Gallery at the Temple of TILE: Returned, 04 November 5, 2009

More snapshots of recent Edna OzLand photographs, this time from floor 2.

Then its 80 meters south to the open, lowest floor of the 60×60x60 cube. What to do with the Edna photos *here*? I really like how this space is set up, so I probably won’t make any major changes anytime soon. As I said before, though, I do probably have to make a decision about the 10×10: do the collages belong spread out amongst the various floors in the 60×60x60 cube, or should they stay in their original location on the property: the ground version of the Edwardston Station Gallery. I suppose if I had more visitors I could set up some kind of poll for them to help in the decision making.

Gallery at the Temple of TILE: Returned, 03 November 5, 2009

But here’s the really exciting, new addition to the temple now: an exhibit of more of Edna’s new photographs preliminarily called “Ruins in the Woods”. I won’t give out many details of the photographs yet except to say they are from two different locations in our area, both involving “ruins in the woods”. One of these locations has been “cleaned up” since the photographs, and the other, more important setting is certainly in danger of being cleaned up as well, but in a very negative way (non-protection of what one might consider a very valuable, historic site).

The two framed photographs of the exhibit, which, by the way, is on the lowest floor of the temple (originally grassy state restored again here), are not by Edna but downloaded from an unrelated internet site. I promise not to sell them for my usual 20-30 rl cents. Both were taken at the more important of the two locations. This particular one is of a ruined piano.

The second and final non-Edna photograph in the collection, a picture of an painting by a Mexican artist depicting a mythological birth of the woman who use to own the piano shown above.

I’ll have more to say about this exhibit soon, hopefully, as well as some possible plans for the 60×60x60 cube just below involving music as well. As they say, stay tuned!

Gallery at the Temple of TILE: Returned, 02 November 5, 2009

So let’s move inside the temple for a quick tour. This is the old floor 5 of the temple, as originally talked about in this June 2008 post. I’ve attempted to restore floor 5 to its original state, as described in that post, as much as is practical. Of course it could be modified again…

Looking down into the inner chamber of the temple with its spinning Tyle Cube. One thing I did change was to add a 4th wall to this interior, which would be the yellow one on the opposite side of the temple from this vantage point on floor 5, as we’ll still call it here.

A snapshot, then, from the original floor 3, another restoration project of sorts. The 4th wall mentioned above is directly in front of Baker here, transparent on this side. I’ve decided to make this wall non-phantom as well. Presently, there’s no easy way into this inner chamber. (Xmas tree already up!)

On both floor 2 and floor 3 (keeping to old nomenclature, although technically there is no floor 4, at least as yet, in the new structure), I’ve decided to hang some of Edna’s newest OzLand photos, taken only last month.

There’s the “Joplin Ball” again.

In the grassy part surrounding the plad rugged part of this floor, I’ve planted a number of palm trees. Looks like one’s already fallen over. Anyway, this is an attempt to cut down on the overlap of transparent walls in the temple, an ongoing restoration problem. I won’t be able to eliminate the problem altogether, I don’t feel.

Gallery at the Temple of TILE: Returned, 01 November 5, 2009

Hopefully I’m not going to spend a lot of time describing new additions to the Aotearoa property in this series of posts, primarily featuring the Temple of TILE and inclusive gallery. But I really missed the temple in the meantime, and any land I live on doesn’t seem complete without a version of it. So here’s the newest model, a type of throwback version even.

We start with a long shot of the gallery to give a spacial relationship with the much larger (8 times larger, volume-wise) Edwardston Station *Sky*box Gallery. And, just to remind, the main (I suppose) Edwardston Station Gallery is still on the ground, and houses the same 100 collages of the 10×10 that the skystation version does. I know — very redundant. I’m thinking more and more one or the other has to go, and it may be the sky version that will be deleted. But let me just move on to more descriptions of the temple and the subject will most likely come up again.

So the temple “floats” about 15 meters above the top of the much larger cube. The temple is 30mx30mx30m; the big cube, or Edwardston Skystation, is 60mx60mx60m.

