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Showing posts with label Redearth88. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Redearth88. Show all posts

Friday, August 28, 2009

Miles Says: (RE: LG15 and OpAphid Reunited!)

Thanks everyone, yeah we are really excited about this. To clarify, this DOES NOT mean that Redearth88 is canon. Even though it featured some characters from OpAphid, it’s a completely separate series. As of now there is no new OpAphid show planned, but that certainly would be cool! We’re excited to see what you guys come up with!

http://inside.lg15.com/2009/08/26/lg15-and-opaphid-reunited/#comments

Saturday, April 4, 2009

RutEarth29 Denoument: The Return of Whilhelmlol, Chane, and...

I Evade A Exs Grit Rift (Whihelmlol)


War, sir, is raw.
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Cut To The Tuckass Kicking (Chane)

8BESIDE8:
We were spotted, but I think we're okay for now. I got your email, I'm heading to the spot now. However, if I see a rabbit with a basket I'm out.
Rutka's asking for questions, and I can't answer them mostly because I don't have the answers them selves.

Please, send help ASAP.

-Chane

PS: Who sent the Faux-clause? It's not who I originally thought it was...who are we fighting against?

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Long Awaited (Chane...and..)

8BESIDE8:
This is the fifth time I've tried uploading this, it's really hard to get my internet to stay up, thankfully the place you told us to meet was near a broadcast poll, unfortunately it's frozen over. There's bound to be some jump cuts or bad audio in this, so bear with me it's all I can do.

Rutka's becoming more and more difficult to convince...please show up soon. I'm starting to get a bad feeling.

-Chane.

Kinda Sorta Bored


Not doing much these past few months has had it's up side...until I dream.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Zeros and Ones

Published November 30, 2007

By Logan Rapp: See the linked file: http://loganrapp.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/zeros-and-ones/


"Zeros and Ones

The phone on the nightstand vibrates and Dee (Denise) Riley jumps awake from it, sitting up right. Her alarm clock says 3:30 am, but it's wrong – she sets her clock half an hour ahead to trick herself into getting to class on time. The lamp's too far away and she blindly reaches for it, knocking the clock over, cursing, and lets her fingers be a seismograph until she finds it.
The caller ID is restricted.
She hits the button to answer. "Hello?"
Pause. If this is a telemarketer she's going to call the Better Business Bureau.
A woman's voice pierces clearly into the call. Deep, sultry. Possibly evil. As though a cabaret singer moonlighted as a dominatrix.
"Listen closely," she says. "This is my story now."

Saturday morning. No school, no work. Dee was hung over but she had a pen and notepad nearby, conditioned by the game. A UCLA student, sometimes it would get in the way, and her entire documentary crew felt the effects. Meeting at a Starbucks in North Hollywood, it was supposed to be a production meeting. It devolved into Redearth talk.
"Sometimes it's not even a game," Dee said.
Her cinematographer, Tom, another player, asked: "What do you mean?"
"I don't know... like, a competition?" Dee says it more like a question than an answer. "Like you're trying to beat the game writers before they can write themselves out of it."
The show, Redearth88, had emerged. In 2006 the phenomenon of Lonelygirl15 hit YouTube, a young girl – pretty, with a love of physics, the nerd dream – video blogging in her bedroom with a mysterious religion. When it was revealed to be a production (falsely a "Hollywood" production) of fiction, the video series dropped from one million to half that, and still remained the most popular web series for the better part of six months, before it was claimed to have "jumped the shark" – gone so over the top as to lose suspension of disbelief.
A producer of the show left about this time to create a new one with the characters he owned from LG15, called Redearth88, in 2007. Following the trials of character Rachel, she is surrounded by unseen (occasionally heard) forces – Tachyon, Brother, and OpAPHID (the voice). The audience themselves can impact the story through decoding puzzles left behind to uncover clues that are meant to explain what happens, but usually only leave more questions.
It's the perfect way to keep people addicted.
"Ophelia called me," she said, using OpAPHID's "real" name.
It was a music mash-up. Clips of known songs mixed into one another, forcing the listener to take note of the lyrics and titles to try and decode the meaning behind what they're hearing.
The calls came out almost simultaneously. Three in the morning, but it hit at that time for all time zones in the American part of the world – a Hawaiian, Dee, a cattle rancher in Wyoming, someone from Austin, Texas, and a Sox fan who missed the call on account of the post-ACLS party in Boston, but got the voicemail. One call for each zone. Everyone answered it save for the Bostonian, and it was sheer luck that he didn't. Most listeners forgot pieces the first time around, or were hazy on the details, and only he had it recorded.
Forgetting details could be dangerous. A young Communications student, Maddison Atkins, video blogged her unexpected investigation into a mysterious messenger; it's still believed this messenger was an enemy or a member OpAPHID, or Ophelia herself (OpAPHID is short for Operation APHID, each initial in APHID corresponding to a particular mode of action; Analyze Protect Hinder Infiltrate Destroy. Yet OpAPHID is also considered a character as well as an organization).. However, the last puzzle this person sent her was never decoded, and her last video was posted by someone other than her, showing Maddison and her working partner's murder.
Dee was scarred by the video. Maddison's just a character, she kept telling herself.
"Rachel and Linc are just characters," Dee said. Rachel and her (potential) boyfriend Linc were the new on-screen investigators, and prime targets of the still not-completely-known enemy.
Tom shrugged. "Even fictional, a girl is still dead because the players weren't good enough."

