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A most logical place to put a certain protesting gnome in Collageisty: underneath the BOB gallery sign. Get it? Of course you do. But I actually didn’t really plan the conjunction — once more. I believe there’s a strong possibility that the gnome’s name is Bob as well, or at least that’s what he will claim. But please don’t call him Bob Resident or you’ll probably get whacked on the shin by his sign.

Rodin’s The Thinker, also a new town, um (whispers), “resident”, perhaps ponders the meaning of a blue bike in both Collagesity *and* collaged Stonethwaite in the Fal Mouth Moon gallery. Food for thought fer sure.

Baker Bloch outfitted a single room apartment in the back of BOB so that Edwardston Resident could live in Collagesity as well. But he likes it so much he’s thinking of staying there himself instead. Then where will *Edwardston* stay? Will he be blocked from coming back because of this? Is it fair to Edwardston? But, after all, Baker Bloch is Lord Town Mayor. For now (more on that soon).

Certainly an interesting view through that semi-transparent wall up to Drunk Man’s Ridge from the room. And I think that’s what Baker likes most about it, along with the increased privacy in comparison to House Orange. I’m not totally certain, but I have this feeling that Head of Perch may pay a visit to this room soon. Baker, are you *sure* you want to be the one in it at the time?

Oh, I forgot to mention that Baker has found Carrcassonnee’s dog Spider (!) Unfortunately, Carrcassonnee has now disappeared in turn. Baker is asking townspeople for help in taking care of the canine until Big C’s return. Or maybe he can just turn over this particular chore to Edwardston (?).

There’s a frosted doughnut hanging in the sky just outside Edgar’s gallery, on land owned by Grid Explorers.

Very cool: on this parcel I also found a garden hose created by my old SL friend Cocoanut Koala, who I knew from both early Azure Island days and then from mainland experiences in Rubi a bit as well. She created, or perhaps still creates, very beautifully detailed work. She had a whole virtual village in Rosieri caddycorner to Rubi during my stay in the latter, filled to the brim with her artistry. I own several pieces by her, including a Ravenwood Cottage and a small shed.

A considerable amount of Cocoa’s stuff was found on this small Grid Explorer parcel, centered around a garden shed.

Another, nearby non-Cocoa shed, surrounded by natural beauty. That’s a rooster silhouetted against the sky beside it. As I wrote “rooster” there, it crowed at Edwardston Resident in another window (!).

Baker Bloch sees the sun about to set and decides to sprint back home to Collagesity toward the north. There more adventures await him this night.

Collagesity’s Toxic Art Gallery comes into view. You can see the tree-ferns of Hanja to Baker’s right.

“Did you know, baker b., that Olive was (Egg)born(sville) in Korea and that’s her Homeland? She invented the game of Scrabble. More than that, though…”

bb:

She *is* Korea.

Hucka D.:

*That’s* the meaning of her newly placed Olive head in the diner, her (Olive?) Branch oracle center as I think you wanted to put it.

bb:

It’s an egg (!)

Hucka D.:

Ask Carrcassonnee. No use beating about a bush.

Carrcassonnee:

Are you at my diner?

bb:

*Your* diner. But: yes.

Carrcassonnee:

Then we can speak. We are speaking. You know that I am Korea. I invented Scrabble. I was Eggborn in this Homeland.

bb:

I think you are Hucka D.

Carrcassonnee:

No. We differ. On certain points.

bb:

I like the curtain. Contrast of red-violet and your yellow-green, olive shaped head.

Carrcassonnee:

That is my head. That is my eye. Captain.

bb:

It seems to neutralize the head or ground it. Then I guess the curtain will be moved during Oracle Time.

Carrcassonnee:

In this position at the Falls, a power place, I have additional thoughts and knowledge.

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http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/survey_marks/fredericksburg/welcome.html

Korea and Jeogeot:

http://parktownprogress.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-is-joegeot.html

Parktown right next to Hanjaland, just like in (virtual) reality.

The Olive (Olive Falls?).

This has to do with Meddletown Middletown.

Removed from The Island.

With recent blog talk about a Hanjaland or Land of Hanja, I thought I’d offer views from Parktown mayor Boyd Doghouse about the actual, (virtual) place.

http://parktownprogress.blogspot.com/search/label/Hanja

And, yes, it’s actually just north and east of Collagesity. I TP over to the infohub every now and then when I’m not doing anything else of note, but haven’t interacted with anyone yet to my knowledge. Remember when visiting that ferns are trees in Hanjaland and should not be uprooted for any reason.

