(TILE) CREEK, 2
Same objects and locations as described/photographed in the CREEK, 1 post, but on a sunnier day, and also earlier in the day. T-Bonz and company (see above) will be visiting these same places very soon!
CREEK (Jonesborough 1)
This is on (TILE) Creek again, but a little further upstream, at a place I’ve been calling “Jonesboro” or “Jonesborough” for a number of years now. It represents the very heart of the 1.25 mile long CREEK, perhaps, and near its most remote position in respect to any road or trail.
Below is what I’d deem the center of Jonesborough, or a natural open spot bordered on the north side by an elongated boulder. The standing dead tree in the center of this photo is positioned nearer this rock’s east end.
A view of the same open space and dead tree from a little further back.
View toward CREEK from the same spot. There is a rock wall running along the other side of CREEK from here for maybe about 150-200 feet or so.
And again from the same spot, looking west, in the opposite direction from CREEK and perpendicular to the open space.
Closer view of part of the rock wall bordering CREEK. I found it hard to get a good picture of the overall wall, since it is very long but also not so high, and additionally surrounded by a lot of vegetation.
A lower angle view of some of those amazing trees, including a couple more huge hemlocks, just above the rock wall.
Here’s a fallen tree that acts as a natural bridge over the CREEK at Jonesborough, which also, in my mind, bridges the two parts of this “burg”. As such, the bridge will soon be put to good use by TBonz and co. (!)
CREEK (Jonesborough 2)
So we’re back at the bridge over CREEK spanning the two parts of Jonesborough. Appropriate to divide the 2 Jonesborough related posts at this point as well, I felt.
The fallen tree’s uprooted end lies just in front of the rock wall, maybe about 2/3rds the way down it north to south.
Below we have a picture from another pivotal point of Jonesborough, on the opposite side of the creek from the open area. A small natural cave is found in this spot. Not big enough to really crawl into but a small cave nonetheless.
A quite interesting little rock jutting up from the surrounding ridges near the cave. TBonz plans to report some findings about this rock soon. He plans to create a special name for this whiteish jut.
View directly up from near the cave. Nice mossy surface.
And looking down at the little white rock jut.
Then I’ll leave you with a photo of the meadow that you have to walk by to get to Jonesborough, about 1/2 a mile south.
T-Bonz, Part 1
So we finally come to the well advertized adventures of T-Bonz on CREEK. As you can see he has some compatriots on his journey, namely what’s called the Mmmmmm’s. These are 3 in number, 2 being red and 1 green. The two red ones are called Cherry and Berry. The green one’s name is Verdy, a moniker not unconnected, as it turns out, to the Verdigris name choice for Baker Bloch’s and Hucka D.’s camping spot at the AI5 volcano. And as will become evident as the series rolls along especially, Verdy is a favorite of T-Bonz. At first I couldn’t wrap my brain around this favoritism, but RL wife Edna summed it up neatly one day: there are, after all, *2* red Mmmmmm’s, and if one is lost there’s always the other to act as a spare. There’s only 1 green Mmmmmm in contrast; if he’s lost then that’s it for the green strain of the species.
So here we have the whole band rezzing in from unknown locations beside the two CREEK tiles already photographed several times for this blog. From now on this rock will be known as Rez Rock, or perhaps RR for short.
In short fashion, they investigate all the nearby, manmade objects that also mysteriously appear in or around CREEK at this point. T-Bonz is wondering the same thing that I, baker b., am: is this the remains of a lost civilization, perhaps of “renegade” avatars from the SL grid? It’s a radical thought, admittedly.
T-Bonz readily sends either Cherry or Berry — I can’t tell one from the other yet — into the dangerous mouth of a rusty old pipe. Notice Verdy remains with T-Bonz, away from any potential immediate danger.
What luck! T-Bonz and the Mmmmmm’s, thinking they had a hike of perhaps several days ahead of them through rough terrain, instead find this old goodmobile, as the Mmmmmm’s describe it to T-Bonz, and still in working status. This proves that other Mmmmmm’s use to inhabit this area, or perhaps still are in the area somewhere. This came as a complete surprise to both T-Bonz and his own small troup of Mmmmmm’s, although Verdy seemed less surprised than the others. So with a couple of spoken commands, they were off the ground and flying speedily along toward Jonesborough, reaching it in a matter of minutes instead of days.
Cherry and Berry didn’t get to enjoy much of the view while in flight, as there was only room at the lip of the vehicle for T-Bonz and his favorite.
The group safely down and landed at the heart of Jonesborough, as described in the former series of posts. This is on the elongated rock that forms the northern boundary of the aforementioned open space. T-Bonz and the Mmmmmm’s use another dead tree to lower themselves to the open space, intending to get to the bridge and the other side of Jonesborough, or the rock wall/cave/white jut complex.
“Hey, we’re on the wrong tree!” barks T-Bonz to his subordinates. “We need to be on *that* tree; that’s the bridge!”
Also I should mention that between the two trees here T-Bonz and co. find another rusty old goodmobile, but don’t realize that someone has also used this to recently fly into Jonesborough.
T-Bonz and the Mmmmmm’s cross the bridge into “Jonesborough West,” unsuspecting of the visitors that already lurk in the area. Will T-Bonz sadly lose his only green Mmmmmm? Will he even lose his other arm? (I”ll tell the story of the first arm loss soon, perhaps). Or will all instead share a nice cup of tea? We’ll know shortly!
Loose Thoughts
As usual on the weekends, I’m behind in writing text and ahead on photos. Tonight I may add more photos, knowing me.
