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Posting on Good Friday
This place isnt perfect by any means but without the bravery, perseverance, risk-taking of our politicians in trusting each other to get this agreement across the line that Good Friday what would it have been like.
A framed copy of an A4 sheet that is a collection of the signatures of those in the room on that day
It is on the wall in the lobby of Talbot Hotel, Stillorgan, Dublin.
It was interesting to read through and decypher the signatures as best we could. ...and remember back to that time.
Paula and I spent quite a bit of time doing just that.
& I took a phone picture
Posting panoramas online has always been a challenge as the format doesn’t quite work for the way websites are displayed. The images are usually too long and not tall enough to do justice to landscapes, but in this case I just couldn’t help posting this one as it was such a special moment. The original panorama is actually about twice as long as what you see here (the full resolution is 24,000 pixels wide), but that would have been an even bigger problem posting it here.
We arrived with our Zodiacs on Rongé Island at about 9.30pm and as soon as we were on solid ground we started using snowshoes to dig in the snow and create a space for our bivouacs. Once that was done and we were comfortable enough with how our place for the night was looking, we spent the next 3-4 hours taking photographs of the amazing landscape around us. The image you see above was taken at about 11pm and as you can see there was still quite a bit of sunlight shining on the mountains across the channel. If you want to see a couple more images from this particular evening you can go here or here.
To view the original shot (straight from the camera) visit the blog entry here: <a href="http://www.momentaryawe.com/blog/view-from-ronge-island/" rel="nofollow">http://www.momentaryawe.com/blog/view-from-ronge-island/</a>
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Please refrain from posting shots, requests and Flickriver shots in my photo stream, thank you.
Posting for FILM26:
Film only Film. There are 26 two week periods in a year...and 26 letters in the alphabet. Every two weeks we will use the corresponding letter of the alphabet as our inspiration. Either take a photo of the letter itself or choose a word that begins with the letter as inspiration for your photo.
For the Hereios
Post Offices
This was taken with phone through window of the car which I managed to briefly stop on the way home from work
Getting to post offices gets trickier and trickier as more and more rural POs shut down; or are only open for limited hours during the working day.
This is the post office at Threemilestone, Truro (which is not really local for us!!)
Within about 10 minutes of posting the above picture of Aaron's toy whale next to the Yin Yang symbol on a Lost forum, with my explanation of Black vs White, I was banned from the forum.
This Yin Yang Whale is pulled out of Claire's bag by Kate in "What Kate Does"
Season 6, Episode 2, 10 minutes in.
Many of my posts were deleted on Lost forums that got too close to the truth. But I just found a lot of my old archived forum posts. As I come across these posts that got me banned from Lost forums, I will copy and paste them over here.
Now you will be able to read my infamous posts that the Lost producers don't want you to see!
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In regards to the producers saying in TV and magazine interviews that John is the smoke monster and the Man in Black, another forum member says...
"Are we really to believe the producers would give us the answer to such and intricate question in the first episode of the season, absolutely not."
Finally someone that understands this!
In fact, the "writers" and actors are always saying they can't answer questions, but for the past few months have been telling everyone that he is no longer playing John Locke, and suggesting that he may be playing the man in black. That should send up RED FLAGS to everyone! Why try so hard to keep information from leaking, and then spread THIS "spoiler" information, unless it is MIS-information.
Don't listen to anything that Damon and Carlton say! They will never give you any REAL spoilers about what is happening, everything they say is mis-information.
Jeremy was lucky the bullet bounced off his knife or buckle, and quickly took cover in a Shen door behind the pillar, as the "smoke monster" arrived.
Another forum member posts:
"I'm sorry you had to see that side of me"...this would lead us to believe Flocke/MIB is smokey."
He only wanted to lead BEN to think he was the "smoke monster". Why? Because if Ben knew he was only human, Ben might try to kill him. If Ben thinks he is an invincible monster that can't be killed, then Ben won't bother trying, and Jeremy can get back to business at hand.
From another forum member:
"ash circles and were scurrying when they found out Jacob had died....but hasn't smokey lived inside the temple walls?"
We also saw Kate walk ahead of the rest of them through the tunnel leading to the temple and walk right through to the other polarity reality. (flash sideways sfx) What polarity is the "smoke monster" and from which polarity is the ash?
Ben walked towards the opening the smoke monster left (and also came from) and the director made sure to show you Ben turning around to see that "John" then came out of the secret room from BEHIND him. It would be easy to skip special morphing effects but still have "John" walk out of the door right in front of Ben, right?
They are SHOWING you here, and in other scenes, that John is NOT the smoke monster.
If bullets really could bounce off of him, he wouldn't have had to run away and hide as he did! He could have stood there like superman.
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This plane wasn't big enough to make it from Sydney to LAX. They probably figured, they didn't need to do the entire bit over again, just the part where Jack tries to save Charlie and fails. But Jack spilled one of his bottles and wasn't as intoxicated as last time, so even though they took his pen and Cindy wouldn't give him anything, he managed to save Charlie anyway with his hands. Charlie seems as pissed having to go through it all over again as Eloise was when Desmond wouldn't do what he was supposed to. Or Jeremy when he tells Jack at the radio tower "Your not supposed to do this!"
Rose almost blew it when trying to cover for Desmond when she said they were sleeping.
Another important key piece of information from season one:
TOM: (to Michael) "Did the bullet bounce off your skull, or did the gun just jam on you?"
Michael couldn't die, just as the bullet bounced off of Jeremy in the statue.
Did this mean Michael was the smoke monster because he couldn't be killed? Of course not.
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In this season, we have already seen two slightly different versions of Kate hijacking the Taxi and heard two different versions of Ford leaving the Temple. One where he shoots someone on the way out, and one where he doesn't. The gun he uses is a different gun in the scene where he leaves and doesn't shoot anyone.
