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SoSo Gallery containing the still evolving Embarras collage series (up to 9 now!) has been renamed The Red Umbrella, with a corresponding switch in signs.

Baker Bloch heads around the corner to check the changes out. A light rain is falling outside the gallery (!).

Then underneath mainly The Red Umbrella has formed a type of small Collagesity Underground with 7 separate rooms. Below we find Baker standing in a foggy, open area between the 2 structures of this underground, taking in the odd scenery. A pack of dogs exist here, perhaps attracted by the trash.

Strange do’in’s already within these small rooms. It’s all very much still in development, and I envision some kind of gallery eventually.

Open area from the opposite angle…

The way to the underground from the west…

…and from the east.

I do not have a name for this east-west passage through here, but in its original, undug form it was called Jack Street, because of the presence of Gallery Jack all along the northern side. Gallery Jack has since been replaced with the Toxic Art Gallery. A smaller portion of The Underground lies beneath it — 2 rooms, as opposed to 5 beneath The Red Umbrella and also neighboring Norum Gallery a bit.

Town Hall is also shaping up, a new entry point for the village.

Some of the other new things in Collagesity:

I have a new center of town…

What I plan to do is to move the art kiosk for Collagesity inside this building, located on the south end of Town Park Ridge and probably called Town Hall, and add in some more introductory material such as a town map, gallery infocubes and perhaps books/magazines and a video or videos.

Along with this, I’m starting to design a Rubi Museum chronicling my adventures within the old Sylver Forest area. I’ve described my various parcels around this region here a bit. (LINK)

It’s a shame to lose part of the Town Park but I think it had to be done in order for Collagesity to grow into what it should be. And part of that is function as a *permanent* mainland home for me and my art. Yes, I’m over 50 percent sure that I’ve stopped moving around in Second Life. I’ve returned to Rubi (or at least bordering the Rubi Forest) and that’s good enough for me. It was my first mainland home area and it may be my last.

The 1st Floor of the new gallery (SoSo) is now filled up with the collages of the still evolving Embarras series. Nowhere to go but up…

New picture projected to be used for an official town map, and located in Town Hall. What I plan to do is simply put pins with hover text on each major building to keep track of changes.

If Carrcassonne doesn’t have an eye yet…

… does that mean the oracle is inactive?

Head of Perch…

… so close (yet so far?).

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Perch:

When you finish Embarras the eye and body will come together again. Have you entered Mythos yet?

bb:

Not yet Perch. And thanks for visiting the Baker Bloch Blog.

Perch:

I do not understand.

bb:

Doesn’t matter. 🙂

Town Park revisions:

Toxic Art returns to Collagesity; Gallery Jack derezzed:

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“I’ve walked around the village now. I believe we’re going to have to hold a town meeting on the second floor of the new gallery.”

Hucka D.:

Good. What will we talk about?

bb:

The Town Park. The Toxic Art Gallery that’s at least temporarily replaced Gallery Jack as the exhibit spot for the Art 10×10. The former includes the Oblong series; the latter doesn’t. Also I can move the Waterwheel Gallery to the ground that way — there’s just enough room on the north side of town now to do so.

Hucka D.:

What will you put within it?

bb:

More collages I suppose. Ultimately. That may be another guest gallery, though, to be coupled with the already existing Norum Gallery in town.

Hucka D.:

Nice. And I hear you have some prims left.

bb:

About 450 at last count. The vegetation in the town park took up some. It’s nice up there, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

I’ve been, thank you. I saw you meditating. Sorry — saw Baker Bloch there. I meditated opposite him. We conversed about the future of the town. Much like you and I here.

bb:

Interesting. What did you two have to say?

Hucka D.:

Much the same stuff (pause).

bb:

Like what?

Hucka D.:

This and that. Toxic Art Gallery. Town Park.

bb:

Does Collagesity here have a guiding spirit?

Hucka D.:

Besides you and I, there’s Wanda again. The ballerina.

bb:

Hmm. And I suppose Cardboard Derek Jones has to return.

