“Where are these collages going?”
Hucka D.:
Whereever you wish. London?
bb:
I’m in Mythopolois now for the last 2, Hucka. Pretty interesting stuff.
Hucka D.:
You need to move back to Blue Mountain. Or not.
bb:
Revisit Greenup.
Hucka D.:
Of course (!)
“Separate but Equal”
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, collages 2d, Jeogeot, Wiltshire
bb:
Rather newly former Edwardston Resident is assigned the Heterocera continent. Much new history since the 2012 creation of the Frank and Herman Einstein! Blog, Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
Yes, but not much more will be written[ about it]. VWX Town is an endpoint. The Diagonal. The ultimate SL town for ya.
bb:
Then *you* are assigned the Nautilus continent.
Hucka D.:
Glad to be of service.
bb:
Then Karoz is assigned Jeogeot?
Hucka D.:
Too big of an assigment for him alone. You’ll have to help. You are the full time person on the job and he is your part-time assistant. Just like the [Salad] Days.
bb:
Sounds like it. How about Baker Blinker for Sansara.
Hucka D.:
Sounds good. Then Bracket Jupiter, of course, for Corsica, his home continent. Like Jeogeot is Karoz’s home continent. How about Wilsonia?
bb:
She’s from Otherland, which I don’t think I’ll write about. Similar to Azure Islands. We’ll just skip those sub-histories and focus on mainland and the 6 primary continents, 3 from the east[ern hemisphere] and 3 from the west. Jeogeot and its Pietmond as inspired by Chilbo was my main home. More posts written about that continent that almost all the others combined.
Hucka D.:
That’s why Karoz needs help. He’s limited within his circle [“Dark Side”].
bb:
So who does that leave? We’ve covered the older, eastern continents of Heterocera, Sansara and Jeogeot. Oh… Maebaleia, also Satori.
Hucka D.:
You’ll have to double up on that one.
bb:
Um, I think I’d rather have help.
Hucka D.:
It’s most linked to Jeogeot[ though].
bb:
Started with Crabwoo, a twin to Chilbo. Center urban area of *Lemon* Lab, as Chilbo was for Linden Lab, at least potentially.
Hucka D.:
Correct…
bb:
As coded within Carrcass-2. As coded within the 2002 crop circles from Chilbolton and Crabwood, 8 1/2 miles distant from each other.
Hucka D.:
The standard Second Lyfe measurement. The Measure. It all opened up when you moved to Jeogeot in May, 2009, don’t you think.
bb:
I do think.
Hucka D.:
You found the Rabbit Hole, then, linking Jeogeot and Maebaleia. The Rabbit Hole is directly from Carrcass-0, the last carrcass completed before the start of the Baker Blinker Blog, and the source of The Ancients that put Baker Blinker under a curse, and almost did the same for Baker Bloch before he broke his servitude[ to sinister Mr. Low]. The Rabbit Hole was a way for Jeogeotines to travel to Maebaleia before the days of instant [teleport]. Before the days of the Lindens, even, and their Limey lab. Lemons were the fruit of the days. Salad days[ once more]. (pause) Avatars could even smell, taste, touch in those days. The Linden Grid changed all that. Made everything square and regulated and bland bland bland. Old stuff poked through, like your Hilo Peak, like your Okinu glyphs. Like your Mr. Low below Baker Isle in the Baker sim. Like the spirits in the middle of the Kerchal Forest. These were old days bleeding through on the oldest Linden controlled continent. Salad Bar Jack knew about that as well.
bb (correcting):
Salazar Jack, Hucka D. Salazar. Salad Bar was inspired by that avatar name.
Hucka D.:
So in our mega-opus you’ll have to start with Sansara and these Ancient bleedthrough. Bleeding through from Carrcass-0. Bleeding through from pre-Carrcass days, or, in your terms the Positive Carrcassess.
—–
bb:
How about assigning Karoz to Maebaleia, Hucka D. After all, he was the one who fell through the portal linking the Korean Channel to the Blue Feather Sea.
