Category Archives: Heterocera

abandoned most of his mainland property in VWX Town, Philudoria, keeping only the bulk of Westside. He also has both pieces of rental property there. As I’m checking now, it’s still 6144 square meters of property remaining in the “town”, but since Central is gone one cannot say a town really exists there now. This saved me 32 dollars of tier for November, funds I can use to buy property later on when winter arrives, if desired. I’m looking toward Jeogeot again, perhaps. Still quite a wide variety of interesting possibilities, but probably not VWX Town size possibilities.

Abandoned land ho.

Second Life neighbor has pulled up stakes and left, with her parcel up for sale. VWX Town down 1 resident out of 2 actual residents. Kind of sad; never met the avatar, but I appreciated her support of my city for sure. Makes me think the end is not far for VWX Town itself.

Land prices are going up and up on Second Life mainland. Will have to rent most likely to survive. Have, let’s see, about 3 more weeks to decide before the next tier payment. What reasons do I have for sticking around?

… I’ll simply make the Rubi Forest my home. So says Baker Bloch, 10/12/13.

In “Real Life”, I’ve just completed taping another carrcass (Carrcass-8) and will perhaps complete Carrcass-9 by next weekend. Definitely entering another strong period of such creation, to add to Real Life hiking. I’m still behind with text generation for Sharieland related posts, and I have more photos in the queue to be added to the blog with more to come next week. Exciting time of year. I probably shouldn’t have kept VWX Town for October but I just couldn’t bear to delete the thing. Maybe some more stories will come out of it after all. Maybe another town meeting. But the focus now is on carrcasses and hiking for certain.

bb:

I don’t think I’ll ever have an attraction like this to another virtual reality, Hucka. Second Life was so perfect for me at the time. Others are more “games.”

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I don’t think Hucka D. is around tonight.

The Table:

Protect The Table. Me.

bb:

Are you the table in The Church of The Diagonal?

The Table:

Set it up. Pool.

bb:

The Diagonal is the most important new development for me in Second Life this year. My Second Lyfe.

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I have VWX Town for another month now.

Hucka D.:

Good. Too much information to leave behind. I understand.

bb:

Carrcass-10 [or whatever] is steaming along now. Using artists I hadn’t before, with a new appreciation coming into play perhaps.

Hucka D.:

You see the end now. Of the present system.

bb:

Yeah, I suppose. And then I’m hiking, of course, and generating photos from all that. Exciting time of the year!

Hucka D.:

Where to put your priorities? You don’t have to rush with VWX Town now. Explore Heterocera more. It’s not quite dead. Pepper is center.

bb:

Brought forth from the edge to the center, passing between Greenup on one side and Yellow Down on the other side. Brown log equals Brownie, now known as Dark Space. Pepper was pulled through Dark Space from the edge to move to the center. This must be important.

Hucka D.:

Important must this be.

bb:

What is the meaning?

Hucka D.:

Study Pepper. I’m here to help. Make Pepper a link there.

bb:

How ’bout here[ instead].

Hucka D.:

Good. Let me look over your shoulder and study it.

bb:

You’ll have to get a stool.

Hucka D.:

Of course. (pause) Where’s our stool again?

bb:

Never mind, I’ll lower myself down so that you can see.

Hucka D.:

Thanks. (pause as Baker lowers and adjusts for comfort) I see that…

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bb:

Actually the post is here, Hucka D. I’ll just give the link in full and let the blog do the work…

Giving It All Back…

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And here’s the actual, direct link to the Sgt. Pepper symmetry information I was wanting… we were wanting.

http://invanddis.proboards.com/thread/5758?page=2

Hucka D.:

Okay, first of all Lt. Pepper spraying the pepper spray in the center of it all is the same as Sgt. Pepper.

bb:

An upgrade. Probably your line there.

Hucka D.:

He was brought forth from edge to center to match the water goddess, as hot pepper [spray] is associated with fire, the opposite of water.

bb:

Correct. So Lt. Pepper is matched or paired with the unnamed water goddess right off the bat.

