I Rez Therefore I Am

VB23 – New Clothes Saturday, 22 January 2011, 8-10pm GMT a performance on the InWorldz grid Agnes Sharple Ironyca Lee Late Lee NightOwl Meridoc Obveeus Lee Tim Otherland Trilby Minotaur Vaneeesa Blaylock Zsophia Innovia Performance Image Set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vaneeesab/sets/72157625760262059/ As Aero described in her Previz for VB23 – New Clothes, this piece launching our VBCO/Multiverse 2011 [...]

King Philip I, King M, King Philip II, King Rod… love them… hate them… be they benevolent… be they tyrannical… they are kings… they are monarchs… A couple of blogs made the rather remarkable observation that there was more discussion about the demise of Blue Mars on the various Second Life channels, than on Blue [...]

For most of my life I have been aware of, and perhaps existed in an uneasy resonance with, Robert Smithson’s 1967 Artforum essay “The Monuments of Passaic,” aka “A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey.” http://www.bwk.tue.nl/stedeb/studentinformatie/offthemap/smithson.pdf In his legendary essay touring his hometown and contemplating its sites of future ruin, he offers a [...]

Speaking of seeing Tizzy the other day: http://vaneeesa.com/2011/01/06/tizzers-foxchase/ http://vaneeesa.com/2011/01/08/welcome-to-the-real-world/ Back on Saturday 25 September 2010 she gave VBCO a tour of the virtual world Blue Mars. http://vaneeesa.com/2010/09/04/field-trip-blue-mars/ Like any normal blogger, Ironyca filed a trip report on the 26th of September: http://ironyca.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/wow-meets-blue-mars-about-the-avatar-gaze/ Unfortunately, not all virtual bloggers are as conscientious as Ironyca… certain people… well… [...]

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 [...]

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow! Crunchy numbers The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 20,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping [...]

When I contemplated Avatar Suicide the other day, so many people reached out to me in different ways. I have to thank everyone so much. And especially Laurel Leavitt and Krissy Sinclair who tried to help that morning. http://vaneeesa.com/2010/10/16/vb22-avatar-suicide/ http://vaneeesa.com/2010/10/19/ascension/ Laurel and Krissy both expressed a lot of concern for me… and they also expressed [...]

Dear VB Friends, I’m so glad I got to meet many of you on Saturday, and I look forward to meeting more of you in the coming days. For those of you I didn’t meet, my name is Aero Bigboots and I am the Executor for the Estate of Vaneeesa Blaylock in the spiritual dimension [...]

We are moving our large-cast works “offshore” (to other grids) not because of a string of a dozen boneheaded decisions by Linden Lab, rather, we are moving because of two sentences.

Second Life is, famously, all about “UGC” – User Generated Content; WoW is all about amazing developer made content; Blue Mars tries to split the UGC difference with Developer Class and Consumer Class.

In the world of your choice, snap a photo of yourself having a morning cup of coffee (wearing pajamas, standing at the sink, and gazing out the kitchen window is a nice way to go, but not required) and submit it to the group “Morning Coffee Challenge on flickr

VB/CO Field trip to OS Grid on Saturday 12 June

I think my New Year’s resolution was to chill out and make art… but as long as I’m on a rant & roll… DID YOU TAKE THE SL SURVEY? Yeah, that email a couple weeks ago about wanting your opinion. It had lots of questions about which of SL’s many potential aspects you valued. And [...]

I suppose even if you’re more Pagan-Solstice than Only-begotten-son-who-threw-the-money-changers-out-of-the-temple-but-was-co-opted-into-the-religion-of-private-property, this is the week when we try to see a bigger picture. Even though Philip’s vision in creating this world has been widely described, and even though it is a simple vision, I think right up to last week, I really didn’t get it — but [...]

What I can hardly believe, is that I’ve been told it will, by design, have 2 classes of people: a small, elite, builder class that is allowed to be creative, and a consumer underclass that is allowed to shop and spend, but not to create… or dream.