—–
“It is the story mainly of my cousin Peter The Good, who came to Crabwoo University of Maebaleia to get educated up as a lawyer, hoping to study under the great and powerful Blue Feather Douglas, who then lived in a giant pyramid at the southern end of the Blue Feather Sea. The sea was named after him instead of visa versa?”
Hucka D.:
Already, Karoz is asking questions. Karoz, you attended Crabwoo U. as well, studing to be a Priest or Priestess of TILE.
Karoz:
TILE was the rave religion of central Maebaleia at the time. And perhaps the whole continent, since Crabwoo was the primary urban area. Bigger than Linden’s Chilbo in those days. Before the curse. The Purse Curse.
Hucka D.:
Karoz, the curse started when Biggie was extracted from the Blue Feather Sea and brought to rest in the center of the Crabwoo U. campus, on the central mall. Later mythology turns this into a giant “E”, but originally it was a fish, similar to a blue whale but also different. Why was the fish brought to the campus?
Karoz:
We needed its power. It was “hooked” up.
Hucka D.:
What does that mean?
Karoz:
It became like a battery (pause).
Hucka D.:
What were the dates?
Karoz:
Peter and I went to The Moon[ sim] afterwards. We found Biggie’s twin there. Biggie’s twin was saved from torture by removing it from Maebaleia and sending it to [ the continent’s] Moon. The Barracuda sisters, perhaps Wilson, were assigned to guard it there. They ruled 3 sims, and still do. They made purses. Curse purses. They were outside the jurisdiction of Maebaleia and Blue Feather Douglas.
Biggie was pregnant at the time of extraction[ from the Blue Feather Sea]. Oliver was the baby calf, raised originally in the Super Bowl, the 13th mainland sink or Baker’s Dozen Sink as we called it sometimes. Sometimes?
Hucka D.:
Karoz, where were you born?
Karoz:
Chilbo. Norum, Chilbo.
Hucka D.:
Your mother is Sapphire. Where was she born?
Karoz:
Yd Island.
Hucka D.:
Doesn’t Yd Island and the included Nautilus continent also have a great and powerful fish?
Karoz:
Yes. He or she controlled a 10 sim hole that was connected to Jeogeot as well. This was a later project. Jeogeot had its own Moon, but it was still under the jurisdiction of the [primary ruler of Jeogeot].
Hucak D.:
Was this Sapphire? Was she queen?
Karoz:
Of the eastern part[ of Jeogeot, yes].
Hucka D.:
And other parts, the western parts?
Karoz:
Brainard.
—–
“Biggie was seen as the 3d-ing of the TILE religion. It became the E of TILE… fulfilled. Before, TILE was seen as just going ’round in circles in perpetuity. After Biggie, it stopped, and the E became the all. The E is the Korean Channel. Directly.”
Hucka D.:
Interesting, Karoz. And thanks. Sounds like the avatars of Maebaleia created Jeogeot, built around this channel.
Karoz:
The channel was originally a giant hole or void slot, as I knew it in my younger years. I use to toss rocks into it and watch them disappear in inky blackness. Then all of a sudden the channel was there, appearing as if out of nowhere. Some people had always remembered it there, was the problem. I didn’t. I remember the inky black. I remember the void. We were called [delete name], we special people who knew the time before. It was because I was part moss.
Hucka D.:
Again much interesting, Karoz. Is this when you remembered Gene Fade, your user?
Karoz:
Yes. I remembered who my user was. And those who remember the void also remembered their user. It was a Shock.
Hucka D.:
How old were you at the time?
Karoz:
11.
Hucka D.:
You knew, then, that Sapphire was not your true mother.
Karoz:
No. I still did not know that, although I suspected. My true mother is [delete name].
Hucka D.:
You actually took a transport to the Moon of Jeogeot to find that out.
Karoz:
Yes. I saw my mother there but did not recognize her at the time. She was in frozen stasis.
Hucka D.:
When did you pass through the portal to Maebaleia from the Korean Channel?
Karoz:
23.
Hucka D.:
Did you plan this on purpose?
Karoz:
No. But it was on purpose[ by the people on the “Other Side”].
Hucka D.:
Did you know about these [people on the “Other Side”] before this?
