My interview of fellow audiovisual syncher Karl Tune has been completed. I didn’t know some of the info he talks about and you might not either. Enjoy!
https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/paradox/syncher-interviews/karls-interview-2015/
Category Archives: COLLAGES
Synch Talk 01
“You better think about tiling again.”
BB:
Thanks Carrcassonnee. Tiling comes in three flavors, like vanilla, chocolate, strawberry. Instead we have what I call silver, gold and platinum tiling. Silver tiling is album dominated like the one-play Dark Side of the Rainbow dominated by the album Dark Side of the Moon. We have the entire album within the synch. We only have 2/5ths of The Wizard of Oz movie, and that even without its soundtrack, since that’s dubbed over by Dark Side of the Moon. Then in a gold tiling we shift the emphasis from album or audio source to movie or video source. The movie begins to act as the template for the synch. A perfect example of this is SID’s 1st Oz, which tiles the entire Return to Oz movie that acts, in turn, as a direct follow-up, as it were, to The Wizard of Oz.
Carr.:
You forgot Rainbow Sphere.
BB:
Yes. Thanks for that. And a gold tiling can contain several silver tilings or equivalent silver tilings within it, like SID has 3 within it. I’m not sure anyone else was doing that at the time, however. Then we can shift to platinum tiling, another jump up. Platinum tiling favors neither album or movie. Both have to work together, one with the other, to form something higher — a meta-movie in effect. No, not a meta-movie, as I’m checking the definition. A hyper-movie. And a hyper-album.
Carr.:
You better explain it better than that to Karl (!)
BB:
Yes. Thanks again for that. A platinum tiling has links between involved movies and involved albums. Specific examples are needed. Let’s take Uncle Meatwad (again).
Carr.:
Good. I always liked that one the best of your examples.
BB:
Thanks. Uncle Meatwad has four video sources and also 4 involved musical artists. What are the links? How does it all fit together? First we have to understand that the synch is dividable into 3 logical parts with the overall pattern A-B-A. That is, the first and last parts are matched, or, better, reversals of each other. This same pattern appears in a lot of my synchs, and in PB, perhaps the best of all of ’em.
Carr.
I haven’t watched that one. I haard it is good.
BB:
Then the middle part is separate from both. In Uncle Meatwad the middle part is overlapped with Firesign Theatre’s Everything You Know is Wrong album from 1974, one of my favorites from them. You have maybe 6, 7 or 8 tiles using this album in this central region. “Everything” does not appear, however, in parts 1 and 3. It is exclusive to Part ii, and lends itself to its uniqueness as opposed to the other parts. Instead in parts 1 and 3 we have use of one other Firesign Theatre in Uncle Meatwad, and this would be “2 Places”. 2 tiles using it appear in part 1, and another in part 2. And that’s it for Firesign Theatre within the synch. And, in fact, that’s it for Firesign Theatre in any of my synchs so far… past this one. Overall it’s used in 5 others, and all date from 2004-2007, or this peak creative period of mine in terms of a/v synching. This is when the platinum style of synching was strongest. Uncle Meatwad was the final synch of this period as I’m figuring it.
Carr.:
What are the synchs from this period? Can you say? Do you feel comfortable saying? Because I want you to feel comfortable saying. If you feel like it. Do you feel like it? I’m just saying. Only if. Only.
BB:
Billfork, Head Trip, 4orrin1, Frank’s Moving Mountain, Pretty Bunnies, W4N1, PB, 1Pink, and then Empire Strikes Brak and Uncle Meatwad to close it. That’s 10. But there’s also [the smaller] 3 Friends of Belleville and Pumpkintwisters between Billfork and Head Trip. So: 12. 12 from this period.
Carr.:
There, that wasn’t so harrd.
