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[tinag222]

[Iamthequestion]

[fishysticks]

I for one am going to laugh hysterically if while Slusho! is part of the game, and ends up pointing us somewhere else- it has absolutely nothing to do with the movie other than having someone wear the shirt.
I do think it would be kind of lame if some Slurpee wanna-be drink mutated its consumers into huge SOL head wielding monsters (which i've read numerous times).

and Tinag, even if you aren't crapping all over everyones ideas in your mind.. you are extremely hostile, and for no reason.
No matter where you go, people don't read and they don't listen and they have their own thoughts. Ignore them, and get on with whatever important research you happen to be doing.

[Person Guy]

JK

[HetMasteen]

Just a final thought before I head off to bed (4:23 AM local time):

All this talk of the NY1 site, and 108films and such leads me to believe that if this is indeed an ARG, we should expect some event that occurs in the PRESENT in the alternate reality. So far we have been confronted with images from the AR's FUTURE. Assuming this film puts an emphasis on "real time" (like 24, for example), it means that those events will occur on January 18, 2008. You catch my drift?

Hopefully the next picture will be of something time coded July, 2007, which will lead us to the next step (please please let this be worth all the work!)

[Tkar]

[Iamthequestion]

Dunno if this helps. I take NY1 for granted, we've had it for about 15 years already.

it is a 24 hour news channel its parent comany is time warner and the reaction of it being the first thing to turn too when something happens in the city is very realistic. that being said. the news caster on the trailer is a real newscaster, she actually is a reporter. the temperature is way off for NYC that time of year and time of day, it is never that warm in the middle of winter in the middle of the night in NYC, so IT MUST BE DELIBERATE.

they have been known to have fun and be a little offbeat sometimes on that channel, so it's not impossible for them to be a part of the ARG or as i call it, "The Untitled Experience" as per my retarded blog I started to try to collect all my thoughts on this thing.
http://january182008.blogspot.com/



ok thats it i really have to be on my way to work now.

heres a link again for those that missed it

http://www.ny1.com/index.jsp

[Guest]

If I may make an observation here, at this point.

ARGs are stories, pure and simple. They are extremely difficult to write, and rely on strong characterization and a well-created backdrop to play in.

At this time, we do not have the minimum necessary for this game to be considered "active." A good ARG (heck, even a bad ARG) will have an invitation that opens the door to the first bread crumb. Our invitation could have been the Slusho shirt - smart money is on that.

However, I believe the ARG is not yet started - the bread crumb is not yet "out of the oven" so to speak.

That bread crumb needs a very, very low barrier to entry. Think of this like an author - he needs to suck you into the story, then he needs to flesh out his characters so you care about them. After this comes plot, backstory, twists and turns. You simply can't do this much different without losing your audience.

We got sucked into the story - with a bang. Now, the storyteller needs to introduce the characters with which we will interact. These characters will be archetypical in many ways - they won't be presented as complex until we proceed down the rabbit hole for quite a while.

Our next clue will likely be on the order of a Slusho shirt in a single frame. It will not be something that requires specialized knowledge or esoteric research to achieve.

Those things may very well happen, but only after the stage is set and we have met the characters.

Please continue to be polite and supportive of one another, but also remember that we are not yet in an ARG yet, and we have no reason to believe it has started.

Newer players may want to look up the cloudmakers.org archives and see how an ARG unfolds. The Beast was the template on which most ARGs have been stamped, and even if you believe this one will slaughter sacred cows in ARG design, it still has to adhere to basic rules of storytelling and entertainment.

[JimmieBJr]

[AQueryan]

Hey, can someone confirm whether or not the alleged JJ Abrams correspondence sent to Knowles at AICN has been corroborated from another source as being authentic? It seems that everyone simply assumes that it must be legit based solely on an AICN posting. Unless, of course, I'm out of the loop regarding some other established intelligence.

[Person Guy]

??

[Kayberry]

Firstly, nobody should be shitting on anyone's ideas that are based on something credible and reasonably relevant. Right now we're all in the same boat - we know 1-18-08.com and slusho.jp, and we're all looking for the next place to go to. We've checked out all of the usual suspects, followed up everything that looks obvious, and now we have to resort to either waiting for more information from the official sites or grabbing at less tangible threads.

However, simply trying to pull whatever numbers you see and finding a relationship to something else that involves numbers almost always ends up in a dead-end lead. We see a lot of numbers - 1, 18, 8, 1987, 2004, 63, 12, 32, 36, 48, 3293, 401 - we could use arithmetic to link those numbers to pretty much everything from the books of the holy bible to last night's winning powerball numbers. And the opposite can be true for Revealations being related to a number of events that happened in the past 1000 years. Just ask Pat Robertson, he's been saying that the end of days is deathly near for the past 30 years.

We have to remember what we're looking for is a tangible link to the next part of the ARG - a website to visit, an email address, a phone number to call for a voicemail message, or perhaps a backdoor link to the movie gathered from a related source - like the NY1 website or Greg Baxter or the shooting crew in those Slusho vans, people we know had a hand in the production. And through all of this, we're assuming that those threads actually exist because J.J. said there was more than once site and that we hadn't discovered any others besides 1-18-08; for all we know these other sites aren't live yet. However, in the hope that these sites are indeed live and just waiting for us, we must continue to pursue any leads we can find, if we can make a coherent argument that they may be related to the movie trailer or Slusho.

[Person Guy]

Listened

[LordAcoustic]

I've read most of this, but not all of it so sorry if the significance has already been determine, but can you tell me when is it 63 degrees in January in New York. This, I think, is a pretty obvious clue.

Anyone?

[rhialto]