Category: Wonder
As corporeal beings we long for tactile and visceral experience. Yet object-based culture doesn’t scale and isn’t sustainable. The mystery of a Cornell Box, the joy of a Wonder Cabinet, the reassuring familiarity of a well worn diary, are these experiences lost in our time? At the iRez Wonder Hub we explore ways to have a haptic experience of the virtual.
Meet The Virtual Salon
THE BLOGOSPHERE, 13 August — Meet Pamela is one of the greatest films never made. It’s the…
Fiona
COVET SIM, SECOND LIFE, 5 August — My globetrotting sister Fiona called me out of the blue…
How Do You Spell Vaneeesa?
MIAMI, 27 July — What’s in a name? @vaneeesa change your username you slut — alexis. (@alexiss_red)…
How 2 Read
The iRez Virtual Salon’s Home Page has all the latest news from our many virtual worlds and…
Feeding the Zuck
MENLO PARK, CA, 19 July — Mixed reality artist Kristine Schomaker joined the iRez group of authors…
World Today – Update
Remember that we have “Photographers” and “Authors” only because that’s what we thought you might do more…
Author Help Pages
Greetings iRez Authors! We’ve added a couple new categories on the home page “About” Menu: • Blogging…
The Jerry Maguire of Blogs
THE BLOGOSPHERE, 30 June — In the immortal words of Jerry Maguire… no, not those immortal words……
iRez Author Reception Saturday!
NEW NEW YORK, 30 June — Please join us today for hors d’oeuvres & conversation with some…
The Blog and the Salon, Part I
I am by no means an expert on the topics of salons or blogs, but I do…
We’ve Been Scraped!
CYBERSPACE LABS, 27 June — No one knows less about content scraping than me, so hopefully someone…
iRez on Facebook
MENLO PARK, 22 June — Today this blog, I Rez Therefore I Am, has put up a…
Diary #27
TIANANMEN SQUARE, 2000 — In a rare act of generosity Xue’s father flew her to Taipei for…
Diary #26
ANGEL BEACH, 2009 — One day I had the sudden impulse to gather piles of finely ground…
Diary #25
HALLIBURTON, THE HAGUE, 2001 — I’d received my MFA from Koninklijk a couple of years earlier and…
Diary #24
KONINKLIJK CONSERVATORIUM, 1997 — This was after I left the graduate dance program and had transferred to…
Diary #23
MUI WO BEACH, LANTAU ISLAND, HONG KONG, 1989 — Sophomore year. Photography class. hahaha – notice I…
Diary #22
AMSTERDAM, 1996 — The Treachery of Heels. THE HAGUE, 2012 — We’ve already established that I’m a…
Comment Moderation
NEW NEW YORK, 7 June — Hahah, I can’t stop myself! Yes, I know the Newbie Blogger…
This Is What a Feminist Looks Like: Vanessa
NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSSETS, 7 June — Writer, blogger, wife, mother, feminist, and founder of The Mamafesto blog, Avital…
Diary #21
WASHINGTON, D.C., 1975 — Oh gawd, this thing. One Easter, yes I am a (half) Jewish girl…
Diary #20
KONINKLIJK CONSERVATORIUM, 1996 — Me, being a dweeb with my camera’s self timer and a tripod. THE…
Diary #19
MARTHA’S VINEYARD, 1980 — Brilliant costume designs by the 11-year-old fashion prodigy Vaneeesa Blaylock for her summer…
Diary #18
TAIPEI, 1991 — Do you remember what you were wearing the day you got pregnant? I do….
By The Numbers
SAN FRANCISCO, 1 June — kk, my last NBI post! 😛 I came to the project late,…
Awesome Lookin’ New Blogs!
THE HAGUE, 1 June — It’s already 1 June here in The Hague, but still 31 May…
Diary #17
WAN CHAI, HONG KONG, 1991 — “Persona.” Yes, my senior thesis choreography was named after a Bergman…
Creative Freedom
NEWBIE BLOGGER INITIATIVE, 31 MAY — Wow, month’s end already! I’d like to do one more piece…
Diary #16
KOWLOON TONG, HONG KONG, 1989 — Junior Year. This guy from City University of Hong Kong came…
Diary #15
TSIM SHA TSUI, HONG KONG, 1991 — A group of HKAPA students and I went to Tsim…