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February 15, 2015 · 11:48 am

One more bit…

… of Collagesity Underground completed, linking the rooms beneath the Red Umbrella with the basement of Fal Mouth Moon through a narrow passage underneath Main Way.

But I think that’s about all the digging I can do in the town. Cool that I could accomplish as much as I did, though. Next might be a pod tour. 🙂

Hucka D.:

Stop smiling and build your damn rocket ship. 🙂

bb:

Oh yeah, forgot about that. The Scarlet Triangle. And then in the middle, the ship. Can you tell me how that works, Hucka D.?

Hucka D.:

You tell me. Okay I’ll tell you some. You use the woods for energy. The Woods. Position the ship as close as possible. Are you simply going to revamp the TILE Tower on your old lot? That might be the best way to go. It’s already in the shape of a rocket.

Thank you.

bb:

You’re welcome. I don’t know how to answer your question.

—–

Tonight I also opened up a new version of the Something To Chro About gallery, featuring my pre-Art 10×10 collages from the 80s/90s, and created the old fashion way using paper and glue. It’s in the Collagesity Underground, directly beneath the Toxic Art Gallery. Great place for it.

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February 14, 2015 · 2:21 pm

Collagesity Ideas

Rubi Woods is part of the Sylver Forest

Reversed (yin):

Ruby Forest is part of the Silver Woods

This is I turning into Y(y) and back. 180 degree turn then back. This is the mystery of religion/philosophy/game TILE and game/philosophy/religion Tyle.

When the Edwardston Station Gallery was inserted into the Rubi sim in August 2008, a key went into a lock, and the idea of a Sylver Forest was conceived. The Sylver Forest covered an area ~~nine~~ four times as large as the Rubi sim. The Rubi Woods use to cover the entire Rubi sim.

[Get quote how this was probably so, and why it changed]

The gallery was built on top of a preexisting station and named after it.

The TILE Temple was rezzed above the gallery/station. Soon they united.

—–

The orange entity depicted as graffiti art at the Edwardston trestle in Real Life is an Ancient. He is Pierrot, as we know thanks to the art of Max Ernst. That could be where we start the new influx of world art( into Collagesity, Minoa). Ernst is a collagist.

old Edwardston Station in Rubi & 2 Pierrots

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February 14, 2015 · 1:04 pm

Collagesity Debates

“Why is Carrcassonnee still without Eye, Hucka D.? Perch is certainly about. The 2 could combine easily enough.”

Hucka D.:

Because Rubi is not Noru and Noru is not Rubi. Although they are one beneath it all. Underground.

bb:

Maybe I could just talk to this Perch in the Underground.

Hucka D.:

Perch by himself is useless. He needs Her. Her needs He.

bb:

How do I then get them together? Make TILE complete in Collagesity?

Hucka D.:

A Museum would help. Have Rubi ketchup with Noru.

bb:

Catch up?

Hucka D.:

Yes.

bb:

What about “World of Collages”?

Hucka D.:

There’s a world of collages out there. Pick and choose.

Put Collagesity on other’s radar. But don’t spell it backwards.

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February 13, 2015 · 4:32 pm

Collagesity Discussions

Collagesity is really shaping up. The core galleries are basically finished, and even the Red Umbrella, the newest addition to this group, seems pretty complete in perhaps partial form (1st Floor, but I need to polish up some of the collage drafts still). Town Hall is the new hub of it all, introducing visitors to my Sunklands website, with old Sunklands magazines also lying about. Town Map is updated. Starbucanner Barista is behind the desk, ready for service. Blue and red and grey robots offer directional tips. A Jasper County map adorns the floor, and the same is found in all the core galleries now. “What’s *that* all about?” a befuddled visitor might ask. I’m now asking what the Red Umbrella is, that seems to act as a, well, umbrella term for the whole shebang.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/umbrella

4: something which covers or embraces a broad range of elements or factors

—–

Fog on one side…

… rain on the other…

I have 333 prims left to play around with in Collagesity. The outlying galleries and buildings, as I’ll call them, remain to be developed. Some do not even have a name yet. They lie as far outside the umbrella as possible while still within[ Collagesity]. Even the TILE Chapel is incomplete, since Carrcassonnee remains without Eye. At least 2 Perches exist in the village presently, one in Town Diner (basically complete that one is), and the other in Collagesity Underground, directly beneath the Red Umbrella gallery. Can we combine Perch and Carrcassonnee again, like was done early on in Collagesity, Noru?