Karoz:
Yes. They were part of Chilbo.
Hucka D.:
You lived in Norum, though.
Karoz:
Yes.
Hucka D.:
And you lived with Sapphire in what we call the House of Truth in the blogs, up until age, what 13 or 14?
Karoz:
Yes.
Hucka D.:
And when did you meet Peter?
Karoz:
I learned about Sunklands at about the age of 12.
Hucka D.:
Peter attempted to recruit you.
Karoz:
That was the [purpose].
Hucka D.:
What did he say or promise?
Karoz:
He said that all those who remember The Void are gathering in The Sunklands.
Hucka D.:
What did this mean?
Karoz:
It meant we — they — were moving to The Sunklands in order to avoid having their memory totally erased. It would not be long.
Hucka D.:
Did you go to The Sunklands?
Karoz:
Yes.
Hucka D.:
How long did you stay there?
Karoz:
7 years.
Hucka D.:
So you went to The Sunklands when you were 13 or 14?
Karoz:
17. 18.
Hucka D.:
What was happening in Sunklands?
Karoz:
Like you should ask. You were there.
Hucka D.:
I suppose I was. There was a similar void still in the center of Big Sink. Can you describe that?
Karoz:
You were in control of it.
Hucka D.:
What was it? is what I’m asking you.
Karoz:
It replaced the Korean Channel void, when the Korean Channel came. A-Z.
Hucka D.:
It has been compared to the 18th hole of a golf course, where game ends.
Karoz:
Sunklands was like a giant golf course[, yes].
Hucka D.:
But this hole was not the same as the Rabbit Hole of Blackmount.
Karoz:
No. It was in the center of Big Sink[ as stated].
Hucka D.:
And Brainard controlled the hole?
Karoz:
Brainard guarded the hole.
Hucka D.:
What does that mean?
Karoz:
You could not make eye contact with Brainard or you would be assimilated.
Hucka D.:
Sounds like no one lived in the Big Sink, then.
Karoz:
No. A Great Tree grew from its center. Similar to the Chilbo good tree but much larger. Supposedly 10 times larger.
Hucka D.:
What is the tree to Brainard.
Karoz:
The tree is Brainard. Brainard is the seed of the tree.
—–
bb:
Sorry for the pause in the action, but I understand this is coded [Seed, Tree] into north Georgia by Lisa the V. in her GNIRPS. So it must be real. And the presence of [also] Tiger and Persimmon there indicates the golf association. Brainard is like a golf ball, which dropped into the 18th hole to end game to become a seed-tree. Tree-seed. So it looks like Karoz is talking about a past-present-future situation with Brainard. Brainard can appear in his round, seed form, guarding the hole that he is destined to drop through, and he is also the future tree he is destined to become after dropping into the hole as the seed. The tree is a persimmon tree, apparently. Tiger Woods indicates trees as well. Can’t see woods for trees, etc.
—-
bb:
And further, we have Quartz here, which seems to directly indicate Lisa the V. and her Quartz Brook on Wealthy Mtn., source (seed?) of her actual wealth and ability to buy or own the mountain in the first place.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Chilbo, Georgia, Jeogeot, Maebaleia/Satori, MAPS, Sunklands
… finally gone.
August VWX Town Meeting…
… finally adjourned.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Heterocera, Jeogeot
Carrcassonne:
It’s a pod. For exploring space. And time. Me.
bb:
Because you are the all, I’m guessing.
Carrcassonne:
Yes.
Hucka D.:
It got here — predicted that you’ll call me in or ring me up — because it’s an escape pod. Wyn Galbraith Cutout was forgotten at the town meeting. For some reason she didn’t count. She was, let’s see, the 13th or 14th.
bb (after a pause):
I have just been counting and it looks like 15 or 16, with Wyn, if I may be so formal with her, the 17th. A lot of characters!
Hucka D.:
Now the forgotten enters the pod sideways. Is she heading to a different space and time? Can the pod actually launch?
bb:
I’m going to dig up the post I was just reading earlier today about when this pod first appeared in Old Pietmond. Interesting. Hold on:
Here’s another:
I’m reminded of several things, then. First, the pod originally sat in the Temple of TILE at the very spot which Carrcassonne occupies now, the immobile form of her, heehee.
