Monthly Archives: June 2016

Bigfoot, Collagesity, Whitehead X-ing, BoB, etc.

Hello,

I continue to visit Bigfoot at least once a week during the hotter months, sometimes 2x or even 3x. I should go more. No art happening, per se, um, happened this spring/summer there, but the possibilities in the future for that remain strong, centered around either Bigfoot Proper (where my chair and spool table are and where the happening last fall occurred), or the newer region I’ve named, for now, Chester (also known as Second Place or Secondary — probably Second Place). Chesterton? (compliment to Porter on Leola Creek?) I’ve taken lots of pictures, and am very pleased that I can continue going there in the hot weather. The last time I visited — Saturday I believe — saw not one but three snakes, all at the Plateau of Raw Art, however, and not down in Bigfoot. Two were seen in the old high school drainage system. I also ran across a blacksnake on the main path into Bigfoot a couple weeks back, running just south and above the Plateau. And then a smaller snake (garter) was spotted around Bigfeet Swamp itself in April, my first one of the year.

What of Second Life and Collagesity and BoB, the new place I’ve outlined on the Nautilus continent near the “older” village of Mystenopolis? Well, no really tangible development there either, nor on the collage front. Dr. Mulholland is back and training for her next “assignment”, mainly at a BoB spa called [Finland Small]. What is the assignment? Well, I think it is to protect me, baker b., and through me, Baker Bloch, from harm. A new threat has arisen in that direction, replacing the entity known as “Me” or “My” from this spring. A lesser threat, admittedly, one call [Lime Lite]. It is Dr. Mulholland’s job to rise to the challenge and deter the new enemy. I don’t think it will be too difficult. She just needs to tap into more Lemony Goodness, like was summoned via her magic (if cursed) purse before. Dr. Mulholland (and the dealie with the acquired purse) has allowed Baker Blinker to assume her correct role as (background) Queen of Collagesity, and escort of Karoz Blogger. Their permanently joined existence has branched off from the main one we still follow in Collagesity, now attached fairly firmly to BoB and all that entails.

Speculations: Lime Lite (LL) stands, at least partially, for Linden Labs (also LL), which took over the Second Life grid formerly occupied by People of Lemon, who could taste, touch, smell, but had less options for teleportation, flying, and other “superhero” powers avatars take for granted now in that virtual reality. It was more rooted in *our* world (First World), to put it another way. A hidden portal exists between Chester and BoB, allowing entities to move between the two. The portal measures about 3×5 inches for now, but is sure to change in dimension and power in the future.

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Carr.:

Collagesity follows BoB, yes, into the future. Dr. Mulholland trains. Dr. Mulholland protects. Lime Lite must be destroyed. Lemony Goodness prevails. It all goes down in the next 8 months. Afterwards: freedom. Use the tension to your advantage. Grow into new responsibilities as a *synchronicity artist*. You know your role. Be kind to those who don’t and aren’t able to understand what you stand for. What you *are*.

BB:

What I art?

Carr.:

Precisely.

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BoB Flaws

The center of Jorondip: a pretty nondescript garage.

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In the same sim: tree for a tree (pet). There’s a question of whether an independent gallery (left) personally created by Baker Bloch would serve better than a rental unit for at least the start of the projected Bogota collage series.

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Main Street, BoB. Not a heck of a lot here. More than most places in Second Life for certain, but still…

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Another possibility for the “Birthplace of Bogota” is VHC City, with VHC standing for Virtual Hotel Chelsea, by far the largest structure in the approximately 2 sim city occupying an eastern location on the Heterocera continent. A good number of galleries already exist in the berg.

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And there’s plenty of hideaways for relaxing and taking in the scenes.

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In the large underground passages of VHC City, Baker Bloch stumbles upon a hidden stash of nuggy.

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A defined sinkhole exists just east of the town, something Baker had missed before. Mark it down as the *second* known sinkhole of Heterocera, with the first being in the aptly named Sikkima sim just below my Collagesity in Minoa. This is an interesting find…

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Heterocera is a very picturesque continent.

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This snapshot comes from the Corsica continent, specifically the sim of Asha where Baker was pleased to find out he could erect his Gloomy Gus home and perhaps start hanging around the Asha hills again a bit.

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I think I snapped this Nautilus map picture at a BoB airport. Notice that what I call Yd Island is instead named the Island of Babylon here (center of map). Not sure why. And also the sea I call The Scorpion is named Star Fish Lake (top of map), obviously for its tentacled appearance.

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Moving Forward

(joined in progress)

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“… much more to see and do in Collagesity than meets the eye. You aren’t finished here.”

Baker Bloch:

Thanks for that, Carrcassonnee.

Carr.:

You’re welcome. Now. Let’s talk about Bigfoot.

[delete 19 exchanges]

Baker Bloch:

I wondered how the yellow chair got to be there. The old traverse.

Carr. (correcting):

Ford. (pause)

Baker Bloch:

Getting back to Collagesity, we haven’t really resolved the problem of going forward. I don’t know if I can delete the town after over 2 years in.

Carr.:

*Almost* 2 years. We started in July 2014. July 1. Independence Day. Bad film, by the way. Aliens are our friends!

