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[UPDATE] silverladder.com week 1: 11/11/07 - 17/11/07
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Wittgenstein
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that's fair. Smile i've blogged about it in some detail at my livejournal, if you want to check it out.
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superDorifto
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that sir is some deep stuff...i choose to believe in the absolute truth and power of entropy...randomness must increase, period.

PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 2:58 am
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SunnBurn
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Further Analysis Of Eye Video

My Analysis of the video at http://www.silverladder.com/eye.htm
I took the video appart frame by frame.

Frame 3-11 ---- number 3 (countdown picture)
Frame 17-22 --- number 1 (part of American Maker picture)
Frame 78-79 --- XXGR 036 checkmark (handwritten note)
Frame 103-106 - DADA 4-5 (in a pictureresembling a card)
Frame 118-119 - 0 (cigarette burn (aka film splice location))
Frame 142 ----- image rotated and fliped containing:
the letters; OOOO
the word: ASPECT (with another word blurred and superimposed over ASPECT?)
the words: SOUND OF (with another word blurred and superimposed over SOUND OF?)
Frame 147 ----- XXGR 036 checkmark (handwritten note, second appearance)
Frame 148-149 - RT-264 (handwritten note in the forground) /w NATMUHL 60 GAME (blurred in the background)
Frame 150-151 - XXGR 036 checkmark (handwritten note, blurred, third appearance)
Frame 184 ----- blurred picture of white rabbit that appears in the ceanter if clock at www.silverladder.com/ear.htm
Frame 322-323 - number 1 sidwayes, may be intended as a dash (part of American Maker picture)
Frame 387-388 - Hand of 13 cards From left to Right: AH,KH,8H,7H,6H,2H,8S,AD,QD,3D,2D,4C,2C
Frame 410-411 - number 10 upsidedown (countdown picture)
Frame 446-446 - number 9 (part of picture)
Frame 504-510 - number 6 (countdown picture)
Frame 557-560 - number 1 sidwayes, may be intended as a dash (part of American Maker picture, second appearance)
Frame 561 ----- number 1 (part of American Maker picture, second appearance)
Frame 626-631 - number 8 (countdown picture)
Frame 634-638 - number 5 (countdown picture)
Frame 721-725 - number 4 (countdown picture)
Frame 766-768 - picture of a silver ladder going down inti infinity
Frame 811 ----- number 8 (countdown picture)
Frame 812-821 - number 7 (countdown picture)
Frame 848 ----- the letter & numbers:GFL-146110
(this image I find most interesting, it appears to a hello message but it is a mirror image)
(If you place a mirror at the bottom of the screen the hand written note become very clear)
Frame 851-852 - a blurred image of Frame 848: GFL-146110
Frame 869-870 - number 4 (upsidedown countdown picture)
Frame 876-877 - number 3 (upsidedown and slightly blurred countdown picture)
Frame 878 ----- image of a painting of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci
(although it appears for some reason she has a moustach)

My Analysis of the audio of the video at http://www.silverladder.com/eye.htm

I extracted the audio adjusted the speed, pitch and the filtered the rest. It was nothing more the part of the transcript
upped by onceuponanever available at forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=21837&sid=0e25f3238c295852a382de6bab114910.

I hope you find this info helpful.

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doublecross
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Wow, great work! I have referred to it in my OP.

Some of the pages have changed slightly, I've noticed - Caesar's head now has text, and his statue now has hidden text at the top (I don't think that was there before).
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GideonGreene
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doublecross wrote:

Some of the pages have changed slightly, I've noticed - Caesar's head now has text, and his statue now has hidden text at the top (I don't think that was there before).


i just notticed a hidden title or phrase which was paradigm=change
which paradigm is a set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline.

which i can assume that would be the arg community maybe and we as a community is change...maybe i am just tired and drawing to conclusions sorry if this all sounds like gibberish Smile

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kafkaguy
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Vigilance is necessary. I believe our sharing information widens our possible perception of this, but if we view it as merely a game then we lose something. It is about "paradigm shift" and "change" it is about "synchronicity" it is about 11:11 (harmony, vibration, energy). numbers, codes, etc. will be important in this. schematics, diagrams, these kinds of things will be necessary i believe to unlock much of what must then be "interpreted" as opposed to being "translated" as 2c said.

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AndyK
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[Trivia] Head = Phrenology, [Spec] Teeth = misspelled site
Head and Tooth images, unlikely but possibly new site householdphysician.com

Oddly enough, I was flipping through an old psychology textbook today on an unrelated artistic research mission, and discovered a picture that looked suspiciously like the silver ladder index head. Voila! Meet Mr Phrenology Head. Almost identical...