A picture of “Hanjaland” hangs in Collagesity’s official diner, as interpreted by Second Life photographer Melonie Darwin:

… happened in the Confluence Place last night, Hucka D.?”

Hucka D.:

Oklahoma. Panhandler. 7th. Consciousness. Tin. 7 to Tin. Panhandle…er.

bb:

Did Carrcassonne steal the soul of Perch?

Hucka D.:

Yes! 3 into 1 and 1 into 3. Trapped. Sealed. Seal. Grey perhaps.

bb:

Is Carrcassonne an oracle?

Hucka D.:

Indeed. (pause)

bb:

I’m not finished working on the Confluence Place. Perhaps a rename is in order. Moard Ling called it a Valley Mansion. But it’s a Valley Mansion plus a Neko statue/monument.

Hucka D.:

Slash?

bb:

We know that Carrcassonne is kind of Oklahoma. 7 is, or are, the original 7 counties of Oklahoma, formed when it was still a territory. The 7th is Beaver County, which use to be the entire Oklahoma panhandle.

Hucka D.:

Handler.

bb:

The 7th here is Carrcassonnee’s new eyeball, beyond the 6 prims of the body. The body is Olive… Oklahoma. And this relates back to The Residents.

Hucka D.:

Everything does eventually.

—–

bb:

It’s essentially VWX Town’s downtown area recreated, Hucka. I like it.

Hucka D.:

Yes. Running out of prims finally, though, I’ve heard. Condensing is in order soon. You’ll see. Your neighbor helps.

bb:

How do you approach Carrcassonne? From below?

Hucka D.:

You can. Depends on what you want to ask. What do you want to ask?

bb:

Who she is. What she did to Perch.

Hucka D.:

She absorbed Perch as 6 turns to 7 and 3 into 1 slash 1 into 3. She is Perch Plus[ if you will]. Go ask her.

—–

“How’s it hanging guys?”

“Hi Carrcassonne.”

Carrcassonnee:

Hi.

Baker Bloch:

How’s it going tonight?

Carrcassonnee:

Pretty good pretty good. What’s up with you Baker Bloch?

Baker Bloch:

I’m okay. Soooo… a little birdie told me that you were an oracle. Are an oracle.

Carrcassonnee:

Okay. OK. I will only say OK from now on.

Baker Bloch:

Are you Oklahoma?

Carrcassonnee:

OK.

Baker Bloch:

Who were you before you had the eyeball?

Carrcassonnee:

I was not OK.

Baker Bloch:

Okay, good. What did you do to this Perch fellow?

Carrcassonne:

I absorbed. OK?

Baker Bloch:

Okay I guess. Was it okay?

Carrcassonnee:

It was OK. Taste like chicken (insert hearty laugh noise here).

Baker Bloch:

That’s a good one I suppose, Carrcassonnee.

Carrcassonnee:

It [the joke?] was OK.

Baker Bloch:

Should I talk to you from below? Like this?

Carrcassonnee:

Come on up. I’ll make room. Have you seen Spider?

Baker Bloch:

Who’s Spider?

Carrcassonnee:

My dog.

Baker Bloch:

I don’t think so Carrcassonnee. Does he live in Collagesity?

Carrcassonnee:

Collasi-what?

Baker Bloch:

Collagesity. That’s where we are now.

Carrcassonnee:

This is Tired Falls. Check the spoon.

Baker Bloch:

Am I dreaming?

Carrcassonnee:

OK. Yes. OK.

Baker Bloch:

I’m coming up. Just have to figure out the best way to do it.

Carrcassonnee:

Fly up the hole. But don’t fly up my bottom [hearty laugh again].

Baker Bloch:

Yes, that wouldn’t be good.

Carrcassonnee:

Have a seat.

Carrcassonne:

Let me turn on my light.

Carrcassonnee:

Ah yes… Baker Bloch. How’s your father doing?

Baker Bloch:

Space Ghost?

Carrcassonnee:

Yes. And Zorak. And Moltar. Haven’t seen those people for ages.

Baker Bloch:

I don’t remember my father.

Carrcassonnee:

That’s sad. That’s not OK.

Baker Bloch:

Do you have memories of Perch?

Carrcassonnee:

Yes.

