“It appears, Hucka…
… that Devizes has become another sister sity to Collagesity, along with Stonethwaite. Devizes is a much larger burg than either of the latter two, however. Is it still a true appelation?”
Hucka D.:
Yes. Good. Obviously Adam Westend has something to do with all this. You have found a Devizes painter and writer who may be the same as this Westend. Probably not, but we must check out all the corners. Fal Mouth Moon is a castle. Devizes has a castle, but a smaller faux version of a truer castle in the past. Baker Bloch uses the batgun to open up a portal between Collagesity and Devizes [in this Collagesity castle]. Adam Westend — “Batman” — comes through. Devizes has also been reborn as a summer destination for the coming year. You start to prepare, well, now. Today. Tonight.
bb:
Thank you, Hucka D. Even if I end up not going I’m going to prepare nonetheless.
Hucka D.:
Yes. That is the meaning of all this. Baker Bloch uses a batgun to open up a portal between Collagesity and Devizes in the Fal Mouth Moon, one of the few Wiltshire images appearing in the Falmouth [collage] series within. The Power Tower Gowlery, in contrast, is chocked full of ’em. That’s another tension, like Noru vs. Rubi. Wiltshire dominated Gilatona-Lis vs. Falmouth and its Whitehead Crossing culmination and Stonethwaite middle game. Like ironing. The Art 10×10 has kind of been left behind, however, don’t you think?
bb:
Yes. It’s the basis and foundation, but the battle moves beyond it. Is this like the battle between the Grays and the Browns?
Hucka D. (seeming to ignore bb’s question):
The batgun was used to open the portal — tunnel at Devizes. Then, *just coincidentally* — *not* — you open up a railroad tunnel in Collagesity. The two become parallel, see. You create the underground. Now… can you remember *before*.
bb:
The tunnel is also symbolic of a black hole, Hucka D. Specifically the star Cygnus X-1, as sung by Canadian rock group Rush in the mid-70s.
Hucka D.:
What’s on the Other Side?
bb:
“There’s not a lot…
… in the Stonethwaite sister sity, so we must turn to Devizes for more energy, power.”
—–
“Devizes needs Collagesity as well”
Hucka D.:
Yes (!)
bb:
Devizes becomes a true collage city — collagesity — like Stonethwaite before it.
Hucka D.:
After it. And before.
—–
Apparently influenced by a central Devizes link, the Collagesity town council reintroduce an older, western limit. The Westend region now seems separate.
Smaller Eastend, apparently composed of at least 2 side-by-side 512 parcels (beginning to be called “Mother” and “Child” by some of the more ignorant locals), also appears removed from Collagesity proper. Similarly removed Carrcassonnee, without past/future eye, rules above all else in this region.
Devizes born composer Simon May pens famed EastEnders theme song.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EastEnders_theme_tune
Westend’s Confluence Place remains pretty empty except for some jungle animals on the bottom floor. And Spider still has his corner on the top level. The numbers “2130” remain fixed above the entrance to the far top corridor. All other dogs have been removed; Starbuccaneer Barista is nowhere to be seen. Some without much knowledge are beginning to speak of Eastend’s child as Star in the future/past.
The Kidd Tower. Quite close to Eastend, and now with a type of cave mouth next to it.
I envision Carrcassonnee crawling down this passage, again in past/future. She’s looking for that confounded eye. Eye of the Needle might be the end result. The Noru Green Witch may know. Greenwich?
I think, then, I know where we are here.
Perhaps a bit too much coffee today?
Yeah, this is what can happen. Giant one eyed monsters appear in your virtual village. Yikes!
Patiently…
… waiting for the Other Side to open up. 1 week. 8/8/.
Hucka D.:
This happened before.
bb:
That looks like an amalgamation of Master Shake and his bud Meatwad. [Even accompanied by Frylock’s eye.] But it’s obviously Cygnus X-1 and its accompanying black hole.
Hucka D.:
What do you want me to say?
bb:
Greater Collagesity has fractured into east, west, south, center, perhaps even north.
Hucka D.:
North is left out.
South invasion.
A second attempt, this time from the North. Miserable failure.
Same morning: rebirth of the White Tower.
Same evening: White Tower gone.
Patiently 02
Seems like for the past several days, things I’ve designed for Collagesity have been rather quickly removed: Giant Carrcassonnee; White Tower. The underground remains intact, and I like that effect quite a lot. But frankly what I’m waiting for is the potential development of a *Southside*. But does Collagesity really need a Southside? — that’s a question I must be asking side by side with seeing this potential.
Traditionally about 2 months into ownership of even a larger tract of Second Life land, my interest in it begins to wane. Better — I use the generated energy and *shift* it into other interests. I’m doing my best not to let that happen this time.
What could the shift be this go around? Well, another carrcass is on the horizon — I certainly know some of the components. I haven’t started it, but the gear up could begin today, even. That’s how those things work.
Full bore GNIRPS research is another possibility, but perhaps more remote. 2 months into Rubi’s VWX Town, I shifted toward a heavy duty Shining obsession, generating a potentially separate work from the blog called “6 5 Weeks of Shining.” in late December and January.
And then there’s always collages. 🙂 The Shining research itself shifted over to intense collage generating in early February, a momentum that carried, to my great surprise, though April.
