Category: SL
All posts about 3D MMO Second Life not in a special sub-topic
Is usability a dirty word in SL?
At the risk of sounding like a total noob (yes, I have been a SL “resident” since…
Gimme Six: Yordie’s Second Life – Part 2
This is the second part in my Gimme Six list: Role Play in Time A World of…
Gimme Six: Yordie’s Second Life – Part 1
I love what others have done with this Gimme Six series and I digging into my list of Second…
Networked Imagination
Reading Vaneeesa’s interpretation of what is presence in virtual worlds made me think of an article I…
An Island of Sanity
In the not too distant past, I was watching some old Vanessa Redgrave movies. It all started…
The Art of Presence
Watching Abramović’s “The Artist is Present” made me want to revisit the concept of presence in art,…
A Last Look at SL9B
Last Saturday, on Second Life’s 9th birthday, I wrote about the wonderful shared experience I believed was…
SL9B Is Something Different
Hi Everyone… I’m new to posting on iRez.me but have been blogging for about five years. Vanessa Blaylock…
Primates in Virtual Worlds
No matter how fully-immersed humans are within a virtual world, avatars are primates at heart (and brain.)…
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
The Minority Report on SaveMe Oh
LONDON, 30 March — Like Peter Sellers’ “Chauncey Gardiner” in Hal Ashby’s 1979 film Being There, artist…
Welcome to the Real World
It was so great seeing Tizzy yesterday… my head’s still spinning over how awesome her new…
Person of the Year
The votes have been tallied, and the readers of iRez have declared, Ze Moo is our 2010…
A Great Disturbance in the Force
a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and…
Maui The Demigod
Linus Torvalds once said that Richard Stallman was the great “philosopher,” and that he was an “engineer”……
Banned by Burn2
TO: M2Danger Ranger m2 Burner EmCee Widget Kev Sweetwater Principals, Burn2 FROM: Vaneeesa Blaylock, Artistic Director, VB/CO…
Douglas Story & Desdemona Enfield
Remix Art breaks the 20th century hegemony of top-down, 1-to-many, read-only culture. Second Life is the land of User Generated Content (UGC) It is a world where Story & Enfield can freely create these works. And now in Ripple we see them paying it forward, empowering readers to become authors in a read-write culture where the world we experience can be shaped by our own hands.
Tank Woman
If a merchant files a complaint, the lab will aggressively invade your inventory, delete your content, suspend your account, and ban your account. If a consumer files a complaint, the lab doesn’t care.
Burn2
BURN2 will be held October 16 – 24, as scheduled. Our Burning Man-inspired theme is “Metropolis: Civilization in the desert.”
Odyssey Performance Art Festival
Two weeks of performance art in Second Life starts today at Odyssey Performance Sim!
Ze Moo
If you’re workin’ the net in the virtual world, sooner or later you’re going to run into Ze Moo.
Girl Next Door TWO!
There’s a brand new Girl Next Door in town… and she’s worth it… just for the shoes!…
Eloh Eliot is a Freak
Eloh Eliot is a freak – and I’m pretty upset about it! I’ve written about this mutant…
Bouguereau in Haiti
The human tragedy in Haiti is unmeasurable and unbearable. In response many merchants around the grid have…
Bryn Oh’s Brain
What’s so amazing about a place… a space… a moment… a gift… like this crazy dwell between Bryn’s mosquito Ferris wheel and her sensorium cloud… is how capacious it is… how generous it is… and how it invites not just your brain… but also your body… to exist in resonance with it… in this time and in this space…
Eloh Eliot – Starlight
Starlight IV, originally uploaded by Eloh Eliot. kk — sorry my 2nd SL artist post is about…
Eloh Eliot
In the middle of a barren snow drift in Lippert stands, unexpectedly, a small patch of sunflowers….