Special Note: The 2020k review of Tomorrow’s Harvest by Boards of Canada is available here. Below is our coverage of the viral marketing campaign which lead up to the announcement of this record.
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NOT A DRILL.
It seems as though Warp Records took to National Record Store day today to let us know that Boards of Canada’s follow up to their 2005 release The Campfire Headphase is well on its way!
Hidden throughout several record stores today was a 12 inch vinyl for sale. We’re not sure how many of these have been pressed, or what’s on them. However, information will be edited into this post, equipped with edit tags on them, as we sift through the details that are being provided.
Currently, we know that @Imnopandabear from New York City, known as Lilcakey on Reddit found and purchased one of these promotional vinyl from Other Music. His account of the product lets us know that the packaging dates this as a Warp 2013 release and contains 20 seconds of audio on one side of the vinyl that says a six digit number one time, then cuts out.
This purchaser goes on to describe more information that he gathered from the store itself. “Clearly I have one of six similar Boards of Canada records released today and distributed “randomly” around the world (Other Music said they received the record with no word / acknowledgement of its existence, it was just there in a shipment they received). I think that if all of the numbers are gathered and arranged in a proper order, we might be able to figure something out, so we just need the other 5 people who found the record (or maybe they haven’t been found yet) to reveal their numbers and where they fit in the sequence, and then of course, have to decipher what the numbers together mean.”
Regardless, the devil is in the details right now, guys. So if you happen to have acquired one of these vinyl records, please leave a comment below with what’s on them so we can compile all the information we can! Everything is pure speculation at this point, but this does seem very legitimate and we are piecing together the puzzle…on the date of the fifteenth anniversary of Music Has a Right to Children, no less!
Keep the 2020k Twitter page on check, too. We’re following information closely and retweeting as necessary. All information will ultimately be reported on this blog.
EDIT #1: Youtube video of the vinyl playing is up. Watch it here. 936,557 is the number on this copy. The music is beautiful. Thank you, Lilcakey for posting in our comments. Please keep us posted!
EDIT #2: Boards Of Canada do have a page on Recordstoreday.com.
EDIT #3: This one is to be taken with a grain of salt. A YouTube video on Boards Of Canada’s official playlist show “Julie and Candy,” from Geogaddi, with a strange video description. Click here to see the full playlist. The video is number eight. While this playlist compiles fan made videos, for the most part, the video description is interestingly “——/——/——/——/——/—–-“.
EDIT #4: The video description to edit #3 seems to have changed again. It now reads “1977 snow computing amateur footage beards synthesizer”. But, YouTube user wentingtonful left it as a comment on the video. Presumably just to note that it was there at one point in time. Please keep in mind that the “Julie and Candy” video was uploaded by user Ataalantafugiens, who only has this video on their channel. The version of this song seems to be a soundboard recording from one of Boards of Canada’s only live performances. We’re still unsure, since its upload, how this user got a hold of it.
For notes: The year in the description has also altered several times in the last few minutes. 1976, 1977, 1978. Seem to be staying on ’77 now. However, the dashes are back. Go to 4:20 on the video and pause. No, wait. The placement has changed. Go to 4:19 and pause. (A rumored, possible countdown?)
It is also noteworthy that the description of the video used to read “1977 snow computing amateur footage beards synthesizer salopette endtimes uaevuon yera”
EDIT #5: Album out in June according to Tweet from Iain Stewart, who is a friend of a friend of the band. Tweet dated 4/11/13.
EDIT #6: Warp Records has just followed Other Music on Twitter.
EDIT #7: The record is number stations influenced (The Conet Project is a good place to start for beginners at this). So, there are a few number theories floating around. They’re only theories, but the number 6 keeps popping up quite a bit, and with the Tweet from Iain Stewart mentioning a possible June release, I will keep all number theories inside this edit.
Theory 1: The Julie and Candy video. Presumably, the position of the dashes and slash marks started at 4:20 on 4/20. Today, they were moved down to 4:19. Tomorrow, if they move to 4:18, this could possibly be a countdown of some sorts to something. This positioning has not moved. Theory debunked.
Theory 2: The full video description on the “Julie and Candy” video and the six set of numbers correlate:
——/——/——/——/936557 /——
1977/snow/computing/amateur footage/beards/synthesizer
Theory 3: Each of the vinyl records will contain a different set of numbers. So far, we have the fourth set since this looks like the fourth copy of the vinyl made, judging by the X’s. So far only one vinyl has been found. A second set of numbers came from a YouTube video. See Edit #12
EDIT #8: krs from the Twoism.org message board spoke to Other Music who confirmed that there is only one Boards of Canada Record Store Day vinyl released in the United States. A Warp Rep brought in the vinyl to the store. This has been obtained. The rest of them? Apparently they’re in other countries. Get searching. Update in the comments section if you obtain one. You can listen to the phone conversation here. Voice in the phone recording isn’t board member krs.
“Just got off the phone with the guy from Other Music again, and he said they DID INFACT have it at the store!!!!!! He said a warp representative brought it in at 3pm the day before record store day. He also said that the one found in their store is THE ONLY ONE IN THE U.S.!!!!! THE OTHERS ARE IN FACT IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES!!!! He didn’t specify, but they way he said it, I imagine this is what the representative from warp told him.”
EDIT #9: Pitchfork (twice!) & The Consequence of Sound have linked 2020k as a main source in their articles for this Boards of Canada mystery. I am a huge follower of both publications. Thank you for spreading the word, guys. A thank you to bocpages.org as well. Updates to this article will continue as information rolls in. Pitchfork has apparently confirmed that this is a legitimate Warp release. The Guardian has picked up this article. Shout out to Jakub over at Tycho’s blog. Thank you. Thanks to FACTmag too (check your Tweets). SPIN has also reported.
4/22/2013
EDIT #10: The “Julie and Candy” video has not been altered today, debunking the rumor that the annotations were a countdown to something. The source of the video and affiliation with Boards of Canada to the user is still noteworthy, as the video is reportedly a backdrop used for their ATP performance, and the version of the song is presumably the soundboard recording of the live performance (or a live, studio version of the track).