The documentary was being delayed. Dee felt relieved – she wasn't feeling up for it and between class, the Game and her day job as a production assistant for NBC, something had to give and an expose about the Hollywood Homeless was not the most original topic to work on. "Dark Days pretty much made this little more than a resume-builder. No one's going to buy it," she said.
Tom and Dee were in Dee's bedroom. Tom was Dee's high school sweetheart out of Golden West in Visalia, California. He looked at the camera set up on tripod. A wide lens set up to get the full bedroom. If something good came about it, he'd put it up on YouTube for the rest of the players to get the answers without reading volumes of text.
"Let's go over the songs," Tom said.
"Heart," by Stars; "A Fifth of Beethoven," by Walter Murphy; "Young Black Teenagers," by Plead the Fifth; "Jumper," by Third Eye Blind; "The 15th," by Fischerspooner.
So what did they all mean?
"This is way too much," Dee said. She would say the same thing many times over. "I'm not joining the NSA."
"Yeah, but you could read my e-mail anytime you want," Tom was browsing through basic cryptography pages.
Numbers were clearly important. Third Eye Blind – three. "The 15th," - fifteen. Where did Heart fit in? Or was it Stars that they had to look at? Five, five, three, fifteen. That adds up to twenty-eight. Twenty-eight what? Twenty-eight girls like Rachel (it had been rumored she had something special in her blood)? Twenty-eight days until she would be murdered like Maddison? Linc enjoyed his alcohol – was he going into rehab for the typical twenty-eight days (as made popular by Sandra Bullock)?
The discussion lasted a couple of hours. Dee went on IRC chat and they were just as clueless. One of the more well-known decoders noted: It's going to be something staring at us in the face.