BB:
No. Firesign Theatre is found in Billfork, Head Trip, 4orrin1 — the first three of the period. And then again in Pretty Bunnies (skipping over Frank’s Moving Mountain, where they aren’t used), and then 1 Pink and also Uncle Meatwad. 6 synchs like I said. And they can also be paired in 3 sets of twos. Billfork and FT within are most like Uncle Meatwad. That’s the beginning synch of the period and the ending synch. Both have Firesign Theatre as the primary audio source, with a primary album to draw upon but also a secondary album figuring into the mix. Billfork and Uncle Meatwad are close in size tile-wise, with 32 for the former and 37 for the latter. Billfork and Uncle Meatwad are twins. Both employ the music of John Lennon in a larger way. Lennon is not used in any other synch apart from Beatles’ music. There’s a pattern to that as well.
Carr.:
You better stick to Firesign Theatre or you’ll never get out of here (!)
BB:
Then Head Trip and Pretty Bunnies are also twins. They contain the same exact number of tiles: 47. One Firesign Theatre album in each: “Dwarf” for the earlier Head Trip and “Bozos” for Pretty Bunnies coming along about a year and a half later. In Firesign Theatre chronology, “Bozos” is the album coming directly after “Dwarf”. The members of “Firesign Theatre” considered “Dwarf” their best album if I remember correctly, but “Bozos” is top notch as well.
Carr.:
How are all these Firesign Theatre albums synched up to movies?
BB:
Well, to complete this we have “Rat”, the album after “Bozos”, used in 4orrin1, a massive synch composed of perhaps close to 200 tiles, if you include dialog tiles and I do. And then about 6 tracks of a later album from 2000 I believe is found in 1Pink, a second massive synch of similar size to 4orrin1. These are my 2 largest synchs tile-wise by far, outpacing PB and w4N1 by an almost 2:1 margin, I would suppose. But the use of Firesign Theatre within each is somewhat contrasting as well. 4orrin1 represents my most extensive use of the comedy group’s work in a synch. 1Pink represents the least use. It’s interesting to me that “Rat”, considered by some a secondary work, fits this role and not, say, “Dwarf” or “Bozos”. But: there it is.
Carr.:
Movies, though. Keep going.
BB:
For Billfork there’s only 1 movie and that’s Northfork. So Firesign Theatre in that synch is obviously tiled to that movie. For Head Trip it’s *almost* exclusively the movie “Head” by The Monkees, but spilling a little into “The Trip” at the end. “Head Trip” is solely composed of these 2 movies, and represents my first true platinum synch I suppose you could call it. Then in 4orrin1 “Rat” tiles many movies, perhaps 12 or 14, or most of those in the synch. 4orrin1 is the platinum synch extended to its logical conclusion in many ways. A peak work, like SID is a representative work for a gold tiling. But I don’t think it is the best platinum work, which I would reserve for PB or 1Pink. But anyway, Firesign Theatre in Pretty Bunnies mainly uses the cult sci fi/surrealist flick Donnie Darko. And then in 1Pink it’s several movies again, “Lulu on the Bridge” for one, but also Mulholland Drive and LOST. The use of Firesign Theare in 1Pink is interesting, and connected to matching hatches of LOST. In fact, they are the same hatch or station. Then we come to Uncle Meatwad again. I believe “INLAND EMPIRE” is the main video source tiled in that case. Oh, and the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie of course. Both of those. That answer your question?
Carr.:
Oh suppose so. What is the point of all this?
BB:
Rehearsal.
Carr.:
You will not say anything of this in the interview. Anything. What will you say instead?
BB:
I will have to explain some of 4orrin1 or all will be in vain. I’ll call it Foreign One.
Carr.:
Good. You can mention Head Trip. You can mention Billfork. And Foreign One. And that’s it. That’s it.
Filed under Carrcass Artists
UM
“Carr., last night yet another Uncle Meatwad resonance surfaced in Fringe — and the wife and I were thinking about it at the same time (!).”
Carr.:
Yes I heard. Do not do another interview unless Uncle Meatwad is out there for others to view. Your choice. Karl is playing it cautious. Understandable. Either keep it to yourself for now or allow “out there” for others to view as a whole. Don’t just put the pressure on[ delete name].
bb:
Yes, I think I’ll tell Karl that tonight. But you see how…
Carr.:
But you see how important it is to get UM out there. It should live. It is the last of the positive carrcasses and also the first of the negative carrcasses. It is both. It is neither. Last… first. I am Olive.
bb:
And you still love Peter.
