I would like to begin to think about making the home page of the baker b. module site public. Both of my blogs, this one and the older Baker Blinker Blog, are public. The older internet sites are public.
Must think of what defines a module. Right now, from bottom to top, this is what I have:
1. Bark!
Proposed book of fiction by Them, featuring work from way back in the 80s and extending into the 90s. Still being keyed in. Projected date of publishing online — let’s say, Summer 2014. I think we, Them, can meet this goal.
2. Frank and Herman Einstein! (2012-)
The present blog, which is suppose to be focused on my adventures within and theories about twinned Frank and Herman Parks near my home. The idea is that this will be a lifetime project. When I retire, for example, I plan to camp in these parks on a regular basis. Art projects such as Billfork and Lion’s Roar will become more common. The mythology of central Whitehead Crossing will fill out more. But also in the Frank and Herman E! blog we have a continuation of Second Life adventures. Second Life was *the* focus of the earlier Baker Blinker Blog (2008-2012). However, the idea of switching from the Baker Blinker Blog to the current one is that the parks would become front and center, not Second Life. And I still think this is coming to fruition. But there’s more to this — I seem to be creating a lot of collages the last year or so, and then analyzing them. Many of these, if not most, have an England setting, particularly Wiltshire, which Edna and I also visited this past summer. So exciting! So it’s similar to the Baker Blinker Blog in this way as well… more similar than I thought it would be. And then recently I’ve been working on general US maps and The Shining.
What seems to be happening is that the blog is a great collecting point of ideas, with the central theme about these parks. But The Shining material, for example, makes a separate mini-blog in and of itself.
What’s the future of the blog? It will simply continue… may last the same amount as Baker Blinker Blog, or about 4 1/2 years. I’ve still got almost 3 years to go, then. But it may last longer.
3. Rainbow SID.
I’m just going down the list of current modules, and Rainbow SID is next. I believe the idea for this was to gather together various ideas about Dark Side of the Rainbow and Oz and Floyd in general I’ve generated down through the years now. For a while, I’ve been hoping to create a larger document delving into the intricacies of the related audiovisual synch SID’s 1st Oz. I’ve made several stabs already — The Oz/Floyd Paradox Interview (2003), Booker’s Interview (2007) included. Then in Sep 2012 I created the rainbowology site, inspired by another syncher who uncovered a clearly important *2nd* Dark Side of the Rainbow, starting at the 2nd 3rd lion roar of the movie. There’s also a 3rd and 4th 4th lion roar, as I knew long before this. But the 2nd 3rd lion roar produces a clear, full synch (DSOTR2) and not a resonance of another synch (i.e., Dark Side of the Rainbow or The Rainbow Sphere). But then I decided not to renew the rainbowology site a year later, as my contact with this person had degenerated, and there was no real collegial support for the idea. I wanted to roll SID’s 1st Oz into this project as well. The theory of tiling plays a key part.
What’s the future for this supposed module? I still want to make that more complete SID’s 1st Oz site, and perhaps an interview with Hucka D. is the answer. I think he would agree with me on this. I might even attempt to watch SID’s 1st Oz again tomorrow.
4. Britain, Britain, Britain!
Started off with “Baker Bloch in England”, a virtual journey by my primary Second Life avatar to Wiltshire, then a travelogue of Edna’s *real* trip to England and Wiltshire several months later, a larger affair. Then what I think I’ll do here is add her second travelogue of the most recent journey, plus my smaller contribution from this blog and then also the interpretation of the Gilatona Lis collages of early 2013, before the trip. Similar to “Baker Bloch in England”, the Gilatona Lis collage represent my trip to England before the actual trip, and which certainly guided me along the way.
Future? Well, this module will certainly keep expanding, and for now Edna plans to return in maybe 2 years and, for myself, I might have to last for 5 years. But I have collages to get me back there in the meantime. 🙂 Heck, we might even move over to Wiltshire for large chunks of time 10 years out. But for me it all started out with Baker Bloch and a “safe” journey.
“Baker Bloch in England” peeled off from my blog and made a separate work. Same for the Gilatona-Lis interpretations, add in the actual journal of my time in England this past summer. Wiltshire, in a way, is an ultimate goal, centered around Avebury and also Marlborough (and maybe even Devizes).
5. Baker Blinker Blog.
Kind of covered in discussion of the Frank and Herman Einstein! Blog above. Focus was on Second Life, and the blog goes hand in hand with my explorations and adventures there starting in 2008. Now I’ve shifted my focus away from that reality to other things (albeit with an important resurgence in July-Aug and then Nov. of last year!), ideally my beloved Frank and Herman Parks. But will we really stay in this area the remainder of our lives? Will we shift to England? Probably not, but that’s become another kind of distant viewing focus. It’s always in the back of my mind now.