It had been two days since the mash-up. People were stumped. Neither Linc nor Rachel had posted a video since. The audience had been conditioned to fear long periods of silence. They never end happily.
"I'm worried," Tom said. "Linc's getting phone calls again."
Linc was a former member of OpAPHID, leaving on personal grounds and turning against his former employer. After Maddison's death, he disappeared for months, only to return out of money, all of which had been blown on alcohol and receiving phone calls from an unknown messenger. It was the same set up as Maddison, and Linc knew it. "I don't trust it," he said in a video. "I don't trust it at all."
A new video had surfaced – Linc was getting a phone call of the same music mash-up. He looked haggard, paranoid, possibly drunk. Rachel was partially oblivious to the danger. Linc didn't want to worry her yet, so he worried for both of them, and it was taking its toll on his appearance. But he noted he heard something at the beginning. The Bostonian had neglected to mention it – after twelve listen-throughs, he had accidentally cut out in his posted recording the start of the mashup, thinking it a glitch.
It was audio. Reversed audio.
A new version of the voicemail was uploaded to a player's personal site within minutes – and indeed, there it was. A garbled piece of audio, but clearly a voice whispering some evil Helter Skelter language.
"Fire up Audacity," Dee said.
Audacity is an open source audio editor tool. Constantly in development, but this was a basic feature – reversing audio. Re-reversing it, the audio came in nice and clear, a computerized whisper: Piece me together.
"Huh," Dee said. "I'm still..."
Tom shook his head. "Staring us in the face. Dude was right. And we're going to find out what it is way too late."
They walked away from the computer and went to lunch. They talked about the city, what they were going to do when they graduated, what their friends were going to do when they graduated. Anything other than the code that could spell life or death for characters that they have yet again become attached to. It was a vicious cycle. Actors get tired, or they get discovered, and the character has to go. The level of interaction between character and audience is far more intimate than Jack Bauer has with his. Characters will pop up in IRC, talk about the story that is their reality, and about the ups and downs of their audience's reality. For some characters, the producers were bored and posed as the characters. For some – people suspect Linc, as he was originally a one-man show before incorporating into Redearth – the character and the actor are one and the same.
Dee's cell phone played Justin Timberlake. She looked at the number, not recognizing it. Her eyes widened. "Shit." She answered. A brief moment, a timid hello?, and she relaxed.
"It's Jenni." she said. Jenni was another player, a coordinator. Dealing with crowds on the Internet was like herding cats blindfolded and over the phone.
And then she stopped. A quick goodbye, grabbing her keys. "New video. Time to go."
Dee had been living in the greater Los Angeles area for three years, and the rural driver in her from growing up in what she calls the "ass end" of the San Joaquin Valley somehow compliments the "fuck you" driving style of SoCal. She flowed from lane-to-lane, not so much bouncing through traffic but gliding. The car never jerked, no sudden twists, but even with an obscene number of airbags on his side Tom checked his seatbelt twice to be certain throughout the drive.
The typical week of video releases was one video a day, four or five videos a week. Occasionally a second video would be posted the same day, but usually the characters would make it clear one was on the way, or at least one could be on the way. No mention of a follow-up had been made. The video was coming in unannounced.
Tom had left the computer on in Dee's bedroom, connected to the chat room. "IRC [Internet Relay Chat]'s going nuts. I'm seeing a lot of exclamation points."
Dee took out her laptop. She sat on her bed. "What are they saying?"
"They're writing something, but it's certainly not my English. That's why I don't go into the chat room."
The video came on Dee's laptop. Not much more than twenty seconds long. The YouTube account was known as "warpylol," and Dee was already cursing before the video came on. Highly stylized, the video was the first person camera of a car speeding up to catch a bus. The camera pivots right, techno music underneath slowing down. Linc and Rachel are on the bus, Rachel holding her bag and looking behind her, Linc keeping himself in the aisle, between anyone else and Rachel, looking ahead. The video slowed and paused on them. Then the image shook, and dissolved into white.
Just before the video of Maddison's murder was released, the account had a video posted of a first-person view of someone walking up to Maddison's apartment. A similar effect – dissolve into white, as though the video were made of film, and the film just melted apart.

