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New Pietmond — What Remains (etc.)

As of this writing New Pietmond is no more — for now. I abandoned all Second Life land and returned to a (free) basic membership. Hated to give up the land, but I could tell I wasn’t going to do much with it in February, especially since I’ve now completed (apparently) the Gila series, which I’ll continue to analyze today, hopefully. I tried an experiment on a super cheap parcel in Sansara Snow Land before giving up premium, with interesting result. I’ve kept a record of my brief sojourn there in the first photo below.

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Here’s a last shot of New Pietmond. Already in this picture I’d deleted half the town, however.

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What I *still* have in Second Life, among some trifles here and there, is this Rubi gallery called “Wiltshire Virtual”, that contains the Gila series along with the Baker Bloch in England exhibit. Seems like a perfect location for it.

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There’s a good chance I’ll rent land next to the snow land seen in the first photo. Interesting neighborhood — cool, virtual site. If so, I’ll be at about 20 dollars a month instead of close to 50. At the very most I would have kept New Pietmond around for another month so it was soon to go anyway. Just decided to pull the plug now and put it out of its misery. But I’m not finished with Second Life, and New Pietmond or the equivalent may return later, perhaps this summer. We’ll just see.

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Temple Dors

http://invanddis.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=5758&page=1

http://beaconfilms2011.blogspot.com/2012/01/normal-0-false-false-false-en-gb-x-none.html

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“Well, Hucka D…

“… I didn’t retreat from Marlborough and Marlborough Downs but seemingly embraced them for the next 2 collages after “Monsters”. The 7th is still a draft so far, and probably the 6th as well. But in the 6th[ of the “Gila” series], I stare into the heart of the town, perhaps a dark heart.”

Hucka D.:

You stare into yourself. You stare into the future and retirement. What will happen then? Gila knows perhaps. You see?

bb:

Yes I think so. Two paths, a brother and a sister. Both with conditions, shall we say. One, the sister, didn’t get past this alley. She stared into the future and saw the end.

Hucka D.:

Michael[ Too]’s in there as well. Smoking. He’s A. Marlborough Man too.

bb:

Half man and half rabbit. This is the alley that doesn’t appear in New Pietmond because there’s no in-depth middle between height and depth except for the X-Spot Gallery.

Hucka D.:

About at the eye level of the sink, yes.

bb:

Why did I go to the perhaps dark heart of Marlborough instead of moving away from it, back to River Key and Purton Stoke more on the edge of Wiltshire, an objective or semi-objective viewing ledge?

Hucka D.:

Already been done. You’ve already been there. As Baker Bloch.

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bb:

I’m going to copy the new collage — 6th — of the Gila series into this post. Let’s take a look. This is an alleyway in Marlborough, perhaps the tightest one. Called Ironmonger Lane. There’s one in London too, and this one probably took its name after that one[ the one in London].

Hucka D.:

You must[ find out] what happened in that lane. You cannot run away back to River Key just yet. Stare into it.

bb:

Well, there’s a white horse — 2 white horses. The top one looks more like the white horses of Wiltshire, or a typical example of such, like Marlborough’s itself. The bottom one is more of a color inversion of a real horse. They face opposite ways. Also the bottom one has a rider…

Hucka D.:

The lower one is Michael Too, don’t you think? He is A. Marlborough Man. Mann.

bb:

Let’s switch to the sunfish, also an inversion. But also the same color as the sunfish that seemed to magically appear in Sunfish, Kentucky on GoogleEarth, Hucka D. I think it is some sort of psychic collage[ there].

Hucka D.:

Yes you put it there. With your mind. (smiles)

bb:

What of the sunfish crop circles in Wiltshire this past summer? What of Sunfish Pond in New Jersey next to Yards Creek? Has to mean all something this does.

Hucka D.:

Well put. Let me see as well. The sunfish[ in the 6th Gila collage] appears to be leaving the alley to the left, which means he entered it to the right. Sunfish have a difficult time changing directions once in motion. He went in and he came out. There’s 2 turquoise doors in the alley, toward the back. You’ve retained them for the collage.

bb:

One I’ve retained, and the second may be added tomorrow from the original Brian Robert Marshall photo [LINK]. You told me to return to the Marshall photos and I did. Just not in Purton Stoke.

Hucka D.:

No. You had to get to the heart of the matter. A heart.

bb:

I’m going to leave further discusssion of[ collage #6] alone, because I don’t think it’s quite finished. Will tinker with tomorrow, perhaps.

Hucka D.:

Good. And the 7th?

bb:

Well, this is in draft form as well definitely, but it looks like Baker Bloch will be standing up to his chest in the waters of the New Pietmond labyrinth, staring toward the Rockley Mansion with added rock stackings in front. I suppose it would be equated with Solomon’s Temple in this way, because the pillars, one dark and one light or in sunlight or with the sun illuminated side facing us, would be Joachim and Boaz.

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The pillars will placed there synchronistically and not on purpose, as it were. As it is.

Hucka D.:

Ah so.

bb:

They are magical in appearance, and represent Marlborough in conjunction with the whole Marlborough Downs area. They probably represent some kind of answer to the dark heart of Ironmonger Alley.

(to be continued?)

