Monthly Archives: August 2014

Plans:

Buy or rent a small plot near the heart of old Middletown (or Meddletown… whichever). I have my eye on a 1024 and possibly a 2048. Are any clues to the nature of the huge, former metropolis left behind? Surely so, one would think.

Directly associated with this, I’ve basically decided to enlarge the “Jeogeot Through Art & Word” exhibit currently taking up half the space in my newly inserted “X-Spot Gallery”. My idea is to either eliminate or move the Mike Casey and Kenneth Rouggeau art in the other half, although I’m more inclined to keep the latter since it is collage oriented.

I can’t do much more until I free up some prim space. I’ll have to make some decisions this weekend concerning land and several present Collagesity structures.

I might even go out and buy some more virtual art, which I haven’t done for quite a while… perhaps since when I was putting together the original Noru version of JTA&W back in 2010. 4 years ago… so near yet so far! I’ve friended one of the original exhibitors on facebook, which is encouraging. I’m planning to attempt to track down what happened to some of the others… may not get in direct contact with them but at least I’ll know what they’ve been up to. An example is former Sunklands artist Sambroxton String, who is Sam Broxton in real life.

http://www.saatchiart.com/SamBroxton

“Jeogeot Through Art & Word” to be enlarged.

Another idea I had is to get the whole Jeogeot related posts from both the Baker Blinker and Baker Bloch (Frank and Herman Einstein!) blogs in better order. A Second Life acquaintance said a while back that my blog, the Baker Blinker one at the time, read like a book. Must figure out how to better coordinate the 2 blogs of mine, one complete (Baker Blinker — 4 1/2 years long) and one still in progress (Frank and Herman E! — almost 2 years old now). Will have to admit now that the 2nd blog is more a continuation of the 1st than I originally had in mind. A triangle of Second Life-Real Life (parks/woods)-Photographs exits at the center, with Photographs forming the apex and link between real and virtual mythologies. Without the heavy influence of Second Life, I don’t believe I would have gotten so involved in photos in real life as well. And then to add onto this triangle is another (4th) important element: digital collages, which my photos (and wife Edna’s) contribute to, as well as photos from others, some with permission and some without, unfortunately. Which brings us to yet another, more hidden blog influence, though one I mention now and then: carrcasses. What are carrcasses? I’ve attempted to answer this question to the best of my ability within blog parameters and have not gotten very far yet. They are collages as well, but of an audiovisual nature. They can be seen as the source or wellspring for digital collage in many ways, the latter beginning in the Greenup collage series of 2004.

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Max Ernst collages:

http://www.spamula.net/blog/2004/07/the_hundredheadless_woman_cont.html
http://www.spamula.net/blog/2004/07/misfortunes_of_the_immortals_a.html
http://www.spamula.net/blog/2003/06/a_week_of_kindness.html

To be used, probably, in yet another collage related Collagesity gallery. Stairs No. 2?

Hmm, the same site has this page about collagist Eva Lake, a friend of the author and whose work is featured in a site called *Collagetown*.

http://www.spamula.net/blog/2003/04/collages.html.

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Middletown, PA and Middletown, VA show up next to each other in both an alphabetical county sort and topo map sort for that population place name. Total number of Middletowns involved: 81. Perhaps peculiar given the frequency, then.

sort by topographic map name (excerpt)

sort by county name (excerpt)

Middletown, PA is a suburb of Bethlehem, but is located within a Nazareth topographic map. Jesus reference? Jesus is Da Man? (missing M and N from Kidd). Is this about Jesus Christ the child? We The Blog are admittedly grasping or, better, nibbling around a large edgy border that is Jeogeot’s Middletown (or Meddletown). Which the f— is it?

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http://www.artmuseum.arizona.edu/events/event/andy-burgess-paper-city

Cool, a whole book:

http://www.blurb.com/books/2573503-paper-city

http://www.suegreenwoodfineart.com/andrew/burgess/artwork/3047

http://virtualchristine.com/2011/06/24/a-third-virtualchristine-newbie-guide-to-second-life-geography/

Elros Tuominen’s Tubular Gallery is located in southern Jeogeot and is featured in “Jeogeot Through Art & Word” (JTAW).

http://raftwetjewell.blogspot.com/2009/05/boxed-at-tubular-gallery.html

Interesting:

“Phoenix” by Kylie Sabra.

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https://web.archive.org/web/20090722075158/http://www.daden.co.uk/pages_virtual_worlds/daden_locations_in_second_life.html

Located right on the northern edge of the Nari sim our shop looks out over the southern Welcome area. This means that for many new Second Life players we are one of the first things they see in world. We get used to answering newbie questions, and have quite a few freebies and information sheets on offer.

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bb:

I wasn’t planning on talking to you so soon, Carrcassonnee, or bothering you.

Carrcassonnee:

No bother. As long as I’m paid.

bb:

Yes. The Jeogeot Through Art and Word [exhibit] might not be a good fit for the X-Spot Gallery, although I love the idea of linking various other galleries through this central, aerial one. I especially like the way the Kidd Tower is in the present middle of the Jeogeot related exhibit. How appropriate.

Carrcassonnee:

I didn’t use to have to do that.

bb:

Sorry… so you are Jeogeot, as you said.

Carrcassonnee:

Yes.

bb:

We’ve gone back to the “Olive 02” post, perhaps, Carrcassonnee. “New Post.”

Carrcassonnee:

I am the Olive and the Tin it comes in both. I am 7.

bb:

I might not be able to increase my prim limit the way I wanted to, Carrcassonnee.

Carrcassonnnee:

I need you to work on me.

bb:

What does that mean?

Does that mean work on Jeogeot Through Art and Word?

Carrcassonnee:

Yes. Yes?

bb:

What is the Kidd Tower?

Carrcassonnee:

Mmmmm.

bb:

It comes from Middletown, I know. Meddletown… Middletown.

Carrcassonnee:

Yes.

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Purchasing additional land may not be purdent for August to expand Collagesity now, so what I might have to do next to free up some prim space is to gut the Toxic Art Gallery. A shame — but I have so many collages now in both the Power Tower and Fal Mouth Moon. I can rez the Toxic Art Gallery on my Philudoria property, perhaps. Another option is to use Philudoria as a sandbox for larger projects. The Art 10×10 within Toxic Art has now been completed for over 5 years. I could use it for another collage gallery, perhaps eliminating half of the floors. Gutting the TAG in this fashion, even if inserting another gallery, would probably save me 100 prims right there. TAG is one of those structures that is *not* downsizeable by changing physics shape type under edit/features from prim to convex hull. Like a lot of objects, this *increases* the number of prims, in some cases quite dramatically.