ALDO: So what's your strategy for bringing your boyfriend back - I hope you got one because he shot a guy on his way out.
And yet Ford did NOT shoot someone on the way out in the reality WE saw, so why would he say that he did?
LENNON: He swallowed it?
DOGEN: Yes.
And yet Jack did NOT swallow it. So why would he answer "YES" ?
In one reality, Dogen's hand is not healed, he wears a bandage on it. In another reality, Sayid's bullet wound is healing fast.
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The Loophole:
You can't kill one of them, and you can't tell someone else to kill them. That's the rules.
A loophole would be if you got someone ELSE to kill, because they really wanted to kill, the way "John" tricked Ben into wanting to kill Jacob.
Ben thought that Widmore changed the rules by telling Keamy to kill Alex, but it was actually Ben that told Keamy to kill Alex. And Keamy that wanted to do it, not Widmore.
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I have seen two different Jacobs so far, so just because one is dead, doesn't mean the other is.
The moment someone other than Hugo can see him, that will probably be the other Jacob.
Note: this ended up exactly how the producers showed it, with other characters besides Hugo being able to see the other Jacob at the campfire.
While John Locke exited the island at the antipode point in Tunisia, Jeremy Bentham stayed on the island and has been showing Claire how to sharpen axe blades, shoot guns, sew up wounds, etc. for the past 3 years.
In one Temple, they have Aaron. In the other Temple, they do not.
You need to pay attention to the flash-sideways sound effects of the plane crashing, or there is no way you can follow what is happening. They don't flash sideways EVERY time the scene changes from on island to off island, so it is real important you keep track of WHEN they play this sound effect, so you know which reality you are watching both on and off island.
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In one reality, Widmore fakes the crash, but in the other, he spends a lot of money to go down and acquire the black box of the real crash.
In ONE reality, Widmore put it there. But in another reality, it is NOT a fake, it is the real Oceanic with the real passengers.
Do remember that Daniel was crying and really upset, (not over complete strangers, but passengers he KNEW were on that plane) the pilot didn't have a wedding ring on, Jack told us he had pilot training, and Jack told Sun about why he isn't wearing a wedding ring and that it is in his sock drawer at home.
And do note that the Flash Sideways sound effects is of a plane going down.
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People who only watched each episode ONCE, in order, will NEVER understand what is going on.
For instance, of what did we care in season one that Charlie goes to Sydney to tell his brother that they got a gig to open up for MEAT COAT in LA?
But in season 6, we see Jack's son David with a poster of MEAT COAT on his wall, and listening to DRIVE SHAFT in his headphones when he tells Jack that Jack wouldn't know who they are.
You will note that the audio was scrambled so we couldn't actually hear it was Drive Shaft, but if it wasn't, there would have been NO REASON to scramble the audio to the viewer.
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When Claire mentioned being tortured, the other guy from the Temple said she wasn't remembering it right. (that other guy remembers it different, because it DID happen different in the other reality)
So while in ONE reality, she was burned there, in the other she wasn't.
Just as in ONE reality, Ben killed Jacob, but in the other, he didn't.
In one reality, Ben kept his promise to Alex, to keep it between them what Alex told Ben about the Principal's affair.
They don't put those "flash sideways" sounds in there for nothing.
Even in Season One, when Claire is attacked and has needles put in her, for which Jack thinks she is just making it up, because there are no needle marks on her, if you watch, you will see her shirt change from black to white, and only ONE version of her got stuck with the needles, not the other version of her. But her mind was able to experience what her other self was going through.
It makes perfect sense that she doesn't have that burn mark in one reality, just as she didn't have needle marks in one reality.
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Claire once again lets us know, by telling Jack, she has been with "John" since Jack left the island.
"John" tells Jack that John Locke's dead body needed to be brought to the island before he could take his form.
So then you tell me WHO Claire was with, if John Locke's body wasn't yet brought back to the island?
See the problem? See the CONTRADICTION in the show itself?
"John" is lying to Jack, his motive being, he LIKES that they think he is a smoke monster. That way, they will fear him and think they can't hurt or kill him, and thus not try to hurt or kill him.
Claire was with "John" for the 3 years they were off the island! Years BEFORE John's body was brought back to the island! ONE version of John on the island teaching Claire how to sharpen axes and hunt, while ANOTHER version of John is off the island being killed by Ben.
Ever since LAST season, there has been tons of proof that show "John" can not be the "MIB" or the Smoke Monster.
Did you notice towards the end of the episode prior to this one, that "John" was very thirsty and took a drink of WATER from that green US army canteen? Or that Micheal pointed to Hugo where "John Locke" was, and didn't say anything about him being dead, or warning Hugo to stay away from him? Why wouldn't Micheal's spirit tell Hugo that it wasn't really "John Locke" but it was a smoke monster? Because he was NOT a smoke monster.
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Claire is only crazy on the dark side, and more normal on the light side.
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He made a DEAL with Ricardo and then when Ricardo wanted out of the deal, this "Man in Black" didn't hold him to it. Instead, he said that he understands that Jacob can make a convincing argument, and said that the offer would always stand, if he ever changed his mind.
Doesn't sound like very EVIL actions, when the other guy broke the agreement they had, does it?
Remember what Frank Lapidus said. When ever someone tells you they are "the good guys"...
In any war, the government of your own country will try to tell you that they are the good guys.
The government of which side tell's it's people it are the "bad guys"? NEITHER.
We have seen the same thing here in LOST. Everyone says THEY are the good guys.
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Sayid taught us in the previous episode that John can't tell if someone is lying to him. (He doesn't have special mind reading powers or anything) He couldn't tell that Sayid lied to him about killing Desmond.
Previous seasons have shown us that John knows when things are going to happen (like it will start to rain, seconds after he says it will) because he has lived through all of this before. Same as others like Eloise, Alex, Desmond, etc.
