Second Life / Virtual Artists’ Alliance / Haiku Speedbuild event wants YOU to read poems! For our April events we’ll be using poems from Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda’s book Love Poems. Each week we use 4 poems and participants pick one to inspire their sculpture creation. I’m looking for peeps who’d like to make short [...]
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Student in the Culture, Media and Creative Industries programme at King's College, London. Curator at Gallery Xue. Webmaster for avatar bloggers.
Recent blog posts written by Xue Faith
Haiku Speedbuild #2
This week we’re at the just announced LEA11 (Linden Endowment for the Arts) project Alice in Cornelland. Haiku Speedbuild is lucky to be the first event at this new education / exploration region searching for a “virtual haptic.” Our March poems are from Beth Griffenhagen’s book Haiku for the Single Girl, and this week they’re [...]
Dear Beth Griffenhagen
Hi Beth — congratulations on your wonderful book Haiku for the Single Girl! You’ve done a really nice job of creating a simple yet sublime, playful yet honest, little volume that is a joy to hold and read. I am the host (brand new host actually) of a virtual world event called Haiku Sculpting. Each [...]
Haiku Sculpting – March Schedule
New Haiku Sculpting host Xue Faith reveals the schedule for March 2013 with 5 exciting Sunday events!
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.”
Searching For Cyanide Seelowe
Xue circumnavigates the virtual interwaters in search of traces of Virtual Artists’ Alliance’s charismatic founder Cyanide Seelowe.
Peri, Dave & Cor
I had some great meetings last week! On Monday I met with Peri Afarensis, on Wednesday with Dave Koi, and then just before Wednesday night’s Photohunt started I had a chance to chat briefly with Corcosman Voom. I’m slowly learning a lot about “VAA Today”… the only thing I haven’t entirely puzzled together so [...]
iRez: Mod Your WP Dashboard
Hi guys! Did you know you can customize what WordPress shows you in the various “backend” screens? Here’s your “Dashboard.” Like ALL the backend screens like Edit Post, etc, this has a “Screen Options” tab in the upper right that you can click to show and click again to hide. You use it to set [...]
Dear Miso
TO: Miso Susanowa, Artist FROM: Xue Faith, Host of Haiku Speedbuild, effective 1 March ’13 RE: Twisted Prims @Haiku Speedbuild Dear Miso, Hello! I’ve heard 3 things about you: 1. That you’re one of the most talented Twisted Prim artists 2. That you’re one of the best Twisted Prim teachers 3. That you don’t [...]
Russian Club Luxor
OMG I danced at the coolest place last night: Russian Club Luxor. k, it might have been even cooler if I actually spoke Russian or at least got that Google Translator working, but still, it was so fun anyway. Great music and lots of cool peeps to dance with. کϮⒶکϦЌⒶ (kazanrubinka) had the coolest [...]
Haiku Speedbuild & Giovanna Cerise
TO: Giovanna Cerise, Artist, LEA14 FROM: Xue Faith, Host of Haiku Speedbuild, effective 1 March ’13 RE: Haiku Speedbuild & The Colors of the Women @ LEA14 Dear Giovanna, Congratulations on your remarkable installation The Colors of the Women at LEA14. I believe in this work you have achieved a virtual sublime. Your installation [...]
Haiku Speedbuild & Builders Brewery
TO: Sensuous Maximus & Supremius Maximus, Founders, Builders Brewery Robin Kierstrider, General Manager, Builders Brewery DeAnn Dufaux, Education Director, Builders Brewery FROM: Xue Faith, Host of Haiku Speedbuild, effective 1 March ’13 RE: Haiku Speedbuild & Builders Brewery Dear Sen, Sup, Robin & DeAnn, Congratulations on, and thank you for, the extraordinary achievements and contributions [...]
Haiku Speedbuild: Shadowing Special
Haiku Speedbuild Last week I had the privilege of shadowing Special Jewell as she hosted the Tuesday Haiku Speedbuild at Heron Shire, and this week I’ll be shadowing her at the Thursday event at Afar. I’ve been thinking about the opportunity to be the new host a lot since Special announced that after 4 [...]
Beachwood Club: House Music UK SL
I went to a fun dance club I hadn’t been to before, The Beachwood Club, a house dance club of UK / Second Life. Great tunes, cool DJ’s and I met a couple of cool peeps, s a f f r o n, and Rob Danton. haha, I saw s a f f r [...]
LEA10 Tears in Rain
Yessy, it’s meee ice skating on the giant face crying Tears in Rain at Noke Yuitza’s “Tears in Rain” installation at LEA10 (Linden Endowment for the Arts, sim No.10) • Noke Yuitza’s blog • LEA10/131/127/67
Haiku Speedbuild
Special Jewell has been the host of Haiku Speedbuild for twice as long as I’ve been a resident of a virtual world! So, when I received a notice yesterday that after 4 years as host of Haiku Speedbuild she’s decided to step down, I felt a bittersweet sense of loss. But I also knew that [...]
Tiled Galleries
Hi Guys! We now have sexy new “Tiled Galleries!” Besides inserting an “image” in your post, you can insert a series of images as a “gallery” that can be clicked to launch slide show mode. Up till yesterday those galleries looked like this: Starting today we also get “Rectangles” And “Circles” and a little in-post [...]
Disqus Comment Mystery
Hi Guys! Looks like we have the Disqus comment mystery solved. If you REPLY to a comment from your WP Dashboard (ABOVE) then that “hides” inside WordPress and Disqus never sees it. If you go to the post itself and Comment or Reply There (BELOW) then all is good. If you have your Disqus set [...]
Dear Authors: About.me
Hi everyone! Cool news, you can now add your iRez “feed” to your About.me page! Also if you have an About.me page, or if you make one, we can add yours to the iRez About page. You can add more than 1 blog feed to your About.me page, so if you’ve got your own blog [...]
Dear Authors
Hi All! iRez is back from blog limbo! It seems like everything is back and good. There are a few broken links here and there, so just shout to me or Van when you find one. All of our posts and categories are back, but the one thing that didn’t come across are author bios, [...]