Category Archives: Corsica

December 10, 2013 · 9:02 am

Final Virtual Home?

Perhaps inspired by the Rubi Forest research today, I have begun thinking that Rubi might be my final stop in Second Life. What better place could I find to watch the terminal days of the mainland grid? How long will mainland last?

Edward’s Stream will mark the new, lower border of the trimmed down burg. Will it still be called VWX Town? A question to ponder. I’ll gear my tier down to the next level, which I still find quite managable, at least in relation to this most perfect of virtual spots. Fal Mouth Moon will also remain and stay the home of the Gilatona-Lis collages, my last offerings in that medium. More might be added in the coming year, and there’s some room for growth in the building, as opposed to the Power Tower Gowlery. The attached rocket launcher will also stay.

Toxic Art Gallery with its “Art 10×10” may move back to Philudoria. All of the eastern part of town will be gone. The Confluence Place will not stick around. The Table House as well. The giant cat topped city hall *may* remain, but will have to be turned the other way (?). Big Boy Tower won’t be there. The Damned Church, exhibiting the Rubi history snapshots, could remain… probably will.

So it’s kind of a celebration. I knew I’d have to reduce tier soon, and this is a way to do it while staying in Rubi. I’ll abandon less than half the land to give me a cushion between neighbors. This appears the way to go.

The reduction won’t go into effect for several weeks, however.

Ye Ole Watering Hole will stay.

All of this will have to be derezzed, difficult because it means giving up my original mainland territory (again!). But fronting the forest is the most important aspect in considering what to cull.

4:32am:

The town has been divided into VWX Town, Essence and VWX Town, Indulgence. The Essence part of the community will remain in this plan, while Indulgence will not. As of now, I’d have almost 500 prims to still play around with on the reduced property — not bad. At the earliest, the reduction will go into effect about Jan. 7th. At the latest: probably early Feb. My last little bit of land in Philudoria, where the original version of The Church of the Diagonal still sits, will also be given up.

The below shot comes from Kerchal, which represents the only other large tract of mainland virgin forest remaining under the protection of Linden Labs (excluding the Linden Memorial Park). Although somewhat larger, in restudying the matter I like the Rubi Woods better. There’s only 1 type of tree here in Kerchal (pines) as opposed to the 2 in Rubi. And there’s no grass in Kerchal, and also the land doesn’t undulate in interesting ways like the former. I still like and appreciate the Kerchal Woods, but Rubi’s is superior for my tastes. I see that now.

Bracket and the family still have House Greenup in Asha as well.

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December 5, 2013 · 1:44 pm

Collage always there is.

“I wonder if Bracket Jupiter came back as a Tylepire on the Heterocera continent, specifically around Slosser?”

Hucka D.:

Baker’s not here tonight, Edwardston. I will help[ instead]. I am Bracket as well.

Edwardston Resident:

Are you?

Hucka D.:

Yes.

Edwardston Resident:

It [the post] says, that Slosser was full, and it had done its bit. So bit equals bite, as in the bite that turns one into a, um, tylepire.

—–

Edwardston R. (still reading):

Looks like the last bit of Heterocera mythology I really have to deal with comes from the Pond District. Lakeview is afterwards, but no mythology developed there.

Hucka D.:

Not really.

Edwardston R.:

Slosser is sort of a broken off part of the Pond District, really.

Hucka D.:

Kind of.

Edwardston R.:

I think I want to study all the streams of Heterocera, and all the gorges, either dry or wet. Like HEC Canyon, which I still haven’t read about.

Hucka D.:

All centers around Rubi. Even when none of the [Baker] family lived there… here. Because we still live here, right? Last time I checked.

Edwardston R.:

Yes, because my house has not been deleted.

Hucka D.:

Good enough. Baker b. plans to set the land for sale soon, perhaps today. And he told me you’re okay with this.

Edwardston R.:

I suppose.

Heck’s Canyon.

Buses, Boats, Bibles, Butterflies, Beads, Bends, Bugspikes and Beards

Edwardston R.:

Hucka D., do you know this Nish Mip?