Fractions.
Third Eye Blind – not three, but third, or one-third. Plead the Fifth – one fifth. And so on. Until "Heart." With conversion, twelve fifteenths from the rest of the puzzle. Dee hadn't solved any of it. Tom was on the laptop – a Macbook Pro, the extra-wide seventeen inch screen. Wide enough to have his script on the right and IRC on the left.
Dee gave up – another two days had passed – she went back to the documentary. She didn't want to think about it. Scenes needed to be pre-edited anyway and that only requires the addition and subtraction of time, no countdown to an unknown time, no lives hanging in the balance (except maybe that wino on Magnolia).
"They think they have it," Tom said.
"I don't want to know."
Tom picked the laptop up and set it on the desk in front of Dee. "Captain Planet."
Heart. The fifth element. One fifth is three fifteenths. Piece me together. Fifteen fifteenths. Fifteen over fifteen.
The chat room text was streaming like movie credits.
"They just figured it out. They don't know what it means."
"Well, fifteen over fifteen is one," Dee said.
It was also a YouTube account. Tom saw it in the chat room, the horrible English, shorthand – 15over15. The video – a CG-generated dank room, a single light bulb hanging from it, on a chain. The bulb swings slightly from side to side. A string of numbers [insert numbers] pass through at the bottom, like a Fox News crawl.
"Coordinates," Tom said. He'd been waiting for this. He'd just downloaded a new iPhone application for navigation.
Dee started to bring up Google Earth on her computer.
"Don't you dare. I blew four hundred on this fucker," he said. Dee put her computer into sleep mode. Tom put the numbers in the iPhone. "It's right in Hollywood. La Cienega Park."
An old drop point – in 2006, during Lonelygirl15's peak, the now-Redearth character Tachyon had left a puzzle for players at the pay phones in La Cienega Park. Was she behind this? The audience widely considered her an ally. Now even that was in question.
Dee called Jenni. At every point in the game where players go to real-world locations, an impromptu team is created. Partially for safety, partially to make sure nothing is missed, and everyone wants to feel like a secret agent. Jenni was typically the Operator – the person who kept the Agents on the phone, reporting their progress to the rest of the group on IRC. Dee and Tom were closest. They went to the 2006 drop. This time Dee had a Bluetooth headset. She almost wrecked her car twice previously.
Directions said they were twenty minutes away. "We'll be there in ten," Dee said.
The drive took twenty minutes. Only metered parking was available. Tom said to go ahead and look around. Children had set up a lemonade stand along the sidewalk. La Cienaga is in the deep of Beverly Hills, point-blank with high rises and million dollar homes. Short of Las Vegas, it's one of the most highly-surveilled regions on Earth. As such, parents were at an odd distance from their children, as though they'd never seen Chris Hansen before. Dee went immediately to the pay phones, thinking the circle would be completed exactly. Tom stayed in the car even after paying the meter.
The phone almost immediately rang. She jumped, even expecting it, and caught the phone on the second ring. "Hello?"
"Rachel's missing." The voice was tense, monotone.
"Linc?" Dee turned toward the car. "Where are you?"
"Look West."
She did so. Through the twisting slide of the playground next to her she saw him – hair longer, unkempt, unshaven, but it was Linc. "Hi, Linc."
"I can't be online right now," he said. "And I can't trust too many people online."
"Why not?"
Linc shook his head. "You think all the players are just on our team? Why do you think I used Op's voice on the mashup? I didn't think the good guys would get here so fast."
"Are you saying there's another faction?"
"I'm saying not all the people decoding alongside you are boy scouts." Linc looked around, and behind him, to the four-lane street with a tennis club on the opposite side. "See that Towncar?"
The Lincoln, black, had tinted windows in the back, and a lone man, with a newspaper, sat in the driver's seat. "Yeah?" Dee said.
"Been following me. I need you to distract it."
"How?"
"Ask him for some change. Knock on the passenger window, put yourself in his line of sight. I don't know, something."
Dee shook her head. She looked back to Tom. "I don't know."
"Just do it. I'm walking toward you, hang up and ignore me." Dee looked back to Linc. He was already walking in her direction.
Dee hung up the phone. She could see Tom get out of the car, but shook her head – stay there – and he did. Linc continued to a fixed point, to the pay phones themselves, and she stepped around the sandbox of the playground. Linc seemed to ignore the children, cutting directly across.
"If this doesn't work, find her," Linc said. His eyes were pointed away from her but he was definitely talking to her. With Rachel missing, there was no one else.

