Excitement.

Just after choosing blue (Noru) over red (Rubi/Hector), the former flowers into a true, new town. Not *VWX Town* size, mind you, but perhaps the latter was a tad too large for me to manage. Collagesity remains the name, and as you can probably guess, the focus will be on collages, mainly my own (which have greatly increased over the last 2 years). But I want to showcase other collages as well, and have left some space/prims for such. Kollage Kid is an obvious target — check up on what he has been doing the last year or so. Perhaps Julie Sadler, and I have the building that housed her Norum Gallery already established on the western edge of the town. Look into collages in general.

I should mention my Noru land purchases immediately after selling the Hector property. These include a 1024 and also a 512 along what was then the southwest part of my Noru holdings, giving me a nice 72×64 meter space to work with. Without these purchases I don’t think Collagesity could have flowered into what it has become and is still becoming. Fate. These purchases eventually allowed me to create a *middle* row of structures between a north and south row, and this seems to have made all the difference. And the design of this middle row is basically an import from Rubi’s VWX Town — another sharing — copying the lineup of Bodega Market-Coolie Building-Stairs Gallery east to west again. A quite direct comparison with VWX Town can now be formed: Orange House can be seen as a very shrunken down version of the Table House, for example. More on all that soon, perhaps. There are a lot of VWX Town structures that don’t exist in Collagesity. However, many of the ones that have been developed beyond a shell structure (empty state) have been resurrected. True, we have no Temple of TILE, no Blue Feather Gallery, no TILE Tower, no Sink Lair. Yet what we do have seems even more pertinent for present times: the Kidd Tower, the Noru Museum (which didn’t even appear in VWX Town), the Stairs Gallery, the Norum Gallery, and of course the 3 large galleries with my collages, Toxic Art, Power Tower, and Fal Mouth Moon. Those form the axis, with the recent collages of Fal Mouth Moon more front and center than the others. Like I said, collage is the focus in the brand new town. Collagesity.

Below we have a picture of the center of town, a more open space surrounding its lone stream. Another comparison with VWX Town can be made here, since Collagesity’s stream is itself a *collage* or mashup of the several stream flows appearing in VWX Town. I’ll have more to say about that soon as well, I’m guessing.

Crossing a footbridge over a small gully marking the source of the stream brings us to High Way, an approximately 50 meter long L-shaped, basically grassy passage allowing direct access to the Fal Mouth Moon. Just beyond the elbow bend of this is now found the “Wyn Galbraith Cutout” seen in a number of my other virtual villages, and who Edwardston Resident became smitten with at one point last Fall during his residency in VWX Town. Another newly established building, the Victorian style House of Truth, can be seen beyond.

A great view is found from the footbridge down the stream and into lower country to the north. One of the many crystals in the town’s crystal field can be glimpsed. Soon after this photo was snapped, a cardinal bird alighted on the old and perhaps dead tree to its left. Cardinal Tree, then?

And then a look down the length of Low Way, running parallel and, yes, below the higher High Way to its south. As I’m studying the town’s passages now, it’s obvious to me that a main trail running west to east bisects into High Way and Low Way in its middle before recombining just east of the higher footbridge we just crossed above. I suppose High Bridge would be its name, as there is a complementary Low Bridge crossing the stream to its north. Quite symmetrical town as it is turning out (!).

Entrance sign at the west end of town. There’s a complementary sign welcoming visitors on the east end. I’ll produce a town map soon.

Collagesity, July 1 2014