Hucka D. and I chatted about this front of the temple a bit in a recent post. It’s the old one that was last present on, let’s see, could it be all the way back to the Rubi property? Maybe so, and if so, it hasn’t been rezzed in almost a year. More of the story of the front here, and how Baker Blinker “found” the silvery map on a cube in the very center of the temple, in fact, inside the spinning Tyle Cube itself.

The new development or twist in that temple front story is the subsequent discovery of another registered population place that perhaps should have been on this map but wasn’t included for some reason. In fact, it’s the only village that would be included in the square on present topographic maps besides Rubie and Silver themselves. This would be Joplin. About the only thing in Joplin as far as interesting businesses go is Black Dog Design, which he says has something to do with all this in a sneaky kind of way. But the absence of Joplin is the main thing Hucka D. says to notice about this. He states this has something to do directly with the Joplin Tree that was suppose to grow from an imported seed in the middle of Big Sink, but for some reason didn’t, perhaps tragically so.

Well, I though, if it’s not included on this may why not just add a marker to the map in some way to indicate it’s “missing” location. The result is what I’ve been calling the Joplin ball or sphere, whose ruddy mass is presently located partly inside the temple, as seen in the picture below. The other side juts out from the temple front and into the transparent map itself, marking the Joplin location (not pictured).

Now is it just me or does that yellow sphere in the nearby photograph seem to flying directly toward the location of the Joplin sphere? I put that photograph there several hours before thinking about creating the sphere; maybe it’s another “sign” that the Joplin archetype, as it extends into Big Sink, is a subject well worth further study.

Another shot of the temple from above, looking down into the interior of the larger cube below.

Then a snapshot looking up from the bottom of the big cube toward the temple. I think it looks pretty cool way up there from this location.

Looking down again.

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Bill Hill October 25, 2009

“As you have surmised, we have a very special guest tonight, baker b.: Bill Hill. We’ll try it anyhow.”

bb:

Nice. Should we chat some first?

Hucka D.:

If you wish.

bb:

I’m getting that Bill Hill wants to look at some of the Oblong collages.

Hucka D.:

That’s correct. Oblong 3. Montana secures the afterlife.

bb:

Interesting. I suppose he’d also be interested in, say, Greenup 10 and 11.

Hucka D.:

We’re going to do some prepping. You ready for this?

bb:

You want for me to go inworld and look through my eyes again?

Hucka D.:

Yes. I want to look at the collage as Bill Hill might look at the collages.

bb:

Are we not going to speak to Bill Hill tonight?

Bill Hill:

Hey.

bb:

Hi Bill… Mr. Hill. (pause)

Bill Hill:

Hello.

bb:

Mr. Hill, are you a mountain turned into a hill?

Bill Hill:

The Devil is… (pause)

bb:

Mr. Hill? (no answer) Mr. Hill? (pause) Hucka D., I think he’s gone.

Hucka D.:

Then let’s go into the gallery. Let’s try the lower one… easier to move around in.

*****

[1:01] You decline NETP Information Giver from A group member named Fleep Tuque.
[1:02] Teleport completed from http://slurl.com/secondlife/Pons/105/23/38
[1:04] baker Bloch: So here we are, Hucka D.

