“Well here we are Wheeler. Ear.”
“But it’s bar,” Wheeler stated, looking up at the sign.
“No… Ear. Like in hear. Ear is in hear.”
Wheeler puts her finger to her chin. “You’re thinking about the space. The Ear space. Like the space… well, that’s what you should be thinking about, then. You are The Musician, after all.”
Then it was back to the ledge.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Heterocera, LEA sims, Rubi, VHC City
The Musician gathering up gifts at Art Oluja’s LEA11 installation, entitled “Glass Jars.” Baker Bloch was warned about the opening of this aesthetic tour de force over a week back, but hasn’t visited the installation yet due to a lingering viral infection. New guy Musician was dispatched instead.
Um — wow! — this might take him a while.
Sticking to dry land for now, he quickly encounters a number of false windows suspended by cables surrounding an inlet of water. Water pours from the false sea depicted at the bottom of each window into the inlet, challenging us to consider the nature of reality here.
The Musician wonders what the paradoxical windows are attached to way up there, out of sight.
Sitting beside the inlet.
Standing up, The Musician falls into the water to discover more wonders. He’s entered something deep for sure! The sim abounds with life.
Amazing textures and shapes. I was studying Max Ernst a bit earlier tonight (see “What Crows See”) and this translates well into his vernacular.
The Musician then stumbles on what *might* be the heart of the exhibit: a small sea canyon filled with namesake glass jars. He discovers a sprite-like being named “secrets” holding a green scroll called “Letter from my secret garden”.
Stuck somehow on the wall beside her are many additional scrolls of different sizes and bindings, along with a number of bottles.
Since we are in a sea environment, we can speculate theses are matching bottles and messages, separated out and then arranged in this peculiar pattern for a particular reason (?) I can’t wrap my head around it tonight. I’ll have to return through The Musician another night, perhaps tomorrow. Until then!
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“Well, we finally got a roof on this old gazebo. Carrcassonne’s been sitting in the rain for quite some time now. Maybe 1/2 a year.”
“I doubt if she minded,” responds Karoz. “Being inactive and all.”
“We’re working on *that* as well,” Baker Bloch replies. “Not Perch unfortunately.”
“Oh?”
“No, Wheeler has had a talk with him. He doesn’t want to give up his independence after being removed. Eyes are picky like that.”
“At least it’s better than a picky nose.”
Baker Bloch doesn’t reply to Karoz’s weak joke but continues. “Obviously not the abberant one you found on the fake Mars… LeMars, the one that really doesn’t exist.”
“No that wouldn’t be good (for Collagesity). Must be a place you can, er, place an ad. ‘All Seeing Eye Monthly’ or something.
“Maybe. But things are changing around here. Wheeler’s seen the light. She’s been assimilated (in turn).”
“Amazing,” says Karoz back. “And I seem to not work for her. Maybe we should call it an opening for a full time position with Tom Busker. Closer to home (since I live in the mall and all). Less travel… can stay home with the pet.”
“You have a pet?” Baker Bloch asks.
“The parrot… remember?”
“I think so. The Ancient?”
“No. Just a parrot. Wheeler Wilson is doing good by her name now. TILE may move forward. Pretty sure of that, actually.”
“We’ll see how it develops,” Baker ended.
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Blue Mtn. Urban Landscape/Bigfoot (etc.) will certainly come into play very soon, perhaps this Sunday. Poison Ivy will be out in the High Country maybe by mid to late April. So little time to lose in major exploring until then. I’ve been to Whitehead Crossing quite a number of times during the warm winter and early spring. I’ll make comments on some pics I made asap. New “path” discovered which leads to interesting rock group on upper edge of Woods of Howl (or is it Woods of Hal?). Spotted girl hiking there about month and a half back. Unusual to encounter someone in the open woods and I asked her if she knew where she was, which she responded to in the affirmative. An orange dog was with her. Mossman research continues… that’s all changing as far as past mythology goes. I do not plan — I don’t think — to create a toy happening at Whitehead Crossing, despite the surface attraction. Instead I’ll be observing and occasionally taking pictures there. Bigfoot will probably remain the focus in that area. My speculation is that Bigfoot was specifically created for me by Others just for this purpose. The Bigfoot Swamp is unusually placed.
