The pace is slow around here today. There is, actually, a little theater stuff going on, mainly getting contact information and questions answered that will help in the expansion of my set design book, Alice Through the Proscenium. A little progress there. Plus an out-of-the-blue idea on another book that's been simmering awhile. (I'm going to have to develop illustrations waaaay outside my comfort zone. Probably good for me.)
Otherwise I've been spending some time in Minecraft, developing a new community out in the far northeastern Coral Sea. (I may call it Coralton.) It's a series of coral towers rising from the seabed into the air, where they open up into gardens and dwelling places.
The trick to building in coral is that coral blocks must be in contact with water on at least one face... or they die.
Dead coral turns gray.
These towers are vibrantly red, or yellow, or blue! (Because I've hidden water inside every wall and column. Trickier than it sounds!
Coralton's towers
You can see the lineup of Coralton's towers here: Red Coral Tower has the biggest garden and living quarters, Blue Tower is really just a sort of gazebo on the path linking it to Yellow Tower, and the Magenta Pavilion is still developing.
Below is the undersea view of Red Tower - it's Dining Hall is at left.
And here's it's upper, above-water levels... at sunset.
All that red coral is still red only because hidden water keeps it alive. So far I haven't seen anyone else building with live coral on Reddit or You Tube or wherever...
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