Future? This blog is done and done. However, you could certainly extract more condensed stories from it, and there’s also a lot of Frank and Herman related stuff toward the end. It’s all printed out.
6. Art 10×10.
Future: This one is done, and represents my most successful and complete and comprehensive art project. I see the more recent Gilatona-Lis as an extension, expanding on certain ideas but not surpassing the core. All future art will build upon this 10×10. It has been housed in various ways in a number of Second Life galleries now, starting, when completed in 2009, with the original cube version of the Edwardston Station Gallery. The way it is displayed virtually makes for its own story, actually, and a lot of this is in the Baker Blinker Blog. The 10×10 is composed of 6 series, starting with Greenup in 2004 and ending with 2009’s Wheeler-Jasper. As I also mention below, I feel the Oblong series is the most complete, and a peak of the collage experience. Focus is on England Lake District images. All of these are digitally created, mainly in Microsoft Paint.
The creation of the Art 10×10 also parallels the peak years of audiovisual synching for me personally, or the years 2004-2008 or so. This is centered in 1Pink, which is contemporary with the likewise central Oblong series. Speaking of which…
7. Oblong SID.
A gathering spot from material from 2007 or so, including a proposed blog on a 1Pink reclamation project that I won’t go into detail about, and also Booker’s interview re SID’s 1st Oz (also a part of the Rainbow SID module). Floydada is also here, and that’s a part of the Paradox module. So some redundancy here. Also we have the theories about the Oblong series, collected in Floydadada. The Oblong series and 1Pink perhaps represent my peak creative creations, so this may be important to keep and develop down the line. 49 was a good age.
8. Paradox.
Gathering point of documents mainly created between the Art 10×10 and Writing 10×10. The Oz/Floyd Paradox Interview is the most polished, and represents a good summary of my involvement with audiovisual synching, pre- Art 10×10 (or pre-Billfork), tracing a line from Dark Side of the Rainbow and parallel Rainbow Sphere to 2003’s SID’s 1st Oz. Paradox II was an attempt to further this into explaining synchs beyond SID, which was a “failure” and “degenerated” instead into high fiction. A very interesting failure nonetheless, and something worth preserving in its own right. So this is yet another work I need to revisit and refine. Floydada is another, much looser organized document of the time, and should be viewed as a supplement to the others. Edna’s Queer Eye stories completes the set.
9. Writing 10×10.
The original 10×10, predating the more cohesive and “successful” Art 10×10. The Booker T. Archive represents the 1st 3 tiers of 10, followed by Jordan’s Rule, which will actually be incorporated into Bark! now (see top module above). Material from Islands may also be incorporated into Bark! or perhaps even into the map work (see below). The 7th tier represents the beginning of my modern involvement with the Frank and Herman Parks, later refined in the blogs. But a lot of the Writing 10×10 will probably not carry down in time in that form.
10. Older Internet Sites.
Originating in the late 90s and early 00s, these are all audiovisual synchronicity related. Booker T. Archive comes from here (1998-2000).
11. Maps.
A very large subject in and of itself. Subsequently called UmapS, and perhaps now rolled into the umbrella term of GNIRPS, and related to Frank and Herman Parks through Lisa the Vegetarian. I’ve been working on this project since about 1986, and it represents my first major synchronicity probing, pre-dating the later audiovisual synching stuff started in 1997. In 2004, concurrent with Billfork and a similar shift up for a/v synching, GNIRPS transformed into an up and down coverage of the US, starting on both the east and west coasts and ending up in Arkansas (some say Missouri). A battle between baker b. and Pierre for control of this center tile is still being fought. Hucka D. has stated many times to me, baker b., that the end focus should remain on Arkansas, and this is what Lisa the V. wishes as well. But Pierre has his allies. SID’s 1st Oz, as explained somewhat in Booker’s 2007 interview on that particular subject, has been coded within Arkansas. Pierre champions the path of The Bill instead.
Future? GNIRPS is still being worked on through the blogs, almost on a daily basis now. All of it is still filling in. The Shining adds a new investigative angle.
12. Music.
Not any music composed since the late 90s, but this was my *original* creative focus, along with maps. Much music created in years 1968-1985. None really recorded in permanent form yet.
Future? I may return to music sometime, through a combo of CHRO (system), improvisation, and intuitive composition.
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