Carr.:
Yes.
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The oval or *olive* shaped theatre might be the only Collagesity building totally enclosed within the new skywalk from an overhead view. And it’s brown, matching the color of the skywalk’s connectors. But the theatre from this view might also be said to just touch it (“kiss” it) to the northeast. The Path of the Red Flower has now been closed off by the back of the theatre. The structure, still unnamed (the Meat Dome?), likewise touches the World of Collages building to the northwest, and also comes within 2 or 3 feet of the Sink Lair, again to the northeast.
Actually as I’m looking inside, I’m reminded that one set of stairs from the former path still lies directly against the north wall of the theatre, with a red flower at the top and another one near its bottom, at the back door…
… and then another one is found right at the front door as well.
Looks like this might be, then, The Theatre of The Red Flower, or probably Red Flower Theatre or just The Red Flower.
The complementary walk to the Red Flower on the south side of Central Stream has likewise been decommissioned through placement of new structures Gallery Jack and Wappo Jack’s Castle there. This would be the former Red Shroom Trail.
Tough but necessary losses both.
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3:30AM update:
Been playing around with programs that convert VOB files to MPGs. I’m pretty sure I can create a viewable MPG of Uncle Meatwad to play as a dropbox link, which means it probably will also play on a prim in Second Life. I believe I’m not even going to try to upload the resulting MPG to Vimeo or especially Youtube because of the involved copyright violations. It is a time capsule. But I’ll still allow people to view it through this blog I think — and in Second Life. The Red Flower Theatre is about to, UM, flower(!).
Then I want to do a detailed analysis of UM, just like I create for my collages.
Also I have to get my new computer hooked up again. Been using my older Dell formerly in the basement for about a week and a 1/2 now because the new one wouldn’t boot up correctly. We’ll try out some possible solutions in the next several days. Else I’ll have to take it in to the campus computer lab to let them look at it.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Carrcass-00, Heterocera, Rubi
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
Beware (The) Heelers
ANIMATION TESTS.
“Beware The Heelers”
“Beware Heelers”
Filed under collages 2d, SID's 1st Oz
Whiteyes
Interpretation:
Base scene is the exact middle of The Shining movie, as defined by The Shining Forwards and Backwards audiovisual experiment talked more about here LINK. We have Rainbow Man Scatman Cruthers (chef Dick Hallorann in the movie) laying in his bed, encompassed by the colours of TILE: red, green, blue, yellow. I display the picture first here in this blog, which is now part of the “6 Weeks of Shining” hybrid document. Week 2 to be specific. The presence of TILE here inspired me to put a blend of primary hued lights behind his bed, highlighting a red painting above his bed in particular. This picture originally depicted a nude African-American woman, but now contains the nerdy Moss from the Brit hit TV show “The IT Crowd.” He warns new-ish boss Jen about passing through the red door into a secret room not known about before by her. “What’s Behind the Red Door?” is also the largest Kollage Kid collage currently exhibited in Collagesity (World of Collage gallery), formerly seen in the X-Spot Gallery. Hallorann, also an African-American, has intense white eyes. This is actually representative of the blend of primary light colours into white, the source of all.
This also stands for Whitehead Crossing as a blend of red (Red Head), green (Greenhead), and blue (Blue Skies Mr.). It is also a center… of my woodsy experiences in these here parts. It is the center of Frank and Herman Parks (most likely).
Whiteyes also stands for “Whitey” (1st 6 letters), which *Redd* Foxx occasionally called caucasians on his influential 70s hit comedy show “Sanford and Son”, always getting a laugh in the process. We’ve already seen several images of Mr. Foxx in the Sam Parr collage series from the past fall, namely collages 06/07 and collage 08. The characters of Whiteyes are also all African-Americans, including The IT Crowd character Moss.
“So what does it mean Hucka D.?”