Baker Bloch:

It’s nice to chat with you again, Carrcassonnee. Sorry I haven’t gotten you out into your beloved woods very much.

Carr.:

[It’s] okay. The town’s future is [more important now].

BBloch (looking up the ladder again):

So that’s a secret portal, eh?

Carr.:

We have to find out.

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Upon checking the Second Life map as he walked out of Carrcassonnee’s gazebo, Baker saw activity in the northwest corner of the Rubi Woods. Avatars.

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I think someone is about to be sectioned!

But during the time I write these words, the incident is apparently over. No sign of the avatars when Baker Bloch teleports over there, although I swear I saw 2 people scurrying across the road just before, using distant vision. Didn’t have time for a snapshot. Is it more Rubi Woods ghosts??

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Directions

Unsure how much to delve into BoB research, the name I’ve coined for the rather sprawling urban landscape of the Nautilus continent just south and west of Mystenopolis, the latter perhaps an “older” (and smaller) community. Baker Bloch has moved several structures into the area already, and, in the same sim (Jorondip), has stumbled upon an old cemetery that may yield further insight into BoB’s past.

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Iva Ben Steppedon?

If this is truly BoB, or the “Birthplace of Bogota”, then a possible gallery holding the projected series may form immediately west of the cemetery. Seems pretty much like fate, then — if I can dig up the history stuff. Perhaps research on that Steppedon family is in order. The cemetery parcel is owned by a man named Quito and a group named Doggerland. Quito is the capital of the South American country of Ecuador, the next door neighbor of Bolivia whose capital is Bogota. Likewise this Quito owned parcel could be next door to the parcel where I create the Bogota gallery. Again: seems fate. But we’ll see.

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Bogota gallery? Left or right side, if so?

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BoB research

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quito,_Mississippi

Quito is an unincorporated community located in Leflore County, Mississippi. Quito is approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Morgan City and 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Itta Bena along Mississippi Highway 7.

It is part of the Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area.

The cemetery of Payne Chapel in Quito is one of three locations held to be the burial place of blues musician Robert Johnson.

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Quito *looks* like it was named for proximate Mosquito Lake but maybe not. Maybe it is named for the South American capital of Ecuador. The wikipedia article on the village doesn’t provide an answer. We do learn from the article that Alexandria is a variant name of this particular Quito, with the citation as James F. Brieger’s “Hometown Mississippi” published in 1980.

The 3 listed burial sites of legendary bluesman Robert Johnson, all in the same county of LeFlore:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson#Gravesite

The exact location of his grave is officially unknown; three different markers have been erected at possible sites in church cemeteries burial outside Greenwood.

Research in the 1980s and 1990s strongly suggests Johnson was buried in the graveyard of the Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church near Morgan City, Mississippi, not far from Greenwood, in an unmarked grave. A one-ton cenotaph in the shape of an obelisk, listing all of Johnson’s song titles, with a central inscription by Peter Guralnick, was placed at this location in 1990, paid for by Columbia Records and numerous smaller contributions made through the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund.
In 1990, a small marker with the epitaph “Resting in the Blues” was placed in the cemetery of Payne Chapel near Quito, Mississippi, by an Atlanta rock group named the Tombstones, after they saw a photograph in Living Blues magazine of an unmarked spot alleged by one of Johnson’s ex-girlfriends to be Johnson’s burial site.[45]
More recent research by Stephen LaVere (including statements from Rosie Eskridge, the wife of the supposed gravedigger) indicates that the actual grave site is under a big pecan tree in the cemetery of the Little Zion Church, north of Greenwood along Money Road. Through Stephen LaVere, Sony Music has placed a marker at this site, which bears LaVere’s name as well as Johnson’s.

An interviewee in the documentary The Search for Robert Johnson (1991) suggests that owing to poverty and lack of transportation Johnson is most likely to have been buried in a pauper’s grave (or “potter’s field”) very near where he died.

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Quito, MS and Quito, TN are both near an Egypt.

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Birthplace of Bogota?

Baker Bloch was biking around BoB (Birthplace of Bogota) when he spied what looked to be Dr. Mulholland in the distance, sitting on a bench underneath one of apparently several airport terminals in the metro area. It was a rather shocking spectre…

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… until he realized it was instead the original, generic Linden avatar Dr. Mulholland’s physical appearance is based upon, called Amy. Still, it got him thinking: where *is* Dr. Mulholland? He’d find out soon enough. Turns out he/she knows about BoB as well.

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Nice site with lots of freebies called Vintage Dreams Village and Freebies Mall, in the Tholfinger sim just north of Jorondip where most of the BoB action has taken place so far. More on all this soon. Baker’s already secured a number of these freebies…

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A beggar on the facility. Baker Bloch didn’t have any spare change on him at the time.

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Across the street (bricked Highway 14) Blochs comes across a giant pickle he just has to ride.

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There are quite a number of Buddha statues in and around BoB, this one in Delchdork.

