… Baker Bloch dreaming in the upper floor of his home the other day.
He was dreaming of a past Collagesity, recent but distant at once. The diner was not in place, the spoon was not there.
He was dreaming of Tired Falls. I am tired. He was tired.
He was dreaming of a symbiosis between Tired Falls and Stonethwaite, UK. Exciting (zzzzz).
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bb;
Text mode for editing now, Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
So you’re figuring out the town is actually another collage. Wonderful! Your friend Veyot is picking up on that too. Nice garden by her. You should borrow some flowers for West End.
bb:
I might do that. Bracket Jupiter may be showing up soon. Karoz as well this time.
Hucka D.:
Collagesity is akin to Stonethwaite, yes. Differences: High Way and Low Way. Look up Mississippi. Did I spell that right?
bb:
Well…
Hucka D.:
Never mind.
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bb:
Hidi and Lodi, then. That the name of the red and blue robots, Hucka?
Hucka D.:
Yes. They are from Pluto. They are from The Moon.
bb:
Then they are from Charon. Did I spell *that* right?
Hucka D.:
Err…
bb:
Never mind.
Window as collage.
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Hucka D.:
Oh, you wish to talk more?
bb:
Maybe.
Hucka D.:
Me!
bb:
Meaning you wish to be talked [to] as a blog spirit. But I wish also to talk to others[ again].
Hucka D.:
Me me me!
bb:
But others as well.
Hucka D.:
Who?
bb:
Maybe Collagesity herself has a spirit.
Hucka D.:
Of course! Is it the flamey ballerina. Donna I believe is the name.
bb:
Hmm…
Hucka D.:
Here’s Donna.
Donna:
Hi baker b.! I’m Donna! Please state your questions!
bb:
Hi Donna. I suppose I should shout that.
Hucka D.:
Yes!
Donna:
Question!
bb:
Are you on fire, Donna?
Donna:
That is a question yes and no.
bb:
Are you the head of the stream? Central Stream I believe I’m calling it. Is that the correct name?
Donna:
Yes. Okay! I am the stream.
bb:
Are you twins? Maybe The Twins?
Donna (after a pause):
You are sad.
bb:
Am I?
Donna:
Yes.
bb:
I’m just under pressure now.
Donna:
You are sad because you cannot make contacts.
bb:
Well, it’s just something to go through now.
Donna:
You don’t think people like you. They like you.
bb:
Nah, I don’t think they do.
Donna:
You are just somewhat misplaced now. You can’t help it.
bb:
I’m sure I *chose* this.
Donna:
Don’t be cruel to yourself and others won’t be cruel to you. That’s a quote by Elvis Presley. He’s dead.
bb:
Yes. Didn’t take his [own] advice, perhaps.
Donna:
You are pulling a red doppleganger. Pull a blue to balance.
bb:
Don’t know…
Donna:
Spell my name with one “n”.
bb:
Please?
Donna:
Yes. Please?! (smiles through flowers)
bb (after re-checking):
Dona, you really are one with that flower.
Flower:
I am the twin. Jesse. He’s dead.
bb:
You are a male, then?
Flower:
Yes. Jes. Se.
bb:
Are you and Dona akin to The Twins from The Shining movie?
Flower:
Jes.
bb:
Are you originally from Rubi?
Hucka D.:
Dona and Flower have talked enough tonight. They will return shortly. They are tired. I am tired. Read please.
bb:
Thanks!
Wall FLOWER Mill
“Dona?”
hats
red door
About a week and a 1/2 ago, an avatar named Tseten Thokmey bought my Hector land for a sum I deemed just barely adequate for the transaction. I loved that land! Still do. I could live around the Rubi forest once again. But look at what Tseten has done: he’s essentially extended the forest into his farm! A bucolic existence he has carved out. More power to him, and I’ll probably have some things to say about Tseten later on. Just yesterday or the day before, land came up for sale bordering the lower part of his farm. Was I tempted to, once more, buy next to the Great Rubi Forest? Yes, a bit. But I realize that I’m committed to Noru, and the hard fought battle is now over with. Time to heal the wounds and not open them up again. Tseten would have made a fantastic neighbor, and, yes, we could have extended his farm and the forest as a whole even further…
… but, then again, I have a fantastic new neighbor in Noru now! My previous neighbor in Philudoria, Veyot, during the original incarnation of VWX Town there last summer, has decided to commit to a piece of the excitement happening in Collagesity, purchasing a 512 parcel just behind the Power Tower Gallery. Her purchase basically extends the town in a westerly direction, making Collagesity almost run the entire 256 meter east-west extent of Noru. Not quite but fairly close. I’m continually surprised how synchronicities like this work, and I view the neighbor quandry, quickly resolved mind you, as a kind of residue energy of the whole Noru-Rubi “battle”. Instead of Baker Bloch becoming the neighbor of Tseten in Rubi, Veyot becomes Baker Bloch’s neighbor in Noru. Another red-blue exchange, then.