Then there’s the Great Outdoors. Well, Frank and Herman Parks to be specific. Check the title of this blog — everything is suppose to revolve around those parks — carrcasses, virtual village stories, collages — everything. And this year another big step forward was taken, I feel, through the creation of a good number of collages *based on photos taken of these parks.* Again we can be pretty specific about a location: Whitehead Crossing in Frank Park. But this impetus finally petered out in May as the heat, gnats, weeds increased. My woods photos mainly come from the spring and fall, or about March-May and then September-November.
This blog was suppose to focus on those parks and not Second Life, unlike my former Baker Blinker Blog (2008-2012). Yet it’s turning out to be a pretty direct continuation of that older blog.
Peter’s Grave.
In a considerably larger change, a truncated version of the X-Spot Gallery is coming to Collagesity, probably featuring the works of fellow a/v syncher Mike Casey and Second Life collage artist Kenneth Rougeau, as well as a version of the significant “Jegeot Through Art and Word” exhibit, begun right here in Noru several years back. Excitement once more, but par for the course for Collagesity. This gallery will also link several town buildings directly with each other, including the Kidd Tower, Power Tower, and Fal Mouth Moon. More details as they come in.
Uh oh.
Oracle Time!
Oracle Time
“Hucka D., I was going to talk to the revived Carrcassonnee in this here blog but she doesn’t seem to be ready.”
Hucka D.:
I’m not either. You better talk to her. Or else.
Carrcassonnee:
Hi Baker Bloch. As you can see I’ve grown larger. Nice to have Jeogeot Through Art and Word back in my sim. My sim. How are you doing tonight? How’s work?
bb:
Work’s getting better, I suppose. I wish I could just give back the pressure. But it’s good for me overall. Pressure is mainly good now. If I can keep from getting swirled into other people’s emotional turmoils. That’s my problem. I operate on resonance. Right now the resonance is abnormal for the most part.
Carrcassonnee:
Be aware that it might not change[ much]. I heard you found an Island. The Island.
bb:
Do you know about this island?
Carrcassonnee:
Some. I know that toy avatars are from there. It is a tale wagging the dog scene[ again]. Do you wish photos?
bb:
Sure Carrcassonnee.
Carrcassonnee:
I will provide some soon[ then]. How is your mother?
bb:
She’s doing okay I suppose. Must call her tomorrow morning. Wait… you’re talking to me, bb, instead of me, Baker Bloch.
Carrcassonnee:
Yes. Am I not allowed to do that[ now]?
bb:
No, that’s fine.
Carrcassonnee:
So we get to the subject of who I am. Who I *really* am.
bb:
You are Jeogeot herself.
Carrcassonnee:
Yes.
bb:
You are All Carrcasses.
Carrcassonnee:
Right. Another one of me is coming up soon. That’s one thing I needed to tell you. Work on me. It looms large.
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bb (“reading” map):
A little carr. Spider. To navigate the narrow streets of Bath. Drive/Steer a Littcarr. Then something about Reddfoxx and racial issues. White… black. Take a Gander, I suppose.
Carrcassonnee:
Yes, I am England[ as well]. You must go back to The Island.
Carrcassonnee
bb:
I wasn’t planning on talking to you so soon, Carrcassonnee, or bothering you.
Carrcassonnee:
No bother. As long as I’m paid.
bb:
Yes. The Jeogeot Through Art and Word [exhibit] might not be a good fit for the X-Spot Gallery, although I love the idea of linking various other galleries through this central, aerial one. I especially like the way the Kidd Tower is in the present middle of the Jeogeot related exhibit. How appropriate.
Carrcassonnee:
I didn’t use to have to do that.
bb:
Sorry… so you are Jeogeot, as you said.
Carrcassonnee:
Yes.
bb:
We’ve gone back to the “Olive 02” post, perhaps, Carrcassonnee. “New Post.”
Carrcassonnee:
I am the Olive and the Tin it comes in both. I am 7.
bb:
I might not be able to increase my prim limit the way I wanted to, Carrcassonnee.
Carrcassonnnee:
I need you to work on me.
bb:
What does that mean?
Does that mean work on Jeogeot Through Art and Word?
Carrcassonnee:
Yes. Yes?
bb:
What is the Kidd Tower?
Carrcassonnee:
Mmmmm.
bb:
It comes from Middletown, I know. Meddletown… Middletown.
Carrcassonnee:
Yes.
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Purchasing additional land may not be purdent for August to expand Collagesity now, so what I might have to do next to free up some prim space is to gut the Toxic Art Gallery. A shame — but I have so many collages now in both the Power Tower and Fal Mouth Moon. I can rez the Toxic Art Gallery on my Philudoria property, perhaps. Another option is to use Philudoria as a sandbox for larger projects. The Art 10×10 within Toxic Art has now been completed for over 5 years. I could use it for another collage gallery, perhaps eliminating half of the floors. Gutting the TAG in this fashion, even if inserting another gallery, would probably save me 100 prims right there. TAG is one of those structures that is *not* downsizeable by changing physics shape type under edit/features from prim to convex hull. Like a lot of objects, this *increases* the number of prims, in some cases quite dramatically.
Cool links re Jeogeot
Elros Tuominen’s Tubular Gallery is located in southern Jeogeot and is featured in “Jeogeot Through Art & Word” (JTAW).
http://raftwetjewell.blogspot.com/2009/05/boxed-at-tubular-gallery.html
Interesting:
“Phoenix” by Kylie Sabra.