Hucka D.:
This is center with a capital “C”.
bb:
A miniature Bugs Bunny lays on the bed beside Hallorann, his famous byline not traveling with him from earlier collages in the series. This would of course be “What’s Up Doc?”, now the name of an important album by the variant band Story Room, who are kind of The Residents. Don’t you think?
Hucka D.:
Obviously!
bb:
“What’s Up Doc?” is the primary source album of the audiovisual synch Carrcass-10, the next to last I’ve created. Going on 2 years back now, Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
Better put up the link.
bb:
This is also found in Week 2 of “6 Weeks of Shining”.
Hucka D.:
Good to know.
bb:
So obviously Bugs Bunny here represents that variant album, Hucka D., just like he did in the earlier collage 02/03 of the new series. What’s the name of this series, Hucka D.?
Hucka D.:
We do not have a name. We’ll have to call it Bob in the meantime.
bb:
This is the a/v synch I was talking to Chuck about while we walked the loop now called the Bunny Trail, in its honor. We merged through this loop, and then separated, I with my own past/present/future compositions and he with his own set. We were united through the synchronicity, that and others. But, at the end, Carrcass-10. He knows now.
Hucka D.:
Nose.
bb:
Yeah.
Hucka D.:
Well… what’s behind the red door anyways?
bb:
Red Head of course.
Hucka D.:
But what exactly is Red Head? We know that it is Anne Shirley with an “e”, before and after she briefly turned Greenhead in the Green Gables story. Right before she was accepted into that house by Marilla The Elder. Greenhead transferred to Green House. She had a roof over her head for the first time. Poor little orphan Anne.
bb:
Yes, it is Anne Shirley, as especially depicted in the postive carrcass: Carrcass+6 I believe I number it.
Hucka D.:
That’s all about Appalachian Spring. Green Stream( that runs through Red Head) is also an Appalachian Spring. Moreso even than TILE Creek, perhaps.
bb:
Maybe.
Hucka D.:
Even more than George Harrison Creek that runs behind your current house.
bb:
Okay.
Hucka D.:
So that’s one thing behind the Red Door. Obviously Red Head, the formerly unknown part of Whitehead Crossing until this spring, is behind this Red Door. Moss guards the door in the collage, just like Mossmen protected Red Head from incursions. How chancy is that?
bb:
Probably not very much so, Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
No. This is pre-cabin. You better get to an interpretation of the animation before this tonight. Start it anyhoot.
bb:
Thanks.
Filed under collages 2d, Qbrick, Stanley, Shining, The, Whitehead Crossing
SID Notes 01
“Return to Oz” movie script.
NOT FOUND.
Return to Oz *movie* video:
Wheeler, MT:
Near New Deal (same as Square Deal?), Wilson…
http://www.fortpeckdam.com/historypages/?p=7
Explore idea of Doc Worley as Norris figure. Parallels George Norris, father of TVA, a part of the New *Deal* which provided electricity. Worley switches on lamp as he states it is a *new* century, a century of *electricity.*
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Proximity of Gump, PA (only US Gump) to Waynesburg and Rogersville could imply *MASH*up (Wayne Rogers a star of MASH series), perhaps the SID’s 1st Oz mashup synchronicity. This is logical given other synchy thing about Greene County here, including personal family member’s names listed (father, sister, brother at least).
Oz’s Gump is itself a mashup:
Prior to the events of the [Return to Oz] film, he was just an ordinary Gump walking through the woods until he heard a loud noise (presumably from a gunshot) and died. His head was mounted in the tower attic in the Emerald City’s palace. Sometime later, when the magical Land of Oz was taken over by the Nome King and Mombi, who turned it to ruin. Eventually Dorothy Gale (accompanied by her chicken Billina) returned to Oz and met Tik-Tok the mechanical copper man. When Dorothy was taken captive by Mombi and locked in her tower, under her imprisonment she met Jack Pumpkinhead who helped the little party make an attempt to escape. Together they devised a plan to escape the Emerald City; this involved using Mombi’s Powder of Life to bring to life the old Gump head in the tower and attaching it to a sofa with palm leafs for wings to fly them out. Mombi became aware of their plot and tried to stop them, but despite some complications they finished and brought to life the flying Gump sofa and all escaped out the tower window. They flew across the night sky and the Gump began to tell the story of what happened to him and how surprised he was to find himself in such an odd situation, although he was still willing to aid the group in their escape. Later he remained a mounted head and was placed in Princess Ozma’s mirrored palace. (Return to Oz)
The Gump itself is green(e).
