Daily Archives: May 28, 2015

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I think this might be finished.

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We’ve already mentioned recently that Sam Parr Model in Sam Parr collage 07 has the head of a fox: Redd Foxx once more. This would be the collage just after his first appearance in my work in the Collage 06/07 diptych of that earlier series. And this same Sam Parr Model image now appears in both parts of “Darth Redder”, and, in its second part, with the superimposed head of Redd Foxx once more (2x larger than before in respect to the body). Is this a representation of the akh or haunting spirit?

So his head is covered with the Darth Vader helmet, but simultaneously appears on Sam Parr Model in the background to the right. The group of people in front of her from the first part of the animation have meanwhile disappeared. They seem to be the same as the floating body in front of them. We know this from a prior interpretation of Collage 07 in the new series, which contain these same images. Instead of reproducing the collages, I’ll just give links to the 2 part interpretation:

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2015/05/21/collage-07-analysis-01/

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2015/05/21/collage-07-analysis-02/

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Hucka D.:

What’s Darth Redder reaching for on the right side?

bb:

Good morning, Hucka D. I was hoping you’d show up. The tetraptych is a difficult one to interpret because of the overall complexity. I had the same problem with the Falmouth tetraptych, the first one I did. The analysis of Gilatona-Lis, going pretty smoothly up to that point, got a bit mired there. And it’s Darth Vader on the right side. Darth Redder is just a name I invented to fuse Redd Foxx and Darth Vader together. He’s reaching for… well, he had [a dancing] *Brak* in his hand. Here’s the source image. We can go from there.

It’s the logo of sorts for the carrcass I’ve numbered “Carrcass-0”. Can I give the actual name out here?

Hucka D.:

Might as well. It’s Aunt Frylock. (pause) Isn’t it?

bb:

No. It’s [delete name]. Well, I don’t seem to be able to give the name out. Wait… silly me, that’s not the name anyway. Okay, I’ll say it. It’s [delete name].

Hucka D.:

Let me try. “Empire Strikes Brak”. How’s that? Did you hear that well enough?

bb:

Let me check the blog post (checks). Yes (!). It showed up for you. Hmmm.

Hucka D.:

It’s because I’m a Greenheader next to Red Head.

bb:

Anyway, so we have a mashup of named “Empire Strikes Back” with “The Brak Show”, like in the carrcass. The scene is Darth Vader “reaching” out to his son Luke Skywalker, asking him to join him, or to join the Dark Side.

Hucka D.:

That’s correct. Like he did.

bb:

No, Hucka D., he didn’t join his father. He stayed on the Light Side of The Force.

Hucka D.:

Well, how did he do that without getting killed? There was no way off that pole but down, and that was a mile long fall at least. He couldn’t have made it. Movie sequel over after [roughly] 1 hour. Partial price of tickets had to be refunded. You tell me how he did it?

bb (smiling):

Yes, Hucka D., you’re setting me up. We know now how Luke Skywalker escaped the clutches of Darth Vader and didn’t fall to his death. It is because he had a magic toenail and simply wished himself into at least a slightly better place. This is a gift from *Brak*.

But where Collage 09 joins with Collage 10 we have overlapping animations, an interesting effect for certain. Darth Vader reaches out to *12 Oz Mouse* here, and there’s also another animated Brak nearby — in the same driveway that Vader’s arm extends over a bit. Is this a perfect place to segue to an interpretation of Collage 10, Hucka D.?

Hucka D.:

As good as any. We can return to Collage 09 if needed. Who lives in the white house that dominates 10?

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So here we go. I’m as ready as I’ll probably ever be. And Hucka D., I’m assuming, is going to help. It’s in his job description[ after all]. I call this one “Darth Redder”. It’s a two part animation, like all 4 collages making up the Collage 8, 9, 10, 11 tetraptych. Should it have an overall name? Anyway, I’ve already given an interpretation of Collage 08 (“Animation Station”) here and also here.

“Darth Redder, Part 1”

What are we looking at here? We’re seeing the image of Redd Foxx playing Fred Sanford doing his famous heart attack routine already mentioned a couple of times recently in this blog. To remind everyone of the story — and the cruel, ironic twist about it — check here:

http://www.wikilou.com/1.20.0/index.php?title=Redd_Foxx

Foxx appeared to be making a comeback with the 1991 series The Royal Family, in which he co-starred with his long-time friend Della Reese. During a break from rehearsals on October 11, 1991, a fatal heart attack felled him on the set. Reportedly, Reese and the rest of the cast and crew thought he was doing his classic (and in this case, ironic) “I’m coming, Elizabeth” fake heart attack routine he made famous on Sanford And Son, even going as far as collapsing to the floor, although that was not part of the usual schtick. However, this heart attack was real, and Foxx never regained consciousness.

The central picture of Mr. Foxx from “Darth Redder” of course is not the picture of his actual death but the fake one from his famous Sanford and Son series. Superimposed on his torso is an actual red fox, harking back to this older post. I’ll quote some again…

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2014/08/04/oracle-time/

bb (“reading” map):

A little carr. Spider. To navigate the narrow streets of Bath. Drive/Steer a Littcarr. Then something about Reddfoxx and racial issues. White… black. Take a Gander, I suppose.

And I believe that’s the first mention of Redd Foxx in this Frank and Herman Einstein! Blog. Slightly later we find that he could be one of the 6 or 7 enrollees at the short lived Sam Parr State College in Collagesity, Noru, and seemingly the only African-American of the bunch. We also find out that although he is only a straight “C” student, he still may have better entrance grades than anyone else.

Foxx appropriately then appears in several Sam Parr series collages, namely Collage 07 (a diptych with Collage 06), and then also in Collage 08. In Collage 07, he rises from the far edge of Sam Parr Lake, below a giant arching, frog tossing figure of Sam Parr Model, who seems to be a stand-in here for the primary Collagesity deity we call Carrcassonnee. He flashes an okay sign with his hand to the picture viewer. Although we have red foxes in a number of collages prior to this, we don’t have Redd Foxx himself appearing until now. He has manifested.

In the first part of the same of the dipytch (left hand side) we have a red fox, the same image used in “Darth Redder”. This is also a new collage image (not the same as the old foxes), and is drawn by another Sam Parr who I call Sam Parr Artist (or SPA) to differentiate from Sam Parr Model (SPaM) and the rest.

I consciously doubled these images in that diptych, but on opposite sides. In “Darth Redder”, the images are combined or fused in the middle. I had the feeling that the red fox in Redd’s arms is his soul or ka, perhaps to become an ahk. When it departs from his arms, he is dead, attack completed. Some ancient Egyptians believed that under favorable circumstances the ahk is created that could present itself as a ghost of the deceased. Redd Foxx himself is said to have haunted his old Las Vegas house, seized by the IRA for back taxes in 1989.

In part 2 of the animation…

“Darth Redder, Part 2”

… the fox is gone, and instead we have a floating body appearing from behind a rock wall to the right. It has seemingly replaced the Darth Vader “reaching” image from part 1, and instead we find the dark Vader mask covering the face of the “dead” Redd Foxx. This is the departure of the ka from the body in my opinion at the moment of death.

Redd Foxx represents The Father, as he played in Sanford *and Son*. There he faked heart attacks. This one depicted here is the real deal. An sad faced orange m&m pendant hanging in the same tree looks on.

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