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Located right on the northern edge of the Nari sim our shop looks out over the southern Welcome area. This means that for many new Second Life players we are one of the first things they see in world. We get used to answering newbie questions, and have quite a few freebies and information sheets on offer.
Numerologist 01
“In order to understand Jeogeot one must understand Middletown or Meddletown, a large urban area from past/present/future in the north central part of the continent. In past times it was defined by a triangle of “Park” galleries. Its strong resonance was picked up by Parktown next to the Hanja Infohub, although I don’t think it extended down that far south.
https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/07/21/alright/
Hucka D.:
…. But… to Kidd Tower! What do we have here? A thick slice of Jeogeot and Middletown history. Middletown is the largest city of Jeogeot past, present, future. It was huge, simply huge. You cannot imagine. You helped in the building. You built a sector *there*.
bb:
The Kidd Tower originally existed in Middletown. When did Middletown become Meddletown, or did it ever?
Hucka D.:
Obvious. When Dr. Blood entered the picture. Dr. Blood organized the Kidd Tower so that MaN was eliminated. The Kidd was just a kid.
bb:
Kidd Tower’s always been attached to Tower of A. Mann and Big Boy in past, present, future.
Hucka D.:
Good, yes.
bb:
A key concept there don’t you think Hucka D.?
Hucka D.:
What?
bb:
That the Kidd Tower was always part of the MaN complex, with the elimination of the letters “M” and “N” to make man regress back to Big Boy and finally Kidd.
Hucka D. (talking to someone offstage):
Who does he think he’s talking to?
bb:
Hucka?
Voice Offstage (muffled):
He wants to know about Meddletown. Why were there 2 Meddletowns.
Hucka D. (still talking to this person):
This is the monolith!
Voice Offstage:
*We* thought it was. Turned out we had to dissect it further in The Tower.
bb:
Which tower?
Hucka D. (still to person):
I have to get to baker b. now. He’s asking me questions still. But hang on there…
Hucka D. (to me; coming closer):
Hi baker b.
bb:
Hi. There you are.
Hucka D.:
I’m always there.
Hucka D.:
Where are the pictures coming from, baker?
bb:
I was going to ask you the same question (!)
Hucka D.:
Then: Meddletown I suppose.
Voice Offstage (correcting?):
Middletown.
bb (to Hucka):
Was Meddletown Middletown… are they the same?
Hucka D.:
Yes.
bb:
What is the significance of eliminating the 2 *middle* letters M and N to devolve MaN to Kidd?
Hucka D.:
Rent in Middletown. You can return to the blockquote now if you wish. So confusing you are.
bb:
Thanks.
bb:
Is VWX Town a slice of Middletown?
Hucka D.:
Yes!
bb:
The philosophy of Middletown — give this a stab tonight — Middletown itself started in the M and N. 3 sims of basically the same name — all starting with “Yeo”. Three clustered around the M and N level, the 13th and 14th of the vertical column of Jeogeot recognized by Middletown priests, scientists, artists.
Hucka D.:
Yes. (pause) Middletown.
bb:
Big E or Biggie was found on the shores of the Korean Channel — called the Korean Channel at first — and taken directly west to Middletown — this M and N centrality. From it was distilled the Kidd Tower. Was the X-Spot Gallery around then?
Hucka D.:
Yes! (pause) Or no.
—–
bb:
I just had Baker Bloch walk up the whole Kidd Tower, and he thinks, through me, that the intersection with the Simple Wunderlich pictures may be the most meaningful part. Here’s his blog:
http://simplewunderlich.wordpress.com/
And his big zoo is actually in a sim caddycorner to Philudoria [home of VWX Town], to the northwest. Interesting, eh?
Hucka D.:
Simple helped you with Middletown, plain and simple.
bb:
We can always consult GNIRPS to see what comes up.
Hucka D.:
[Good idea.] Go ahead.
—–
bb (after checking):
Nothing for Simple.
Hucka D.:
There’s still Korea and Scrabble and Twenty-Six. What does that mean?
bb:
26 is the letters of the alphabet. SID’s 1st Oz [tiles are referred to here as well] I suppose.
Hucka D.:
Jeogeot priests/scientists/artists arranged the north-south column so that the beginning touches the north[ of Jeogeot] and the end or omega touches the south [coast]. In the middle was designed Middletown. M and N. I told you we should have started a SID’s 1st Oz interview[ between baker b. and Hucka D.] a while back. If you can convince Mike…
bb:
Hare Who Lost His Spectacles.
Hucka D.:
Yes, that too.
bb:
But we have a spare pair.
—–
bb:
Then the omega point of the column became itself alpha and extended *west* another 26 sims to create another Jeogeot end or limit.
Offstage Voice:
When was it attached to the game of Go?
Numerologists 02
https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/new-pietmond-developments-04/
“Two players. Two sides. One is light, one is dark.” (“Pilot, Part 2”)
—–
“Interesting that John Locke works in the real world as some kind of assistant manager of a *box* company, Hucka D. Kind of like me (!).”
