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[kosmopol]

Wow, AntaresMHD, so thank you for this!
It take a noble place in my mobile Cryptofolder along with Cypher Tools
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.yard.android.cipher&hl=de
and Cipher Cryptics
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.soaryn.tool.cipher&hl=de

[AntaresMHD]

[kosmopol]

Oh yes, Cypher Tools are in my everyday use in the world of ARGs (from the both sides of curtain). You can de- and encrypt

[kelwhite01]

[kosmopol]

Actually this SSTV thing is so promising in its functionality. I ask myself if some musicians used their songs with hidden images?

[kelwhite01]

[AntaresMHD]

[kelwhite01]

[kosmopol]

I'm thinking about experimental Noise Bands like "Einstürzende Neubauten " or perhaps somebody from Warp Records (Aphex Twin, Red Snapper). This would be actually awesome to listen their music and see their hidden messages with help of smartphone.

It would be as awesome, spooky and nerdy as Number Stations project "Conet"
http://www.irdial.com/conet.htm

[gimlet]

Couldn't you hide it in the channels? The stereo channels? Then it could be set to play at an very low volume that doesn't particularly affect the music, and be isolated and taken out using audio programs to be decrypted?

I feel like somebody has done that before...

EDIT: also, yes it seems Aphex Twin has hidden spectrograms in their music before. A few other bands have as well, including (not surprisingly) NIN and the FEZ soundtrack.

http://twistedsifter.com/2013/01/hidden-images-embedded-into-songs-spectrographs/

No SSTV though. Also great article on how tracks can be hidden on Wikipedia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_track

I feel like you could put all these things together and come up with something pretty cool.

In particular, with SSTV hidden on the outside rim of a vinyl record (and all the money in the world) you could kick off such an awesome retro, analog ARG.

[AntaresMHD]

Yes, my thoughts exactly, something like a bonus tracks of sorts in a locked groove would be perfect to put an SSTV image and let people go nuts trying to figure out when the next album (or even a link to a secret EP) could drop. I don't like the band but I know Radiohead had some interesting ARG a while ago to promote In Rainbows if I'm not mistaken, same as NIN. Pretty sure they wouldn't hesitate to get their hands on some of these ideas to hint at future releases. Hell, I know I would!

[danteIL]

Yep, NIN definitely did things like this as part of their ARG for Year Zero. I can't dig it all out of the forums here, but http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/index.php?f=218


(still love that album)

[Tronyc]

 It's the mother

[dmax]

Folks keep saying the game is over, which makes no sense.

There's no conclusion, no resolution - and we just got introduced to a new, important Russian who sends a secret picture. Why in the world bother to do that as an ending?

I'll say it again: things are happening and we're just not putting pieces together properly.

[gimlet]

I agree that it seems like the Arg might not be quite over yet, but when asked in his AMA if there was anything we missed, Dan said he's been watching us pretty closely and no, he was shocked we found everything as quickly as we did.

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/49ivkx/i_am_dan_trachtenberg_director_of_10_cloverfield/d0s5591?context=3

More than that, during the red carpet walk (footage on Periscope) he implicated a specific woman as maybe being in charge of this ARG and she is a VP of interactive marketing at Paramount who in the past worked in the capacity of a publicist. Not a former puppet master or game designer (though she may have worked closely with one). My inclination is to think the design on this just wasn't very complicated, seemingly the work of a amateur. That fits with what we know of her.

Also, there's past precedent to consider. Most Bad Robot args just aren't that complicated, though they are usually longer than this (but obviously that's because we knew about the way before we did this one).

I think there may be things that will yet come back into play (maybe in an arg, maybe in another movie) because I think there's still a lot of cards the Cloverfield world is holding close to. There is no way for us to see them, until they chose to show us them.