Re: Poster task - send your message to the world

**coocumb3r** Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:49 am

mummy09 wrote:

if anyone cant do this task private message me and ill give you some to use ill make some extras just incase ill be back later tonight xx

how very kind of you Smile

nikki_watt Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:01 pm

I won't get mind done till tomorrow, u think that will be ok ??

**coocumb3r** Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:06 pm

nikki_watt wrote:I won't get mind done till tomorrow, u think that will be ok ??

yeah, the poster bit probs ends on monday, we'll get a new e-mail from them then probs telling us if we're right or wrong

helen1984 Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:25 pm

last weekend was quiet too, i guess they like time off to dress as pumpkins too.

**coocumb3r** Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:34 pm

helen1984 wrote:last weekend was quiet too, i guess they like time off to dress as pumpkins too.

TRICK oR TREAT!!! i wonder what their halloween costumes would be?

thunderstar Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:39 pm

Back to the 3 new images. They all appear to be outside the UK

Pic 1 - The phone number is definitely not UK
Pic 2 - Lebanese President and a venue AUB Green Oval (American University of Beirut)
Pic 3 - Power sockets are not UK

Anyone else any input on this.
I don't know why everyone has gone of tangent sticking up posters of the Box, is it because they don't know what else they should be doing? scratch

**coocumb3r** Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:42 pm

thunderstar wrote:Back to the 3 new images. They all appear to be outside the UK

Pic 1 - The phone number is definitely not UK
Pic 2 - Lebanese President and a venue AUB Green Oval (American University of Beirut)
Pic 3 - Power sockets are not UK

Anyone else any input on this.
I don't know why everyone has gone of tangent sticking up posters of the Box, is it because they don't know what else they should be doing?

i dont know, spearman said not all messages are sent elctronically, he told us to find the common elemnt, put 2 and 2 together and i'm not quite sure if we got 4, posters would be too obvious, if it was posters he'd be able to choose ANY 3 posters

**rogibson** Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:07 pm

thunderstar wrote:Back to the 3 new images. They all appear to be outside the UK

Pic 1 - The phone number is definitely not UK
Pic 2 - Lebanese President and a venue AUB Green Oval (American University of Beirut)
Pic 3 - Power sockets are not UK

Anyone else any input on this.
I don't know why everyone has gone of tangent sticking up posters of the Box, is it because they don't know what else they should be doing?

See my previous posts on these images; one of the pictures is in Beirut, Lebanon (the SalaMusic one) and another is in Herzliya, Israel (the 'purple Octopus' logo for the 8hands company www.8hands.com). You are thinking along the same lines as me!

**rogibson** Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:08 pm

coocumb3r wrote:posters would be too obvious, if it was posters he'd be able to choose ANY 3 posters

Exactly!

emiiily Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:09 pm

Can't get out for the next few days so just sent these off...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44163109@N04/4061179405/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44163109@N04/4061946786/

**coocumb3r** Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:12 pm

rhcp_fanatic88 wrote:Can't get out for the next few days so just sent these off...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44163109@N04/4061179405/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44163109@N04/4061946786/

they'll probs do Very Happy

do we actually know if this is what he wants though?

**coocumb3r** Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:13 pm

rogibson wrote:
coocumb3r wrote:posters would be too obvious, if it was posters he'd be able to choose ANY 3 posters

Exactly!

are we the only people who can see this? lol

**rogibson** Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:14 pm

Here are some real photos from my poster excursion today.

At no point were stooges used in the making of these photos:

http://www.twitpic.com/photos/rogibson

I hope you like them Twisted Evil

emiiily Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:15 pm

I have absolutely NO idea! Like I've read what you guys have said in other threads.. it seems a bit too obvious. But then if it's wrong we can always try again with something else.

Nick Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:20 pm

Photography holds some interesting data here. The box image (made of arrows) on the "We know" flyer we are using is a type of illusion, not an optical illusion but a "visual illusion" as the result of us seeing a box is due to an incorrect interpretation by the brain rather than the result of an optical distortion. There is no box, our brain is just making one; Don't trust what we see or take it at face value. "Step outside the box"?

Gamma in photograpy is used to quantify contrast: the slope of an input–output curve in log–log space.

"Gamma values less than 1 are typical of negative film, and values greater than 1 are typical of slide (reversal) film".

Notice the words negative and reversal. Mirrored, as in a captured image. Looking in the mirror of a captured image of yourself? We are stuck or caught up by the way we think or naturally see things as humans.

The lens of a camera works in stages where the image is flipped effecting the way we see it (1/U + 1/V = 1/F, U is the object distance or how close or far away the light is coming from, V is the image distance or distance from the lens to the point at which the light is focussed and F is the focal length), technology influencing perception. Could "the box", metaphorical or otherwise contain a captured image or data, possibly like the black box in a plane, which would relate to the military element mentioned on the solos site: http://www.soloscorporation.com ?

"At SOLOS we are creating next generation mind and body technology in a controlled military environment. Combined with a highly enhanced understanding of how the human mind integrates with software and hardware, we engage individuals in high level strategy, negotiation and planning with a sound technical back up."

The relationship between the mind and technology, something we are definitely caught up in here. An experiment?

d_g_ Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:21 pm

coocumb3r wrote:posters would be too obvious, if it was posters he'd be able to choose ANY 3 posters

...and how do we know he didn't choose any three images of something being displayed publicly? The bottom line is that we don't. We know he wants to send a message to the word, we know what the message is. Displaying the message publicly is currently the best fit we have.