Hucka D.:
You are John Locke. You are moving to Yeot.
bb:
Yes, in the past I did. From Noru. The same Noru that I live in now. And Blue Feather has kind of been ressurected in the Jeogeot Through Art and Word Exhibit — revised. This is about Jeogeot as a whole[ now]. It’s expanded.
Hucka D.:
Expanded it has. Expanded it will be.
bb:
We have to get back to The Island[ etc.].
Hucka D.:
Yes.
[Scrabble] tiles moved from Korean Channel to [form] The Column.
The tiles arranged 5×5, with 1 left over. Meddletown.
“You fall right through the middle of that “A” [ in the middle of Yeodeol]. *Can’t* be chance.”
Hucka D.:
Obviously. You need to bring in Karoz sometime soon. He knows more about Jeogeot than about anyone[ after all].
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“It’s also obvious to me, Hucka, that Jeogeot is Wazob. Green A followed by Red B. This is also the Edwardston Station Gallery, A, inserted in Rubi, B.”
Hucka D.:
Bud LeDerve.
bb:
Jeogeot equals Wazob equals SID, as you say.
Numerologist’s 03: Jeogeot = Wazob = SID.
Plans:
Buy or rent a small plot near the heart of old Middletown (or Meddletown… whichever). I have my eye on a 1024 and possibly a 2048. Are any clues to the nature of the huge, former metropolis left behind? Surely so, one would think.
Directly associated with this, I’ve basically decided to enlarge the “Jeogeot Through Art & Word” exhibit currently taking up half the space in my newly inserted “X-Spot Gallery”. My idea is to either eliminate or move the Mike Casey and Kenneth Rouggeau art in the other half, although I’m more inclined to keep the latter since it is collage oriented.
I can’t do much more until I free up some prim space. I’ll have to make some decisions this weekend concerning land and several present Collagesity structures.
I might even go out and buy some more virtual art, which I haven’t done for quite a while… perhaps since when I was putting together the original Noru version of JTA&W back in 2010. 4 years ago… so near yet so far! I’ve friended one of the original exhibitors on facebook, which is encouraging. I’m planning to attempt to track down what happened to some of the others… may not get in direct contact with them but at least I’ll know what they’ve been up to. An example is former Sunklands artist Sambroxton String, who is Sam Broxton in real life.
http://www.saatchiart.com/SamBroxton
“Jeogeot Through Art & Word” to be enlarged.
Another idea I had is to get the whole Jeogeot related posts from both the Baker Blinker and Baker Bloch (Frank and Herman Einstein!) blogs in better order. A Second Life acquaintance said a while back that my blog, the Baker Blinker one at the time, read like a book. Must figure out how to better coordinate the 2 blogs of mine, one complete (Baker Blinker — 4 1/2 years long) and one still in progress (Frank and Herman E! — almost 2 years old now). Will have to admit now that the 2nd blog is more a continuation of the 1st than I originally had in mind. A triangle of Second Life-Real Life (parks/woods)-Photographs exits at the center, with Photographs forming the apex and link between real and virtual mythologies. Without the heavy influence of Second Life, I don’t believe I would have gotten so involved in photos in real life as well. And then to add onto this triangle is another (4th) important element: digital collages, which my photos (and wife Edna’s) contribute to, as well as photos from others, some with permission and some without, unfortunately. Which brings us to yet another, more hidden blog influence, though one I mention now and then: carrcasses. What are carrcasses? I’ve attempted to answer this question to the best of my ability within blog parameters and have not gotten very far yet. They are collages as well, but of an audiovisual nature. They can be seen as the source or wellspring for digital collage in many ways, the latter beginning in the Greenup collage series of 2004.
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Max Ernst collages:
http://www.spamula.net/blog/2004/07/the_hundredheadless_woman_cont.html
http://www.spamula.net/blog/2004/07/misfortunes_of_the_immortals_a.html
http://www.spamula.net/blog/2003/06/a_week_of_kindness.html
To be used, probably, in yet another collage related Collagesity gallery. Stairs No. 2?
Hmm, the same site has this page about collagist Eva Lake, a friend of the author and whose work is featured in a site called *Collagetown*.
http://www.spamula.net/blog/2003/04/collages.html.
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Middletown, PA and Middletown, VA show up next to each other in both an alphabetical county sort and topo map sort for that population place name. Total number of Middletowns involved: 81. Perhaps peculiar given the frequency, then.
sort by topographic map name (excerpt)
sort by county name (excerpt)
Middletown, PA is a suburb of Bethlehem, but is located within a Nazareth topographic map. Jesus reference? Jesus is Da Man? (missing M and N from Kidd). Is this about Jesus Christ the child? We The Blog are admittedly grasping or, better, nibbling around a large edgy border that is Jeogeot’s Middletown (or Meddletown). Which the f— is it?
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http://www.artmuseum.arizona.edu/events/event/andy-burgess-paper-city
Cool, a whole book:
http://www.blurb.com/books/2573503-paper-city
http://www.suegreenwoodfineart.com/andrew/burgess/artwork/3047
Numerologists’ 04
I think Wappo Jack might have a fascination, good or bad, with even larger Carrcassonnee. Jealousy?
We have additional clues about the nature of Middletown from the past. Chicago is also a town in the Middle.
Baby Wappo Jack might have been born there. We might be missing his *Middle* (Story), then.
Mrs. Jack? Mom?
“Had to be tried,” Baker Bloch muses.
