Monthly Archives: June 2015

Mysterious Mysten (just to get that title out of the way)

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“Kidd Tower is now in Mysten, but in a secret place, Hucka D.”

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I don’t think Hucka D. is quite ready to talk about Mysten. He has to gather his notes together about it. At any rate, I have a history with this place. I discovered what I’m now calling Mystenopolis in January 2012. or about 3 1/2 years ago, when I still had Pietmond in Otaki Gorge as my main base. But not for long. An alien spaceship came and destroyed my beloved virtual village the following month. But I had the smaller Seven Stones community to fall back upon by that time, which happened to be located just south of Mystenopolis, or what I then called Australa I believe. Well, let me just give a link to related posts from the Baker Blinker Blog.

https://bakerblinker.wordpress.com/category/nautilus-continent/lower-austra/

Ah yes, I called the peninsula centered by Mysten Lower Austra. There’s also an Upper Austra as a balance.

But on this early map of the area (Austra originally called Australia), it seems that Lower Austra itself was divided into an upper and lower section, with Mysten in the middle.

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Hucka D. is indicating there’s a direct 2:1 relationship between Australia and Yd Island in terms of psycho-physical space involved. That is, Australia represents the number 2 (Upper and Lower) while Yd Island is a “mere” 1. For this reason, Hucka D. is also telling me that Australia is a healthier place to live in general, and that Yd Island is only for those more special ones who tend toward self-involvement — monads I believe he calls them. Australia is more balanced and complementary within itself. Yet Australia would not be possible without Yd Island coming first (again, this is from the direction of Lemon Lab and not Linden/Lime Lab, which I’ll attempt to explain in more detail soon).

Australia is the second, defined part of Lemon Lab virtual reality formed, directly after the first (Yd Island).

Another very important thing to keep in mind is that Mystenopolis lies between 2 twinned roads called Highway 13 and 14 by the Lindens, as seen on the following map I borrowed from Virtual Christine’s blog post regarding the Nautilus continent.

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In January 2012, the word Austra appears over the center of the attached peninsula.

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The Bob Too sim contains the main chunk of the letters (A U S T).

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The only rental land currently offered by Lama Estates on the Nautilus continent is in Bob Too. Schweet (R A).

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My present Mysten parcel in January 2012. Baker Bloch would be positioned directly under the front door of the Red Umbrella now. The pool to the right is now derezzed. This might be Mysten Pool?

(to be continued)

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“Mysten Collages”…

… is open for business. The landing point is the clear space between the two galleries, shaded by two eucalyptus trees.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mysten/211/152/88

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On the south edge of the property below the Mysten Underhill entrance to the Red Umbrella: a hole.

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Disappearing stream. This is the end of the flow that divides Mysten Underhill from its twin berg Mysten Parva.

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This picture reminds me that Spongeberg Resident has been active lately.

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Looking across the Lilli Field village.

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I think Hucka D. wants me to “paint” this particular view. 🙂

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Mystenopolis. My land is a logical connector between regions, I believe.

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Baker Bloch in Minoa’s Small Gothic Cathedral. He has a number of homes now. My larger Minoa parcel has been entirely wiped, with the land set up for sale. No Power Tower presently in Second Life, then.

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But what about that hole?

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Collagesity is no more.

I decided to essentially delete my Minoa village yesterday after buying a 2048 parcel in Mysten. Well, it was actually 4 side-by-side parcels of 512 square meters each. My plan was to downsize the gallery situation, retaining only the two most recent ones, or the just completed Red Umbrella and then the large Fal Mouth Moon Gallery coming before it. Together they contain close to 100 collages.

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I also decided to keep a long term foothold in Minoa through a 512 parcel right next to the Linden protected Rubi woods, donated to the Friends of Rubi Forest group. It has just enough room to allow my Small Gothic Castle with see through back wall to stay put. Nice.

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And here’s my new digs. Turns out that my small rental gallery in Mysten was just a warm-up for things to come in that sim. All of those collages (Stonethrow — newest series) have been transferred over to the new land in the full version of the Red Umbrella, and added to the Sam Parr and Embarras series in the same building. To its immediate north lies the Fal Mouth Moon and its 61 collages. All that is left on my Minoa land as of today is the Power Tower Gowlery (Gilatona-Lis series). The art 10×10 has also been recently rezzed in another location, near the Kerchal Forest. So all of my digital collages remain rezzed in Second Life — they’re just split up more now, with the most recent chunk completed being in Mysten.

