CONCEPT: To celebrate the dawn of a new year, and Vaneeesa Blaylock / Company’s 4th year of performance work in virtual space, we baptize new avatars. Colloquially, and often pejoratively, ...
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VB Previz #56 – Cheer is Life
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Secret Alts, RealID and Obligations – Solo Play pt. 9
Reblogged from Ironyca Stood in the Fire: As is evident, WoW has great potential to turn even solo play into a social experience as we saw in the previous parts, depending on what level of sociability we tap into. However, solo play was also utilized as an escape from the social venue of the game, [...]
Klout is Bullshit!
VB Rant Week 7 Bitchy Posts in 7 Angry Days http://vaneeesa.com/category/vaneeesa/rants/ Rant the fifth: Klout is Bullshit! I had such a “nice” time yesterday letting someone else do my ranting for me, that I thought I’d do one more day of, hahaha, “guest ranting” before I get back to my own complaint writing. As with [...]
God is Bullshit!
VB Rant Week 7 Bitchy Posts in 7 Angry Days http://vaneeesa.com/category/vaneeesa/rants/ Rant the fourth: God is Bullshit! My father was a lifelong democrat. He passed away three years ago. My mother is a lifelong republican and she still lives near Georgetown, USA. I think I get my aesthetics mostly from my mother, but my ideology [...]
Painting is Bullshit!
VB Rant Week 7 Bitchy Posts in 7 Angry Days http://vaneeesa.com/category/vaneeesa/rants/ Rant the third: Painting is Bullshit! Yes it’s true, there are some great old dude painters. Yes it’s true, there are some amazing emerging women painters. And yes, it’s even true that friends of mine are painters. But with apologies to all… I’m just [...]
Television is Bullshit!
VB Rant Week 7 Bitchy Posts in 7 Angry Days http://vaneeesa.com/category/vaneeesa/rants/ Rant the second: Television is Bullshit! I wrote yesterday that Fútbol is bullshit, but really, it’s minor-league compared to the Heavyweight Champion of Bullshit, Television. Later this week I plan to write God is Bullshit, but even the supreme sociopath hasn’t ruined as [...]
Fútbol is Bullshit!
VB Rant Week 7 Bitchy Posts in 7 Angry Days http://vaneeesa.com/category/vaneeesa/rants/ Rant the first: Fútbol is Bullshit! In the country of my birth “football” means “pigskin” In the country of my current residence, “fútbol” means “soccer” Doesn’t matter. They’re both bullshit! Not saying they always were… Just asking why a couple of sports invented in [...]
Thanksgiving Video Challenge
Paste the link to your YouTube video in the comments here: http://vaneeesa.com/thanks Hi Guys, Vaneeesa here. Thursday 24 November is Thanksgiving day in America. It’s the day when colonial powers celebrate conquering indigenous peoples, or something like that. But more generally it’s a day when families get together and celebrate relationships and eat too much [...]
Vic Gundotra
I’m seated in a stiff, wooden chair, my ankles tied to the legs, my arms tied together. Vic Gundotra’s just summarily executed three people, and now he’s walking over to me. His voice is soft, his questions are few. Gundotra’s got the calm of a traffic cop who’s already decided he’s going to write you [...]
I Love My Body!
Today is Love Your Body Day! I know because I just discovered Chloe Angyal’s wonderful blog post at feministing.com: http://feministing.com/2011/10/19/today-is-love-your-body-day/ Of course I wanted to participate in NOW’s LYBD “Blog Carnival” – who doesn’t LOVE a carnival! The pretty horses… the scary clowns! “This post is part of the 2011 Love Your Body Day Blog [...]
VB Previz #53 – Isomorphic
Isomorphic (1862) – being of identical or similar form, shape, or structure. In abstract algebra, an isomorphism (isos “equal” + morphe “shape”) is a kind of mapping between objects that shows a relationship between two properties or operations. If there exists an isomorphism between two structures, the two structures are said to be isomorphic. In [...]