—–

One of the outlying buildings. Future “World of Collages”?

Hub:

Town Hall

Core galleries:

Toxic Art (finished)
Power Tower (finished)
Fal Mouth Moon (finished)
Sam Parr (finished)
Red Umbrella (working on this one, 1st Floor basically complete — depends on where the Embarras collage series takes me (!))

Supporting buildings:

North Side:

Rubi Museum (unfinished)
Crooked Building/Coolie Building (incomplete?)
“World of Collages”? (unfinished)

South Side:

X Spot Gallery (incomplete)
Town Diner (finished?)
Bodega Market (finished)
Kidd Tower (finished)
TILE Chapel (incomplete[ Carr. remains without Eye])
Norum Gallery (complete)

Center:

Collagesity Underground (2 parts; incomplete)
Skybox? (projected)

fog and rain

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February 13, 2015 · 4:04 pm

Collagesity Developments

SoSo Gallery containing the still evolving Embarras collage series (up to 9 now!) has been renamed The Red Umbrella, with a corresponding switch in signs.

Baker Bloch heads around the corner to check the changes out. A light rain is falling outside the gallery (!).

Then underneath mainly The Red Umbrella has formed a type of small Collagesity Underground with 7 separate rooms. Below we find Baker standing in a foggy, open area between the 2 structures of this underground, taking in the odd scenery. A pack of dogs exist here, perhaps attracted by the trash.

Strange do’in’s already within these small rooms. It’s all very much still in development, and I envision some kind of gallery eventually.

Open area from the opposite angle…

The way to the underground from the west…

…and from the east.

I do not have a name for this east-west passage through here, but in its original, undug form it was called Jack Street, because of the presence of Gallery Jack all along the northern side. Gallery Jack has since been replaced with the Toxic Art Gallery. A smaller portion of The Underground lies beneath it — 2 rooms, as opposed to 5 beneath The Red Umbrella and also neighboring Norum Gallery a bit.

Town Hall is also shaping up, a new entry point for the village.

Some of the other new things in Collagesity:

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February 12, 2015 · 1:44 pm

“Spine Line” 02

Hucka D.:

This is something we especially wanted you to see (!).

bb:

How could this[ the 2 Swifts] possibly be connected?

Hucka D.:

Yet there they are. The alchemical marriage.

bb:

It must be the union of Silver (Creek) with Gold (River)… at Calypso or Morg Island. Morg Island is the same as the island in the collage, Hucka D. This would be in the upper left corner of collage 09 here.

Hucka D.:

Let’s take a goosie.

We’ve already discussed the cave and the blue stream, which counters the red rug coming from the same cave below this in the collage. This is the opposition of red and blue, kind of like Rubi oppositions Noru, as we also spoke about. But they are the same: Norubi. Back to the island, though. The cave is, moreso, Calypso, the city of, positioned on a strategic part of Morg Island that corresponds with where the Spine Line encounters the island from the north. We have two pictures of the Greek Island of Calypso this is based upon in the collage. In the smaller picture, added to the larger picture, 12 Oz Mouse character Peanut is positioned on the shoreline, about in the middle of the picture. His blue mirrors the blue of the sea and the sky. He is an inversion in fact. His hat is darker blue and his body is lighter, representing sea above sky instead of visa versa. Perhaps. To the left, in the larger picture of the Greek Island, we have the word ART, connected to the shore through 4 puzzle pieces we recognize as the colors of TILE: red, green, blue, yellow. The red piece intersects the red of the word ART, and the green intersects the green vegetation of the island, bridging word and island together.

This is also the LOST island, and the central spring and its smoke monster[ smoke coming out of hole in its center]. You’ve put a picture of this smoke monster earlier in the collage. See if you can quickly find it. Google “Achilles” to find it easily.

bb:

Okay:

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2014/11/19/stuffed-maps-02/

Hucka D.:

Okay, find the one where he’s actually emerging from the central hole. This becomes the Smoke Monster’s birth hole[ in effect]…

bb:

Well, I can’t find that but I did find this picture of The Heart of the Island (note: this is the central hole).

http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Heart_of_the_Island

And there’s another Mother to deal with, protective and even suffocating for Jacob. The Man in Black escapes Mother, and Jacob doesn’t. Jacob is a momma’s boy.

Hucka D.:

So you know that Morg Island is Ogygia is the LOST island. The central cave of Calypso is The Heart of the Island. Two caves in one. You know that the Man in Black is reborn as the smoke monster from this heart cave[ after being cruelly thrown in by his brother Jacob, after MIB kills their mother].