**coocumb3r** Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:44 pm

d_g_ wrote:
coocumb3r wrote:posters would be too obvious, if it was posters he'd be able to choose ANY 3 posters
...and how do we know he didn't choose any three images of something being displayed publicly? The bottom line is that we don't. We know he wants to send a message to the word, we know what the message is. Displaying the message publicly is currently the best fit we have.

you may be right it's just that it seems a bit TOO obvious

**coocumb3r** Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:47 pm

Nick wrote:Photography holds some interesting data here. The box image (made of arrows) on the "We know" flyer we are using is a type of illusion, not an optical illusion but a "visual illusion" as the result of us seeing a box is due to an incorrect interpretation by the brain rather than the result of an optical distortion. There is no box, our brain is just making one; Don't trust what we see or take it at face value. "Step outside the box"?

Gamma in photograpy is used to quantify contrast: the slope of an input–output curve in log–log space.

"Gamma values less than 1 are typical of negative film, and values greater than 1 are typical of slide (reversal) film".

Notice the words negative and reversal. Mirrored, as in a captured image. Looking in the mirror of a captured image of yourself? We are stuck or caught up by the way we think or naturally see things as humans.

The lens of a camera works in stages where the image is flipped effecting the way we see it (1/U + 1/V = 1/F, U is the object distance or how close or far away the light is coming from, V is the image distance or distance from the lens to the point at which the light is focussed and F is the focal length), technology influencing perception. Could "the box", metaphorical or otherwise contain a captured image or data, possibly like the black box in a plane, which would relate to the military element mentioned on the solos site: http://www.soloscorporation.com ?

"At SOLOS we are creating next generation mind and body technology in a controlled military environment. Combined with a highly enhanced understanding of how the human mind integrates with software and hardware, we engage individuals in high level strategy, negotiation and planning with a sound technical back up."

The relationship between the mind and technology, something we are definitely caught up in here. An experiment?

hmmmmmmm something to sit and think about now, HOW CAN WE PUT IT ALL TOGETHER THOUGH D: WHAT DOES IT MEEEEEEAN?!?!!?

mummy09 Sat Oct 31, 2009 3:43 pm

coocumb3r wrote:
mummy09 wrote:

if anyone cant do this task private message me and ill give you some to use ill make some extras just incase ill be back later tonight xx

how very kind of you

just doing my bit lol i know what its like if you've got commitments or not got a camera etc, etc Very Happy

**codifier** Sat Oct 31, 2009 4:40 pm

JayKay wrote:
And, Codifier, you calling us sheep? Is that as sarky as the whole 20 mins it took you to find the Spearman Flickr site, heehee?

@JayKay - No no no! I live in New Zealand. The majority of our exports are agricultural and most of us have a complex about being associated with sheep. So, I thought to myself, how better to get the word out in a uniquely NZ way?

The ironic part is that there are no sheep in the suburbs where I am - and even if I found a sheep, I'm damn sure it would run away from me before I got a chance to stick a poster to its wooly side! Smile

Finding the Flickr Spearman site was just a lucky guess on my part.

**codifier** Sat Oct 31, 2009 4:53 pm

thunderstar wrote:
I don't know why everyone has gone of tangent sticking up posters of the Box, is it because they don't know what else they should be doing?

@thunderstar - We were given a hint on Twitter by Spearman that "not all messages should be sent electronically", and the placing of these posters in public locations is very consistent with some of the recurring themes I've been noticing in tweets from Phillis, DB, and certain parts of The Events.

Apart from that, the current Team Lox challenge (creative/dancing videos) is a crossover from the Internets to the real world so it has a nice symmetry that our challenge would be to cross something over from the Internets (a digital image, which coincidently is a very simple monochrome design in portrait format, perfectly suited to laser printing) to the real world.

Spearman has asked us to prove we're "willing" - and providing photographic evidence that we're prepared to get off our bottoms and carry out his instructions in the real world sounds to me like exactly what he wants.

TrustNo1 Sat Oct 31, 2009 6:30 pm

Hi All,
O.k. I hit Croydon with some posters. http://www.flickr.com/photos/44210901@N08/ check them out if your interested.
Unfortunately only had the chance to do it in the evening. If I get time in daylight I will take some more but hopefully this will suffice.
JBx

JayKay Sat Oct 31, 2009 6:50 pm

You did loads!

I'm still wondering what's missing from the task though... Maybe nothing... What do I know, I mistook South America for Africa...

JayKay Sat Oct 31, 2009 7:02 pm

Maybe some posters could be translated into various languages too, just to add to the international theme? The various 'countries' related to the posters deffo point to encouraging us to get the message out to the world and it might be nice to see it translated? Just a wee added bonus. Smile

I hope we've done teh right thing. It was quite fun. We watched as people did double takes at the Banksys. But when we tried to take photos of them looking they ran off.

SemiColon Sat Oct 31, 2009 7:56 pm

codifier wrote:

@JayKay - No no no! I live in New Zealand. The majority of our exports are agricultural and most of us have a complex about being associated with sheep. So, I thought to myself, how better to get the word out in a uniquely NZ way?

Me too! Christchurch. I went and stuck posters around here this weekend Smile

What city are you in?

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