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iRez Virtual Salon
Exactly 100 years ago, the world’s most famous physical salon, Gertrude Stein’s apartment at 27 Rue de Fleurus in Paris, was a big conversation about art, culture, and ideas. Today in the iRez virtual salon we have a global conversation that exists in a virtual place. Here many salon participants explore new perspectives on reality in the 21st century using The Avatar, The MMO, and other Cultural Venues as sites of identity, experience, and community.Follow Us!
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iRez by Agnes Sharple, Botgirl Questi, Canary Beck, Carissa, Eva Marie, George Coghill, Hanna Lee, Ironyca Lee, Jacque Donaldson, Joseph DeLappe, Kathleen Cool, Katie Vizenor, Krista Hoefle, Kristine Schomaker, Lizzy Bowman, Marmaduke Arado, Matt Albright, Melissa Darby, Mirae Rosner, Nathan Shafer, Os Ishmael, Pixel Reanimator, Rafaella Lima, Ravanel Griffon, Sarah Elgart, Strawberry Singh, Tamiko Thiel, Trilby Minotaur, Trill Zapatero, Vaneeesa Blaylock, Vanessa Bartlett, Xue Faith, Yordie Sands, et al is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
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About.us
Canary Beck
Blogger | Owner of the Basilique | Singer & Performer
I'm a Second Life avatar. In Second Life, I'm an entrepreneur, club owner, singer and performer. I also write, film and photograph the virtual experience. My topics tend to be relationships, virtual community, music, art and Second Life. Recently, I've started singing live in Second Life. My influences are mainly indie. I'd like to be known for my smooth delivery and adventurous phrasing. My eclectic repertoire draws from such divergent genres as folk, jazz, indie-pop, and alternative.
Vaneeesa Blaylock
Exploring the Reality of Virtual Life
Artistic Director of Vaneeesa Blaylock / Company, a virtual world performance art organization, and Publisher of I Rez, Therefore I Am, a Virtual Salon exploring Culture & Identity in the century where science fiction becomes reality.
Ravanel Griffon
Exploring virtual gaming worlds since 2007
Lord of the Rings Online, Mass Effect, Skyrim, Star Wars: the Old Republic
Yordie Sands
Blogger, Photographer, Adventurer
Yordie Sands is an avatar in Second Life and stars as the heroine of a virtual fantasy life.
Strawberry Singh
A figment of your imagination.
Strawberry Singh is a resident of the virtual world Second Life™ She is an avid blogger, photographer and social media enthusiast.
Xue Faith
Gallery Xue, Intermedia Art
Gallery Xue is an Intermedia gallery. The aspects of culture explored by the artists we exhibit are wide, united by a common compulsion to ask uncomfortable questions. We are less interested in commodities, and more interested in disrupting culture..
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Arrived here through a random selection. Thought that I would leave my mark, in appreciation.
Love the Creative Commons attitude. Best way to go. I still have to put mine up.
Hey Stelios! Thanks so much for visiting and saying “Hi” Yes to creative commons! I’m a Free Culture zealot, and therefore a big fan of Creative Commons Attribution. But I do also love CC-Non-Commercial, which in a way is a real community building license in the sense that it sort of says,
Hi Vaneeesa, Hi Botgirl, hi everyone I don’t know but have heard of!
I’m spending some time poking around iRez today. Vanessa has seen me poking around her stories for awhile now. This is a cool blog. I’ll be back often.
And thank you for listing me in your blogroll.