Category Archives: Haze County
Collage 02/03 tests
Amazingly quick diptych! Rough draft still, however…
Added, balancing Superman (extreme left):
Inverting the colours of this balancing Superman appears to turn him into Aquaman.
Megan Shirley Fairuza Dorothy doesn’t know *what* to think of all this.
Aquaman…
… w/ trident…
Filed under Blue Mountain, collages 2d, Harrisonia
Spongeberg in Whitehead X-ing
(start interpretation of Stonethrow Collage Series here…)
This is apparently a rough draft for the 1st collage of a new series that will probably be exhibited on the top floor of Collagesity’s Red Umbrella gallery. Coolie!
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, collages 2d, Frank Park, Whitehead Crossing
Whitehead X-ing 03
A new batch of toy avatars now make their home at Red Head, near its South Rock. I bought these at the Mythopolis flea market for 5 bucks total. I think it was a sweet deal. And now I have yet another batch bought from the same dealer since. Nice. But they might have to wait until the fall to join their brothers and sisters already stationed here.
Knotty tree on the hillside west of Whitehead Crossing proper.
South Rock region again. This is a classic Red Head shot.
South Rock region: circle formation on tree.
Brick in the stream here. There are a number of bricks in or around Green Stream as it flows through Red Head.
The Red Head Path again, this time leading to North Rock at the upper extent of the main body of cascades.
Very shallow Grand Pool once more.
And *this* is the projected site of a cabin (etc.) just beside South Rock. It represents the new heart of Red Head, appropriately near its geographic center as well. It won’t be this summer that I’ll start the project, and perhaps not even the following summer or two. But: soon (projected, once more).
What will the construction of a “cabin” mean to this region and the mythology of Frank and Herman Park as a whole? Hucka D. has indicated to me that the cabin already exists there in hypertime, and I can draw on its energy. Hmm.
Twinned carolina hemlocks of Whitehead Crossing, near the new teepee there.
Filed under Allen Knob, Frank Park, Toy Avatars, Whitehead Crossing
Whitehead X-ing 02
Another prominent rock in or near Red Head, a bit south of Green Stream. Another no named rock as well.
Here we’re back in familiar blog terrritory in Whitehead Crossing proper, with its two dead hemlocks marking a southern entrance to the Straightaway.
4 Sticks region, sighting what might possibly be another Bee Line LINK formation…
… better highlighted here. More on that soon enough.
Orange Hill, former (present?) home to Falmouth or Dundee Castle, is eroding away. Won’t be around too many more summers. Should I even take steps to preserve it?
Vine circle marking upper end of that Bee Line type phenomenon I mentioned above.
Green Turtle and The Emerald.
Filed under Allen Knob, Frank Park, Whitehead Crossing
Whitehead X-ing 01
Red Head cascades.
Red Head (main) path. Fairly complicated system here. I haven’t yet created a map. Will I this spring now that it’s probably sealed off from me until autumn?
Looking up Green Stream from the bottom of the main run of cascades. They’re low but still exciting.
Larger rock at bottom of cascades, with South Rock just beyond. This seems to be a mini-center of energy within Red Head. I believe now that a cabin (etc.) will be built just above here.
South Rock.
Filed under Allen Knob, Frank Park, Whitehead Crossing
X-ing Times
Might be able to get down to Whitehead Crossing after work today. Probably should have gone yesterday but decided otherwise. Wrong decision, I believe. I *did* trek down there on Sat., despite a forecast of showers. Rain never really materialized. This place is so fickle weather-wise! But anyway, I spotted *people* at The Crossing, a first. And I may not have been able to remain hidden during the spot had one of ’em not been sporting a bright yellow raincoat, it appeared. I believe they were heading to the teepee, and probably they built it as well. I wasn’t close enough to get a good look — see their age, etc.
A collection of Toy Avatars are now at Whitehead X-ing, Red Head to be more specific.
I’ll share some photos of the related visits soon.
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I also think a new spate of collages might be coming up soon, perhaps early next month.
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4/29:
I’m hoping to get down to the Red Head part of Whitehead Crossing at least a couple more times before the woods “close up”, as I put it. The plants come back, the snakes, the poison ivy, the gnats and mosquitoes. Critters in general. I’m unfamilar with the Red Head territory during the summer months. I know I can go back to Whitehead Crossing proper during that time. I would like to have a kind of woods project this summer to focus on, like I did 3 years ago with Concreek. The problems with the last 2 summers?: Well, in 2013 the summer was broken up by our 2 week trip to England and preparing for it and then recovering from it and all that. Also it rained… and rained… and rained… when we returned, from July into August. And then during the summer of 2014 my back was still giving me problems from an injury incurred at the end of fall hiking season the year before. It’s pretty much healed up now — takes a long time for a back. Getting old I suppose. Concreek might be a good candidate again. Maybe… *maybe* even Red Head. We’ll just have to see. I always have Boulder to walk around in summer months. And I can always head down to Middletown if things get really boring up here. So everything seems good once more.