Kidd in the Midd(le)
All Grown Up
Southside is born!
I have a month to figure out what to do with it. Fun!
And to add to that now, a plot in what was formerly known as Middletown according to most of my blog spirit friends. Let the hands-on research begin!
Southside kinda sorta finished!
Just that fast. I’m a quick Second Life collager. Turns out it became a large town park, complete with a looping train track (and train!) and a quite vast array of freebie plants and flowers, almost all of whose original prims counts have been lowered thanks to that oh-so-handy prim>convex hull physical shape type conversion I learned about recently. More details soon. Just wanted to let the reader or readers know it’s basically finished.
Next up are important decisions concerning Collagesity Proper structures. My thinking has shifted to the idea of demolishing the Confluence Place, and freeing the jungle animals within to roam as they will. Perhaps they’ll end up in the wilds of Southside, already populated by another elephant and a spotted horse. Important decisions as well coming up about the town government structure. As I see it currently, the metro region is divided into Central (Collagesity “Proper”), Southside, Westside, and perhaps even an Eastside — more unsure of the latter. The town mayor position remains in limbo, what with the death of Baker Bloch. Never mind that he’s been virtually resurrected in the meantime. He’s dead in the minds of a lot of community people. Yet the logical replacement, Starbuccaneer Barista, remains in hiding or exile. A committee was formed to search the ulta-mysterious Corridor 2130, with only 1 bitten tongue and 1 bruised ego suffered as injuries. Cardboard Derek Jones has hinted around he wants to run for Westside mayor, if that position becomes manifest. Seer Adam Westend has become Adam Southend, as his Cape May cottage has been moved from former to latter. Greenup collages will soon be set up within. Maybe C. D. Jones should run for Southside’s mayor position instead — again if it comes to that. But what of Central, this Collagesity Proper, where basically all Greater Collagesity’s art exists? A compromise might be to bring back Baker Blinker to act as town leader. Didn’t Hucka D. warn me about this possibility a while back? *Was* it a warning? I’ll have to check. Thanks, as usual, for listening dead dear reader(s).
Southside Park
Arrowtown.
Pictures just in case it goes away soon; probably part of Southside.
Notes
A Carrcass-11 appears to have begun. Excitement! A strange one… but all seem strange at the beginning. It will evolve. But it will also take energy from Second Life development now.
For that reason and others (prim limits comes to mind) I might simply table the Jeogeot Through Art and Word exhibit and fill the X-Spot Gallery just with collages. The art of Andy Burgess and his crazy quilt cityscapes might be a good choice, and seems to mesh with the idea of Collagesity as a large montage in and of itself. I had Baker Bloch fly around the old area of Middletown yesterday and some interesting things perhaps remain but most is now vacant land. I’m not sure an archelogical dig into that region will be successful in uncovering significant stories about its past. But I’ll keep trying. So I think I’ve about decided that JTA&W will have to go, and I won’t enlarge it instead.
I’ve positioned several one prim buildings on a parcel next to Southside that remains vacant. I’ve im-ed the owner and stated that if he wants to remove them it’s fine with me, and I just erected them as transient eyecandy. I even have a name for the small neighborhood: Arrowtown. The bow of the statue Diana aims an arrow directly into its heart, with 3 lone, snoozing residents — friends, as it were — as focused-in targets.
Overall town goverment remains vaguer. I don’t think Westend’s Confluence Place will be demolished now, as I found out I can cut its prim numbers almost in half. But Westend as a whole has little personality, and contains no galleries as such. The planned Stairs Gallery No. 2 at the end of the main path cutting through the suburb remains empty, as does the town hall. As does the Confluence Place mainly, subtract the several jungle animals positioned on the bottom level just in front of its large, square waterfall. Oh, and the small dog named Spider still standing and spouting out permutations of the number 2130 in his recess on the top floor. The House of True Lies appears to remain a place where townspeople resurrect when they die, but I’m not totally sure. What direction is Westend headed, if any?
I always want to have about a spare 200-220 prims to work with when I reduce back to just Collagesity and Westend. Yes, I’ll have to “give up” Southend in about a month, although the possibility remains that I can turn over the land to a rental agency like Lama Estates. But even if so, Southend’s prims will be separate from the land I own, so I’m going to have to reduce anyway. Unless I shift my sky sandbox over to Southend — I have plenty of prims left to work on that parcel presently.
Anyway, just an update for those who are curious.
Quick notes…
Carrcass-11 might be mapped out already. I still have to tape and fine tune, but I should have a fixed work by next week. Excitement yet again (hurrah!). Unfortunately I can’t talk about it much in this blog. I will go so far as to say it represents a primary mesh between two related movies, add in two secondary video sources.
Perhaps on a somewhat related note, Giant C or Giant Carrcassonnee has been removed from Collagesity to free up prims, but may return now that I have a considerable cushion in that area thanks mainly to the replacement of House of True Lies with a 2 prim slum building. It’s a good looking product, and, anyhow (I must ask myself), how much would I go into the House of True Lies for anything? At current time I have about 260 prims to work with in Collagesity proper. Many more are added through my Southside property, but since I plan to sell that in about 2-3 weeks I’m not going to count those prims.
I forgot to mention that I also bought the Arrowtown property this week and lumped it in with the rest of Southside.