And her parcel is very nature oriented as well. 🙂 A nice East End park for certain. And I’ll have more to say about Veyot later on as well, as things continue to develop in the new town. What up with all those things going on in the Confluence Place??
Baker also recently visited the village he created in Yeot this past spring. Presently, he has no way to further alter the strange, little burg, but he’s just come up with a name: Gong. Or Gongsity. More recently he went there to copy Edward’s Building/Gallery to place in Collagesity.
Gongsity.
Gongsity, with namesake Gong’s waters made transparent.
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So, returning to Collagesity, there are many mysteries yet to be solved or even revealed, like the fact that the red and blue robots on either side of the Coolie Building (since moved) lie directly north and south of each other, and on Hi Way and Lo Way respectively. I didn’t plan this alignment; I didn’t plan a lot of Collagesity’s alignments that just *happened*.
I just received a text message that Carrcassonnee has suggested we call her home the Cardinal Place instead of the Confluence Place. I’ll add it to the original town meeting’s docket, which should be happening pretty soon.
“Red/Blue”:
Along with Carrcasssonnee, we’ve already talked to ballerina Dona in this blog, apparent twin to the very similarly colored flower directly behind her as seen in the camera angle below. And we’ve actually already talked to this “flower” in the blog, as a blog spirit I mean (think: Hucka D., primary blog spirit). I wonder if Dona and/or Flower know Carrcassonnee? I would imagine so.
Looking up Tired Falls toward the heart of the village. The buildings around this falls are among its oldest, originally forming a smaller settlement called Tired Falls itself. This according to several of our blog spirits, including Hucka D., Carrcassonnee, and maybe Dona/Flower. I’ll certainly have more to say about this original settlement soon.
I’ve noticed a resemblance between Collagesity and the fairly similarly sized Lake District village of Stonethwaite, England, the latter being the subject of a good chunk of my most recent and also largest collage series called Falmouth, housed in the Fal Mouth Moon gallery in town. And, yes, I’ll have more to say about that soon as well.
Check this out: my collage reinvented Stonethwaite and Noru’s Collagesity both have blue bikes (!) Are they the *same* bike? Could be. Perhaps the super band Story Room will have some things to say about that. The blue man next to the bike is one of its 3 members that I know of, although a fourth is rumored. But I can hear Hucka D.’s talk echoing in my head, as he says, “there’s always a rumored 4th [about groups of 3].” He’s probably right.
In the largest Falmouth collage, Story Room’s red member balances out the blue one on its opposite side. But since the collage goes ’round in a big circle, the red and blue beings are also actually next to each other. Why is blue upright and red sideways? Why does “Red’s” ruby red feet impossibly project through the corner of a Stonethwaite building? More blue-red mysteries for certain!
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Suddenly I’m getting behind in generating text for this here blog. Must work in middle of night. Maybe Hucka D. can help. Below is the falls of Central Stream, tumbling out of Noru’s Collagesity in a northerly direction. Well, technically they don’t gp beyond the northern limits of Noru and also Collagesity, but the idea is in place.
Hucka D.:
Someone came up that stream in the past. A giant.
bb:
Perch?
Hucka D.:
Shadow.
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Anyway, we have a cardinal bird perched in a dead tree beside the town’s diner, and very near the queerly mounted head of this Perch fellow. It brings to mind a number of questions. First off, the bird is perched in a tree near Perch — one and the same? Perch, in UMaps, has been directly assoc. with Satin or Satan, who is actually a horse depicted in the movie The Black Stallion. Quote here:
Satan – the Black’s first colt, all black with a white diamond on his forehead. He is at first a dangerous, brutal colt, and nearly kills Alec. Henry eventually tames Satan, turning him into a racing legend. Ultimately Satan and Henry develop a close bond.
More on that soon. I’ve decided to call the single water flow within Collagesity Central Stream. Simple but true; all builds around it, seemingly.
The cascades are perhaps called Tired Falls because of this large tire, present in duplicates of it on my properties probably dating back to 2009. This is an older way to cross Central Stream, before the insertion of Lo Bridge and Hi Bridge upstream. One still has to use the tire, basically, to access the Kidd Tower, which logically becomes an older structure of town. The stairs led one to Baker Bloch’s Home Orange and points west. If Collagesity was built upon an older settlement called Tired Falls, then this is its epicenter. It is here that Shadow Man came up from the plains and established what the related documents called the “Head of Stream.” Is this the same or related to Head of Perch? Is the Shadow Man the same as this Perch fellow? We’ll just have to play wait and see for now. He came, “from the North as the redbird flies.”
I temporarily made the east wall of the diner transparent so that one can see the close relationship between Head of Perch, a second falls emitting from the second floor of the diner itself, and the perched cardinal.