[1:04] HD: I don’t want to look at that one. That’s “It’s All Here”. We want to look at the cleared out collages, you know.
[1:04] baker Bloch: Thank you Hucka D. Let’s move on, then.
[1:05] baker Bloch: This is the second and third collages of the Oblong series now, Hucka D.
[1:05] HD: It is, of course, the 3rd that begins to really interest me, baker b.
[1:06] baker Bloch: Is this Bill Hill yet?
[1:06] HD: Kind of.
[1:06] baker Bloch: I remember I… well it’s a long story.
[1:07] baker Bloch: I think Pencil Tail is where the series really got going.
[1:07] HD: We’re zooming into Birdtail Butte here, I remember.
[1:08] HD: Bird… tail. Pencil. Pencil characters. 2d from 3d. Grave… Pip. Gorilla/ape. Heading to Birdtail.
[1:08] HD: Top of Bird Tail. Seathwaite Fell below. SF. That’s what Bill Hill was looking for. That *is* Bill Hill.
[1:09] baker Bloch: I’m less sure about Santa Speaks, Hucka D.
[1:09] baker Bloch: It takes place on the other side of Scafell from Seathwaite Fell. The action I mean.
[1:10] HD: That’s where Peter died, baker b.
[1:10] baker Bloch: Yes… supposedly.
[1:10] HD: In that gill.
[1:10] HD: Santa seems to be saying something here, baker b. What?
[1:10] baker Bloch: Maybe the mysteries of his death?
[1:10] HD: Peter and Bill are intimately tied.
[1:11] baker Bloch: On Bill Hill now. I mean Seathwaite Fell.
[1:12] HD: The spoken, recorded words of Santa are now folded out neatly on the mountain, and then folded up neatly in the globe. Santa’s there again.
[1:12] HD: With his presents. Bag of toys.
[1:12] HD: He will be missed.
[1:13] baker Bloch: All this is part of one story. The ape-man is climbing the Earth related butte now, like King Kong on the Empire State Building… ESB.
[1:15] baker Bloch: bb: Just like the hikers. 3rd stage. Citrinitas.
[1:16] HD: They are looking for the mysteries of the Oblong series itself. Do you know them [baker b.]?
[1:16] baker Bloch: They are climbing Seathwaite Fell from a diff. direction in Oblong 09, Hucka D.
[1:16] HD: Like you are checking out both sides of Big Sink now.
[1:16] baker Bloch: Yes, I suppose.
[1:17] baker Bloch: Then in Oblong 10, on top. Ape is monkey. Dog is again dog. No humans, though. A 2001 type monolith in front. Represents pen and pencil together.
[1:17] HD: Pennsylvania. Corsica Prime.
[1:17] baker Bloch: Yes, Hucka D. Peter.
[1:18] baker Bloch: The Penn is mightier than the Pennsyl. (smiles)
[1:18] HD: Is it really?
[1:19] baker Bloch: Peter represents a greater energy, like ink over graphite. More efficient. Seathwaite Fell is where graphite originally came from. Purest source for, well, centuries actually. It all starts here.
[1:19] HD But Pen Rock was found on top of Seathwaite Fell, baker b. Correct?
[1:19] baker Bloch: Yes. This collage is all about that [juxtaposition].
[1:20] HD Green Gables in the background. Mary Anne?
[1:20] baker Bloch: I’m not sure, Hucka D.
[1:21] HD [In Oblong 11], passage through two gravestones, facing each other. Like Oblong 02. With a green oblong shape between them. Oblong.
[1:21] baker Bloch: Yes, Hucka D. There must be a relationship. I’m going back over briefly to Oblong 02 to check.

[1:22] baker Bloch: It’s that island in the middle of Grasmere Lake that Wordsworth was so interested in, Hucka D.
[1:22] HD: Grave.
[1:22] baker Bloch: The box in Oblong 11, the green one, is where all these letters of Oblong come from. It’s written on the box.
[1:22] baker Bloch: Back to Oblong 11, then.
[1:23] HD: What does that mean, baker b.? It seems significant.
[1:24] baker Bloch: It’s about the collage series itself, I suppose. Self reference.
[1:25] HD: Ahhh, 9 who became 1 instead of 8. Peter. Peter’s decision.
[1:25] baker Bloch: Yes, Hucka D. The second largest of the Seathwaite tarns became largest after the real largest, Sprinkling Tarn, was filled in by the council. This is..
[1:25] baker Bloch: *forgetting.*
[1:26] HD: Baker Bloch is typing now when there’s nothing to type. Maybe you better log out and back in. He seems broken.
[1:26] baker Bloch: Thank you Hucka D. Hold on…
[1:27] baker Bloch: There, he stopped. For a moment… of course he’s started now again now I’m typing again.
[1:27] baker Bloch: Seems ok now, Hucka D. Let’s continue.
[1:27] HD: bb: So this is the new, largest tarn of Seathwaite Fell zoomed in and stuff.
[1:28] baker Bloch: There’s the Grasmere Island again. The idea was to make Seathwaite Fell a microcosm of the entire Lake District, Hucka D.
[1:28] baker Bloch: This was S.F.’s choice. Forgetting…
[1:28] HD: About Peter.
[1:28] baker Bloch: Yes.
[1:28] HD: Yet you have signs of Peter all around the lake. You know?
[1:29] HD: There’s Bill Hill, baker b.