He knew everyone would not die on the sub, probably the same way he knew (while carving that stick recently) that they would just sit at their camp and wait, and Jack and company would come to them. Because that is always the way it happens.
The cheap homemade leg cuff, made from airplane wreckage by Illana and put around Ben's leg, always ends up breaking off at that exact moment too. Right at the moment he points down for Ben to look at it.
John didn't magically make it pop off, just as he didn't magically make it rain on command in previous seasons either.
Keep in mind this season started on Ground Hog Day.
John is like Bill Murray's character. Each time, he uses more knowledge of what he seen happen last time around, to use that to his advantage.
He also remembers each time the Smoke Monster appears too. Gee if one knew that, one could actually trick others into believing that he was the Smoke Monster.
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Daniel isn't going to be sad and cry about some strangers he doesn't know on a plane crash wreckage he sees on TV. He is crying, because part of his mind knows those people, but the other part doesn't. Just like Jack is confused at his appendix scar and when he had it removed, because part of his mind is linking to the other reality where he had it out on the island as an adult. People kept saying that when the flash forward showed him taking a shower and he didn't have that scar anymore, that it was a "production error" well, this season proved that it was NOT a production error. In fact, one of the characters this season shares the same last name as the Script Supervisor of the program, who keeps a large bible to make sure there are no continuity errors. And how anyone can suggest that it could be an ERROR or MISTAKE or OVERSIGHT that Hugo and Jame's shirts have been changing color and getting darker all season long, is just ABSURD.
In a news story, it was asked if they would ever consider publishing the continuity log book after the series is over, and the answer was no, because they want some mystery to remain.
Well, that PROVES they are not continuity errors! Because unless that book shows PROOF of intentional changing colors of shirts, or changing the turntable in the hatch, then why would publishing it reveal any mystery?
It would be a very BORING book to read, UNLESS... It gives every intentional change of every prop, costume, and everything else.
There have to be more than 2 realities/timelines, because we have photographic PROOF of Sun and Jin's wedding with Sun in THREE different dresses for her wedding. But keep in mind that we know some characters have been through this more than once, so you would have to add another 2 realities, at least, to each of the time loops, and that brings a lot more differences to account for.
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Why would the person in charge of costumes, get the same style shirt for James in 3 different colors? You always have more than one, in case one gets lost or damaged, but they would all be the SAME COLOR!
One of the characters on the series was even named AFTER the script supervisor (in charge of CONTINUITY) his name is Gregg Nations. No such production, in all of recorded history, has ever had this many production errors, and it is the job of Gregg Nations to make sure there AREN'T ANY continuity errors in LOST. If these were production errors, then he would have been fired years ago. He would also never be able to get another job in the industry ever again!
And you only seen the PICTURE evidence I posted. Every time they have shown the same scene more than once, the DIALOG has been different too!
Now that can NOT be a mistake, because the text on the scripts doesn't CHANGE by accident or by magic!
Also.. Say the script supervisor, who's job it is to watch every scene being filmed and make sure there are no continuity errors, misses one. And say the actors and crew and director all missed it too. Well now it goes to post production and the director usually supervises there too, and it could be caught there, and redone.
Watch the scene in Widmore's office this season with the scale painting again. Note EVERY LAMP in the room and EVERY ITEM on his desk! Things are moving and disappearing like CRAZY in that one short scene! Go watch it and be amazed! No one can make that many mistakes, there must be a dozen alone in that one scene! See how many you can count up!
If you want to go back and look at the best example of alternate realities being shown, probably the best example would be from season 5 where they show the exact same incident, played out in each reality:
5.05 THIS PLACE IS DEATH -
Sayid: And if I see you or him again, it'll be extremely unpleasant for all of us"
5.10 HE'S OUR YOU -
Sayid: And if I see you again, it'll be extremely unpleasant for us both"
In one reality, Sayid makes the threat to both Ben and Jack, in the other, he is only angry at Ben.
In 3.08, is the most obvious time, back when Desmond saw Charlie singing and playing on the street, knowing it was going to rain, then it rained, and Charlie didn't get to save Nadia, because Desmond was speaking to him.
In 3.21, when it starts to rain, Desmond isn't there to distract Charlie, so Charlie hears Nadia's call for help in the alley and saves her.
But since Desmond remembers he was there before and that it was going to rain, this means there is at least a third variation of this same scene, that was never shown to us, that Desmond remembers living through.
1.05 - Charlie tells Jack that he can't swim.
In a later episode, he tells Jack he is an excellent swimmer and wants to volunteer to swim down to the looking glass station.
Once again, we have been watching alternate realities all along. In one, Charlie doesn't know how to swim, in the other he does.
These are NOT production or continuity errors, they are written into the script that way.
Watch the scene with Kate getting into the airport Taxi in "LA X Part 2" and then watch the same event in the other reality in "What Kate Does" Note the differences.
Anytime they show you a scene you have already seen in a previous episode, you will want to compare them both back to back to see the differences.
The only reason they show a scene we already seen AGAIN, is to show how it happened in another reality.
Why else, with so little time left, would they waste valuable episode time showing us a scene we already saw in a previous episode?
In the scene of Hugo and John in the parking lot, Hugo's lines were about him parking in the handicap space, but the scene they showed, he wasn't in the handicap space.
This is one way of showing what happened in both realities, by only showing the scene once. The video shows one reality, and what they said, is what took place in the other reality.
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I explain this elsewhere in more detail, but there are two main realities in which one is slightly ahead in time from the other. Thus why people can only make decisions one way, because they can't link to the other half of their minds which give them better judgment (together), because that version of their minds are doing different events and tasks. They are out of sync. Someone is trying to get both sides back in sync.
On the dark side reality, everyone can only have the attitude: "don't tell me what I can't do!" and always just want to do the opposite of whatever anyone tells them. In the light side reality, the same people "don't have what it takes" and just go along with what anyone tells them and never argue.
