Animated tetraptych coming along(!).
Monthly Archives: May 2015
Collage 11
I skipped Collage 10 for now and moved on to part 4 of 4 of the overall tetraptych. This collage is once again a 2 part animation, and I call it “Rainbow Men”. All grafted images originally lay solely on the right side of picture. But that changed with the addition of the rainbow m&m’s. Written interpretations soon…
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May have already finished Collage 09 — uncertain. This would be part 2 of a projected tetraptych involving a Stonethwaite panorama photograph found on Wikimedia Commons. Will parts 3 and 4 be created this coming week? And is this the basic end of the new series if so — not even extending into June? I have a feeling this may be a 20 parter instead, like the old Oblong series. Or the Greenup series that started it all over 10 years ago.
Virtually speaking I’m still in Minoa’s Collagesity but thinking about giving it all up next month. At the least I’m thinking about demolishing the Toxic Art and Power Tower containing my older digital efforts now. Can’t say I’m ready to give up the Falmouth Gallery just yet. I have a small side gallery established in a Mysten rental now… fairly interesting location. An Art 10×10 mirror site is located in another spot on the Sansara continent.
Mainland is extremely depopulated now in comparison to 2008, when I first signed on. Can it continue on like this for years to come? I’m uncertain. Yet I still find an attraction to mainland living, it seems.
I’m attempting to decide if all the collages in the Red Umbrella, created in the last year, are part of one series or remain separate from each other. The newest one still doesn’t even have a name. It contains references to other collages in the building, however. The end of the massive Falmouth collection is only a little past a year ago. I seem to remain in its shadow.
I am trying to balance pure collage creation with interpretations of same. For the new series I’ve decided to create an interpretation as I create the collages one by one. This is in contrast to the Sam Parr series also in the same building, where I basically waited until the end to create an overall interpretation. For the Embarras series that lies on the floor below the current one, I only did a full interpretation of the *last* collage. Should I even go back and create an overall interpretation of that one? I’m not sure.
While I was inside the Falmouth collage generating process, I believe I still possessed the illusion that we could stay in Blue Mountain in our retirement years. I don’t harbor this any longer. Middletown will most likely be our main retirement base instead. Correspondingly, the middle series of the Red Umbrella Gallery — the series before the current one — is all about Middletown and the attempt to escape the psychic gravity of Blue Mountain. The current series represents a compromise. Yes, we will have to stay in Blue Mountain for a number of years still, perhaps even up to 8, 9, 10. Yes, it is still a beautiful place where we live. I believe the discovery of Whitehead Crossing’s Red Head location this spring opened up a new door of appreciation. I must take all that I can from Blue Mountain before a physical departure.
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Collage 08 Analysis 02
bb:
So now we come to the human elements of the Collage 08 animation. We’ve already mentioned Edward Swift sprawled out on the table that the Space Ghost characters sit around. He does not have a counterpart in the second part of the animation. Then also in animation 01 we have Moss from The IT Crowd again, who has already made an appearance in the new series in collages 04 and 05. He guards the Red Door; waves off possible trespassers[ in those collages]. However in this collage he seems to be *trapped* behind the red door of the Newfoundland station. Thoughts, Hucka D.?
Hucka D.:
He is trapped in the station. Like you will be trapped in the Red Head cabin in a probable future spinoff.
bb:
Then in animation 02 we have a shirtless Peter Gabriel as the Rael character from the fabulous concept album “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” by his old group Genesis. He stares toward the station, but Moss is no longer there behind the door, which has been shut in the meantime. Instead Fin McBride has showed up at the station, luggage in hand. The luggage bag he holds is the same color as Moltar in front of him, sitting with Space Ghost and Zorak at the table that Edward Swift has disappeared from in the meantime. This disappearance *reveals* more of Moltar’s color and identification with this piece of luggage.
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“A constant — actually there are 2 constants in the collage in terms of added elements. We already mentioned that the blurry faced man appearing in the foreground does not change between the 2 animations. Then in the background we have Walter and Lao Russell’s Swannanoa Mansion near Waynesboro, Virginia remaining unchanged between the two halves of Collage 08. The huge looming nature of the mansion contrasts the smallness of the Newfoundland station below it. In the future, Hucka D., we will probably live in Swannanoa.”
Hucka D.:
Yes.
bb:
It is our future home. Like as depicted in, well, the collage “Future Home” from the last collage series.
Hucka D.:
You will live in Swanteen, yes.
bb:
Or Otanoa.
