Collage 08 analysis 01

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“Apparently I’m going to create a tetraptych composed of what I’m numbering as Collage 08, 09, 10, and 11 of the new series. This series is still without a name. Is it “merely” a continuation of the Embarras series on the floor below, cobbled together earlier this year? Sam Parr (the series before the last one) might represent the final “traditional” collage series based around images gathered from a particular Jasper County geographic name. I’m confused.”

Hucka D.:

Just start — or continue — analyzing the collages and let the other pieces fall naturally into place as they may. Let’s continue then with “Animation Nation.” Sorry… this is “Animation Station”. The center is the tiny Newfoundland railroad station that Finnbar McBride inherited to begin the Station Agent film. He is a wee person, and he is seen standing next to the door of the station in the second part of the animation. In the first part he is absent. Most of this animation makes simple sense, except for the human characters, which number 4 5. The rest are animation characters. They make a direct animation with themselves. Let’s list them out. Do you want to give it a shot?

bb:

Sure. There’s Shake and Boxy Brown from Aqua Teen Hunger Force in the foreground. They’re on opposite sides of that rain puddle. A man with undefined face puts his hand directly in the middle of Boxy Brown’s hair. We know that this is the opposition of black and white across the puddle. You say it…

Hucka D.:

Taijitu.

bb:

Hmmm. Anyway. Let’s see. Then just sticking with Aqua Teen Hunger Force characters, we have an animated Insanoflex from the movie “Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters”. What a title! Boxy Brown also makes a cameo in that film. And both, along with Shake of course — a main Aqua Teen characters as opposed to the other 2 who are more role players — appear in carrcasses. Or one carrcass, and that would be Carrcass-0. Carrcasses, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

Yes, this is about those pesky carrcasses in part. Hard to keep their influence out of collages for long. So go ahead…

bb:

The Insanoflex is dancing atop the truck, just to clarify. His head is in the sky — transparent. All of these cartoon characters have a common source in the “Space Ghost Coast to Coast” series, Hucka D. Space Ghost and direct cohorts are sitting in a central table of [Collage 08]. Brak dances right center. He is a role player in Space Ghost Coast to Coast, but becomes the star in the spinoff “The Brak Show”, and takes Space Ghost’s Zorak with him. Likewise, “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” has its origins in Space Ghost — another spinoff show as it were.

Hucka D.:

As it is. Had to add that.

bb:

And then that leaves only Fitz the mouse from “12 Oz Mouse”. It’s kind of the successor to Aqua Teen, in turn, but only through the carrcasses in main. That is, Carrcass-1 is centered around 12 Oz Mouse, while the former carrcass was based around the Aqua Teen movie. So that’s Aqua Teen and The Brak Show spinning off from Space Ghost Coast to Coast, and the 12 Oz Mouse kind of spinning off from Aqua Teen I suppose.

Hucka D.:

Correct. [He is the] culmination.

bb:

12 Oz Mouse is closer to my sensibilities than any of it, but the late Space Ghost episodes come somewhat close. Kind of like the late Beethoven quartets. Masterpieces.

Hucka D.:

Not quite. But: yeah.

bb:

So here are all those same cartoon characters in the second part of the Collage 08 animation, Hucka D. All make simple animations with their counterparts in part 1. Shake’s mouth opens and closes. Boxy Brown nods forward and then backwards. Brak dances in place. The Insanoflex on top of the truck moves its legs back and forth in a strutting motion. Then the central table with the Space Ghost characters has a mysterious guest appear on it in part 1, actually. This is Edward Swift, the Southern writer we’ve seen in a number of other Collagesity collages. The one who spent his childhood in Camp Ruby, Texas and later treated those times as a kind of Eden. He also stands for the Second Life sim Rubi and its own paradisiacal forest. Lucky is a bridge: Camp Ruby was once called Lucky, and a Lucky’s Magic Village was found in Rubi’s VWX Town, later to become part of the town’s museum. And it’s still found in Collagesity’s museum. I didn’t make up the name, however. That was just the name of the object that I found in [insert sim location] a couple of years back, I suppose — copyable. But that’s the guy that magically appears on the table. Hmmm… Lucky’s Magic Village is now on a table in the aforementioned museum… (checks) Well, actually as I’m checking inworld through Baker Bloch now, the village sits on the ground to make room for the historic map of VWX Town above it.

Hucka D.:

You are writing swell this morning. You have covered all the cartoon characters of the Collage 08. All have source in Space Ghost. Baker Bloch’s father is actually elder Space Ghost. Baker Bloch is Space Ghost’s spinoff as well.

bb:

I suppose so, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

Baker Blinker is also possessed by Master Shake of Aqua Teen Hunger Force pictured in the foreground. Is the curse still affected?

bb:

I don’t think so. The spell was broken with the creation of Carrcass-1 beyond Carrcass-0. 12 Oz Mouse took the upper hand over Aqua Teen Hunger Force then. 12 Oz Mouse is the chief cartoon now.

Hucka D.:

Nice. What does he do in the animation.

bb:

What he always does: drink.

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