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Post by Dante on Oct 24, 2012 7:26:49 GMT -5
Terry Craig has it as covered as it's likely to get: The video URL of the video with the music visualized as a note-rollercoaster leads here, where it says that the music is the 1st violin of the 2nd symphony, 4th movement by Ferdinand Ries performed by the Zurich Chamber Orchestra.
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Post by Hermes on Oct 24, 2012 7:46:01 GMT -5
One significance of the magpie might be that he is called Harvey, which is the name of the male police officer in the book.
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Post by Dante on Oct 24, 2012 8:20:21 GMT -5
Oh yes, of course that's it! ...Like I said, pretty oblique connections, then.
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Post by Tryina Denouement on Oct 24, 2012 10:35:06 GMT -5
Terry Craig has it as covered as it's likely to get: The video URL of the video with the music visualized as a note-rollercoaster leads here, where it says that the music is the 1st violin of the 2nd symphony, 4th movement by Ferdinand Ries performed by the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. I DON"T MEAN THAT, DANTS! I MEAN THE AUDIO!!!!!!!
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Post by Antenora on Oct 24, 2012 10:52:33 GMT -5
Well, this is... remarkable. They clearly put a lot of work into it as a purely artistic exercise.
Note also that if you click "show map," there are a few things which can't be accessed by clicking the colored squares, such as the magpie video. You can find them using the arrow keys, or by scrolling over empty spaces below the visible squares in the first and second columns.
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Post by Dante on Oct 24, 2012 11:37:36 GMT -5
Tryina, I'm not sure I understand your question. They're the same thing. The sheet music is for the same music audio that's playing. The video description says so. You can look up the piece of music that the video description refers to and find the same audio in it.
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Post by Kit's tits kick ticks on Oct 24, 2012 12:00:58 GMT -5
Tryina, I'm not sure I understand your question. They're the same thing. The sheet music is for the same music audio that's playing. The video description says so. You can look up the piece of music that the video description refers to and find the same audio in it. I think she is looking for a recording of the music without the video (?) Tryina, if that's what you're looking for it should be easy to find if you google the information we have about the piece of music.
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Post by Dante on Oct 24, 2012 12:08:18 GMT -5
It's here, from 24:09:
I'm just not sure why you'd need it when it's already there in the original video, which is why I was unsure what Tryina was requesting if not the simple knowledge of what it was.
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Post by B. on Oct 24, 2012 12:55:43 GMT -5
The pictures of the parcels could be a very, very loose connection to the parcel Ellington wraps up to send to the Lost Arms. All packages in the image have a very distinct shape- except from the bottom package.
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Post by penne on Oct 24, 2012 13:27:18 GMT -5
Well, it looks really cool.
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Post by Dante on Oct 24, 2012 13:55:36 GMT -5
The pictures of the parcels could be a very, very loose connection to the parcel Ellington wraps up to send to the Lost Arms. All packages in the image have a very distinct shape- except from the bottom package.
This was my interpretation, too.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Oct 24, 2012 19:18:50 GMT -5
Research courtesy of Terry Craig, with assistance from and screenshots by me. Site OverviewWhere previously there had been a link to the ATWQ Facebook page, there is now an icon with a question mark. Clicking the question mark leads one here: Clicking the question mark within that mansion brings the user to the main page, which is the source of the rest of the tour and the overview above (note that overview differs somewhat from the map on LSL.com): Note there are a few blank frames, which may or may not be placeholders for future content. A distorted version of the frontispiece for WCTBATH. Various octopi travel along the seafloor to music. Entitled "SO Octopus Video Clip." Learn to make an octopus balloon animal! Judging from the URL, possibly a game to be unlocked in the future. Bee notes its similarity to the game Chucky Egg. Trailer to a successful 1934 horror film starring Lugosi&Karloff. More information here. Incidentally, one of the characters also says to another "Drink, and you'll sleep" while carrying a steaming beverage. A bird named Harvey beats himself against a mirror as he grows more aggressive toward his reflection. (Possibly, this is a mynah bird rather than a magpie, which we see a few appearances of in the text.) An illustration of a sad Mr. Toad from the children's book The Wind in the Willows. The illustration's original caption reads "Dwelling chiefly on his own cleverness, and presence of mind in emergencies." Besides its obvious purpose, this is possibly a play on Qwerty's observation, "Very often you expect one thing from looking at the outside of it, but when you open it, there's something else entirely" (158). A parody of the Warhol Monroe Collage, appropriate, of course, as Murphy is an actress. 