Gump probably also represents Forrest Gump, part of the huge 1Pink mashup also profusely coded into Pennsylvania locations, including a prominent one in Greene County, once more (again involving a family member’s name — more doubling or multiplying of roles).
Return to Oz and mind control:
“Return to Oz” : A Creepy Disney Movie That is Clearly About Mind Control
Filed under SID's 1st Oz
By Neptune 01
Sign for Neptune. Mirrors the Trident streams in extreme western Frank Park, and also Herman and Frank Parks taken together. But Neptune is unseen by the remainder…
… until Gene Fade reaches fabled Red Head and builds a dwelling place on the “northern” shore and calls it Neptune (or North Star). All that was unseen becomes seen with (one of his biographies), entitled “By Neptune’s Beard!”. Neptune becomes the outermost planet of our Solar System starting in 1846. It is the only one that cannot be C-een by the naked eye. It becomes a symbol of the darke night sky, then. Carrcassonnee.
Beyond the planets and into the darke night: stars. All revolves around North.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Star,_Ohio
North Star was platted in 1852[6] along the road between Greenville and Celina, approximately midway between the two cities. Its name was derived from its location on the edge of the Great Black Swamp, as it was the northernmost point in Darke County that was not wetland.[7]
The Great Black Swamp is The Abyss, the static nothingness of the Universe all around us and through us and into us. Only TILE saves. TILE is the effect of the C-een planets on the nothingness. Tennessee.
But then, beyond TILE is Still(water) and beams of light.
http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/syd_barrett/long_gone.html
And I borrowed the page
From a leopard’s cage
And I prowled in the evening sun’s glaze
Her head lifted high to the light in the sky
The opening dawn on her face…
Charles Ives” “The Cage” with lyrics.
Annie Oakley is from North Star.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Oakley
Annie Oakley (August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926), born Phoebe Ann Mosey, was an American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. Oakley’s “amazing talent”[1] led to a starring role in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. Her timely rise to fame[2] allowed her to become one of the first American women to be a “superstar“.
“By Neptune’s Beard!”
Great Black Swamp:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Black_Swamp
Chattanooga
In the 1850s the states began an organized attempt to drain the swamp for agricultural use and ease of travel. Various projects were undertaken over a 40-year period. Local resident James B. Hill, living in Bowling Green, Ohio, in the mid-19th century, made the quick drainage of the Black Swamp possible with his invention of the Buckeye Traction Ditcher.[6] Hill’s ditching machine laid drainage tiles at a record pace. The area was largely settled over the next three decades. The development of railroads and a local drainage tile industry are thought to have contributed greatly to drainage and settlement (Kaatz, 1955).
Filed under Indiana, MAPS, Ohio, SID's 1st Oz
Confessions of a Rainbowologist 07
bb: Hucka? LINK.
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Neo-classic Pythagoreans tire of keeping track of all the branchings of TILE. “See?” they point out. “This is what you get with extensions. You get refractions. Just like in the picture from that album. What is it: Passion Play?” “No,” I reply, and exhale deeply. But they’re right about the branchings. TILE and Tyle. Special and Mundane. Board oriented verses Waterfall oriented. There are as many parts of TILE as there are colors of the rainbow. And that’s the point, I believe. A spread out point, true, but a point if you look at it from a long enough distance still. We must step back, way back. Further back than that, even. Further. There. We’re at the point of analysis. Let’s begin again.