EDIT #11: Also relevant, Other Music tweets out that they did receive a copy of this vinyl, finally confirming that this is an official Record Store Day release by Warp and Boards of Canada
EDIT #12: The official Hell Interface Youtube channel (which is the name Boards went under before they were Boards of Canada) posted this three second video, which links to this video that plays a new jingle. The video is called “csch” by tarekeys. More numbers. This time, the numbers are: 717228
Edit #13: Hellinterface YouTube account just posted a comment under an “Everything You Do Is A Balloon” YouTube video. Points to the same hellinterface YouTube account video as the numbers in edit #12. Also, Youtube Video name is CSCH. Well look what happens when you add a .ca after it. The link is speculation at this point and seems more coincidental at this point, than anything. The 3 second video shows images when you hover over the timeline and drag. click for pic!
Edit #14: The new placement for the 717228 number seems to be the following: ——/——/717228/936557/——/—— The reasoning behind this being that the text “—— / —— / XXXXXX / —— / —— / ——” appears on the csch video at approximately 0:40 for exactly two frames.
An enhanced picture from the 3 second YouTube video can be seen below. Thank you to the Boards of Canada (unofficial) IRC for figuring this edit out. Also, it seems as though the stills are from The Little House On The Prairie, Episode 69 68, “Times of Change”, aired Sept 19 1977. [Source needed for airing date].
EDIT #15: The order of the videos on the Boards Of Canada YouTube playlist has been changed. The Felix Baumgartner “Dayvan Cowboy” video used to be the starting video. Now, three others are on top of it. The “Julie and Candy” video which contained the first hint, the “Everything You Do is a Balloon” video which contained the second hint, and below those two videos is a video for “Trails”. Speculation is that “Trails” will contain the next hint.
4/23/2013
EDIT #16: Rough Trade reports a second vinyl has been sold from their store. Posts three pictures. We don’t know the numbers. I playfully yelled at them on Twitter. The xxxxxx’s are in the same spot as the first vinyl sold.
Rough Trade has tweeted the number: 936557 and the audio from their copy. The same number as the vinyl found in New York.
Edit #17: Looks like BBC Radio 1 is in on it too! Here’s a screencap taken at 3:20PM EST by us. It was played on the Zane Lowe show. Did anyone tune in? Playlist reads: Unknown —— / ——- / —— / —— / —— / XXXXXX
The clip is now DOWNLOADABLE on BBC’s website. Click here for the MP3. New numbers: 519225
So, now we have ——/——/717228/936557/699742/519225
EDIT #18: NPR have posted a string of numbers on All Things Considered. These numbers are 699742.
——/——/717228/936557/——/519225
Theory: All of the numbers, except the NPR number have a double digit in the last three numbers. 717228, 936557, 519225 However, if you reverse the NPR number completely backwards so that it reads 247996 instead of 699742, it follows suit with the double digit theory.
Then, after the NPR number is reversed, take a look at the last number following the double digit. 717228, 936557, 519225, and if we reverse the NPR number we get 247996. With this theory, the string of numbers would be ——/——/717228/936557/699742 (or, reversed 247996)/519225. So, the first set of numbers should theoretically end in a double digit, followed by a 0 (or possibly xxx110). The second set of numbers should theoretically end in a double digit, followed by a 9.
No word on what this all means or if this theory is legitimate in the long run. Extraordinary thanks to @cydoniac for this! If anything, it’s good thinking. After finding the Soundcloud numbers, unfortunately this theory seems void.
EDIT #19: Background on Boards of Canada’s Youtube page has changed to a snowy/sky blue background and the annotations have changed on the “Julie & Candy” video. At 4:19 and 4:20, where the annotations are, there are now boxes. You cannot click them, but they are small, new editions.
4/26/2013
EDIT #20: Looks like Twoism.org is in on the fun! On Youtube, the infamous playlist on Boards of Canada’s profile updated so that a video for “Twoism” was in the number one spot. The website’s banner altered, leaving six hints:
“GIF89a
csch,hexagon sun,boc,hell interface,boards of canada,music70,boctransmission,hexagonsun,fyt,twoism
http://snd.sc/11W7vpv
http://snd.sc/11W726Q
there is another…
GIF89ai”
which lead to a Soundcloud page which held two audiofiles (Audiofile #1 called “∑” & Audiofile #2 entitled the same thing).
The album art shows a diagram of a signal mixer which sums two inputs. By summing the two Soundcloud files we’ve received the new number: 628315.
EDIT #20.5: It look as though when viewing the ID tags of the .WAV files on these uploads, we find some great information. Audio#1 is entitled “AAAA.wav” and the second being “BBBB.wav”. However, what’s even better is that in the description it mentions these files being clues for “Cosecha,” which is spanish for the word harvest and is being speculated as the album’s title. This would make sense, seeing as though the Youtube “csch” links to a video called “neuvas,” which is spanish for new seeds.
The website’s banner on Twoism.org also linked to .gif files that, when manipulated, will display where the new number from the Soundcloud files will go. Click for the picture.
699742/628315/717228/936557/——/519225
EDIT #21: Rough Trade, the record store in which one of the vinyl releases was found has been posting some cryptic Twitter status updates, including a “Boards of Canada loop” playing outside a building across the street at the Loading Bay Art Gallery. A video has been posted, along with a time stamp of “20:35?”, but no more information has been released as of yet beyond the loop. Video has also been posted, but while it showed a sunny desert, only X’s have been broadcasted so far, no number. There is audio that is being broadcasted as well, changing once, but nothing new.
The #BoC loop from outside Rough Trade East is here >>> youtube.com/watch?v=uZXFSn… Thank you @aertime!!
— Rough Trade (@RoughTrade) April 26, 2013
EDIT #22: Adult Swim aired an advertisement in the United States. No new number, but confirms the 699742, which is the number NPR also gave on their broadcast a few days ago.
EDIT#23: http://www.boardsofcanada.com currently redirects to http://cosecha-transmisiones.com/ and is asking for a password. Viewing the page source displays the code in a huge Hexagon with X’s where the missing numbers in our string of code is.
EDIT #24: Your password, thanks to Noby at Twoism.org (how he obtained this is to be determined):. 699742628315717228936557813386519225. Upon entering the password, you see a video that confirms a June 10th, 2013 release date for a new Boards of Canada album titled “Tomorrow’s Harvest”, which you can pre-order on Bleep.com (CD or Vinyl) by clicking here.
EDIT #25: The missing numbers seem to have been coded into the header of the source code on Boardsofcanada.com. The missing numbers? 7813386.
699742/628315/71722/893655/7813386/519225
All information on the release can currently be seen via the new entry, which you can see by clicking here.
