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.

 9 Comments on Gimme Six! – Rav’s tour of three worlds
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Gimme Six! – Rav’s tour of three worlds

Vaneeesa asked me to join her challenge called Gimme Six: show us your favorite ‘must see’ places…

 4 Comments on If a Naked Mannequin is Shot from a Cannon in an Empty Sim is it still Art?
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If a Naked Mannequin is Shot from a Cannon in an Empty Sim is it still Art?

David W. Galenson describes two types of artists in “Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life…

 7 Comments on The Art of Presence
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The Art of Presence

Watching Abramović’s “The Artist is Present” made me want to revisit the concept of presence in art,…

 5 Comments on A Last Look at SL9B
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A Last Look at SL9B

Last Saturday, on Second Life’s 9th birthday, I wrote about the wonderful shared experience I believed was…

 14 Comments on “Gimme Six!” – A Tourist Guide to WoW pt. 1 – Spectacular Nature
Posted in Gimme Six World of Warcraft

“Gimme Six!” – A Tourist Guide to WoW pt. 1 – Spectacular Nature

Vaneeesa has asked the iRez authors to “share 6 of their favorite, must see, places in virtual…

 8 Comments on SL9B Is Something Different
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SL9B Is Something Different

Hi Everyone… I’m new to posting on iRez.me but have been blogging for about five years. Vanessa Blaylock…

 3 Comments on Proudmoore (LGBTQ) Pride Event this Saturday!
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Proudmoore (LGBTQ) Pride Event this Saturday!

Virtual World News: This Saturday one of the biggest and most well known in-game World of Warcraft…

 2 Comments on Topless at Whole Foods
Posted in Augmented Reality Blue Mars

Topless at Whole Foods

Project Glass is a glimpse of not-so-distant future. And so is this video clip shot with Blue…

 2 Comments on Meet Me HiPiHi!
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Meet Me HiPiHi!

BEIJING / TOKYO, 26 May — Just when you thought you knew all the virtual worlds in…

 6 Comments on Primates in Virtual Worlds
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Primates in Virtual Worlds

No matter how fully-immersed humans are within a virtual world, avatars are primates at heart (and brain.)…

 23 Comments on What If Rod Was One Of Us (Parody song & Video)
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What If Rod Was One Of Us (Parody song & Video)

If Rod had an alt who spent a lot of time
Inside of Second Life just hanging out
In clubs and chatting with his friends
Would he still think the same or see things different

 3 Comments on FIELD TRIP: Virtual Gallery Weekend Berlin
Posted in Field Trips Museums & Galleries realXtend

FIELD TRIP: Virtual Gallery Weekend Berlin

BERLIN, 28 April — Silent since the demise of Blue Mars, the VBCO Travel & Safari Co….

 3 Comments on Gallery Weekend Berlin 2012
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Gallery Weekend Berlin 2012

BERLIN, 26 April — Opening here tomorrow is Gallery Weekend Berlin 2012: 51 Galleries and 51 Openings…

 0 Comment on The WoW Factor LIVE!
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The WoW Factor LIVE!

STORMWIND CATHEDRAL, 21 April — Multiverse traveler Ironyca is working the ether again, this time appearing as…

close up of human eye with "a Steven Spielberg film" superimposed on it
 81 Comments on The Minority Report on SaveMe Oh
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The Minority Report on SaveMe Oh

LONDON, 30 March — Like Peter Sellers’ “Chauncey Gardiner” in Hal Ashby’s 1979 film Being There, artist…

 0 Comment on A Transmog-Party where Everyone’s Well-dressed – Except Us!
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A Transmog-Party where Everyone’s Well-dressed – Except Us!

WORLD OF WARCRAFT, 9 March — Great multiverse traveler Ironyca Lee has jumped across, this time not…

 0 Comment on Are we “Alone Together” in WoW? – Solo Play pt. 10
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Are we “Alone Together” in WoW? – Solo Play pt. 10

Part Ten! In Ironyca’s epic consideration of “solo play” in a massively multiplayer world. Lots of insights…

 2 Comments on Secret Alts, RealID and Obligations – Solo Play pt. 9
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Secret Alts, RealID and Obligations – Solo Play pt. 9

Aww, lookie! WordPress has a new, or returned, “Reblog” feature. So I thought I’d reblog this fabulous…

photo of Aero in SLHS uniform
 0 Comment on VB Previz #56 – Cheer is Life
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VB Previz #56 – Cheer is Life

Aero Bigboots produced Ze Moo’s Rezday Party 2011… and then fell off the face of the virtual…

 1 Comment on Graduation Day
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Graduation Day

“Training on 2/22 was so short, half-hour at most… little did I know… “Panels” would go on…

 4 Comments on Week 3 – The Stage!
Posted in Second Life Cheerleading Squad

Week 3 – The Stage!

Just when I was starting to think I could not screw-up long enough to actually become an…

 1 Comment on Rez Power
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Rez Power

I live on the balcony of a lighthouse I built, originally, in Second Life. In a world…

 0 Comment on By The Numbers
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By The Numbers

This is Sayrah Parx; Sayrah’s been an SLCS Cheerleader for… longer than I’ve been alive!! 😛 Sayrah’s…

 0 Comment on Cheer 401
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Cheer 401

In addition to the month of Tuesday classes, SLCS trainees have to take a special class called…

 3 Comments on I Have Many Worlds
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I Have Many Worlds

A few aspects of Virtual Worlds (building/creative types, rather than game types) different from a certain famous…

 4 Comments on SLCS!
Posted in Second Life Cheerleading Squad

SLCS!

OMG Art People, please don’t hate me or think I’m crazy, but I decided to try out…

 4 Comments on The Monuments of Virtual Passaic
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The Monuments of Virtual Passaic

PASSAIC, NJ, 1967 — For most of my life I have been aware of, and perhaps existed…

 5 Comments on Field Trip Report: Blue Mars
Posted in Blue Mars Field Trips

Field Trip Report: Blue Mars

BLUE MARS, 25 September 2010 — Today Tizzers Foxchase led an intrepid group of explorers from the…

 2 Comments on Welcome to the Real World
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Welcome to the Real World

  It was so great seeing Tizzy yesterday… my head’s still spinning over how awesome her new…

 19 Comments on Person of the Year
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Person of the Year

The votes have been tallied, and the readers of iRez have declared, Ze Moo is our 2010…