk through Historic Provence….

illustrations of avatars / dolls in a group
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Avatar Hangouts

Avatar Hangouts is a new meetup! Come visit with old friends & make new ones. 2nd Saturday of the Month: 9a California / 5p London / 2a Sydney.

screen cap from Back2Back.tv home page
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Happily Ever Avatar – New Documentary Now Casting!

Happily Ever Avatar: Back2Back Productions is now casting for a new documentary on relationships that blossom out of virtual worlds.

 11 Comments on Through the dark of a phosphor moon, or wandering the virtual cemetery
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Through the dark of a phosphor moon, or wandering the virtual cemetery

Could memorializing these past soul bits become a celebration of ascension to a timeless future?

 7 Comments on Nadya Tolokonnikova, seamstress
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Nadya Tolokonnikova, seamstress

Free, Freedom Fashions now available at Asylum in Your Embassy! Balaclavas, Dresses, T-Shirts. Better clothes for a better world!

 4 Comments on 2014 – Year of Reinvention
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2014 – Year of Reinvention

Happy 2014! 😀 Apologies in advance for writing a lacklustre blog post…Blog-writing is not a priority for…

The Clothed Avatar: Virtual Bodies in Latex Catsuits. Photo of Lizzy Bowman in a "moonbase alpha" black and white latex catsuit
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The Clothed Avatar: Virtual Bodies in Latex Catsuits

With every iPhone & Google glass we are inexorably drawn into the fantasy, fetish world of cyborg technology. We lust for this technology. — But we are afraid of it. — As we go deeper into high tech our desire simultaneously drives us deeper into the high touch experiences of the corporeal body. The tactile fetish of an avatar body in a latex catsuit.

Photo from Wikimedia Commons of Nadya Tolokno and others in a protest march on 2007-6-11. Русский: Пётр Верзилов и Надежда Толоконникова на Марше несогласных в 2007 году в Москве (2007-06-11; фото Денис Бочкарев). English: Pyotr Verzilov and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (Dissenters' March; 2007-06-11; Denis Bochkarev).
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Nadya Tolokno Hunger Strike Begins Today

In the colony, the inmates in charge of the brigades as well as their senior members are the ones tasked with depriving fellow inmates’ rights, terrorising them, and turning them into speechless slaves — all on the orders of the administration.

Digital Ethnography. Internet Survival Guide. 3 Tips for maintaining fitness. Photo of avatar on treadmill
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Internet Research, Maintaining Fitness, 3 Tips

Internet Research, Maintaining Fitness, 3 Tips. Digital Ethnographer Katie Vizenor on combining successful research and good health in the flat panel age.

Illustration of Nadya Tolokno. Pussy Riot trial summer 2012.
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My Statement at My Parole Hearing

Everywhere—in schools, prisons and universities, at voting stations and sitting in front of the TV—we are taught to obey, to lie, to bite our tongues, to say “yes” when we want to say “no.” The great cause of our civilization is to foster in ourselves, our children and friends an antidote to this obedience—an obedience that eats people alive.

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

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SAFETY LAST

They don’t make em’ like they used to and Safety Last was one of em’ I began…

Screen cap of fashion website What I Wear showing designer mouseover view and with the title "New Fashion Website, What I Wear" superimposed over image
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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.

Digital Ethnography: Internet Research Survival Guide: Photograph of a computer workstation with a monitor showing a virtual world where an avatar is looking at a virtual world in a monitor
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Digital Ethnography: Internet Research Survival Guide

The Internet Research Survival Guide with practical everyday tip and tricks that let you get your research done while staying healthy and sane.

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THE DUDE

Jeff Bridges is… THE DUDE from ‘The Big Lebowski’. To my mind The Big Lebowski is one…

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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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 Bags Release Party! Liz Solo plays the new Black Bags record up in the DJ booth as Solo Mornington, Bibbe Oh / Bibbe Hansen, and Vanessa Blaylock dance on the dance floor below.
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Black Bags Release Party

Liz Solo The Black Bags Release Party @Club Morpheus! Liz Solo, Director of the Odyssey Art &…

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My Typist Saw Star Trek Into Darkness & She Liked It

[box type=”alert”]Star Trek Into Darkness: Spoiler Threat Level: Mild[/box] What is Star Trek? A billion euro franchaise?…

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Happy Grandmother’s Day!

My father’s mother, Sarah Dukelski, died when I was very young. I don’t have any “real” memories…

Portrait of the Second Life avatar Carissa. Typography reads, "1+1=3, My Virtual Family, by Carissa
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One Plus One Equals Three – Part II

I bite my lip as I hand my daughter Mia over to Frank, my partner. The urge…

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Digital Cultures

Digital Cultures / Discussion Group Where do Virtual Babies and Digital Ethnography intersect? Besides iRez, they intersect…

Portrait of the Second Life avatar Carissa. Typography reads, "1+1=3, My Virtual Family, by Carissa
 3 Comments on One Plus One Equals Three – Part I
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One Plus One Equals Three – Part I

The doctor walks into the recovery room, her smile hidden below her mask as she places the…

ScreenGrab from CBS News; "Linebacker carries on in the face of tragedy" showing a photo of Mante Te'o's girlfriend Lennay Kekua
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Lennay Kekua Lawsuit Filed

  ROBERT F PECKHAM FEDERAL COURTHOUSE, SAN JOSE, 17 January — In the wake of the Lennay…

 13 Comments on S&TVC – The Girlfriend
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S&TVC – The Girlfriend

It’s been a couple of months since I wrote about the new direction I was planning for my second life,…

 10 Comments on 2013 – Year of the Sentimentals…
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2013 – Year of the Sentimentals…

Vancouver – January 01, 2013… The Year of the Sentimentals… Happy 2013, everyone!  I would like to…

Gustave Courbet's 1855 painting, "The Painter's Studio: A Real Allegory of a Seven Year Phase in my Artistic (and Moral) Life" sometimes also referred to as "The Artist's Studio"
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The Artist’s Studio

The Artist’s Studio in the 19th Century Gustave Courbet’s monumental (nearly 4 x 6 meters) 1855 oil…

World Cup photograph "Spain vs Holland" showing players in bright orange uniforms jumping and cheering
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The Difference Between Holland & The Netherlands

That great font of information C. G. P. Grey has just released a new “geography” video explaining…

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Hosoi Ichiba Gone

I’ve used all my favorite adjectives when describing the beautiful Japanese Edo period regions of Hosoi Ichiba. Earlier this…

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S&TVC – Breaking For The Holidays

I’ve just returned from yet another journey into real life and I’m exhausted. My life is changing….