My educated guess is that I’ll procure future “toys/junk” either from flea markets or a proximate Goodwill store (right at the entrance to Bigfoot!). There is still a chance I may give up Collagesity in Minoa and rebuild in the fall. I must keep developing real life art in tandem with Second Life related art and fiction. But the Collagesity novels have been a hoot to create (!). I now call them Collagesity I II and III sometimes, but the actual names, again, are: “Collagesity 2015-2016 Winter” (C1516W), “Collagesity 2016 Later” (C16L), and “Collagesity 2016-2017 Winter” (C1617W). So the new one may be called “Collagesity 2017 Later” if it follows the pattern. I don’t plan to begin this next projected installation in the series until the early summer at the very least but who knows. Right now I’m in an in-between period, which could be a prelude for the new novel.
My gradual psychic removal from the Snowlands continues after heavy involvement in it at the end of C1617W. I will not renew my rental in its western part for another month (rented a 2048 parcel right after the completion of C1617W in early March). All my “illegal” builds, such as at Wheeler’s “Way Station”, or beside Woody’s A-frame, have been deleted in the meantime. A possibility exists to rent in Ohno on eastern side of Snowlands, but we’ll see. It will be small, probably a 512, if so.
What will Collagesity 2017 Later look like? What of the new installation of Bigfoot/Chesterton toy-junk-marble happenings? Questions that of course really can’t be answered right now. But let’s speculate anyhoot…
Bigfoot-Chesterton: the area between them, called Vincente for now LINK, is a possibility for a third perhaps smaller and more condensed (and story laden?) happening. Through it we may better piece together what the other two are about.
In Collagesity 2017 Later, we may have the return to power of Carrcassonnee, maybe in tandem with (an also transformed) Wheeler. Baker Bloch and Baker Blinker remain the powers behind the scene, however, more Bloch but also Blinker as repository of many past memories and experiences now. Bracket Jupiter may return in diff. form. I’m not sure Old Mabel and Urch/Buurb will come back. Karoz obviously will return, and perhaps will become a central character once more (he was kind of on backburner in C1617W). That’s all for now.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, BIGFOOT, Blue Mountain, Heterocera, Rubi
“So you went into the void sim to the immediate west of Mos Ainsley, then were kicked out as zero became one and ended up in Mos Ainsley instead.”
“You cannot stay in the void zone. You must return to One.”
“Tell me now this works? How is Mos Ainsley the moon to Jeogeot and how does it correlate to The Moon of Jeogeot?”
“There is a purse,” then says Karoz. “A Curse Purse. On an island. Grassy knoll nearby.”
Baker Bloch had a hunch. “Is this island the same as Muff-Bermingham?” Turns out he was correct.
—–
“Karoz, it is said that Journal 1, which may be the same as Old Mabel’s Journal *4*, is located on this Muff-Bermingham. You and Baker Blinker almost found it last November when being ordered there by Wheeler. But the great Green and White wars started on that island, er, planet.”
“Both,” Karoz clarified. “Space wars, yes. But not ‘Star Wars'”
“But this war also started here in Collagesity. When the Facets tried to forcefully get the Lucky sign from resistant Furry Karl, who then pulled out his Treeshooter, as he calls it. His gun.”
“We’re going on quite a tangent, but yes Baker Bloch. All that is correct, once more.”
—–
“Is Journal 1 the same as Journal 4?”
“You know it is (Baker Bloch).”
“Lucky, the village, is the same as the audiovisual synchronicity “Dark Side of the Rainbow.”
“You are telling the story, but, yes, as I understand it, they are the vesica piscus as one. Two Lucky villages, the circumference of the second is the center of the first. Unch lies on the circumference of the original, the one with the Lucky sign in its midst still. The second lacked the sign. The great robolution had already taken place. Treestock. ’68.”
“I don’t know what a lot of that means,” admits Baker Bloch.
“Neither do I.”
—–
“Back to Sapphire, Karoz.”
“Yes.”
“Hold on just a minute. Let’s order some coffee.”
“Sure.”
—–
“Tell me about your grandparents, Karoz.”
“You mean Sapphire’s mom and dad?”
“Yes. Do you have other grandparents? I guess on your father’s side, obviously.”
“Mossman. I am part or perhaps half moss. I know [delete name].”
“Interesting… forgot about that. Is Gene Fade your father?”
“Yes.”
“How did that work? I think I recall the Gypsies keeping him in a cellar for a play thing.”
“Haha. Yes. That was their story.”
“Such a hunk.”
“Haha.”
“Can you tell me more about the Mossmen, then, Karoz?”
“A bit. I wasn’t raised by Gene Fade, but he created me. He also created Bracket Jupiter, who was king of the Comma Islands.”
“So Gene Fade is a user. But he is a toy avatar as well.”
“He is both.” (pause)
“How can he be both?”
