what could I do?
Logged in tonight and found out cheapest parcels in Second Life available on mainland were right next to the Rubi Forest. So I abandoned my Noru parcel and bought ’em. I feel like I’ve come home. There’s some regrets, true. But… like the title says, what could I do? I haven’t developed my Noru property, really, since August. And I can sell the land and make a profit this time I’m sure. So, yes, I feel good about this heading into the winter season. We’ll see what develops!
Early stages
TEXT SOON.
“new” Collagesity, early views
The setup of the newest version of Collagesity continues. I have the “urban” area on the south side basically complete in its initial phase. The great majority of structures found in Noru have now been successfully relocated.
Karoz appears very happy now with the move, although he was physically sick at first upon hearing the news. Sorry Karoz! I’ll have to remember about his delicate stomach in breaking future news like this. But after it was set up and he toured the place he *loved* it, I believe. He realizes that there was nowhere else to go with Noru. We had to return to Rubi and its steady energy. He says he can feel a low hum coming from the forest. He states there’s more adventures to be found there — more information. Can’t wait.
The town diner has returned, but in the Sam Parr complex of buildings this time. It all makes more sense this go around. Sam Parr College *had* to be in the main part of town. Noru was too divided between north and south — just the way it developed and progressed. Oh, and the *train* and accompanying track has been successfully transferred (!) Very cool.
The northern side of town remains less finished. I still face the task of properly setting up the Falmouth Gallery and Power Tower Gowlery in the central area, made rather daunting because of the largeness of both buildings and the number of pictures within. These 2 side-by-side galleries remain my virtual axis, along with the neighboring main Sam Parr building housing the newest collage series. The older Art 10×10 continues a presence in the new village with the inclusion of the SoSo Gallery and its Oblong series.
I think it’s going to be an exciting place.
coming along…
Collagesity, Rubi Forest style, is getting in shape. I’ve now successfully re-established both the Falmouth and Power Tower galleries containing the vast bulk of my newer collages. Cool… but I don’t relish the thought of moving the things again (!) Falmouth and Power Tower divide urban from suburban in the town, with the latter less finished than the former. I need to start thinking about a new town philosophy. If you count a caddycorner relationship, this is the *sixth* time I’ve owned land bordering the Rubi Forest down through the years now, and in all four cardinal directions as well. I’ll have to make a map sometime of the ownership history. I’ve never owned in Minoa, the sim I inhabit now, which makes it a new chapter of sorts. My new land also borders the opposite corner of the forest from the property I held in Hector earlier this year. They probably act as some kind of balance for each other.
I’ll make a town map soon. The downtown area in the southern part appears to be a step up in energy for Collagesity from Noru even, better integrating Sam Parr State College with several former exterior elements, like the Kidd Tower, Bodega Market, SoSo gallery, and X Spot Gallery. As stated before, President Karoz is now super excited after a bout of trepidation over the move.
Hmm. There actually is a village called Minoa in New York, the only one with that root name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoa,_New_York
I’ll have to think about possible links with the newest version of Collagesity in the Minoa sim.
This may be *it* — my final Second Life move. I’m very, very pleased with the outcome of the admittedly quite sudden uprooting. It helped a heck of a lot that I abandoned my Noru land and thus was able to gradually move a lot of the components over to Minoa before their derezzing (which still hasn’t happened in bulk). Although the Power Tower and Falmouth galleries were set up there as well, Hector never developed into a true town, like Collagesity in Noru did. Minoa successfully continues this incorporation. Another plus is the close proximity of the already established TILE Tower still in Rubi, along with a small bar there. Funtastic.
Here’s an exciting prospect as well. Even when I fit out the remaining buildings I might have upwards of 650 prims to still play around with in a skybox situation. I didn’t resurrect the Noru Museum, and I think that saved about 150 prims right there. On the other hand, the two Victorian houses I currently have in Collagesity didn’t appear in Noru. A happy conundrum, though (!)
“Power Tower and Falmouth: Done!”
