Sunklands

Still developing sunklands.com. Well, I guess that goes without saying for a while. Have a virtual module now, which includes a summary of Collagesity, along with some pics focusing on the Fal Mouth Moon and Power Tower. But will it last beyond this weekend? We plan to go out of town, so I probably have to make a decision about the land by Friday. Right now I’m leaning toward keeping… perhaps a firm lean.

I’ve been pondering how to approach a renewed analysis of the large Falmouth series, including reading all the related posts in this blog from earlier in the year. Still haven’t made a decision. On a directly related note, there’s finally some action in developing the Falmouth College of Collagesity, or at least I’m playing around with buildings again on what was formerly Southside. The centerpiece might be a new structure, which might be the Administration Building of the college. Karoz Blogger has agreed to become the first college president if it comes to fruition. Baker Bloch and Baker Blinker both encouraged him in filling the new role… said he was a Noru native, after all, and has obvious organizational skills and needed background from which to lead. I can tell that Karoz is quite stoked about the idea. He’s directly involved with the landscaping of the college. More controversially, I hear he’s toying around with the idea of making it a religious school, specifically based on TILE. Is TILE, however, even a religion? Hucka D. warned that it could become so if it did not remain at least 51 percent philosophy. But I know Karoz is quite fervent. *That* would certainly be an interesting development.

Working on Paradox II still for sunklands.com. Hope to have at least the first half completed by this weekend. Must make a decision on how to display The Table.

Hucka D.:

Here’s Carrcassonnee, as you expected.

Carrcassonnee:

Hi Baker B. Nice night. See you have your heat on. Getting cool up there in the hill country I suppose. Glad I’m on Pluto where it’s warm.

bb:

Hello Carrcassonnee. Interesting that Pluto is warm this time of year.

Carrcassonnee:

A little too much so. But I love it. Frank does too.

bb:

That your husband?

Carrcassonnee:

Janitor. He lives in my [delete].

bb:

Alriiight. So otherwise, I’ve been working hard on Sunklands, as you probably know.

Carrcassonnee:

Yup. See you included me. That’s a true story, by the way. About Middletown and The Residents there. But it was Story Room. That’s where Story Room and I hooked up originally. But I wasn’t a hooker. Not at that time. That’s not how we hooked up, see.

bb:

I gathered as much. I think. Carrcassonnee, what is your job on Pluto? Or Jeogeot or whatever?

Carrcassonnee:

Janitor. Oh wait, I already used that. Here (paper shuffling noise). Johnson and Wax. I work for Johnson and Wax.

bb:

I’ll have to check and see exactly what that is. Cleaning products comes to mind.

(baker checks)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Wax_Headquarters

Do you mean that, Carrcassonnee? Or maybe the university Johnson and Wales.

Carrcassonnee (repeating):

Johnson and Wax. A car wash company but a front for drugs. And hookers.

bb:

Hmmm. What do you do at Johnson and Wax?

Carrcassonnee (quickly):

Hook. I run the hook machine. That hooks stuff and raises it up and puts it in a different, other place. I hook things.

bb:

Is it a repetitive job?

Carrcassonnee (repeating):

I hook things.

bb:

Cool. How did you get into the Second Life business?

Carrcassonnee:

I made a lot of money by hooking… things. I had it to burn. Pluto was so cold at the time, not like now. It didn’t have its own internal sun. Lord knows what’s still inside all that. But it’s cool. Warm, I mean. I have my [delete name] shorts on right now.

bb:

These things you’re telling me… they’re an unexpected turn!

Carrcassonnee:

Expect the unexpected[ with me]. After all, I’m 425 year old and counting. And that’s a vanity count.

bb:

Let’s see, we were talking about Second Life. So you said you had money to burn and you used it on virtual reality.

Carrcassonnee:

We need to talk about 2004. 2008, I mean. Both.

bb:

Okay, let’s talk about 2004 and 2008.

Carrcassonnee:

What happened in 2008?

bb:

Well, first thing that comes to mind is that I was introduced to the Second Life reality. A second world.

Carrcassonnnee:

Neat-o. And when did you meet me there?

bb:

Eerr. I don’t know. Can you tell me?

