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empty samurai
Boot
Joined: 17 May 2015 Posts: 19
Total noob here, but I believe this might be important.
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Kyle, great to see you've finally set up a message board for our communication! Communicating through an obscure and unintuitive medium with unnecessary security flaws allowing complete strangers the opportunity to read our messages is much much much better than email.
I like puzzles too. Here's one for you, Kyle.
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2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e5c2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e272e2e2e2e2e2f20
2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e27272e2e2e5c2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e205f2eb7b420
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- Sarah
Posted: Sun May 17, 2015 7:28 pm
empty samurai
Boot
Joined: 17 May 2015 Posts: 19
I don't see a link to it and google is less than helpful given that bluemind is the name of a billion real things.
Care sharing a link to the twitter feed?
Quote:
anyone check out their twitter? they seem to be pretty responsive.
Posted: Sun May 17, 2015 8:58 pm
VQ.Wavecrest
Veteran
Joined: 07 May 2007 Posts: 124 Location: Philadelphia, PA
Samurai, Sarah's little puzzle is
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hex art; not important to the story but a bit amusing!
I haven't found anything linking to a twitter either; so far just tumblr and a file on mediafire (that I'm stuck on! )
editing: the mediafire file now has this hint with its link (spoiler tag is just in case those that haven't seen it yet don't want to see)
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lowercase UPPERCASE UPPERCASE N/A N/A UPPERCASE UPPERCASE
Posted: Sun May 17, 2015 9:37 pm
gordiangray
Greenhorn
Joined: 17 May 2015 Posts: 6
Kyle Hall / Kool Kyle The Starchild Being a pretty rabid fan of old-school hip-hop and house music, I couldn't help but immediately be drawn to the fact that "Kyle Hall", the stated founder of Bluemind, Inc. is also the name of a respected Detroit DJ and "Kool Kyle" is the name of an old-school DJ.
On the initial BLUEMIND tumblr, Kyle repeatedly refers to a new-found desire to be "kool". Spelled with a "k" twice. "I needed to be more "kool," "hip," and "with the times."..." I've decided to be a "kool" boss"
This immediately brought to mind Kool Kyle The Starchild. A legendary HIP-hop DJ from the late 70's/early 80's. Maybe this is nothing. I'm a total noob. But Kyle Hall the DJ has a Pinterest called Kool Art and a simple Google search also yielded a Facebook post entitled: "Kool Musik/Kyle Hall"
https://www.facebook.com/thickredwine/posts/661827580580067
Which leads to an Indie-Go-Go campaign for an experimental music short film called "Modulation Blues". Aside from the name containing the word BLUE, the description states: "The freeform nature of the film will explore the themes of physical media and memory". So, media and memory. And the song is all about the desire to throw away painful memories.
http://thickredwine.com/?p=1120
This might all be nothing. Just my two cents.
Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 1:26 am
hunteress1114
Boot
Joined: 15 May 2015 Posts: 51
That is definitely interesting, gordiangray.
I'm also seconding the request for someone to post the twitter, I can't seem to find it.
Edit:
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Also, the password to bluemindconfidential.tumblr.com is "a3lsZWlza29vbA==" which I got by encoding kyleiskool into base 64. Not sure if I was the only one who missed that.
Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 10:25 am
A31.ZYPA
Greenhorn
Joined: 18 May 2015 Posts: 8
VQ.Wavecrest wrote:
Samurai, Sarah's little puzzle is
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hex art; not important to the story but a bit amusing!
Out of curiosity, how would one go about translating that?
Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 11:38 am
hunteress1114
Boot
Joined: 15 May 2015 Posts: 51
Since the Mediafire file is in .tif form, I believe there is a hidden message of some kind. I have tried a few different steno programs but can't seem to crack it. I'm new at this so it might be an easy solution.
Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 2:52 pm
booba
Unfictologist
Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433
http://www.mediafire.com/view/w91czp0mke95w3m/url.tif
Will open with Photoshop Elements to show multiple layers under the final black one. In their simplest form they will spell out:
1-l dog
2-U Goat
3-U Kite
4-N/A 1
5-N/A 7
6-U Cat
7-U Kiss
For dGK17CK
Didn't decode in base 64 for me, maybe a file name?
Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 4:24 pm
hunteress1114
Boot
Joined: 15 May 2015 Posts: 51
It appears to be an imgur link:
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http://imgur.com/dGK17CK
Working on decoding now.
Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 6:18 pm
benjaminsantiago
Boot
Joined: 18 May 2015 Posts: 23
I cannot read the QR Code on the imgur image as it is curved. I tried to increase the contrast in photoshop but no dice yet.
(ps let me know if I am doing something wrong, I'm new here and got interested in this and haven't read all the rules)
edit:
the image has a message on the edge of the cup:
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"old meme" not sure what that could mean...
Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 7:06 pm
hunteress1114
Boot
Joined: 15 May 2015 Posts: 51
I am having trouble reading the QR code as well..
Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 8:21 pm
benjaminsantiago
Boot
Joined: 18 May 2015 Posts: 23
I tried liquifying the image in photoshop, and increasing the contrast. The image is curved and the cup has a shadow across so I'm at a loss. I tried a website and an app on my phone, won't read
Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 8:41 pm
BubbaRayFett
Boot
Joined: 10 Oct 2013 Posts: 12
My phone can't do it, because the depth of field of the camera isn't very good, but I think this is a forced perspective qr code.
Can someone get better contrast on this pic, then try to scan it at an angle, with the top of the cup in the foreground and the bottom of the cup in the background?
Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 9:13 pm
hunteress1114
Boot
Joined: 15 May 2015 Posts: 51
BubbaRayFett wrote:
My phone can't do it, because the depth of field of the camera isn't very good, but I think this is a forced perspective qr code.
I was thinking the same thing but couldn't get it right. If no one gets it I will try again in the morning.
Also bluemindtalk had been updated. There is no Twitter, whoever mentioned that.
Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 9:56 pm
benjaminsantiago
Boot
Joined: 18 May 2015 Posts: 23
I recreated the QR Code pixel by pixel, the issue was that it was curved on the cup so many of the pixels differed too much in size, here's what I got:
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it gives me a link to this: http://freetexthost.com/5fkbomfg0m
here is the text there:
15 Tey 2015. 13:45. NTZO CS: #0001-LVA-4
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Ale akvmysbve htz k mjjgedl. Ary ehxipga sm whrdpw h myalfrlmvbs hamcvxy, gbxjl hp twzfxlw tz apc vglese ivmeta.
-INO HM WYHZEGP-
looks like a substitution, for another blog entry right?
Including the recreated QR code
Description
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227 Time(s)
Unfortunately, this file is no longer in our archives.
Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 11:38 pm
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