Hucka D.:
Haha.
Carrcassonne:
We are the same, the all.
bb:
Well, you’re certainly close to the same color. And about the same size. Yet you didn’t show up until about a year later in the Temple of TILE. That’s another point — since its erection, the temple hasn’t changed much down through the years now. It’s been sort of a stability point. Remember when we were going to devote quite a lot of time to the discussion of VWX Town buildings?
Hucka D.:
The Temple of TILE should be in a sinkhole. It’s not now. But what are you going to do? Carrcassonne, the ruler of the temple, is ultimately displaced. Can she return?
bb:
Probably not, Hucka D. Sunklands is dead, seemingly. No return to Sikkima[ 14th sinkhole of SL] is perhaps possible. The other sinkholes — on Corsica and Maebaeleia — probably not as well.
Hucka D. (reinforcing):
The temple needs to be in a sink. Sink in, and all.
bb (after counting):
10 holes in the pod still. The mouth, where Ms. Galbriath passes through sideways, is the Sun, we’ve speculated before. And the hole at the top is Pluto, the destination point perhaps. This is a launching pod for an Ancient. Ancient Rising.
Hucka D.:
Wyn G. is at the mouth. Are you in or out, and so forth. Is she coming or going? Clues.
—–
Carrcassonne:
This is Sharon.
—–
I wanted to speculate a bit more on the newest object in VWX Town. It’s kind of like it belongs there and doesn’t belong there at the same time, which makes me think it *might* be a rocketship, a pod spaceship, or perhaps a memorial to a spaceship. It’s tied into whoever Wyn Galbraith — the forgotten — is. (pause) I wonder if it has to do with Casey the Alien, another new object in the town, and with somewhat similar colors. Wyn, I believe, is going to get in that ship and travel to distant places, maybe Uranus and Neptune, possibly Pluto. But she is arriving at the same time, which makes me think the ship exists in a time rift, where coming and going are the same. A breakdown of normal reality, which is probably pretty common in malleable and low gravity Second Lyfe. (pause) That the object exists in Westside also seems important. I’m also reminded of the concept of Piepodt, which is a sort of melding of words Pietmond and Teepot.
Right after the pod appeared in Old Pietmond, the underground, Pluto, started opening up. We found an opening into the underground, the underworld perhaps.
Great pic. This is the L and the P together. Pluto symbol. Casey The Alien exists in a newly dug underground for VWX Town. Casey The Alien was similarly in Old Pietmond’s Underground.
A cube/sphere half the diameter of a second will enter the second to make a whole. Lock. Turn, then. It’s on.
bb:
What happens then?
Hucka D.:
Each become stronger. Pietmond stronger.
This must be the concept of Piepodt.
I wonder about the nearby pool of water backed by the obelisk, another Old Pietmond related tableau.
I’d forgotten that Carrcassonne was originally called Piepodt.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Heterocera, Pietmond-
… if I had a whole sim to play with?
I don’t think the urban area would be much bigger than present VWX Town. I’d have a burg surrounded by nature. Otaki Gorge and Pietmond would be a model… I think a town should exist in a sinkhole, and nature surrounds. I have traced enough around the Pietmond area to get a good idea of what a composite existence would look like there. All other virtual places and villages merely support the greater Pietmond idea, even present VWX Town (which also “serves” Frank and Herman Park and their Whitehead Crossing, etc.). Pietmond is it, Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
Called in because of a lack of time again. Understandable. Yes, Pietmond is your ultimate village. You’ve had not one, not two, but 3 legitimate incarnations now. You know that the Temple of TILE’s true location is the bottom of the sinkhole there.
bb:
I like the new VWX Town, but it’s not Pietmond.
Hucka D.:
You must locate a virtual Sunklands somewhere. Each person would have a sinkhole all to themselves, and then a bigger, shared sinkhole. This is Big Sink. You are reading the old Jeogeot blog again, heading toward Sunklands again.
bb:
The Table House never existed in Pietmond. Yet it must be there. VWX Town… can it generate its own energy?