5/21/2013
EDIT #26: Coverage continues. Boards of Canada have just updated their Facebook with a status! Let the more traditional promotion begin? Or is this some more cryptic goodness? The status reads: “May 22nd 24:00 @ 1-23-10 Jinnan Shibuya-ku Tokyo”
EDIT #27: A new song and some visuals from Tomorrow’s Harvest was debuted in Jinnan Shibuya-ku Tokyo on a large screen. Unofficial Ustream captured it live for us. Upload and song title are pending.
EDIT #27.5: Video is up.
EDIT #28: Zane Lowe premiered “Reach For the Dead” at 2:55 EST PM on BBC Radio 1, which is the same track featured in the aforementioned YouTube video!
EDIT #29: Warp Records has put up a stream of the song. Boards of Canada have uploaded the video to their YouTube channel. Click here to see and listen.
5/26
EDIT #30: Boards of Canada tweeted this, which lead to an Abandoned Water Park in SoCal, here. 5PM PSD, which is 8PM EST.
EDIT #31: Boards of Canada Transmission in Detroit, Michigan at the Movement Electronic Music Festival. A new song! An amazing sounding new song that’s rumored to be “Cold Earth”. A Tweet from Warp confirms this.
5/27
EDIT #32: New Hell Interface YouTube video confirms the location in EDIT #30.
EDIT #33: The California Tweet/Hell Interface video location is a place which held an official listening party for Tomorrow’s Harvest. The attendees? Just those who could make it. An introductory speaker asked the individuals to please only record audio of the first three songs. So, we have “Gemini,” “Reach For The Dead,” and “White Cyclosa” over at this unofficial uStream.
Oh, “Jacquard Causeway” is also on the stream. “Reach For The Dead” didn’t count, right? 😉
2020k 
Has the NPR set been corroborated?
It could just be that once all six vinyls have been found, they will announce a release date? Really could be that simple?
It’s not all in the form of vinyl. Only one number was found through the 2 records that were found. The rest of the numbers have all been found a different way.
I’ve probably posted too much, but I’m thinking more about the number 36 (6 sets of 6) and Wikipeding 36 and this:
http://www.ridingthebeast.com/numbers/nu36.php
… are giving me some ideas.
The password theory put forth by Andrew Beato above is much stronger than the idea of a release date, and I can’t think of a set of numbers/ultimate solution that would be more meaningful at this point. (What’s with all this “location of a record” business? I want to form an opposition party that believes this code is not indicating map locations!)
“The shoe is a sign that we should gather shoes together in abundance!” 😉
I’m liking thg password idea myself, meaning that the order is important as are the numbers themselves, but the actual numerical value of each number is not the point. Yes there might be some code (something like credit card’s modulus 10 algorhythm) so that we can’t break it without the full sequence, but as parts are released we can see the patterns emerge. Though that shouldn’t be seen as any discouragement for others to try – I’m loving all the meta data from this – personally, I just want to be able to sleep at night. 😉
A password – for me – just makes the most practical sense and does signify a “reward”.
It’s still great fun and highly entertaining 🙂
my 2 cents are this: notice the numbers are 6 pairs of 6 numbers, having the makings of a square matrix. perhaps there is another message somewhere enciphered using the Hill cipher technique that this square matrix would decipher?
i know BoC are mathy kinds of guys, so I could seem them doing something like this.
Agreed, it’s nothing to do with maps. It’s a password that will either grant access when input into a site, or we’re going to have revealed to us a One Time Pad (to continue the Numbers Station analogy) by which to interpret the numbers into single digit letters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
I think the numbers have to be revered so we can figure out where it goes, otherwise they would have given us a placement wouldn’t they? Either that or its a phony number
or maybe the next clue will have placement but no number and we are meant to join…I don’t know just throwing stuff around, still I think its more likely reversed
order might not be important too. within restraint of course.
Maybe a clue here?
http://csch.ca/workshop/ the date February 8, 9, 10 2011
Plus the contact information is (parentheses added):
Tel: +1 867 8(73 9337) | Fax: +1 867 8(73 9338)
Hopefully no one has already posted the following:
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conet_Project
‘The project’s name comes from a mishearing of the Czech word konec, or “end,” which marks the end of transmissions on the Czech numbers station.’
Very interesting. So to crack the codes there maybe a ‘One Time Pad’ issued with the new album that will reveal the meaning of the numbers…. ! ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincolnshire_Poacher_(numbers_station) )
i’ve been racking my brain for anything that might be used as the One Time Pad, and then running it through this: http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/otp.php – using the number sequences we know so far as the ‘message’ to decrypt.
so for the known sequences; 699742 / 717228 / 936557 / 519225, assuming A=1 and B=2, then those sequences in letters are; G J J H E C / H B H C C I / J D G F F H / F B J C C F
or if A=0 and B=1, then; F I I G D B / G A G B B H / I C F E E G / E A I B B E
though obviously we don’t know the order, start and end points, so i’ve been adding 1 letter at a time to the front in order to push the sequence along and try out all variations. i don’t know why, but i get the feeling the youtube account names (eg ‘volscp’) could be significant and form part of the key/one time pad.
anyway, in summary, i’m a big loser with way too much time on my hands!
From what I understand the Conet numbers are impossible to crack unless you have the one time pad. The more I think about it, the more I think this is what they are. Iv’e waited / hoped for a new album for eight years, I think I can wait another few days…..
agreed.. i just get the feeling the one time pad might be something we already know?
I believe you’re right mraunderwood. Michael Allen / @coldlunch, I don’t think they’d drip-release a code over such a time with the risk that something we already know will prematurely solve it. It’s clearly designed not to be solved until all six parts are revealed, not cracked by the internet earlier.
LOL SAME.
i tried doing a bunch of combos last night with no success.
i agree, we aren’t paying enough attention to “volscp” at all! it’s six letters long! and the video it was associated with had NO NUMBERS.
I like this angle, that’s what I was chasing yesterday. There are more decoders on that page, notably http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/gronsfeld.php – and I do think there’s something to the volscp/tarekeys names — maybe each number is to be decoded in a different fashion. (I like the CSCH / math idea too, maybe it’s all mixed up.)
Boards of Canada – Corsair (Numbers Station Remix) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI75DbJ3VE0
Probably not helpful at all, but whatever…
Where did this “remix” come from anyway? Can’t seem to find out very much about it…
All I know is that I’m starting a search for bizarre stock film to put together for a new fan video.
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Scouring the trade press today then….
was there anything in nme today?
Haven’t spotted anything….