[1:29] baker Bloch: Yes. I know.
[1:29] HD: Your bird is the onlooking dingo now.
[1:29] baker Bloch: Ok.
[1:29] HD: What do you think this means?
[1:30] baker Bloch: It is another Pennsylvania runny mess sealed up by West Virginia. Sealed up by S.F. himself.
[1:30] baker Bloch: Peter must be forgotten.
[1:32] HD: Moire effect, baker b. Ill remembered. Confusion because of the cover up. It didn’t work properly, baker b.
[1:32] baker Bloch: You mean the attempt to make S.F. the whole Lake District. No, I suppose it didn’t.
[1:32] HD: It has the same flaws as a perpetual TILE waterfall.
[1:33] baker Bloch: Hucka D., I felt Oblong 15 here was the most successful of the series so far. Nice balance between all pictorial elements.
[1:33] HD: This is where the moire effect begins to become rectified, baker b.
[1:33] baker Bloch: Yes, I suppose.
[1:33] HD: Wet Rock. Found in… where?
[1:33] baker Bloch: Greenup Gill valley.
[1:34] HD: It then travels up the side of the mountain all the way to Tarn of Leaves. By way of Stanger Gill. Stanger. Stranger.
[1:34] baker Bloch: I remember that Tarn of Leaves is actually 3 tarns in one.
[1:36] HD: I am puzzled by [Oblong 17] admittedly, baker b.
[1:37] baker Bloch: bb: Yes, Oblong 17 represents a tricky impasse. Thank you.
[1:37] HD: Bill Hill thanks you for showing me your collages, baker b. We will continue.

Edwardston *Sky*station Gallery (w/ Edna’s pictures back!) October 22, 2009

Sooooo… here’s *another* Edwarston Station Gallery I created directly above the *other* ESG, yeah, the one I just built on the ground in Aotearoa. This one’s 300 meters in the air, and 60×60x60 in dimension. It’s a traditional Hucka D. beehive style creation, which means it’s built up from beehive modules, in this case 8 b_hivias, each with 56 prims apiece. This is a quite different arrangement of the b_hivias from, say, the Noru b_hivia gallery, which contained 1/2 the number of b_hivia modules — 4 in that case. The modules of the new beehive are stacked in a manner that they create a giant cube on the outside, which would encompass the same area of *8* 30×30x30 Temple of TILES (or, for that matter, 8 Noru-style Edwardston Station Galleries, also a cube of 30×30x30 meters). So on the outside it’s a quite massive structure, at least by my standards. To create another comparison, the Ubertemple of Neith, another beehive structure, was made up of 6 b_hivias and 3 Temple of TILES. It was more *massive*, but took up less overall volume than the new gallery because there was no real, inner space.

What’s in the gallery? Well, since I call it a second Edwardston Station Gallery on the property, and I’ve already defined an “Edwardston Station Gallery” as something that must contain the whole 10×10 collage work (100 collages total, in case you forgot), then this skybox must have those. And, just like b_hivia from Noru, Edna’s photographs have been factored into the newest gallery. Because of the larger volume, however, I’ve been able to *space out* the art work in a very satisfactory manner. But be forewarned potential visitors: you need to have on your walking shoes to tour the whole setting. But on the other hand I think this additional distance between art works has helped with lag. Pretty sure of that.

Let’s just move into some descriptions. The first several photos below emphasize the large, central open space, complete with a rather asymmetrical pond and some trees, plants and rocks. These including a 30 meter wild pine, rising halfway up the gallery’s total height. You can see this pine in both the first 2 pictures below.

Outside, as stated, it’s just a giant cube, with an open top.

Inside it’s a relative kaleidoscope of angles. Difficult to logically comprehend from this particular perspective for sure.

It’s quite a sight, admittedly, to go into this central region and then look up. It’s utter simplicity on the outside, very complex and angular on the inside.

