Monthly Archives: June 2015

Twinned sides of the Kidd Tower, A-L (down) and O-Z (up).

http://thesnugofthepub.tumblr.com/ask

The “snug”, is a typically a small, very private room with access to the bar that has a frosted glass external window, set above head height. You used to pay a higher price for your beer in the Snug, but nobody could look in and see you. It was not only the well off visitors who would use these rooms. The snug was for patrons who preferred not to be seen in the public bar. Ladies would often enjoy a private drink in the snug in a time when it was frowned upon for ladies to be in a pub. The local garda would nip in for a quiet pint, the parish priest for his evening whiskey, and lovers would use the snug for their clandestine visits…… Pop into the Snug and ask me anything

The next day Baker is seen conferring with someone just out of sight.

Hollywood?

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My two galleries that compose the “Mysten Collages” complex face 2 ways: toward the Lilli Field village (Fal Mouth Moon), and toward psimagus Hax’s Medieval Christian town (Red Umbrella). The two galleries in question can actually be called additions or addendums to these two areas, I feel. Notice, for example, how Lilli’s cluster of tall brown trees blend perfectly with the Fal Mouth Moon’s colors and textures…

… and how you can easily enter the gallery from a bend in the topmost road of her community.

And then explore how the Red Umbrella similarly slots perfectly into Mr. Hax’s Mysten Underhill community, the former main entrance precisely centered at the end of one of its grassy lanes.

And Baker Bloch’s home expertly slots in beside the Red Umbrella.

Fal Mouth Moon is a part of Field’s village, and Red Umbrella, along with the fused Bloch home, is part of the Hax village. Take my word for it. This is the Janus faced aspect, or at least the surface part.

circa 1890: Two-headed Janus. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Unlike my earlier Collagesity (or VWX Town), the Mysten Collages galleries are not really independent and self fulfilling. They need the 2 larger Mysten communities for broader context and significance. They are not a community in and of themselves. And I think that’s a good thing to happen for me at this juncture in my Second Life experiences.

There is no true center to the Mysten Collage complex except the line that divides the two galleries, which is the same as the Gallery Kiosk, its entry point. To your left will be the entrance to Fal Mouth Moon’s basement exhibit. To your right is the basement door of the Red Umbrella. Simple enough — much simpler than the layout of Minoa’s Collagesity just derezzed.

So we have to turn to the 2 communities for deeper meaning. I’ve mentioned that the Kidd Tower is now part of Mysten Underhill but in a hidden place. Last night I decided I should in all good faith delete this structure. The Kidd must grow up and assume responsibility. Or maybe its the Twinned Kidds, A-L and then O-Z. I think I know where the twins making up the home band Tomato Potato reside; maybe where they play their post-folk concert music as well. And I believe that Artie J. Spongeberg has already made contact with them. According to the visitor’s list, he’s already been snooping around the “Mysten Collages” galleries.

Something just happened here.

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I have a history with this place.

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“Hucka D., we should talk. The Table is being reset. Your lines?”

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I keep forgetting that Hucka D. doesn’t usually get up until after sunset. Too bad we don’t have 3 hour days in Real Life. Then again we also don’t have 1 hour nights.

So regarding The Table… we’ve had updates since the summer of 2012, when I was last in what I then called Philo. I’m *pretty* sure why I know I had to come back here. The (virtual) location I’m in, through Baker Bloch mainly, mirrors the place I’m at in real life with the *carrcasses*. We are at a transition point.

So who’s at The Table now? What variants sit around it? Carrcasses 7, 7.5, 8, 9, 10 and also 11 (untaped) have been created since summer 2012. 8-9-10 collectively may be my best work along with Carrcass+1 and Carrcass+2 from the 2006-2007 peak period. What have we learned?

We know that Dr. Blood is the Ray Davies variant. His solo work is in a carrcass now, along with many fine songs from his former group The Kinks, which I consider among the 4 or 5 best rock bands to come around. Dr. Blood takes the form of the Tinman from Oz to naked eyes. He might also be Tin S. Man. (pause). He is 4 men in 1. He is Apeman. He is Tinman. He is Superman. He is Imaginary Man. And it is through the latter guise that he enters variant territory and is allowed to sit at The Table along with…

Roger Pine Ridge
Little Robert Plant Variant
Peter SoSo
Marty & Lemmon

Henry L. Cow has not yet arrived.

Little Robert Plant Variant has recently been seen in a Red Umbrella collage, actually the last one in the gallery and the last collage created by me, baker b. He stares at a metallic giant head in the sky. It erupts like a volcano as Mossman takes center stage on the toy blocks and matches roar with roar. Too bad Hucka D. isn’t here to chat with. He loves this kind of abstract bantering. (pause)

Triumph of the Toys (part 2)

Peter SoSo also makes an appearance — actually several appearances — in the Red Umbrella. He sneaks into “Triumph of the Toys” disguised as a human-like fox (from the cover of the Genesis album “Foxtrot”). Mossman passes by the figure on his way to center stage. Do they have a secret exchange of words or perhaps more? What’s the multi-colored ball or sphere he holds high and proudly?

