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[META][TRAILHEAD] 1-18-08: Possible new arg/puzzle?
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bakntime
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Re: so many pages eyes bleeding...

CeetotheJay wrote:
Also, just read some very interesting things from a livejournal account by the name of 1-18-08. Quoting here:

Quote:
3) On a take in the scene you all saw (the trailer) at + 30 seconds after impact movie time, just a couple of us were told by Mr Reeves that we are seeing a giant foot stomp down (this is at the point where the tower explodes). Not Godzilla, but it is interesting…

wtf? Would love to hear people idea of what exactly that means???


We figured out the Slusho thing, but there is some more VERY interesting details from someone actually involved. Item #3 is particularly interesting, I thought.
To be honest, most of this stuff sounds like things a person could learn just from being in the vicinity of shooting, or stuff you could simply partially make up based on info that's already out there.

If this person is actually part of filming, however, they don't seem to be a major character. Assuming such, and considering how tightly they're keeping things "secret," I find it hard to believe that the director would give away something like this about a foot stomping down. You could easily get the same reaction from people by telling them just about anything huge is landing in the vicinity such as a car, debris, etc, and then not have to give away any further "secrets."

Just a couple of observations. I'm not necessarily suggesting that any of this is made up, but you always have to be weary of people who are simply seeking attention and/or page hits.

This one part of the article (which originated at Trailer Spy) is what makes me a little suspicious:

"He didn't give us his name (and I'm withholding the nickname he gave himself for his own protection), but I can confirm that he is an actor working on the mysterious Cloverfield project"

How can you confirm someone is working on a film if they don't even give you their name???.....

"Uh, hi, I'm in the movie, I can't tell you who I am."

"Oh, really, cool! That's proof enough for me!"


Again, I don't mean to be overly skeptical here, but none of what this person posted seemed all that more insightful than what could have been observed near the filming locations (the Slusho related stuff as well as info about the Humvee) and the rest could be simply fabrication to make the person sound like they were actually working on the film (the stuff about the director telling them what to do).

I just find the timing of this information (the article is from July 8th) a little late to the party. For example, this picture taken and uploaded on June 28th, before the trailer even appeared: http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=639228915&size=l

Therefore, it appears that filming for the movie was going on in LA before the trailer was released. Why would this "insider" only come forth with any information after the trailer was released in theaters and long after this photo with quite a bit of "insider" type information was made available. One reason I can think of is that there's no insider, and this article is just taking advantage of the hype around this movie by collecting a bunch of already available internet tidbits as well as doing a little bit of embellishing to make it seem like they have an "exclusive scoop", but that's just the skeptic in me Wink

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benthic
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haha 401broadway.com exists, but it was created in 2001 and is currently nothing more than a retired placeholder for the domain owner. A nice try by me, but no such luck. I'm still under the impression that the location of 401 Broadway is not where the actual building is, since many companies in NY have a great habit of having identical billboards and ads for themselves on various buildings through the city. I'm more interested in the glowing white building when the head is thrown, and pinpointing the location of the first, massive explosion, so that I might have a better idea of which way the monster is coming from and vicariously where the video was shot from. Gah. Not leaving the house until I figure this out.

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xxaltruismandme wrote:
Has anyone searched for websites based on times? The times of the pictures, minutes before, etc? That seems like the best clue we have right now aside from the slurpo thing.

I found one earleir which had very similar page source to 1-18-08.com, but i don't remember what it was :/ 1201am.com or something similar i think.

in any case, we need a breakthrough here.


I been looking, not coming up with anything of value... I did a search on all .jp sites for the date 1-18-08 and found some things, but i doubt they're of value...

This site had:

01/17/2008-01/18/2008
Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding(PRMU)

http://www.ieice.or.jp/ess/ESS/PHP/domconf-e.php?society=ess

But it doesn't seem to have anything more... I'm thinking there should be a ganu science research site... but who knows

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I don't mean to bring up old arguments but it definitely does look like there's a definite planned motion in the smoke in 1:22-1:24, 1:30-1:31, and 1:33-1:34. If you look carefully, it really looks like there's something in the smoke, and it strongly resembles tentacles. Just throwing in my two cents.

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MISS

AT 2 points in the party portion of the trailer there is a flash of light (flash bulb?). in the first one the banner is appears over exposed at 14 seconds

ELL MISS YOU and only MISS is really in focus

second time..

MISS is once again clearly in frame at 38 seconds...