Although I don’t want to go into *great* detail about how the collages and photographs are arranged inside, I will have more to say about how the gallery is laid out in a future post or posts. These are just some preliminary pictures.

A question looming: do I *really* need two SL galleries containing the same 100 collages? Surprisingly, since the 2 galleries in question are so different from each other, the answer may be: yes!

Loose Notes, Then Chatting? October 14, 2009

In Aotearoa skybox, I’m sure I’ll put some version of Big E or Big Schwa, displaying my involvement with the Jeogeot continent starting in May of this year. Obviously since I’m now rooted in the heart of Sunklands territory for a while (Xmas? beyond?), this story will continue. Started with Karoz taking over exploring tasks from Baker Bloch for a spell upon move to Noru. Focuses were Chilbo (south) and Korean Channel (northwest). “Best route” to the Korean Channel (and also Chilbo in a more minor tone) were explored. Karoz eventually switches from Chilbo circle to Crabwoo circle in “middle” of Korean Channel, and simultaneously, exploring switches back to Baker Bloch. Crabwoo seen as inadequate double to Chilbo on the Maebaleia continent. Meanwhile Blood Dr. is finished… so much information since May! Little Robert Plant Variant is “born” between Crabwoo and Chilbo, in effect, and is found to have been raised in Nowtown, next to Zen City on the west coast of Jeogeot. Next he moved to Sternberg, where he was suppose to meet Page and form Led Zeppelin, variant style. Instead he found out he was both 18 and 59, and was instead given the tube that represents the Zeppelin career, already completed. Page chose not to join. Blochs had to explore Nowtown [instead of Karoz] because of pay bans there, but it was fate. Rubisea then discovered on the Maebaleia continent. Hucka D. claims it was original SL land, and where Baker Bloch and Baker Blinker were “born”, perhaps.*** Represents 1/12th or 1/13th of Blue Feather Sea which Crabwoo is situated upon (one corner anyway). Is original ur note of SL, the Red C or Red Sea, thus: Ruby Sea or Rubi Sea or Rubisea. Unexplored connections between Rubisea and the Rubi Forest. Has light (sunny) and dark (moon, werewolf) side. Represents anima and animus in ways, like Baker Bloch and Baker Blinker to me. Light half in Blue Drake sim, thus origin of story that Blue Drake is source of Blue Feather (Sea). Original note, again, which turns into the 12 notes [or 13; Baker's Dozen] of the Blue Feather Sea. Feather is bigger than bird/duck in this manner. Later Bluedrake connected with yellow duck of Boulder in RL. *The* Blue Drake. Connection between Rubisea and Rydal Water of England’s Lake District made, as well as Grasmere L. for neighboring, larger lakes (but still considerably smaller than Blue Feather Sea itself, the largest of the inland lakes of Maebaleia).
Robert Plant Variant is then found to have gone to Sunklands after moving away from Nowtown/Zen City and/or Sternberg. Sunklands is below Sternberg, and also X-ville and Y-borough briefly mentioned in this blog. Y-borough is Crabwoo-like. Plant may have also lived in Quetzal for a spell. But Sunklands then becomes a focus for a time, with Baker Bloch renting in, first, the westernmost sunk (Lill Burn Valley) and then the easternmost (Oolamoo/Drews). Speculation about this eastern sink, the second largest, harboring The Arab that R. Plant talks so much about with his oh so loud mouth. I still think this is true — get to that more in a minute. Baker Bloch sinks or disappears into Sunklands, and I speculate that my time in SL is basically done, except for some gallery maintenance. Then whole Corsica Prime-Pennsylvania stuff arose, and I was back in the thick of SL things. Resonation focused on what became Egg Hill Sink, found fellow collager had lived in bottom — fish bowl in center. Parallel sink directly south in Chasm Deep sim mostly. Two, I believe, are linked in a Klein bottle type relationship — that’s how they were formed. Original site of Petemond in Egg Hill Sink? This may be wrong now, but *Centerville* was certainly in the upper sink of the two (Egg Hill). Connects with K.C. Life a/v synch in that Centerville is in exact center of this 2 movie synchronicity, with Kansas all around. Kansas here obviously is same as Pennsylvania — even 2 states are involved. This is pre-SL in many ways. Klein bottle situation between the 2 involved sinks is pre-SL, and probably disappeared when the Linden grid was superimposed on the landscape.
