Agent Cyan The Quest for a Virtual Haptic: Hello everyone, my name is Agent Cyan. I have a license to visualize. I’ll be your virtual tour guide for the next 20 days. We’re going on an “Art Hunt!” We’re going to visit 20 artist-created environments in 20 days. We’ll pay a visit to each of [...]
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How to stage a dance production in Second Life
What started as a crazy idea around a kitchen table in early February is now less than a day away from becoming real. The show opens for the first time this Saturday, April 27th, 2013 at 2pm SLT at the Basilique Playhouse. So how does one actually stage a dance number in Second Life? Well, [...]
How to start singing live in Second Life (with Audio)
Welcome back me! You might be wondering: “Who the heck are you and why are you in my inbox?” Well, I don’t blame you, it’s been over over 2 months since I wrote an article for iRez. I want to share a whole bunch about what I’ve been doing that’s been keeping me away, but [...]
Strawberry Singh Gift Certificates
Know what they call virtual photographer Strawberry Singh in the hallways of Linden Lab in San Francisco, California? It’s not Ms. Singh or Strawberry or even Berry… they simply refer to her as The Legend of The Lab. If you visit SecondLife.com and you’re “logged in” you’ll go straight to your dashboard. If you’re not [...]
Demo`s are forever.
I love boxing. Demo-boxing! Here I am wearing a lovely demo hair, really cool muscle demo skin, demo mens shorts, demo cropped tank and awesome demo high sneakers. And of course demo boxing gloves. Those are great fun! Who`s up for a demo fight? Later I got dressed up for a night [...]
Fuschia Nightfire Art Opening
Winter Outlined Gallery Graine’s Sculpture Garden is proud to announce the grand opening of Winter Outlined by Fuschia Nightfire, a sculptural ‘sketch’ of a winter scene, with an interesting use of invisible prims. This is an interactive installation, with a free outline avatar that you can wear to skate on the frozen water alongside [...]
My Interview With A Vampire
You don’t have to look too far to notice that Second Life has a highly evolved realm for vampires and lycans, a world I’ve had glimpses into but never understood. I Was Really Frightened It may sound silly but for me, vampires have always been truly frightening. As a child I saw vampire movies way too [...]
The End of Second Life
The End of Second Life I hear you, “Not again!” But this time it’s real. I joined SL in April ’09. Peeps have been lamenting the end since longer than I’ve been around. As far as I can tell, the peak, the golden age, was ’07. By ’08 the luster was already off. Sure [...]
BURN2 The Burning Man Burns!
Yesterday, November 3rd, the pyro-technitians of Second Life’s BURN2 set The Man ablaze, signalling the close of this years event is near. Naturally, your ever alert, ever on-time reporter arrived 5 minutes late and couldn’t even get near The Man perched up high in the cold desert night. And naturally The Man was already ablaze when I arrived. But [...]
Virtual Halloween!
If virtual world Second Life was a country, and some of us think it is, then Halloween would certainly be its national holiday. I know there will be some who’ll disagree, but you don’t have to be around SL for long to discover the inner pagan lurking inside as All Hallow’s Evening draws near. Sure, it’s mostly about dressing [...]
BURN2 Is About Fire!
This morning the BURN2 news is, BURN2 is being extended for a 2nd week. It will be open to the public but the entertainment has come to an end. The big event, the actual setting fire to the Burning Man is scheduled for next weekend. The climax to BURN2, setting the Man ablaze has been postponed [...]
BURN2 Becoming A Burner
Between Sunday and Monday I spent a lot of time in Second Life’s Burning Man called BURN2. I listened to Philip Linden’s latest interview from SL9B on June 22. I’d seen part of it before but this time I listened to all three parts. By the way, there were only 21 views of part 3. There [...]
BURN2 Official Opening
Saturday, October 20th, was the official opening for BURN2 2012. Yesterday I wrote about the history of ”Burning Man” and Second Life’s “Burning Life” a bit. But my quest to understand the Second Life Burner movement has just begun. I was ready to learn, so within minutes of BURN2′s opening, I poured in with at least 100 other peeps [...]
BURN2 "Welcome Home"
Virtual world Second Life will be home to “BURN2 2012″ this week. It begins today, Saturday, October 20th and continues to October 27th. BURN2 is based on the real life ”Burning Man” events in the Nevada desert. BURN2 also replaces Second Life’s former ”Burning Life” events, originally sponsored by Linden Lab, but now independently organized since being downsized. There are [...]
Fifty shades of Halloween
Halloween! When corporate business encourages girls and women to celebrate our inner sluts. Yay! Just what we want! Right? While boys and men get to chose from various costumes like demon, monster, warrior, soldier, scary, funny or crative. Costumes for girls usually (I`m not saying always, there are some great exceptions out there, at least [...]
Their world, their imagination – the second life of Linden Labs
Isn’t the new theme for I Rez looking great? It’s cleaner, feels more up to date, and more representative of what we’re doing here and where we’re going. Speaking of website redesigns, I’m sure that if you’re a Second Life user, by now you’ve had a wander over to the new Linden Labs website? They’ve [...]
On dogs and gardeners
We’ve all heard the Serenity Prayer at one time or another: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference. The serenity to accept the things I cannot change… I suppose what made me think of this [...]
Untitled by Gracie Kendal (an article about the artistic process…kinda)
I think I just realized why so many artists don’t title their work. It’s damn hard!! I am working on my newest project, a full sim installation and I had a title, Ce n’est pas une peinture. The environment I am creating was originally inspired by my paintings. I wanted to deconstruct them in Second [...]
Ephemera
I apologize for these sporadic postings… my dissertation has been keeping me busy, although I have to say that I am beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I’m about half way done combing through my hefty stash of data (over 1,000 pages of transcripts collected over a year and a [...]
Second Life’s Communications Quagmire
In the MMO / 3D VW of Second Life, there are a variety of ways to receive information: 1. IM’s from People 2. IM’s from Groups 3. Notecards from People 4. Notices from Groups While Gmail manages to store 3GB of mail for you, SL caps out at about 3 messages! I’m joking – only [...]
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Vaneeesa Blaylock oh gawd, those were dark times. She was really mea
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Monerda /me does a "spit take" of my latte! &quo
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Lizzie Gudkov Pulling too! lol Two "Ls"... a lot more
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LEA11: Quest for Virtual Haptic
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The Crappy Job of Being Banksy’s Girlfriend
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Happy Grandmother’s Day!
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#vb131
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June is Avatar Blogger Month!
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Fiona Blaylock Naked Art Show Raided by NTPD!
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Memory Box Workshop @LEA11
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How to stage a dance production in Second Life
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Slapping My Snotty Sister
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Memory Box Workshop
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Technology and Mental Crisis: E-Mental Health at NHS South East and Cinema and Psychosis at The Barbican
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Poem Readers Wanted!
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What’s in a Meme?
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Meeting Donna Haraway
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Haiku Speedbuild #2
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The Minority Report on SaveMe Oh
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“Gimme Six!” – A Tourist Guide to WoW pt. 2 – City Break
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Previz #68 – Avatar Pride Parade
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Yordie Sands
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My Second Life Romance – Part 2
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Prep School
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What If Rod Was One Of Us (Parody song & Video)
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The Hitcher – Part 1
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Gimme Six: Yordie’s Second Life – Part 1
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June is Avatar Blogger Month!
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“Gimme Six!” – A Tourist Guide to WoW pt. 3 – Leisure and Spa
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We’ve Been Scraped!
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Gimme Six: Yordie’s Second Life – Part 2
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Previz #67 – Charlotte, Forever
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Gimme Six!