Hucka D.:
Yes. This is beyond Pietmond, even though it can’t be. It’s just Sunklands has degenerated beyond the point of repair. You must re-create the whole thing now. You can.
bb:
Maybe I should just get over it. The woods around here have been wet, wet, wet. Really tough to get out and visit given that and other constraints. Last year at this time I was exploring Concreek. It’s starting to look like TGLS… The Great Lost Summer.
Hucka D.:
You went so far in developing the Whitehead Crossing mythos. Pushed the envelope. Good for you. I’m here to encourage. You had to take it into virtual reality again. Too many ghosts[ of probable realities] over in Rubi. You had to start anew… fresh. But on the other hand: Sinkology. Why did the Temple of TILE have to be built in the center of the sinkhole? Why are sinkholes converted to religious meccas… like Pietmond?
bb:
I wonder if Chilbo could have remained vital if it had followed me to Sunklands? Inhabited the Big Sink… moved?
Hucka D.:
It would have had to involve cooperation between Chilbo and the Lindens. You should read over their proposal again.
bb:
There was the story of the hole in the middle of Big Sink. Where I put my Home o’ Fibs, actually. It was like the Up house.
Hucka D.:
Should Chilbo have followed you to Sunklands? Should they have listened to the synchronities between their community and Crabwoo through your blog? Maebaelia and Jeogeot? Yes, in short. Or not. If yes, there was a bigger picture involved. You know Blue Feather is Quetzalcoatl, and responsible for designing some of the most important crop circles of Wiltshire and beyond. He communicated to you through Second Life. Chilbo is a Korean name, but the attractor is Chilbolton, England.
bb:
I wonder how unhappy Chilbolton is to be associated with that famous crop circle?
Hucka D.:
Pixilation. We better end.
bb:
Thank you.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Heterocera, Jeogeot
… Cardboard Derek Jones. Have your way.”
CDJ:
Thank you. I’m here to talk about the architectural history of Westside.
(Voice from back of the small audience (yelling)):
There isn’t any. Get over it!
CDJ:
Ahem. Thank you *again*. Let’s start with the Wall of Eyes and attached Gallery Behind The Eyes. What’s there?
(Same voice):
Nothing!
CDJ:
Er, well, yes there is something there. There’s eyes, for one thing.
—–
bb:
And you get the gist of the rest, Hucka D. CDJ just couldn’t pull it off. Tough crowd. He went on to talk about the eyes were from Carcassonne, and the heckler yelled to him to give them back because they aren’t worth anything in Westside. Stuff like that. He couldn’t get to Gallery None, even — the name is an obvious setup (for jokes). There’s really nothing in Westside, and I’m afraid there never will be, what with the emphasis on Central front and center now… as it were.
Hucka D.:
As it is.
bb:
So what do I do? Just ask Westside to join Central and Southside now — eliminate the sectors altogether?
Hucka D.:
Maybe. Where would your town tension come from, then?
bb:
CDJ would cooperate with the Core of 4 to make VWX Town the best it can be. All centers on The Table in many ways. We know that Dr. Blood is Ray Davies from the future — handy information.
Hucka D.:
Yes. You must protect the Sunklands Initiative at any rate. Think of re-creating Sunklands in a different virtual setting. That’s your goal. Pietmond Forever!
bb:
Guess so Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
So if CDJ isn’t or can’t talk about Westside architectural history — since there really isn’t any — can we *finally* move to the Kidd Tower. Logical progression: it’s just inside the Westside territory and represents the first *real* building in VWX Town just heading from that sector, down that path.
bb:
Westside still has some promise. I don’t think it should be gotten rid of just yet. But obviously there’s nothing in it presently, really.
Hucka D.:
The most important thing is that Ray Davies is from there, or rehearses there, and probably lives in the garage in the sector. Ray’s on Cardboard Derek Jones’ side. But… to Kidd Tower! What do we have here? A thick slice of Jeogeot and Middletown history. Middletown is the largest city of Jeogeot past, present, future. It was huge, simply huge. You cannot imagine. You helped in the building. You built a sector *there*.
bb:
The Kidd Tower originally existed in Middletown. When did Middletown become Meddletown, or did it ever?
