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AngBa
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mindputty wrote:


Also, after reading more about Edward Hopper, the artist of the painting on her wall, the use of Hopper seems all the more appropriate, since pretty much all of Hopper's paintings seem to exude a strong theme of loneliness.

Well, that's all for now.


I didn't know that the pic on the wall was of interest - I've been following along, and knew from the first time I saw it, it was a Hopper. He's my favorite artist.

Yes, most of his paintings that focus on people as a subject have a very lonely, alienated, "I'm different" feel to them.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 4:39 pm
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Cu Roi
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Great job tracking that painting down! Someday you'll have to show me how you did it!

Yes! Hopper is an obvious allusion to her youtube name/situation, after reading up on him. I can't see any other connection, not that there isn't another one...just nothing more I can see.

Campylobacter...that's really strange, and I can't account for it. Why use a bacteria that causes diarrhea & spontaneous abortion in cattle, amongst other things, ias a tag for your video? That reeks of...something...directing...leading...but it does fit with the way her character's mind works. It's another connection I just can't make though.

Ehsan, great deduction. So if both lonelygirl15.com and lg15.com are owned by the "Creators" then it would seem that lg15.com might "in game", seeing as the dentist who started the page claims no affiliation with the other site. Not sure if the lonelygirl15.com site is in game or is meta.

So maybe the confession is in game as well...like addlepated mused...it would actually form a layer of interactivity, kind of.

This just keeps getting stranger by the second, even from an ARG standpoint. And in essence I find I have nothing of substance to add, except a hearty "WTF!". I guess sometimes you have to talk in order to realize that you have nothing to say. Wink

I think we should check out the lg15.com site out a bit more...even though all of this may lead to nothing.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 4:51 pm
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Cu Roi
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Also, there's a new picture to the left of the Hopper. It showed up a while ago. Looks like a flower or a shell at this distance, but I'm pretty sure we got a glimpse of it when it was on the other side of the room weeks ago.

Anybody know it?

edit: for stupidity
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 4:55 pm
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boredfairy
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I checked the source on the lg15.com and found nothing.

H.M.R. Tyme is the name of the guy. Is there anything to be read into that?

edit: Also, I went back through all the keywords in the previous movies and I found several that didn't seem to relate, other than the fact that some of them are scientific. Tell me if they catch.

sable
cephalopod
lepton
ocelot
langosta (spanish for lobster?)
leama
chipmunk
mercury
phylum
aphid
pelican
platypus
hamster
genghis khan
owen
romans
cannibalism

There are probably some that can be written off if they were mentioned and I just forgot.

PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:15 pm
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oxdeltaxo
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Is anyone else getting some strange message when trying to access www.lonelygirl15.com ?

Messages like This IP address cannot be used for browsing, or does that just mean im ip banned?

PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:26 pm
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jamesi
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oxdeltaxo wrote:
Is anyone else getting some strange message when trying to access www.lonelygirl15.com ?

Messages like This IP address cannot be used for browsing, or does that just mean im ip banned?


See here, two pages back.

Edit: Damn you, Rowan, you like-minded awesome person! Razz
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rowan
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oxdeltaxo wrote:
Is anyone else getting some strange message when trying to access www.lonelygirl15.com ?

Messages like This IP address cannot be used for browsing, or does that just mean im ip banned?

People have been reporting on this problem since Friday.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:32 pm
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oxdeltaxo
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It's still kinda weird though. I've tried accessing it through a proxy and it still isn't helping....

PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:38 pm
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JWin
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Ehsan wrote:
I just noticed that starting September 1st, all lg15.com videos are not youtube embedded, but hosted on revver.com where lonelygirl15 has an account filled with her and Daniel's videos.

Revver offers video hosting similar to youtube, but their model involves embedding advertisements in each video you upload, and also paying you for views you get.

I believe eyespot.com is just a Revver ad, not worth worrying about.

Also worth noting is that the Revver vids are QuickTime, not Flash. They are of a much higher quality and do not exhibit the YouTube artifacts. That means that whoever uploaded them did so from the source, the direct output of the video editing program. Which is further proof that lg15.com is owned and operated by "The Creators".


Yeah, Wikipedia has this to say about Revver:

Quote:
Revver is a website that lets users upload video clips, which can be viewed by visitors to the website. Unlike other similar online video services, it allows video uploaders to earn revenue from advertisements. It was created to give viral video producers a way to earn income from their work. Revver's system is often compared to Google's Adwords, but for video rather than websites. Videos are displayed in the Apple QuickTime format, unlike other video sites which mainly use the FLV format.

The key technology behind Revver is the RevTag, a tracking tag that is attached to videos that users upload. The RevTag automatically displays a static, clickable advert at the end of each video. When viewers click on it, the advertiser is charged and the advertising fee is split between the video creator and Revver. The Revver upload license allows for redistribution under a Creative Commons License, and income from RevTags is divided 50-50 between Revver and the creator of the video (after affiliate fees).


And notably, the Revver website is down right now ... so that might be the trouble with the http://www.lonelygirl15.com site. I was able to access it last night when the latest video was loaded without any trouble ...

PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:50 pm
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GuyIncognito
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Actually, accessibility for www.lonelygirl15.com has been on and off these past few days...probably in line with bandwidth-problems, as several people have pointed out.

Nevertheless, I got in a reasonable amount of time for reading the forum and apart from many vociferous, disgruntled fans, people wo are still intrigued and the odd comment from the Mods that The Creators are most probably the real deal (as far as their IP and the initial announcement goes), there's nothing new. No update from The Creators themselves.

I wonder if they're surprised at the amount of enmity their "revelation" caused...even if the "Message from the Creators" was in-game (not that there's been much of a game to be found up till now), the general audience doesn't seem to be taking it very well. Public favor again proves to be very fickle. Maybe that's why they quickened the pace of releasing new episodes?

PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:17 am
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boredfairy
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lg15.com now has "proof". Headshots of Jessica Rose who he says is the 19 year old actress playing Bree.

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colin
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boredfairy wrote:
lg15.com now has "proof". Headshots of Jessica Rose who he says is the 19 year old actress playing Bree.
It was always going to be the head shots that would be the head shot for the reality they created Confused . You know they made some poor work experience kid spend hours looking over them Razz

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luke
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After a little bit of sleuthing, I found the words that are blurred in the google image bar are "Jessica Rose New Zealand". Now why on earth did this dentist feel the need to blur what he searched for?

I clicked on both of the websites, which turned out to be actual New Zealand modelling websites. The funny thing is, and I don't know if this is just because I am tired, but I couldn't find the pictures that came up on Google Image Search anywhere on the website. Maybe I just wasn't looking hard enough, but I would almost swear they weren't there.

Anyways, back to sleep for me.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:16 am
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Ehsan
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Here we go:

http://images.google.com/images?q=Jessica%20Rose%20new%20zealand

The actual pictures have long been taken down. Hooray for Google's caching abilities.

PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:15 pm
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boredfairy
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luke wrote:
After a little bit of sleuthing, I found the words that are blurred in the google image bar are "Jessica Rose New Zealand". Now why on earth did this dentist feel the need to blur what he searched for?


I wondered too about the quotes being blurred. Seemed unnecessary as google isn't person information.

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