Monthly Archives: July 2015
Carr. Talk Again
Carr.:
Wappo Jack was my fiend. Friend. My friend.
Baker B.:
Well, that’s a pretty impressive castle he has there. Takes up a considerable amount of my prims.
Carr. (correcting?):
*My* prims.
Baker B.:
You are ruler of this town. Correct?
Carr.:
Corr. ect.
Baker B.:
What’s your relationship with Wappo Jack?
Carr.:
Friend. Played tennis together. Swam in creek. Leeches. Jack picked them off of me. Friend.
Baker B.:
That’s nice[ I suppose].
Carr.:
Friend.
Baker B.:
And what about Jesus of N. and Piet Mond.
Carr.:
Less friends. More fiends. Jack and I battle. He built his castle to control battles. Grays verses Browns. Slaughter. Then Olive Branch. I be here[ in this diner/museum].
Baker B.:
Are you jealous of Jack for having such a big place?
Carr.:
Palace. (pause)
Baker B.:
Then you are jealous?
Carr.:
No. We live together. Married.
Baker B.:
Err, with Jack?
Carr.:
Yes. (Carrcassonnee attempts a smile)
Baker B.:
Well, that’s wonderful. And you’re…
Carr.:
Yes [we are still married]. (pause) Jack invented Newton and Jasper. You can say they are our children. Hi mom. Hi dad. And so on.
Baker B.:
Is [Jesus of N. your child]?
Carr. (quickly):
No.
Baker B.:
And I [suppose Piet Mond isn’t your child either].
Carr. (again anticipating Baker B.’s question):
No. (pause)
Baker B.:
Carrcassonnee, I attempted to set up a movie theatre in the formerly empty central building of the Crystal Fields. But there isn’t too much to these fields now that more buildings have been inserted.
Carr.:
I wish to see Uncle Meatwad. Show Uncle Meatwad.
Baker B.:
Yes that was my intention. But the file wouldn’t play.
Carr.:
Try harder. Uncle Meatwad.
Baker B.:
Okay I’ll try it again soon.
Carr.:
Tomorrow. I hear you are interviewing Karl Song. He will not enjoy the blog. He thinks you are mad. I am [instead] the mad one (Carr. attempts another smile here).
Baker B.:
This is our second attempt. I’m going to give him a lot of rope this time. I screwed up the last one.
Carr.:
I heard. Sing him a song to soothe. He likes tunes. He is a tale tune spinner too[ like Collagesity resident Joe the Guitarist].
Baker B.:
Quite a mouthful.
Carr.:
I talk to you because you work hard and play harder. I attempt drink. I see double. I see song and tune together. Strummer. Joe. Rock on. Rock the[ Casbah?]. (I believe Carr. attempts to even sing a bit here).
Baker B. (after Carr. finishes “singing”):
Very nice. So we know for sure that’s Wappo Jack’s castle, and maybe his gallery, since it’s Gallery Jack. But it wasn’t named for him originally. Instead it’s…
Carr.:
Don’t say it. Seven eleven.
Baker B.:
Time to go?
Carr.:
Yo.
Afterwards, Baker Bloch watches a short animation in the theatre. He’s getting there(!).
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Carrcass-00, Heterocera, Rubi^
Collagesity Developments 02
Baker Bloch looks out from an opening in the West Tower toward Central Stream’s lower pool and an inhabiting pink crystal cluster. He contemplates taking up painting[ again?].
An arch of the castle actually projects over top of this pool, connecting West Tower with a kind of separate, smaller tower or a turret-tower: the 7th spire of the castle as I’ve called it before. This particular feature was also found in Rubi’s VWX Town from 2013-2014, where it marked or enclosed the famous 97/97/97 spot of the Great Rubi Forest.
The ground level of East Tower retains several landscaping elements from the overlaid Crystal Fields, including a brass colored cross and this ring of red mushrooms. The protruding west side of Gallery Jack is to Baker’s right here.