—–

bb:

Jacob may even be Peanut… wishy washy like the character. Peanut, in 12 Oz Mouse, wears a policeman’s hat and becomes a policeman. Later on he trades this hat for a fireman’s helmet and seems to instantly transform into a fireman as a result. This is opposition of blue (policeman) and red (fireman) again. Perhaps.

Hucka D.:

Perhaps.

bb:

Peanut is perched on the shore of one side of the island, and the word Art and the 4 propping colors of TILE on the other side of the island. They mirror each other.

Hucka D.:

What is the meaning of the word ART, then?

bb:

I have declared myself as a[ bonafide] artist, and have established ~~virtual~~ Collagesity next to the Great Rubi Forest to verify this, a permanent virtual location perhaps.

Hucka D.:

~~Perhaps.~~ Maybe.

bb:

TILE props up art. TILE is the religion of Collagesity, with its TILE Chapel as the center of worship. It remains incomplete.

Hucka D.:

Complete this and complete the island. Originally your Embarras 09 collage had more of the interior of the Town Diner in it, complete with the Head of Perch. Early on, you attempted to combine the Head of Perch, in the collage, with Carrcassonne in the TILE Chapel, after wondering if Carrcassonnee remained an oracle if she had no eye. Her eye[ in Collagesity, Noru] comes from Perch. 3 in 1 and 1 in 3. So you are attempting, in the collage again, to merge or reunite Carrcassonnee with her All Seeing Eye.

This will make TILE functional in Collagesity, Rubi, as it potentially was or maybe actually was in Collagesity, Noru. You complete the TILE Chapel[and ]you complete the ~~sity.~~ city.

—–

bb:

The placement of the Tile bit is one of the most synchronistic in the collage, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

That is because it is the most important. [Peanut] is the entrapped Odysseus/Ullyses, reversed from the picture of the island (dark blue on top instead of bottom). He stares morosely out toward the sea, unable to escape. He is the opposite of TILE[ on the other side of the island]. TILE sees the island as the 4-n-1 or the 4orrin1, complete unto itself. The Island becomes the symbol of The All. This is Jacob’s viewpoint. The other side is the Man in Black. Dark Man.

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February 12, 2015 · 7:53 am

“Spine Line”

“I seem to be established pretty firmly in Collagesity, Minoa style Hucka D. It feels like a permanent virtual home.”

Hucka D.:

Characters will emerge soon. Are you ready to begin an interpretation of the Embarras collage series? It may be done already… we don’t know.

bb:

Um, sure I suppose.

Hucka D.:

You are shifting emphasis to Mythos. As [fore]told of course. You escaped this time. You will always escape. Until you don’t.

bb:

Meaning that I’ll always get to leave mom’s house because I live in another town and have to work there. Blue Mountain.

Hucka D.:

This is mirroring the older, childhood escape. That’s why it has resonance. Ullyses was entrapped on Calypso for 7 years. Not 7 nights, but it is similar in that it is a sealing. Where’s Edward?

bb:

I don’t think he’s really that happy.

Hucka D.:

No.

—–

bb:

What is the meaning of the Spine Line, Hucka D.?

Hucka D.:

Escape. Eoc. [ Pearl Gray].

bb:

I must return to the flea market. Get more toys for another happening. Surprisingly, very surprisingly, Mythos still has energy, purpose. Pattonsburg is still an active center. Edwardston. Just as much as they always were, in ways.

Hucka D.:

The Spine Line gives energy to these places.

bb:

I may go to Mythopolis Saturday, Hucka D. Check out more of this Bridge02. Explore Carr Creek. Don’t think that’s the name for it, though.

Hucka D.:

Think of escape. Think of what will happen even when you live in Middletown. Mythos is just as close to Future Home in Middletown as it is to Blue Mountain… closer, in fact. Mythos can still be a laboratory. That is the wish of the parents as well. (pause) Spine Line has protected many of the areas from your childhood — Edwardston, Pattonsburg, Calypso, Eoc. There is another line, however.

—–

bb:

After March I will not be able to explore the Spine Line locations, most likely. I’ll have to shift back to Blue Mountain.

Hucka D.:

You can still visit your Bridge02.

—–

Embarras 09: “Spine Line”

bb:

What of Embarras 09? You said you wanted to begin an analysis.

Hucka D.:

Spine Line is within. We’ll start a bit tonight then follow through tomorrow. Get nods out tomorrow. Begin to nail down time of DOD.

bb:

Yes I will. I’m solidly in Collagesity now. Really have been since June, although I shifted from Noru to Rubi in November.