Hucka D.:

He and Bracket Jupiter are cooking up something. Greenup House is still way over in Asha. That’s the only series of your digital collages not represented in Collageisty, Minoa. Because Sam Parr State College didn’t hold any classes this spring, Bracket Jupiter was not able to teach his course on the Corsica continent. So he’s had some time to kill. He’s been hitting the booze a little harder than normal.

bb:

That’s a shame. Is he okay?

Hucka D.:

Cardboard’s propping him up still. Oh, and I hear Starbuckaneer Barista has returned, checking out the town map. Watch your back with her. She’s power hungry again.

bb:

I will. Will she run for mayor?

Hucka D.:

There’s always that threat.

bb:

Is she a bad influence on the town?

Hucka D.:

If she teams up with Carrcassonnee.

bb:

Who should Carrcassonnee team up with, then?

Hucka D.:

You and I.

bb:

What about Karoz?

Hucka D.:

He’s kind of displaced. He doesn’t fit in[ once more]. He’s in his limiting circle…

bb:

… still. What’s the future of Collagesity hold?

Hucka D.:

New gallery. Future collages. You have room now. Produce!

bb:

Thanks.

Looking south down Jack Street now, named for the gallery forming its entire northern border. In contrast to nearby Church Street, this one has some vegetation along the side. It’s also about twice as wide as Church. You can see the TILE Tower in the distance, not technically a part of Collagesity but certainly within its “metro region”. If you use a 128 meter draw distance like I generally do, the tower starts coming into view about 1/2way down the street. For these photos, however, I’m employing a longer 192 meter draw.

Looking north up same. Don’t know if that tombstone was once part of a cemetery. Have to think about that more, along with a possible relationship with SoSo’s grave behind TILE Chapel. It almost appears to lean against the back of Norum Gallery. Baker Bloch may establish an office in Norum’s vacant 1st floor room soon, as he did in Noru. But if he does, I think he’ll request that the tombstone be moved, along with any possible, attached corpse. He’ll also have to deal with the obviously unpleasant memories of his death via heart attach attack within the same room, albeit a temporary death. Okay, maybe this won’t be his Minoa office after all. 😮

Hucka D.:

The grave of Iva Ben Steppedon is also near that room. In fact, directly underneath the window in the room. Send Baker Bloch over to investigate asap. Or maybe it should be Karoz Blogger.

bb:

Thank you Hucka D.

Interior of Gallery Jack and its centering map of Jasper County, Illinois. To remind: each of the various Art 10×10 series are named for population places in or near this county, or for the county itself. In chronological order, these are Greenup, Rose Hill, Yale, Newton, Oblong, Hidalgo, Wheeler, and then Jasper. As I said before, only the Greenup and Oblong series are not represented within Gallery Jack.

Also in Minoa’s Collagesity is found the House of Truth, another virtual village staple of mine.

Now it contains a very nifty view into the Great Rubi Forest through a transparent wall on its second floor. I’m sure Baker Bloch is planning to spend some time here just thinking and pondering and enjoying virtual life.

Collagesity looking from the southeast now. I’ve turned on some additional shadings for the 2 above photos and also the remaining snapshots of this post.

Sam Parr’s Diana statue. We can now see she’s aiming her arrow directly at a town busker, yet another Noru carryover and a GUI-tarist named Tom Joe if I recall correctly. Maybe he can deflect arrows with his guitar, if it comes to that (it won’t come to that).

A look north up Flower Avenue toward an as yet unnamed gallery I haven’t mentioned before, containing the new and still burgeoning Embarras collage series. Can’t wait to see how that develops.

And lastly we visit Town Park in Collagesity’s northeast section, which I worked on a couple of hours last night.

Baker approves!

I’ve been working on shaping up Minoa’s Collagesity next to the Great Rubi Forest for several days now. I may have reached a point of relative stability with the creation of a small but pretty cool Town Park. The railroad is gone, true, but all in all I believe that the Minoa version of Collagesity is on even keel with Noru’s version now. Let’s take a peek, shall we?

