Yordie Sands & Her Date @ Cloud Nine - Second Life 2012
 17 Comments on How To Date A Virtual Woman
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How To Date A Virtual Woman

Recently, iRez publisher Vaneeesa Blaylock  tagged me with this, “Yordie Sands also dares to talk about something…

 7 Comments on Tom Boellstorff 1: Exploring the Digital Jungle
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Tom Boellstorff 1: Exploring the Digital Jungle

In 2008 Tom Boellstorff published Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human….

Image of Augmented Reality and Wearable Computing pioneer Steve Mann wearing his "eye tapp" computer vision system
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Steve Mann Goes to McDonalds

TORONTO, 18 July — O Canada’s Russ Martin reports that University of Toronto professor Steve Mann, inventor…

 9 Comments on Red Satin
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Red Satin

I guess I should apologize for showing up here in my underwear today, but I just couldn’t…

 6 Comments on Politician gone rogue?
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Politician gone rogue?

Reblog from I Have Touched the Sky: Not the Girl the ESRB Warned You About:   Last…

Vaneeesa Blaylock / Company Portfolio: Selections from Performance Works VB01 thru VB40
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Vaneeesa Blaylock: Bio Update

Vaneeesa Blaylock / Company There’s already lots of info on Vaneeesa Blaylock / Company and on myself…

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Avatar & Identity – Mass Effect (1)

Yordie’s excellent posts about Becoming Someone Else reminded me of my duty to write part 2 of…

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Diary #37 – Occupy Columbus

COLUMBUS CIRCLE, NEW YORK CITY, 3 October — Occupy Columbus. Soror Nishi’s cousin Tatsu Nishi has erected…

Gamification by Kevin Werbach / Coursera / Wharton / Pennsylvania - Lecture 12 Gamification Techniques beyond the basics
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Gamification 12 – Beyond the Basics

PHILADELPHIA, 5 October –- Gamification Lecture 12: Beyond the Basics! Advanced Gamification Techniques. Lecture notes from Kevin…

 22 Comments on The Hitcher – Part 2
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The Hitcher – Part 2

The hitcher had stirred my curiosity. I asked Paul if he travelled a lot and he said he’d…

 0 Comment on Diary #36 – Phantom Limb
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Diary #36 – Phantom Limb

STROOM DEN HAAG, 1995 — Stephen Carpenter, Cathy Plaza, Vaneeesa Blaylock, Stacey Giachino & Robert Uzgalis in…

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VR Pets: Fishy!

I have a bit of a thing for “Bubble” pets in World of Warcraft – that is,…

 25 Comments on The Hitcher – Part 1
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The Hitcher – Part 1

For those who don’t know me, I’m an avatar from Second Life and live my life in…

 27 Comments on Yordie Sands
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Yordie Sands

iRez’ head cheerleader Yordie Sands has been “running silent, running deep” for a couple of weeks now…

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Diary #35 – Artist’s Sketchbook

WAN CHAI, HONG KONG, 1990 — Senior Year. Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Artist’s Sketchbook. haha….

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Prep School

I’ve been meaning to do a ‘back-to-school’ picture all month but didn’t get the opportunity to dress…

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Perception, projection, reflection

Quan Lavander invited me to participate in a show at the Art India Gallery in Second Life…

Gamification Project - Gamified Reading System - illustration from Sony Reader
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Gamification – Homework #3

Vaneeesa Blaylock Gamification Design Proposal TO: Cheyenne Kendrick FROM: Vaneeesa Blaylock RE: Gamification Proposal for GDP Our…

Gamification Critiques & Risks lecture slides by Kevin Werbach / Coursera / Wharton
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Gamification 11 – Gamification Critiques & Risks

PHILADELPHIA, 5 October –- Gamification Lecture 11: Gamification Critiques & Risks. Lecture notes from Kevin Werbach of…

Memolane screenCap showing Vaneeesa Blaylock's Memolane collection of 3 years of web content
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Memolane (rawks!)

The awesome platform Memolane has an embed feature! You can “Make your Lane” and get a simple…

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Fifty shades of Halloween

Halloween! When corporate business encourages girls and women to celebrate our inner sluts. Yay! Just what we…

Gamification Social Good - ScreenCap from Lecture 10 by Kevin Werback
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Gamification 10 – Gamification Social Good

PHILADELPHIA, 29 September –- Gamification Lecture 10: Gamification Social Good & Behavior Change with Kevin Werbach of…

Student Diversity: ScreenCap of Vaneeesa Blaylock walking on her "treadmill desk" in the VB28 Roman Villa while watching Gamification lectures by Kevin Werbach
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Where’s Your Flatscreen?

Marveling at the student diversity in his Coursera / Wharton School class on Gamification, Prof. Kevin Werbach…

Vaneeesa Blaylock wearing a blue blazer with a red tie and a Fontbron academy crest on the blazer. She stands in the lobby of an academic building.
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Rabbit Hole Day (Greetings P2PU)

Saturday. No P2PU anywhere in sight. Working on Chapter 10 of Kevin Werbach’s Gamification course from Coursera…

ScreenCap of Kevin Werbach, Coursera / Wharton School, interviewing Daniel Debow, VP Salesforce / Rypple
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Gamification 9 – Enterprise Gamification

PHILADELPHIA, 28 September –- Gamification Lecture 8: Enterprise Gamification with Kevin Werbach of the University of Pennsylvania’s…

 3 Comments on A Sonnet to Loo Roll
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A Sonnet to Loo Roll

I am a tad bit under the weather as of late… or more plainly: I am sick…

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Joseph DeLappe visits iRez

Mixed-Reality artist Joseph DeLappe published his first (but we hope not last! 🙂 guest post here on…

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Light My World!

I’m often asked questions about my photography so I have tried my best to share everything I…

Event Poster for Joseph DeLappe's mixed-reality performance artwork "Fifty Shades of Black Ops" where he reads live from Fifty Shades of Grey at Arse Elektronika at the Center for Sex and Culture in San Francisco and simultaneously in-game in Call of Duty: Black Ops
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Gaming Performance: Fifty Shades of Black Ops

I will premiere a new, online gaming performance / intervention at Arse Electronika Festival 4PLAY. Fifty Shades…

Photo of "sexy nurse" in vinyl latex nurse uniform advertising mail order viagra, cialis and other drugs
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Viagra Humor

  The moment was right: I had a Viagra Humor moment today. You know those Viagra commercials…