Will have to make a decision on retaining Collagesity further into the spring in about a week. My guess is that the city will go away basically either then or around the first week of May, unless something spectacular happens concerning the forest, etc., in the meantime. After that I may retire from Second Life for about a month or 2, then return as a renter somewhere, maybe utilizing a square 4096 from Lama Estates like I did before. Another wildcard in this is the possibility of another collage series this summer, perhaps 10 more to add to the Red Umbrella gallery’s currently empty second floor. That might be incentive to keep Collagesity around through the summer, then. But I could certainly develop the Red Umbrella on rental land instead. It would take up no more than a 1024 by itself. But what of the giant Fal Mouth Moon, the Power Tower, and the Toxic Art galleries? What of downtown Collagesity with its temple, Kidd Tower, World of Collage gallery, diner, and more? The ability to fit an entire town *successfully* into a 8704 square meter parcel was a hard fought victory. Can I just give it up that easily? [Probably.]
What other developments might occur this summer outside a new collage series of perhaps 10 or even 20 collages? Well, there’s always carrcasses lingering around. The last carrcass was created in August of last year — not even taped yet (!). Collages and carrcasses represent my main artistic push these days. But I’ve also speculated about a return to music using the CHRO and also TILE systems.
I’ve been able to archive at least the tapes of postive carrcasses now — almost all of ’em. Now I must begin to work on the negative carrcasses, and that would mean burning new DVDs to create digital files. I have decided not to give links to any of the postive or negative carrcasses except to friends. The audiovisual synchs up to Tronesis — these are open game for now. I’ll also prepare a new tile table for them. So much more to work with even limiting myself to SID’s 1st Oz. It’s a pure golden synch after all — still unique in that way. I never created a full platinum synch (4orrin1) except as a master plan of separated tiles. And I haven’t figured out what a 4th level of audiovisual synching would be yet. My guess is that these new musical composition yearnings may be a pointer in that direction, however. Key still equals tiling and TILE, seemingly.
Artie J. Spongeberg may discover a TILE board in the basement of Fal Mouth Moon, for example. Will try to figure out what a game based on this board would be like.
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