VWX Town: Growing Back After Being Pruned.

Baker Bloch sits on the upper porch of the newly reinstated House of Truth (sans interior decoration yet), staring across Grassy Knoll toward the Temple of TILE. Great view, and great alignment! He has to do some pondering about keeping VWX Town around in October, past the 7th when my tier payment is due again.

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Top of Grassy Knoll, with DK Art’s red “Aim High” sculpture freebie and some orange butterflies. Hard to see the butterflies from this angle because the Temple of TILE’s walls are orange-ish as well. Is this super grassy knoll connected with the super famous toy avatar Grassy Noll?

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Baker looks north along the central stream of the property now. Central Stream is as good a name as any, then. As you can see, there’s a lot going on along its banks now.

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Below we have a lady statue holding a bowl erupting with water. She existed in almost the same spot in “old” VWX Town, before the great renovation. But she didn’t have the water pouring all over her then. The water seems to originate from her head, and then empties into Central Stream below. Is she the source of *all* water in the stream? No, since some of it comes from the pipe on the Toxic Art Gallery, which we’ll get to in a moment. Central Stream seems to flow south from the this art gallery and north from the partnering Power Tower Gowlery — this is its range. The statue of the water goddess merely “adds” to the flow coming north from the Power Tower Gowlery, as does the more blue-purple waterfall seen directly behind her in the below photo.

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In fact, as Baker Bloch is studying the matter now, all 3 flows (waterfall, water goddess, Central Stream from PTG) conjunct at the same spot. Queer — didn’t really plan it that way. The water from each flow is colored somewhat different.

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Perched on a smaller knoll above the conjunction is another new addition to VWX Town: a miniature village called “Lucky’s Magic Little World” in the description, created by Lucky40Resident. The little car in the picture actually circles around the hamlet at a rate of about once every 25 seconds. Inside its track are positioned 7 cottages, each a different color of the rainbow. Not coincidentally, a rainbow arches across the town’s center, complete with smiling sun, even. Lucky’s village is a true microcosm.

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Baker now sits near the center of the town. Goldie has been reborn here, just across the waterfall from Lucky’s Village. But he has severly shrunk in the transition, now appearing not much larger than Baker. Or about the same size as the water goddess statue just to his side. As the case with that statue, Goldie appears not far from where he was last seen in old VWX Town, atop the Hole in the Wall bar…

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… which has also returned to the reinvented town, seen behind Baker through the palms as we simply reverse camera angle away from Goldie.

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Another new object: a dock walk crossing Central Stream just in front of the Hole in the Wall.

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House of Truth, with a pond in front of it now. This pond compliments nearby Grassy Knoll, since they lie on either side of the terraforming range (+4/-4) of my land. I built up for Grassy Knoll, and burrowed down for the pond. Greenup/Yellow Down archetype in action again? There’s even a bunch of yellow fishies swimming around the pond to reinforce this theory.

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Another new object: a giant head, not pink as this angle might imply on a glance, but simply seen through a pink curtain, with nose projecting through a bit. Connected to Noser Mill in Franklin County, Missouri then? Probably not, but no harm asking in this here blog. *But*, if so, then can Central Stream be connected to muddy Bourbeuse River similarly slicing across the length of Franklin County? A contrast might have been made between that very crooked real life river and straight-as-lace Central Stream. Noser Mill is mentioned in the wikipedia article on the subject as a particularly curvy stretch of the river, even.

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Behind the unnamed head (Noser?) are Biker Jones and Ranger Johns discussing the location of VWX Town’s galleries, once more.

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A giant spoon leans against Hole in the Wall now.

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“Noser” in profile view, with the masking magenta curtain seen edge on.

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Inside Hole in the Wall. Great view!

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Bedrock Mystery

Bedrock

bedrock crackhttp://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Bedrock

http://bedrockorbust.blogspot.com/2010_09_01_archive.html

Pictured to the left is a spot that kept my interest high. This bedrock crack payed me 55 chunky pieces of gold in one pan within the area circled. That’s only about a foot in length. I chased the crack further toward mid-stream but it didn’t pay as well as it did within the circled area.