Baker Bloch heads up the spiraling stairs of East Tower from another West Tower opening. The castle has a rather complex line of walking that connects all of its floors and platforms without the need for flying or teleporting. You didn’t have those, after all, in the olden days of Lemony Goodness.
The stairs lead to the second level of East Tower. A lantern room with surrounding catwalk tops this tower.
Another interesting connector: a double arched walkway linking the 2 middle floors of West Tower.
Top floor of West Tower and 3 of its 6 turrets.
Looking down the top of the arch from West Tower to the 7th turret-tower projecting from the other side of Lower Pool. Some say this 7th is where Little Wappo Jack was cloistered away as punishment for his infamous Seven Years’ Spending Spree during ages 5 through 12, squandering the family fortune.
And as I’m reminded in looking at this December 2013 post…
https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/11/25/the-return-of-edwardston-resident/
… VWX Town’s Edwardston Resident also disappeared within this same place for a spell before his self described “Wake Up Call”. I wonder what the link between the two could be?
A view from the connecting arch up Central Stream.
Another new gallery of Collagesity: Sink Lair (next to the town diner/museum). Detailed description of the permanent exhibit within are here and here. LINKS
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Heterocera, Rubi^
Collagesity Developments 01
The Edwardston Station Gallery holding the entire Art 10×10 set of 100 collages, formerly hovering in the sky about the Crystal Fields, has been deleted. In its place now sits the groundside Gallery Jack holding 60 of the 100 same collages, or all collages in the series named for places within Jasper County itself (Rose Hill, Yale, Newton, Hidalgo, Wheeler, and Jasper). Gone for now are the collages of the Greenup and Oblong series making up the remainder of the Art 10×10, numbering 20 apiece. But of course they may return at any time in another setting.
Then directly beside Gallery Jack has been added the Castle of Wappo Jack, actually composed of 2 separate Moard Ling “castles” mashed together, as I’m wont to do at times. But this is peculiar: the name Wappo Jack was formerly unrelated to the name Gallery Jack, which instead originated in Jasper Newton Daniel, better known as Tennessee liquor distiller Jack Daniel. You the reader may have a bottle or three of his product in your cupboard right now.
We’ll get to a description of Jack’s Castle in a moment. Giant Wappo Jack looms over an arm of it in the below photo.
The rezzing of Gallery Jack beside Central Stream displaced the temple generated tableu of Jesus of Nazareth, which moved across the creek to settle in a green crystal nook beside the town diner. Neat fit; Boss Moss certainly blends right in.
The forum of Gallery Jack still contains statues of the Eternally Bickering Newton and Jasper. Perhaps they should sit down with each other and hash things out over a liquor drink.
Some collages of the Rose Hill series. Nice texture fit between the poking pink crystal and the collage to the right (Rose Hill 04). But the collage immediately behind the crystal will obviously have to be moved. There’s room on an adjacent wall.
Another Gallery Jack collage that had to be repositioned a bit is Hidalgo 04 (“Day of Destruction”). This is because the eastern tower of Wappo Jack’s castle actually protrudes through the walls of the gallery here, another intentional structure mashing of sorts.
The tower has stairs spiraling around its entire height. You actually have to walk through part of Gallery Jack to reach its top in this manner. At some point in its history, the tower began to serve as a lighthouse.
The western tower of the collaged castle is higher and larger in circumference, with 6 projecting, conical turrets.
Little Wappo Jack’s temple display still resides on the ground floor of the western tower, about in the same location as before when it was sheltered within a gazebo. The Castle of Wappo Jack was built around the already present display in other words.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Heterocera, Rubi^
Deep in the Woods
Carr.:
Welcome back Baker Bloch. State your questions.
baker b.:
First off, I’ve decided I like you a little better than Brother Jerome over in Mysten, Carrcassonnee.
Carr.:
Thank you. Brother Jerome is a friend in need. Indeed. Friend indeed.
baker b.:
We’re pretty set in Collagesity now. All the digital collages have returned, even those in the World of Collages building not created by me. I’ve gone far. My life is changing.