So far, I would personally divide this blog into 3 parts, with perhaps a 4th part coming up. Roughly, part 1 is up to the entrance into Lemon World by Baker Bloch and Hucka D., or about the 1st month. This is marked by a focus on SL photos and explorations on the oldest mainland continent of Sansara. Part 2 deals more with rl explorations involving what I call CREEK, RIVER, and STREAM. But the main focus of Part 2 was the Hidalgo collage series, which will very soon be displayed in its entirety in the small, private Hidalgo Gallery on my property in AI. So all through part 2 I was working on the 10 collages of this series. Part 3 involves buying property and fixing up/collaging together disparate parts to create structures on this property, namely a ground house but also a skybox. This push is about through as well, I feel. At the same time that Baker Blinker was focused mainly on the house/skybox and the property in general, and also being friendly to the new neighbors, Baker Bloch was busy extensively exploring AI1 and also other AI’s (2,3,4,5,6). We also have the entrance of Hucka D. into the Bakers’ immediate family, who set up shop in a created basement room of the new house but was more out and about in the Otherland region and nearby spots.
Each of these 3 phases appear to have lasted about 1 month apiece.
So what will phase 4 bring, which I seem to be on the cusp of? Well, I’m not sure how much house development is left. I’m running out of prims for one thing, and want to keep some in reserve for creativity, perhaps some sculpture involving the CHRO series and perhaps other painting series I employed while an art student in college. Baker Blinker’s focus may partially shift back to the mainland, in formerly explored places like the “illegal” and very tiny Just Call Me Ernie Banks gallery, but I’m not totally sure yet. Baker Bloch certainly plans to explore more of AI1 and has started at the very bottom of AI and plans to move up thru 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 quite soon, but he seems to be stuck, along with Hucka D. perhaps, at 5 — the bottom — for now. Hucka D. (Doobie) has found a new mate in Hurla Dontbee, but both the Bakers are unsure of their connections. Then to complicate further now we have T-Bonz and the Mmmmmm’s, who are currently exploring CREEK (TILE) in the real world. So what’s next? I think a partial shift back to the mainland will take place, and of an underwater variety. Maybe in the Atlas area? (place where owner of AI first worked). But I also could shift to map research or a/v synching again and out of SL altogether for a while at least.
The avatar I seem to be able to talk to directly most easily is Hucka D. for some reason, perhaps because he seems to be a direct extension of CNB (Charles Nelson Blinkerton, the artists who has been found to be faked in the meantime then more recently reinstated as “real” again by Hucka and the Bakers of SL). Let’s bring him in now to ask more questions.
baker b.:
Hi Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
Hello baker b.
bb:
Do you happen to know of T-Bonz and the Mmmmmm’s? They’re exploring CREEK now in Real Life. They have currently set camp up at what I call Jonesborough. Hucka D.? He seems to have faded out again. Queer. Who else can I talk to?… CNB is gone now… the Bakers are not a possibility, really, I don’t suppose, since the 2 of them actually make up me… Maybe T-Bonz himself. T-Bonz, are you there? ?
Hucka D.:
I’m back. All I have to do is say [delete name] isn’t real and I fade in again. Queer.
bb:
Yeah, queer.
Hucka D.:
I’m ready to research Tronesis more. CHRO/ Blackbird. I wish to accompany Baker Blinker when/ if she returns to the mainlands. But I simply think she’ll be more in the skybox, and perhaps turning over more rezzing projects to Baker Bloch, even.
bb:
Has your camping trip to what you’re calling Verdigris started yet, Hucka?
Hucka D.:
We have found a good tent to use is all. Baker Bloch has tested it out at the location. We tried a pup tent and then a camper even… a trailor… but the large tent seemed to work best. He’s positioning it right on top of that green spot… takes up most of that spot. It is Verdigris. Green.
bb:
Do you know T-Bonz by chance? And his Mmmmmm’s?
Hucka D.:
We haven’t met.
bb:
T-Bonz favors the green Mmmmmm over the 2 red ones. They used a goodmobile to travel to Jonesborough on CREEK.
Hucka D.:
I don’t know what a goodmobile is.
bb;
It’s a vehicle for travel just like you have in SL.
Hucka D.:
I think you need to log in to see what your adventures will be for tonight, baker b.
Structures
Recently “completed” Hidalgo Gallery in the sky. All 10 collages of the series are now displayed, 4 in the top part of the gallery and the remaining 6 in the lower, larger half.
Baker Bloch’s appropriated tent for the camping trip. Should hold both he and Hucka D. quite comfortably.
Soon it will begin.
AI5 (cont.)
Well, something very odd has happened at the volcano camp site. To clear his mind, Baker Bloch decides to fly around the vicinity and stumbles upon this very charming little satellite island of AI5. I’ll give the name out a little later on, when adventures in this area settle down a bit. Really nice cave on the island with a complex layout. Here Baker Bloch is trying to figure out how to get in. He finally just walks through the waterfall pictured here in the background.
Part of the maze of paths within. Looks like these bridges were built sometime back.
Baker Bloch stretches his legs at a strategically placed campfire. Crystals like the ones in back of him here appear all around the cave, and in different colors.
Nom nom nom. Why can’t Baker Blinker have such delicious food laid out at the house somewhere? Baker Bloch thinks.
View of the island outside the cave. Same kind of rickety old bridges abound.
A view to the north, and beyond the immediate area of AI5. But Baker Bloch must restrict himself now to areas near the camping spot, he realizes. Too much going on here to leave for other adventures just yet! I’ll explain soon.
Gallery 1-4, First Pass
[0:56] Teleport completed from http://slurl.com/secondlife/Baker/24/71/22
[0:58] You: I will look through your eyes Baker Bloch. I will give my impressions of each collage, beginning with 1-4. Go ahead and enter the top part of the gallery.
[0:59] You: Yes. This represents the entrance to Lemon World via the waterfall. You stand at the top Baker Bloch, along with a sideways giant Walt SIDney. Hands hidden, foot certainly not hidden. Hand… foot.