1936 cartoon called “More Pep.” Uncut version of video here. Working .gif here. Note the “octopus” has only six legs. A sketch by Teddy Roosevelt prefacing a letter of January 1, 1917, to the editor of the Emporia Gazette. Transcription: " Unsuccessful effort to draw bats from the belfry of W.A. White." Voice-over is a passage from the novel The Wind in the Willows. The monologue is spoken by Badger to Mr. Toad, and reads as follows: You've disregarded all the warnings we've given you, you've gone on squandering the money your father left you, and you're getting us animals a bad name in the district by your furious driving and your smashes and your rows with the police. Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached. Now, you're a good fellow in many respects, and I don't want to be too hard on you. I'll make one more effort to bring you to reason. You will come with me into the smoking-room, and there you will hear some facts about yourself; and we'll see whether you come out of that room the same Toad that you went in. Original video here. Set to the music, " Flight of the Bumblebees," balloons take off at varying speeds, often timing themselves to the music. The Bombinating Beast, made to parody the photo of the Loch Ness Monster. URL reads "LS_Memories.jpg." Some of the photos in the collage include 1963 World Octopus Wrestling Champions, Boy stares at small octopus, Octopus road sign ( original stockphoto), and Where has all the ink gone?Laudanum, in case anyone couldn't make out the label. URL of video leads here, where it is written that the music is the 1st violin of the 2nd symphony, 4th movement by Ferdinand Ries performed by the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. Another octopi video collage. Algae? Working .gif here, as well as a hidden .gif of similar nature.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Oct 24, 2012 21:13:50 GMT -5
Wow, must've taken a lot of time to make and put everything together for your screencap-tour, Sherry Ann. Thanks, I'm sure this'll help some people to really get a good idea of this (slightly confusing at first) website. Just a one or two things you seem to have overlooked in my original post (or maybe read before I edited it shortly after posting it; I always edit my posts because of a thing or two later on): I can't quite make out the writing here, but I believe the skeleton and sketches are meant to depict a bat. "Sagamore Hill," incidentally, is a real place (Oyster Bay, NY) - but I can't find any references to nocturnal creatures there that might have featured in TBL. Yes that is a bat skeleton on the left, and the piece of paper on the right has this written on it: "Unsuccessful effort to draw bats from the belfry of W.A. White" [It] is a sketch by [President Theodore] Roosevelt prefacing a letter of January 1, 1917, to the editor of the Emporia Gazette. A frog? I could be missing something obvious, but I honestly haven't a clue as to what this is referencing in the book. Same thing here, I wrote in my previous post where that picture is from originally, but likewise have no idea what it might mean in the context of WCTBATH. Also, Chucky Egg seems like a very reasonable assumption for the (probably) upcoming arcade game, Bee. And I indeed forgot about The Black Cat Coffee Shop, Dante. I guess that could very well be the reference.
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Post by Q.R.V. on Oct 25, 2012 2:17:49 GMT -5
Regarding the frog: The big, standing frog is an illustration of a sad Mr. Toad from the famous children's book "The Wind in the Willows." The illustration's original caption reads "Dwelling chiefly on his own cleverness, and presence of mind in emergencies." This seems a fairly direct reference to WCTBATH: on page 212 (Little Brown edition), Snicket recommends The Wind in the Willows to Pip and Squeak. Even the picture caption Terry Craig found fits, as Snicket is pleased with his own cleverness in temporarily outwitting Hangfire, and refers multiple times to putting off his fear in emergency situations until a more opportune time for being scared. The Wind in the Willows quote itself is from a scene in which Toad retells his adventures in a rosier light, just as Snicket might be doing in his entire book.
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Post by B. on Oct 25, 2012 2:54:45 GMT -5
Thank-you for putting this together, Sherry-Ann, it's great to have everything in one place. I'm wondering about the tall, monster-looking man who appears in the arcade game. He's on the cover of the book (or back cover of some editions). He also appears in the illustration here. In the trailer, the animated picture of him was along with the question: "Who is watching all of us?" Is this the VFD observer, because this fellow seems far too sinister to be working for VFD. Is it Hangfire? Something else ominous and mysterious we have yet to learn of?
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