Hucka D.:
Either one. Or both. Or none.
bb:
Future up in the air, still. Like the Swannanoa Mansion is way up the mountain here, in the distance. Seeable and viewable but still quite far off. A considerable trek still.
Hucka D.:
How do the humans relate? Is Peter Gabriel the same as Moss[ between the 2 animations]? Is Edward Swift the same as Fin? Both the latters’ heads are conveniently framed[ by other picture elements] at the top. Fin even seems to sprout 2 tiny horns through the light shining on the station behind him. Fin has just arrived, and looks out at all the seeming cartoon chaos spread out in front of him. He looks at the shirtless Peter Gabriel who is Rael, wondering who the heck this is as well. And we’ve seen him before…
bb:
You mean the last collage of the Sam Parr series. Also an animation.
Hucka D.:
And then the beer bottles there too. You better put up a pic.
bb:
On it.
This is the first part of the 2 part animation of Sam Parr 10, Hucka D. Peter Gabriel-as-Rael looks on at a scene again. A tiny house or studio or station again. A man is inside again, like Moss in the current work. Trapped? And then Ray Davies appears beside him, or just behind him actually. They gaze together. Ray Davies has just showed up in a new collage, the 4 part animation I’ve named “Midgetville”. Actually this is the collage immediately before the current one (Collage 07 to Collage 08). And then, as you’ve alluded to, we have the same beer bottles from before, and indicating the passage of time. Actually in looking at this, the picture above *would* be part 2 of the 2 part animation of Sam Parr 10, since all those beers have been drunk already. This is the same situation as part 2 of the current collage.
Hucka D.:
There’s that mouse again. *The* Mouse.
bb:
So here’s part 1 of Sam Parr 10[ then].
And we also have Edward Swift sitting at (but not sprawling on) a table. But we have no equivalent for the propped up “E” of Sam Parr 10. Nor the humanized red fox. But that’s Peter Gabriel again, dressed up like a character from the Foxtrot album. That Rael from “Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” would show up in part 2 again represents a passage of time, since the Foxtrot album was released a little before the Lamb album. But is the fox Moss? I suppose this is a segue to Collage 09 of the new series, Hucka D., since Redd Foxx appears in that one, and also we have additional images from “Midgetville” to analyze there. Are we done with this one for now?
Hucka D.:
The blurred out man in the foreground is probably homeless. The man who lives in the mansion in the background has one of the finest homes possible. That’s another opposition. Thank you and good night.
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Collage 08 analysis 01
“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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Spread’n Out
I’ve moved around some of my art to new locations in Second Life. Here they are. First up is a small gallery in the Mysten sim exhibiting my newest set of collages. I call it simply The Red Umbrella, borrowing the name and logo from the larger gallery of that name in Collagesity, Minoa.
Then I’ve set up a mirror gallery for the Art 10×10 collages in a location I won’t specify, but is close to the Kerchal Forest.
Am I preparing for the end of my existence in Minoa? Could be.
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Collage 10 and 11 sources.
Base images for 3rd and 4th part of the projected tetraptych.
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Collage 09
The finished, second part of the tetraptych, which I’ve named “Darth Redder”. Originally a 4 part animation, as of 5/26/15 it’s down to 2 parts now, on *par*, ahem, with the 3 other collages of the overall work.
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Collage 08
This one’s called “Animation Station”. Here are the 2 parts. It’s the first part of a tetraptych. See above posts for more!
You can open each part of the animation in a separate window and then toggle back and forth to see the effect. In Second Life, the animation is built into the prim. Chalk up an advantage for SL displays.
This is the base for the second part of the diptych (tetraptych?):
I forgot to add that we’re back in Stonethwaite in the Lake District for this one. It’s a center, and has been featured in numerous collages before, including another tetraptych — non-animated in that earlier case, however. I plan to study up more on what went on before there. I’ll get back to ya’ll soon.
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Collage 07 Analysis 02
“Just that close, Hucka D. The Ringling Bros. mansion and Newfoundland are only a couple of miles apart. Green Pond unites. Wee person Fin McBride was just a small 500 meter hike perhaps from the Midgetville we’ve been discussing when sitting with his friends at the house on this pond.”
And our friends are all on board
Many more of them live next door
But we must return to Collage 07. (pause) Hucka must have gone back to bed. So let me put up the first and last animation in the 4 part collage and I’ll just go from there.
Sam Parr Model makes a return visit to the Red Umbrella collages, here in her lean-y version as seen in Sam Parr 08. There she had the head of a fox — Redd Foxx to be more precise.