Hucka D.:

Yes, she is an explorer friend of Baker Bloch’s. Former friend… I don’t think they’ve communicated in years. Baker Bloch use to have a number of SL explorer friends but they, one by one, gradually dropped by the wayside as all moved on from Second Life and into real life or else other fake lives, or a combo of both. Another prime example would be Headburro Antfarm, who was also a friend of Nish Mip’s. You should study Antfarm’s work as well.

Edwardston (still reading Heterocera related posts):

And I see Heck’s Canyon has direct ties to Corsica continent. It is equated with the Valley of Nye, the huge, hypothetical ocean gorge that separates Corsica from Nautilus continents. Baker’s square Edwardston Station Gallery in the sky, the archetypal cube, peers down into it like a giant eye. Thus Eye of Rye. And appropriately the cube is the same as Jasper County, Illinois, and Jasper is the first name of Jack Daniels, whose namesake company just put out an unaged version of a rye drink.

Hucka D.:

You are becoming more and more like baker b.

Edwardston R.:

Maybe. (pause; still reading) Now I’ve come to the literature about the Pond District black hole, Hucka D. That’s another directly link with Corsica… literally, because the hole connects the center of Heterocera’s Pond District with Corsica’s Bracket sim and Comma Islands. I have done my homework!

Hucka D.:

Impressive. (pause) Too impressive?

Edwardston R.:

Now I have to understand about this King and his Queen in Ratcliff, Pond District, and their All White Horses shop in the downtown area.

Hucka D.:

It’s all a downtown. But… yes. You do.

Edwardston R.:

Bracket Jupiter is of course the King of the Stans, and his Queen there is the Brackage Queen. He just saw a picture of her in the art gallery on the mountain where his castle use to exist. Question: Is this the same as the King and Queen of Ratcliff?

Hucka D.:

A question to be asking.

Edwardston R.:

That is a central issue, and one I must confer with Bracket about. Is there any way to properly meet him?

Hucka D.:

There’s always collage.

“A” is Mount Pond;”B” is Baker’s new 512 parcel; “C” is what Hucka D. claims is The King’s old shop in Ratcliff, which he has just now identified by name (“All White Horses are One White Horse”, which the locals, again according to Hucka D., most frequently shortened to “All White Horses”); and then “D” is the site of the miniature city of New Gummton on the shores of Lake Sesia.

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December 4, 2013 · 7:11 pm

Tile Enttered Heer.

(continued from)

Chatters…

Hucka D.:

Yes. Thanks in turn. Eye of Rye perched on the edge of the Valley of Nye, peering down into it almost. No, make that definitely. An eyeball on the edge. Chasm Deep turns the other direction.

http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2010/oldsarum/comments.html

Forward or true eye finding another reverse or “backwards” eye in a hole or chasm. True relation of sight and sound revealed; tile enttered heer.

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December 4, 2013 · 2:23 pm

“This…

… is a very important post, Hucka D.

E(le)phant’s Trunk

Brackeet Jupiter:

The elephant is Corsica. Good evening to you baker b. Pleased to be here with you on your Baker Bloch Blog.

INSERT: PICTURE OF ORIGINAL SIZE HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE (MOUNTAIN) AND EDITED HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE (HILL).

Blue Feather Gallery updates

Bracket Jupiter:

Mobius. Moebius.

I am going to make a second stab.

bb:

Good for you! You are working hard instead of hardly working.

—–

Bracket Jupiter:

And that’s it (!) I’ve read all the Baker Blinker Blog posts on Corsica. Shouldn’t be too difficult.

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December 3, 2013 · 8:00 pm

Which came first?

Eye of Rye and Chasm Deep Sink (Rye of Eye?)

Then below we have the outline of the Chasm Deep sim (orange) superimposed on the Eye of Rye picture, with the alignment between the 2 locations in place still. Remarkably, the 2 highlighted sims of each picture, Nostrilia (red) and Chasm Deep, turn out to, in essence, share the same diagonal (pink), *and*, moreover, intersect each other in such a way as to form a square whose sides are precisely *2/3rds* the length of the associated sims.

