I believe I’m in pretty great shape for the rest of my life. Creatively I have a bead on collage making, and I’ll probably keep creating those until I physically or mentally can’t any more. They’re all digital so archiving shouldn’t be a problem. But I should also probably print them out.
I love blogging. I can’t imagine that would cease at any near future point. Blogg’n keeps my collage making going. Blogg’n keeps me writing. I have a special (header) category on this blog/web site called “Hybrids” where I collect what could be called more well rounded or defined “satellites” of writing, such as the “6 Weeks of Shining” document or the “Baker Bloch in England” manuscript. I don’t think you could call them books. They are what they are.
But speaking of books, there’s one I’ve had on the backburner for a long time, since my mid-20’s. I hesitate to talk about it on this blog but you can look under the category of UMapS to get an inkling. If I had to do it over — and I suppose I could correct it easily enough now — I believe I would rename this “GNIRPS”. I see it as a base synchronicity collecting process always running in the background. It’s so pervasive that it’s been very difficult over the years to solidify or crystallize any part of it. Before the beginning of carrcasses and my introduction to audivisual synching in 1997, GNIRPS was my main synchronicity focus, or from about the period of 1986-1997. I’d also created collages before (and other types of art such as geometric painting) but only in small spurts. The new collages are a different thing altogether. I have a certain style — not minimalist really. I lean toward pretty heavy interpretation of my collages in series (older collages didn’t come in series but represented standalone works). And that’s part of the blog as well, witness, for example, the numerous posts devoted to the interpretation of the most recent collage series, “Stonethrow”, in May.
Second Life is just a way to extend storytelling and mythmaking to keep the wave roll’n. It too is directly connected to blogg’n. In fact, blogg’n started parallel with my intitial involvements with Second Life. At the beginning I was entranced. The peak of Second Life involvement probably came during the Jeogeot days, specifically through Pietmond, my first and probably most successful Second Life “community” of sorts — self made. I also reacted during this period to or against the strong *collective* Jeogeot community called Chilbo, which was in its heyday at the time I discovered it in May 2009.
It is important for me to mention that the current blog, now “Sunklands”, is different from the original Baker Blinker Blog, although directly tied to it thematically. Sunklands, when it was just a blog and not a whole web site, was called Frank and Herman, Einstein!, which started in August 2012. Earlier this month everything changed, and I now see Sunklands as at least a stable web presence for the next 6-7 years, bringing me to retirement years when I’ll be age 62-63 or so.
The original idea for switching the old blog — the Baker Blinker Blog as I called it after my initial main Second Life avatar — to the new blog was to take the focus away from Second Life and virtual reality and put it squarely on 2 local parks I’ve dubbed Frank and Herman — thus the name “Frank and Herman, Einstein!”. Well, that focus seemed to have peaked at the very time I created the blog — that focus on the parks. In the last 3 years we, the wife and I, have realized that Blue Mountain, our present location, will in all likelihood *not* be the place we retire, with this burden instead falling on larger Middletown to our southwest about 100 miles. This was against all our former plans. Since returning in my mid 30’s, I believed that Blue Mountain would be my/our final home. I’ve loved the place every since I started college here in the later 70’s. The wife and I met here at that time. We have fond memories of many people and places in the area. And when we returned in the mid 90’s, when we were in our 30’s, the focus quickly became the 2 basically equal sized parks.
What happened?
Sunklands 