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bakntime
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Joined: 31 Oct 2003 Posts: 462 Location: back in time
I'm at a loss, seriously. I've scoured a bunch of Dina's stuff, and I can pick out quite a few locations that obviously point to something, but I just can't figure out what it is.
Gotta be something to the bisy one (Nov 10th)...
Quote:
bisy
I have been a flurry of activity.
The journey is in front of me.
What is the first step?
Why the extra line break between the last two sentenses? And why a "flurry" of activity?
Earlier there was this post (Nov 2nd):
Quote:
snow globe
The world seems very different now than it did, oh, maybe an hour ago.
There are also referenced to a "chill" settling in over Chicago, and another entry is titled "eye o' storm"
Flurry, chill, snow globe, storm... There's definitely a theme there, I just don't know if it means anything
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 12:09 am
bakntime
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Here's the sheet music from the jesse sketch, blown up a little. The music has to be there for a reason...
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 12:26 am
bagsbee
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Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 417 Location: NYC
Jesse Sketch Thoughts on the Jesse sketch:
The music:
- the key is A flat
- time sig is 3/8
- Some people have spec'd that some of the notes are bolded, the notes are:
C(A/E)CAEF - the (A/E) is a pair of notes together, 'A' being the lower one
or
C(Ab/Eb)CAbEbF - with the flat notation 'b'
- I'm not so sure about the bolding, since some (the Ab/Eb pair in particular) are not 'as bold', and there are a couple of darker spots where there are no notes. Also we found deadcafe from the notes, I'm not sure we would have another puzzle solved by the same method...although you never know, hehe
- The tune itself is unremarkable (someone on this forum made a MIDI of it but I can't find it), and may or may not be original. I couldn't find it using various melody searching tools.
The Sketch:
- Looks more like a Photoshop effect than a sketch
- I've seen this photo of Jesse somewhere that escapes me at the moment
Text:
Dina wrote:
Dearest Ethan,
I thought you might like this attempt at a sketch.
I also got to play with transferring with water and other solubles. The effect is kinda neat.
Love,
Dina
- What are "other solubles"?
- What is she transferring?
- Is this the only place she starts with "Dearest Ethan"? This seems more like a letter than a post on a blog
OK, seriously I need sleep.
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 1:02 am
joebrent
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First of all, that's the same music that was on the background of a few of the dina.nekodas pages. Second, something must have been changed, because the last note in the left hand of the 3rd bar is impossible to play, unless you are Shaquille O'Neal. Third, I think this is by Chopin - it certainly sounds Chopiny - but I looked through my Chopin books and couldn't find it. Doesn't mean it's not him, though, those things are hardly comprehensive. I have attached a MIDI file of the music, looped 6 times so you can hear it.
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 3:04 am
out to lunch
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Joined: 06 Nov 2003 Posts: 47
i think we should review Dina's patterns and see if there is something there to extrapolate her method of hiding these things. The paintover pics always had the same method, so maybe Dina has a predictable method as well...
these aren't in order...
blueline.html - came from extrpolation of the night.html source (clues in comments)
beethoven.html - name extrapolated from the names of the two pics in the blog
triad.html - came from the three frequencies that she posted (this seemed to be a more blatant clue)
deadcafe.html - deadcafe was spelled out by the notes in a riff
balladsoffrogs.html - found from the 11 mp3s (again, this was a blatant clue, not subtle at all)
i know there are others such as (night, tortoise, etc) but i can't remember how they were solved.
Dina's clues don't seem to be all to deep. It doesn't look as though you have to go off and do to much research into anything - just find the clue and start playing around with it. I guess finding the clue is the hard part here though...
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 10:05 am
catherwood
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Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 4109 Location: Silicon Valley, CA
out to lunch wrote:
beethoven.html - name extrapolated from the names of the two pics in the blog
that was the first one solved, and what frustrated me was that the CLUE was on ethan's blog but the ANSWER was on dina's server.
same with tortoise, altho it was not extrapolated but rather handed to us. Ethan's blog had tortoise.jpg and dina had tortoise.html
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 11:03 am
Medemia
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So this means we need to really start scouring Ethan's blog too
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 11:43 am
Toast
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Dina used to like cinnamon.
She's mentioned cinnamon at least twice in her blog.
*goes back to randomly guessing*
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 12:13 pm
Medemia
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From Ethan's logs:
Quote:
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Yes.
Yes, it is.
?
Posted by Dina at 01:00 AM
Quote:
wood grain, lamp light
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 12:13 pm
Medemia
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Toast wrote:
Dina used to like cinnamon.
She's mentioned cinnamon at least twice in her blog.
*goes back to randomly guessing*
I think this was mentioned in the chat transcript trying to tie her to Cinna from Julius Caesar, dying as a scapegoat unjustly.
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 12:15 pm
Omnie
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Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 772
Huh. I come back after almost two days of away-from-the-computer time, and this still isn't solved yet! I can't believe it. This is getting incredibly depressing, not to mention frustrating. I'm going crazy from all the Taoism and I Ching links that I'm suddenly finding. I think I'm going to break down and cry....where are the missing Dina pages? Where?
*sniff*
(Some sort of hint would be nice.)
Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2003 4:35 pm
bakntime
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Joined: 31 Oct 2003 Posts: 462 Location: back in time
Omnie wrote:
(Some sort of hint would be nice.)
Really nice.
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2003 1:40 pm
bagsbee
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After all the time I spent on Oct. 1st pic...I've decided I want to trade in some of my STOL credits for a Dina page...or two...I think we've earned it
Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2003 1:23 am
Omnie
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bagsbee wrote:
After all the time I spent on Oct. 1st pic...I've decided I want to trade in some of my STOL credits for a Dina page...or two...I think we've earned it
You know, I like that reasoning. I'd be willing to throw in all my stol credits, as well as....
*ahem*
...drum roll....
....dun dun dun dun dundundundun....
My prize cookies from the photoshopping thread. Delivered personally by the ONE himself. Yummy....irresistable....slightly stale by now, but still with lots of sentimental value...
(Maybe if we all get down on our virtual knees and beg?)
Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2003 1:48 am
Moriar
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Joined: 26 Oct 2003 Posts: 51
I'm still working on dina's page but i dont see many ppl doing it....
The ones that are interested call my icq (226902713) so we can work them out.. i have various clues...
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2003 11:47 am
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