And if the NPR code given was just confusing info ? cause all the three before were mentioned with their precise positions, not this last one.
Dude… how can you believe for a second that someone beside BoC could reproduce the same tune and the same robotic voice using a vocoder in an exact same way
Lauren Luvern just hinted at playing something on her BBC 6Music shoe very soon – tune in!!
…show…
i think she is winding us up
radio 6 just announced ‘new music coming up from warp records’ pen and paper at hand……
Doesn’t mean it’s a 100% BoC, could be also ChkChkChk’s Thr!!!er
!!! to be released 4/30
The NPR Wikipedia page was edited to include the code placeholders and then changed back again by the same user straight away. It showed the code in the first slot. Could be just a random person but they also changed the Conet Project page too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NPR&oldid=551931870
we can’t be sure about that, unless it’s boc who points out by posting a comment or smth like that
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conet_project
The line there says The Conet Project xxxxxx/——/——/——/——/—— .
Does it mean we’re on the right track?
If wikipedia wasn’t such easy to modify … perhaps
Has anyone played the audio clip on theWiki page of the NATO phonetic alphabet yet?
I’m on a pooter with no audio out….for now.
i couldn’t get it to play but file was uploaded in 2007 so unlikely its linked
Well whoever this user is, (might be the poster above for all we know) they have the IP address 71.80.48.165 (so seeing as this is WordPress, I guess 2020k can always cross-check his comment IP address for sure) and they also tried — unsuccessfully — to edit the NPR (All Things Considered public radio station)
Wikipedia article with the same xxxxxx/——/——/——/——/—— next to the name line at 9:22 April 24th.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NPR&diff=551938254&oldid=551931870
So either NPR is trying to tell us where the numbers correctly go, OR this is a troll.
Personally I don’t think it’s a big deal, as long as the other number position is told to us.
Even then, if it’s not, it’s only 2 tries to get it right. (It’s totally a password).
Geolocated IP – Leads to Kill Devil Hills (Hell interface link?)
Zoomed in and its at “First flight airport” @ the wright brothers memorial. Bit of a strange place to troll/edit a wiki from.
That’s probably the location of the ISP’s tower, not necessarily always leading to the actual machine used.
I think this is just someone messing around. The same IP also modified the NPR page which was quickly reverted. So just a wiki vandal is my guess.
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I’m really excited about the edit #18 theory.
This goes well with the fact that BoC uses backmasking on several of their tracks. The shorter ones on “Geogaddi” for instance, where you don’t even realize there’s a melody there until it’s played backwards.
The sequence of numbers in the NPR recording could be seen as the “melody” of the track. It doesn’t make sense – compared to the other numbers – until it’s played backwards.
Considering the videos have been reordered on there youtube channel, if you read the “how many years ago the video was posted” from the 6th video down up the numbers read – 536335?
to follow EDIT #18 remaining code needs to end/start in either 9 or 0
bullocks. this is just a random assumption and a theory. and i think it’s really far-fetched and MUCH too easy. i would certainly be dissappointed if the code is that poor. moreover, getting two numbers in a row in a 6 digit string is statistically not really rare. this backwards-theory is ridiculous, even boc are laughing.
do you mean bollocks?
Indeed. Thanks for pointing that out.
Unless they meant Sandra Bullock….
or seth bullock. the badass sheriff from deadwood.
BOC have always made references to science and nature in their work (compound eyes, ROYGBIV, music is math). Someone should look at these numbers as being the NCBI gene references.
The other half of me thinks this is a big hoax, however. The initial picture looks fake (the pixellated parts around the letters of boards of canada, for example). Other and Rough Trade could have just got in on it as a joke.
I think you just heard about the news an hour ago, didn’t you ?
Which news was that?
the whole boc mysterious vinyl thing
No, why do you suggest that? I’ve just been doing some bioinformatics for a research paper, hence the gene reference suggestion. And it doesn’t take 20/20 vision to see the artifact’s around the lettering and the peculiar angle of the text…
And the same for Radio 1 and NPR? seems rather elaborate for a hoax
Pretty elaborate hoax.
Who knows though when it comes to BoC.
I’m erring on the side of this being a passkey to something wonderous….
So the NPR set are bone fide, are they?
I duuno; do we have any reason to doubt? it follows the same pattern as the others. I was accepting it a bona fide.
No way a hoax especially with Radio 1 involved……the BBC don’t do hoaxes my dear fellow….
Just corruption and pedophilia… old boy
Indeed.
I was looking at the NCBI numbers lastnight and was discussing them in the BoC IRC channel on FreeNode. It seems like it has just been passed off as a dead end and I couldn’t exactly see anything revealing nor obvious (I didn’t know what I was looking at tbh). I’d like to think something could be there though, for the same reasons that you stated with BoC’s usual references.
And just as a note; here are the numbers by their relevant compound id’s from PubChem.
http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/summary/summary.cgi?cid=699742
http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/summary/summary.cgi?cid=717228
http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/summary/summary.cgi?cid=936557
http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/summary/summary.cgi?cid=519225
Has anyone played the audio clips backwards?
Just thinking of the much loved use of the backmasking in the 70’s…
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one theory
——
699742 -> 6+9+9+7+4+2 = 37 -> 3+7 = 10
717228 -> 7+1+7+2+2+8 = 27 -> 2+7 = 9
936557 -> 9+3+6+5+5+7 = 35 -> 3+5 = 8
——
519225 -> 5+1+9+2+2+5 = 24 -> 2+4 = 6
If true then just a countdown to 6….hmmmm……6 sides to a hexagon, BOCs studio is called Hexagon Sun, they have constant references to hexagons etc in songs…….
or 666…6 sets of 6 numbers counting down to 6
Well….maybe not *constant* references but you get the idea….:)
That’s pretty compelling… It’s also the way of checking mod 9, eg:
699742 % 9 = 1
717228 % 9 = 0
936557 % 9 = 8
519225 % 9 = 6
I tried doing mod 6 since that would be an obvious choice with their obsession with their satanic and math references.
_ 4 0 5 _ 3
looks like a release date to me:
14/05/13 or 04/05/13 or 24/05/13, or following european time format, may 44, 14th, or 24th of this year. I can’t really imagine I’m the first to come up with this, just didn’t see it elsewhere yet.
Urgh, May 4th not 44th haha
mod 6 seems like a good idea to me – dno how anyone else feels about it.
i always just really loved modulo arithmetic and Euler. i reckon they would like him too..