[1:00] You: SIDney is staring at a manifested light. Oh, as I wrote that the light got brighter! Staring at the light which I think represents the brightness of SL itself. Dazzling in effect. Obscures all else. SID’s 1st Oz is left behind. Baker Bloch is ready to take the plunge down the waterfall into the ocean.
[1:01] Baker Bloch: Btw, this is the Okinu sim, Hucka D. Where the weird geometric patterns were formed that changed almost every time you beamed into the sim.
[1:03] You: Thank you for the clarification (Hucka D. answers). You asked me to keep Blinkerton in mind. I couldn’t help notice that the blurred flag, as if it were underwater…. hold on, I’m going to take a snapshot while I’m thinking of it…
[1:04] You: To cont… the flag is that of Arkansas, with 25 stars, the same number I believe in the Star Series of Charles Nelson Blinkerton. 25 or 26, but 26 fits in as well, since Arkansas is 25th state but 26th from end as well (Alaska/Hawaii). This represents the unconscious. Changeable, mutable. Unstable. Like the geometric patterns of the sim.
[1:05] You: 26 of course is also number of tiles in SID’s 1st Oz. SID is obscured here as well. Drowned out by the bright lights. The purple/blue martin and blue SIDney stare in the same direction, to the left. They are one here.
[1:08] You: Star Series of CNB was one lost in The Man during transition from SL Alpha to Beta. LOST. This involved a sim as well, as Man was center of Natoma sim but shifted to upper left corner in transition. This is loss of M in Syd mythology, but gained back in SID. Y is the key.
[1:08] Baker Bloch: Hucka D., we have not talked about Y much in this blog, and the difference between TILE and Tyle.
[1:09] You: Thank you Baker Bloch. No. Let’s return to this picture later on and move to the next. I’ll give more impressions. This is just the first run through.
[1:11] You: Ok, I think this was dealt with more in the blog. Called — what was it — Blue Holly, Blue Holly, Blue Holly. First picture, by the way, was called simply Lemon World I believe. This is picture of Hilo Peak Mtn. Long Hope Indians preparing Cherokee Black Drink… they are supposedly branch of Cherokee. One is spilling guts down side of mtn. Others are preparing more drink in the background.
[1:12] You: Another raises hands to sky… we’ll see him soon again in another collage. The blue clad mannequin with wings of holly blue butterfly represents Baker Blinker here, but also resonates with blue of former collage… SIDney, Ark. flag background, and also blue/purpler martin.
[1:12] You: Don’t you think this is Baker Blinker Baker Bloch?
[1:12] Baker Bloch: Could be Hucka D.
[1:13] You: I think so personally (Hucka D. answers). This is her idealized version, with the beautiful blue dress on that didn’t quite work out in reality. Nor the wings. Not yet anyway.
[1:13] Baker Bloch: Hucka D., do you think she’ll…
[1:14] You: Probably not (Hucka D. answers). It’s the Master Shake problem again. Her appearance can’t move too far away from his. The proportion of colors and so on. White and pink. Back to the collage, we have the bush as well here, which is same as blue holly bush. This is source of Black Drink. This is why Long Hope Indians stay on this mtn. range, in part at least, or perhaps for most part.
[1:15] You: Let’s move on to the next collage on the other side of the top part of the gallery. Let me take a snapshot first of this one.
[1:17] You: I believe this collage was also discussed about some in the blog of Baker Blinker’s. The two figures are husband and wife perhaps, but one with square head (male) and female with triangle head. This is two halves of one thing, though, united by double diamond in sky but also in front of them in shape of a double diamond hexahedron.
[1:18] You: They pass through two bushes which are actually one bush, lighted in different manners. Also in the background is the watertower of Lordsburg, but one can only see, perhaps, the LO of the name on its side due to shadow. LO, then. Low.
[1:18] You: Represents Low and also High Bushes.
[1:19] Baker Bloch: Hucka D., do you think this has something to do with AI5 now and the volcano, since it is the lowest part of AI? And also the triangle and square shapes of the volcano resonate with head shapes here. Too queer, perhaps.
[1:19] You: Too queer (Hucka D. answers). Yes, perhaps. The answers lie here in [delete name] sim. Verdy. Verdigris. He is here. He is there. We are here and there.
[1:20] Baker Bloch: Hucka D., is Verdy the bush, then??
[1:21] You: Thank you Baker Bloch (Hucka D. answers). We pass through two doors just as the triangle and square headed couple pass through two bushes here. We are uniting two diamonds in one. We are high and low at once. We are the high and…
[1:21] You: …low parts of this gallery. Hidalgo. LORDsburg.
[1:23] You: We must log out very soon. Let’s move on to the next collage Baker Bloch and then we’ll stop.
[1:25] You: So here’s “Destruction Day”. Oh, that last one was called “A Passing Double Diamond in the Night” I believe. So to DD… We have the rusty wagon from Shakespeare, the one CNB created a duplicate of and set on fire in front of The Man, filled will every one of his works from the ab ex and pop art periods of his career.
[1:25] You: President Hidalgo and another man watch with one eye apiece at the events occurring. Destruction Day also just happened in the real world Baker Bloch.
[1:26] Baker Bloch: Quite right Hucka D. A stressful day now passed. And also the evaluation over and done with. Relief! But here, when the collage was made: stress.
[1:28] You: I believe the collage conveys sense of helplessness. Destruction… unknown. (Hucka D. answers) Hidalgo symbols are present in president, wagon [Shakespeare] and also Hidalgo satellite between two heads. Destruction here…
[1:28] You: …is also destruction of small asteriod in this way. Planet destruction. Perhaps we should end now.
[1:28] Baker Bloch: Who is the woman Hucka D.?