Baker Bloch:

Who was Perch?

Carrcassonnee:

Perch was me. Me was Perch.

Baker Bloch:

But who was he? What did he do, where did he come from?

Carrcassonnee:

He came from the lower plains. Hanja. Land of Hanja. Hanjaland. He was called the Foreign One at first. He called himself this on purpose. For-eign-one. He said trees were ferns and ferns were trees. He spoke of Peter a lot. Peter SoSo.

Baker Bloch:

The mysterious Peter SoSo[ again]. Was Perch… Satan?

Carrcassonnee:

Perch rode a horse named Satan. Or was it Satin. His world revolved around that horse. He was both Indian and Cowboy to it. Try not to panic.

Baker Bloch:

Panic? Oh, right, Panic. Like the town.

Carrcassonnee:

The horse had a birthday. Perch planned and planned. He wished to build the horse a barbeque pit. Brick it was. Thick as a. But he ordered too many bricks… he ordered 10x10x10x10x10x10x10x10x10x10…

Baker Bloch:

So this is like the movie… A Town Called Panic.

Carrcassonnee:

What happens after that? They fall into the Earth. That is what happened here.

Baker Bloch:

I’m not really learning much about Perch. So Perch became identified with his horse, who was Satan.

Carrcassonnee:

Satin[ perhaps]. The tire was already in the falls. Orange House was there. And who lived there? Your father.

Baker Bloch:

Space Ghost.

Carrcassonnee:

Yes.

Baker Bloch:

Not sure I believe that.

Carrcassonnee:

Eventually Perch just became a head, and was mounted just like a fish perch in his old digs, which then became a restaurant. Ironically, the best dish is lemon perch.

Baker Bloch:

What about the cardinal?

Carrcassonnee (snapping “fingers”?):

That’s what I meant. Spider is my *cardinal*. I get my directions mixed up. North is South and South is North. Like 3 in one. Like Foreign One.

Baker Bloch:

So Spider is not a dog.

Carrcassonnee:

God?

Baker Bloch:

No, I wrote god by mistake there and quickly changed it to dog.

Carrcassonnee:

Og?

Baker Bloch:

No… let’s move on please.

Carrcassonnee:

Someone else approaches.

Baker Bloch:

Maybe I better leave. I’ve bothered you enough and you probably have other townspeople asking you this and that.

Carrcassonnee:

Shhhh.

Baker Bloch (much quieter):

OK.

Still don’t know what this Confluence Place is or what it means. But I think I’ve got the topping cat pretty much positioned correctly, and that’s something. Could it serve as yet another town gallery?

a big drop

Oh look who showed up (!)

Why are these things here again, and *brighter*?

Baker was just out of sight.

Carrcassonne fishing for an eyeball.

Baker finds!

The eyeball is sealed; protected. 1 instead of 3; 3 instead of 1.

thumbs up!

Collagesity now pretty complete, I feel, on the groundside part. No real big amount of prims left to create something in the sky, and, besides, I want to leave wiggle room for rezzing experiments. So all that’s left it seems is fine tuning. Some pics now…

As you can see from the above photo there are some new structures in Collagesity, mainly on its eastern side. The nature park I envisioned there might not come about. 😦 On the easternmost part of my property is now situated the Marble Tower (far right above), which made its first appearance in Rubi’s VWX Town this past winter. It had no real function there except to serve as town eyecandy. I’m hoping to change that for this go around, and another collage gallery of some kind is a good bet for a functional fit. The cat statue topped Confluence Place next to it is another direct carryover from VWX Town, but I’ll have to work on the building in my skybox — can’t remember exactly how it was put together there. As I recall, it is a mashup of 2, maybe 3 Moard Ling structures. Now perhaps The Bakers can find out what happened in those far corridors, a 237 type mystery. Twin Peaks symbolism has already cropped up in connection with several Collagesity images/locations. Perhaps this represents another tie-in.

Bracket Jupiter is about to reclaim his second floor home at the Bodega Supermarket. Nifty! He’ll help me figure some stuff out about town mysteries, etc.

Baker getting frustrated because he cannot remember how the Confluence Place was put together

The Coolie Building has been moved beside the town’s giant maple, and yet another VWX Town structure has taken its place next to the Bodega Supermarket: what was called Edwardston’s Gallery there or Edwardston’s Building perhaps. It’s function in Rubi is described here a bit [LINK].