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Sam Parr’s perhaps hubby dad appears at the door. Lancaster Dodd, also appearing, stares back. Like attracts like. Tiny art gallery has replaced the playing piano. Tiny gallery is like Dr. Who tardis? Why does it appear on this stage? Is it the 2 Sam Parr Lake boats: 25 and 33?

The piano is merely turned around a bit to reveal that it’s not a piano but this… contraption. The guy in the door is definitely the same as the man holding the perches and contraption from samparr08. They stand in the same place on stage. The fish (perch?) are caught in Sam Parr Reservoir. They must be the same as the 2 boats at 1/4th and 1/5th point along the 33 Line there. The 33 Boat (Point) defines the Line.

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The piano is twirled around to reveal that it’s not a piano atall.

The red, yellow, brown, white, black “Hooker” is also found inside the shed.

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SPSP 33 Line 02

Prime line: 1.32 miles long. The line traverses Sam Parr Lake near its longest stretch of water, at an angle of approx. 338 degrees. The line grazes a quite suspicious number of peninsulas along the way, as I’ve marked on the map. Position 132 is at the upper end of the lake, 1.32 miles away from point 000. This can be read as 4 x 33 for our purposes. Position 33 is 0.33 miles up from position 000 on this line, or 1/4th the way up its length. This happens to mark the only boat found floating freely in the lake in this GoogleEarth map rendering from 2013, that is, away from any dock. Position 25 (0.25 miles from 000) just below marks the end of a pier where another, very similar looking boat is docked. The boat, just to the west of the 33 Line, is also 0.25 miles from position 000. It is the only boat besides the one at 033 not docked at the park’s marina, as far as I can tell. If the end of the SPSP 33 Line is determined to be at position 125 instead of 132, then point 025 is 1/5th the way up this slightly shorted version.

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How the boat positions along the SPSP 33 Line appear to relate to musical harmonics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_series_%28music%29

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Boat 33 (at 0.33 miles) and Boat 25 (at 0.25 miles) define the 2 lake harmonics of 133 (1.33) and 125 (1.25) respectively. Boat 33 is situated at the 1/4th point of the former, and Boat 25 at the 1/5th point of the latter. Maybe they are the same type of boat, even. Maybe they are the *same* boat (:o) at slightly different points in space and time.

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SPSP 33 Line 01

The line originally began at Illinois Highway 33 passing just east of Newton in Jasper County. Although the angle and position of the line never changed, the beginning was slightly later moved up to where it crosses the lowest point of Sam Parr Lake.

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http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2012/10/number-33-secret-societies-ufos-death-destruction-disneyland/

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The shoreline and attached features to the west take on the appearance of Grandpa Simpson, and I believe this could be reference to his history discussion in the episode Lemon of Troy about the rivalry between Springfield (where The Simpsons live) and neighboring Shelbyville. I quote a wikipedia article on this episode below.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_of_Troy

When Marge catches Bart vandalizing a town sidewalk by writing his name in wet cement, she lectures him on the importance of town pride. Afterwards, Bart realizes how wonderful it is living in Springfield. Consequently, however, Bart also becomes upset with anti-Springfield sentiments coming from the neighboring town of Shelbyville. Grampa explains that this rivalry can be traced back to the establishment of the two towns. This occurred when the founders Jebediah Springfield and Shelbyville Manhattan discovered they had irreconcilable differences regarding their visions for a perfect town, Springfield favoring promotion of chastity and Shelbyville advocating incestuous marriages between cousins.

According to Carrcassonnee’s considerable and unique body of wisdom, the rivalry is directly attached to that of Islam vs. Christianity, or, more specifically, the debate between Abraham’s sons Isaac and Ishmael, as illustrated in the below video from a West Wing episode of the same title.

It’s about Springfield (Grandpa, “an old man talking”), making peace with Shelbyville. They have common roots. They shake hands across the lake.

Reversed, the face across the lake gives the appearance of having a chicken-like beak, and there’s even an attached chicken claw dangling to its side. This *might* be connected to short lived Aqua Teen character Chicken Bittle, an original group leader, but still uncertain of that. This is not as obvious.

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More on the SPSP 33 Line in a follow-up post.

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TILE in P.T. Anderson’s “The Master”

Image 1. Appearing just before lead character Freddie is introduced to future mentor Lancaster Dodd. Approx. 22 minutes in.

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Image 2. Appearing just before Lancaster Dodd introduces a new level to his teachings based on “Book 2”. This is part of the announcement stage. Approx. 1 hour and 40 minutes in.

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Image 3. Just after Image 2. Dodd looks through window at stage.

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Sam Parr collage 06/07

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Images

Image from page 85 of "A concise guide to the town and university of Cambridge in an introduction and four walks" (1906)

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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.

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Here’s 2 possibilities for the base of more Sam Parr collages:

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… esp. this one, perhaps…

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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.

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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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Sam Parr 04-05

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“Perched”

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“Perched Too”

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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…

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… but are looking to move here…

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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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the dynamic duo
King Jethro & Queen Jethrine.

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“Mr. & Mrs. Sam Parr”

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“Parr, Sam, Mrs. & Mr.”

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