[1:30] You: She is a symbol of fear or helplessness, perhaps (Hucka D. answers). Trying to run out of way of all the commotion going on. Trying to reach the stairs and the street level and safety, potentially. She is representation of baker b. at the time. Two wagons, two shredding trucks. Two heads, but one pair of eyes. Two in one.
THREE DAYS EARLIER…
THREE DAYS EARLIER, the party of 4 that immediately preceeded T-Bonz’ own party of 4 materializes on Rez Rock. Their leader is… well, it is unsure at this point who the leader will be!
As hinted at before, this particular party of 4, just like the later party of 4, find a goodmobile, and probably at the same place as well. We know now that the sole Mmmmmm of this particular party would know what a goodmobile is, and how to use one.
The goodmobile’s landing is not a smooth one this time, however, for various reasons, perhaps because these “characters” combined weight is a little more than T-Bonz and his 3 Mmmmmm’s. But I’m not sure of this either. At any rate, here’s the “crash” site. Screamer, as I’ll call him for obvious reasons, at first appears dead to the others just after the landing, but turns out to be only frozen in fear. It takes several minutes for him to become unimmobilized, um, mobilized I suppose.
In short time they arrive at the log bridge over (Tile) CREEK, just as T-Bonz and his Mmmmmm’s do will 3 days later. But in the case of this earlier party, a recent rain has made the bridge too wet to cross immediately, in their judgment.
A decision that proves to be prudent (!) since one of the troupe slips and falls to his untimely death from the west end of the log immediately afterwards. This is Bill Fork, who himself comes from another band of 4 but which is now reduced to 3.
The remaining 3 from *this* band proceed to higher ground to avoid being eaten by roaming wildlife that the lone Mmmmmm, orange in this case, warns them about. Not a comfortable perch for the night, admittedly, and in the middle of it Screamer dies of fear after hearing a long and deep growl from below.
The next day the two survivors of the preceding day, out of 4, cross the bridge into Jonesborough West, like T-Bonz and his Mmmmmms will do after them, now only 2 days behind.
And now I’m up to 50 percent sure who the leader is!
Gallery 5-6, First Pass
[0:51] You: So Baker Bloch we are finished with the top part of the gallery and are moving to the lower part now, or collages 6-10 of the Hidalgo series. Here we go!
[0:53] You: I need to check to see if this door lies directly below the top door. That has become an important detail, perhaps, Baker Bloch.
[0:53] Baker Bloch: Yes Hucka D., it has.
[0:54] You: So immediately we leap into the first of the two most complex collages of the series, which make an animation with each other.
[0:55] You: Let’s start with some pictorial elements we are already familiar with. I know in this collage that the left half of the collage changes quite a lot between the animations, but the right half basically stays the same.
[0:56] You: Here we have, again, the rusty Shakespeare wagon already depicted in the former collage, “Day of Destruction”. And perched on top of it is the blue holly dress w/ mannequin from collage number 2.
[0:57] You: This seems to be saying to me that the wagon full of Blinkerton art pieces and the blue holly or holly blue, butterfly, have something directly to do with each other. Star Series may be implied here, since 26 stars of collage no. 1 were on the blue field of the Arkansas flag.
[0:57] You: Stars in azure blue night.
[0:59] You: Oh yes, the bush is positioned on the mountaintop directly above the wagon and dress/mannequin. This is from collage no. 2 as well.
[1:00] You: Moving to the center we have another pictorial element from collage no. 2 as well, and that’s the Indian, supposedly Long Hope Indian, with outstreched…
[1:01] You: …arms. Here the image makes more sense in a way, since between his arms lies a waterfall which I know is on RL Hilo Peak Mtn. The gravemarker that dominates the center of the collage here, which is Jackson Pollock’s…
[1:02] You: … represents Hilo Peak Mtn. itself, then, and the stream the falls are on, which appear to start at Baker Bloch’s feet here — strange to be looking at a picture of yourself in a collage Baker Bloch, eh? — is the same as in the blog, when you manifest on this mtn.
[1:02] Baker Bloch: Hucka D., do you mean the place where I transition from Uli sim in SL to Hilo Peak Mtn. in RL? Where my feet get wet? And right before we enter Lemon World on that mtn.?
[1:03] You: Yes, Baker Bloch (Hucka D. answers). The mtn. and the Pollock gravestone are the same here. And the pile of rocks on the grave is the same as the rocks on top of rocks baker b. encountered at the pass into this mtn. as well. Has to be the same.
[1:04] You: This stream here is identified directly, as well, with the black drink that the Indian is throwing up standing directly behind you in this collage, or sitting on the mtn. behind you I suppose.
[1:05] You: We should also add that this is the town of Steins in Hidalgo County. Blinkerton lived there for a little bit I believe.
[1:05] Baker Bloch: Hucka D., don’t you remember living there? He did or he didn’t, I mean?
[1:05] You: Thank you Baker Bloch (Hucka D. answers). He lived there for a little while, then.
[1:06] You: The gravestone is not there, obviously, and the rusty wagon in the foreground comes from Shakespeare, which is nearby Steins but still a number of miles off.
[1:06] You: The gas pumps I believe come from Lordsburg. They were used in other Blinkerton art that you don’t know of yet Baker Bloch.
[1:07] You: And the triangle-square geometric figure in front of them, a INSERT, is another merger of square and triangle, like the couple of collage no. 3.
[1:07] You: The sign, Bel Shore Motel, is another object used in Blinkerton art. This seems to be much more about Charles Nelson Blinkerton than the other collages, or more openly about him.
[1:08] You: The gravemarker is where he had the vision in 1956, directly after the death of Pollock and which made him decide to move to Hidalgo County in NM in the first place. This is Hilo Peak in this county, but also Hilo Peak Mtn. in NC. See?
[1:08] Baker Bloch: Yes, Hucka D.
[1:09] You: And the falls is just that as well: a fall… off this mountain. Away from the perfection that the Long Hope Indians had created at the top, with their merger with the blue holly and the derived Black Drink.