Looks like May 14th is a Tuesday, aren’t albums always released on tuesdays or something silly like that? Maybe that’s not the case in europe.
Numbers stations often used modulo encryption and one-time pads. Maybe there’s no pad needed. Tuesdays are often official release days for UK. (As an aside: 24th May is the beginning of a ‘planetary trio’ – 3 planets align – which would be a nice coincidence).
I reckon this is quite a feasible possibility
when the double numbers are two sets of two…the second numbers are 1…maybe we can find a pattern 7’1’7″22″8 and 5’1’9″22″5 o.o
Thanks for that, was worth a shot.
You guys manipulating the numbers, plotting coordinates and figuring out hex values are amazing.
But I’m guessing this is simpler than all of that. It seems they are broadcasting their own numbers station. Numbers stations are uncrackable if they use a one time pad for deciphering. My guess is this code will be cracked the same way a numbers station message is decoded – using a decryption pad that would have to be given to us somehow. Without that pad, I’m guessing it would be impossible to decode it.
Has anyone considered the possibility that the images they displayed during the infamous Red Moon Incident may be the one time pad or otherwise be related to this?
Note in the “eyes” image, the red moon is reversed making the double zero appear on the right side of the image. Could that be an instruction to reverse The fourth hint broadcast on NPR yesterday – 699742?
Could the numbers displayed under the moon and under the eyes be the pad needed to solve boc’s number station?
There could certainly be something to this. The Pentland Hills seem to have been mentioned by many. Wonder if something is to that, possibly the a known place is the U.S. to receive their number station? Wish I was anywhere near to make a try.
This was psycho-babble, Pentland Hills are in Scotland obviously. But still there could be something to that and the number station.
Probably mentioned before… but…
The letters ‘csch’ from the video, it’s one of the hyperbolic functions.
There are SIX hyperbolic functions… as discussed here… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_function
There are three ‘regular’ functions and three that are the inverse of those.
Could this be just a giant maths problem? I’m not maths-minded, but could the numbers so far have something to do with hyperbolic functions?
The values are way too large to give any sort of meaningful value from the hyperbolic functions.
http://www.calctool.org/CALC/math/trigonometry/hyperbolic
Stick them in there, you’ll see that unless you set the values to be read as arcminutes, most of the results are infinity, NaN, or 0.
If we treat these values as arcminutes, we get semi-normal values for sinh and cosh. They looked like they might be lat/long or something similar, but plotting them just gives random areas in the middle of several nowheres.
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Here’s my theory, what if its not as complicated as all of this. 6 sets of 6 digits, right? 6/6 release date? We know BOC likes their 666s, but that is only 6/6 (month and day)… well 2013 = 2+0+1+3 = 6 so 6/6/6 🙂
Everyone is quiet… is this the silence before the storm?
Here you go:
Which reminds me of http://thedailyblog.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/64150_10151521523352367_2007900558_n.jpg
ha, nice.
Those numbers are valid hex triplet colours, and the ones found so far make up a very BoC-ish set of muted greens plus a dark mauve. I bet it’s that, or a one-time pad decode to Music Has The Right To Chilblains,
To be fair, any series of 6 numbers is a valid hex color. From 000000(black) to 999999(shade of gray).
^This. Also, the hex colors thing seems unlikely unless one of the codes contains any letters A-F. Otherwise it’s restricted to a small part of the color space.
My design-mind would normally gravitate to hex colors but that doesn’t feel like it makes sense here. Remember hex codes aren’t restricted to colors. What about hexadecimal encryption?
I’m just having fun with this, and wouldn’t argue that it’s likely to be right. It tickled me that, when I googled those numbers, the first page always included a link to an online colour picker service called Colorhexa, and the colours themselves are entirely BoC-compatible.
But I don’t know what else normally comes as sets of six numbers – numbers stations themselves seem to prefer five figure groups. And choosing colours with A-F in them would give the game away somewhat.
There is, after all, no particular reason, let alone a guarantee, that there is either a real rationale behind these numbers besides stirring the pot a bit, or if there is a deeper meaning BoC will feel moved to reveal it. Evidence exists that they do have a keen sense of humour.
Too bad John Peel isn’t around to witness this…
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Probably you guys got this before but if you whois newcleardawn.com you get:
registrant-firstname: Hexagon
registrant-lastname: Sun
registrant-street1: PO BOX 28607
registrant-pcode: EH14 7YA
registrant-city: Edinburgh
registrant-ccode: GB
registrant-phone: +44.6666666666
registrant-email: 27kcgxxynwhxi3yxd0hydy7yetpe5v@hexagonsun.com
If you search the email on google, you’ll see that’s the same email used for registering boardsofcanada.com, hexagonsun.com and music70.com
That’s a big hint.
Another weird aspect of the site is that the main image (http://www.newcleardawn.com/images/ncd3.jpg) have some aliases. If you try to access http://www.newcleardawn.com/images/ncdX.jpg (note the X on the URL) with X being any number from 0 to 9, you’ll be redirected to 3 again.
This is usually a server feature that finds the next available image with similar filename
nice. i forget, how did new clear dawn come up? was it connected to one of the clues?
I think this came up before, but I never looked at the site. Maybe some meaning in the images? Nothing in the source code for the page or meta data in the image. Just that the image was created at 4:42pm on 7/2/2007 with Photoshop CS2 for Windows.
Another weird aspect of the site is that the main image (http://www.newcleardawn.com/images/ncd3.jpg) have some aliases. If you try to access http://www.newcleardawn.com/images/ncdX.jpg (note the X on the URL) with X being any number from 0 to 9, you’ll be redirected to 3 again.
word. check out my posts about images themselves, especially the owl. full of mason and secret society imagery.