Briefly contemplated buying land in Egg Hill sink before fully understanding relationship with Chasm Deep sink and Klein bottle relationship.
Then the whole Big I./ Comet Archipelago story came along right after this, another big chunk of information centered by the Trivia Ratsuit Uncyclopedia entry. Big I. used to seal up runny (Pennsylvania) mess of Corsica Prime. Corsica Prime becomes a row of 12 notes in 4 permutations: original, reversed, inverted, reversed inverted. This continues idea of Blue Feather Sea as 12 notes of scale (7 and 5). Sealing of Corsica energy on Big I. is connected with West Virgnia state and The Jug. The Jug represents memory of Egg Hill Sink and Chasm Deep sink as a Klein bottle situation. Also identified with Blood Dr. and Dr. Blood, which is the same as Blood Doctor and Doctor Blood, also from Pennsylvania (Blood Rd. and Blood Settlement, later Marienville, and the connection of Corsica, Pennsylvania into all this). Sim named for Philip Dick works help identify central axis of Corsica Prime and its 2 central sinks. Big I. mythology developed to contain sealed up energy of Pennsyvania via Blood Dr./Dr. Blood through hole on island asssoc with Rat, formerly Saw-chee apparently. Story of Chesaw and Saw-chee playing Trivia Ratsuit to save the world from penguins, and start up virtual reality in Pieland (original name of Big I.). Big I. is surfacing of Pieland into SL grid. Locked into place through Comet Archipelago. Friend Flynn moves to what was originally called Chesaw Island, and where Chesaw lived before moving to Big Island. Chesaw I. rumoured to have a Money Pit, but the pit was the hole on Big I. instead, also identifed through Flynn as resonating into Tron’s Flynn and Tron itself. A 3rd Life was seen beyond Second Life inside the hole. Sealed up to protect, assoc. with Cthulu mythos through Derleth, but also connections to SL friend Headburro Antfarm. A way to connect stories. Hucka D. claims to have lived on Big I. as well, but in form of purple obese alien, or perhaps just pregnant alien. Has 5 kids, named after fingers on hand. The Arab brought her and 6 others to Big I. She went “native”. She was like Mary Ann of the crew, and so identified with Kansas, it seems. Middle was key (named after Middle Finger) because he retained memory of The Jug/Klein bottle. This seals up memory of Peter, who at least formed Sunklands on Jeogeot, and perhaps the 2 Corsica Prime sinks as well, similarly dry ones. Corsica Prime [through Pennsylvania] becomes the symbol of Pinky, or One Pink. Which may also be the same as Big I. (?).
Scene shifts back, then, to Jeogeot as Baker Bloch purchases land in heart of Sunklands, in Aotearoa. Largest sink seems to have been created by Dr. Blood, or Blood Dr. No, Dr. Blood. Who may be the same as an Aorta??
But the big sink and what it means is key. And the Big Sink (same as Big I… may be a connection (!))* has been corrupted, perhaps beyond repair since it spans so many sims and belongs to so many avatars at once. Some of the smaller sinks have been repaired (Lill Burn Valley, Otaki Gorge, Oolamoo/Drews, at least 1/2 of it).
Theory: to heal the 2nd largest sink totally and not just in part, Saw-chee has to don the rat suit and loose the Trivia Ratsuit game to Chesaw. The wall between Oolamoo and Drews is this game, perhaps. Anyway Dr. Blood created the largest sink [apparently called Big Sink now, associated somehow with Big I. through "Big Ink"], or was its culmination. Sunklands was created in 2004-2009. Sealed up by Klein bottle relationship between Doctor Blood and Blood Doctor, which seems to be the same as the relationship between the 2 sinks of Corsica Prime.
Dr. Blood also has something to do with the original blood red color of Rubisea on the Maebaleia continent, fed now by Unnasty Branch and quite pure and clear in contrast to previous times.
The collage 10×10 was created at the same time as Sunklands of SL. The sinks literally did not exist in complete form until at least 2007, maybe 2008. Before my entrance as Baker Blinker/Baker Bloch into SL, Sunklands was not solidified. Only at this moment did it cystallize as it appears now on maps.
Forgot to even mention the 2 rabbit holes further linking Maebaleia and Jeogeot, and, more specifically, the Rubisea area (Lake District) and Sunklands. Study difference between “wet” and “dry” sinks.**
Collages find perhaps their true home in Aotearoa in new and hopefully improved Edwardston Station Gallery (beyond “borg cube” original nature, as culminated in Horisme version just before b_hivia creation in Noru). Introduction of collage 10×10 into scene is another way to heal Sunklands.