Hucka D.:

And the Sgt. Pepper cover is composed of *cutouts*, just like Lt. Pepper is a [virtual] cutout.

bb:

He’s just cleaning up after the Westies and Southies after all. (smiles)

Hucka D.:

[Cutout] like Ranger Johns and Biker Jones. Like Ben Thar the attendant of your city hall. Like Cardboard[ Cutout] Derek Jones, no relation to Biker.

bb:

No, I don’t think so. So C. Derek Jones must be pretty happy that Central has been totally remodelled, and in the style of Westside with all those palm trees.

Hucka D.:

And we have a palm on the cover of Sgt. Pepper. Palms, because of the hand above Paul’s head. Another palm.

http://invanddis.proboards.com/thread/5758

Paul’s head is portrayed on the limb of a tree just as the story requires. Sgt. Pepper shows a palm tree on the far right, but as you can see in the image below, there are two palms on Sgt. Pepper. One is literal; the other is a picture pun over Paul’s head: An open hand, palm forward. The arm that holds the palm over Paul’s head may rightly be called a limb, so Paul cleverly portrays a death’s head on the limb of a palm. (To further sweeten this pun, the man’s name is PaulM).

bb:

I can’t see. You’re too low to the ground. And stop taking my computer away from me! (laughs)

Hucka D.:

Two palms, then. Like 23 and 46. Oh, did you get the number game? 4 and 20. Like Lincoln’s emancipation speech.

bb:

Um, that’s actually 4 score and 7 years ago, Hucka.

Hucka D.:

Oh… right. So 4 score x 20 is 80 years, which is the time relevant.

bb:

80 was the number of posts in the Gene Fade Mtn. rock event, Hucka. [LINK]

Hucka D.:

Central is the Sgt. Pepper album cover now. Work on that.

bb:

Well, in looking at it we *do* have the crashed and flaming car to the left, corresponding with the blue Buick nose down in the water to the left of Lt. Pepper as we’re facing him.

Hucka D.:

There ya go. That defines the limit.

bb:

There are a considerable number of Sgt. Pepper images in the Art 10×10 and the Art 10×10 extension, Hucka D. Maybe I should log on — *log* on — and take a look at them… for them.

Hucka D.:

You log on. You appear at the surface, the opening. You are at center, like your home [base/starting point] is just in front of Lt. Pepper now. So you can reach your stuff as quickly as possible. For you are Lt. Pepper as well.

bb:

Makes[ a kind of] sense.

Hucka D.:

And the nose down car of *both* Sgt. Pepper and your VWX Town — balanced by the nose of the giant, unnamed head poking through the pink curtain. Pink and blue can be seen as opposites, like girl and boy. Little Boy Blue and Little Girl Pink.

bb:

I’m going to log in and take a look around while you keep talking, Hucka D. Keep talking, though, I mean.

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bb:

I don’t know what those circling two lights are up there, Hucka.

“The [dragon] pepper exists between the Lt. and the water goddess. Both are spraying… both are emitting sprays.”

“The row boat exists about the same place as the null position on the other side of Lt. Pepper. What I mean by this…”

Hucka D.:

I know what you mean by that. Yes, the row boat is stuck, like it would be stuck at the null position where the two flows of the stream north and south, impossibly meat and cancel each other out. I’m here to help.

“First prim is directly above the null spot on the bank to the west. I’m sitting there and looking directly down at the clashing flows.”

“Then it’s obvious that the green waste pouring from the pipe on the Toxic Art Gallery — toxic waste we must assume — is the same or directly associated with the green, nuclear waste smoke coming from the reactor.”

“And this balances the volcano on the other side of Central now, with its own, similar shaped, attached building. This was kind of a conscious association when I placed the structures, Hucka.”

“The pink flamingo even balances the blue water goddess like the Buick does for the pink shrouded head.”

Hucka D.:

You can talk to any of these characters. You can call another town meeting. I’ll be most happy to attend.

A yellow cat eye stares back at Baker while he stands within Hole in the Wall. He’s been here too long. Logging out!