The X-Spot/Middletown developments remains on hold as I complete C-11. Giant Carrcassonnee, I feel, will return to the collage village, at least at times. I need her wise, oracle-type advise on matters such as Middletown, Jeogeot, C-11, and beyond.
Say fire.
“It’s Saturday night, Hucka D. Let’s just chat.”
Hucka D.:
New text entering mode I see. New stuff tends to throw you. At least for a while. At least I’m constant. I never change!
bb:
Thank you Hucka D. Let’s give it a go. Good that there is an excellent team working at WordPress.com to keep our blog up to date and looking and working good.
Hucka D.:
To Collagesity. Yes, as you’ve guessed, carrcasses will still come, and, yeah, your life will still sort of be built around them. But collages have come from the background to the foreground. That is your focus now. I think.
bb:
So there’s no 1Pink on the horizon.
Hucka D.:
Not really. Unless you count 1Pink parts 2 and 3.
bb (disbelieving):
Really.
Hucka D.:
Naaahhh.
bb:
So maybe I should hang on to Collagesity this fall. Noru is a place of power, a place of balance.
Hucka D.:
Replace the Confluence Place if needed. Westend has sacrificed an artistic future for the sake of Collagesity. After all, it has no existence without the latter. It realizes that.
bb:
Sapphire still around?
Hucka D.:
She can be. Do you remember how she was?
bb:
Umm. Not really.
Hucka D.:
You have to focus in.
—–
“Or focus out.”
“Just checking in”
Hucka D.:
Baker Blinker will become the Queen of Jeogeot, Alma I as the townspeople will title her. What will Baker Bloch’s reaction be? Can they eventually rule as King and Queen?
bb:
It’s an interesting idea, and, I think you would like to add, an inevitable conclusion of the Jeogeot equals SID equals Wazob concept. Collagesity can stay alive as the result.
Hucka D.:
Projects will be sorted. A SID’s 1st Oz interview is in store. You will interview *me*. How about that? But we’ve already spoken about the possibility.
bb:
Yes. I believe we must warm to the project. How do you wish to attack SID’s 1st Oz this time, as opposed to other times by other[ spirits]?
Hucka D.:
Booker and baker? Baker is you. Booker is you? I am Hucka D.
bb:
You’re saying you are a real[ spirit] and the others are fake or faker?
Hucka D.:
Yes. I am the Bee at the center of SID. I cause the mobius triangle that trips Jack Pumpkinhead, sparking the synchronicity itself. Where is the grounding 4th? It must be the wound up Tik Tok. Tik Tok is me as well in the movie — the Bee of the film. To ground me is to ground the new SID’s 1st Oz interview.
—–
Hucka D.:
I am becoming 1Pink.
Becoming
bb:
So you wish to instead speak of 1Pink. Parts 1, 2 and 3?
Hucka D.:
Yes. I wish to become Jello Jack. Gelatin?
bb:
How are you going to do that?
Hucka D.:
The same way I do anything. Pretend. Then it is.
bb:
Why don’t we just talk of Carrcass-11, then, the newest one.
Hucka D.:
Do we have clearance from Queen Blinker? Alma I?
bb:
I’m not sure.
Hucka D.:
Bar.
—–
“Let’s get back to SID.”
—–
Queen Blinker:
I am in control now. Benevolent monarch, just as you expected. Former mayor Baker Bloch will be my primary counsel. Cardboard Derek Jones will put voice to the concerns of neglected Westside. Southside will remain a mystery for now.
bb:
Queen Blinker, thank you for appearing earlier than your actual coronation in this blog.
Queen Blinker:
You are welcome, baker b. You are me.
bb:
Yes. And Baker Bloch. The “B” word I can’t say. Why does all this have to do with 12 Oz Mouse?
Queen:
12 Oz Mouse is you from the future.
bb:
What is the mystery of 2130?
Queen:
It is a series or layers of mysteries. Baker Bloch and I have already gone into the mystery corridor at the Top o’ Confluence. We have seen the end but also the beginning. I instruct through that knowledge.
bb:
And your title — Alma I. Where did that come from?
Queen:
The good townspeople of Collagesity, headed by Baker Bloch, appointed the name. It came with the realization that Collagesity stands in for the capital of Jeogeot herself. Now. The Confluence Place will be reconfigured as my Confluence Palace. I will stand in the corridor. Sit, actually. We need a throne still.
bb:
Are you Carrcassonnee?
Queen:
That is a good question. I am.
bb:
You…
Queen:
I have appointed several committees to review projects. A new SID’s 1st Oz interview is on the list. An in-depth analysis of Tronesis and Peter SoSo Gabriel’s role in it as well. Big E, obviously. Kidd Tower. We will send the dog Diamond Spider into the Fal Mouth Moon collages for information and energy. Southside will be sealed up. X-Spot will eventually shift from general to personal. And, very important, I’ve commissioned work to begin again on the White Tower, leading from Collagesity to Virtual Heaven. It will not be a Tower of Babble.
bb:
What’s at the top?
Queen:
Wormhole. To Whitehead Crossing.
bb:
Interesting. How does that work?
Queen:
Create a tube long enough and everyone will want to crawl through it (smiles).
bb:
What of Story Room? Will Carrcass-11 be open source?
Queen:
Yes. Or no.
bb:
Are you consulting with Story Room as well?