The problem comes when one of them has already made a decision and took a path, and the other version wants to keep doing things differently, making it hard for the universe to course correct. Thus why our "time police" keep trying to get them to do things differently, only they really aren't allowed to tell them what to do, the characters have to WANT to do it themselves. That's the rules.
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Most any of them this season (other than ones like Ab Aeterno) which include the "whoosh" with the plane engine sound in it that separates light and dark realities.
Dr Linus is a perfect example, because in one reality he keeps his promise to Alex and in the other he doesn't. On one side he tries to blackmail the principal, and in the other side he went to speak to the school board instead. If you can't see that in the off island scenes in that episode, there were two completely different Bens and two completely different versions of the same story taking place, then what you saw most likely didn't make any sense at all to you.
In one, all he cares about is power, and in the other, he cares about others. He even TELLS US THIS via clues in his history lesson he teaches the students, which is really more of a clue for the viewer, than a history lesson for students.
When he writes ELBA on the chalkboard, it can be seen how it is written DIFFERENT in both realities.
Happily Ever After and Everybody Loves Hugo are a perfect matched set to see this in action too.
Because at the very end of the first one, you end up in the dark side reality, where you can see the sinister look in Desmond's face as he wants a list of the other passengers of the plane from his driver, and we KNOW it is because he wants to do to them what Charlie did to him!
But the next episode, each time we see him meeting one of the other passengers, it always occurs on the LIGHT side reality. (once again, each episode starts in the light side, REGARDLESS if the scene is on or off island, and each time you hear the Flash Sideways SFX, you toggle back and forth between light and dark realities.)
In Happily Ever After, almost the ENTIRE EPISODE is on the light side, and they never play the Flash Sideways SFX until the very end. THEN you hear the SFX and the scene is at the stadium.
In Everybody Loves Hugo, we hear the Flash Sideways SFX 9 times. When Desmond hits John with his car, guess which side that takes place in? The DARK side reality. Which makes perfect sense, because it is in that reality that in the last episode, we could read in Desmond's face that he was going to go and try to bring each of the passengers to a near death experience, even BEFORE we saw the next episode!
But then he DIDN'T do that at all, he ended up playing cupid instead! But that is because that is what he did on the LIGHT side.
Thus why you need to watch each episode twice, and the second time, use pen and paper to log the episode and MARK off the paragraphs to light and dark sides. Remember, each episode STARTS in the light side, and commercial breaks never count for any changes, when you come back from commercial, you are still on the same side you were before the break. Because there was no Flash Sideways SFX.
Again, ask yourself, WHY THE HELL DID THEY PUT THESE SOUND EFFECTS IN THESE EPISODES IF THEY WERE NOT SO IMPORTANT!
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It does start out where the Flash Sideways are heard between island and off island, so that the first two off island scenes are on the dark side. But After the on island scene where Ben says to Lapidus, "The island still got you in the end, didn't it?" there is a commercial break. When we come back from the commercial break we are OFF island again, but there was NO WHOOSH, so we are now seeing the FIRST time that episode of the OFF island scene in the LIGHT reality side.
This is where Ben promises to Alex that he will keep what she told him between them, and that a promise is a promise. Right after he says that, WHOOSH SFX, we are on the island in the DARK reality. Then there is another commercial break, and after the commercial, we are OFF island again, but this is still the DARK reality, there was no WHOOSH separating it. So when LIGHT Ben has Artzt break into the principal's emails for him, he is not breaking his promise to Alex, because this is the OTHER side, this is DARK side Ben.
In fact, the only OTHER scene that is OFF island that is LIGHT reality again, is when Ben tells Alex he didn't have anything to do with the principal's letter of recommendation for her. He also tells Artzt that he didn't do it. Ben is telling the truth.
Miles also had no way in hell enough time to dig up those diamonds if everything you see this episode on island was one linear reality. He had only 3 minutes. Also, in one reality, James threw the diamonds out LOOSE over the bodies before they were buried, it would take many long hours to find them.
This episode ONLY makes sense, when you separate the two LIGHT and DARK realities of BOTH on AND off island with the flash sideways. Any why else would the sound effects be there if they had no purpose? They wouldn't.
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The Flash Sideways SFX are very obvious in The Last Recruit, so really no reason for me to take the time to explain every scene, they are where they are. I will only mention ONE of them, because ONE of them was sort of faint, and some people might have missed it.
It is after James trips Sayid at the back door with the garden hose, is handcuffed and arrested. There is a Flash Sideways between that, and going back on island where Jack is talking to Claire. Of course, if you MISS that, then the rest of the episode will be off, you will think you are on the wrong sides, both on and off island.
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Yes he told Artzt he didn't do it, in the LIGHT side, but he DID do it in the DARK side.
I suspect in the ending we saw, which was the LIGHT side, he had gone to the school board (under more of the suggestion from John at the beginning of the story) and went through the LEGAL channels, and the school board came to some sort of a compromise in which he got to have his history club back, because if his blackmail effort didn't work, why and how did he get to have his history club back?
See?
One Ben doesn't seem very enthusiastic to dig that grave, but the other Ben is really into the digging and gets pretty deep. Yes, they showed them in that order, so one can think the hole just got deeper because more a period of time went by, but that is what they do with everything. If they showed the OTHER Ben digging a pretty good sized hole, and then later showed the Ben with a hole hardly two inches deep, then you would have a better time believing me, right? But they showed it in the order they did, so that it sort of almost makes sense as a THIRD story, by editing bits and pieces of the two stories together like that.
Picture it this way....
One side's motto is: "Don't tell me what I can't do!" and no matter what you try to tell that person, or how you try to convince them, they will always want to do the exact opposite, because that is all they can ever want to do.
The other side's motto is: "I don't have what it takes" and no matter what you tell that person, they will be agreeable and do whatever you tell them, without argument. Because that is all they can ever want to do.