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VWX Town [Central] has been reborn like Sgt. Pepper equals the rebirth of the old Beatles. Replacement band.

TEXT SOON.

As of Monday, Oct. 7th I believe the newest version of VWX Town is basically complete. And… I’m ready to get rid of it now. Tier payment is due by about 3 o’clock am tomorrow, and I think I’ve had a really good run with the town but it needs to end. Not 100% sure of this but pretty sure still (70%?). Text generation for this post will go a long way towards a final decision. So let’s forge forward…

To start, I thought I’d show the odd 3 way water conjunction again seen in the “VWX Town: Growing Back After Being Pruned” just below…

… and then a shot of Lucky’s Magic Little World almost directly above it. Notice the arch of the tire within the waterfall matches the shape of the rainbow. In this photo they almost seem to act as a double rainbow of sorts, one light and the second dark or shadowy — or almost as if the village’s rainbow is casting an impossible shadow. One interpretation: both Lucky’s village and the waterfall are *microcosms* unto themselves, directly relatable through these 2 objects. The number of prims of each is even similar: 18 for the Lucky world, and 24 for the waterfall.

Now notice a second thing about this photo: the red doors of the building in the background, owned by my neighbor Veyoll Resident, seem to match the rectangular shape and size of the waterfall’s blue top or beginnings from this angle. So when the arches (rainbow and tire) are coordinated in size, this secondary effect also pops up. I find this also interesting because the top of the waterfall is about the only object on my land that projects into adjacent land I don’t own, an abandoned plot separating my holdings from Veyoll’s. I’m going to put forth an even odder theory about this: I think this has to do with the interaction of Veyoll and myself through the vehicle of VWX Town, which is about to terminate apparently. The blue top of the waterfall, although close to Veyoll’s land, faces away from her building still, and the waterfall itself tumbles opposite the direction of the house and toward the triple conjunction of water mentioned before. This is symbolic of the interaction, as the building is extended into the central area of the town (or the start of the central area) through the waterfall. Because the colors red and blue are involved in this interaction, as well as red doors in particular, I also think back to the twinned collages of the Gila series in the Power Tower Gowlery of VWX Town Southside: Gila 06, but esp. Gila 10 and its similar 2 red doors). I may have more to say about all that soon.

Well, if Lucky’s Magic Little World and the Waterfall-with-Tire (“Tired Falls”, actually, as I’ve called it before) are similar microcosms, then the town hall adjacent to both is probably a kind of microcosm as well. Its function, as the case with any good town hall (and faithfully carried out by Mr. Bean double Ben Thar throughout its many incarnations now), is to promote the town it represents. From its two windows one can look out on the waterfall (north view) and rainbow village (east view) both.

Let’s move to the next photo: this physical blue car *use* to be perched atop the town hall but then fell into the creek, perhaps when I rezzed Tired Falls even. If so (and if I’m remembering correctly), the falls caused the fall — interesting, once more (!). In other words, I didn’t position the car at this place in the water flow, nose down as it were. And it’s really lodged in at this position. I now think this is directly related to the giant head with the pink curtain in front of it spoken about before, nose partially exposed. More on that in a minute as well.

But here, I just wanted to point out how the curvy paved path directly on the opposite side of Lucky’s rainbow village seems to mirror the arch of the latter’s outer track. More resonance between “microcosms”, then.

Sitting in the center of the “microcosm” containing the curvy paved road, the tire of Tired Falls is *just* eclipsed by the hill topped by Lucky’s Magic World.

Baker Bloch sits on the upper porch of the newly reinstated House of Truth (sans interior decoration yet), staring across Grassy Knoll toward the Temple of TILE. Great view, and great alignment! He has to do some pondering about keeping VWX Town around in October, past the 7th when my tier payment is due again.

Top of Grassy Knoll, with DK Art’s red “Aim High” sculpture freebie and some orange butterflies. Hard to see the butterflies from this angle because the Temple of TILE’s walls are orange-ish as well. Is this super grassy knoll connected with the super famous toy avatar Grassy Noll?