Hucka D.:

I have nothing to add much except to saw that my 5 fingers were all black children, poor, and barely with clothes. But we lived on a tropical island so not much care there. Middle is a key, yes. They’re all keys.

I loved them so. I spoiled Pinky. He always went wee wee wee all the way back home when he ran into mainland money trouble. He grew up to be Dr. Blood. He grew up to be Peter. Peter formed Sunklands, not you, baker b. Baker Bloch. You created the collage 10×10, though. Tell me how that works again sometime.

bb:

I’ll attempt it soon. Thanks.

*****
* a transitional archetype between Big I. and Big Sink may be Big Ink, but we’ll see about that.
** Hucka D. indicated to me that both rabbit holes, which are, in effect, one rabbit hole, are created by the Ancients that I encountered in various ways at the beginning of this blog (Baker Blinker and Shakenstein, Baker Bloch and Mr. Low).
*** Hucka D. has since indicated to me that this is where Baker Blinker and Baker Bloch were *married*, or where they spent their honeymoon. Lake District.

ESG Reborn, Couple More… October 9, 2009

Thought I’d also include in this blog a couple more pictures of the ground just before the new Edwardston Station Gallery was built. This is from the modified Arcadia Econo apartment that use to sit in the same location. Basically the entire space between it and the Victorian house Baker Bloch is staring toward here has been filled by the new gallery. The sidewalk linking the two has also been uprooted — more on that to come, perhaps…

Baker Bloch on the west end of the 40 meter, totally straight sidewalk, staring toward the property’s cottage (Chilbo bought). As I think I’ve said, the cottage is currently my favorite place on the property to just “hang.”

Then a picture from after the gallery was set on the ground. As the whole structure is set on these pillars, a type of walking space is still provided underneath. But no room for large trees — only the smaller ones like short, fall Linden oaks from our default library inventory.

A look up into the level 2 aquarium from below. Yes, that’s a shark, although I didn’t activate his “roaming” ability. This is another Linden inventory item, along with all the fish here.

Interesting juxtaposition of gallery and Victorian house viewed from behind the single grave on the property. May add more headstones soon to make a small cemetery in this location.

A small pond on the property. I’ll have more to say about this in a future post.

A closer view of the front, middle of the new gallery.

Edwardston Station Gallery Reborn… October 9, 2009

Baker Bloch waiting at the nice little “rest stop” just south of my properties for the whole sim of Aotearoa to come back online. He was busy working on the new gallery structure (more below) when the warnings came. 10 minutes till your sim goes offline, 3 minutes, 1 minute… At the last moment he chickened out and teleported over to Chesaux to wait the downtime out, although he would have liked to have stayed and see what happened to an avatar when his home sim goes offline. Maybe it’s like Tron (once again) in that you get derezzed along with the sim. But in any case he didn’t find out.

On the west lip of Aotearoa, you get this marvelous view down into the western side of Jeogeot’s largest sink, and, as far as I can tell, the largest such dry sink in SL. The landscape is barren in front of Baker here because the central parcel cutting through the vale from the east here is up for sale.