We’ll start with a map… Because I’ve been generating so many collages in the past several years, the galleries holding them now dominate the town. The axis for both Noru and Minoa Collagesity remains the Power Tower Gowlery and, especially, the more recent Falmouth Gallery containing the still quite unique Falmouth series of 61 collages. Beside this comes the Sam Parr *Library* and Gallery holding the last collage series I created in September, when I was still in Noru. There it was projected to be the Admin Building of Sam Parr State Collage, along with acting as a library and gallery. What’s the status of the college? I think it’s dead in the water presently, especially as I’ve begun a new collage series beyond Sam Parr as of a couple of weeks back, represented by what I’d number as 6 healthy art works already. If there is a college still to be created (and ex- Sam Parr State College president Karoz Blogger is still desiring such), it will probably be centered around Falmouth, and thus possibly called Fal Mouth College. A direct connection with Whitehead Crossing’s hypothetical Falmouth Castle is still implied. I’ve been thinking of WH X-ing quite a bit lately, but I’m not sure it will be a Spring hiking focus still. My back is basically healed up — excited to get *back* out there in the woods soon!

The Power Tower, Fal Mouth, and Sam Parr alignment follows the eastern border of the town (east is at the top in the below map). The next largest building in town is probably Gallery Jack, holding 6/10ths of the Art 10×10, the long term collage work that predated Gilatona-Lis (Power Tower) and Falmouth (Fal Mouth). Beyond my original Greenup series from 2004, the only digital collage series I’ve created not represented in a current town gallery is the Oblong series from 2007, which I still consider a peak creation. I’ll attempt to rectify that gap soon. But back to the map… let’s just examine some of the streets…

We start at the west end of Church Street, named for the TILE church or chapel whose entrance is off of it. Flat Ebbe Linden, now raised to a vertical position, acts as a greeter to Collagesity from this direction. To the left is the red bricked Norum Gallery, still holding the collages of Julie Sadler. She’s changed her name since I first created this gallery in 2010 in Sunklands’ Pietmond but I always forget exactly what it is. Besides, Sadler is a map synchy name, and remains relevant because of it. In GNIRPS (map database), Sadler is connected with “*Gray*son” and “South” (Texas and Kentucky), as explained here and here a bit. The South’s Scarlet O’Hara has been included in a recent collage as well.

To the right in the below photo is the TILE Chapel, I believe I’ll call it…

… another carryover from Noru’s Collagesity and still with the All Knowing and Wise Cracking Carrcassonnee strategically positioned within. Big Carr has been pretty silent lately, but I’m sure now that Collagesity has been rebooted she’ll have her opinions about its future. Baker just has to tune his Big Ear into the information. Additional note: I’m not sure the TILE Chapel is now connected to Sam Parr State College, as it was in Noru. Again, we’re awaiting news about Karoz Blogger before debating the school’s status further.

A right turn takes us down Flower Avenue, perhaps the prettiest of Collagesity’s several lanes. It leads directly to the town diner, also found in Noru and containing the same objects within basically, including Head of Perch. More on that particular subject soon, I’m assuming.

Town Diner interior, 2nd Floor

The grave of the mysterious entity known as SoSo is found in back of the TILE Chapel. The purple thing on the church’s roof with the light bulb head is a new addition to my virtual towns. Welcome to Collagesity, er, “Little Climbing Light”! (as I’m reading its name inworld).

Nice! As I’ve just checked, LCL’s creator is Agnes “Charlie” Sharple. I’ve also just visited her shop at Hugo Chavez Plaza and procured quite a few more freebie creations. Thanks Charlie!

Interesting juxtaposition of Collagesity structures from the grave site.

Looking east toward Sam Parr Library and Gallery. Or should that be Gallery and Library? Anyway, Diana the Huntress still points her bow and arrow directly away from it and down a small lane I’m tempted to call Arrow Street.

Quite a collection of characters have assembled in The Plaza fronting Sam Parr. Animals and humans and aliens and robots and mystical beings alike.

Southern terminus of Main Way, the longest street of the town. Way in the back you can spy The Cottage positioned along its northern border.

Another Collagesity view, from over The Plaza this time. In the background you can see the side of Big Wheel Gallery, another brand new addition to my virtual villages — empty so far, however. It sits atop Gallery Jack.

2/17/15 update: This was originally called SoSo, but about a week or 2 ago changed over to The Red Umbrella, a brand new development in my virtual villages.