[1:09] You: But that was foreseen as well by the elders, such as the one depicted here with outstretched arms.
[1:10] Baker Bloch: Hucka D., let’s move on to the next one now.
[1:10] You: Ok (Hucka D. answers).
[1:11] You: Let’s start with the left side again. We have the rusty wagon again, but from closer in and also at a strange angle, like it is trying to dump its contents like a garbage truck at a landfill.
[1:12] You: This is from “Day of Destruction” as well, along with the woman in the foreground, who has remained in the same position as the collage before this one.
[1:13] You: The bush from the former collage is also present in this one, but has moved to the highest point of Pollock’s gravemarker from its previous perch on the distant mountain. A holly blue butterfly now flitters around it or upon it.
[1:14] You: The blue holly butterfly is a symbol of the holly blue dress, I believe, and makes us understand that the bush is the blue holly as well here, from Hilo Peak Mtn.
[1:15] You: In NC, I might add. This also reinforces that the gravemarker is also Hilo Peak Mtn., which we’ve already ascertained. Now to the center.
[1:15] You: We have a giant lemon. I believe this stands for Lemon World, that manifests on this very mtn. and which we walked into that blue skied day. Remember Baker Bloch?
[1:15] Baker Bloch: Hucka D., yes, I remember.
[1:16] You: And this collage series is the result (Hucka D. answers). It looms like a giant rising sun behind the gravemarker/mtn. In front with have the Indians from collage no. 2, preparing more Black Drink from the blue holly leaves.
[1:17] You: The elements on the right half of the picture are the same. I should add that the rocks on top of the mountain are taken from a picture of Lee Krasner’s grave, which sits in front of Pollocks grave in Green River cemetery in Springs, NY.
[1:18] Baker Bloch: Hucka D., maybe we better stop there for tonight and continue with the last 4 collages in the series another night, maybe tomorrow.
[1:18] You: Sounds good (Hucka D. answers).
Speaking of Blinkerton…
… new Blinkerton art in the foyer of the house. 2 composites from his abstract expressionist period. I think they fit quite well here. They’re pretty big!
…
This is a 3rd Blinkerton already hanging in the house that Blinks moved to a different wall to make room for the composite pictured just above.
She did a great job with these.
Behind The Scenes
When I arrive for filming on Saturday around noon, I am appalled to find the camp of the cast and crew in complete disarray. Everyone is still sleeping!
“You guys drink all THAT last night?” (and I knew that it wasn’t filled with gatorade before, but something much stronger… knew that all along).
Well I finally got them moving about and cleaning up the camp and preparing for the day’s shoots. One of the hired hands has some fun waking up former child actor Tommy “The Scream” Benerson here. This moment seemed to lighten the mood.
A literal army of crewmen build the circular dolly ramp that unfortunately couldn’t be used today. Maybe tomorrow or next week, but at least it’s set up now.
George Jetson and Huckleberry Hound confer with dogfight expert Snoopy of Charlie Brown fame about the logistics of animated air battle. Unfortunately, this scene had to be cut from the shooting script today as well.
Similarly, one of the stars of our production, T-Bonz, consults with Captain Crunch regarding the inherent difficulties of working with child actors, which the naval officer has considerable experience with. That’s why we hired him to direct our crew, he he.
While the Mmmmmm’s aren’t technically children, their behavior and demeanor are comparable.
Speaking of which, here’s most of the Mmmmmm’s from our cast attempting to rouse the still sleeping Mossman. A sound snoozer this he-man is! Admittedly I’m afraid/wary of this cast member more than any other.
His short day of advising done, Snoopy enjoys some sunbathing atop his doghouse, which he always takes along on out-of-town job assignments.
The camp in relationship to the goodmoblie prop that T-Bonz and his 3 Mmmmmms landed here in the production several days ago. I’m guessing that its condition can’t be worsened by sitting out in one or two more rains!
Now to the shoot!
Jonesborough East: Prelude To “The Parties Unite”
Safely off the bridge across (Tile) Creek now and in Jonesborough East, as I’m calling it, T-Bonz and his Mmmmmm’s scamper down the root system of the overturned tree to the open area below the long rock wall discussed before, which runs all along the east side of the “burg”. Ooops, Berry or Cherry make boo boo climbing down!
A view toward the top of the Wall. No way to access the top from here.
“Is this the cave?” Cherry or Berry stupidly asks his Master T-Bonz, pointing to the relatively tiny hole above his head while walking toward the south end of the wall.
Only 30 minutes later, after they finished exploring the south and move past the roots again to the north, does T-Bonz dare to speak in his anger. “THERE,” he then emits like a volcano spewing forth molten lava. “THAT’S the cave you red stained dummy!” He growls again, and then tells all the Mmmmmm’s to stay on this rock and DON’T MOVE… or else. “Where are you going Master T-Bonz?” the red Mmmmmm’s ask innocently and innoculously in their child-like voices. But Verdy, the lone green Mmmmmm of their group, already knew the answer. “Never mind where I’m going, just STAY PUT,” he commands in no uncertain terms again. “ON-THIS-ROCK.”
T-Bonz then moves toward a rhododendron tree that, when climbed, will give him access to the rock ledge that his destination sits upon: the white rock jut discussed in former (Tile) CREEK related posts on this blog just before production began.
“Ahhhh, there it is. The legendary White Rock,” he coos. “Sing to me dearest, now. Sing to me the mysteries of this place. Sing to me the knowledge I seek and have come for, with these imbeciles in tow — subtracting Verdy a bit, because I actually like Verdy a little, you see. But the others — well, never mind that now. I am here with you and that’s all that’s important. Speak to me; sing to me if you wish but at least speak.”