TILE is born in Dark Side of the Rainbow. This is the belief of a fundamental Rainbowologist. I might believe this too. This is my confession. I am a Rainbowologist and I believe TILE truly begins in Dark Side (of the Rainbow). That’s it drawing way back and taking a look-see. There, that wasn’t so hard.
PART II
HOW IT’S DONE
We are now able to look at more meaningful details. Where exactly does it start, this TILE and Dark Side fusion? One can say it begins when Dorothy falls into the pigpen at her farm exactly 4 minutes into both the synch and the album.
Why there? That’s when we separate from all those crocogator Neo-Pythagoreans and their haughty ways. That’s where we exit the corrupt Realm of Numbers and enter the purer Realm of Letters. We learn that Kansas is pure and uncorrupted at 5 and 8, or “I” and “E”. We learn that Oz is singly corrupted, missing only one letter from its own “T” and “L”. We’ve learned so much from a merger of TILE and Dark Side. And we must follow this single corruption further. Where does the missing letter of TILE go? What is the missing letter?
This one is easy easier to understand. According to Baum biographers, the creator of Oz got the name from a filing cabinet drawer labelled O-Z. This would be the same as the final 12 letters of the Roman Modern alphabet, out of 26 total of course. Split down the middle, this alphabet would contain 13 letters on each side, or A-M and then N-Z. But here we have O-Z for the second half of TILE within Dark Side. The missing letter is obviously *N*. Oz uncorrupted might then be actually called Noz. We don’t know. And then the second part of our present conundrum: where does the letter go if it exits TILE? Well, it goes into that filthy Realm of Numbers, that’s where. Hidden and further corrupted.
We even know what this missing piece truly stands for within the Baum mythology. It is the same as Ozma, true ruler of Oz as we find out in books beyond Baum’s original one, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (basis for the first movie). Here’s the story from the mythology:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Ozma
While still an infant, Ozma, the baby daughter of the former King Pastoria of Oz, was given to the witch Mombi of the North by the Wizard of Oz. Mombi transformed Ozma into a boy and called him “Tip” (short for Tippetarius) in order to prevent the rightful ruler of Oz from ascending to the throne. Thus, Ozma spent her entire childhood with Mombi in the form of the boy Tip, and had no memory of ever having been a girl. During this time, Tip had managed to create Jack Pumpkinhead who was brought to life by Mombi’s Powder of Life. In The Marvelous Land of Oz, Glinda the Good Sorceress discovered what had happened and forced Mombi to turn Tip back into Ozma; ever since then, the Princess has possessed the Throne of Oz (although many realms within Oz remained unaware of her authority).
In SID’s 1st Oz and the parallel Return to Oz movie, Ozma is returned to her rightful place as Ruler of Oz. She is De Queen. TILE is thus fulfilled, like Oz is fulfilled at this place in time. SID’s 1st Oz becomes a complete TILE. But wait… not quite. Because we have that troublesome kink at approximately the 3/4th point in the synch.
No, not that Kink. Instead it comes at “Dark Globe” by Syd Barrett. He’s tatooed his brain all the way by now. Dorothy is Helen Keller blinded about how to proceed. She must find Scarecrow and the other Oz characters who have been turned into ornaments. But how?? At the end of Dark Globe, all’s she can do is close her eyes and spin around and around and wait to stop.
Filed under SID's 1st Oz
Confessions of a Rainbowologist 06
Tull is the “l”, the “t”, the “e”, and then not the “i” but the *”y”*. It is Tyle, not TILE. But still: close! And as Tull is Tyle not TILE, then we have SID not Syd (Barrett) to balance. This is not Syd’s 1st Oz, but SID’s 1st Oz. The link is Walt SIDney. More soon on that, perhaps.