Two days later and the pair was back on track with the documentary. Dee didn't want to think about what happened, and Tom filled everyone in over IRC.
The video came in from Linc yesterday. "If you're getting this and I'm not standing next to you with a beer in my hand, then I haven't checked into my system and it's going through its automatic upload." "

Saturday, January 17, 2009

The Adventure of Linc



Here is a playlist of the videos starring the character of Linc, a.k.a. Thomas Russell. Linc recently starred in the lg15themisfits pilot with Taylor and Spencer.

Monday, December 29, 2008

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Secret Girlfriend 1 - Fantasy Football

Does this girl look familiar??? Yes this Is Rachel from RedEarth88:P



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Saturday, August 23, 2008

OpAphid v. Tachyon soundtrack

Check this out!!

OpAphid v. Tachyon soundtrack at 8tracks.




Nine songs that were featured in OpAphid v. Tachyon - the online video series and Alternate Reality Game. Includes indie rock, alternative, and hip-hop songs by Glenn Rubenstein, Headboard, Suburban All-Stars, The New Trust, The Stereo, and Knapsack - plus three music mash-up puzzles mixed by Glenn Rubenstein.


That Movie Mashup sounds very interesting!

Friday, August 22, 2008

One year ago today - THE MUSIC MASHUP OF DOOM!

Today is the one year anniversary of the release of the MUSIC MASHUP OF DOOM!

This mashup and the experience around solving it was one of the most fun and immersive things I had ever been a part of in any Internet venue. It started with Brother uploading a video that Linc had sent him, modified slightly by Brother to include a time clock.




This puzzle led to a phone number. After calling the phone number, the caller was greeted with a music mashup that included these songs:

1: "Ruby" by Tiny Meat
2: "Two Kings" by Spin Doctors
3: "X Is Gonna Give It To Ya" by DMX
4: "O Fortuna" from Camina Burana by Carl Orff
5: "Anthem Park II" by Blink 182
6: "A" by Barenaked Ladies
7: "Aint Nothin But A G Thang" by Snoop Dogg


These songs led to a tiny url, which led to another music mashup. When I first downloaded this second mashup and heard it, I was shocked at the sheer number and length of the mashup. The community set out to start the solve of what was to be one of the most amazing mashups ever.

While we were still trying to get our hands around the mashup, two channel updates appeared. Tachyon was having just as much trouble as we were:

To My "Brother"

WTF? How many different parts are there in that thing?

xoxox,

T


Brother replied:

To My "Sister"

46 songs total.

Still have those headphones that you borrowed from me and never gave back?

xoxox,

10033


To remind those who were there, and also to capture the mood of the moment for everyone else, we had not seen a new Tachyon video yet. In fact, since the Human Ransom, we hadn't heard much from Tachyon. We had a few emails and maybe one other channel update from her, but nothing else. THIS WAS HUGE. We were going to be helping Brother give a message to Tachyon!!!!

So, while still struggling with many of the harder to hear songs, we at least now knew that the mashup contained 46 songs. Someone (I believe it might have been acidfingers, but I apologize if I'm wrong) broke the song into 46 or 47 different music clips at some point so that we could analyze the songs that we were missing at the time. At that point, the entire community spent days and weeks analyzing 2 or 3 second snippets of this mashup.

There were quite a few working on this, so much so that I am not exaggerating when I say the community collectively probably listened to at least 2,000 individual songs trying to match the songs that we were (barely) hearing in 2-3 second clips. Brother had picked some oddball songs, and we had to search far and wide to even try to solve one song for some of them. We could even clearly hear the lyrics to some, but the songs were so little known that no record of their lyrics existed on the Internets. There were other songs that we could not make out the lyrics, so everyone was searching for songs that matched the tone and sound of the songs. It was intense.

Many fans reached out for help during this time, pulling in anyone we could find. Some posted youtube videos calling for whatever backup we could get:



Along the way, Tachyon also replied to PMs, indicating she was also still struggling herself:

Still working at this. I did notice that there is another rap song though between the christian rock and the friends of ICP. Not sure what it is though, but it didn't match any part of the second song (I listened for it).

Also, I believe the song by Kelly Osbourne's former boyfriend's band counts as one song (and not two). So it's still 46 songs total.