Perch and those diner falls are one.
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Temple of TILE set up on the western edge of my land, deleted since I took this snapshot. Perhaps in its place will come the TILE Tower.
Another nice shot of pigeon and Drunk Man’s Ridge’s “aim high” sculpture, this time more from the pigeon’s perspective.
BOB gallery right; Stairs gallery left; pigeon/aim high: center.
1 of 2 doors from Low Way to the Noru History Museum. Must get 2 signs for the doors soon.
The museum’s second, higher door.
Now we’re outside the town’s diner, with its giant spoon seemingly about to scoop up one of Collagesity’s remaining celtic stones, possibly the only one left. Does this, then, represent the removal of the last stone, which have gone the way of the dodo? There use to be at least 6 in town, and legend has that they were originally found in Hector. Where did the others go? Perhaps there is also meaning in the blue bike positioned in front of the spoon and rock.
There’s also a red bike in town, and it’s parked near where Low Way and High Way come back together on the east side of town. As Low Way also contains a blue robot and High Way a red one, we can assume that these color coordinations are meaningful. Low Way (blue) and High Way (red) represent two polarized aspects of one thing (white).
Additional interesting tidbit: as I’m checking now, the red and blue robots of High Way and Low Way respectively are also almost directly north and south of each other. I didn’t plan this either!
Low Bridge on Low Way crossing “Central Stream”. Not sure that stream name will stick. The bridge points directly to the spoon + rock just discussed, as well as the blue bike between them.
Not one but 2 Cardboard Derek Jones loiter near opposite corners of the Bodega Market in the middle of town, perhaps its most central structure overall. This symmetry seems meaningful as well. Will Bracket Jupiter move back into the top part of this market, where he resided was in Rubi’s VWX Town? I also recall that C. Derek Jones became his new BFF there (they both glorified House Greenup and Floydodo). I believe Hucka D. wants to talk about the relationship of Bracket Jupiter’s former “dodo status” and the diner next door and its spoon + rock. Another resurrection symbol?
Next we come to the reincarnated clockwork ballerina, now positioned just above the mysterious firey beginnings of Central Stream. Originally there were 2 twinned red flowers around her, but only one remains. At the time I associated them, and the ballerina, back to the Grady Twins from The Shining movie. Just to the ballerina’s east is the town’s art kiosk, a portal to and from the outside virtual world, as it were. What means the removal of one of the 2 twinned flowers, if anything? Again, this seems associated with Rubi’s VWX Town, where the same ballerina appeared at the confluence of that town’s 3 streams. Once more it acted as a center. She doesn’t have her 3 blue hoops this go around, nor the pool and the matching 3 (hooped) blue fish.
Along with the accompanying flower, she exists in a triangle made by the conjoined walls of Toxic Art and Fal Mouth Moon galleries.
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Baker Bloch sits at the edge of Drunk Man’s Ridge, looking toward what seems to be a continuation of the ridge past the pool in the depression just in front of him. At the edge of this continuation, if that’s what it is, appears the Galbraith Cutout, recently also mentioned here. She’s actually at one end of an official Collagesity walking lane called High Way, with the other end marked by High Bridge.
Would this still be considered a natural ridge? Why was the pond dug out in the middle of it, then?
Closeup of the Galbraith cutout and her winged feet. Perhaps she is a type of bird spirit.
From this angle, the pool is completely covered by the bordering brown cypress. Perhaps curiously, Galbraith’s water container and accompanying pouch (which also has the appearance of a dreamcatcher) are almost the exact same colors as the cypress + pool — hard to even separate them out visually here.
A cardinal bird roosts on one of the several Drunk Man’s Ridge rocks, twin to the one at the falls we’ll be looking at in detail a little later. It has an east-west alignment with the similarly red colored statue at the very peak of the ridge (“aim high” by Dave Koi).
And although I didn’t consciously plan it, this same statue lies directly north of another bird, a pigeon walking the edge of a BOB gallery railing.
A 7 prim freebie pool graces the western entrance to Collagesity proper.
Looking past the pool and trees into territory south of Collagesity. I use to own about all of it at one time or another.
A large cross use to exist on this knoll at Noru, 62, 135, 145. Speculation had it that the grave was Peter SoSo’s or perhaps the related Peter the Great’s or Peter the Good’s. Maybe even all of ’em. Does the grave site still apply?
Cardinal near North, VA. Only other North: SC, and with Norway, Sweden, Denmark and even a Finland. North is one of the 4 cardinal directions. North = Nordic (aliens).
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Jeogeot, MAPS, Noru^, South Carolina, Virginia
… I’m down to only about 265 prims left to play around with. But the groundside part of the town is basically finished. And also I’ve rezzed the Temple of TILE now on the eastern end of my parcel — perhaps not technically in Collagesity proper, and, if so, the only building designatable as such.