Baker looks north along the central stream of the property now. Central Stream is as good a name as any, then. As you can see, there’s a lot going on along its banks now.

Below we have a lady statue holding a bowl erupting with water. She existed in almost the same spot in “old” VWX Town, before the great renovation. But she didn’t have the water pouring all over her then. The water seems to originate from her head, and then empties into Central Stream below. Is she the source of *all* water in the stream? No, since some of it comes from the pipe on the Toxic Art Gallery, which we’ll get to in a moment. Central Stream seems to flow south from the this art gallery and north from the partnering Power Tower Gowlery — this is its range. The statue of the water goddess merely “adds” to the flow coming north from the Power Tower Gowlery, as does the more blue-purple waterfall seen directly behind her in the below photo.

In fact, as Baker Bloch is studying the matter now, all 3 flows (waterfall, water goddess, Central Stream from PTG) conjunct at the same spot. Queer — didn’t really plan it that way. The water from each flow is colored somewhat different.

Perched on a smaller knoll above the conjunction is another new addition to VWX Town: a miniature village called “Lucky’s Magic Little World” in the description, created by Lucky40Resident. The little car in the picture actually circles around the hamlet at a rate of about once every 25 seconds. Inside its track are positioned 7 cottages, each a different color of the rainbow. Not coincidentally, a rainbow arches across the town’s center, complete with smiling sun, even. Lucky’s village is a true microcosm.

Baker now sits near the center of the town. Goldie has been reborn here, just across the waterfall from Lucky’s Village. But he has severly shrunk in the transition, now appearing not much larger than Baker. Or about the same size as the water goddess statue just to his side. As the case with that statue, Goldie appears not far from where he was last seen in old VWX Town, atop the Hole in the Wall bar…

… which has also returned to the reinvented town, seen behind Baker through the palms as we simply reverse camera angle away from Goldie.

Another new object: a dock walk crossing Central Stream just in front of the Hole in the Wall.

House of Truth, with a pond in front of it now. This pond compliments nearby Grassy Knoll, since they lie on either side of the terraforming range (+4/-4) of my land. I built up for Grassy Knoll, and burrowed down for the pond. Greenup/Yellow Down archetype in action again? There’s even a bunch of yellow fishies swimming around the pond to reinforce this theory.

Another new object: a giant head, not pink as this angle might imply on a glance, but simply seen through a pink curtain, with nose projecting through a bit. Connected to Noser Mill in Franklin County, Missouri then? Probably not, but no harm asking in this here blog. *But*, if so, then can Central Stream be connected to muddy Bourbeuse River similarly slicing across the length of Franklin County? A contrast might have been made between that very crooked real life river and straight-as-lace Central Stream. Noser Mill is mentioned in the wikipedia article on the subject as a particularly curvy stretch of the river, even.

Behind the unnamed head (Noser?) are Biker Jones and Ranger Johns discussing the location of VWX Town’s galleries, once more.

A giant spoon leans against Hole in the Wall now.

“Noser” in profile view, with the masking magenta curtain seen edge on.

Inside Hole in the Wall. Great view!

… be able to get out in the woods a bit today, unlike Sunday and Monday. Ailing mother needs have set me back in that department. Biological clock still readjusting.

In the meantime, here’s some pictures from VWX Town. Yeah, I decided that VWX Central, the meat of the town, should be completely redesigned if the town is to survive in any way. Almost all of its buildings have thus been deleted, and a long stream has been created connecting Southside’s Power Tower Gowlery and Northside’s Toxic Art Gallery, cutting across almost the entire length of my land.

I have only several days to decide the fate of VWX Town, as another Linden tier payment is due the 7th. Ponder ponder. Again: I will not be able to create such towns in the future, most likely. It’s really trying to survive; I can tell.

Westside, Northside, and Southside remain basically intact. Is another town meeting forthcoming?

Great little video of VWX Town by my neighbor Veyot, culled from her Veyot’s Views Tumblr site. Thanks neighbor; great work!

http://vt.tumblr.com/tumblr_mt88ywxbdE1sozjhx.mp4#_=_