Category: Diaspora
Does a citizen of the virtual century have a homeland? At the iRez Diaspora Hub the myriad ways that we discover, reclaim, and express identity and presence are celebrated through an array of content portals.
Sascha Pohflepp
Pohfelpp’s video is about a world that never was, yet is couched with iconography and design aesthetics we remember so well from childhood that we strangely, unexpectedly, effortlessly find ourselves slipping into this alternate river of time.
WoW RL Videos
WoW Workshop with artist Aram Bartholl from LagunaArtMuseum http://vimeo.com/6035626 And… from the comments below… Ironyca turned me…
Felicia Day
The truth is that Felicia Day does not piss me off, she amazes me. She saw a lack of opportunity so she created opportunity. She felt disdain for gamers, so she created a web series that celebrates gamers. She understands the media of our age.
733 Friends
As the rather dramatic image above shows, my SL Network is so big (number of peeps and density of interconnections) that the SL “bolus” has become “me” and pushed all other connections out much like a star gone nova creating an annular nebula!
Drag!
SAN FRANCISCO, 5 August — Today United States District Judge Vaughn R. Walker struck down anti-same-sex-marriage “Proposition…
Open Source Vaneeesa
Saying that my avatar is Creative Commons Attribution doesn’t really mean much if I don’t make the source files available, so here you go…
Ideology & Aesthetics
If you think about Andy Warhol & Robert Mapplethorpe, their artistic practices and sensibilities were pretty different, but I think their underlying world views were fairly in sync. On the other hand I kind of suspect that while Paris Hilton & Britney Spears seem to have similar aesthetics, that their underlying ideologies are actually different.
NicoleX Moonwall
NicoleX Moonwall is what Second Life is all about.
Banned Books
A lot has been said about SL7B / Rosegate. A lot of fine ideas by a lot…
Secondary Creators
I’ve already said a lot about Free Culture. I just want to make 2 finer points: the…
Go Oranje!
ha ha ha – my avatar at fifa.com! Where, btw, I’m “vaneeesab” because some *b* already took…
Nienke Klunder
LONDON, 4 July — Like Nikki S. Lee and Cindy Sherman, Nienke Klunder uses transformations of her…
Happy Birthday to Meee!
Aww, thanks Facebook “friends!” 🙂
Violet Blue
SAN FRANCISCO, 22 February — Journalist, sex-blogger, and author of Open Source Sex Violet Blue has had…
Eloh Eliot is a Freak
Eloh Eliot is a freak – and I’m pretty upset about it! I’ve written about this mutant…
Valentine’s Performance Art
Artist Brian Feldman said his Friday performance-art piece, Brian Feldman Marries Anybody, was intended to show how two complete strangers of opposite sexes can marry in Florida, while a loving same-sex couple does not enjoy the same right, the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel reported.
Mourning the Facebook Dead
If you need still more irony in your breakfast cereal, consider that the fictional film “Avatar” was #1 at the box office again this week… even as real Avatars are being executed on Facebook!
Happy Holidays!
I recently started the Moment series. They’re just “moments” large or small that stumble across my virtual…
Gracie Kendall v2
Gracie’s Blog: http://graciekendal.wordpress.com/ My Previous Gracie Post: Gracie Kendal Project Gracie Kendall continues her amazing Blog/Odyssey, Blogyssey?…
In Bed with Eva & Franco Mattes
Eva & Franco Mattes made one of their pilgramages to SL last week. They installed giant appliances at The Odyssey Art and Performance Simulator and performed Pseudo-Futurist Video Game Improvisation Extravaganza, as part of Performa09, Second Life, New York
The Gracie Kendal Project
http://graciekendal.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/the-gracie-kendal-project/ Some people might say that Kris Schomaker is obsessed with her avatar, I think that Gracie…
Free Culture
One semester in my undergraduate program at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, I took a…
Rineke Dijkstra
After posting David Goldblatt’s famous swimsuit photo, I sort of felt like I had to do a…
David Goldblatt
Women on a stage. In sexy high-heels no less. The moment in this David Goldblatt image is…
Boy George
I’d like to talk about Boy George, not because his band rocked a few tunes back in…
John Cage
There is vastly more to the John Cage oeuvre than my knowledge of it, and even my…
The Romulan Neutral Zone
Hello Seasprite! You mentioned some TV show… I’ve never seen it… but I should tell you what…
Data Viz: Visualizer
I’m going thru some serious withdrawal pains with Touchgraph being down. So I’ve been shopping for alternate FB Friend Visualizations.
400 Friends
You can clearly see the “cancerous” sovereign nation of Second Life continue to, like nanobots with a defective self-replication-stop switch, take over my network.
300 Friends
In this frame you’ll notice a giant blob of friend-protoplasm threatening to take over this Friend Network Visualization! Yes, it’s that tightly interconnected army of Second Lifers!