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HeliotropicHeretic
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Joined: 02 Feb 2011
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 		hold the phone
I have much more confidence in this post than the two struck through above:

Tones
PhoneTag
058168058168058168888888055816805581688
88580016088858001605058241682583168205815628828
85115558851155582222

still don't know if it contains anything useful. I was hoping (because of the song's title, "phone tag") that there might be a phone number but i don't know where to go with this. ideas?

PostPosted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 9:17 pm
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chelbelle
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 		jumping in... got the "work sucks" email, and now im really loving the music/film feeling Smile

did you see this on mindboulders? i know it might be out of game or whatever, but it seems weird (real vs not real?)

http://www.mindboulders.com/category/stacy/

"you don't know anything about it so just come over and i'll tell you about it and better yet, show you. if you'd just give me a chance and not look at me like that. i'm so sick of feeling like this."

PostPosted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 10:32 pm
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fezzik
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 		ok this is really random/picky, but i noticed something watching the "Follow Oscar" video: pay attention to the flaps of the cardboard box. When he first opens it up at 0:08, the number "144" is written on the flap closest to us. Then, he opens the second flap to our left. We can't see the underside of it because they cut to the "deep hole" shot. In that shot, we see the underside of that flap clearly, and it is blank. In the next shot, we see him reach dramatically into the box. In that shot, the flap is visible, and there are numbers on it. The number "96" is clear, but the rest are harder to see. It could say "Contenido Piezas 1500", but that is some guesswork/interpretation.

I have no idea if this is just a glitch/mistake in the production, or meant to be meaningful.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:46 pm
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HeliotropicHeretic
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 		box theory
interesting
@Fezzik You've got some sharp eyes! I never even noticed the numbers at all. After checking it out, I am inclined to go with the continuity error theory (only because I was thinking, they'd need to use different boxes for the outside and inside shots for the {5 1/2 minute hallway} box). not really sure though.

By the way, (full disclosure) that's me (haroldparent) that posted a comment (who u callin brotha?) on Oskerr's soundcloud page.

Anybody getting a feeling for this yet? (the Gestalt.) I'm kinda lost. I see the story (?) unfolding via the videos (albeit not diachronically) but the rest of the PLAY??? maybe it's just over my head. twit pics lead us to mind boulders, (website and lima) data matrix codes yield beatnik philosopy or buddhist spirituality? Oskerrs got a song called phonetag? We've got to be missing something or these pieces might fit together better later when we've got more pieces . . . sorry for rambling . . .

PostPosted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 6:32 pm
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HeliotropicHeretic
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 		mind boulders image manipulation
mindboulders IS IN GAME. i sent an e-mail to bobby about the youtube vids and he replied that he personally uploaded them (thanks for no link bobby)

but they're begging us to look closer in a few of these photos. i know nothing about the extraction of data or hidden images. can anybody help?
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 8:50 pm
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Scoops
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 		Pictures
relevant detail?
In that last picture, his shirt definitely reminds me of the S03AT1 video on YouTube, which would kind of make sense I suppose, given that Bobby uploaded them.

No idea if that's relevant at all, never hurts to point out.

also, adding evidence for the In-Game-ness, the picture listed as posted Sept. 26 2010 was taken March 17th 2011 at 1:42 p.m.
Yay EXIF data!

PostPosted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 11:43 pm
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fezzik
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 		Few more things I noticed about that site:

1) In several places there's a blog post listed as "cookin' up a nice STACK" but the link is mindboulders.com/2010/09/62 which doesn't go anywhere. I checked mindboulders.com/2010/09/26 and it exists but isn't the right post. The post *is* there but it's listed under http://www.mindboulders.com/page/3/. I'm not sure exactly what this means, but one thing it strongly implies to me is that the site, and the links, are being hand-generated.

2) The image at http://www.mindboulders.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/mindboulders_image_3.jpg shows a picture of "sweet steve"'s screen claiming he is working on the blog but it's just a white desktop with that same angel picture on it.

3) The picture here http://www.mindboulders.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/mindboulders_image_13.jpg has an image added to the shirt as well, and then a streak blurred out through it. It wasn't even done particularly cleanly, as if to indicate they wanted us to find it. But I'll be damned if I know what it means.

More as I find it.

PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:14 am
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fezzik
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 		Probably irrelevant, but in charliesplace.tumblr.com, there is a reference to "charlesplace.tumblr.com". Probably a typo, but just in case I went to that site and it exists but it looks just like a tumblr placeholder.

EDIT: another interesting giveaway...even though many of the posts rae supposed to be from, for example, October 2010, they reference a lot of pictures stored in urls like http://www.mindboulders.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Boulders-2.jpg implying that they were uploaded to WordPress in March of this year....so clearly the posts aren't really from back in October. Of course we were already pretty sure these were IG, but this kind of nails it for me personally.

PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:25 am
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Bekokstover
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 		Re: box theory
interesting
HeliotropicHeretic wrote:
Anybody getting a feeling for this yet? (the Gestalt.) I'm kinda lost. I see the story (?) unfolding via the videos (albeit not diachronically) but the rest of the PLAY??? maybe it's just over my head. twit pics lead us to mind boulders, (website and lima) data matrix codes yield beatnik philosopy or buddhist spirituality? Oskerrs got a song called phonetag? We've got to be missing something or these pieces might fit together better later when we've got more pieces . . . sorry for rambling . . .


I'm not feeling it either. But hooray for the mindboulders site being part of it, makes things a lot more interesting!

PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:07 am
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HeliotropicHeretic
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 		charlie
hanging out at jake's dad's house
so, i've got two trains of thought on this.

a) the mindboulders blog was only made to get us FROM the twitpics highlights hidden bookshelf pictures with Lima and Oscar TO the Lima video on youtube. (the-mental-one found it first by googling 'S03AT1'). the fact that part of Charlie's first video was shot in the same backyard is due to the fact that it's an available location for the WIE crew. the shirts are only photoshopped to protect identities. result: THE MINDBOULDERS SITE HAS SERVED IT'S PURPOSE.

or

b) Charlie was at one time at Jeff's dad's house, {all in-game} and therefore THE MINDBOULDERS SITE IS STILL IN PLAY.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:39 am
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diegohcarmonacr
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 		I'd go with the second, mainly because the blog itself didn't take us to the Lima video (actually AFAIK the blog hasn't helped us, or at least, we haven't been able to figure the clues related to the blog).

PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:16 pm
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ddl
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 		Update to the mindboulders site.

http://www.mindboulders.com/2011/03/thinking-outside-of-the-boxmind/

It's Lima!!!!!!

Looks like they want people to send in images of themselves stacking in order to move the game along.

PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 5:43 pm
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diegohcarmonacr
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ddl wrote:

Looks like they want people to send in images of themselves stacking in order to move the game along.


Well, if that's the case, I've sent Bobby a picture of myself stacking... Waiting for a response ^^

PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:17 pm
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chelbelle
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 		If you Google "rock stack" Lima's stack is like number two result.
http://www.teamsandtastic.com/RockStacking/RockStack%20-1004.jpg

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folieadeux
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 		Hi, I've been lurking this for a while and finally made an account because I found this in the photo of Lima.

http://s04at1.mindboulders.com/

I found it in the IPTC core when viewing the photo in Adobe Bridge, but I have no idea what any of that means!

PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:33 pm
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