—–
“Back to Sapphire, Karoz.”
“*Yes* You are asking too many questions I simply can’t answer. Ask about Sapphire. The Gypsies and Gene will have to wait. Arab back to Baracuda (Karoz spells this out).
—–
Into the night they went. The Blue Feather restaurant and bar had long closed. Discussions were spiraling around the truth but perhaps not getting much closer to the center than where they began. Weary, they decided to call it quits. But first thing the next time they would speak of Sapphire and Yeot and Yd Island and how she got to Norum and what happened to her when the Lindens came and she became the Lapis and the Lazuli both.
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“I was trying to figure out which of those mounds was Meditation Knoll, Karoz.”
“Did you get it?”
“Yeah.”
“Good.”
“So to the topic of the night: Norum. You must begin to remember.”
“I remember,” says Karoz, looking at his nails. “I remember some.”
“Tell me about Sapphire.”
“Mother. Before she was Turquoise. Then she became the Lapiz and the Lazuli when the Linden Labs came and erased our Lemony ways. Norum was no more. Time passed.”
“How did you come into the, er, care of Sapphire.”
“I was given to Sapphire by the Gypsies of The Moon. Another 3-n-1.”
“What does that mean, Karoz?”
“There were 3 Gypsies who were actually one. Gypsy Rose, Gypsy Devarue, I think (sp?) and one other I can’t remember the last name of. But all three claimed to actually be this Gypsy Rose.”
“And this was on the moon of the Maebaleia or Satori continent, take your pick.”
“Yes.”
—–
“We’re going to use the Oracle, Karoz, to help us move forward.”
“Go ahead.”
—–
“Well, we know Gypsey is intimately connected to Grassy.”
“Another knoll,” Karoz responds. “Grassy Noll. Better known, hehe, as Salad Bar Jack.”
“Gypsy was his partner.”
“Yes.”
—–
“Then the Arab… Barracuda is Arab kind of sideways or backwards.”
“Right.”
“That was the ship that brought you to Jeogeot. Through the portal. 10 to 6 to 3 to 1 is the way Sapphire put it. Then you were at Mos Ainsley, the moon of *Jeogeot*. The twin to the moon of Maebaleia just as Jeogeot and Maebaleia themselves are twins. Opposites. 180 degree spins of the same 3d landmass.”
“Correct.”
“So the ship The Arab is the same as Barracuda.”
“Wilson sisters. 3 instead of 2. Gypsies.”
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This is a little different: the order of the collages in what’s now the second floor of the exhibit runs reverse from the first and the third. This was dictated by the nature of the collages themselves. More details later, but for now let’s join Baker Blinker and Baker Bloch taking a tour…
—–
“That’s Precious Snowflake at the bunny related shop in Ohno. But I wasn’t asked to be there for the photo.”
“No, that’s me,” clarified Baker Bloch to Baker Blinker while staring with her at newly place Bogota Collage 11 in Castle Jack. “The important thing to get, or overarching thing, is that *this* collage is set in Ohno on the almost extreme *east* side of Snowlands. And then the collage immediately before this, called, let’s see, “You Must Have Patience,” is based on a photo of extreme *western* Snowlands. These two act as a frame.”
“Interesting.”
“Very interesting,” Baker emphasizes. “I had a tarot reading tonight by the (new) owner of the land in that slightly earlier collage, Baker Blinker. I won’t give out the name, only say that her initials involve the same letter — like us.”
“I know who it is,” Baker Blinker declared. “I go over there too while you’re not logged in.”
“Okay — didn’t know that but okay. Back to the tarot reading: it seemed almost identical to the one our user got in real life only several days back. The question posed?”
“Don’t say it,” Baker Blinker requested.
“Alright.” Baker Bloch paused. “But do you think *they* were contacting me — us — through Second Life. Reinforcing the original answer.”
“Of course, obviously.”
“Snowlands is being cleared. I will be giving up my rental in the (extreme) western part in a little over a week. I don’t see any reason to continue my rental, despite the tarot reading next door.
“Let’s go see it,” Baker Blinker proferred. “Before the deletion. I’ll show you what I know. We’ll go, let’s say, biking (!). When’s the last time we biked together?”
“Hey Baker…” Baker Bloch began asking Baker Blinker, now staring directly at her and away from the newest Bogota collage.
“Better name this one,” Baker Blinker said before he could finish his question, making the male Baker return his stare toward it.
“Hmm, what do you suggest?”
“Bigfoot,” Baker Blinker answered without pause.
—-
“One points to the snow, the other to the big rabbit’s foot. Snowlands in toto.”