Hucka D.:

It was all Norubi[ anyway].

—–

“I’m opening Embarras 09 in a new window. We’ll begin tonight. We have an actual spine, or a metallic representation thereof within, alongside the spine of a book. And not any old book, but Winesap. A metallic boy seems to look through the book at a woman with a man sitting in her lap in front of a cave. This is Odysseus. This is the cave of Calypso. On Calypso’s lap is Edward. E. Swift…

Hucka D.:

Not your Edward but still your Edward. He represents the Great Rubi Forest through the Big Thicket of Camp Ruby. Lucky you. He is you established in Collagesity, Rubi style or Minoa style. He is *protection*. The boy attempts to look at the lady. Yet Edward is in the way. The lady is on a red rug. On the top part of the metal spine is the same cave, smaller in perspective, with a *blue* stream coming out of it. This is the opposition of red and blue, Russellian style. The blue and red face opposite ways in front of the cave. The blue stream from the cave seems to “pour” into the spine from the top. The spine is the same as the[ spine of the] book.

bb:

Yes.

Hucka D.:

The blue is Noru and the red is Rubi. Both the red rug and the blue stream pour, as it were, out of the cave. This is good collage… peak of the Embarras series so far.

bb:

Thank you.

Hucka D.:

You worked harder on this that some of the others. It shows. Refinement.

bb:

It had surprises.

Hucka D.:

You move away from the tetraptych, true, but images collide more in meaningful ways here, although you’ll return to the multi-panel works soon enough. Now you noticed the *Achilles Heel*.

bb:

Yes. The achilles heel of the boy. And this relates to Achilles, Virginia and Lady and Glass there and a particular story from Winesap, also highlighted by Faherty’s The Ordained. The blue-green horse emerges from the hole, like a cave on its side. The cyan or blue-green horse is Eoc, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

12 Ounce Mouse or Fitz (green being behind cyan horse) sees the hole; seems somewhat alarmed. Fitz is Britonia, Fitz is entrapment in Britonia, in the house. Can’t escape. Yet the person in the house which is the same as Fitz here sees the escape through the hole. Eoc is escape through the Spine Line. The hole in the leg of the cyan horse mirrors the hole on the ground. This is also the concept of Greenup as opposed to Yellow Down.

bb:

Fitz is Britonia and Skillet is Spring Squirrel or Swamp Squirrel. This is the 2 to Britonia’s 1. Skillet seals the entrapment inside the Confederation, which is the same as Zircon. Omega.

Hucka D.:

Yes. It has been a slow process but the sealing is almost complete. Nowhere to go. Mobility lost.

—–

bb:

Then we have a woman reading a book to the left, just like Embarras 08 has Scully reading the Jose Chung book. And like Embarras 08, horses emerge from the left of the reading girl or woman. The same 2 horses.

The 6 legged, cyan colored horse has reappeared from that collage as well. The spine of the book becomes like the [eastern] border of our Middletown property. We are afraid that people will be able to look in on us there, Hucka D., so we must create a protecting border.

Hucka D.:

You must extend the border down, yes. Else people will be able to peer in.

bb:

But the middle row of green shrubs may have to be erased… cut down.

Hucka D.:

Perhaps.

bb:

If we could build a house as small as the one in Embarrass 07…

… then the line of shrubs (appearing behind it in that collage) there would be okay.

—–

“This is about not just one mother but two.”

—–

bb:

OMG, Hucka: Edward Swift and Kate Swift as one!

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February 11, 2015 · 1:54 pm

Collagesity update

I have a new center of town…

What I plan to do is to move the art kiosk for Collagesity inside this building, located on the south end of Town Park Ridge and probably called Town Hall, and add in some more introductory material such as a town map, gallery infocubes and perhaps books/magazines and a video or videos.

Along with this, I’m starting to design a Rubi Museum chronicling my adventures within the old Sylver Forest area. I’ve described my various parcels around this region here a bit. (LINK)

It’s a shame to lose part of the Town Park but I think it had to be done in order for Collagesity to grow into what it should be. And part of that is function as a *permanent* mainland home for me and my art. Yes, I’m over 50 percent sure that I’ve stopped moving around in Second Life. I’ve returned to Rubi (or at least bordering the Rubi Forest) and that’s good enough for me. It was my first mainland home area and it may be my last.