Because of this fact, the interference pattern can be easily broken down into a grid of squares 1/3rd the length of a sim. A 3×3 example of such squares making up the Nostrilia sim is shown below.

The Baker family believes this is a representation of 2 eyes focusing, one the Eye of Rye itself, and the other Chasm Deep Sink, peering in the opposite direction, as it were.

The implications here could be far reaching. Far reaching indeed.

Is it strange that I read this today after I just wrote the spanking new VWX Tower (constructed the night before) is *2/3rds* of a sim long?

House Greenup

Edwardston Resident seems to have temporarily left VWX Town and struck out on his own. He left behind the moebius triangle Edwardston Resident – Confluence Ballerina – Falmouth Figure. Correction: I don’t think Edwardston has left VWX Town, but he’s just out exploring now. Same seems to go for Bracket Jupiter, another new resident, and newly resurrected as well. He identifies with Jack as The Devil from the end of The Shining, with judgement trumpet blowing next to him. He is in virtual paradise in this town. Yet he is bitter because of the circumstances of his death, and blames community owner and leader Baker Bloch. He has stated a desire to live in Billfork, and Baker has accommodated Bracket as best as possible and set up House Greenup back in Asha. The 2004 Greenup series is all about Billfork. Bracket will use the gallery, not present in VWX Town, as a 2nd home on the Corsica continent. He has been studying this continent lately, reading through the appropriate parts of the Baker Blinker Blog. He’s thinking of writing a history of Corsica, which seems intimately connected to Heterocera in my interaction with it down through the years now. Corsica’s Asha plays a role there as well. Bracket is returning the family to this power spot. He is attempted redemption.

Greentop.

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December 2, 2013 · 7:58 am

About

For a bit, all the Baker family avatars were spread out from each other, exploring different parts of Second Life. For Baker Bloch, an attaction became some small islands at the eastern edge of Sansara’s Sea of Secundus.

He notes the similarity between the design of the evil eye he finds there and the croppie beer logo found on the 1st Falmouth collage. This is indeed *awareness*.

Bracket Jupiter, in the meantime, was bumming around his old hangout, the Bracket sim’s Magicland. This was the site of the village he presided over as King of the Stans, with his former castle towering over it to the southwest.

He inspects an art gallery now found on his old castle’s mountain, and immediately stumbles upon 2 works by a person named Bracken. He understands the synchronicity.

Bracket is not pleased how the top of the mountain has been redesigned. He deems it artificial and forced.

Returning to VWX Town, Bracket confers with Cardboard Derek Jones about the possibility of moving back to Corsica, perhaps Asha. He explains that Baker Bloch is attempting to set up the true House Greenup there. C.D. seems very excited; Bracket Jupiter has become his new BFF.

Bracket Jupiter inspects the location of a former rival Corsica castle. This would be in Fisher Rigg, talked about some on the old Baker Blinker Blog (LINK). The town has since been basically derezzed. Bracket doesn’t miss it, and tried to destroy it himself several times with his fleet, or so he claims.

A new city has sprung up close to the old location of Fisher Rigg. Bracket comes away not too impressed. Not even worthy of an invasion, he thinks.

But Asha could be different…

“Corsica is an elephant.”

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May 12, 2013 · 9:06 am

I can wait.

Forgot I had this little bit of mainland property left.

Baker Bloch use to live next to this now *almost* barren mountain in Ephant on the Corsica continent. 1 tree left!

But it’s to the Nautilus continent below Corsica that I’ll probably return in early to mid- July. The first picture above is from Lower Austra, which I wrote some about in early 2012 on the old blog. The Mysten town is still there, perhaps mysteriously so because it seems to contain no activity at all these days. A dead berg. All my structures in the general region have been deleted save the one pictured at the top of the current post, or what Baker Bloch sits inside of. Philo is really no more… nothing is really no more for me in terms of Second Life.