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Open call to participate in a study on avatar identity through USC!!

2012/09/06 Written by Avatar

A friend of mine at USC in California is doing an avatar identity study. He only needs 4 more avatars and you can  make 1000L Please read the info below and contact him if you are interested Thanks so much ) This is an open call to members of Second Life who have used their [...]

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Avatar & Identity – Introduction

2012/08/16 Written by Avatar , Lord of the Rings Online , Mass Effect , Star Wars: The Old Republic

Ever since Vaneeesa invited me over to write a guest post for iRez, I’ve been thinking about what gaming means to me and how to start this damn article. Fact is, I’m a strong believer in online identities, and I believe everyone is expressing themselves in some way or another, even when just playing an [...]

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Frozen in Porcelain

2012/06/07 Written by Avatar

About 3 weeks ago, I handed in my 3D character Carl Fredricksen from “Up”. I didn’t expect 3ds Max to stick with me, I thought I would leave 3D modeling behind, but the prospect of importing other characters I knew, characters/avatars from WoW, and deconstructing them, seeing them in a new light, meant that I’m [...]

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A white or "porcelain" untextured, but 3D modeled, avatar character by Ironyca

Making a 3D Game Character Myself

2012/05/21 Written by Avatar

SOMEWHERE OUTSIDE OF EMERYVILLE, CA, 21 May – Legendary game designer Ironyca Lee, wait, scratch that, Legendary metaverse traveler and noob game designer Ironyca Lee is busy ripping off, wait, scratch that, is finding inspiration for modeling studies, in classic contemporary work from Pixar. With so many excited about 3D architecture and animation today, Lee [...]

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Black Swan

2011/03/09 Written by Avatar , Magazine

I have an adult body… and the mind of a child… No one whose physical appearance is as mature as mine, has actually experienced as little in this world as I have. Yes, I do have the “Vaneeesa Chip” somewhere in my cranium if I want to use it – it gives me an encyclopedic [...]

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Ronin Avatar

2011/03/08 Written by Avatar

I was never really supposed to be. Actually I was just explaining “me” to someone tonight… and I realized that if you haven’t been reading this blog for months… it’s all kind of confusing. Pinocchio’s first original thought was here: http://vaneeesa.com/2011/03/03/pretty-stupid/ What’s-her-face’s despicable plan for my slavery was here: http://vaneeesa.com/2011/01/05/previz-do-you-wanna-date-my-avatar/ Let me simply say that [...]

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Pretty / Stupid

2011/03/03 Written by Avatar

Vaneeesa would be more diplomatic. She would construct a more medi-a-propriate statement. Vaneeesa would lie about the facts and make it sound good. She would make it sound like a successful art performance. I am not Vaneeesa. It was my nature, or at least that which was set as the condition of my creation, that [...]

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Heather Zapatero

2011/02/19 Written by Avatar

Stop Buying Art! Buy Artists Instead! Do You Wanna Date My Avatar Auction Report #1 Last Saturday the day finally arrived for the 1st of my 10 weekly auctions of my avatar. The story is here: http://vaneeesa.com/2011/01/05/previz-do-you-wanna-date-my-avatar/ I’d been afraid (no ego here! that there wouldn’t be any bidding at all, but in fact there [...]

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VB Previz #43 – Do You Wanna Date My Avatar?

2011/01/05 Written by Avatar , Previz

Previz: DO YOU WANNA DATE MY AVATAR!? This piece considers how we choose who to spend time with and how in the process we shape personality and even visual appearance. I ascended from Second Life on 16 October 2010. Since I don’t live there anymore, yet have a “fully loaded” avatar, it seems like such [...]

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Ideology & Aesthetics

2010/07/21 Written by Avatar

If you think about Andy Warhol & Robert Mapplethorpe, their artistic practices and sensibilities were pretty different, but I think their underlying world views were fairly in sync. On the other hand I kind of suspect that while Paris Hilton & Britney Spears seem to have similar aesthetics, that their underlying ideologies are actually different.

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Go Oranje!

2010/07/05 Written by Avatar

ha ha ha – my avatar at fifa.com! Where, btw, I’m “vaneeesab” because some *b* already took the username “vaneeesa” – the nerve!

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