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Related Baker Blinker Blog posts:

http://bakerblinker.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/22673/

http://bakerblinker.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/big-e-gallery-cutting-edge-01/

And maybe especially:

http://bakerblinker.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/19808/

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Temple Dors

http://cinematic.de/200-motels-frank-zappa/

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Marge Refound

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Misc. Pics

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Sunfish Smipson

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Marge Eclipsed

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“I thought…

… I’d walk the New Pietmond labyrinth each day.”

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Hucka D.:

Great idea. Dark Side of the Rainbow is the root. Power Tower in the sky. You need both. Dr. Blood or Knok will help with the big tower. That’s where The Table will be set up. Already has. But you need the temple too.

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Baker Bloch has his private office again, Hucka D. It’s pretty nice.

Hucka D.:

Pretty nice.

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bb:

He feels like he needs to deepen his connections with TILE.

Hucka D.:

Walk. Study. E. Build.

bb:

Jamie of Dark Side of the Rainbow: Art on Trial, is pulling the plug on his web site. Another one[ bites the dust]. No…

Hucka D.:

No family[ of synchers] now to support. Only you, and you and he have split already over the 3333 protectorate. He is sealed.

bb:

A kind of Sealston, eh.

Hucka D.:

Now you can begin to dissect what the protectorate is — means. It is 5 sided but maybe also 11 sided.

bb:

So like the Frank Park alien’s spaceship.

Hucka D.:

Look back on those notes. Thank you.

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Interesting that Jamie tells me he’s getting rid of his site just as the aliens show up in me life. Anger?

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Show The With On Now

“Congratulations baker b. The aliens are gone. They told me to tell you they appreciate the bugs, and the golden one was especially delightful. I think they ate them. Anyway they took their 11 sided ship and went away. Aldebaran was their next destination.”

bb:

Thanks Hucka D. That was a relief.

Hucka D.:

Don’t go near Rust Spot still, because some devizes were left behind. Devices I meant.

bb:

Okay I won’t.

Hucka D.:

Tiny Wiltshire is okay. The top of the mountain is okay. The Old TILE Road parking where you usually park is still not okay. Okay?

bb:

Got it.

Hucka D.:

Now on with the show!

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Baker Bloch, sitting in front of the newly christened Power Tower in New Pietmond, is okay with the aliens leaving.

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New Pietmond…

… suddenly becomes a contrast of extreme height…

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… and depth.

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“It is as it has to be developing. Good night baker b.”

bb:

Hi Hucka D. I’ve been thinking about your role in the blog.

Hucka D.:

I know… sacked once more.

bb:

No, not really at all.

Hucka D.:

Cut back to part time; loss of me benefits. I know. Been there.

bb:

No. I’m just wondering…

Hucka D.:

Well I’ll find another job if so. I’m warning you. You better think about what you have and start respecting it more.

bb:

Okay.

Hucka D.:

What do you have? you’re asking yourself right now most likely.

bb:

Not…

Hucka D.:

You have a friend. You have someone to talk to in the middle of the night when no-one is around and you need information and information fast. Like tonight. Ask your pertinent questions.

bb:

Ahem. [New] Pietmond has suddenly become a city of extreme height and depth.

Hucka D.:

As it should be. As it is. As it is so.

bb:

Humble or relatively humble but full of meaning temple at the bottom of the sinkhole… skyscrapers, one almost impossibly high (!), all around. And the X-Spot Gallery bridging the two as it were, as it is.

Hucka D.:

As it should be and is and was and will be. All past present future. Mixed up.

bb:

What do thse 2 realms, these opposite realms, mean?

Hucka D.:

You need a center. You worry about balance and probably rightly so, although things are getting better. Balance, baker b. Balance.

bb:

Klutzy Kamper had his center… has his center, for he’s still around of course. Living, I mean.

Hucka D.:

He was and is and will be Superman.

bb:

My center seems to be the Big E or Big Schwa, take your pick.

Hucka D.:

Yes. The Bottle.

bb:

The Bottle at Kentucky is truly this Big E shattered?

Hucka D.:

Yes. Terrarium. Was key. Is and will be key.

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bb:

I must obviously think of Kentucky and the Bee Line once more, then.

Hucka D.:

End.

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X Spot Gallery reopens…

… featuring collage works by Kollage Kid and also Julie Sadler, two classic Pietmond exhibitors.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sikkima/214/163/92

X Spot represents 1 of 2 remaining functional New Pietmond galleries, along with the Sink Lair. A 3rd gallery, Gallery Jack, is still empty. I have over 1100 prims currently to work with on new projects. Super excited! New Pietmond has definitely moved beyond Pietmond, for better or worse.

Newest New Pietmond map with basically empty center (compare with here):

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15 minutes worth of deletion time…

… and Baker Bloch has just freed up 1084 1117 prims for future construction in New Pietmond, as the whole core of groundside is no more.

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Satisfied Baker resting in the X Spot Gallery lounge.

What’s left:

X Spot Gallery (still partially empty)
Gallery Jack (still entirely empty)
Tower of A. Mann
Kidd Tower (by default this becomes the new center of town)
Sink Lair Gallery
Home o’ Fibs
House of Truth
2 Falls structures (cleaned out supermarket, and shed)

What’s gone:

Stairs Gallery and Stairs Gallery Annex
Slipper Gallery
SoSo Gallery
Big E (groundside)
Cherry And/Or Berry Gallery
Garages 01 and 02
Rose Cottage
Hole in the Wall
Big Boy Tower
Temple of TILE

Some final shots from the old New Pietmond:

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