Her dark “gun”, which I assume is some sort of scarf, is there [intwined in] an outline of Sam Parr Lake in Sam Parr State Park of Jasper County, Illinois. But in the new collage she is unmasked for who she is. I am not frightened.
—–
[10 minute pause to collect wits]
In the new collage, her head lies between 2 eyes from the same person, but from different time periods. This would be Winona Ryder. The right eye is from a 1991 Rolling Stone magazine cover with red headlines. The left eye is from a 1994 Rolling Stone cover with blue headlines. We do not yet know what is behind the head of Sam Parr here. But it has already been pictured on “Fathers” from the Embarras series: it’s a joined or third eye, created by overlapping the left eye of the 1991 cover with the right eye of the 1994 cover. This is synchronicity in itself. In “Fathers,” strolling Sherwood Anderson to the left, one of the “fathers” of the collage, wears this 3rd eye as a mask or a cover. Now we can say that this foreshadows the current collage, which is just as or probably more important in ways. And the same Midgetville house appears in the new collage, transferred from “Fathers” as well. And the 7 stone rock stacking also is transferred, along with the blue and red surrounding robots… and also Baker Bloch who stands apart, taking it all in. And Peter Gabriel appearing in the left window of the animation also has a source of sorts in “Fathers” through the row of presidents extending from Lincoln’s head down to the Midgetville house there. They all wear similar suits to Gabriel’s. He is All Presidents, Hucka D. might say here.
Now part of her is still covered up in the new collage. But it’s her legs and feet instead of her head. They are obscured by a crowd of hooded people who represent Little Whitehead — the negative aspect. They seem to be staring…
Baker B. appears in front of the group, waving. This is also a transposition from “Fathers”, where we still have the body of Baker B. but the head of Abraham Lincoln. Another Father in the picture like Sherwood Anderson. Like Homer Simpson in the background leaning against a house.
Kink Ray Davies appears to the left, opposite Baker B. and the Little Whitehead hooded group. Above him, in the window, appears Peter Gabriel, head down.
In the second part of the animation…
… Baker B. has move to the left side as he apparently continues to stroll across the front of the picture. He obscures Ray Davies now. Peter Gabriel, head down still, appears above. In the midst of the Little Whitehead group now extends that 7 stone stacking we mentioned before, with red and blue accompanying robots. Baker Bloch stands at the black shoed heel of Sam Parr Model. This is the Achilles heel reference again LINK. Heal and Heel should be associated.
In the 3rd part of Collage 07…
… we have the appearance of Winnie the Pooh holding his red umbrella to the right. I assume this is Baker B. again, having walked from the left side of the picture back to the right side. An educated guess. He stares down at a red and blue body we’ve also seen before in my collages. And the Little Whitehead group has disappeared now. We can also assume this reclining red and blue figure is the same as the group, with the link being the red and blue robots and the rock stacking between them. The red and blue figure is also created by the art group Little Whitehead. The group or gang have become one. Gang of Willard?
We can also say that the body has been “prepared”.
We have seen both Little Whitehead creations before in a Falmouth Collage called (checks) “Rescue Ship.”
“Rescue Ship”
We also have the same body in the more recent “Future Home” diptych, the collage created just prior to “Fathers”, actually. There the body seems to represent death itself, perhaps my own death in the future, when we move to Middletown and away from Blue Mountain. Or is it just the death of my existence in Blue Mountain? Anyway, that’s the past of the red-blue body. And Winnie the Pooh and his red umbrella actually lends itself to the name of the encompassing gallery, The Red Umbrella, that contains most of the collages we’ve been discussing minus one or two from the Falmouth collection. So let’s just move to the final part of Collage 07…
Here the 3rd eye of 1991/1994 Winona Ryder is exposed, as Sam Parr Model disappears from the picture. Or does she? Could she be the same as Dorothy, in her own white dress, that now hovers above and also obscured the red-blue body? And what of Winnie the Pooh, who has also disappeared along with his red umbrella? I think he has gone into the body (?).
In short, this is probably another Hierogamy moment, like with the earlier fusion of Baker Bloch and Baker Blinker in Collage 04. Peter Gabriel’s head is now up, and he’s staring directly at us. What does he know? Is his third eye opened? Ray Davies now appears on the other side of the small house’s front, looking toward Gabriel instead of being directly under him. Is this a point of objectivity now?
We perhaps have more questions than answers concerning this one. We better move to Collage 08. Stayed tuned!
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Sunklands 