Friday, May 2, 2008

USGX8810B467233PX hacked

Not really. But someone found a way in with out the user id and password. I still think we need this info as I am sure there is something we are missing. You can find the hacked area here.

There are three files on the site. One is what seems to be a picture of Clover with the depth meter reading 916.2 M, the next very much so a picture of the
parasites with the depth meter reading 10,027.5 M. That is over six miles down. And the last is a transcript. Was this after the Chuai station? Maybe this is how they found Clover, was this for the first time? Or did they know it was coming cause it attacked in the comic? So many questions still to answer. Than again one can ague they are simply being inconsistent, but that doesn't seem very likely at all. Below is what the site we are able to find looks like. But we still need to be able to get into that Parent Directory.

Index of /usgx8810b467233px/ref.

Apache/2.2.6 (XENIX) mod_ssl/2.2.6 FEDSSL/0.9.8b mod_auth_intel_store/2.1... ok mod_O.SWRD.DV_key/codec/aqk non-dist Server logging...multiport scan


I think a lot of questions will be answered in the next few weeks. Since in game, as far as I am concerned the attack has yet to happen. Cause in the movie it happens on May 22. We shall see.


New website found!

Acccording to CloverfieldClues The website holding Alyse Hanssen's missing file has been found by GuesstimateJones.

www.usgx8810b467233px.com
is the site. At the moment it just has a single blank login screen. Apparently, the site was created in February, before the DVD release and of coarse any of the new ARG like the sword updates. If you go here you can see that this was figured out by putting a various of clues together. It seems fibonacci numbers is a key player in this part of the ARG, not something I really know a lot about. Thankfully, Dennis does! So here it goes:

All of the links begin with USGX-8810-B467, and end with a number and a letter code. The numbers all follow the fibonacci numbers. However the number 233 is missing from the sequence. USGX-8810-B467-233PX appears to be the missing file, and USGX8810B467233PX.com appears to be where that file is.

Simple enough now that you think about it. But honestly, all the ARG has been simple enough once you thought about it.

So what the heck is the user name and password? I don't know. No one really does at this point.

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Missing Teddy Hanssen

Alyse has made another post on her blog:

Ok, I got to the missing usgx file website - but I still can't figure out the username/password!

I need your help. I have to know what's on this site!

Also, she responded to Anonymous
Anonymous -
I'm sorry but I have no other way to contact you so it has to be this way because I found the missing gx file, but you didn't give me a user name or password!

So what site is this? Where is she pointing to? *ponder*

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

The secrets of Slusho or at lest where its hidding.

In TJ Millers video diary, a bonus disc you where able to buy from Best Buy he points out the word "Slusho" hidden in the graffiti. How exciting. Think theres anything else out there for us to see? Check out CloverfieldClues.com for pictures.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Cloverfield articles and interviews

  • WIRED - Cloverfield roar to life on DVD, Online.
  • Bloody Disgusting - SpookyDan Drills 'Cloverfield's' Lizzy Caplan, Loses the Battle
  • Movie Web - Michael Stahl-David Talks Cloverfield
  • 411 Movies - Michael Stahl-David of Cloverfield
  • Tagruato Blogspot has an interview with the Cloverfield Monster's designer Neville Page.
  • Tagruato Blogspot has an interview with Tippett Studio's Eric Leven.

Matt Reeves Interview

IGN.com interviewd Matt Reeves and posted the article yesterday. The article is below and the direct link is on the bottom.

Cloverfield director talks potential sequel.

April 23, 2008 - With Cloverfield now on DVD shelves across the country, we were recently able to sit down with director Matt Reeves to discuss the blockbuster phenomenon. So keep reading for Reeves' thoughts on making a modern-day Godzilla, as well as a few juicy tidbits on a possible Cloverfield sequel.

IGN: As a director, what challenges were associated with doing a large-scale, effects-heavy monster film in this very low-budget, Blair Witch-style patina. How do make it feel raw and real and hand-held and still have to plan for sets and green-screens and transitions?

REEVES: That was both the challenge and the joy of it. We're making a movie for Paramount, on handy-cams, with special effects and improvisation…We're doing this kind of garage-band movie, but at the end of the day, it's still a mainstream monster movie for a major studio. The challenge was to find a way to always make it feel real. Very early on, because of all the footage I watched, I could see the way that people used cameras – their cell phones, their video-cameras – and that shoots in a very particular way. The way that camera moves is very different than the way an eighty-pound professional camera moves…So through the process of making the teaser trailer, we learned how to hide cuts and bridge different takes together. Normally, when you go into a movie, you have certain tools. You know that you can get a certain amount of shots and stage things in different ways. And I've always seen shooting as a kind of hunting and gathering process, where you go out and explore different things with the actors, knowing that you can cut everything together through editing. But on this movie, I knew that we wouldn't have that…So that meant that we had to get things often in one take. Instead of covering multiple angles, I would do one angle and shoot it 50 times. I'd start by shooting the rehearsals, and then introduce improvisation, and go on this epic search for what seemed real.