People are bringing this up, but this info’s been available for a few years now. People were thinking back in 2009 or so that the site was in reference to a new album.
sooooo this is kinda weird. i did a google image search for the owl image on the NewClearDawn site and this came up. “O” for owl, B O C ….?
http://conspirative.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/bohemian-owl-n.jpg?w=292&h=255
Its the mascot for the “Bohemian Grove”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove
Along with the pyramids, this is pretty weird….
if you take the letters out of that email address, you get 273075. Six digit number. Just sayin’.
yeah i don’t think that the site has been up for a few years means it’s not relevant… they could very well have decided what to call their new album a few years ago. and there have been clues around the word “new”. personally, i’m going to watch that space just in case. 🙂
Those numbers most likely don’t mean a thing. Most domain registries will hide(or partially hide, which is what that email address looks like) the public contact email address so that the owner doesn’t get inundated with spam. Sending an email to that address would usually result in it being filtered out by a spam filter or something similar.
lol, if u type in ftp://www.newcleardawn.com u get a “insert username and password” window. maybe the username is “csch” and the password “——/——/717228/936557/——/519225” but then complete :D. that would make my day 😀
i think it’s pretty standard that if you wanted to upload a file to the site you would need a password, seems like basic admin stuff to me. 🙂
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Just seen this posted on the Ghostly International Facebook page – real or fake?
csch
——/——/——/——/——/——
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-zOsnqSG8c
real. already part of the thread here.
either you caught with the hype very lately, or you didn’t even take the time to read a single word of what has been written.
That video is fake, stop posting it guys, jesus christ !
Well I did neither, couldn’t see this posted anywhere in the thread and have read pretty much most of what’s been written here and didn’t see mention of it.
Relax fella, thought it might be of interest – check the attitude, not really in the vibe of Boards is it?
Has it really been proven to be fake? It does flash the image at the end after saying 719881. This would also add up to be 3+4, which would be the missing 7.
real.
where was this video proven fake? and I don’t know how you can conclude ONE GOT FAT is fake. It doesn’t help anyone for you to tell people that things are definitely fake or not if you don’t reference a post.
Man, that video is well fake. That and the Reforestation area ones are pretty poorly done. Anybody in check the newspapers today?
From newcleardawn.com the first letters of “Frontline Net Observation Research & Development” spell “fnord”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord
which ties in with the Illuminati references that people picked up on from the images on the website too.
“New Clear Dawn” could also be “Nuclear Dawn” and take a look at the image at the top of their warp records page:
http://warp.net/records/boards-of-canada
Number stations? Illuminati? Subliminal messages? Nuclear apocalypse?
What does this all mean?
Or maybe we are just making a lot of something from nothing.
“Or maybe we are just making a lot of something from nothing.”
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sooooo this is kinda weird. i did a google image search for the owl image on the NewClearDawn site and this came up. “O” for owl, B O C ….?
http://conspirative.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/bohemian-owl-n.jpg?w=292&h=255
Its the mascot for the “Bohemian Grove”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove
Along with the pyramids, this is pretty weird….
Since it seems that these 6 codes are each being released in a different form of media, any predictions on where the next 2 codes will pop up?
What I’ve found really interesting is that each code release has alternated between an old form of media and a new form. Vinyl Record -> Youtube -> Radio Show -> Podcast.
Could the final 2 be a TV ad and a video on Netflix? What other old/new pairs could there be?
BBC & NPR were both radio broadcasts. Maybe there’s a 3rd radio broadcast coming up..
The BBC broadcast was live, but to my knowledge there is no live broadcast of the All Songs Considered show. It’s a weekly podcast put out by NPR music.
Cassette/CD
Adult Swim.
That makes a lot of sense. They already have a big connection to Warp Records, with FlyLo, Hudson Mohawke, and Prefuse 73 contributing music to their shows/mixes/bumpers.
Yep, and there have been some BoC snippets used as well I believe. I think its likely.
Reforestation Area.. Likely Facebook?
I think the last one will be revealed via facebook, Am radio would fit in well too.
Reforestation stuff is all fake.
How do we know? I’m sincerely asking, because I can’t make any sense of this RA stuff.
Take a look at their facebook page. Those guys are just some folks inspired by boc
we know because the video itself was super fake and obvious, unlike the other ones, and the description on it was “send your money to warp records”
I haven’t seen anyone suggest that there may be a clue on the national film board’s site:
http://www.nfb.ca
I’ve been checking it since the NPR thing… just makes sense to me..
I don’t get it. What happened on NPR ?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2013/04/22/178464083/new-mix-cyborg-love-heartbreak-and-a-mystery
Very end of the mix (starting around the 39:10 mark) they played another number set with no indication of where it fit in the sequence.
” 699742 ” Thanks.
Not sure if anyone posted this already but the music in the background sounds a lot like the tune used in an old movie. Close encounters of the third kind (1977). It is used to communicate with species from another planet.
Thank you! It’s been bothering me since yesterday!
It sounds like a “palindrome” of the opening chords of “Everything you do is a balloon”.
looking forward to “new seeds”!
So TV, then Twitter to round it out or make the announcement? Unless last month’s blank tweet meant not to look for it there? At the time I thought it was a heads-up..
oh shit that might be the key, but they took the message down. If anyone knows the time it happened maybe that will help. I remember it was on the 23rd. I floated 23.7.13 that day for love of prime’s but decided against it when everyone swore it would be June.
Not sure whether anyone’s considered this but title of the hellinterface video ‘nuevas semillas’ translates to ‘new seeds’. ‘Seed’ is a term often used in encryption to refer to a random number which, if shared, can be used as a secret key for sharing messages, etc. This could apply in the cases of these numbers, which could quite possibly be ‘seeds’ for some system we’re as yet unaware of.
Or it could just be because BoC are all into their nature and stuff.
I was thinking that ‘new seeds’ could be referring to a torrent
I like this idea
New seeds ; maybe a clue will grow out of the ground this spring.
In the last two days, by this time around we would have one code. Today, though, nothing, just silence. I can’t stop thinking there is one code just waiting to be found somewhere.
is it possible we all missed one somewhere? and that is why the code broadcast on NPR hasn’t shown us where to fill it in on the _ _/_ _/_ _ thing? because it would have been the last one?
Take a look at the top right of the NPR wikipedia page. Was removed shortly after but you can see the history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NPR&oldid=551931870
http://goo.gl/maps/Jle2T
What are we looking at here?
The codes as Grid Coordinates: NT936557, NT717228, NT519225, NT699742. http://gridreferencefinder.com/#
http://gridreferencefinder.com/ NT936557, NT717228, NT519225, NT699742…
Thats pretty interesting….
I added some speculative references, G could be a venue??
Very interesting!
I’m abusing the line tool of the grid reference finder website… with some totally empirical “centering”, the name of Houndslow shows up… As I said, it’s total speculation.
if this is grid related, Torness nuclear power station isn’t too far away from the most recent code/grid ref…
http://goo.gl/maps/TydKQ These are exact coordinates we have so far based on NT936557, NT717228, NT519225, NT699742.
