Tag Archives: WoW

World Today: This Looks Safe

2012/09/03 Written by World of Warcraft

Location: Stormwind Characters: Myself (the tree) and a friend. World of Warcraft just received a very fun patch, particularly for Druids. In the game druids are able to transform themselves into cats, bears, lions, cheetahs, stags and even trees. Becoming a tree used to be temporary, but this patch introduced a glyph for perma-tree. My friends and [...]

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VR Pets: Singing Sunflower

2012/08/15 Written by VR Pets , World of Warcraft

Pet: Singing Sunflower Within World of Warcraft there is a minigame – Lawn of the Dead. This is rather clearly based off of Plants VS Zombies, a wildly popular tower defence style game. After playing LotD through a few levels of difficulty you are awarded with Brazie’s Sunflower Seeds, which teach the Singing Sunflower. This is one [...]

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Minecraft: Imagination Engine

2012/08/07 Written by Minecraft

If you’re not already familiar with its blocky universe, check out my introduction to Minecraft. Existing initiates, read on… In The Beginning Was The Block There’s something supremely satisfying about starting up a new Minecraft world. Discovering what landscape you’ll spawn in, the power to delete it from existence if it doesn’t immediately suit your [...]

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“Gimme Six!” – A Tourist Guide to WoW pt. 2 – City Break

2012/07/06 Written by Gimme Six , World of Warcraft

Vaneeesa has asked the iRez authors to “share 6 of their favorite, must see, places in virtual space.” This is the World of Warcraft version. People travel for different reasons, so here are six locations that might appeal to a broad range of virtual tourists. Spectacular Nature – Howling fjord City Break – Dalaran Leisure and [...]

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Proudmoore (LGBTQ) Pride Event this Saturday!

2012/06/14 Written by World of Warcraft

Virtual World News: This Saturday one of the biggest and most well known in-game World of Warcraft events is taking place. It’s been running for 8 years in a row and celebrates LGBTQ pride – Everyone’s invited!

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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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The WoW Factor LIVE!

2012/04/21 Written by World of Warcraft

STORMWIND CATHEDRAL, 21 April – Multiverse traveler Ironyca is working the ether again, this time appearing as a judge on the live streaming webcast The WoW Factor, imparting fashion wisdom and passing out gold! With tonight’s 1000, 5000, 10,000 & 20,000 gold prizes, the WoW Factor’s total prize awards crossed the 2 million gold mark. [...]

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A Transmog-Party where Everyone’s Well-dressed – Except Us!

2012/03/09 Written by World of Warcraft

WORLD OF WARCRAFT, 9 March — Great multiverse traveler Ironyca Lee has jumped across, this time not worlds but continents, to be a judge at a transmogrification competition at a WoW/USA server. Given the vagaries of customs & immigration she was forced to attend this haute couture event (OMG how embarrassing) in Level 1 attire! [...]

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Are we “Alone Together” in WoW? – Solo Play pt. 10

2012/02/16 Written by World of Warcraft

Part Ten! In Ironyca’s epic consideration of “solo play” in a massively multiplayer world. Lots of insights on identity, relationships, projection, instantiation. Awesome!

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Secret Alts, RealID and Obligations – Solo Play pt. 9

2012/01/24 Written by World of Warcraft

Aww, lookie! WordPress has a new, or returned, “Reblog” feature. So I thought I’d reblog this fabulous post from the awesome Ironyca! Yay! 2012!

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VB Previz #44 – VBCO/Multiverse 2011

2011/01/06 Written by Previz

On Saturday, 1 January 2011 the performance art organization Vaneeesa Blaylock / Company became VBCO/Multiverse VBCO/Multiverse is offering a full slate of 2011 performance artworks on numerous virtual world grids, each exploring identity, individuality, uniqueness, instantiation, embodiment, and persona, here on the myriad shores of the new worlds of the 21st century… VBCO/Multiverse will open [...]

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VB Previz #39 – The Guild

2010/12/26 Written by Previz , World of Warcraft

VB25 – The Guild Saturday, 12 March 2011, 8-10pm GMT a performance on the World of Warcraft / Argent Dawn server I don’t know what this performance is yet. And the truth is, I don’t know much about WoW. I’ve spent one long day wandering around there on a field trip that Ironyca led Monerda, [...]

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WoW RL Videos

2010/09/02 Written by Mixed Reality , World of Warcraft

WoW Workshop with artist Aram Bartholl from LagunaArtMuseum And… from the comments below… Ironyca turned me on to another amazing WoW RL Video!

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Felicia Day

2010/08/30 Written by People

The truth is that Felicia Day does not piss me off, she amazes me. She saw a lack of opportunity so she created opportunity. She felt disdain for gamers, so she created a web series that celebrates gamers. She understands the media of our age.

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Field Trip Report: WoW!

2010/08/19 Written by Field Trips , World of Warcraft

Every time someone new came over from SL, or every time VeeBee got lost, you don’t just “TP me over”… the group has to chill out while somebody runs off to fetch the lost soul. While a bit of a nuisance, this made land and space much more real, much more tangible. You really were in a place, and other places and distances had real meaning.

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Field Trip to WoW

2010/08/08 Written by Field Trips , World of Warcraft

The poll results are in, and you’ve overwhelmingly chosen Alliance: Night Elves as our “race” for our Field Trip to WoW!

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World of Warcraft

2010/07/15 Written by Field Trips , World of Warcraft

Yes, it’s time for the VB Friends field trip to World of Warcraft!

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