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12:00:

I was just getting my midday snacks and taking my daily walk, and while checking out at the grocery store, saw an older Peter Gabriel staring back at me from the cover of a magazine called [insert name]. I recognized the employed image as one I had saved in a folder on my hard drive…

Notice that the redder lighting of the right side of his head is similar to Plant’s in Triumph of the Toys.

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Additional thoughts: Robert Plant becomes an official variant after use of his solo material in Carrcass+6 from almost 10 years back now. Peter Gabriel’s official entry into the same status comes in Carrcass+1 from early 2007. Roger Pine Ridge has an even earlier entrance through 2003’s Quadrospirited. Marty even earlier: Walt SIDney’s Fantasia 2000 (2002). Then Lemmon, let’s see, Lemmon’s status as a variant is probably not established until Carrcass+8 in 2004. Then Dr. Blood (Ray Davies variant) — not until 2013 and Carrcass-9, with his “Imaginary Man” used in that. Henry L. Cow’s entry is not until the future. And don’t we also have the Frank Zappa variant (OWZ still?) at the table? I think we have to, since his Mothers of Invention band was one of the audio heros of Quadrospirited, and Zappa’s solo material has been used extensively in carrcasses. And I’m also thinking at least one of the 4 Bills of The Bill comedy group will eventually sit at The Table. And, yeah, let’s not forget the Chuckster himself: Artie J. Spongeberg. He may be or become a very special variant indeed. All I have to do is use one of his solo tracks in a synch and voila, instant variant; able to co-mingle with the others positioned around The Table.

But what of visual artists? Certainly David Lynch Lunch must be eligible. Queue Brick in a lesser manner (?) Hitchcock (variant name pending). And then what of *actors*. Wouldn’t Jack Nicholson be eligible, I find myself asking myself, since he’s a star in both the last 2 carrcasses?

So let’s get to those: the last 2. These are again called Carrcass-10 and Carrcass-11, with the latter, the last, worked out last August but still not taped (why not???). But according to numerology the numbers 10 and 11 can be reduced to 1 and 2. 10 is the number of perfection. Carrcass-10 is about as perfect a synch as I have. Perfect match, then: number with carrcass. Yet Carrcass-11 is a logical extension beyond this new perfect peak, as the number 11 naturally and logically follows 10 in any lengthier sequence.

http://www.math.wichita.edu/history/topics/snumbers.html#ideal

To successfully deal with Carrcass-10, we should return to the “6 Weeks of Shining” document, specifically Week 2.

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From Facebook:

I’m thinking of creating an imaginary home band for my real virtual village (adopted). Here are some name candidates.

Pet Milkmen
Shut Up and Scream
Fear of Rectangles
Wince
Jethro Jethrine
Flesh Wound Only
Tomato Potato
Don Wrinkles Free
Radio Free Bartok

Facebook added that last one on its own. Thanks for taking the time out of your busy schedule for the suggestion!

Shoot, well this one is out
http://www.shutupandscream.com/

I think I might like Tomato Potato best now. I see them as a folk duet (perhaps twins although definitely not Siamese twins), but moving into atonal abstraction thanks to a recent influence from the Second Viennese School of composers, particularly Artie J. Spongeberg. Their first album would perhaps be Tomtato, and/or that would be a single/song off the album.

http://www.thompson-morgan.com/…/all-veget…/tomtato/t47176TM

Framing tracks could be “You Shout Tomato” at the beginning and “I Scream Potato” to end the album. Sorta like “Sgt. Pepper” and “Sgt. Pepper Reprise”.

More info/pictures soon. I might set up another pretend tour with comedians Lum and Abner from Waters, Arkansas as well.

Second floor night view from Baker Bloch’s home in Mysten. Love the Mysten Underhill lighted bridge.

Gifted immediate neighbor Lilli Field has integrated her own system of streets (above) with the Lindens’ Highway 13 (below), one of 2 main thoroughfares crossing Lower Austra along with twinned Highway 14 hugging the opposite coast.

Another neighbor who has a house on Route 13 just to the south in Siliconicus is apparently an artist…

… and a lover of cats. Baker Bloch loves cats too. Wishes he sort of kind of had one. Maybe soon.

And across Highway 13 from the Lilli Field holdings is a place called Tanelorn Manor, advertising quality builds and “specializing in high fantasy creations – castles, cottages, gazebos, furniture, lamps etc. and Dwarfins!!” according to the parcel description. It’s owned by Muroc and Holly, who welcome you with not one not two but three exclamation marks (!!!).

The more I poked around my neighbor Ms. Field’s holdings, the more I found that caught my eye. I learned that many if not most of the objects on the property are of her own design.

Baker Bloch especially has his designs on this table for reasons I’ll get to in a moment. LINK Unfortunately it doesn’t seem for sale, and Lilli’s online virtual store appears to have been shut down.

Baker Bloch also learns through his pokings that Burning Seed is the Australian equivalent to our Burning Man. I feel it is important for an avid Second Life fan to understand the game’s roots in this real life event/happening.