Hucka D.:
Obvious. When Dr. Blood entered the picture. Dr. Blood organized the Kidd Tower so that MaN was eliminated. The Kidd was just a kid.
bb:
Kidd Tower’s always been attached to Tower of A. Mann and Big Boy in past, present, future.
Hucka D.:
Good, yes.
bb:
Is VWX Town a slice of Middletown?
Hucka D.:
Yes!
bb:
The philosophy of Middletown — give this a stab tonight — Middletown itself started in the M and N. 3 sims of basically the same name — all starting with “Yeo”. Three clustered around the M and N level, the 13th and 14th of the vertical column of Jeogeot recognized by Middletown priests, scientists, artists.
Hucka D.:
Yes. (pause) Middletown.
bb:
Big E or Biggie was found on the shores of the Korean Channel — called the Korean Channel at first — and taken directly west to Middletown — this M and N centrality. From it was distilled the Kidd Tower. Was the X-Spot Gallery around then?
Hucka D.:
Yes! (pause) Or no.
—–
bb:
I just had Baker Bloch walk up the whole Kidd Tower, and he thinks, through me, that the intersection with the Simple Wunderlich pictures may be the most meaningful part. Here’s his blog:
http://simplewunderlich.wordpress.com/
And his big zoo is actually in a sim caddycorner to Philudoria [home of VWX Town], to the northwest. Interesting, eh?
Hucka D.:
Simple helped you with Middletown, plain and simple.
—–
bb:
Middletown was too simple of a name. Too Simple. So Yuja moved in and changed Middle to Meddle to add spice and interest. Complexity. 2001-Echoes was probably born here. The monolith of the movie comes from Big E (!)
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Heterocera, Jeogeot
If I do return, it will probably be to the Nautilus continent, which has more stuff per square meter simply because there’s so much coastline. Contrast this to the dry interior of Second Life’s two largest continents: Jeogeot and Maebaleia. Not much at all to see there now.
Above, Baker Bloch sits at a lonely bar on Gong, a small Linden pool in Jeogeot. Technically this is coastline as well, but not enough to act as an avatar magnet of any kind. I’ve rented and owned land around this lake a number of times, and created the virtual village of Teepot nearby in 2010 and 2011. Good times. Now this small bar is all that’s left for meters and meters around.
There’s a small chance I might rebuy the land I held in Sikkima this winter, but only a small one — rebuild New Pietmond in that sinkhole and all.
Hucka D.:
Nautilus, yes. Whitehead Crossing: good to go. Prepare!
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Jeogeot, Nautilus
“A man (or woman) offered me a spot on his land to move the Kidd Tower (at Middletown, Jeogeot), Hucka D. Interesting — probably is highlighting the Kidd Tower for me in a meaningful, synchy way.”
Hucka D.:
We would rather you have the Kidd Tower up and running at this time. Which means…
bb:
Buying mainland again?
Hucka D.:
Rubi looks nice.
bb:
Yes. Very tempting. But there’s also Aotearoa.
Hucka D.:
Which would you choose?
bb:
Rubi, probably. Or I could just move up in tier and keep renting. (pause)
—–
bb:
I’m simply not going to make a decision right now. Maybe at the beginning of May. But that’s when I start focusing on crop circles.
Hucka D.:
See if the gentleman or gentlewoman allows you to move the Kidd Tower and go from there.
—–
I can expand a bit more on the Rubi mythology, last furthered considerably by Sikkima’s New Pietmond. The energy has returned to Rubi. And I still have a build there, one of the last that I possess outside my rental land. All others have been purged when the Lindens set all objects on abandoned land to five minute return (to owner). So I have nothing left in Otaki Gorge, nothing in Maeshill, nothing in Noru, and so on. There’s no vestiges left of Pietmond or Teepot. All I have is the traveling show known as New Pietmond, but in my rental land presently I’m not even calling it that — just PTG Town, which stands for Power Tower Gowlery’s Town. And that’s what it is: a supplement to the now central Power Tower Gallery holding the Gilatona-Lis collages. But if I return to Rubi, then New Pietmond will be reborn. Or is this VWX Town (Virtual Whitehead X-ing Town)? Sikkima is too expensive to buy back.
