Category: Virtual Worlds

Geography has always influenced identity. In the virtual century we have many worlds and many ways of being and experiencing. The iRez Worlds Hub has a portal for each world that one or more of our authors has chosen to explore and talk about.

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It’s Too Hot!!!

OMG! It’s a million degrees out! Fortunately I’ve got Kitten’s fun & chill “SLCS Butt Bikini” to keep me cool on these miserable post-apocalyptic days!

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Ne Me Quitte Pas by Canary Beck

Long-time iRez author Canary Beck has a new photo exhibition at The Arts & Culture Community (A&CC) at Wanderstill Ode. We chatted a little about the work today. Here, with permission, is an excerpt of our conversation.

Vanessa Blaylock in virtual Turkey as she adjusts her camera offset settings.
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Second Life Camera Offset

SL’s camera is too high. It’s a bad view when you enter a building, it makes you build to the wrong scale, and it makes us create avatars that are ridiculously tall. Worst of all it’s a less immersive experience than a more “on the ground” camera. The good news is, it’s so easy to fix! Here’s how…

poster for Vanessa Blaylock Company Field Trip to Minecraft
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Minecraft Field Trip!

Wendz Tempest leads the VBCO Travel & Safari Company in a Minecraft Field Trip! Saturday 7-9am SLT

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Paradise Lost in Second Life – An Update & Trailers

I only recently realised that last time I posted on iRez about Paradise Lost in Second Life…

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Paradise Lost in Second Life to open Spring 2014

Raised a Roman Catholic, vivid images of the first man and woman wandering blissfully around the Garden…

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The Update that Changed the World…of Minecraft

With its tentative public release this Friday (we hope!), the 1.7.1 update looks very, promising. Did check up…

BDSM in Second Life. Low key photograph of author Arthurine Somerset, naked against a wall as her master admires the marks his lash has made on her skin.
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BDSM in Second Life

“His hand caresses the fresh marks on my cheeks as he pauses to inspect his handiwork. I shiver as a mixture of pain and pleasure tingles through my body. A soft groan escapes my lips as he runs a finger down my spine”

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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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.

Minecraft wish you were here graphic
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Minecraft 1.6.2 ~ There be Horses!

After the initial release of what has been dubbed ‘the Horse Update’, MC Devs resolved a host…

Image of Vanessa Blaylock standing in the Big Heads Gallery / Avatar Selfie Gallery and "buying" one of the blank portrait mountings so that she can place her work at that spot in the gallery
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Big Heads Gallery

Big Heads Gallery Now Open! The Big Heads Gallery / Avatar Selfie Gallery @ LEA11 in Second…

Poster for Agnes Sharple's "The Tree of Missing Avatars" workshop
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The Tree of Missing Avatars

Remembering & Forgetting In The Tree of Missing Avatars, Agnes Sharple helps us explore relationships made and…

Poster of installed works at Alice in Cornelland at LEA11 with the text "an investigation at LEA11, March - July 2013"
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The Reality of Virtual

The mission of Alice in Cornelland @ LEA11 is to think about the Immersive and Real qualities…

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Moments @ LEA11

Even if LEA11 is developing more slowly than Dubai, it still is a fairly busy place ATM….

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Pixel Potential – The ‘Minecraftian’

chart or datagraphic or visualization or data porn of dream levels in the film Inception
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Immersive Interactive Creativity Community Yay!

Saturday is going to be an IICCY day! And even though it’s pronounced icky, I think it’s…

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Alt Avatar Blogger Ball!?

Avatar Blogger Month Agnes and I were talking about June is Avatar Blogger Month, and she had…

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You know those sundays

When you log in and find yourself wearing all the shirts from your inventory you can wear…

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SMO10b

BREAKING NEWS — LEA11 — 25 May — Despite the shocking news that Vice President Hamlet has…

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LEA11: Quest for Virtual Haptic

Agent Cyan The Quest for a Virtual Haptic: Hello everyone, my name is Agent Cyan. I have…

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Memory Box Workshop @LEA11

Saturday’s Memory Box Workshop @LEA11 had 5 intrepid participants who thought about ways to bring the images,…

Instagram photo of a small, delicate, pink box filled with various objects and with the text "Memory Box Workshop" superimposed on top of it.
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Memory Box Workshop

Make a Secret Place As part of the Alice in Cornelland Quest for a Virtual Haptic, we…

two avatars in a grassy plane. Xue Faith wears a sweater and rides a bicycle. Miso Susanowa stands in an elegant black dress
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Poem Readers Wanted!

Second Life / Virtual Artists’ Alliance / Haiku Speedbuild event wants YOU to read poems! For our…

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Haiku Speedbuild #2

This week we’re at the just announced LEA11 (Linden Endowment for the Arts) project Alice in Cornelland….

Photograph of Beth Griffenhagen autographing her book 'Haiku for the Single Girl' - image shows a book on a table with a pair of hands (Griffenhagen's) signing on the title page
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Dear Beth Griffenhagen

Hi Beth — congratulations on your wonderful book Haiku for the Single Girl! You’ve done a really…

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How to start singing live in Second Life

Welcome back me! You might be wondering: “Who the heck are you and why are you in…

photo of a fair complected girl with pink and black hair and contrasty makup holding two giant pink easter peeps
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Haiku Sculpting – March Schedule

New Haiku Sculpting host Xue Faith reveals the schedule for March 2013 with 5 exciting Sunday events!

Photograph of Xue Faith standing on the dock at Gallery Xue / Port of Long Beach with the words "Haiku Sculpting" floating in space and curving around her
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Haiku Sculpting?

In 9 days Xue Faith takes over as host of VAA’s Haiku Speedbuild. Here she proposes changing the event’s name to “Haiku Sculpting.”

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Searching For Cyanide Seelowe

Xue circumnavigates the virtual interwaters in search of traces of Virtual Artists’ Alliance’s charismatic founder Cyanide Seelowe.

Selenium toned black & white photograph of Xue Faith & Peri Afarensis
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Peri, Dave & Cor

  I had some great meetings last week! On Monday I met with Peri Afarensis, on Wednesday…