And it has to be one message. Unfortunately, key parts are still missing and must be in these last songs. I can kind of make sense of what he is saying, but too much is missing to act on it.

xoxox,

T


Eventually, after about a week and a half of listening to these clips like our lives depended on it, we were down to 40 out of the 46 songs solved, and we could not make headway on the rest. Brother eventually updated his channel to include:



To My "Sister"

A *tiny* nudge toward the right track(s):

244wco

xoxox,

10033


This tiny url led to a 6 song mashup that had the same artists as the songs we were missing from the main mashup. After that, we slowly solved the remaining songs. Here was the result:


1 - 0:03 "Don't Hate Me" by The Get Up Kids
2 - 0:06 "Dirty Little Secret" by All-American Rejects
3 - 0:09 "Crazy in Love" by Beyonce
4 - 0:12 "It Feels Good" by Tony Toni Tone
5 - 0:16 "We're At The Top Of The World" by Juliana Theory
6 - 0:17 "Scenario" by A Tribe Called Quest
7 - 0:20 "This Is Me (Bad Boy Remix)" by Dream feat. P. Diddy and Kain
8 - 0:23 "Am I Ready" by Spitalfield
9 - 0:26 "She Looks At Me" by That Dog
10 - 0:26 "If I Could Talk, I'd Tell You" by The Lemonheads
11 - 0:30 "All The Things She Said" by T.A.T.U.
12 - 0:33 "It's Gonna Be Me" by 'N Sync
13 - 0:37 "Here and Now" by Letters to Cleo
14 - 0:40 "So Help Me God" by DC Talk
15 - 0:40 "I'm That Type Of Guy" by LL Cool J
16 - 0:44 "Work" by Jimmy Eat World
17 - 0:46 "$85 bucks an hour" by Twiztid
18 - 0:53 "New Beginnings" by Finch
19 - 0:59 "Hands Clean" by Alanis Morrisette
20 - 1:01 "No Myth" by Michael Penn
21 - 1:02 "Same Song" by Tupac/Digital Underground
22 - 1:06 "She's Crafty" by the Beastie Boys
23 - 1:08 "Buried Myself Alive" by The Used
24 - 1:11 "Torn in Two" by Wax
25 - 1:15 "I'm A Fool" by American Hi-Fi
26 - 1:20 "All 4 Love" by Color Me Badd
27 - 1:24 "Whats My Age Again" by Blink 182
28 - 1:26 “10 Year Old” by Mc Chris
29 - 1:29 "What Would You Do" by City High
30 - 1:34 "No More Questions" by Eazy-e
31 - 1:41 "Where Is My Mind" by The Pixies
32 - 1:43 "Since You've Been Gone" by Kelly Clarkson
33 - 1:49 "This Charming Man" by The Smiths
34 - 1:55 "Fell In Love With A Girl" by The White Stripes
35 - 1:57 "Cool It Now" by New Edition
36 - 2:01 "It Takes Two" by Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock
37 - 2:02 "Somebody Told Me" by The Killers
38 - 2:04 "Danger (Been So Long)" by Mystikal
39 - 2:07 "All Downhill From Here" by New Found Glory
40 - 2:11 "Here's Where The Story Ends" by Tin Tin Out/The Sundays
41 - 2:16 "Cruel Summer" by Bananarama
42 - 2:20 "Girl All the Bad Guys Want" by Bowling for Soup
43 - 2:24 "Game Time" by Rascalz
44 - 2:27 "Heros and Villians" by Brian Wilson
45 - 2:29 "Where'd You Go" by Mighty Mighty Bosstones
46 - 2:34 "Prevent This Tragedy" by Alkaline Trio


The community really had a great time over this, and I met many people that I had previously not met due to reach-out efforts and such. Thanks Glenn Rubenstein for making this event what it was. This mashup and the experience around it is still one of the funnest experiences I've had here in this community. Personally, I was recovering from surgery at the time, so instead of resting, like I should have been, I was analyzing 2-3 second clips for the millionth time. It was that much fun!