Carr.:
You’ll be fine. It won’t be that different. You’ll be set up better. Protected. We wish to protect you. Hucka D. will return soon[ enough].
baker b.:
Thank you Carrcassonnee. Do you wish to talk about Collagesity on this blog or any other topic?
Carr.:
Brace yourself. Get set. Ride the emotion, the excitement. Feel it. Be it.
baker b.:
Thank you.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Heterocera, Rubi^
The Continued Exteriorization of the TILE Temple.
“A path is feminine, Hucka D. And a trail is masculine.”
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Anyway, there are now two defined cobblestone walkways in the Crystal Fields section of Collagesity. The Path of the Red Flower lies to the north (left) of its middle or central stream, and the Red Shroom Trail lies to the south (right). A short middle section centered by a bridge over Central Stream connects the two. The displays formerly found in the Mysten version of the TILE Temple (still standing as of 1:40 AM Tuesday, July 8th, but slated to be derezzed at any time) have now all exteriorized into this landscape in one form or another. The most confusing of these is the status of Lisa The Vegetarian, who seems to be the most important of the 4 winners from the latest deity contest. While Wappo Jack, Piet Mond, and Jesus of Nazareth have all translated more or less intact from temple to landscape, Lisa the Vegetarian might have been replaced by or yielded to fellow deity Carrcassonnee inside the town diner. What the reasoning for this is I can’t guess without Hucka D.’s help. But he appears to be less and less involved with this blog. Perhaps we can get answers from Carrcassonnee herself. I’ll have Baker Bloch put in an appearance at her new shrine.
Carr.:
Welcome Baker Bloch. State your questions.
Baker Bloch:
Good evening Carrcassonnee. Are you the same Carrcassonnee that appeared in Collagesity Rubi before June?
Carr.:
I am somewhat different. I am slightly different. Different.
Baker B.:
Good. Are you the same as Lisa The Vegetarian?
Carr.:
I cannot answer that question at those times.
—–
Baker B.:
Carr, I’ve been reading about your creation in Collagesity, Noru from almost exactly a year back. It seems you are a probable reality of that deity.
Carr.:
I was in the temple. It was good. I was in the diner. I was great.
Baker B.:
What I mean is that this Collagesity, and you within it, are slightly different than before.
Carr.:
I am [still] Head of Perch.
Baker B.:
You are at the head of Central Stream in Collagesity, now. You sit on that rock at the head. You are one with the rock. Head Rock.
Carr.:
Whose head are I?
Baker B.:
I’ve been getting messages about red, particularly a red door or a series of red doors. I saw characters from the tv show Fringe pass through a red door, and then a red cardinal alighted on the deck outside the glass door I was sitting next to. I got the connection.
Carr.:
I am here. I am in your beer.
Baker B.:
Will Hucka D. return?
Carr.:
You may have to speak with him [inworld]. He is tired from all the collage talk. He is resting up for a busy summer.
Baker B.:
Summer is approaching half over, Carrcassonnee.
Carr.:
What next for Collagesity, I hear you asking here. There. I am sitting here, ahead of the game. Around me are visions and journeys of Rubi past. VWX. A path. A trail. Both. Unite path and trail. Unite female with male. Carrcassonnee.
Baker B.:
Olivia, known in her childhood as Olive, is a major character in Fringe. I thought about you when that childhood name surfaced. Because you are olive as well, in name and also in color.
Carr.:
I love Peter.
Baker B.:
Peter Bishop is another key character in Fringe, along with his father Walter.
Carr.:
I know. I felt fear. Then I saw. I saw 2 worlds in one. I saw straight world. I saw wavery world. Male and female[ again].
Baker B.:
What is behind the red door?
Carr.:
I am.
Peter finds the Red Door.
July 8, 2015 · 5:29 am
New Collagesity 02
Little Wappo Jack’s exhibit from the Mysten TILE Temple also rezzes beside the lower pool. Baker sits and enjoys the spectacle.
Giant Wappo Jack looms to his left.
