Category Archives: Jeogeot

Carrcass-11 might be mapped out already. I still have to tape and fine tune, but I should have a fixed work by next week. Excitement yet again (hurrah!). Unfortunately I can’t talk about it much in this blog. I will go so far as to say it represents a primary mesh between two related movies, add in two secondary video sources.

Perhaps on a somewhat related note, Giant C or Giant Carrcassonnee has been removed from Collagesity to free up prims, but may return now that I have a considerable cushion in that area thanks mainly to the replacement of House of True Lies with a 2 prim slum building. It’s a good looking product, and, anyhow (I must ask myself), how much would I go into the House of True Lies for anything? At current time I have about 260 prims to work with in Collagesity proper. Many more are added through my Southside property, but since I plan to sell that in about 2-3 weeks I’m not going to count those prims.

I forgot to mention that I also bought the Arrowtown property this week and lumped it in with the rest of Southside.

The X-Spot/Middletown developments remains on hold as I complete C-11. Giant Carrcassonnee, I feel, will return to the collage village, at least at times. I need her wise, oracle-type advise on matters such as Middletown, Jeogeot, C-11, and beyond.

Pictures just in case it goes away soon; probably part of Southside.

Just that fast. I’m a quick Second Life collager. Turns out it became a large town park, complete with a looping train track (and train!) and a quite vast array of freebie plants and flowers, almost all of whose original prims counts have been lowered thanks to that oh-so-handy prim>convex hull physical shape type conversion I learned about recently. More details soon. Just wanted to let the reader or readers know it’s basically finished.

Next up are important decisions concerning Collagesity Proper structures. My thinking has shifted to the idea of demolishing the Confluence Place, and freeing the jungle animals within to roam as they will. Perhaps they’ll end up in the wilds of Southside, already populated by another elephant and a spotted horse. Important decisions as well coming up about the town government structure. As I see it currently, the metro region is divided into Central (Collagesity “Proper”), Southside, Westside, and perhaps even an Eastside — more unsure of the latter. The town mayor position remains in limbo, what with the death of Baker Bloch. Never mind that he’s been virtually resurrected in the meantime. He’s dead in the minds of a lot of community people. Yet the logical replacement, Starbuccaneer Barista, remains in hiding or exile. A committee was formed to search the ulta-mysterious Corridor 2130, with only 1 bitten tongue and 1 bruised ego suffered as injuries. Cardboard Derek Jones has hinted around he wants to run for Westside mayor, if that position becomes manifest. Seer Adam Westend has become Adam Southend, as his Cape May cottage has been moved from former to latter. Greenup collages will soon be set up within. Maybe C. D. Jones should run for Southside’s mayor position instead — again if it comes to that. But what of Central, this Collagesity Proper, where basically all Greater Collagesity’s art exists? A compromise might be to bring back Baker Blinker to act as town leader. Didn’t Hucka D. warn me about this possibility a while back? *Was* it a warning? I’ll have to check. Thanks, as usual, for listening dead dear reader(s).

I have a month to figure out what to do with it. Fun!

And to add to that now, a plot in what was formerly known as Middletown according to most of my blog spirit friends. Let the hands-on research begin!

I think Wappo Jack might have a fascination, good or bad, with even larger Carrcassonnee. Jealousy?

We have additional clues about the nature of Middletown from the past. Chicago is also a town in the Middle.

Baby Wappo Jack might have been born there. We might be missing his *Middle* (Story), then.

Mrs. Jack? Mom?

“Had to be tried,” Baker Bloch muses.

Kidd in the Midd(le)

All Grown Up

Plans:

Buy or rent a small plot near the heart of old Middletown (or Meddletown… whichever). I have my eye on a 1024 and possibly a 2048. Are any clues to the nature of the huge, former metropolis left behind? Surely so, one would think.

Directly associated with this, I’ve basically decided to enlarge the “Jeogeot Through Art & Word” exhibit currently taking up half the space in my newly inserted “X-Spot Gallery”. My idea is to either eliminate or move the Mike Casey and Kenneth Rouggeau art in the other half, although I’m more inclined to keep the latter since it is collage oriented.

I can’t do much more until I free up some prim space. I’ll have to make some decisions this weekend concerning land and several present Collagesity structures.

I might even go out and buy some more virtual art, which I haven’t done for quite a while… perhaps since when I was putting together the original Noru version of JTA&W back in 2010. 4 years ago… so near yet so far! I’ve friended one of the original exhibitors on facebook, which is encouraging. I’m planning to attempt to track down what happened to some of the others… may not get in direct contact with them but at least I’ll know what they’ve been up to. An example is former Sunklands artist Sambroxton String, who is Sam Broxton in real life.

http://www.saatchiart.com/SamBroxton

“Jeogeot Through Art & Word” to be enlarged.

Another idea I had is to get the whole Jeogeot related posts from both the Baker Blinker and Baker Bloch (Frank and Herman Einstein!) blogs in better order. A Second Life acquaintance said a while back that my blog, the Baker Blinker one at the time, read like a book. Must figure out how to better coordinate the 2 blogs of mine, one complete (Baker Blinker — 4 1/2 years long) and one still in progress (Frank and Herman E! — almost 2 years old now). Will have to admit now that the 2nd blog is more a continuation of the 1st than I originally had in mind. A triangle of Second Life-Real Life (parks/woods)-Photographs exits at the center, with Photographs forming the apex and link between real and virtual mythologies. Without the heavy influence of Second Life, I don’t believe I would have gotten so involved in photos in real life as well. And then to add onto this triangle is another (4th) important element: digital collages, which my photos (and wife Edna’s) contribute to, as well as photos from others, some with permission and some without, unfortunately. Which brings us to yet another, more hidden blog influence, though one I mention now and then: carrcasses. What are carrcasses? I’ve attempted to answer this question to the best of my ability within blog parameters and have not gotten very far yet. They are collages as well, but of an audiovisual nature. They can be seen as the source or wellspring for digital collage in many ways, the latter beginning in the Greenup collage series of 2004.

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Max Ernst collages:

http://www.spamula.net/blog/2004/07/the_hundredheadless_woman_cont.html
http://www.spamula.net/blog/2004/07/misfortunes_of_the_immortals_a.html
http://www.spamula.net/blog/2003/06/a_week_of_kindness.html

To be used, probably, in yet another collage related Collagesity gallery. Stairs No. 2?

Hmm, the same site has this page about collagist Eva Lake, a friend of the author and whose work is featured in a site called *Collagetown*.

http://www.spamula.net/blog/2003/04/collages.html.

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Middletown, PA and Middletown, VA show up next to each other in both an alphabetical county sort and topo map sort for that population place name. Total number of Middletowns involved: 81. Perhaps peculiar given the frequency, then.

sort by topographic map name (excerpt)

sort by county name (excerpt)

Middletown, PA is a suburb of Bethlehem, but is located within a Nazareth topographic map. Jesus reference? Jesus is Da Man? (missing M and N from Kidd). Is this about Jesus Christ the child? We The Blog are admittedly grasping or, better, nibbling around a large edgy border that is Jeogeot’s Middletown (or Meddletown). Which the f— is it?

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http://www.artmuseum.arizona.edu/events/event/andy-burgess-paper-city

Cool, a whole book:

http://www.blurb.com/books/2573503-paper-city

http://www.suegreenwoodfineart.com/andrew/burgess/artwork/3047