And the rock obeyed and began to sing…
… making T-Bonz fall instantly asleep, which Verdy foresaw.
“Now’s my chance Cherry and Berry,” Verdy said to them with a wink, moving toward the cave and inside. “Wait, Master T-Bonz said stay put!” they implored. But it was too late. Verdy was consumed by the darkness.
Family Meeting (#?)
Baker Bloch:
“Thank you for taking the time to show up for this family meeting I’ve called.
Baker Blinker:
‘Tis ok. What’s this all about mainly? The island shifting?
Baker Bloch:
Yes and no.
Hucka D.:
We’ve already discussed how the islands will have to shift, most likely. *Move*… like the LOST island.
Baker Bloch:
We also need to talk about this new bleedthrough between SL and RL, potentially. I think it’s already happened.
Hucka D.:
I do too.
Baker Bloch:
The green patch that keeps us trapped in that time/space loop. Or at least a space loop. What would you call it Hucka D.?
Hucka D.:
As you know, Baker Blinker, all three of us have been working on our various projects. All of these unite through this patch or spot, which is Verdigris, in the volcano sim we’ve been camping in and still are camping in in fact. We cannot leave until this unity is resolved.
Baker Bloch:
This has something to do with Verdy, Baker Blinker. Verdy-Verdigris. Of this we’re pretty sure.
Baker Blinker:
Verdy? That’s the first I’ve heard of him.
Baker Bloch:
There was a sacrifice involved that allowed us to become fixed in time and space upon this place. The tent structure is the same as the gallery structure as it stands now.
Baker Blinker:
Who’s Verdy, though?
Hucka D.:
Verdy is the sacrifice that allowed us to do so.
Baker Blinker:
What’s this got to do with the gallery?
Baker Bloch:
Because of the sacrifice, I can enter the gallery and allow Hucka D. to look through my eyes and give his opinions and interpretations. We are one within the gallery.
Baker Blinker:
This is the first I’ve heard of it.
(Baker Bloch and Hucka D. apologize and then fill in Baker Blinker’s lack of knowledge about the union of the now completed Hidalgo Gallery and its 10 collages, and the camping trip in the Verdigris tent in the volcano sim).
Baker Blinker:
Very odd. How much will you have to interpret until the loop is closed? And will then gallery then be modified to make the two sliding doors actually one sliding door?
Baker Bloch:
They are already in this loop, although you still have to physically move between the two for now. They are north and south, when they are actually both in the middle. High and low become inbetween.
Hucka D.:
Yes, we have to fixate the memories of Charles Nelson Blinkerton through this study. The recently hung paintings in the ground house facilitate this as well.
Baker Blinker:
If this portal has been created or reinforced or sumtin, is it now possible for us to enter RL as well?
Hucka D.:
We are still studying that possibility. We now know that there is a position called Rez Rock in RL that allows quote unquote “avatars” from other realities to enter. But SL avatars have not been among them yet.
I should add: we know this from our experiences in Verdigris.
Baker Blinker:
Have you been camping there every night?
Baker Bloch:
No. We do not have to camp there. We simply have to position the tent squarely upon the green spot so it and Verdigris can become one. This is when the unity happens between the three of us. This is what you were aiming for, Blinks, even in the Just Call Me Ernie Banks? phase, which is now definitely ended, wouldn’t you agree?
Hucka D. (after a pause):
Verdy represents a non-SL avatar entering SL in that way. We do not know whether he is the first, or the last. But he is all we know now.
Baker Blinker:
So am I to understand that this Verdy, whatever he or she is, and Verdigris, this patch or spot next to the volcano, are the same now?
Hucka D.:
Yes.
Baker Bloch:
Blinks, we’ll deal with the island moving stuff later on. I apologize again for not keeping you up with the important events of the camping trip.
Baker Blinker:
So — to rehash — you position the tent, that particular structure, upon the green spot — squarely, as you put it — and when you enter the tent it becomes the Hidalgo gallery.
Baker Bloch:
The top part, yes. We have not been able to close the loop, and to make the two sliding doors of the gallery one yet. When that happens, my guess is that the loop will no longer be needed and Verdy can retreat back to his dimension. Wouldn’t you say that’s a distinct possibility, Hucka D.?
Hucka D.:
The two doors will have to become one, which will be the same as the tent door. High and low must become middle before we — and I’m including Verdy and maybe even other avatars from his dimension — can move on.
Baker Blinker:
It speaks to what an avatar is, seemingly. Is an avatar the same as a toy? Or is a toy an avatar?
(to be continued)
Gallery 7-10, First Pass
[1:16] Teleport completed from http://slurl.com/secondlife/Baker/95/72/32
[1:21] Baker Bloch: So Hucka D., here we are at collage #7.
[1:22] You: Thank you Baker Bloch (answers Hucka D.). You are a star again. 🙂 Controlled by a person who is a summary of two Labyrinth movies, but who also obviously represents SL itself, with the hand in eye motif.
[1:23] You: This is not a true labyrinth, though, with no dead ends. It is instead a maze, symbolically, which does have dead ends and which is designed to confuse more than enlighten.
[1:24] You: There’s a square shaped waterfall again, like we have in collage no. 1 of this series. And you were in that one as well, Baker Bloch, standing atop the falls, although barely perceptible because you were so small.
[1:24] Baker Bloch: That was when we first entered Lemon World on Hilo Peak Mtn.