Well, it’s in a beautiful place out in the country.
ha, so i looked at the street view of each of those location hoping the next set of numbers would be on a sign or something. how awesome would that have been…
based on what Abandon Strings posted, I can imagine the 2 missing points would form an hexagon… We could even guess the locations ant then the missing numbers (more or less) ?
In my comment yesterday (with the http://tinyurl.com/cvgt3pr link,) I guessed at the remaining numbers being ~524743 and ~284562 based on the predicted locations of remaining ‘hexagon’ points.
This prediction comes with caveats, of course:
a) The grid reference idea might be completely off track
b) Extrapolating the location of extra points isn’t very exact so they may not be quite correct 🙂
[For the record, I’m thinking that whilst the number sequence may end up having a numeric pattern or able to have some ‘meaning’ imparted upon it, I’m guessing that ultimately that’ll be by-the-by. I’m with the folk saying that in the end they’ll be a passcode for access to something like an album mini-site, promo mp3 download or pre-order scheme]
Where supposedly the codes are being broadcast from?
New seeds ; maybe a clue will grow out of the ground this spring.
About a dead end when using a One Time Pad decryption approach, feel free to offer suggestions on what pads to use…or suggestions period.
http://pastebin.com/b78zU6wD
I plan to implement this into a website, but I did this on my break and I have a lot of work to get back to, so I might not respond to suggestions for a while.
Hopefully this weekend, if I have time, I could figure out how to host my code on a website for everyone to fiddle around with. If you know Python/Django and can help, please mention that, I am a Python beginner.
Good job man! I wish I could help, but I don’t understand any of it.
Thank you for your time and effort.
man, i think i speak for most of us that hopefully by this weekend we’ll know what all of this means, so none of that extra time and effort will be necessary.
coordinates for a tour ?
Little House on the prarie, Wikipedia, and the NPR placement. Those are the loose ends, yeah?
And something about the IP who modified the Wiki Entry tracing back to Kill Devil Hills, NC
IMHO that’s all nonsense. people just messing around. (except you’re right, we are waiting for the NPR placement… honestly i think NPR just messed it up. they sounded pretty confused haha)
Little House if from 3 second youtube video….
yes but that doesn’t make it a loose end. who knows, just sayin 🙂
The red moon graphic, with its six digits and tagged coordinates is also a loose end.
Just sayin’ 😛
If you do a whois on csch.ca, you see that expiry dare of the domain is 2013/06/01
(although after looking into it, that organisation and website seem legit. The phone number and expiry date can just be coincidences)
Could all of this be another Red Moon incident?
Of course it could be, but it seems rather more substantial than that (to me at least).
Yeah, you’re right. I guess we haven’t heard anything today because we got two sets of numbers yesterday.
i was wondering when people would start going back to that old newcleardawn thing
i’m a proponent of the numbers station theory… i’m waiting for the one time pad because this won’t be crackable without it. 🙂
how will we recognise the pad? what are we looking for?
who knows… we will just have to be clever and keep gathering clues as they are released! having said that, it might look like another set of six numbers, but they could be two digit numbers this time. (this is just a theory)
Those red moon images have to be relevant to this somehow.
100606
g60h p5-omh g2h2.t 0-n
in the second image, they reversed the moon image, causing the “00” in the six digit number to move to the right side of the image. Could that be an instruction that we should reverse the NPR number where the double digit appears on the left unlike the others?
do we think the new clear dawn site has any relevance or am i wasting my time? have processed the different page components in photoshop and have come up with a few colour codes
#5fabc2 or 561232 for the NCD text
#eeb59a or 552591 for the eye
#262632 for the owel although this is not block colour and varies
#caad8b or 311482 for the triangle.
mean anything to anyone?
also is anyone working on the ‘1977 snow computing amateur footage beards synthesizer’ this must be an anagram. really need to get this thing cracked before my girlfriend leaves me haha
This is more and more similar to William Gibson’s “Pattern Recognition”…
Yes! and I’m reading this book now. The best.
these words appeared several years ago next to the video and thus may not be as relevant. (they may still hold a clue, but IMHO they are not an anagram)
read EDIT #4
00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdHZL4XZYZY
Did anyone check the paper copy of NME released today? Different medium than the rest
Interesting to notice that the guys at the bocpages are not considering the NPR code…
That is dumb I think. Why would NPR of all places run a hoax like that, and be able to manufacture the sound so well? I’m certain NPR is legit.
i agree the NPR one is legit. (but i do think they may have messed up by not understanding that they had to publish the song title with the x’s along with the broadcast, in which case we may not know where that goes in the sequence until we get the other two.)
Well, as long as we get the positions of the other two, it shouldn’t matter. They might’ve not even been told a position, to increase our speculation.
Found minutes ago
In the New Clear Dawn website
ugh that looks so fake… what do you mean “in the new clear dawn website” — there’s nothing on the site but those images that have been there…
Dude…come on. 🙂
Well I lold.
And now, this!
The last few times this happened it was a fraud.
People at the IRC #boardsofcanada are calling this as fake
and that one literally says “i’m just fucking around” right under it. is that you posting these or are you just gullible?
FYI now the “i’m just fucking around” has been deleted from the video description.
So the trail has gone cold. What are we missing? We all need to step back and take a look at all of this from the start before jumping to conclusions. I am certain we are missing at least one. its right there in front of us
Tried to find something on vimeo. Found this:
This is off the blokes profile. Thinks its just a tribute mate.
“Hello Everyone,
I like to create things. Trying to do something new with the same tools as everyone else is great fun. I hope to inspire, grow and maybe make a little money at this too.
God bless you
nthn”
Agree with you. Just strange “NTHN” in video)
Is anybody in or around the Edinburgh area? especially Stichill. We need to get someone to the ‘Foundatlast’ book shop asap.
The owner is responding to email and is dropping hints
I don’t see any hints being dropped?
” I’ve had lots of emails and calls re the riddle. As far as I know I have nothing to do with the solving of it but I’m now as intrigued as everyone else!”
To be that says he has no idea about it….
that was only his first response. he also wrote
“Reading all the messageboards I have a possible theory as to why my shop MAY be part of all this but it doesn’t involve me having one of the records here…”
Hi everyone. Just to clear up a few things….
Since yesterday morning I have been inundated with emails and phone calls re this mystery. I can assure everyone that if my bookshop is part of this mystery then I know nothing about it. I have several rooms of books, CDs etc here and have searched through everything to see if I can find anything but so far, nothing. I am now as intrigued as everyone.
