Avatar Hangouts is a new meetup! Come visit with old friends & make new ones. 2nd Saturday of the Month: 9a California / 5p London / 2a Sydney.

As corporeal beings we long for tactile and visceral experience. Yet object-based culture doesn’t scale and isn’t sustainable. The mystery of a Cornell Box, the joy of a Wonder Cabinet, the reassuring familiarity of a well worn diary, are these experiences lost in our time? At the iRez Wonder Hub we explore ways to have a haptic experience of the virtual.
Avatar Hangouts is a new meetup! Come visit with old friends & make new ones. 2nd Saturday of the Month: 9a California / 5p London / 2a Sydney.
Could memorializing these past soul bits become a celebration of ascension to a timeless future?
Promised utopia, we got moronic videos to sell crap. Another Internet is possible! Must The Internet serve commodity culture like all media before it?
I bite my lip as I hand my daughter Mia over to Frank, my partner. The urge to ‘snatch’ her back is overwhelming. I watch them both like a hawk, not resting for one moment. After what seems hours, but is in fact minutes, Mia is finally handed back to me. The next few days […]
The doctor walks into the recovery room, her smile hidden below her mask as she places the bundle of blankets into my arms and backs away. I look down at the bundle and as my eyes settle on my daughter Mia’s face, love overwhelms. I look up at my partner, Frank, and see he feels […]
How do Second Life families start? How do they get together? How do they grow? Let’s say one wanted to be part of a family in Second Life – a daughter, mother, auntie or sister – how would one go about doing that? Take my friend Gwen and me for instance: We love each other […]
Some visitors to this blog may know that I was recently the maid of honour at my friend’s wedding. Among many new discoveries, one of the most remarkable things about that experience is that the bride has a huge family in Second Life. And, her family is complete with parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, nieces, cousins… […]