After this, there was a movement to remove Brother's ipod and any other music listening capability (because the guy was just out of control with his oddball music), but that movement fell flat. :)

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Glenn Rubenstein and Mari Devincenzi on BreeFM - Wednesday Night

Glenn Rubenstein Photo Glenn Rubenstein will be joined by guest co-host Mari Devincenzi for this week's radio show on BreeFM.

Mari Devincenzi - Voice of OpAphid

Of course, Mari Devincenzi is better known to fans of Lonelygirl15, OpAphid, and REDEARTH88 as the voice of OpAphid - and once upon a time, she worked with Glenn Rubenstein as his personal assistant.

Hey everyone! I just wanted to give you a head's up about this week's BreeFM show. Many of you have been asking when I'd have Mari back on to co-host the show, and every time I've spoken to her lately it's seemed like her schedule's been pretty crazy. But she sent me a text message today to let me know that tomorrow night works for her.

Mari also wanted me to let you all know how much she appreciates your continued support - and while I'm not sure whether or not I am qualified to determine whether or not Mari "likes" you or "like likes" you, I will say that she did mention that she misses you all and thinks you're sweet.

Anyhow, be sure to tune in to BreeFM to listen live this Wednesday, May 20th at 8PM Pacific Standard Time, for what promises to be an interesting evening of talk radio.

I'd also like to take a moment to thank everyone for their continued patience as things come together behind the scenes for the next season of REDEARTH88. Believe me, I'm more frustrated than anyone at how long these can things take. Hopefully, I'll be able to announce a few things that are in the works soon.

- Glenn Rubenstein

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Contacting Mr Zipp



HopefulSemblance says ...

"we are nearing the anniversary of meeting Maddison, and subsequently her death. I have been nearly obsessing with figuring out how we can move things along and find out what the hell really was going on, and why.....

... So is there anyone else that could possibly know what happened to Maddison and Adam??? Why yes, Mr. Zipp. ...

... He knows about us, and he knows where he can find us. He knew us before this whole incident even took place. He knew that we would be able to help Maddison figure out his little puzzles. He knows that we would come together as a community in a time of crisis. In short, he knows all of us, and he knows where we are. He knows the forums, he knows YouTube. Most importantly, he knows what happened to Maddison and why.



Now you can argue that Mr. Zipp may be dead/captured, since Maddison was eventually found and murdered. But what if he isn’t? He’s the only avenue we haven’t traveled down, and we need to call him out. I was thinking of a video, calling him out. He obviously is familiar with YouTube and would keep his eye out on any and all places where we communicate...

.. Zipp is the only one with answers, especially now that Clara is in the bottle of an endless supply of Jack and Marla is out doing whatever Marla-traveler does.

I think that Zipp is waiting for a new mic, and an encore performance would be appropriate a year later. His audience has grown quite a bit over the year. I don’t know guys. I’m trying, and I know you all are too. Let me know what you think."

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Friday, March 21, 2008

Whatever Happened To That Girl, Clara?

I was looking at some old chat logs from Clara, and it made me kinda miss her.

I figured since it had been a long time since Clara had been in IRC Chat ( 6 months, 1 week, and 2 days to be exact ) that I should share a really good memory with everyone.


Here are some highlights from the very first time Clara entered IRC Chat

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[19:09] amblyopianne i watch the keyboard while i type . . . slowly
[19:09] amblyopianne i hate reading too

[19:17] Wind_walker I answer to Wind, WW, and on occasion, windwalka
[19:17] amblyopianne 2dub
[19:18] amblyopianne my first leet speak
[19:18] amblyopianne or l33t
[19:18] Brooklynxman lol clara
[19:18] acidfingers o shi- ambly is gunna hax into our b0xes

[19:24] amblyopianne my advisor is setting up all these interviews for me
[19:24] amblyopianne he just wants me to graduate and get out of his hair

[19:26] amblyopianne arscott knew madison but she was in another department than him
[19:26] amblyopianne communications