Why the change? Well, I just didn’t feel like I’d be developing any more in Minoa, despite the unparalleled location next to the Rubi Forest. I had to switch things up in order to keep advancing with my virtual experiences. And I felt the land was perfect in Mysten to effect this change and also potential downsizing. I’ve essentially joined a fairly large metropolis of several enclaves. My Fal Mouth Moon gallery now lies above a the curve of a road in a rental village owned by Lilli Field, an accomplished Second Life designer. The Red Umbrella gallery is similarly joined, in essence, with the even larger holdings of long time SL resident Psimagus Hax in both Mysten and Goremoor to the east, specifically a residential type section called Mysten Underhill.

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Red Umbrella at the northern edge of Mysten Underhill

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Baker Bloch’s perched house next to the gallery; cool location!

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Fal Mouth Moon with matching Lilli Field tree fronting it — like it was meant to be there, once more

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The Perch

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Looking across Mysten Underhill and neighboring twin hamlet Mysten Parva buildings toward the Fal Mouth Moon

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View from Baker Bloch’s attic study

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Now I Know

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What it looks like on the inworld map (lowest part of Mysten sim)…

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Purposefully blurred out? Hmmm.

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Whitehead X-ing Birthday Visit

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I guess…

… I’ll always have Whitehead Crossing now, Hucka D. The tiny cemetery there is Wilcoxson. Sorry: Dogpatch. There’s only one Wilcoxon and that’s Dogpatch[ in GNIRPS]. I’ll always have a portal to WH X-ing.

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“Friends of Rubi Forest” parcel

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Another 512. Curious. Give and gain, I suppose.

I created the parcel and attached group for this person, a Second Life friend. He’s camping out in said forest. I sold an important piece of land to him about a year ago. He seems to have fallen on hard times. I don’t know how else I can help him — homeless. It’s been *days*. The wife reinforces that this is all make-believe and it’s time to watch Monty Python in real life. 🙂

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June 6, 2015 · 7:58 am

Kinda sorta…

… back in Noru, queerly enough. 512 parcel.

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Looking toward the site of old Collagesity.

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3 Gods in 1 Dog

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Chuckster

This is great! This is CHUCK!

http://bobuck.bandcamp.com/album/as-a-child-i-sold-the-news

http://ralphlet.bandcamp.com/album/the-highway

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Updates

I’ve been working very hard on upgrading my wordpress blog to an actual web site. I’ve integrated about all of the sunklands.com pages into it, with the plan being to get rid of that site come August when the next yearly bill rolls around. I discovered that all the advantages I thought I had through webs.com, my host server there, were options I already possessed with the wordpress site as well. Cool! More options, actually. The only bad thing is that I have to give up my domain name. I’m using a free version of wordpress for my blog/site now, but may upgrade for that and also space and other reasons.

One of the nifty new features is the image and analysis buttons on the collage page, if you the reader hadn’t checked them out yet.

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/collages/

I’ve already turned my brand new Stonethrow analysis, just completed, into a page here:

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/collages/red-umbrella-03/

Images here:

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/collages/stonethrow/

All images in the Red Umbrella are here. It seems to be a completed gallery now:

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/collages/red-umbrella-all/

I’m pretty exhausted from all the effort. I think I’ll call in Hucka D. to see if he wants to talk any tonight so that I can catch my breath. Oh, I’m also working on the Paradox II: The Chancelling document once more after a lengthy period of inactivity in that area. The text has all been pasted over from sunklands.com, and 5 pages corresponding to the 5 sections of the work have been created (Aquamarine, Cobalt, Azure, Indigo, Ultramarine). Actually maybe I better work on that tonight instead of talking to Hucka.

1st part here — and that’s certainly an interesting new angle for describing my history of audiovisual experimentation as well(!):

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/paradox/

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Baker Bloch relaxing at his neighbor’s house in Rubi

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