[1:25] You: Thank you Baker Bloch (answers Hucka D.). I would assume, then, that this maze or labyrinth — maze — is symbolic of the ocean sim of SL again pictured in collage no. 1, or…
[1:26] You: Okinu sim, with the strange geometric shapes. They confuse just like a maze. However, it is a symbol of the SL ocean in itself, in particular the water maze of the oldest continent of Sansara…
[1:26] You: …which you extensively explored in period 1 of Baker Blinker’s blog, Baker Bloch. That’s why you’re the star, again, of this collage. You look down at your feet again because you can only…
[1:27] You: …see one small part of the maze at any one time, i.e., during any one particular exploration trek. SL has you under its control, then, while you remain in Sansara. You only escape this control by moving to AI with Baker Blinker…
[1:29] You: I think that’s rather obvious here. The motel in the background is one that Charles Nelson Blinkerton lived in, one of them anyway. In Lordsburg. Entrapment in…
[1:30] You: …Lordsburg for CNB equaling same for you, Baker Bloch, in Sansara and its water maze? Does this represent the life of CNB itself, another maze?
[1:30] Baker Bloch: Could be Hucka D.
[1:30] You: Thank you Baker Bloch (Hucka D. answers). Let’s move to the next collage.
[1:32] You: This is based upon several things, actually. One is the so-called Heater series of CNB, where you directly draw the little bellboy image from. The ant and the sign are from another Blinkerton art piece.
[1:33] You: It is called “Sawmill Heir Wins Pis-Ant Reward, Ha!”, but also another similar work called “Rebel Ho’s Motel”. A combo of these two Jasper Johns inspired pieces of art. The other sign…
[1:34] You: …in the collage here, which is called “Heater Presents The Mouth of Hell” btw, is in essence blank. We have reached the end of a style, perhaps. The mouth of hell is a portal?
[1:34] Baker Bloch: Hucka D., those are the Lee Krasner gravemarker rocks again pouring out of the fire.
[1:36] You: Yes, thank you Baker Bloch (answers Hucka D.). The Shakespeare wagon from collages 4, 5, 6 is present again after an absence in no. 7. This is collage no. 8 I should add. The woman is once again running toward it, as if the wagon and its contents…
[1:36] You: …are in peril. Danger of being consumed by fire again. The rocks could act as a cooling effect here?
[1:36] You: I’m having trouble interpreting the fire.
[1:37] Baker Bloch: Wouldn’t you think this has to do with Burning Man and its translation in SL, or Burning Life?
[1:38] You: Yes, thank you Baker Bloch (answers Hucka D.). The Star Series and the entire Lemon World are in the wagon, I’m reminded, then. But something is blocking the fire. A feminine counteraction?
[1:38] Baker Bloch: This is the first pass Hucka D. Why don’t we move on to collage no. 9 and come back to this, then.
[1:39] You: Correct Baker Bloch (answers Hucka D.).
[1:40] You: Again you are a star Baker Bloch! Baker Blinker is in this one as well, the first time she has appeared in the series. Heater is present as well, and presenting again, this time a remade and remodelled…
[1:40] You: Ms. Blinker. She is her idealized self. We should talk of Alma soon.
[1:41] Baker Bloch: Hucka D., I seem like I don’t realize Baker Blinker is in the area in this collage. Is she a dream, then?
[1:42] You: Thank you Baker Bloch for that response (answers Hucka D.). I think she is duplicitous here. *She* is present, but you don’t know she is. You are despondent. SL is a maze at this point. AI is in the future. She is azure, then. The future. Hope.
[1:42] You: Feminine counterpoint again? Perhaps. She is also the future houses and property on AI. And I think she is the main island as well…
[1:43] You: … all of these. That is in the immediate future to you, but you cannot *see* it yet, you see.
[1:43] Baker Bloch: Yes Hucka D., I think that’s a correct interpretation.
[1:43] You: Thank you Baker Bloch (answers Hucka D.). Let’s move to the last collage, then. I want to get back to the Alma archetype soon, though.
[1:44] Baker Bloch: What do we have here, then, Hucka D.? I notice that I’m in the collage once more. That’s 4 out of the last 6!
[1:45] You: Correct Baker Bloch (answers Hucka D.). Well, I think this represents the edge of escape from the maze. The center is the same as the Sea of Solomon here. If you…
[1:45] You: …look closely, you can see elements of RL Baker’s Island just off the coast of Cape Breton next to the pile of objects in the very center of the labyrinth here…
[1:46] You: … and this is a true labyrinth in contrast to the maze of collage no. 7. But in the context of SL, this is the *Isle* of Baker, in the Baker sim next to the Sea of Solomon. You see this isle in a number of posts from…
[1:47] You: earlier in Baker Blinker’s blog. So we see the lighthouse from Baker’s Island and the caretaker’s house, all transferred to the Isle of…
[1:48] You: …Baker. Isle of Baker and Baker’s Island become one here. The pile of objects in the center of the labyrinth represents the Sea of Solomon as the potential center of the reorganized Sansara continent — that’s a pretty…
[1:49] You: …radical thought. The pile of objects also represents a place of rezzing. According to mythology expert Salazar Jack, the Sea of Solomon may be the oldest part of Sansara, actually, pre-Linden era that is.
[1:49] You: It is the center, but for you, Baker Bloch, here, you must recognize the potential labyrinthian nature of Sansara but also plot your escape. You stand on the very edge…
[1:50] You: …of the labyrinth, which would represent the newish Greta continent that you had been exploring.
[1:51] You: You are like the lighthouse in the center of the labyrinth, directly to the left of you here. The heart leads you away, the one you found in Okinu sim, not unimportantly.
[1:52] You: Here is where you separarte from the mainland and Sansara and all the rest of the Linden controlled continents created afterwards. The reorganization…
[1:52] You: …comes through the *labyrinth*.
[1:53] Baker Bloch: Thank you Hucka D. for these interpretations, Hucka D. *Now*… let’s try that door.
[1:53] Baker Bloch: Big moment!
[1:54] Baker Bloch: It’s just the gallery still.:-(
[1:54] You: Give it time Baker Bloch (answers Hucka D.). We’ve got to go through at least one more pass of the gallery as a whole.