Queen:
Spider will find out more.
Spider gets lost (again!)
“Your Majesty, the dog Spider has disappeared into the “Art 10×10″. I’m afraid he’s lost for now.”
Queen Blinker:
Just as I planned, he he. Seriously, show me the involved collages. How many were there? What was the initial work? We need to post people on all floors of the Power Tower, Fal Mouth Moon, and Toxic Art for signs of the poor pooch. But he did volunteer, after all.
Cardboard Derek Jones:
Yes ma’am. I have taken pictures of the progression. He first attempted to make contact with the wise old fox, who turned her back on him. Then he tried the dingo in the next picture down… the previous picture, I mean, in the Art 10×10 progression. Sorry, ma’am.
Queen:
That’s all right. This was in the Newton series?
CDJ (checking notes):
Yale, ma’am.
Queen:
Show me the progression you speak of. Reverse progression, I suppose.
CDJ:
Yale ma’am. I mean, yes ma’am.
—–
—–
CDJ:
And by that last collage, he had disappeared into relatively total abstraction. We believe the dingo, being not as wise as the fox, let’s say, led him into danger. He disappeared inside the water.
Queen:
Interesting. What is that body of water? We might have to go to the Real World and retrieve him there. Is that the River Key?
CDJ (checking notes again):
Give me just a minute ma’am. (pause) I do not have notes of the location.
Queen:
Then we must contact baker b. in the real world and ask him. He’s the one who made the collage, after all.
CDJ:
Yes ma’am. (then, reconsidering): What ma’am?
Blathering
“This idiot Oh you speak of, the snarling Jim Carrey with the waterfall pouring up from his hand, he must be the culprit. In the next picture down — whatever — we see this same waterfall raining down on the dingo. The dingo is Carrey is Oh.”
Cardboard Derek Jones:
Yes ma’am.
Queen Blinker:
Oh has come up several times for baker b. recently. He does not recall the waterfall’s true origin. Typical. Typical of Baker Bloch, I mean.
CDJ:
I’m surprised you could contact Master Baker since the White Tower could not be completed today, connecting Collagesity with Virtual Heaven. Baker b. is always in the Sky Box, it seems, tinkering with stuff. You have a clear view there, and he can’t hide inside his many groundside buildings.
Queen Blinker:
I found him anyway.
Hucka Doobie (entering from the left):
Ice cream anyone?
—–
Hucka Doobie (to Queen):
You’ll just have to wait until he emerges in one of the other collages.
Queen:
In this Facebook, Baker B. claims to have met several people recently who had independent contact with Oh.
CDJ:
Oh? (then, blushing): Sorry.
Hucka Doobie:
I have read the transcripts. I know what happens next.
Queen:
We must go find Oh.
Hucka Doobie:
Not recommended, ma’am. That’s what I was suppose to say there. Your turn.
Queen:
Refried beans?
Hucka Doobie:
Exactly.
—–
“It was Makemake’s ice cream parlor out on highway 17. His father gave him away.”
Hucka Doobie:
Interesting that Space Ghost comes back into the picture. But I knew he would. Queen… do you remember when you were Sapphire? *Were* you Sapphire?
Queen Blinker:
I recall some kind of perch, but not the fish.
Hucka Doobie:
You were wearing blue. But that goes without saying. Do you remember your precious, little Aquamarine turned rebellious Aqua Teen?
Queen Blinker (facial expressions slightly changing):
You mean Prince Karoz?
Hucka Doobie:
Ummmm… yes.
Queen:
The Prince will not be spoken of again for 3 days. Then I will tell you what became of him. He had his circle and he could not go out of it.
Hucka Doobie:
He has to come back[ you know].
Queen:
Mum.
—–
bb:
So is Queen Blinker Sapphire? Or is it Baker Blinker in the future? I asked her through Baker Bloch what was going on and she didn’t have a clue. The coronation, if it is a true event and not another lie — or maybe it’s one of those truth lies…
Hucka D.:
The manifestation point has not been reached. Yet things are happening all around us. Yes, there was an attempt to rebuild the White Tower today. We have photographic evidence that Spider has indeed disappeared inside the Yale collage series, and that this mysterious Oh is involved. I have spoken with the Queen directly, even. I went into the future just for this purpose. She suggests I go to Meddletown again. Or Middletown… whatever.
bb:
Hucka D.:
I’m afraid it is destiny; in the script.
Found again.
Of all people, it was Starbuccaneer Barista that found Spider. Ridiculously clever, she had lured him out of a Whitehead Crossing related collage in the Fal Mouth Moon with a bowl of dog food.
“Uhmmmm, yes: eat it up my precious Spider dog,” the resurrected Star said slyly. For she knew that a position of power would soon be in store for her because of this. She must speak to Baker Blinker asap; tell her of what she saw in the corridor. Share notes.
—–
“So that’s where I come from,” said Queen Alma I from the future, peering in again. “A merger of Starbuccaneer Barista and Baker Blinker.”
“And Carrcassonnee,” Hucka Doobie added. “She was strong at the time, having just absorbed the 11th. Tasted like chicken again to her.” He smiled slyly slightly.
“But little Spider would go back into the collages to be lost again. And again. And yet again and again.”
“And again!” Hucka Doobie added again. “You see, he was mistakenly rewarded for entering the collages. Dog food, sticks, squeeze dolls. All these lured him out but also kept him going back, knowing the endpoint.”