UMapS/GNIRPS 01
https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2014/09/16/19298/
bb:
Who else has enrolled? I guess we should end this surrealism soon.
Hucka D.:
Dumbgo the Insignificant. He’s probably the worst of the bunch. Patty Pepper Mint herself has enrolled for a jewelry class.
bb:
I believe that one got cancelled.
Hucka D.:
Oh right. A shame. Story Room themselves will teach the class called “Composing with the colors red, yellow, blue”. That should be exciting.
bb:
Kind of a Piet Mondrian effect, then.
Hucka D.:
Pietmond?
bb:
Umm…
Hucka D.:
Who else? The B. R. Cyrus twins Idaho Oker and Ohiowa Oming. Oh, and Fredrika Mercurious, the famous dump truck driver. And Pletiosaurus Rex. I believe that might be it.
bb:
Thank you, Hucka D. Good night, and we’ll get to those collage interpretations soon.
So Sam Parr State College is all set up again, Hucka D. We know that Ohiowa Oming is Winona Ryder. Don’t we?
Hucka D.:
She is…
bb:
Then she is.
Hucka D.:
Yeah.
bb:
Lost in the cane forest.
Hucka D.:
“Composing with the colors red, yellow, blue” by Story Room is actually the first 3 stories of Winesap, baker b. Ohiowa may take that class. Actually as I think of it, it’s required.
bb:
We should probably talk of UMapS in general. Or are we calling that GNIRPS now?
Hucka D.:
Let’s talk of Collagesity[ first].
bb:
Okay.
[delete 3 minutes]
Hucka D.:
… last chance.
bb:
I realize that, Hucka D. I’ve lived around this forest 5 or 6 times now. Need to look at the big picture. I’ve traced enough of a hypercube, as it were…
Hucka D.:
… as it is…
bb:
To make a stab.
Hucka D.:
The forest is a computer.
“Eye of Rye…
…is close enough to Video, Greene County in this original Corsica-Pennsylvania overlap that we can latch on to the association. Eye of Rye is Video. Media, Pennsyvania may stand for Audio (missing in GNIRPS) or perhaps audio and video together to make sync. We know from old Corsica material, Bracket, that Chasm Deep represents the ear of the overall elephant[ in the room], as Eye of Rye originally stands for the eye before it is weakened as it were…
Bracket Jupiter:
… as it is… (smiles)
bb:
… and move to the more correctly placed Egg Hill sink overlapped with Centre County, Penn.
Bracket:
That’s the eye of course. Have you realized I teach at WW, starting in the Spring?
bb:
But it’s really Sam Parr State College. And you teach the political history of Second Life mainland, not the actual, real world.
Bracket:
Correctomundo!
bb:
That’s why we’re boning up!
Bracket:
Thank you once again. I enjoyed our time together as teacher and pupil. I hope I taught you well. Now you can teach me.
bb:
It’s ultimately subconscious, though.
Bracket:
Okay.
bb:
But thank you. It’s a brilliant move. We work together again at least on a subconscious level. And through us the other teacher. The one who I didn’t get to know. In-between is Green. We are in Winona County, Wisconsin[ as well], starting at the red and also blue Rollingstone covers at Winona itself… herself, and attempting to see Green again behind. 1 eye. Illuminati obviously.
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bb:
Media would be on the opposite side of the Pennsylvania-Corsica melding, at the place I first visited on the continent, Bracket. That could be important as well. Here’s the related link:
That’s the first post on Corsica I created, btw. Alpha.
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bb;
When you flip Pennsylvania around underneath the Corsica outline, Media almost exactly replaces Video, and then you have Eye of Rye following the circle of the upper part of Delaware state itself, which Delaware County, Penn. is just above.
Bracket:
Well… tell me more about Greene County and your real life family, baker b.
bb:
Coded into this is father, sister, brother. Father is corner sync. Ned Ryerson from Groundhog Day. It’s pretty obvious.
Bracket:
Yes, that’s cool. You already told me about it in[ the briefing].
bb:
Sister as well. Sister use to own property in Nebo. That’s where that name comes from. 32 acres. And Nebo is the same as Video. Time is nearby also, like in Illinois.