Easy as…
Interviewer (Toy Avatar Weekly):
We’re here with Grassy Noll, star of the new toy avatar production The Adventures of Salad Bar Jack in the River of TILE. Tell us how you got involved in this production Grassy, and how you won the coveted role of Salad Bar Jack? And how you approach this character?
Grassy Noll:
They were looking for either a one armed actor or one whose arm came naturally out of joint so they could pin it behind his back. I fit one of the two categories (laughs).
Interviewer:
You are a Mmmmmm in real life as well.
Grassy:
Yeah, hard to hide that fact (laughs).
Interviewer:
What are your inspirations to play the character, or how would you define your philosophy of acting as applied to this particular role?
Grassy:
You take it day to day. I may act tomorrow and I may not. If I don’t I’m drinking (smiles).
Interviewer:
That’s it?
Grassy:
Seriously, I will add there’s a special quality about this production, and it has to do with the actual river that the whole story revolves around.
Interviewer:
The River of TILE?
Grassy:
It talks to us at night, even through the drunkenness. Something has happened in the camp that’s pretty odd. We left the recorders on by accident, or so they say, the second night we were in the woods. Something was picked up.
Interviewer:
Burping?
Grassy:
No, seriously. The Scream (actor Tommy Benerson) said he heard it in reality, but no one took him super serial until we listened to the playback. It was a hum, a humming I should say.
Interviewer:
Back to your inspiration for the role.
Grassy (ignoring request):
It was humming the Alphabet Song. No words — or letters in this case — but just the humming part, the tones. That’s what we recognized.
(to be continued)
Jonesborough East: The Parties Unite + The Appearance
Mossman was enjoying an afternoon nap on the mossy cliffs above the cave and the White Rock when he was roused by the singing. In his several days in the area, he had never heard the rock “sing” before so he didn’t know what to make of it at first — couldn’t tell what direction it was coming from. Finally he was able to get a bead on the source and came upon the the still sleeping T-Bonz.
“Wake up sleepy head,” exclaimed the moss creature in a ferocious but not-as-ferocious-as-you-would-imagine voice. “What did you do?” asked Mossman to the stirring T-Bonz, pointing to the white rock jut. “What is that humming or singing and why is it coming from that rock? Why are you here?”
All legitimate questions, of course, but when T-Bonz came out of his fuzzy headedness and looked around, he was more concerned about there being only *two* Mmmmmm’s on the rock below, and not the three he left there. “WHERE’S VERDI IMBECILES???” he roared to the remaining Mmmmmm’s Cherry and Berry below, who began to quake upon seeing their master up and about again.
“How dare you speak to an Mmmmmm in that tone?” the surprised Mossman then exclaimed, not as a reproving remark but just one of disbelief. “Why?” T-Bonz asked gruffly, turning back to the moss man. “How do you treat them? Like princes and princesses?”
“I treat them with the honor that elders should be treated, although I am not familiar with the dealings of the red strain of that species. I know the orange ones command much respect. You appear to be the master of those, but Lodi, the orange one I travel here with from, as for now, unnamed dimensions, is more my master than I his, although he wouldn’t put it that way.
“Well that’s just plain stupid,” T-Bonz retorts. “They’re just little pieces of plastic candy.”
“Are we not plastic as well?” responded Mossman thoughtfully in that loud but not-too-loud voice.
“We’re different,” T-Bonz says. “*I’m* different anyway. We are shaped like the man of the outer world. They are not.”
“Just because they are natives of the inner world and are more distant to the shapes and forms of the exterior does not make them necessarily inferior to us, um, what did you say your name was stranger?”
“I didn’t,” T-Bonz replied. “But since you’re asking it’s T-Bonz. But I haven’t got all day to stand up here yammering about philosophy of up and down and sideways and whatnot. I gotta find that stray Mmmmmm.”
“Yes, like you T-Bonz, I do not know the whereabouts of my companion Mmmmmm, one in my case. He disappeared inside that cave your red Mmmmmm’s stand on the edge of and hasn’t returned yet, although he promised he would as soon as he could. He said something about a, um, what was it? Portal. Yes, the cave is a portal. It is called The Cave of The Alphabet, he said. Have you heard of it? Is this by chance why you are here, to also deal with this portal, whatever it is?”
“Damn you ask a lot of questions green man,” replied T-Bonz in his gruff way. He turned and jumped down from the ledge, going up to the shaking red Mmmmmm’s and demanding simply, in about as loud a voice as he could muster: “WHERE?!?”
It took all of Cherry and Berry’s balance just to remain upright, so frightened they were, but one of them managed to point toward the cave. T-Bonz understood, then.
He stomped toward the mouth of the cave but then turned back to Mossman who had followed him off the cliff. “You don’t suppose, mossy man, that they’re in there TOGETHER??? (pause). What sex did you say your little orange buddy was?”
“Male, I think,” replied Mossman. “What’s yours?”
“I dunno… female I suppose.”
But before they could follow this train of thought further to its possible, logical conclusion, Cherry and Berry were excitedly calling them back to the rock they had remained on all this time. “We found her, we found her. Verdy is here!” they shouted, waving to Mossman and T-Bonz at the mouth of the cave. “Well, at least MY problem is taken care of,” exclaimed T-Bonz, actually happy to see Verdy in the distance. “Stupid things must have just imagined she went into the cave or sumtin.”
But when T-Bonz and Mossman went back to the rock, they found a green Mmmmmm who T-Bonz definitely knew was not Verdi. Like T-Bonz, he only had one arm, while Verdy most assuredly had two.
“Who are you?” demanded T-Bonz in an unflattering voice.
“My name is Salad Bar Jack,” came the response. “And I am the last of the green Mmmmmm’s.”
JCMEB? Not Dead! (Just Beehive Now)
Baker Blinker pulling out. “It’s all yours Hucka Doobie!”
Sunklands 