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Repetition

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Been reading this most excellent and fascinating site about Kubrick’s The Shining. Recommended for anyone interested in the director.

http://www.collativelearning.com/the%20shining.html

Also watched most of the “Room 237” documentary yesterday and came away much less impressed. I don’t think it will be used in a, ahem, carrcass.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_237

Next up might be this:

http://www.jeffreyscottbernstein.com/kubrick/theshining.html

Or this…

http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-you-may-or-may-not-have-seen.html

As for The Shining movie itself: definitely in a carrcass. 🙂

Bakerswork (var: Crow), Tennessee.
Dull, Tennessee.
MAP SOON.

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October 1, 2013 · 5:04 pm

Should…

… be able to get out in the woods a bit today, unlike Sunday and Monday. Ailing mother needs have set me back in that department. Biological clock still readjusting.

In the meantime, here’s some pictures from VWX Town. Yeah, I decided that VWX Central, the meat of the town, should be completely redesigned if the town is to survive in any way. Almost all of its buildings have thus been deleted, and a long stream has been created connecting Southside’s Power Tower Gowlery and Northside’s Toxic Art Gallery, cutting across almost the entire length of my land.

I have only several days to decide the fate of VWX Town, as another Linden tier payment is due the 7th. Ponder ponder. Again: I will not be able to create such towns in the future, most likely. It’s really trying to survive; I can tell.

Westside, Northside, and Southside remain basically intact. Is another town meeting forthcoming?

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two in one, foreign one

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Drinking from the fount of pure synchronicity. W(e) IS renewed.

http://kdk12.tumblr.com/post/4879566957/the-shining-forwards-and-backwards

http://www.spectacletheater.com/the-shining-backwards-and-forwards-and-inwards-and-outwards-in-high-definition-anaglyph-3d/

http://vimeo.com/53766925

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News, Notes

My ailing mother appears to be making a recovery. I know she is attempting to avoid a nursing home/assisted living situation as much as possible. She needs to take her vitamins so she won’t be so weak. She’s doing well, very well… for a 92 1/2 year old. This weekend I will be down with her again.

For lack of time, let’s go ahead and call in Hucka D. if he’s around. Hucka?

Hucka D.:

Hi baker. Good job with your mom. You got rewards points.

bb:

Thanks, Hucka D. Not out of the woods yet.

Hucka D.:

No, back *in* the woods. This weekend.

bb:

We’ll see. So, Green Oz Creek. That’s been the focus around this time of year 3 years in a row now, Hucka D., starting in 2011. And that initial focus was also the beginning of the obvious shift from Second Life to Real Life exploring for blog recording purposes. Each “passage” through Green Oz and Green Oz Creek as a whole bring more understand, more focus to the overall picture. It is a large story. Now, although Green Oz Creek has been a September focus the last several years, it’s also shifted, itself, into other stories during October and November. First we have, as I’m sure you’ll remember, the shift of Green Oz energy into norris or NORRIS or Norris.

Hucka D.:

My ex!

bb:

Yes… to the reader or readers, Hucka D. was actually married to this creek for a spell, according to him.

Hucka D.:

Truth!

bb:

That was 2011, when we were still working within the framework of the Baker Blinker Blog.

Hucka D.:

Yeah.

bb:

Then in 2012, and at the start of the current Frank and Herman Einstein blog, we shift an initial focus on Green Oz Creek into *Byng*, yet another stream. This involved the creation of the Lion’s Roar community and also the development of the Kentucky Platform and its Bee Line, etc.

Hucka D.:

Good times.

bb:

Now in 2013 we have the same situation: Green Oz Creek, in September, once again is in the blog spotlight, the blog crosshairs. Actually I don’t like that latter expression.

Hucka D.:

No.

bb:

What will it shift into *this* year? What will be my fall hiking focus, Hucka D.?

Hucka D.:

Opening the presents before Christmas are we?

bb:

Attempting to. Okay, you probably can’t tell me.