“And Bigfoot,” Baker Blinker reinforced.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Bogota, collages 2d, Cricket, Heterocera, Purden/Snowlands, Rubi, Sansara
“I’m going to walk this labyrinth every day.” Baker Blinker smirked at her husband. “*Almost* every day.”
“Let’s head over to Perch and grab some lunch, Karoz,” Baker Blinker then suggested. “Wheeler said she’d be meeting us there. It will be tough because none of us are interchangeable with each other. All three are unique monads.”
“We’ll have to reduce windows, eliminate trees, grass — the usual. Nothing beyond the capabilities of our user.”
“We’ll see,” Baker Blinker replied. She hadn’t been practicing these tricks as much as Karoz recently.
—–
“Where is she?” asks Karoz in his usual impatient ways. “New Island, pheh.”
“Why don’t you tell me about Baker Bloch’s ideas for you being a novelist while we wait, Karoz.” Baker Blinker had done some yoga in preparation for this meeting and was pretty relaxed, despite the circumstances. Maybe she can be the voice of reason tonight.
—–
But no time. Wheeler manifested behind them and took a seat. Karoz knew she’d like the one next to the wall. And next to him. “Better narrow those windows further now, Baker Blinker,” he requested. Because Wheeler certainly isn’t going to reduce hers, he thought.
—–
“Where *is* that chef Owens with our menus?” barks Wheeler. “Must be, what, 5 minutes since I arrived?” A word had hardly passed between the three since she showed up.
“It’s 3 o’clock in the morning, Wheeler,” explained Baker Blinker, already with an edge. “Skeleton crew in the middle of the night here at Perch. Your chef has transformed into a detective. Maybe out trying to solve one of the crimes you committed, haha.”
“That’s no good,” Wheeler replied, nonplussed by the female Baker’s sarcasm. “This is *my* restaurant, *my* town.” She looked at both Baker Blinker and Karoz Blogger and drew back. “Isn’t it?”
Baker Blinker was direct. “Tell us what happened in Snowlands, Wheeler, um, Wilson.”
—–
Wheeler’s secret table room had been found out by the real owner of the Way Station parcel. Objects returned to owner (i.e., Wheeler). She had to come back to Collagesity. She may have the opportunity to rent more in the middle of Inferialist, but, in truth, a disconnect of sorts has occurred between the extended Baker family and Snowlands. For now at least. Baker Bloch (playing the role of Snowmanster) also felt it wise to delete his newly rezzed home next to Woody’s on the east side of Purden Forest. So none of the family have secret dwellings in Sansara’s Snowlands region now. Oh… except one perhaps. Karoz. Perhaps this is the night Baker Blinker found out about the deep dank DARK power of Mid Hazel. This is the subject of Karoz’s projected first novel. In the future.
—–
“Alright, spill the wine Karoz and Wheeler,” she requested. “We’re all in this together. We all need to be on the same page so we can face the threat collectively. Don’t you think, *Karoz*?” Her yoga induced relaxation was wearing off, muscles tensing up once more. She was spouting reason but not in the calm manner she was hoping. Tension — why do people create it when interacting? And why do we need it *fictionally*?
—–
“‘Deep Dank… DARK'”, Wheeler states firmly. “That will be the name of the book. It will be published March 17, 2018. The day the trees died over in Rubi. The day Master Purden died between the green and the white (trees) in Snowlands. Diagonal. It will be based on The Diagonal.” She reorients her hands under her chin. “This is the only way we can be saved.”
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Heterocera, Purden/Snowlands, Rubi, Sansara
Baker Bloch’s discordant piano playing continued past Karoz’s veiled request for cessation. Message not received. Baker’s got all day to play the piano, explore old, forgotten forests, and so on, Karoz thinks. *He* has a religion to jumpstart, a wife to consider, and more. Yes, more. He must be more forthright.
On cue, Baker abruptly halted his production, mid-jangle. “You know what you need to do Karoz,” he spoke while pivoting toward the moss being, obviously somehow inspired by the cantankerous music. “Write about Chilbo. Write about how you’re different from me, Baker Blinker, Hucka Doobie even. You come after us. You come from Chilbo or at least the area. Jeogeot itself. That’s where we (separated) from [delete name] and his off-mainland roleplaying. Contact Maggie. Maybe she’ll have some ideas.”
“Novel writer?” Karoz protests, but Baker had started his infernal clanking again and didn’t hear the question. As if I don’t have enough on my plate, he then thinks, and begins to plot his escape again.
But he ended up being just that.
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Sunklands 