Category Archives: Sansara

Power Tower Gowlery almost finalized.

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I’ve been looking around at other land some, but I have no real reason to move from Sansara Snowland right now and my 4096 square meter parcel there (which is actually a square). So I think I’m stuck for at least another month, or until something else comes up that looks more appealing at that moment. I’ve been poking around my virtual neighborhood a bit but no blog pictures yet. Maybe that should change. But I’m so involved in Wiltshire County England still, and now Spring hiking season is upon me (time change comes Sunday!). So I don’t think virtual reality is going to be much of a focus for a while. That said, I’m real pleased about how the Power Tower Gowlery turned out — perfect fit for the Gilatona-Lis series and aided in its shaping, even.

03/11/13 update:

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Looks like the Power Tower Gowlery containing the new Gilatona-Lis collage series will be balanced on my Snowland property by another skyscraper (lower left in above photo) holding the Wheeler-Jasper series, the last 20 collages of the Art 10×10 from 2009, and then two more conceptual collage/photography exhibits: the Quadtower (lower right center) with the Baker Bloch in England pieces, and then the Sync Lair (left of the Power Tower) with the Synching Creek Designated Mystery related photos and maps created about a year ago. The exhibits also balance each other as a whole — for instance, the Baker Bloch in England story can be seen as a direct continuation of the flow of the Gilatona-Lis collages, even thought the latter came after BBiE.

I’m debating on whether to keep the Kidd Tower (smaller tower next to the Power Tower) on my parcel… not sure if I’ll be working on that particular project again in the near future. Would save prims to substitute it with a shorter structure. Currently I have just a tad over 200 prims left to experiment with.

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March 8, 2013 · 7:10 am

Yes…

… I think Baker Bloch can be happy in Sansara Snow Country for another month.

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The Power Tower Gowlery is coming along smashingly.

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A couple of nights ago I created a flight of stairs to the 3rd floor (floor transparent from below), now containing the quite new and exciting Lis series, the 3rd of the new year. Didn’t expect this!

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The Lis series should be completed by mid-March. Then I’ll totally be finished with collages for a while (???)

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Deepening Dike 01 02 03

Linked base photographs from Brian Robert Marshall for projected new (last?) collage of Latona, Latona 08 09 10 perhaps. Excitement! This is from West Woods, not Savernake, but the forests are similar, and both are near Marlborough already depicted in various ways in several collages of Gilatona.

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Individual photos here, and associated links with Marshall’s always interesting captions…

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/409328

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http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/409337

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http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/409354

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Here’s Baker Bloch staring at the joined base photos in my Second Life “Power Tower Gowlery”. What to fill it with, what to fill it with, what to *fill* it with?

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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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