And the same was true for the camera – throw it, drop it. I'd know I wanted the camera in certain places at certain times and the trick was to invent "accidental" ways of it getting there. When we were down in the subway, there was a moment when Rob falls down trying to help Lilly, and the reason he does this is that when we were shooting on the day, he actually fell. So I wanted to build the rest of the sequence off the fact that he fell, largely because as we were working, we were constantly looking for ways to make him look like the un-heroic hero. It was enough that he was doing this – that he was going back for her – that he didn't need to seem like Tom Cruise doing it.


IGN: With a movie that's supposed to look this spontaneous – which includes improvisation in both the acting and directing – what does the first draft of the script look like in comparison to the film itself?

REEVES: When we started prep, the script still didn't exist. When I first got involved, there was only an outline. Drew [Goddard] was working on Lost at the time and he'd only just started writing…And one of the critical things that happened was that I went to the production designer and I said, "It starts in this part of town and moves here and moves there," and he said, "Okay, we're going to New York with a camera and we're going to take the paths that you're telling me, and we'll be able to identify what has to be shot in New York and what can be done here." But it also told us some stuff about the story. So as we were doing research, I'd seen this footage from Iraq of a guy hiding under a table in a tent that was being bombed, and it was terrifying. The sounds kept getting more and more intense, but the image was very obscure. And I said to Drew, "We need to get this into the movie." So there was a constant interplay between what was happening story-wise and what was happening with the production itself. We finally had a draft about a month out of shooting, so we essentially had a month to put together what we should have had twelve weeks to develop…

But the interesting thing about the process was that the fundamental underpinnings of the story – because we'd worked on them and developed them – that the basis of what happens, the structure of the story, is very much the structure that you see now. And the improvisation that we did had much more to do with, "Would he really react this way at this moment?" Or would a camera really move this way in this moment? And I was trying to communicate through a kind of short-hand that they had these relationships. One of the things I did with the actors was to say, "Listen, the most important thing you can do since we have no script is for you guys to hang out. Get to know each other and trust each other." And by the time we were shooting, they'd developed a rapport that I was able to call on in places. And TJ, who plays Hud, came from a stand-up background, so he'd come out with these great lines, and I'd go back to Drew, and he'd have an idea for a pay-off line later in the film…So the way things developed was very free-form, but the foundation of what Drew wrote was very strong.

IGN: What were your initial thoughts on the viral components

REEVES: There are a bunch of really smart young guys at Bad Robot who followed very carefully everything we were doing…And the whole idea of the movie is about this phenomenon of an age where everything we do is documented by those going through the experience…It's a way of dealing with chaos. Like, "This is a terrifying thing, but it becomes less terrifying if I become a documentarian instead of a victim." So in terms of the viral stuff, I always thought it fit well because it is so much about the same idea. That there are other points of view on the same event. When you look at a news event on CNN, the footage you see of critical stuff is coming from amateurs. So the idea of the internet being a news source – the website of an oil company, or Slusho – a fragmented prism focusing on the same central object: to get at the truth by piecing together a puzzle from all this condensed media.

IGN: Is there a flipside to that coin – as a director, watching all of that peripheral material define the cannon and the mythology of the "Cloverfield" event? In planning a potential sequel, do you feel at all beholden to or limited by that?

REEVES: There's nothing in the movie that we did that was driven by the viral stuff. All of that emerged from the story and the script and the footage as we were filming…I don't think we'll be as slavish to the viral stuff. I think that stuff was only meant to enhance, but not to drive the experience. The thing that's important to all of us as we're talking about what the sequel could be is that it's incumbent upon us to do something different. We can't just do a repeat of the experience. We're not 100% sure that there even will be a sequel, because we promised ourselves that if we couldn't come up with something new, it's not worth making. That being said, there are a couple ideas that are starting to build. But I think it's critical that there be something different. Part of what was exciting about the movie was how fresh it was. That was a throw-back, in our minds, to a period when you could go to the movies and really discover something. You see a trailer now and you know almost every scene in the movie. This time, we're not going to have that level of surprise. And some of it will be about point-of-view, but we're going to have to find new ways to build upon the story.