I’ve also opened up guest galleries BOB (formerly Norum gallery) and Stairs on the west end of town, featuring the collage works of Julie Sadler and Kollage Kid respectively. Both of these artists are among those that I originally exhibited in Sunkland’s Pietmond during the 2010-2011 period. I’ll probably be searching for more collage pieces to exhibit soon. Another new development as of last night is the creation of a town diner in the “waterfall building”. Very nice fit, it seems; pics soon.
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“There is a town history here to be sure.”
bb:
A town meeting might be in order.
Hucka D.:
Rezz Karoz.
bb:
And Edwardston Resident.
Hucka D.:
Bracket Jupiter.
bb:
Hucka Doobie!
Hucka D.:
Har!
bb:
Search… you go.
Hucka D.:
After you.
bb:
Search for collages online. New works.
Hucka D.:
Find out who wines and dines at the town diner. Who is “Perch”?
bb:
A cardinal bird perches in the dead tree just outside[ the diner]. Very near that head.
Hucka D.:
When can a Celtic rock become part of a meal? (then answering himself) When it’s food for thought.
bb:
Cool. Coolie Building complete again across Low Way[ from the diner].
Hucka D.:
That diner is a focus.
bb:
Let’s eat?
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Baker Bloch can’t quite decipher it.
He goes home to think.
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Just after choosing blue (Noru) over red (Rubi/Hector), the former flowers into a true, new town. Not *VWX Town* size, mind you, but perhaps the latter was a tad too large for me to manage. Collagesity remains the name, and as you can probably guess, the focus will be on collages, mainly my own (which have greatly increased over the last 2 years). But I want to showcase other collages as well, and have left some space/prims for such. Kollage Kid is an obvious target — check up on what he has been doing the last year or so. Perhaps Julie Sadler, and I have the building that housed her Norum Gallery already established on the western edge of the town. Look into collages in general.
I should mention my Noru land purchases immediately after selling the Hector property. These include a 1024 and also a 512 along what was then the southwest part of my Noru holdings, giving me a nice 72×64 meter space to work with. Without these purchases I don’t think Collagesity could have flowered into what it has become and is still becoming. Fate. These purchases eventually allowed me to create a *middle* row of structures between a north and south row, and this seems to have made all the difference. And the design of this middle row is basically an import from Rubi’s VWX Town — another sharing — copying the lineup of Bodega Market-Coolie Building-Stairs Gallery east to west again. A quite direct comparison with VWX Town can now be formed: Orange House can be seen as a very shrunken down version of the Table House, for example. More on all that soon, perhaps. There are a lot of VWX Town structures that don’t exist in Collagesity. However, many of the ones that have been developed beyond a shell structure (empty state) have been resurrected. True, we have no Temple of TILE, no Blue Feather Gallery, no TILE Tower, no Sink Lair. Yet what we do have seems even more pertinent for present times: the Kidd Tower, the Noru Museum (which didn’t even appear in VWX Town), the Stairs Gallery, the Norum Gallery, and of course the 3 large galleries with my collages, Toxic Art, Power Tower, and Fal Mouth Moon. Those form the axis, with the recent collages of Fal Mouth Moon more front and center than the others. Like I said, collage is the focus in the brand new town. Collagesity.
Below we have a picture of the center of town, a more open space surrounding its lone stream. Another comparison with VWX Town can be made here, since Collagesity’s stream is itself a *collage* or mashup of the several stream flows appearing in VWX Town. I’ll have more to say about that soon as well, I’m guessing.
Crossing a footbridge over a small gully marking the source of the stream brings us to High Way, an approximately 50 meter long L-shaped, basically grassy passage allowing direct access to the Fal Mouth Moon. Just beyond the elbow bend of this is now found the “Wyn Galbraith Cutout” seen in a number of my other virtual villages, and who Edwardston Resident became smitten with at one point last Fall during his residency in VWX Town. Another newly established building, the Victorian style House of Truth, can be seen beyond.
A great view is found from the footbridge down the stream and into lower country to the north. One of the many crystals in the town’s crystal field can be glimpsed. Soon after this photo was snapped, a cardinal bird alighted on the old and perhaps dead tree to its left. Cardinal Tree, then?
And then a look down the length of Low Way, running parallel and, yes, below the higher High Way to its south. As I’m studying the town’s passages now, it’s obvious to me that a main trail running west to east bisects into High Way and Low Way in its middle before recombining just east of the higher footbridge we just crossed above. I suppose High Bridge would be its name, as there is a complementary Low Bridge crossing the stream to its north. Quite symmetrical town as it is turning out (!).
Entrance sign at the west end of town. There’s a complementary sign welcoming visitors on the east end. I’ll produce a town map soon.
Collagesity, July 1 2014
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