Baker Bloch looks down from the roof of the Fal Mouth Moon toward the center of Field’s village, where he had a short lived gallery recently.

One last photo reveals or reinforces Lilli’s own Australian roots. I am reminded that I originally called Lower Austra *Australia*, per this early post on the subject. LINK

Actually on this map featured in that linked post, the word Australia is written directly over the Field property. Nifty!

Baker Bloch back in his study. Sunset has arrived at Mysten Underhill. The short 3 hour Linden day is about done with.

http://www.lillifield.net/

http://blog.livedoor.jp/dualatoll/archives/1771844.html

Baker Bloch decides to take a short bike ride this night, passing through the southern and western regions of Mystenopolis to reach this rectangular green perch on the far side of the ridge.

In the unbroken open space before him suddenly appears a huge green faune statue, stopping him in his tracks. He’d seen it before several years back during a similar bike trip…

Route 14 to Route 13, 04

Moving away from the psimagus Hax created community and heading east now toward Route 14, Baker Bloch soon comes across this statue of “The Faune from Pompeii giant”, according to the object’s description. Similar in height to the Christ monument looming above Mysten Underhill/Parva, does it represent a “corrupt” counterpart of some kind? Something to do with the balance between eastern and western sides of Lower Austra? It’s interesting to me that this Faune statue lies right next to a sim boundary (east-west Fumb and Goremoor, with the statue being in Fumb), just like Christ of the Mysten community (north-south Mysten and Siliconicus). Interesting as well that the church next to it, also near this border, is called Church of the Silicon soul, resonant with the sim name just to its south. Hmmm.

Then the next day I discovered the twinned houses around the 2 statues in question:

Check This Out

The “Furnished Umbrian Primo Villa” skybox behind the christ statue of Mystenopolis has disappeared since this 2012 observation. However, as it turns out, the one attached to the faune statue is still there in Fumb, with apparently the same attached kinetic statues and sky garden.

I’m going to take a better look at this house and surrounding region soon. That was a fantastic 2012 synchronicity concerning the 2 polarizing statues, one religious and one pagan in origin. One of my favorites from that time. I still think it has meaning to plumb…

Baker in a Mythenopolis underground scene. I’ll also have considerably more to say, I feel, about the catacombs, etc., of my new home sim.

In the meantime, you can check out the always amazing Dual Atoll’s March 2015 entry about what they call the Mysten Parish. Thank you again for another informative Second Life article!

http://blog.livedoor.jp/dualatoll/archives/1848956.html

Map:

I checked out the name Austra and didn’t come up with much. Top of the list was this Canadian electronic band I hadn’t heard of before, but which is apparently quite popular now. I perused their videos and selected this one at random. It’s the official video for a track named “Lose It”, which turned out to be a single from their debut album “Feel it Break”.

47 second into the 4:39 long video this image flashed before my eyes.

“Is that a Second Life waterfall?” I quickly asked myself. Turns out it was: googling “waterfall + “Second Life” instantly produced the following link and image from the Second Life Marketplace. In fact, I’m pretty sure I have this very waterfall, a freebie, in my current inventory.

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Free-Gift-Freebie-Realistic-Waterfall-copymody-12-prim-for-Cave-Waterfall-Grotto-Landscaping/768770?id=768770&slug=Free-Gift-Freebie-Realistic-Waterfall-copymody-12-prim-for-Cave-Waterfall-Grotto-Landscaping

Free Gift Freebie Realistic Waterfall copy/mody 12 prim ( for Cave Waterfall Grotto Landscaping )

*That* certainly seemed synchy since I’d already linked Austra and Second Life in a totally unrelated way. Note: the name AUSTR_A on the Nautilus continent map clearly comes from Austria, with the “i” dropped for a spell for some odd reason. Soon it would return; AUSTRIA restored. Perhaps now we can glimpse a psychic slant to this mistake. 🙂

I’m going to continue watching the video and read some analyses hopefully. Following a trail — more soon!

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4 months ago Apleeza wrote in the comments for that video:

Those Second Life pictures in it. If you listen to the lyrics it actually looks like the song is about a guy she fell for in Second Life.

Then someone quickly pointed out that the lead singer is a lesbian. There are some more rather quick flashes of Second Life in the video, but nothing I could wrap my brain around.

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One more item before I perhaps leave this topic. I’ll quote from wikipedia, and highlight the synchronizations:

They [Austra] played a number of early shows under the name Private Life before learning that another band was already using the name; they subsequently named the band after Stelmanis’ middle name Austra, which is also the name of the goddess of light in Latvian mythology.[3] Austra used to include twin backing singers Sari and Romy Lightman of Tasseomancy. Keyboardist Ryan Wonsiak of Ze and the Boyfriends makes up the quartet.[2]

The Lightman twins are also featured in the “Lose It” video. Private Life could be resonant with Second Life. I haven’t found out what the playing cards mean in conjunction with Second Life images within.

Bob Too and Schweet, Jan 01, 2012

Bob Too and Schweet, Jan 15, 2012 (“missing I”)

Bob Too and Schweet, Feb 01, 2012 (“I” returned; whole word “ghosted” a bit)

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