SID’s 1st Oz regions and their tiles, with Tull tiles highlighted in an appropriate TILE color:
T (Kansas; 7): f g h i j k l
E (Oz; 8): m n o p q r s t
L (Nome King; 6>7): u v w x y z a
I (Return; 5>4): b c d e
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8:30pm:
I’ve been getting complaints from readers a reader that I’m just wandering in this series and getting nowhere in particular and becoming more and more diffuse and just not explaining myself well and so on and so forth. What’s rainbowology got to do with this and that and the other thing? they query. Well, I think I’m getting to that. Remember we’re in the “T” of SID’s 1st Oz, which can be seen as a complete TILE. Macro-letters I’m talking about here( once more). This is the beginning macro-letter of SID, composed of seven separate tiles each making a one-to-one match between audio and video pieces. I call this “region” of SID — one of 4 again — the Kansas region, because it all basically takes place in Kansas except for the very end where we have Dorothy arriving in the Deadly Desert surrounding Oz, accompanied by the first part of Jethro Tull’s A Passion Play album from 1973. Yes, the same year as Dark Side of the Moon. Yes, if you listen to the album those are very similar opening heartbeats to Dark Side. No, I don’t think A Passion Play is an homage to a fellow 1973 album. Actually they were on the Billboard charts at the same time (no. 1 and no. 3 here)…
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10:30pm
I’m going to open up the phone lines for a bit. Hold on…
Continuous Blog Reader:
So are you saying Dark Side of the Moon and A Passion Play are clones?
bb:
In a way. Both begin and end with heartbeats, and both wax and wane in and out of the album ta boot.
CBR:
Ta boot?
bb:
Yeah.
CBR:
I came to your blog promised that it was about a different angle into Second Life and I get all this Rainbowology crap that doesn’t make any sense. Can you explain? Really, I think we, the Reader, need one.
bb:
The Frank and Herman, Einstein! Blog is suppose to be about 2 local parks at the root of it, and mainly self spun mythologies surrounding them.
CBR:
Where are the parks?
bb:
Where I live.
CBR:
Where’s that?
bb:
Blue Mountain.
CBR:
I’ve looked that up and I found one in Arkansas. Is that the one? It’s near some mountains.
bb:
No. It doesn’t matter where Blue Mountain is. It’s in the mountains. It has a college. It has the *parks*. That’s all you need to know.
CBR:
What if I want to go to these parks and retrace your steps to better grok what you’re on about here in this here blog?
bb:
I can do that privately if you wish. If I know you a bit.
CBR:
Do you know me well enough?
bb:
No.
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Let’s shift to caller #2 about 30 minutes later. This person called himself Wheeler. I’ll attempt to edit out the boring parts…
Wheeler:
That’s fascinating about SID’s 1st Oz having so strong a center, unlike Dark Side of the Rainbow. So the “T” is the Kansas — region I think you called it…
bb:
Yes.
Wheeler:
And that’s the same as the Kansas 1/2 of Dark Side of the Rainbow, or the equivalent. They’re about the same length. All you’re getting at in these Rainbowology posts is that equation. Dorothy starts in Kansas in Dark Side of the Rainbow and then enters Oz in the second half. This is the same as the 2 sides of Dark Side of the Moon. That’s easy. Then in SID’s 1st Oz, the direct followup as it were…
bb:
… as it is…
Wheeler:
… You have Dorothy in Kansas again to begin and then heading to Oz about 20-25 minutes in, but this is only the *one-fourth* point of SID’s 1st Oz, as opposed to the one-half point.
bb:
Yes. You’ve caught on suspiciously well.
Wheeler:
Thank you.
bb:
Are you actually a Wheeler? An Oz Wheeler?
Wheeler:
You bet!
bb:
I suspect you may be Hucka D.
Wheeler:
Nah. So to continue… SID of course does have a halfway point, but its the halfway point in the related movie and not the album. The Return to Oz movie. Were you suppose to say that?
bb:
Er…
Wheeler:
And this center, this halfway point, is not a point like in Dark Side of the Rainbow but more spread out. There’s a central story of Return to Oz that matches the central one of A Passion Play here. You must begin at the top with A Passion Play and its direct relation to Dark Side of the Moon. Never forget that.
bb:
I’ll never forget that.
Wheeler:
A Passion Play has 4 tiles in SID’s 1st Oz, correct? I know it to be so.
bb:
Hucka?
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