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bb:
And of course you have Corsica as a town within Pennsylvania, just below Forest County and in the same county as Punxsutawney.
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Bracket:
Microcosm, yes.
Developing 01
What’s not in new Collagesity (Minoa) that was in old or original Collagesity (Noru):
Noru Museum:
Lots of prims involved, and obviously not as apropos in Minoa as it was in Noru. May set up a Rubi Museum, however, like this same structure housed in, well, Rubi’s VWX Town this past winter. Rubi has a history too, just as substantial, probably, as my involvement with Noru.
Tired Falls:
Not a structure, but a missing element for sure. I hated to give up that waterfall. Can’t find a place on the new property for it. However, the focus on the new property is obviously the Rubi Forest itself. Which reminds me…
… to complement this…
Lucky’s Magic Village (Old Rubi Museum, VWX Town)
Back to the survey…
Toxic Art Gallery:
I’ve chose not to rez this admittedly prim saving gallery holding 80 of the 100 collages of the Art 10×10, still my most important collage work overall, I feel. Perhaps. But Falmouth and Power Tower and now the Sam Parr State College Admin Building hold newer and perhaps more pertinent collages and it seemed time to move on. Actually, this was derezzed in Noru before I decided to move.
X Spot Gallery (top, main part):
This was not filled out in Noru, but represented a really nifty way to bridge the Kidd Tower, Power Tower, and Falmouth galleries in a low skybox. Also will be missed. Could theoretically still hold the Jeogeot Through Art and Word exhibit. But that’s more connected to Noru as well since Noru is part of the Jeogeot continent.
So what’s in new Collagesity, conversely, that wasn’t in the old Noru version?
SoSo Gallery:
Containing the Oblong series of the Art 10×10, perhaps the most important series within it and most cohesive. 20 collages in the series (out of 100 total in the Art 10×10). Nice addition to the town beyond Noru.
Home o’ Fibs:
Another structure that wasn’t in Noru but is in Minoa. Nice view from the porch into the meat of the town.
House of Truth:
Was in Minoa until a couple of days ago. May return.
So 1 more way Camp Ruby pops up in a list of pop places (through variant names):
Mostly familiar counties there: Duplin, Dallas, Patrick.
Conclusion for now:
Minoa Collagesity still needs an identity. Sam Parr State College seems stronger within (they’ve claimed the SoSo Gallery, the Kidd Tower, the Bodega Supermarket, and the lower building of the X Spot Gallery (!)), so that’s a core to build from. Sam Parr St. College, I feel, is a virtual life complement to Woodrow Wilson College in Ashville. Both border protected forests. That’s a link that can be furthered as well, probably starting with Bracket Jupiter and his proposed Spring Semester course on the continent of Corsica. Cool idea. Required reading will be the Baker Blinker Blog’s posts on the subject, collected in one work.
One possibility for a t-shirt selling on campus, then:
Charity-Tin City, NC
Charity-Tin Town, MO
Christmas gathering in Central Square
Researching…
… my most recent, full involvement in Rubi area (VWX Town of last winter) and am at point where I get heavy duty into the Rubi Forest, quickly uncovering a seemingly direct relation between the forest and what’s called the Lucas sequence, which is closely allied to the more famous Fibonacci series.
https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/12/10/rubi-treesgolden-mean/
Article on Lucas. Unusual death to note again, like I’ve chronicled before on this blog in places (Anderson, Harding, et al.).
http://milan.milanovic.org/math/english/lucas/lucas.html
Besides uncovering the Lucas numbers, Lucas (under the interesting anagram of Claus) is credited with the Tower of Hanoi puzzle. This tower is also called the Lucas Tower or the Sagefool Stacks. It’s used as an intelligence test near the beginning of the Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbFZ3dgpPvM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_of_the_Planet_of_the_Apes
The sequel is suppose to be even better, and just released this past summer and available on DVD at the end of December.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_of_the_Planet_of_the_Apes
Researching 02…
In this post from last December, I contemplate that Rubi and VWX Town may be a final virtual home in Second Life. However, in order to make it so, I’d have to trim down the burg from a 16896 (too much tier to pay) to an 8704 (next tier down, and borderline manageable in terms of payment). It didn’t work out then, but, guess what, I now have an 8704, *and* a virtual city next to the Rubi Forest again. Then is *this* my final resting spot in Second Life? It could be so. Probably not given my track record, but we’ll just have to see.