Hucka D.:

Green Oz Creek will continue to be the focus this time of year. Year after year after year. Tin Commandment: Love others as you love Yoself. Focus on Gold as original community of Tinsity area. Gold powder… Ark. Tinsity and Tin S. Man had it. The gold was buried, awaiting… (pause)

bb:

Harvest?

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bb:

GNIRPS, hehe, isn’t working tonight? What of GNIRPS?

Hucka D.:

Lisa the V. set up with her unlimited wallet, er, purse. Bottomless, I meant.

bb:

And this has to do with Carrcass-1.

Hucka D.:

Yes. Skillet. Skillet Swamp. Green Oz Creek. Wallace. Wallace3. Stares into hole. Greenup, but Yellow Down at the same time. Green Oz is bourne. Wallace.

bb:

Is Wallace an older community than Tinsity?

Hucka D.:

Two in one. Foreign one.

bb:

I’m sensing you cannot answer that quite yet.

Hucka D.:

You have a sign set up on the main path of the area: Tinsity that-a-way. Tinsity directly ahead, 0.2 miles. The sign will be created. At the tree. Sign Tree.

bb:

The Tinsity trail, from this direction, passes through Dark Space. What is the purpose of Dark Space?

Hucka D.:

Barrier. Is Tinsity aligned with Dark Space or not? We don’t know yet. Back to Gold…

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bb:

Tinsity is also going to be the name of the last Carrcass, Hucka D. Technically I suppose you would call this one Carrcass-10. But Carrcass-8, Carrcass-9, and Carrcass-10 make a triptych of audiovisual collages, much like the triptych ending the Latona series. Those were collages 8 9 and 10 as well.

Hucka D.:

Carrcasses, a blog term after all, will be seen as a set beginning in “0” and ending in “10”. 8, 9, and 10 will form a collage. The names will be Eight Ball, Number 9, and Tinsity. You start thinking of Tinsity collage as you are exploring Tinsity city in Herman Park at the same time. No chance.

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bb:

Do I keep VWX Town around this winter?

Hucka D.:

No.

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bb:

Communication between me and the co-worker will start to become limited now, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

As it is.

bb:

He is Tin S. Man.

Hucka D.:

*You* are Tin S. Man. You both are.

bb:

So Tin S. Man… me as the boss of sorts, has his castle still, Hucka.

Hucka D.:

Not saying nothing.

bb:

I’ll have to get [another] student worker. I can’t work there alone.

Hucka D.:

No.

bb:

But back to Green Oz: I believe Wallace3, staring into the hole, saw Greenup and Yellow Down simultaneously. This is like playing a movie both forwards and backwards at once.

Hucka D.:

Yes (!)

Tinsity is about The Shining.

Hucka D.:

Yes.

bb:

A new Dark Side of the Rainbow has been created.

Hucka D.:

Yes.

bb:

Two in one. Foreign one.

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VWX Town Video

Great little video of VWX Town by my neighbor Veyot, culled from her Veyot’s Views Tumblr site. Thanks neighbor; great work!

http://vt.tumblr.com/tumblr_mt88ywxbdE1sozjhx.mp4#_=_

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Green Oz Creek Again 02

What will be called the traditional entrance to Tinsity according to Hucka D., who is able to peer into the future with his prescient bee vision. Is Tinsity that important? According to Hucka D.: Yes. The trail can be seen to veer off from the carriage road in the lower right corner, next to the barb wire fence. Presently this is only a secondary cow path, with the general public not knowing anything about its ultimate importance. Is it really that important? Yes, answers Hucka D. once more. I’ll just have to take his word for it for now.

The large tulip/poplar tree acts as a nice landmark for the trail’s beginning. Hucka D. further states that this positioning means that the trail will be pop(u)lar in the future. I’ve told him just to stop with the silly puns.

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If you continue on the road you’ll soon come to a large meadow region with nice views to be had all around.