Carrcassonnee:

2007. 2010, I mean. 2010. In Pietmond. I was a pea pod at the time. But still central. I exist at the bottom of a sink[hole]. I am hole (whole?).

bb:

What’s your relationship with Sunklands? Talking about the Second Life area of sinkholes now.

Carrcassonnee:

I was assigned a hole. For hooking. I hooked a hole.

bb:

This is getting a little too bizarre.

Carrcassonnee:

No. A deep, dark hole. Like Patmos.

bb:

Are you talking about the Rabbit Hole between Jeogeot and Maebaleia?

Hucka D. (jumping in):

Hi baker b.! Do you like my orange jumpsuit?

bb (taking Hucka D. in):

Wow, that’s bright. Sure! Where’d you get it?

Hucka D.:

Omaha. Oh, and Carrcassonnee was right about the comet.

bb:

Well good. (after a pause): Sunklands?

Must start to get ducks lined in a row. Web site maintenance is paramount. Decide what I want to put on my free college site (up to 50MB of space). Designed Rainbowology about 2 years back now, but gave up that domain a year later after not working on it for a while. Now I have a new domain name as of today.

Introductory wording for now:

Welcome to Sunklands, home of collage art by baker b.

COLLAGES are digital (2d/flat) collages created by baker b. starting in 2004. Overall works created so far are Falmouth (2014), Gilatona-Lis (2013), and the Art 10×10 (6 series from 2004 to 2009). Some collages combine with each other to form rudimentary animations.

SYNCHS are audiovisual collages created by baker b. starting in 1997. Baker b. synchs from 1997-2003 are open source as deemed by baker. Baker b. synchs from 2004-2007 are owned by Pierre and are called positive carrcasses. Baker b. synchs from 2008 to present are owned by Carrcassonnee and are called negative carrcasses. As baker has learned the hard way, Pierre and Carrcassonnee are powerful and often nasty individuals that should not be f—ed with.

Visit galleries of baker b.’s digital collages in the Second Life virtual world at

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Noru/169/211/136

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8/21/14 updated:

Sunklands.com is born! Here’s what I have as of this date. I’ll be tinkering with it for a while. Notice I eliminated the Carrcassonnee and Pierre sections, but they remain as private pages I’ll also be working on. My audivisual synchs (baker b.’s open source ones) will still be under SYNCHS. I’ve got a whole bunch more material to add.

… the really big possibility that I might be giving up all my Collagesity land come the first week of September, not just Southend. I’ve started a new website to begin. I need to work on The Table. And I still have a bit of land in Second Life free of charge. If I do this I must sell now. But what of my plan to keep Collagesity Sep., Oct. and into the winter? Fall hiking season, no matter how limited, is coming up soon.

Tempting to just put *all* my land up for sale now. As the Fal Mouth Moon is still set up in Philudoria, Spider can still roam the collages as he is doing now. He entered through the “Art 10×10” (Toxic Art Gallery) but can remain in the Falmouth series (Fal Mouth Moon). But what of the Power Tower Gowlery and the Wiltshire based works?

I don’t seem to need to explore Second Life much any more, outside just roaming around my town and taking pictures and building and interacting with it.

And I also wonder how long Second Life will remain. The energy is obviously magnitudes below what it use to be when I first logged on there. Part of it is me, of course, and getting use to the newness of virtual reality. But the majority is within SL itself. I think of how many people I’ve seen come and go. I live with mainland and I die with mainland.

I could just rent when I come back (Nov.?). 90 bucks saved right there for the next 2 months. I must think of priorities.

I haven’t made a final decision on Collagesity. I know I’ll be getting rid of Southside. It’s just that the sustaining energy isn’t there any longer. Chilbo and Parktown are still around but obviously diminished. Only VHC City remains strong among the mainland urban areas I know about. I suppose I should just go ahead and face the fact that I’ll hold onto Philudoria and let the rest go. The Diagonal doesn’t pass through Noru but through the latter… and also Rubi. It was good to go back to Jeogeot for a while. I will miss it.

I’ll probably just compose a series of posts on this subject, just to get use to the idea one way or the other. Hucka D. will probably just urge me to let go of everything and rebuild if needed later on. What of Queen Alma I? I have not been able to penetrate the mysteries of Middletown/Meddletown. The Noru sim cannot become the new, virtual paradise past/present/future. Can it?