[19:30] amblyopianne i just hate typing
[19:30] amblyopianne thats why im doing the doc
[19:30] amblyopianne i dont have to write it
[19:31] amblyopianne or read all that much
[19:31] amblyopianne i hate doing research

[19:31] amblyopianne i glaze over reading all the stuff in the forum

[19:38] amblyopianne i think mr zipp was just a crazy dude who wanted to gather an audience to commit has fd up crime
[19:40] Kellylen he could have just shot her in a public place though
[19:40] Kellylen and why would he show himself on cam
[19:41] amblyopianne he would have been arrested immediately if he shot her in public
[19:41] amblyopianne he couldnt post his crime for the world

[19:43] amblyopianne im just trying to focus my thesis on how the murders affected nac the families of the victims and sfa
[19:43] marlasinger Ah, I see. Good focus, Clara.
[19:43] amblyopianne im not exploring fradys motivation

[19:47] amblyopianne i tried to follow all the lonelygirl stuff
[19:47] amblyopianne but its confusing
[19:47] Brooklynxman lol clara, that it is
[19:48] Brooklynxman it has more plotholes then the gowanus has potholes
[19:48] amblyopianne what is go anus
[19:48] Skunkwaffle ha hah
[19:49] acidfingers it's a new cell phone :P
[19:49] amblyopianne oh sorry

[19:50] marlasinger Maddison was so special to I'm sure so many people. We loved her very much, and did...a lot to try to help her. Not everything we could, but as much as...we thought was sufficient, at the time.
[19:50] marlasinger You've got not much at this point, though, Clara

[20:17] amblyopianne hey guys
[20:17] amblyopianne today was hard
[20:17] amblyopianne and this is harder
[20:17] amblyopianne ill see ya when i see ya

Do you all think that there is anything that we can do to get back in touch with her?








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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED!

Why are we posting this? I honestly don't know, but in a way the title says it all. So much died that day. Hope died. Maddison and Adam died. In so may ways, Bree died. We all reached out. We all tried. But, in the end all we have are questions that have fractured the core of who we are.

No More - maddisonatkins
A warning to others.

April 29, 2007

Sunday, March 9, 2008

RedEarth88 in the news.

Meet REDEARTH88 - A New Vlogger To Replace Lonelygirl15 | Enough Already!

"REDEARTH88 was launched in July 2007, but is just now picking up some momentum in viewers, with the last two episodes gaining over 200,000 page views apiece."

http://www.webtvhub.com/meet-redearth88-a-new-vlogger-to-replace-lonelygirl15-enough-already/

RedEarth88 Totally Cops LG15, and Succeeds

http://mashable.com/2008/02/26/redearth88/

‘REDEARTH88’ Fan Base Takes Off

"Her last six clips released since December 2007 have been viewed over 1 million times combined."

http://www.webvideoreport.com/news/2008/02/redearth88_fan_base_takes_off.php

Saturday, March 1, 2008

REDEARTH88 Takes on Lonelygirl15

"RedEarth stars a young, attractive girl vlogger who is, unbeknownst to her, wrapped up in a web of intrigue and secret agents."

http://newteevee.com/2008/02/26/redearth88-takes-on-lonelygirl15/

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Jesus is Watching - Marla (RE88)




What do I do now?

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SonofaStich_PJ creates one of his funny cartoons:

What happened to Brother's videos?

The youtube account for 10033, Tachyon's "Brother" Sebastian, is missing a few videos.

Heres the list of 10033's videos on his LGPedia page



And heres a screencap from 10033's Youtube Videos



As you can see the videos Misdirected. Lost Visual in the Burn Out , Sparks Are Flying, and 3-2-1 Contact are missing.

10033 also changed
his profile Icon
recently to the thumbnail
from Gemma [Part V]



What could be going on with Brother that made him private his old communications? Leave your thoughts in the comments!

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

To Dr. Arscott (from the community) - (RE88)



So, here is a video that Maddison's friends have put together.

Dr. Arscott, if you see this before I contact you, feel free to email me at [email protected]

Thanks.

And thanks to everyone who contributed




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