In these images the difference isn't as stark as it is in the quicktime player... if you view these frame by frame the MISS really jumps out.. at least to me it does.


14 seconds



14 seconds seems rather in your face compared to 1/2 second before.



38 seconds



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I dont know if this is new info or not... Didnt have time to read the entire thread.

I'm studying the pic of the party on 1-18-08. The girl farthest to the right on the pic looks like the same girl on the right side of the first pic with the 2 girsl (or one girls face split up, whatever hehe). And in the party pic it really doesnt look like she belongs there. Whats she looking at? And the guys head in front of her that blocks half her face looks almost too large... Like it was edited to block exactly half of her face.

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ok that picture of the 2 girls

i dont think it is 1 girl because if it was one girl why would on one side of her fcae there is makeup and then onthe other there is not?..... seems wierd to me unless something happened that we do not currently know about(i.e. she jumped into water or wiped it off or something)

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benthic wrote:

And even if all of this turns out to be a bust, at least I can head over a couple blocks to ToyTokyo and grab some PXC cards and ARG chat with one of the guys there. He'll be interested in all of this, for sure.


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Blue K wrote:
benthic wrote:

And even if all of this turns out to be a bust, at least I can head over a couple blocks to ToyTokyo and grab some PXC cards and ARG chat with one of the guys there. He'll be interested in all of this, for sure.


Say "Hi" to Lev for me! Very Happy

Now I feel dumb, because I still don't go there frequently enough to be a regular and know everybody's names. Oh well. haha

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TallulahBelle
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K, I'm just gonna dump a little photoshop fun in here.

First, regarding the alleged number 2 in the We'll miss you-sign. I see the 2, but I still think its just someones passport- or highschool photo, and this is why:

<-->

Nothing fancy or unlikely, just darker background, shrink, blur a bit.
Not to suggest Laura Palmer in particular will miss Rob much, seeing how she's dead and all, only that it's a headshot rather than a mysteriously glowing 2.


And on the image-note, I also found a second doghnut, suggesting that the most mysterious thing about this guy is his sense of fashion:

[/b]


I'm terribly sorry for being a unimaginative bore Smile

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Lord_Pall
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Not specifically informative, and I'm unsure if it's been noticed, but..

The crown bits on the statue of liberty head are all folded in very strongly. As if something was holding it in it's palm, with the fingers closed.


In fact, you can almost make out indentations where it was being held.

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Since Ethan Haas has been confirmed as unrelated to this, is there anyone willing to post a "here's what so far" post here excluding the Haas business? There's 65 pages to this thread. Don't feel like running through every page to figure out what happened and still looking through the Haas stuff.

P.S. Don't know if anyone's posted this or if it's even relevant. But imdb posted the cast list for the movie. There's 4 people. Here's their pics. The man of the hour seems to be Mike Vogel.







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ArtherEld wrote:
Since Ethan Haas has been confirmed as unrelated to this, is there anyone willing to post a "here's what so far" post here excluding the Haas business? There's 65 pages to this thread. Don't feel like running through every page to figure out what happened and still looking through the Haas stuff.


I wouldn't mind doing it. It may take me a little while to sort it out though. I'm at work, so I'll have to do it in between jobs. I've been around since the beginning, so I'm pretty knowledgeable. I'll get right on it, if no one else wants it. Takers?

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TallulahBelle wrote:
K, I'm just gonna dump a little photoshop fun in here.

First, regarding the alleged number 2 in the We'll miss you-sign. I see the 2, but I still think its just someones passport- or highschool photo, and this is why:

<-->

Nothing fancy or unlikely, just darker background, shrink, blur a bit.
Not to suggest Laura Palmer in particular will miss Rob much, seeing how she's dead and all, only that it's a headshot rather than a mysteriously glowing 2.


And on the image-note, I also found a second doghnut, suggesting that the most mysterious thing about this guy is his sense of fashion:

[/b]


I'm terribly sorry for being a unimaginative bore Smile




I noticed that first one in his back. Man we need a breakthrough here people, put on those thinking caps!!!!!!!!!! lol

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SLUSHO!!!
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Hi all first posting here,

Just wanted to say that the horse under the sea at the slusho.jp site could be considered as a 'sea horse' (as mentioned before but no-one seemed to pick up on it more) but in Japanese mythology i believe that sea horses were considered as baby dragons (and so could be linked to the oven mitt, as in 'too hot to handle' maybe?)

Let me know your thoughts.

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