Filed under Concreek, Frank Park, Whitehead Crossing
Spongeberg Revisit
He stares up into the tower of the Falmouth Gallery. He’s reached the top. Nowhere to go but down.
A couple of the Whitehead Crossing related collages weren’t fully rezzing in for him, including this one featuring Orange Hill. Orange Hill, by the way, is disintegrating. This is the cliff that a version of the Falmouth Gallery itself is perched upon in a First Life-Second Life blend.
Spongeberg makes a mental note to study up on The Contraption pictured here, perhaps based on Wheeler-Wilson principles. As he recalled, fellow variant Roger Pine Ridge also had an interest in the paradoxical object. Is it really somewhere in Kansas/Lion’s Roar?
“This collage answers a lot,” he thinks again. The history of The Crossing.
Another one not fully rezzed: Edward’s Stone. The Contraption again as well. 2 Beemen. Perpetual Tile “Fall”. Hmm.
Spongeberg finds that whenever he lands in a new sim, the ground around him emits black smoke. Nice!
Shallowater, just like in Red Head’s Grand Pool. This pool in the Rydal Cave must be related (!). Planets again as well. The Captain and Maria as Sun and Moon. Children = the planets.
Spongeberg will come back to these Yale collages as well. He’s not done with Collagesity.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Frank Park, Heterocera, Rubi, Whitehead Crossing
Whitehead Crossing, 4/22/15
I didn’t take any pictures, but I wanted to make a briefer report on my visit to Whitehead Crossing yesterday evening. Went to both Red Head and WH X-ing proper. Tried to figure out the trail layout at Red Head. There’s really only one that’s well defined, and there’s even a kind of barrier between the 2 main groups: the ones involving the cascade region of Green Stream, and then the ones surrounding Grand Pool (A Grand Pool?). Something is going to happen in the future at Red Head. I can’t C it yet; still Neptune to me.
Also, there’s been no further progress on the new Whitehead Crossing teepee, and I’m beginning to doubt if there ever will. I think it’s safe for me to visit the location this summer — walk the Contemplation Loop and so on.
I ambled from Red Head to Whitehead Crossing Mall Meadows again through the rhododendron, and discovered a somewhat easier way between the two. It’s not a path by any means, and the 2 areas are still effectively blocked off from each other. But I can make the transit myself with a small bit of effort. Yes, I must make a map soon (!). Hopefully I can kind of hang out at The Crossing this weekend — or (in checking the forecast just then) perhaps tomorrow. Get off work at 4?
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But even if he didn’t, it doesn’t matter. I am Maria von Trapp.
Maria Stein, kind of (von) *trapped* in the southeastern corner of Mercer County by the Planets U C (planets you see). Maria Stein is the father-mother, the sun-moon.
Filed under Frank Park, Whitehead Crossing
Grand Spot 02
http://www.dailystandard.com/archive/2015-04-04/stories/26445/painting-the-town-for-easter
Another article with Brenda Robinson, painter of the Quilted Rock. This time she helped restore Big Bob, claimed to be the world’s largest handmade bass.
When the Griswolds were done painting, Robinson applied a final clear coat to protect Big Bob from the elements.
“I bet he’s good for another 50 years,” Griswold said.
The fish was built to advertise Celina and Grand Lake, with many Lake Festival queens riding on the float in the past. More recently members of the Celina Dolphin swim team have enjoyed a ride on the float during the Lake Festival parade.
History of Big Bob:
According to a 1976 Celina Lake Festival brochure, the current Big Bob is not Celina’s first whopper of a fish float.
Apparently, in the 1930s, a 30-foot-long fish float was built by Celina businessmen to advertise Grand Lake. The float appeared in numerous parades and events throughout Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.
The float was to be a part of the famous Parade of Roses in Pasadena, Calif., but was destroyed when it was loaded for the parade and never reached its destination.
The disheveled fish then was put on a small island in Grand Lake off West Bank Road where it sat for many years as a tourist attraction, the brochure says.
– Betty Lawrence
Oops!
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“Isn’t it clear? You must make a [“quilted”] fish sculpture. To match Waxy the Bird in nearby Greenhead. B[y]rd-Fish.”
“One Pink” (Greenup collage #11).
I just took apart the sculpture of the red/green/blue birds seen in the above collage (Opus 19) to make room in my study for the new keyboards (Baby Chro). One replaces another in effect.
Opus 19 in 1990 art exhibit
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Fish+Bass in Quay County, NM.
Filed under Frank Park, Georgia, MAPS, New Mexico, Ohio, Whitehead Crossing
Sunklands 