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If you continue down the Tinsity Trail instead, you’ll soon come to an interesting landscape depression pictured below, of unknown importance or origin. I think Hucka D. wants to revisit this depression in the future. He’s stating something needs to be inserted there. The depression lies directly above one of the several seeps that run down to Green Oz Creek in Yellow Down, perhaps 5 or 6 in number. Will each one garner a separate name?

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Holey moley! You can imagine my reaction when I spied this skull across perhaps the same seep lower down, suspiciously well positioned on a small, flat ridge just above. From this angle it certainly looks alien, or at least dinosaur-like. To my relieve (phew!), it’s actually a cow skull turned on its side. But what an illusion, given all else that’s happened in Yellow Down before it! I plan to make a separate posts reviewing photo oddities from this region in the coming days.

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This same seep empties into Green Oz Creek very near the previously discussed Rib Rock, already associated with reptiles and dinosaurs through a Flintstone lineage. The ridge with the cow skull is inside the shaded area at the top of this photo.

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Green Oz Creek shoreline nearby.

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Moving a bit further downstream, we have a photo of 2 more interesting rocks near View Rock, itself perched just above Green Oz Creek below I. Rock. For the record, we presently have 3 named rocks in Yellow Down: View Rock, I. Rock, and Rib Rock. But with more appellations to come, I’m assuming.

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Another seep in Yellow Down, this one with an old pot near its leafy source.

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View Rock (foreground) and I. Rock (background) together.

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Green Oz Creek Again 01

Stepping stones across Green Oz Creek leading to “Bedrock”, just off camera to the right here. Yd Falls can be seen in the background. More soon on this Bedrock, seemingly an ancient community of Yellow Down according to Hucka D. Isn’t that right Hucka D.? (Hucka D.: No. I mean, yes.) Anyway, this relates to finding Rib Rock in Yellow Down as well (another Flintstone image: see here), and also the reptilian or dinosaur-like face of I. Rock — along with the very queerly positioned “reptile” skull just up the hill from it. More on that very soon as well. My September experiences in Yellow Down are making for quite a story!

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Lichen and moss decorated top of an as yet unnamed, larger rock in Yellow Down, demarking a lower edge of this Bedrock area. More comprehensive picture of this rock here.

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Directly above this Bedrock is found an flat, open woodsy area, with several interesting characteristics. Like the below pictured rock with a pile of smaller rocks on top of it…

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… and several old but still standing fence posts like this one.

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The posts continue through a marshy stream bed below, whose flow then passes through a small grove of rhododendron and into Green Oz Creek about at that rock seen in photo no. 2 above.

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Another fence post in the same row.

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A huge, dead oak marks the lower corner of the open area; hollow in nature.

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Another fence post on the upper end of the same area, laying on the ground near a moss covered stone just beyond the similar stone containing the rock pile mentioned before.

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Interesting tree with prominent, downward projecting dead limb sighted across the goldenrod filled meadow from here.

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S. Man

“Hucka D., I believe I’ll take my toys out to Wallace early Sat. morning, before the rain comes.”

Hucka D.:

Good idea. Who will be there. Carcassonne? Cardboard Derek Jones?

bb:

No that’s Second Life characters, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

They can be there[ though]. What’s the relationship between VWX Town and Wallace? Just asking.

bb:

Unsure Hucka. What do you think it is?

Hucka D.:

Unsure as well. Wallace now seems more important than[ neighboring] Tinsity, at least…

bb:

At least temporarily.

Hucka D.:

Tin S. Man, the original, is still in the picture Hucka D. I have not yet fully become Tin S. Man, then. The original is still around.

bb:

Hucka, you seem to be channeling me again but more completely. Can we talk about Tin S. Man?

Hucka D.:

Tin S. Man has his castle, which is threatened. The co-worker doesn’t really care one way or the other. Go in Sunday and do some stats if you have to.

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I don’t think it’s going to be a train track happening. Maybe just take pictures of rocks and stuff there[ at Wallace].

Wallace:

I am alien. Dragon. Dragon eyes. Limited by circle. Schwa. Trying to communicate.

bb:

You are Wallace3?

Wallace3:

Maybe.

bb:

I need to make a map.

Wallace3:

Saturday.

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