[img]http://www.flickr.com/photos/20200618@N02/1994371698/[/img]

Also, the image of the teeth comes, aparently, from here:

http://householdphysician.com/chapter1.php?page=17

Quote:
Names. The four front teeth in each jaw, a, 6, Fig. 27, are the cutting teeth (incisors) ; the next one, e, is an eyetooth (cuspid); the next two, c7, e, are small grinders (bicuspids) ; the last three, f, g, 7&,are grinders (molars).


My speculative ramblings:
Quite possibly, even probably, this is meaningless, but since the game had links to Hypnogogia and other weird things, perhaps phrenology is not unrelated. It certainly falls into the category of bizarre victorian medical theories. Also, despite being an apparent medical text, from what I glanced at, the tooth thing appears to have spelling/grammatical errors and numbers inserted for no apparent reason. Suspicious enough to follow up on or a wild goose chase?

PS if the image/link don't work, let me know.

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AndyK
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[trivia] Got my watch back word switch
"this" & "image" reversed in the got my watch back page

Quote:
"Congratulations. Well done. Here you go.

Feel free to display image this on your website or MySpace page to let people know you got it back.

Please save the image and upload it to your site or page. Do not attempt to link directly to it. It won't work."


Typo or clue?

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onceuponanever
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Andy, the first link doesn't work, but I looked at the picture, and that is really interesting. I believe that the head was also in some previous versions of SL, before even the BSP. As I recall, the head did have the different divisions of the brain, but the text had all been changed to things related to Shane.

Ah, found it. It's still in the Wayback. http://web.archive.org/web/20040605150156/www.silverladder.com/index2.html

One other thing: I don't know if this is different for any of you, but to me, the hidden text in "ides of march" reads
Quote:
paradigm change =


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Wandering Star
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onceuponanever wrote:
One other thing: I don't know if this is different for any of you, but to me, the hidden text in "ides of march" reads
Quote:
paradigm change =



A paradigm change is known as a paradigm shift. They were cluing us in to the word "shift" by putting "paradigm change =" up there. They also gave us a picture of Caesar. They were supplying us with the info that the scrambled text was encripted with a Caesar cipher, also known as a shift cypher.


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analogwatch
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Re: hidden numbers in the random video

superDorifto wrote:
i looked at the video under the eye on the main page, and with the help of a couple of friends slowed it down a bit. there are numbers that flash in what seems like a random sequence...3-0-1-6-8-5-4-8-7-4...looks like a phone # to me. But the number is out of service, we tried it backwards too, going of of the bible quote in the ceasar cypher...but no luck their either.

has anybody else tried to slow down/ reverse the video to see if it has any clues?
The video was made by a Passenger. Not sure why it would have any clues. :/

(I keep forgetting that Mad makes an angry face here.)
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unVoice
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Image this? Imagine this. Imagine the possibilities.

Text after the page content at watchback.htm.
Needed to be highlighted to be seen.

I suppose just poking fun at the grammar error. ;p

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nbnewell
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http://www.silverladder.com/clubs/2c/distraction.htm

has changed Again!!!!!!

now shows the text: When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

title of a sting song.

Lyrics here:

When the World is Running Down You Make the Best of What's Still Around
From the album Zenyatta Mondatta (A&M)
and from the album Bring on the Night (A&M)
Words and music by Sting


Turn on my V.C.R.
Same one I've had for years
James Brown on the T. A. M. I. show
Same tape I've had for years
I sit in my old car
Same one I've had for years
Old battery's running down
It ran for years and years

Turn on the radio
The static hurts my ears
Tell me where would I go
I ain't been out in years
Turn on the stereo
It's played for years and years
An Otis Redding song
It's all I own

When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around

Plug in my M.C.I
To exercise my brain
Make records on my own
Can't go out in the rain
Pick up the telephone
I've listened here for years
No one to talk to me
I've listened here for years

When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around

When I feel lonely here
Don't waste my time with tears
I run 'Deep Throat' again
It ran for years and years
Don't like the food I eat
The cans are running out
Same food for years and years
I hate the food I eat

When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around

When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
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Distractions

First there was the "knee deep in aligators" and then there was the song... Anyone else getting the idea that the distractions are there just to help us get through the week until the next card revealing?
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Wandering Star
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Re: Distractions

Sythys wrote:
First there was the "knee deep in aligators" and then there was the song... Anyone else getting the idea that the distractions are there just to help us get through the week until the next card revealing?



I don't know, it seems like this thing has plenty of buzz already. I get the idea that someone behind all of this is saying something. What it is, I'm not sure.



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