There is no "freewill" or rational decision making so long as your brain or soul is split up Yin vs Yang, in slightly different times, so that the mind can never sync up and make a rational decision. Each part is stuck in the same situations, from minutes, to even days apart, so each half always wants to do the opposite decision in each of those same exact situations.
We saw John not being able to decide which color swatch to choose, whatever Hellen wants, that is what he wants. But we didn't get to see the other John. In that other reality, whatever Hellen wants, he would choose the exact opposite color, and wouldn't budge on that decision.
Most of this series, Jack has been a real stubborn ass, and always arguing and wanting to do things just to argue and be difficult. This season, we finally get to see the OTHER Jack, who can't make decisions, and just wants to do whatever Hugo tells him to do.
One would instantly guess that the goal of this story is to get both realities back in SYNC, so that the mind can view each situation and incident at exactly the same time, and people would be able to use BOTH their Yin and Yang to come to a more BALANCED way of decision making.
Yes, the producers have edited the two realities together, back and forth, to try and give you a rounded out view and actually create something that more resembles what reality would resemble if the problem this whole story is about, didn't happen.
Let's suppose you argue that the hole got deeper from one Ben, because time had gone by. But you can never explain how Miles could dig up and find all those loose strewn about diamonds in that grave, in only 3 minutes time.
THAT is the proof that what I say is correct. Because what I say, ends up having a way to make that FIT, whereas, saying my way is wrong, and things are just happening in one time line off island, and one time line on island, you have a BIG IMPOSSIBLE problem trying to explain how Miles got those diamonds.
Interesting too that they were in a sack, when we saw James thrown them in that grave all loose.
Seems that in the OTHER reality, James didn't throw them in loose like that, and that in the other reality, Ben and Illana had talked for a lot longer than 3 minutes, giving Miles enough time to dig and find that sack of diamonds.
And I can't repeat it enough.. But each time you hear the flash sideways SFX, if you mark each side LIGHT and DARK as they alternate, you see that things that would HAVE to be in opposite realities ARE!
In other words, I can watch an episode, without paying attention to the flash sideways, and GUESS which scene is taking place in which reality. Then when I watch the episode again, the sides I guessed each would be on, MATCH UP PERFECTLY to the sides divided by the flash sideways sfx. In EVERY episode this season.
So to say that is coincidence is just crazy. I obviously discovered something that is consistent, to the point I can predict it, and then double check with pen and paper, and it comes out EXACTLY as it should, each time.
When such an experiment can be repeated over and over again with 100% same results, then scientists tend to stop considering it a "theory" and safely start to consider it a "fact".
Here is the problem with REAL LIFE...
No matter what one finds to be a fact with rational logical reasoning, if an authority figure tells the masses it is wrong and gives a lie as the official story, then MOST people will believe the lie.
There were always a small minority of people like me, that disagreed with authority figures throughout time. Big respectable authority figures like these...
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
(Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895)
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
(Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943)
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home."
(Ken Olsen, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977)
"The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." (Western Union internal memo, 1876)
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
(Marshal Ferdinand Foch, French commander of Allied forces during the closing months of World War I, 1918)
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"
(David Sarnoff's associates, in response to his urgings for investment in radio in the 1920's)
"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
(New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work, 1921)
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
(Harry M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927)
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
(Charles H. Duell, commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899)
In our own lifetimes, we were told that butter was not good for us, and that margarine with hydrogenated oils were much healthier! Chocolate was not good for us either, and now it is sold in every health food store!
Now they tell you sugar is bad, and that Aspartame and Sucralose (not sucrose, check spelling difference) are completely safe and much healthier than Sugar.
The authority figures (writers/producers) will tell you something, such as something was really just a "production error" while I will tell you it most certainly was NOT a production error and why it would be IMPOSSIBLE for it to be so, and yet who will most people believe?
Me, or the producers and writers of the show?
Because people tend not to THINK or REASON, they just care about what the "authority figure" said, and then just take it on blind faith!
People are trained from school on wards, not to THINK, but to react in the way that gives the best reward. Be it better grades in school for selecting the answers and responses the "teachers" will give a higher grade for, rather than the answer that makes the most sense and results in a failing grade or paper.
I retained my ability to think and reason. Thus why I can easily figure out what is going on in Lost better than most people, because I don't let anything the producers or writers say, influence what my own eyes and ears show me.
In fact, since they are so secretive in filming episodes and letting information out, when they DO volunteer any information, a wise person always questions the MOTIVE of WHY would they volunteer such information or spoiler!
Most likely, because it is FALSE information meant to deceive and throw you farther away from the truth.
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You replied to Guest
Thank you.
It makes you wonder why I was suddenly, without reason or cause, prevented from posting these same theories on that other site you found, doesn't it?
Nothing assures you are on the right track to the truth better than suddenly being prevented from speaking it.
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Lindelof is recently quoted on this website saying: "There might, possibly, be some questions that we, as storytellers, will answer in the body of the show that might not be appearing in the finale."
This I knew years ago. Because that is how I already have many answers that most people don't. I have always said that all the MAJOR spoilers are back in the previous seasons and episodes. If you don't like spoilers, then do NOT go back and watch any former episodes.
A magician can make the illusion of having an object appear or disappear right in front of your eyes.
And the reason most magicians will never show you the same trick again, or more than twice tops, is because once you know what is going to happen, the NEXT time you watch the trick, you are looking elsewhere and will see how it is done.
Every episode of LOST has a similar effect, in that your attention is directed in one place, while all sorts of other things are being revealed that are not picked up by your conscious mind the first time you watch them. You MUST watch any episode more than once, or you are missing MOST of the information contained in it.
The "writers" have said that they intend to go into hiding after the series is over. This is not something you say or feel you need to do, unless you have INTENT to make the viewers angry. Because if you FEAR the viewers are going to be angry, then you can choose NOT to end the series in that way.