The 1st Floor of the new gallery (SoSo) is now filled up with the collages of the still evolving Embarras series. Nowhere to go but up…

New picture projected to be used for an official town map, and located in Town Hall. What I plan to do is simply put pins with hover text on each major building to keep track of changes.

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February 10, 2015 · 4:32 pm

Embarras 09

final?:

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February 10, 2015 · 7:55 am

Edwardston & Pattonsburg

I’m perhaps planning to head down to Mythopolis tomorrow for more hiking fun so I wanted to make sure I generate the text for this related post beforehand.

Last Sunday I parked my car at a strategic place and walked the railroad to Edwardston, prominently landmarked by a historic trestle spanning Silver Creek.

I did not walk across the trestle, and apparently it is against the law now to do so. Not when I was a kid, however, or at least there was no sign there stating such. But now there is. Never mind, because my goal was Edwardston itself, which lay on the near side of the trestle, and where the 2 below photos were snapped. The first shows the waters of Silver Creek (left) and Edward Creek (right) approaching each other to meet just below the trestle, with Silver being the much larger flow and Edward a mere tributary of it.

The actual juncture of the streams. I remember the sandbar being extended more at the peninsula representing their confluence, kind of like a miniature Manhattan. Correspondingly, this was suppose to be the site of Edwardston’s large downtown, with the city itself about the same size as our Chicago. I don’t recall the sandy island in the river you see just beyond — pretty certain that wasn’t there when I was growing up. We’ll be mentioning another formerly unknown Silver Creek island of similar if larger design in a moment.

And the alien style graffiti face is still present below the trestle, just like I found it in 2008, I believe. It almost seems that the image has been repainted, but I doubt someone would take the trouble to do so. This is a pretty out of the way place, and not on any beaten path of any kind. Most likely it was just originally crafted with some quality spray paint — present theory.

Another shot of Edwardston…

… before moving up Silver Creek toward Pattonsburg, about a 1/3rd of a mile northeast. Like Edwardston, Pattonsburg was a Wazobian city of some size, although not quite as big as the former. I rated it the 9th largest city of Wazob, while Edwardston came in at no. 3. The below picture is of Patton Creek which empties into Silver Creek just below “downtown Pattonsburg”, or at least it use to. Now its waters have been dammed by beavers, and any flow beyond must be underground, as the creek bed between here and Pattonsburg about a football field to the north is now dry. Again this was different when I was a teenager…

beaver gnawings in Pattonsburg

… as was Pattonsburg itself, seen in its present state in the below photo. No, when I originally found this place in my early teens, bamboo was growing all over the area viewable in this picture. In fact, I began construction on a bamboo hut here, and perhaps when I cut the bamboo a chain reaction set in, throwing a delicate ecosystem offkilter. At any rate, there is basically no bamboo left, although I found a little this day further south.

The stream is dry, the bamboo is gone. This is an almost completely deenergized Pattonsburg. The city is no more, at least in this location. *But* we’ll come to that interesting “new island twist” in a moment.

A bridge found in what I called Bananaboro, yet another designated spot for a fantasy burg and ranking no. 8 in size for Wazob cities. Bananaboro and Pattonsburg are intimately tied. Besides being close in size (no. 8 and no. 9 respectively) they lie at either end of the Patton Creek, and also were part of a pre-Wazobian country called Or, which later became the Wazob province of Topaz after its consolidation (more on that soon enough).

But the larger point is that the woods surrounding Pattonsburg and Bananaboro — the entirety of Or, in effect — *has remained intact* since my youth. I realized this area still had mythological relevance. You *can* go home in this case, or kind of pick up where you left off.

And I just realized in looking at the remaining photos of this post that I did not include any picture of that larger island I mentioned. Well, let me just describe it a bit. It lies close enough to Pattonsburg to be within its “metro area”. To be more precise it seems to lie on the west side of a place I called Argent — yes, another Mythos city, bearing a no. 16 ranking this time, and the third largest of ancient Or. I’ll have more to say about Argent soon. I might attempt to take more pictures on Saturday of the place — we’ll see.

Edwardston again.

This day I also hiked to the south of Edwardston, or between my mom’s house (which was called Britonia according to my mythology, and the *number 1* city of Wazob (!)) and the railroad trestle. Another interesting fact: the wetlands of Edward Creek have actually been restored since my childhood by a new landowner. I don’t know how this was exactly effected, but the creek is now very wavery and sinuey, where before it basically flowed straight as an arrow. Edward’s Creek has actually *been improved* since my growing up days in Mytholopolis. Another exciting note.