https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/12/10/final-virtual-home/
At the time, I divided VWX Town into Indulgence (8192 sq meters) and Essence (8704), with the idea that Essence would be spared during the tier gear down. But I ended up selling the whole 16896. If I had stayed in Rubi I wouldn’t have gotten a last chance to live in Noru and explore the remaining ties to Jeogeot mythology. So I believe it’s fate. And it’s probably fate I move again, like I said. But…
We’ll see.
Probably exiting land ownership in Second Life
Thought I’d write this post before heading to the coast for the holidays. I’ve been caught heavily encroaching on a neighbor’s property in Minoa, and I believe I’ll just set the land for sale when I return. I have until maybe Tuesday to think about it. I haven’t done anything with the land except build on it and then ignore it. Could go back to renting from Lama Estates. It seems I need just a bit more than an 8704 to be happy. Have to “encroach” in other words, to keep my tier from bumping up into the unreasonable again. So that’s probably what I’ll do. There’s a nice chance that collage creating could resume in January, so I’ll have a new gallery to deal with soon enough.
So it looks like Minoa is *not* my permanent stop in SL. What I need is more room, and I can’t afford it. Probably can’t really afford the 8704. I’ll have to read some of my old SL related blog entries on my break before making a final decision. This could be *it*.
Next Step
Carrcasses:
Carrcasses will obviously continue, and probably for the rest of my life. I’m in a steady state era for these kind of creations, with the length consistently between 45 and 70 minutes for almost all of ’em. Carrcasses are still the axis of my creativity, even though I don’t devote the time to them that I use to, especially during the early to mid-2000’s. At some point I’m looking to notch it up again with the possibilities of computer editing on both the audio and video sides. Recent clues about how this might come about could be here…*
https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/map-sinking-feeling-02/
In 2014 I created only 1 carrcass (C-11), after making 4 in 2013 (C-7.5, C-8, C-9, C-10), a banner year along with even higher peaks in 2006 and 2007. I haven’t even taped the last one — rectification soon.
Collages:
Obviously these will continue as well, and have become the creative focus above and beyond carrcasses (although I still see the latter as the fundamental note). I’ve created over 100 collages in the past 2 years, matching the total for the 9 years before that, which includes the Art 10×10. Although these are already born digital, I seem to be edging more into hard core animation, starting with the recent “Story Room” animation involving the first 6 collages of the Falmouth series. This series overall was quite the surprise — who knew that I would create a 61 piece effort that fast? Not me (until it was over). Another development has been the 2, 3, and 4 part pieces, or diptychs, triptychs, and tetraptychs. These complement the natural 2-4 part animations I first developed in the Art 10×10. How far down the animation road I’ll travel and away from the stand alone pieces I don’t know yet.
So more collages than ever created in 2014: over 70 adding in September’s Sam Parr series of 10 to the 61 from the earlier Falmouth series. It appears I’m in a flow.
Preservation:
As collages are born digitally, I’m not as concerned about preservation issues for them. Audiovisual synchs are still created using old fashion analog techniques. I have a rough table of all the “tiles”, which includes info about cue points and involved media, but more is needed in this area. More digital copies of analog creations need to be created. A 2015 resolution.