I rent almost 1/8th of the Aotearoa sim. The rest has been bought up by a single individual in the last several days, who’s currently setting up what appears to be a quite large, multi-level mall in its center. Quite close to my parcel, as you can tell. I was resigned to having neighbors and the inherent problems (and, yes, also advantages), so this comes as no big surprise. Mind you this is also the back of the mall (whatever) and the front is much prettier. But from the back it’s not much to see, and the multilevel part is kind of irritating (it grew a new, bottom level just yesterday). I must admit that I played around with erecting 2 60×60x1 screens between my parcel and his land, but it just didn’t look right. So, again, I’ve resigned myself to look at the back of this monstrosity while it exists next to me. From what I’ve scanned it looks really nice inside, and, as I said, the front is much better. I wonder how much trouble it is to set one of these giant thingies up? Anyway, I’ll never find out, although I’d like to play around with unpacking some kind of [non-mall] superstructure in the future, just for kicks. Just to get use to the scale. But for now the stuff I’ve been working with is certainly large enough…

Bringing us to a happier subject: the new Edwardston Station Gallery (!). I briefly pondered setting all gallery spaces up in the air, but settled on this “adjusted”, new style of ground gallery, built up from a simple structure Baker Bloch found in his inventory called the Black Box, which served as a module (as, for example, Arcadia Asylum’s “Shop In A Box” acted as the module for the former version of this gallery, last seen in Noru I believe back in August).

I won’t go into great details on the build except to say that part of it was modeled in my skybox and moved to the ground, and then the second stage involved modifying the resultant new “superstructure” (module based, as I said) to act as a proper receptacle for my collage 10×10. What I’ve previously determined is that all gallery structures named “Edwardston Station Gallery” should serve as a home for this 10×10 and it alone, sans Edna’s photographs. *Ideally* I’d like to house collages and photographs in one structure, as I did, in part, in b_hivia. However, just for practicality’s sake (lag caused by large number of textures and prims), I think it’s now best, at least at this stage, to stick exclusively with the collages in this ground gallery. As I believe I’ve already mentioned, I still have close to a *1000* prims to work with on the property, even with this gallery all set up and collages included now. I think there’s no doubt a sky structure will have to come soon, as I don’t want to set anything else very large on the ground itself — that part’s mostly developed as far as I’m concerned.

As I was telling Hucka D. in a recent post, I see this as a “bigger boy” gallery than former structures. Even though I loved b_hivia and all such beehives that came before it, along with those using Arcadia Asylum work as modules or parts (for example, the aforementioned Noru-version Edwardston Station Gallery), I believe the newest gallery looks a little less “home made” and more like other SL galleries that I’ve visited. I think you can see the difference below. Mind you, I like both approaches, but for this build I decided on a slightly more sophisticated, streamlined look. Like adding fashionable lights on certain floors such as the first one (pictured below)…

… and also an aquarium in the middle of floor 2 (with non-phantom water, though, so you can walk over it).

Floor 4 below represents the current, main entry point into the gallery from those teleporting in. As you can see, I’ve appropriately set the SL gallery kiosk inside a cut/edited pillar. Since the below picture was taken, I’ve also added a welcome sign of sorts, providing, upon touch, a link to my gallery url in this blog (I decided against — again for now; may change my mind — having a notecard for the gallery, especially one that is automatically provided as one enters from this point.

It was a lot of fun playing around with the structure once the base was firmly set on the ground. One interesting result was the introduction of circle based elements from the tower wing of the newest Temple of TILE version. I also used bits from this wing to enclose the 5 tier spiral staircase linking all 7 floors of the structure together. I found that when it wasn’t enclose using this stairwell, Baker Bloch had a tendency at times to merely walk over its narrow edge at times due to “natural” lag, especially when going down instead of up.

I’m not sure what the red circle means here; just something that I decided to include in the natural evolution of the build.

The new gallery from behind. This is from the western lip of Aotearoa again, and from about the same position as picture #2 of this particular post. I’ve since removed the gallery sign (black, center) from the back.

b_hivia Gallery tour, part 07 August 15, 2009

This time the location of the photography is Charleston, South Carolina, our favorite vacation destination for sure. Hope you’ve been yourself, and, if not, it’s highly recommended, especially if you’re within, say, 7-8 hours.

Second part of the Wheeler-Jasper series just ahead, then, the Jasper half.

One, final middle aisle photography exhibit awaits Baker Bloch 2 ramps up, this time from the mostly deserted coal town of Pocahontas, Virginia.

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END OF B_HIVIA GALLERY TOUR.