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I haven’t come across a globe of Second Life like the one pictured below in my explorations, but, then again, I, through my avatars like Baker Bloch, haven’t been traveling through this virtual reality at the rapid pace I use to. Pretty much been stuck in Collagesity for the past 2 years, with small stints in Mystenopolis and Nautilus City. That’s about it.

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A mysterious head appears above an equally perplexing house in Nuggy, the sim west of Jorondip. Reminds me of something you might encounter in Twin Peaks’ Black Lodge (note the floor).

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Back in Jorondip for this photo.

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And up into Gormthoog above Tholtfinger (in turn, above Jorondip) for these last two of the present post.

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Bloch sits in a bar beside the tattoo parlor pictured above, wondering where his true place in Second Life is. Does Collagesity still fit the bill? Will my/his virtual family end up just moving to BoB when the collage making starts going again? And where is Dr. Mulholland in all this? Baker Blinker? Karoz? Hucka Doobie? He drinks more beer but is unable to resolve the questions in his mind today.

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Bigfoot Mid-June

Some sunset scenes from the Plateau of Raw Art…

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… before moving down into Bigfoot beyond its western edge. These photos actually come from the day before. I’ve been visiting Bigfoot almost every weekend since April, and some weekdays even. It has replaced Whitehead Crossing and Herman and Frank Parks as a whole for a woodland focus. I envision another happening taking place here soon, perhaps late summer or in the fall. But for now I’m just happy visiting and poking around the area. There’s always something new to take in, it seems.

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Looking up at the lip of The Plateau from 4th or Blue Road.

These two construction barrels may now be directly relatable to tigers; that may even be their name within Bigfoot at least. There’s another one in Bigfeet Swamp, making three total for the area. As far as I know. These adjoined barrels, again, lie on the side of 3rd or Green Road.

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And here’s something new I just missed before, hanging in a tree right above them: a blue and white towel. Like I said, Bigfoot comes up with at least a minor surprise ’bout every time I visit. I relate this towel to the 2 proximate barrels, but I’m not sure exactly how yet. There’s one towel and 2 barrels — 1 and 2, the original numbers, also represented as masculine and feminine archetypes. Also: father (1) and mother (2). I’ll give more details later if I decide to keep going down this line of analysis.

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Bigfoot rock on 3rd/Green Rd.

The source of that orangey creek. Will it be named simply Orangie? Or perhaps Cheetah or Tiger (orange cat creatures)?

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Tire just above the source of that orange seep. It’s also quite near Bigfoot Proper, which is just south and whose table and chair can be viewed through the intervening weeds if you know where to look.

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Another new thing or newly observed: a smaller rock conspicuously perched on top of a larger rock, and right off the main path between Bigfoot Proper and Vincente/Chester. I don’t know how I missed it before. Is this additional evidence of meta-terrestrial activity in the region? Could very well be. The rocks lie beside In-The-Way Fern, and on the opposite side of same, right on the path this time, was the white flower of a bent over and perhaps dying daisy plant, I believe. It appeared like a marker or indicator.

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There are apparently many mysteries of Bigfoot yet to be fathomed.

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1st/Red/Swamp Road beyond Vincente.

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Notes

I went down to Whitehead Crossing this past Monday but the bugs kept me from taking any photos. They didn’t yank the camera out of my hands but they were still buzzing around my face, threatening to get into my eyes if I didn’t stop waving my hands in front of ’em. As Chester says, it’s kind of hell up here in the summer. No bugs in Second Life. No afternoon thunderstorms to wet things up until the next one rolls around the following day. But I still think Bigfoot may be accessible during the summer — *has* been accessible (so far). That’s a big advantage. And I revisited Con Creek as well on Sunday and enjoyed a rather pleasant tromp to Green Stream and the Korean Channel, just like old days. Visited Damsel Island…

What of Collagesity? In Second Life (or My Second Lyfe), I’ve been hanging out over at Yd Island on the Nautilus continent a bit. I won’t go into detail except to say that it’s kind of piqued my interest about the island mythology again.

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And Nautilus in general. Mystenopolis: what’s that all about?

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Is this where Bogota will be born?

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

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Faun House

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06/17/16: Faune still there!

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Cool-i-o

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“Oh Chester, you’re still here.”

“Yeah, cool-i-o man. You here to talk to the man? The man *wo*-man. Have a seat, have a seat.”

“Thanks. How’re you doing today? Weather here is perfect, as usual.”

“Oh it’s hot. Unbearably. Tiger weather,” slithers Chester. “Watch your back dude-i-o. Unusual weather indeed.”

“I better sit over in this other chair, Chester, so Carrcassonnee can see me better.” Baker Bloch sits down. Carrcassonnee stares back at him but doesn’t respond.

“Is Carrcassonnee “on”?”, Baker asks Chester after a moment.

“Oh it’s hot.” Chester replies cryptically.

“Yeah, not so much here. Real life it’s pretty hot. Up there. In, er, heaven.”

“Heaven-*ly*. But moreso… hell. Hellish hell.”

“Is this a statement about…?”

“Yes,” Chester interjects. You must feel sorry instead of mad. Mad weather up there. Us cool-i-o dudes down here are lucky. Luck-*y*.”

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Korean Channel

TEXT SOON.
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