Category Archives: collages 2d
SPSC Thoughts
Updates on collages. My latest thoughts on the latest batch of collages I’ve been producing in the last week are that they are a more minor collection, a satellite complement to Falmouth at best, and, virtually angling, “merely” a way to decorate the main building of Sam Parr State College (administration bldg./library/gallery). No really in-depth look at the collages is needed, minus the interpretation of the most complex one perhaps, samparr01 — “2130!” I might call it. Here’s that one in case you don’t know what I’m talking about, loyal reader or readers.
Here’s 2 possibilities for the base of more Sam Parr collages:
… esp. this one, perhaps…
To remind again, this “2130 Gallery” (slightly later changed to “2130? Gallery” and then just “? Gallery” to end), was essentially replaced in its function by the Sam Parr building, which gained a title just as this structure was derezzed from the college. And also to remind, the former 2130 Gallery structure is a duplicate of one in Collagesity proper, housing the Kollage Kid exhibit starting in early July sometime. Stairs Gallery is the name in that case. Should the Stairs Gallery simply be moved to the college?
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Looking back through recent blog posts, I was reminded that this particular post, dated August 4th, mentions racial tension in combination with actor Redd Fox 5 days *before* the Ferguson shooting. Redd Foxx in his most famous role as Fred Sanford of “Sanford and Son”, originally hails from St. Louis. Redfox, Kentucky on the portrayed map lies on a Blackey topographic map, and also several miles west of the old Whitesburg Municipal Airport. The bigoted, cantankerous Sanford character regularly calls Caucasian people “honkys” or “whiteys”, always getting a laugh from the audience as a result.
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“The enrollment of Sam Parr State Park College is currently 6 or 7, depending on whether the original African American student decides to join us this year. And I, of course, am part Moss myself. But don’t call me Mossy, please.”
“We won’t Karoz,” Story Room promises in unison, once more. They always speak in total or near total synchronicity. Strange.
“Start calling him President Blogger in front of the students,” Patty Pepper Mint urges.
“We’re not Caucasian either,” Story Room speaks. “Actually,” suggests the yeller feller Chuck separate from the rest this time, “we don’t really know what color of skin we have underneath these outfits.” “Outfits?” exclaim the other 2. They are in unison still; Chuck is out-of-sync.
Line-Up for Yesterday
X is the first
Of two x’s in Foxx
Who was right behind Ruth
With his powerful soxx.
— Ogden Nash, Sport magazine (January 1949)[8]
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Thoughts
The wife and I spent part of the weekend in Ashville, the only other place in Ame. perhaps that we would retire in except for Blue Mountain. Blue Mountain, by the way, and I’ll only say this in a few places in this blog, is actually the Bluefield VA/WV area. To remind, we live here…
… but are looking to move here…
Well, if we move to Ashville, then what about the Frank and Herman Park mythology, I ask myself (and I hear the reader or readers asking me, in turn)? Isn’t this blog suppose to be all about that, and, by extension, Blue Mountain? That’s the big question. I have about 7-10 years to figure it all out; we’re “stuck” in Blue Mountain because of our jobs until then. What’s the attraction to Ashville? Well, it’s a considerably larger town, with more entertainment options. At least 4 Starbucks at last count. Lots and lots of restaurants, and, maybe most importantly, a still growing art scene, thanks in part to the oh so nifty River Arts District. As regular readers of my blog know, I’ve started a Sunklands site where I just display my collages without commercial attachments. Sitting behind them are the carrcasses, which I *know* I’ll never make any money off of but still must produce on a semi-regular basis — or, more correctly, when the time comes to make them. I *have* to make them. So I don’t think that’s going to stop, and also I must figure out the best ways to preserve my carrcasses for the future. Collages — since they’re born digital — not so worried about in that respect. And I think now that collages have the upper hand over carrcasses. Hard to explain, but a subtle shift has occurred lately with the recent creation of so many collages in the Gilatona-Lis and Falmouth series. And that is reflected in the Sunklands site’s creation. Cobbling it together is making me realize that the carrcasses, while still being produced, must remain hidden and perhaps separate from the “ordinary” (2d/flat) collages, more attached to Second Life. And that’s another thing: I believe I’ll always have a regular or semi-regular presence in a virtual world. How long it will continue to be Second life is a question I can’t answer right now. But someday it will shift to another world, and I have a feeling a much cheaper option will develop, a more parallel set-up between web and virtual world. Right now I’m pretty happy with the continued development of Collagesity and the possibility of more collages being added onto the large Falmouth series, extending its depth and breadth even further. And here’s a relatively new idea: I might lump *all* digital collages produced so far into an overarching “Embarras” (pronouced AM-braw) concept, named for the river that flows through Jasper County, Illinois and past almost all the namesake towns of the various series created so far, beginning with 2004’s Greenup.