Central Stream:
Center Bridge (lower left) spanning Central Stream at its basic center middle. The fire in front of the diner has returned as Mysten deity related objects continue to manifest…
Piet Mond’s tableau shapes up. His ladder returns, acting almost like prison bars to the jokester behind. Swarming orange butterflies, however, indicate that he is still free. Nothing is written in stone, I suppose.
In this night of landscaping, the Crystal Fields divide into two parts, each dominated by a path or trail or walk. Here we have displayed a section of The Path of the Red Flower, specifically the two stairs on the looped walk. 8 different red flowers indicate its passage. We can make an association with Flower Avenue of former Collagesity Rubi, then. LINK
4 of the 8 flowers:
Returned Power Tower:
Looking down through the center of the Edwardston Station Gallery toward Central Stream and the fallen blue cube.
Central Stream…
… with shadows. The big square one at the top with the hole in it is cast by the Edwardston Station Gallery.
Central Stream and Center Bridge. Red flowers to left and red shrooms to right. I forgot to mention that the other path or trail dominating the Crystal Fields, the seemingly direct complement to the Path of Red Flowers, is called The Red Shroom Trail. A number of red colored mushrooms indicate its east-to-west passage along Central Stream.
A classic Collagesity photo op.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Heterocera, Rubi^
New Collagesity 01
A giant blue cube fell out of the sky, almost clobbering Baker Bloch. But he’s okay. Shaking, he examines the object then looks up. “Direct center of the Edwardston Station Gallery,” he muses. “Should’ve known.” It’s the Blue Feather Cube, representing [Blue] Earth. Here he stares at a representation of Hastwaite, one of 6 Second Life sims decorating its sides. More on the Blue Feather Cube soon, hopefully.
Yet another new building has manifested in reborn Collagesity, still empty as of this writing. Two Tree Plaza (brown cypresses) has formed in front of it, also bordered by the town diner/museum (right) and also the unnamed central building of the Crystal Fields (left). The fire that formerly encompassed the lemon in the bowl has been put out. But it would return.
The Power Tower would soon be coming to Collagesity as well. All of my digital collages will be displayed in the town in four separate galleries, just like before. Nifty.
World of Collages has also returned. LINK
And there’s that central, unnamed and still empty building of the Crystal Fields again. The structure was employed as the Noru Museum last year. We’ll just have to wait and see what happens with it this go around. But the building seems to fit very nicely in that spot. *Meaning* will find it, most likely.
Central Stream looking west toward Rubi.
Joe the guitarist has come back to Collagesity to spin more of his wholesome tune tales.
Piet Mond suddenly appears before Baker Bloch…
… and taller friend. Both are jokesters. Ironing out their middle game.
And then more deities appear in the Crystal Fields region, like a giant version of Wappo Jack at the end of Central Stream and its lower pool…
… as well as Jesus of Nazareth in front of the old X Spot Gallery skyscraper.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Heterocera, Rubi^
Carrcassonnee’s Return
Carrcassonnee was being prepared in the TILE Temple for a return to Rubi’s Collagesity.
Perch was blocked with rock from occupying his safe position back in the Collagesity Diner. Eye must remain united with Head. Carrcassonnee must rule again.
The SoSo sign behind the waterfall outside reads only “So” this time. Peter “SoSo” Gabriel’s presence is stronger? Or perhaps less strong.
When Baker goes inside again Carrcassonnee has suddenly appeared, red-violet like her protecting curtain.
Briefly, very briefly, Baker Bloch found himself in 2 places at once. He knows what happened.
Then Carrcassonnee became her true, chartreuse self, fully manifested now in the Collagesity Diner. It all happened so quickly. This turned out to be her new palace place. The Temple is reserved for other things.
Collagesity will be a bit different this go around.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Heterocera, Lower Austra^, Nautilus
Collagesity back in business.
But still only the 2 most recently created collage galleries present, just like in Mysten: Fal Mouth Moon and Red Umbrella. SLURL:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Minoa/114/100/112
Collagesity: Crystal Fields.
Fal Mouth Moon.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Heterocera, Rubi^
Sunklands 