Whether it would be literally another person in New York going through the experience, I don't know if that would be substantially different enough. You can't continue to have no information. The idea was that Cloverfield is what it would feel like for somebody who was thrust into a situation with no idea what was happening. But the idea of being able to make a film that sheds more light on the story through a similarly fractured point-of-view will be important to a possible sequel.

Original found here.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Alyse is about to lose it

There is a new post from Alyse on her blog.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Having one of those days - those "stare at the ceiling" days. I feel like it would be really easy for me to go crazy right now. Just give in and go completely bats**t insane. Maybe I never even had a brother to begin with. He's always been lost.

I've lobbied, held fundraisers, and slept outside government buildings. Everyone I could think to call I called. I have everyone's pity. But there's always more to do. The growth of people is great but I can't sort through all these theories. I don't know what to believe anymore. Everyone thinks they know. But no one knows for sure where Teddy is, do they? No one is honestly doing anything to bring him back. The attention is great - but people could care less whether he actually comes back or not.

Why isn't anything happening? Why am I in the exact same place I was 4 months ago? Why won't anybody tell me what's going on? What do I have to do to get the truth?????

I've gotta make more calls. It's part of being a crazy person. You don't ever stop.

This is dated for the 22nd, the day the dvd came out. Also there is one comment:

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

You'll notice one of the files is missing. That's where your prayers will be answered. Now please stop.

What does all of this mean? Hmm ponder, ponder.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Cloverfield Clues DVD buyers guide.

Check it out here, and let me know how things go for you. I am unlikely to get my own copy for another few weeks simply due to lack of cash :(

Cloverfieldfiles.com Open!

The Cloverfield Files site is now open to the public. Before it read "forbidden". You have to solve a puzzle to unlock each movie. Dennis over at Cloverfieldclues has some hints for everyone just in case.

Here is the list of the exclusive videos:

  • The One'r: A look at the unique style of the film.
  • Amature Naturalism: The Challenge of making the movie look realistic as a handheld camera POV.
  • Casting Beth: A look at the casting of the character Beth with actress Odette Yustman.
  • Casting Jason: A look at casting the character Jason with actor Mike Vogel.
  • Wall of Dust: An in-depth look at one of the practical effects used in the movie.
  • Destruction: Production Designer Martin Whist's re-creation of a destroyed New York.
  • Casting Rob: A look at casting the character Rob with actor Michael Stahl-David.
  • Subway: Making a San Pedro abandoned warehouse look like a NY subway.
  • Casting Lily: A look at casting the character Lily with actress Jessica Lucas.
  • RataCloverfield: How rats were used in the movie.
  • World of the Parasite: Making parasites come to life.
  • Marlena's Death: Making a death scene realistic using practical effects.
  • Sideways Apartment: Recreating a destroyed building/apartment.
  • Military Element: Using real soldiers in the making of the movie.
  • Shooting Style: Translating the creator's vision to film

Monday, April 21, 2008

JamieandSnyder.com - Fake or Real?

A new rumored ARG site has popped up, JamieAndSnyder.com, no password. I doubt the site is actually IG, I think it may be fake. However I wanted to call it to everyones attention anyways. From what I can tell the site has to have been set up prior to the attack as she talks about the Sea Bed Nector being in her apt.

Snyder, if you're reading this, you finally read my email and found the link to this site.

When my brother, Bill (he's a computer freek .. can't wait for you to meet him, except he lives near philly) sets me up with a password, I will upload those pictures we took before that party! We can't have everyone seeing them ;) That stuff was like viagra!!! Make sure you don't eat it all at once, I have more at the apt, but not much.

This is about as far as I can go on my own.... this internet language is japanese to me.

Speaking of Japanese, some guy I know just got a job in Japan selling some ice drink. Who would just pack up and leave for Japan?!?!?! Not me.

These pics are crazy, I don't know what's gotten into me. I would show you them in person, but I haven't heard from you... where the hell are you? Call me, it's been a week since I heard from you.

Jamie

JL loves SC


SC? I wonder what his last name would be. As far as I can tell the sword symbol is no where to be found on the site, which is one of many reason that make me question is legitimacy.

Also, Missing Teddy Hansson Blog, fake or real?
  • This site does not have the sword like every other confirmed ARG site.
  • This is the first site in the series that does not have its own domain name
  • Many of the blog posts have been back dated. i.e. her first post says its on March 20th, 2008 when the URL indicates the post was made in April 2008, why would she do that?

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