Sunklands:
This year I’ve also gathered together my collage series, along with the interpretations I share with others on my blog, in a new website using a freshly coined domain name, sunklands.com. Also here are descriptions and slurl links to virtual towns where the artwork is displayed (example: Collagesity, Noru and now Minoa). Another interesting category developed on the Sunklands site is the idea of hybrid works straddling defined areas, like “6 Weeks of Shining” from this year, or “Baker Bloch in England” from 2010. Carrcasses have a place in sunklands.com too, and I plan to create an abbreviated “Table” listing tiles from The Rainbow Sphere to SID’s 1st Oz at least. Hidden behind this will be the larger, full table of tiles (Rainbow Sphere to present, Carrcass-11 most recently). I’ve fitted Paradox I and its larger, fictional followup Paradox II (latter still in progress) into Sunklands as well.
Blog:
Apart from the Sunklands site, I’m still working daily on my personal blog, Frank and Herman, Einstein!, since 2012 (supplanting my original one, the Baker Blinker Blog from 2008-2012). Hybrids spring from this, along with collage interpretations and descriptions and working file stuff. Toward the end of this year map synch material has been developed more, resulting in yet another kind of collage (7-part “Map Stuff” from Nov. and early Dec.). This is my bread and butter.
Local Hiking/Myth Making:
The title of the Frank and Herman, Einstein! blog refers to the 2 large, contiguous parks I live near, and which I assumed at the time of its birth in August 2008 would be a lifetime focus above and beyond, for example, Second Life or other pursuits. But this year I decided that Blue Mountain will in all likelihood probably *not* be the place we spend our retirement years in the main. Instead that burden will fall on Ashville. As part of this big shift, I’ve decided to rename the latter Middletown to indicate its more central role. The recently uncovered Ashville Circle built around Cherry Avenue and parallel Linden Creek will turn into the Middletown Circle — a further mystification device, then.
But in saying this I’ve also decided to see Blue Mountain for its great plus: the proximity to these parks and the outdoors overall and to take full advantage of this while remaining here for probably the next 6-10 years. Another 2015 resolution, then — to be happy in the place I’m at more than in 2014. But the die has been cast for the future nonetheless, seemingly.
Second Life:
Yes, my involvement in this virtual, fake world has continued. 🙂 Big story was the development of Noru’s Collagesity in July and Aug and Sep after a battle between Noru and Rubi for town ownership in June. Then at the end of November, Noru land was given up in favor of same sized area at se corner of fabled Rubi Woods, very near where VWX Town existed toward the end of 2013. Just at the end of the year, I consolidated my land holdings in Minoa next the woods better, and it looks like my presence there will continued into 2015 a bit. Centerpieces remain the Power Tower and Falmouth galleries, along with the new Sam Parr State College building holding its namesake series. Falmouth gallery (an old castle) developed in Philudoria during Feb-April.
So the big news for SL in 2014 is the development of 2 new galleries holding the 2 newest collage series (Falmouth and Sam Parr), and also a new town to put them in: Collagesity, replacing 2013’s VWX Town as a virtual center.
Work work:
Most likely 6 or at tops 7 years to slave away before retirement. Must get a solid foundation for dealing with present and future issues. It’s not going to be an easy ride, but I’m certain the challenge will reap benefits. Better than working as a restaurant manager or the like. I’m very lucky to possess the position I do, and the support group I have.
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* Note1: In looking up riddle/ again just now, saw that Riddle’s Store lies in sw corner of small part of Loudon County, Tennessee separate from rest of county. Corr. to this, also this morning I rearranged my Minoa virtual holdings but accidentally left a 128 sq meter parcel separate from the rest in the process, representing 1/68th of my land. Is this simultaneous synchronicity? Does it represent me as separate from the rest of my team? A riddle for certain.
Further, Riddles Store is coupled with Curry or Currys Store in Alabama, making a direct overlap between old and new. These are probably only 2 Riddles Store pop places.
7-6-5 trees
100 = 1 mile
This split off part of Loudon County, TN lies directly west of the Ashville Circle concocted just before, and newly deemed, in this post, the Middletown Circle. Seems to reinforce the middle aspect (!). I also think back to the larger but still similar quite Forest Home Circle in Alabama discovered to be on the same latitude as Baker’s Creek, Miss. in 2013, and also in a neighboring state to the west.
Sunklands 