Woods are closing up again now. Must think of shift to virtual reality, perhaps, like I did with Lion’s Roar > New Pietmond last Fall. Perfect spot found, maybe. Hucka D. seems to be leaving me alone with this decision. (pause) Looks like rain until Tuesday…
Be the Bee
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Heterocera, Jeogeot, Rubi
Gilatona-Lis interpretations may be over, which are divided into maybe 20 parts with about 7-10 supplemental pages. May read over the Wheeler-Jasper interpretation from 2009 to compare. Also need to read Beth’s England trip material and finish it this time (!). Maybe start that this weekend. I’m committed now (!!) — plane tickets bought; so excited. Collages are definitely over for now, but could even return before we head to England (?) Probably not until afterwards. I’m eager to work with Savernake Forest photos soon. And *of course* I’ll have *my own* photos to work with at that time, along with Edna’s obviously. The blog should be filled with my personal England photos come July. Must make the best use of my time there. The big thing is — do we want to stay there for extended periods of time later in our lives, say starting 8-10 years down the road? And my feeling right now, and Edna’s, is that we definitely do if we can swing it. Chances are I’ll be retired in 8 years, and Edna in 10. But certainly I’m also happy with hanging out in local Frank and Herman Parks until then, and I also see them as a lifetime work now. So the Frank and Herman Einstein! blog will definitely continue in one form or another until, well until The End and the curtain drops, where-ever that may be. I have my little PTG Town in Second Life now, and I think it’s better than New Pietmond in some ways. Obviously all revolves now around the Power Tower Gowlery and the finished Gilatona collages within. I’ll give a tour of the town soon; despite its relative smallness (about 10/17ths the size of New Pietmond, with much more limited terraforming) it still has some interesting things going on. I’m also thinking of renting a 1024-2048 parcel just to experiment around with new builds and stuff, since I’m rather limited prim-wise at PTG Town. Was hopping around Second Life before creating this blog post, looking around for possible land and just taking in scenery. Second Life is *definitely* not what it was when I first came there in early 2008. Hard to convey the excitement that once was to present visitors. I think that’s a big reason Pietmond never really took off the ground — the tide was already heading the other way. Visited Chilbo in the past few days and it’s really shrunk back to a core region after reaching its most expanded form about the time I lived in Noru (or Baker Bloch lived there) in Spring/Summer 2010. My talks with various residents at the time revealed vast plans that never came to fruition, including a partnership with Linden Labs concerning community development. A shame really, and SL still has a lot to offer. Just not being used now. I mentioned a month or two ago that I’ve basically switched over to GoogleEarth for virtual exploring needs, but that didn’t turn out to be quite correct, although I definitely want to return to that virtual reality and explore around Wiltshire before heading there for real in June. All’s I know is I’m happy with PTG Town and ratcheting down from New Pietmond (which, after all, contained a number of empty buildings at the end). Present projects there include a revamping of the Norris Temple first seen in late 2011 Pietmond (but not in New Pietmond), and also working some more on the Kidd Tower, a New Pietmond carryover. Should be fun.
But the big story now is that *it’s finally warming up* here in the mountains. The snow is melting but not gone yet, certainly a rarity in late March — well, it’s basically April now. But like I also said before, spring should be extended into summer this year, and as I’m not the biggest fan of summer I’m not complaining too much. But these long long winters are *rough*. Thank goodness there was mildness in its middle this year. But photos of the outdoors should start increasing again. And in that vein, I want to expand on the WIS Map recently generated that attempts to show the majority of outdoor sites I’m developing, like Norris Creek, Con Creek, Whitehead Crossing, and most recently, for example, Falmouth Creek, named after the collage series just completed. Mythology is certainly expanding still in that direction. That’s where my focus should be until early to mid May for sure. Then I need to really start gearing up for England. WOW.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Chilbo, United Kingdom, Wiltshire
Sunklands 