“How did it end?” the Queen asked. “Is he still in the collages even now?”
“Yes,” came Hucka Doobie’s answer. “He eventually became All Collages.”
Cardboard Derek Jones suddenly slid his way into the room through the seams of the closed door. “My Majesty. And… um, sire. The dog has reappeared again!”
“What synchronicity!” Hucka Doobie exclaimed.
“Too much so I would say,” says a more cautious Queen Alma I, reading out of a red book that had appeared in her hands. “I’m checked the script now. Spider has learned how to traverse time.”
“Then we’re all in big, big trouble,” returned a suddenly worried Hucka. “Big big trouble.”
Cardboard Derek Jones slides quickly toward them, holding forth a picture, which turns out to be an animation as the Queen and Hucka jointly stare in disbelieve. In it, Baker Bloch and Master Shake also jointly stare in disbelieve as a giant dog turns into a horse before their very eyes.
“That’s it,” Hucka Doobie says in finality, seeing Spider being fed/rewarded from “within”. “We’ve got to speak to Story Room about the 11th.”
I have to face…
… 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?
Chat 02
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?
Falmouth College (Fal Mouth Collage?)
“Fal Mouth Moon gallery is going to become Fal Mouth Collage College. Isn’t that exciting Hucka Doobie? Hucka D.?”
—–
Hucka D. isn’t up yet. Give him until sunset. 🙂 But I believe what I wrote above is going to happen. I also believe this may be the end of Collagesity, once more, since I already have the college set up in Philudoria, free of charge. But I’m not certain. We’ll be going on vacation starting Friday, and when I come back I’ll have to make a decision quickly so I can start selling off the land. The basic idea is that the Falmouth collages are complex enough that you can create a whole college to study them. A small college, mind you, not a big one. And the course options are obviously going to be limited since we’ll just be studying the collages themselves. I haven’t decided if it will be called Falmouth College or Fal Mouth College. But people will mistakenly call it Collage instead of College. Trying to inject needed (additional) humor into this blog, see. I know Whitehead Crossing, the prime Frank Park location for myth-telling presently and probably into the future as well, will be an important element. And Frank and Herman Parks along with it.
The college will be set up virtually in Philudoria probably, but also, at the same time, here on this perch above Whitehead Stream, as depicted in a Falmouth college collage. See how that doesn’t stop being funny?
In this collage, the rock perched atop the cliff becomes the same as the castle. The idea of a Falmouth college here has been aligning from several directions for a while. First, there’s the “fact” that a castle is or was situated on this cliff, owned by a man (and woman?) named Dundee — Castle Dundee, then. The Fal Mouth Moon gallery structure is also called a “castle” by its creator, Moard Ling. So the castle was turned into a gallery which is being turned into a college. Additional buildings will surround it. A new virtual village named after the college might arise — simply Falmouth College, then.
But what of the Power Tower Gowlery I hear you asking, and the Gilatona-Lis collage series? Isn’t that almost as important as Falmouth? Well, that’s a good question to be pondering, reader, and thanks for bringing it to my attention. I wish Hucka D. was here to confer with.
—–
My feeling is that the Falmouth College simply *must* be inserted into Whitehead Crossing, on that perch or cliff (Cliffs of Dundee). Castle Dundee, yes, will be converted into a gallery that will become the college, with added buildings. My reasoning here is that the last 1/4th or so of the Falmouth series is largely about Whitehead Crossing, starting with Falmouth 44 and ending with Falmouth 61. Whitehead Crossing will be more than happy to absorb the idea.
—–
“They’ll have to study Frank and Herman Parks themselves. They’ll have to ponder TILE. They’ll have to investigate the original “Frank & Herman Einstein!” document from 2003. They’ll have to make c’s in all these classes to gain a shiny blue star in the end. And after graduation? We’ll, they’ll be certified collagists themselves (!) They’ll go into the virtual Stonethwaite, hike up Greenup Gill covered so well early on through the Greenup series from way back in 2004. That’s when I turned into an orange, baker b. You remained an apple.”
Historic Meeting.
What the plans are… *now* (!)
Last check, I’m going to keep Collagesity into Sep and perhaps into Oct, Nov and maybe even beyond. I’ve reconfigured the town’s space so that it extends more in a southerly direction. I basically eliminated Westside. Confluence Place is already gone, and so is Gallery BOB. I believe the Sadler collages within might just be moved to the X Spot Gallery. In another version of the latter gallery, I already had them in place in one of the wings (the present version has 2 wings; originally it had 4). I still plan to keep searching for collage artists for the galleries, however… not giving that up. But the focus now will be the Falmouth *College* of the town, its official home.
And I’m not totally sure but I may be able to keep the town train (!) Also eliminated in that direction, however, are the Newton and Jasper statues, a bunch of neat vegetation in the eastern part of the track’s inner space, and also the Wall of Eyes. More might develop of the current 1 prim building just to the s. of Fal Mouth Moon — maybe college related? I’m simply going to abandon the rest of the land I own; set it up as a protective border. A shame to lose the money I could make off the land sale but I think it’s the wise decision, and, for one, the only way I can keep the train most likely.
This is basically how the town will look…
Drunkman’s Ridge Town Park will remain.
Sunklands 