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.

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Meet The Virtual Salon

THE BLOGOSPHERE, 13 August — Meet Pamela is one of the greatest films never made. It’s the…

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Fiona

COVET SIM, SECOND LIFE, 5 August — My globetrotting sister Fiona called me out of the blue…

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How Do You Spell Vaneeesa?

MIAMI, 27 July — What’s in a name? @vaneeesa change your username you slut — alexis. (@alexiss_red)…

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How 2 Read

The iRez Virtual Salon’s Home Page has all the latest news from our many virtual worlds and…

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Feeding the Zuck

MENLO PARK, CA, 19 July — Mixed reality artist Kristine Schomaker joined the iRez group of authors…

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World Today – Update

Remember that we have “Photographers” and “Authors” only because that’s what we thought you might do more…

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Author Help Pages

Greetings iRez Authors! We’ve added a couple new categories on the home page “About” Menu: • Blogging…

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The Jerry Maguire of Blogs

THE BLOGOSPHERE, 30 June — In the immortal words of Jerry Maguire… no, not those immortal words……

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iRez Author Reception Saturday!

NEW NEW YORK, 30 June — Please join us today for hors d’oeuvres & conversation with some…

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The Blog and the Salon, Part I

I am by no means an expert on the topics of salons or blogs, but I do…

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We’ve Been Scraped!

CYBERSPACE LABS, 27 June — No one knows less about content scraping than me, so hopefully someone…

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iRez on Facebook

MENLO PARK, 22 June — Today this blog, I Rez Therefore I Am, has put up a…

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Diary #27

TIANANMEN SQUARE, 2000 — In a rare act of generosity Xue’s father flew her to Taipei for…

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Diary #26

ANGEL BEACH, 2009 — One day I had the sudden impulse to gather piles of finely ground…

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Diary #25

HALLIBURTON, THE HAGUE, 2001 — I’d received my MFA from Koninklijk a couple of years earlier and…

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Diary #24

KONINKLIJK CONSERVATORIUM, 1997 — This was after I left the graduate dance program and had transferred to…

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Diary #23

MUI WO BEACH, LANTAU ISLAND, HONG KONG, 1989 — Sophomore year. Photography class. hahaha – notice I…

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Diary #22

AMSTERDAM, 1996 — The Treachery of Heels. THE HAGUE, 2012 — We’ve already established that I’m a…

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Comment Moderation

NEW NEW YORK, 7 June — Hahah, I can’t stop myself! Yes, I know the Newbie Blogger…

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This Is What a Feminist Looks Like: Vanessa

NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSSETS, 7 June — Writer, blogger, wife, mother, feminist, and founder of The Mamafesto blog, Avital…

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Diary #21

WASHINGTON, D.C., 1975 — Oh gawd, this thing. One Easter, yes I am a (half) Jewish girl…

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Diary #20

KONINKLIJK CONSERVATORIUM, 1996 — Me, being a dweeb with my camera’s self timer and a tripod. THE…

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Diary #19

MARTHA’S VINEYARD, 1980 — Brilliant costume designs by the 11-year-old fashion prodigy Vaneeesa Blaylock for her summer…

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Diary #18

TAIPEI, 1991 — Do you remember what you were wearing the day you got pregnant? I do….

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By The Numbers

SAN FRANCISCO, 1 June — kk, my last NBI post! 😛 I came to the project late,…

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Awesome Lookin’ New Blogs!

THE HAGUE, 1 June — It’s already 1 June here in The Hague, but still 31 May…

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Diary #17

WAN CHAI, HONG KONG, 1991 — “Persona.” Yes, my senior thesis choreography was named after a Bergman…

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Creative Freedom

NEWBIE BLOGGER INITIATIVE, 31 MAY — Wow, month’s end already! I’d like to do one more piece…

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Diary #16

KOWLOON TONG, HONG KONG, 1989 — Junior Year. This guy from City University of Hong Kong came…

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Diary #15

TSIM SHA TSUI, HONG KONG, 1991 — A group of HKAPA students and I went to Tsim…