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Someone suggested I edit together only scenes from each side and produce two completely different stories from them, putting each side only in it's own story, however, they don't SHOW everything from each side, so it isn't possible to do this, unless one had access to the other footage that was never aired or released. The show was set up to give enough clues so that we can FIGURE OUT what happens in those scenes, even if they are never shown.
For example, the scene where Hugo parks his Yellow Hummer in the handicap parking space, because the sign said "Reserved" and they told him they were going to reserve a spot for him to park.
We never got to SEE that scene to date, but we KNOW it happened in the other reality. That is also why John can't get his remote controlled ramp to smash into Hugo's car, because that isn't how it happened, and the cars were not in those positions on the other side. The universe course corrects by not allowing that ramp to hit Hugo's vehicle.
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Why such an elaborate large wooden stairway built going up to the Ajira on the island? Wouldn't a simple rope ladder have sufficed?
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Kate said "I don't want to be Eve."
She also did NOT say "I don't want to end up LIKE Eve." she said she didn't want to BE Eve, implying that she already was.
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These two are not the "Adam and Eve" skeletons. The clothes on the Adam and Eve skeletons are not that old, and Adam and Eve were not laid side by side.
When you walk through the Shen door at the Temple, you come out in the reality in which the bodies are side by side, a lighthouse exists and Shannon's inhaler was found at the cave. (because in that side she DID live at the "rape caves" and they DID find her inhaler)
They never show if Jack puts the rocks back, or if he kept them.
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The light can be seen when Ben and John each turn the wheel.
Another thing to keep in mind, the hole was not widened and the wheel not yet attached when the well was filled in.
Yet we have seen the wheel attached and operational.
Either someone digs back down there again and completes the project, or in one reality it gets built, and in another reality it does not get built.
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If John was the smoke monster, why didn't he turn into the smoke monster instead of being beaten to death by Jack?
And why does John's dead human body remain at the bottom of that cliff?
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The "man in black" told Jacob he wanted to kill him, Jacob already knew this and told him "well when you do, I'll BE RIGHT HERE." (at the statue) so he KNEW where Jacob was.
"John" did NOT know where Jacob was, and needed Richard to show him. Even as they got to the statue, he says: "Well, it's a wonderful foot, Richard, but what does it have to do with Jacob?" When Richard tells him, you can tell in his face he was surprised to learn of this fact. A fact that "the man in black" would know.
Ben says: "and clearly it hasn't told you where Jacob is, or YOU WOULDN'T NEED RICHARD TO SHOW YOU"
Excellent point, Ben.
When Ben tells him that "the smoke monster" told him to follow and do what John says, "John" was again very surprised to learn of this fact. You also see the look of surprise in his face as he looks down in the hole after Ben just dealt with the smoke monster. If John was the smoke monster, then he would know these things and not be surprised by them.
"the smoke monster" or "Alex", told Ben it was known Ben wanted to kill John, but that he better NOT and better do as John says.
Why would the smoke monster tell Ben not to kill John unless he CAN be killed. And would the smoke monster need to tell Ben not to kill the smoke monster that he wouldn't be able to kill?
Now that Ben thinks "John" is the all powerful smoke monster, Ben has got it out of his mind to try and kill him, and we can go on with the task at hand.
The rule is no other can kill one of their own. Thus why "the man in black" was not able to kill Jacob. And if he is going to pretend to be John, just to go to see Jacob, that would be cheating. And if he was going to cheat, he could just have killed Jacob many years ago.
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There really never was any story being told here at all. Had we seen the finale of the TV series 6 years ago, it wouldn't have mattered.
This was like going through life and just observing things around you every day. Not really a story, but you can tell stories about certain events you have witnessed.
Lost wasn't a story being told, but you can MAKE stories from all the events witnessed from it.
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7-27-2009
Damon Lindelof says the final season will address the origin of the food drop from Season 2.
Jun 2 2009
Carlton Cuse and Damen Lindelof drop hints about how ABC hit drama will end
Among the mysteries unraveled in the very last episode will be the significance of the four-toed statue, and what the Smoke Monster really is.
Says Cuse: "The end of the show will be a combination of trying to answer mysteries the audience still cares about, such as the statue and the Smoke Monster.
11-19-2009
Lindelof: "I can't believe we're going to be able to end the show on our own terms. And there are no excuses. We get to do the ending on our own terms, and hopefully people will like it."
"The questions that count will be answered.”
"All I can say is that we've spent the last five years answering the question, 'Were you guys making it up as you go along?' 'Do you know what you're doing?' It's a great comfort to know that in about six months people will stop asking us that question. They'll go 'Wow, you really had a plan.'"
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This episode was not "two and a half hours"
The final episode ended up being only 1 hour and 42 minutes long when I edited the commercial breaks out.
That leaves 48 minutes of commercials!
That's longer than an entire episode of Lost which is usually 40 minutes.
They could have aired another entire episode in that same time period, with some answers, and still have 8 long minutes left over to play commercials.
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Splodge replied to you
Why are most of your comments removed?
Where are you LZ-128, I'd like to hear your take on the ending?
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Sorry to uninformatively stop posting photos for the past few days. I figured that if I took a few breaks here and there that it would help the creativity cells in me to produce new edited photos. So, we start with this shot taken from the Tomorrowland Transit Authority People Mover. Why does the name have to be so long? Enjoy!
Thanks for viewing and have a magical day!
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This is my first posting of 2010 and it's a personal favourite of mine. It was taken during my recent trip to Kangaroo Island, Australia.
Two young sea lion bulls scrap on the beach of Seal Bay. Seal Bay is a wonderful place to visit and one of the few Australian sea lion colonies in the world.
Australian sea lions spend around three days fishing followed by three days resting on the beach. Time on the beach is usualy sent sleeping or feeding pups. There is the occassional episode of activity usually initiated by one or more young male.