I notice there’s a thread above re “double numbers”, especially with “22”. My shop phone number contains “22” (224042) so maybe that is one of the missing codes? Finally, thanks to everyone who has been in touch and sorry I can’t be of more help.
If anyone wants to drop in and say hello and buy some books you’re more than welcome!
Steve
HE’S LYING!!! haha cheers for your input Steve 🙂 wish i lived closer so i could come take a browse
I’m talking to a friend who’s BoC fan in Edinburgh to see if he will take the bait 🙂
Beg him djmachv. haha if you can convince him tell him not to waste his time on the vinyl. concentrate on the cd’s cassettes and books/mags
That is a nice bit of advertising on his behalf. Nothing in my shop, but I do have lots of books and C.D’s for you to look through, oh and here’s the shop phone number, just in case you get lost on the way into the middle of nowhere, where I keep my shop…..
we approached/pestered him remember. i say fair play for getting involved 🙂
Well – what about the idea that someone unsuspicious went into the shop already and wrote some codes with a biro or pencil in a book? Crazy idea and quite improbable (plus the impossibility of finding that code) – just a spontaneous idea. What I want to say: Does not necessarily mean someone placed a BoC-book or something like that. 🙂
Hi Hobo. I had already thought of that….
We’ve checked through all our CDs for anything “suspicious” but found nothing.
Our turnover of books means that anyone placing a code is relying on:
a. the book being bought by someone who knows about BoC in the first place and then sharing the code and
b. the book being found at all. (We move hundreds of our books around each day, some out of the shop altogether, and so there’d be a high chance of a book with a code in it a few days ago not even being here in the shop now.)
We’ve even examined “permanent” features in the shop such as furniture, shelving, etc in case a code had been written on but haven’t found anything.
And to mraunderwood, I wasn’t advertising, just trying to help. It’s quite a trek to find the bookshop and I was trying to save everyone an unnecessary trip.
Steve
Hi Steve. Sorry to bother. I had an idea. In the Julie and Candy video , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-y8HNhJkyM&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=2 on there is an annotation that appears around the 4:20 mark. It says ONE GOT FAT, referring to a 1963 bicycle safety video. Just wondering if you have a copy of it in the store.
Thanks for participating!!
Nothing springs to mind but I will check tomorrow. I have a selection of cycling books and videos but they’re kept in a separate location and not accessible to the general public so there’s no way anyone could have added something to them.
I still think it’d be too risky to add an important code to anything which could be randomly sold / moved. If my shop is part of the whole mystery I think it would be the final piece of the puzzle, hence “founditatlast” and maybe the end result hasn’t been placed here / dropped off here yet? I’m half expecting someone to turn up here with a package once the puzzle has been solved. And before anyone thinks I am advertising / dropping hints I am not! I’m trying to solve the puzzle like everyone else!
Steve
Has anybody checked the National Film Board of Canada’s website/blog? http://www.nfb.ca/ ?
…in fact that might be too tenuous.
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From a fellow poster on Twoism
“Red moon tonight?”
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/04/130424-partial-lunar-eclipse-moon-slooh-space-science/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_fb20130424news-lunareclip&utm_campaign=Content
RE: nipping to the bookshop from Edinburgh…
England is closer!
Someone should travel out to the very middle of the gridded hexagon. If there is something waiting in the middle, anyone in the Edinburgh area can find it since we have enough of the corners to determine where the centre is and the remaining corners.
There seems to be something in the direct middle and it is forming a flagpole-like shadow. http://imgur.com/F26L59c
could you post link please
UPDATE: found to be a telephone pole, still wouldn’t rule out the area.
It’s unlikely to be some sort of GeoCaching game.
I like the sound of the key to another page/site/album sampler world…
I particularly want to believe that it will reveal a message similar to a number station, but to do that we would need a one-time pad. I’ve tried using the Fibonacci sequence on their facebook page to no avail.
Ceiling cat!
Always watching….always.
New background on the BoC Youtube channel? Or are we just imagining it?
Definitely is, the shadows the same. How’d you find it?
no need to compare shadows, just view the page’s source in your browser and you can find that file in the code.
k
Probably nothing, but:
Go to the BoC homepage > Discography
Bottom right is a grey square( new album?), click it and it reveals a large black square but click just to the bottom and right of the large square and you get an accelerator pop–up and the first suggestion, on my current computer is:
Map with Bing
I think that pop- up thingy happens with other LP images, too.
Old news dude, sorry to burst ya bubble
is it old news that there’s a blank square?
yes the blank square has been there for years.
Probably nothing but worth a shot. The numbers looked like pixel X/Y coordinates to me. Here they are plotted out on a 1000×1000 grid. Not sure if I see anything….
The 4:20 comment on the Julie and Candy video is now showing as ‘ONE GOT FAT’. Don’t think this was there before. I assume we all know what it’s is in reference to.
It’s been there for a while
yeah, the only difference is now theres a box around both annotations. those are new.
Fair play.
I just noticed the box around the “——/——-, etc” comment in the Julie and Candy video….I clicked on it and it was deleted. now that one is gone even when I replay it but the “one got fat” comment is still there. It also has a box around it….I haven’t clicked on it yet. weird!
the text and boxes are back when the entire video is reloaded…hmmmm.
looks like someone edited the permissions of the video or something? the boxes turn black and let you “X” them out when clicked on. you couldn’t do this before, no?
The boxes are much bigger than the annotations they surround. I wonder if they will be used to give another clue….or more information. curiouser and curiouser!
Have the number of views for the Julie and Candy video always been stuck at 47918?
Also, if you were born in 1977, you would be 36 years old this year. Just purging thoughts.
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New background to youtube page:
the vehicle was obscured by the content
Not new. http://web.archive.org/web/20130326065329/http://www.youtube.com/boardsofcanada
does anyone know for sure the exact numbers and order we have so far? and would they kindly share? ever since the 699742 it seems to be a bit uncertain, some people think that number should be backwards, i can see how it would fit better that way but has this been confirmed at all? thanx! keep digging people! i think we missed something earlier on, possibly from the Julie and candy video? those boxes have appeared now and still dont know if it means anything but previously on the Julie and candy video @ 4:19 the 2nd and fifth segments had solid lines in them on the video, and the first segments first dash was longer than all the others, but now they all have dashes just like the other 4.
joe this should help you: http://bocpages.org/wiki/Record_Store_Day_incident#Hint_3
thanx