But I might name it Ambraw, an archaic, phonetic spelling of the river.
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King Jethro & Queen Jethrine.
Quadrobeavia
“Mr. & Mrs. Sam Parr”
“Parr, Sam, Mrs. & Mr.”
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BREAKING NEWS
Illinois entrepreneur Sam Parr buys Collagesity’s Fal Mouth College. University projected to be renamed Sam Parr State College. More details soon!
“Mr. & Mrs. Sam Parr”
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“If it were a question.”
“2130 02a”
“2130 02b”
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Gallery 2130(B?) in development.
Baker Bloch sits on the stairs, taking it in so far.
Elton heads in; no sign yet, which means it’s past. Collage dream.
Roger Pine Ridge The First greets visitors in the present. “2141”, I suppose.
But which 2130 is real and which is a dream? That is a question?
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Posing
Story Room posed for a snapshot in front of their new Collagesity home at Fal Mouth College and all these other things showed up. Fancy that!
Spider and Cardboard Derek Jones look on at the spectacle. They see it too(!).
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Found again.
Of all people, it was Starbuccaneer Barista that found Spider. Ridiculously clever, she had lured him out of a Whitehead Crossing related collage in the Fal Mouth Moon with a bowl of dog food.
“Uhmmmm, yes: eat it up my precious Spider dog,” the resurrected Star said slyly. For she knew that a position of power would soon be in store for her because of this. She must speak to Baker Blinker asap; tell her of what she saw in the corridor. Share notes.
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“So that’s where I come from,” said Queen Alma I from the future, peering in again. “A merger of Starbuccaneer Barista and Baker Blinker.”
“And Carrcassonnee,” Hucka Doobie added. “She was strong at the time, having just absorbed the 11th. Tasted like chicken again to her.” He smiled slyly slightly.
“But little Spider would go back into the collages to be lost again. And again. And yet again and again.”
“And again!” Hucka Doobie added again. “You see, he was mistakenly rewarded for entering the collages. Dog food, sticks, squeeze dolls. All these lured him out but also kept him going back, knowing the endpoint.”
“How did it end?” the Queen asked. “Is he still in the collages even now?”
“Yes,” came Hucka Doobie’s answer. “He eventually became All Collages.”
Cardboard Derek Jones suddenly slid his way into the room through the seams of the closed door. “My Majesty. And… um, sire. The dog has reappeared again!”
“What synchronicity!” Hucka Doobie exclaimed.
“Too much so I would say,” says a more cautious Queen Alma I, reading out of a red book that had appeared in her hands. “I’m checked the script now. Spider has learned how to traverse time.”
“Then we’re all in big, big trouble,” returned a suddenly worried Hucka. “Big big trouble.”
Cardboard Derek Jones slides quickly toward them, holding forth a picture, which turns out to be an animation as the Queen and Hucka jointly stare in disbelieve. In it, Baker Bloch and Master Shake also jointly stare in disbelieve as a giant dog turns into a horse before their very eyes.
“That’s it,” Hucka Doobie says in finality, seeing Spider being fed/rewarded from “within”. “We’ve got to speak to Story Room about the 11th.”
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Spider gets lost (again!)
“Your Majesty, the dog Spider has disappeared into the “Art 10×10″. I’m afraid he’s lost for now.”
Queen Blinker:
Just as I planned, he he. Seriously, show me the involved collages. How many were there? What was the initial work? We need to post people on all floors of the Power Tower, Fal Mouth Moon, and Toxic Art for signs of the poor pooch. But he did volunteer, after all.
Cardboard Derek Jones:
Yes ma’am. I have taken pictures of the progression. He first attempted to make contact with the wise old fox, who turned her back on him. Then he tried the dingo in the next picture down… the previous picture, I mean, in the Art 10×10 progression. Sorry, ma’am.
Queen:
That’s all right. This was in the Newton series?
CDJ (checking notes):
Yale, ma’am.
Queen:
Show me the progression you speak of. Reverse progression, I suppose.
CDJ:
Yale ma’am. I mean, yes ma’am.
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CDJ:
And by that last collage, he had disappeared into relatively total abstraction. We believe the dingo, being not as wise as the fox, let’s say, led him into danger. He disappeared inside the water.
Queen:
Interesting. What is that body of water? We might have to go to the Real World and retrieve him there. Is that the River Key?
CDJ (checking notes again):
Give me just a minute ma’am. (pause) I do not have notes of the location.
Queen:
Then we must contact baker b. in the real world and ask him. He’s the one who made the collage, after all.
CDJ:
Yes ma’am. (then, reconsidering): What ma’am?
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Sunklands 