Unfortunately recent studies on this colony would suggest that sealion numbers are dropping, no doubt by the hand of mankind.
Happy New Year!
The historic Posting House & Livery Stables (Coaching Inn) now a pub on Guildford High Street in Surrey
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Posting for FILM26:
Film only Film. There are 26 two week periods in a year.. and 26 letters in the alphabet. Every two weeks we will use the corresponding letter of the alphabet as our inspiration. Either take a photo of the letter itself or choose a word that begins with the letter as inspiration for your photo.
Taking a break from posting LEGO builds to upload old travel photos over the next few days. I've been going back through my picture folders lately, and finding a few more gems to share.
These were all taken around Stockholm, Sweden in 2015.
Posting and running this time....back to commenting perhaps tomorrow night.... three recent scenes from our garden....the lilies have been very good this year !!!
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Posting this photo where I was escorted from 9 June 2015 today on... 9 June 2020 to commemorate when the US Army 160th SOAR and Royal Air Force 7 Squadron paid a visit to Historic Flight Foundation. A nice combo.
You can see more photos from the historic day at flic.kr/s/aHskddJnkB and please do.
PHOTO CREDIT: Joe A. Kunzler Photo, AvgeekJoe Productions, growlernoise-AT-gmail-DOT-com
Some time back I was posting various WIP pics of a forthcoming Star Trek MOC; and now STEAM is out of the way I’ve been able to return to it. Somewhere along the line I kind of ditched the plan I’d developed and came up with something quite different.
The pink thing is the stand it will rest on. The lemon yellow parts will be these angle tiles (which aren’t in LDD). I’ve done a screencapture video of me tumbling it – sorry it’s got a big dumb watermark in it.
Obviously, I’ve only built half but I’m really pleased with the direction it’s heading. Any constructive feedback is much appreciated.
Posting a full length shot of myself is incredibly intimidting. I don't like looking at full length shots of myself (because I'm not satisfied with my body) and I certainly don't especially like putting them up there for all to see.
However, that said, I feel I have to post this one because it represents a bunch of milestones for me. I don't wear skirts. Like, pretty much ever. I stopped years ago when I gained weight. I haven't worn a short skirt (or dress) in probably 6 to 10 years. I bought this skirt (and one other) and actually wore it out of the house. Huge thing. I haven't worn fishnets since I was in high school. I haven't worn boots since 7th grade.
I felt kinda naked but I got through the night without flashing anyone (unless you count the parking area in my apartment complex and that was due to a Marilyn Monroe gust of wind). I was going to wear my ruffle butt sassypants underneath but they gave me a weird shelf-like bustle thing across my ass because of the lacey ruffles. I opted for regular knickers instead and didn't show them off.
I can't believe I'm posting this.
A recent posting of mine had the dubious benefit of my old-fart grumblings about buses with lots of glass. Body builders have been at this sort of thing for a long time, as seen here. On the right is ex-Scottish Omnibuses B675, an AEC Reliance 2MU3RV with very attractive and well-proportioned Alexander bodywork. The same manufacturers were responsible for the other bus, RVD 112, new to Baxter's of Airdrie in 1958 but acquired by SOL with that firm.
By 1974 both were providing staff transport for Smart, a local building contractor with a penchant for ex-SOL vehicles.
SWS671, an identical vehicle to 675, survives in preservation.
The good burgers of Edinburgh insisted on calling the green buses running in their city, 'SMT buses', even after the SMT fleeetname and diamond had long been supplanted by 'Eastern Scottish'. The habit persisted long enough to be rewarded by the fleet becoming (briefly) SMT again following privatisation.
This is a picture I took last summer at the Evanston Grand Prix. It's for my challenge group, theme "my favorite pastime." The rider with his hands up is not me, unfortunately (my race was later in the day and it's difficult to race and take pictures at the same time...which is not to say that I won my race...and it's not to say that I never ride and shoot: www.flickr.com/photos/55959716@N08/6706219597/ ).
As is evident, I'm far behind in posting photos here. This batch is all from May 2022. Only almost 6 months late. But I will get caught up, some day.
Most of this batch exhibits many of my perfect shoes, perfectly or nearly perfectly worn as I like them. The warm weather also has me often wearing rubber footwear of various styles. Over the summer I added to my collection of rubber footwear of various makes. More of those photos will soon come.
When I got these old Chucks, the rubber soles were already beginning to crack. The rubber is failing, beginning to crumble and cracking where flexed.
When I took the first photos, the right shoe had cracked all the way across, but the mudguard" still attached the two halves on one side. But by two weeks or so later, that had torn through and only the remains of the cloth upper is holding the toe of the sole in place. (Note that the newest photos, showing the worst condition, are first if you scroll through the photo gallery.)
The outsole on the left shoe is now cracked almost half way across, but the insole is still holding it in place. But given time, I'm sure it will match the right shoe.
Despite the appearance, particularly when the shoes are not on my feet, the shoes are wearable and comfortable. I hope to wear them for years to come.
Posting some 2017 photos.
At the time The Bank of Nova Scotia paid CAD $800 million to obtain the naming right of what was before then the Air Canada Centre -- home to the Toronto Maple Leafs NHL ice hockey team. The stadium was renamed the Scotiabank Arena. For those living outside of Canada, Scotiabank has a brand tagline "You're richer than you think". Perhaps not surprisingly, a few readers wrote to criticize/ make fun of the amount the bank paid to get its name on a stadium.
i've had it with this headache.
i've had it with this heat, already.
i've had it with pain.
i've had it with things that keep breaking, ipods, laptops, cameras, bones.
i've had it with my still-healing, overly-scarred, already-fading tattoo.
i've had it with fear.
and here's the kicker.
all the right things, i tell myself daily:
it'lll get better.
it's cyclical.
just ride it out.
don't give up.
the tat can get retouched.
it's ok.
funny thing, depression.
how you can know all these things to be true,
and yet you sit there regardless in your squeaking office chair
numb as driftwood,
drifting.
wanting.
needing.
hating yourself for the drifting, the wanting, the needing,
cradling the ball of self-pitying angst in your belly
like a baby bird,
feeding it worms and chocolate
instead of starving it.
why?
because it's what you know.
even though you also know
what you should do
is kick it out of the nest
and watch it die.
so instead i get up. i take the excedrin. i eat a bowl of cereal. i put the camera on the tripod. i cut the new shade to size. i vaccuum. i do the dishes. i go to the store. i feed the cats. i water the flowers. i wash myself. i eat a sandwich. i make up the guest bed for pappas. i take a stronger headache pill. i nap. i eat dinner. i go to bed.
*looks out window*
*watches sparrow fly into nesting box with worm in mouth*
Continuing with posting photos from my archives. Not sure when I will get out for a drive, given that our winter weather continues. November 23 2024: lots more snow and it looks like almost 1 foot of snow on top of my back fence. Can't complain, though, as mild, fall weather lasted well into November, which was wonderful. So thankful that I managed to get out for groceries yesterday, so now I can hibernate for a while.
I will add the description that I wrote under a different, previously posted image taken on the same date.
"Several Alpacas, including this very cute, very curious one, were seen early on, during my drive.
On 30 October 2017, I spent the day driving mostly roads that I had been along before (a round trip of 230 km). I still find a few roads in this area so confusing! My destination was partly to check on two old barns that I have only seen and photographed once before. Having been there with my daughter in January 2015, I knew that there were several other old barns and homesteads en route. This day was definitely a barn day, not a bird or wildlife day.
The large barn in a photo I posted yesterday was one that I had been looking forward to finding and seeing for the first time, which I finally did in January 2015, with my daughter. I would love to have been able to get photos from both sides of it, but it was in a farmer's field that was, of course, private property.
The second old barn that I saw in this area is in far worse condition, but I love it. It was funny, because I was standing in the road two days ago and had already taken a handful of photos of this crumbling, weathered structure, when I noticed someone walking towards me in the distance. Talk about deja vu! I started walking towards her and it turned out that she lived at the farm just down the road, but had previously lived in the house next to this decaying barn and it was her property. She told me to wander wherever I wished, take as many photos as I wanted. I laughed and said that in January 2015, when my daughter and I had been standing right there in the road, a lady came by on her horse and told us the very same story - it must have been the same person! Felt so good!
Another place I stopped at was a farmyard full of old barns, sheds and vehicles. I pulled over and got out to take a quick shot of an old, blue truck from across the road. A person happened to just appear, walking across his farmyard, so I called out to him and we had a delightful chat. I think he was very amused at my passion for old things and told me to walk around and take whatever photos I wanted. Which I did, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself! The blue truck in a photo posted yesterday was just one of several old vehicles, mainly cars. I told him what an amazing place he had, full of interesting things. I got the impression that he saw things very differently - lots of old things that needed fixing or tidying up : ) I told him to just leave everything as it is - a photographer's dream : )
On the way home, I called in at the Saskatoon Farm to see if the restaurant was still open, but it had just closed (3:30 pm). I realized I had been enjoying myself so much that I had totally forgotten to eat anything all day. Managed to get a much-needed cup of coffee, though, and I did buy a box of frozen, uncooked Saskatoon Berry and White Chocolate scones. I bought some of these last time I was there and they are SO good, piping hot, straight out of the oven."
Please excuse me for posting five photos today, but I just love this series. On Pettycur Beach today, Mags and I met Daniella, who was riding bareback on Harry, a fifteen year old Welsh A Cob (the white horse), whilst leading Eve, a feisty seven year old Morgan Horse from America (the much taller chestnut horse). At Daniella’s suggestion, Mags took Harry for a walk on the beach, after Daniella had saddled up Eve to gallop her through the waves. Harry was a well-behaved old gentleman and a pleasure to walk across the miles of beautiful Pettycur/Burntisland beach. It really was a surreal and beautiful morning. Daniella is the regional co-ordinator for Scotland, Northern, Ireland and Northern England, for the British Morgan Horse Society. www.morganhorse.org.uk/
Postings to the Themed Alphabets group during the "black and white letters" theme.
a. Eva the Weaver, b. Leo Reynolds, c. cutesmallfuzzy, d. urbanmkr, e. Eva the Weaver, f. Leo Reynolds, g. Monceau, h. cutesmallfuzzy, i. urbanmkr, j. Leo Reynolds, k. mag3737, l. duncan, m. Leo Reynolds, n. cutesmallfuzzy, o. Monceau, p. urbanmkr, q. cutesmallfuzzy, r. k.james, s. Monceau, t. mag3737, u. Leo Reynolds, v. urbanmkr, w. mag3737, x. Eva the Weaver, y. mag3737, z. Leo Reynolds
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This is who I got my love of photography from! Mom loved taking photos!
I am in a reminiscing mood this week, so bear with me, my beloved mom passed away March 5th of last year so I will be posting some photos of her. Please don't feel the need to comment if you don't want to.
Posting this photo today - 10 Jan 2019 - because:
a) I applied for Vancouver Intl Auto Show media credentials to cover the launch day. Photos from last year: flic.kr/s/aHsmi1jCSa
b) Heard the Nissan Leaf now has an upgrade that includes, "A new 214-HP Electric Motor and an improved battery help make the ride even more thrilling. Plus, an all-new standard Quick Charge Port2 with enhanced capacity up to 100KW means you can get back on the road faster than ever." Oh and 226 miles of range!
PHOTO CREDIT: Joe A. Kunzler Photo, AvgeekJoe Productions, growlernoise-AT-gmail-DOT-com