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SOLVED: King Rabbit’s Burrow: The Second Fragment
let’s break down http://burrowinthefray.com and KR’s instagram here. great finds @Mike and @Piki.
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Ok. So first things first I’m going to wager that each magic word comes from each piece of paper from fragment one.
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Maybe @CameronP but they all might be “new” words, like Fraylily to prevent us from just guessing, (which is what I’ve been trying to do for the past hour.) :-/
I don’t know.
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Cam- have you run a reverse image search on the vine like image from http://bookofbriars.com/fraylily/?
Also, do we think the corrupted pages may yet have clues to offer? I doubt it but don’t want to make assumptions.
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kingrabbit717 posted second image in instagram, looks exactly like the original one. Description of new image: “What wilde and wondrous work she found. What otherworldly sights for final days, laid before the bride of butterflies.”
I checked paintings on Whitney Museum website:
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The “Kirk” painting that she is looking at is showing a Major Sergeant rank in the center. Not sure if that is relevant, but good to know. Any military people out there please correct me if I’m wrong.
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Description of first instagram image was “The butterflies were beautiful, all things (re)considered.”
Then I found this work: http://collection.whitney.org/object/27813 with description “Work Reconsidered #1”
UPDATE: “What wilde and wondrous work she found” Wilde is a reference to author of this work John Wilde
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Piki, I think you’re right about the Wilde painting. I think that’s where we’ll find our first clue.
Does anyone know Latin? Curious what Objecta e Dv. mean and the internet doesn’t want to help me.
If anyone finds a hi-res image of this painting, please post a link in this thread so we can all scour it for clues.
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Check it. Painting by the same artist on display at the museum.
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And this title “Wedding Portrait” and KingRabbit talks about “bride of butterflies”
But I can’t find an image of this that will allow me to zoom in. (I am not tech savy, y’all.)
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Okay, so… DG has a pic of John Wilde’s “Work Reconsidered” on her blog, presumably from her visit to the Whitney Museum. KingRabbit references “wilde” and “(re)considered” so yes, as mentioned, it seems like there must be an answer in that painting. Question is, is it there for the finding or are we missing a piece? If CRSumner hadn’t posted about the fraylily, there would be no name for the image that y’all found. So are we waiting for a piece or do we already have everything we need.
Blurgh.
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I think crsumner is a part of another fragment (fragment 3). So we either already have almost everything we need or should go to museum and find something there.
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Just found on one of websites note that on picture “Work Reconsidered” John Wilde portrayed his wife Helen.
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New hint from kingrabbit17 on instagram “Lay gifts to mark this day. Nineteen fish with eyes that glisten and two score rotting fruit. Three worms await the day, but the bird has flown away.”
Perhaps, we need to do something with objects on the table
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What are you thinking? I’m seriously having such a hard time seeing these images. Can’t zoom in to examine. A fish, an apple with a worm in it, a scrap of paper, and a shell? Is that right?
“Lay gifts to mark this day” –
A birthday?
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Here’s a spitball thought:
“Lay gifts to mark this day” —birthday, anniversary August 23rd
“Nineteen fish with eyes that glisten and two score rotting fruit. Three worms await the day…” — (19) (40) (3) 1943
“But the bird has flown away”— The early bird has gone, so later in the day? Late morning?
August 23rd, 1943 — Can anyone think of anything significant that happened that day, possibly later in the day?
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@CameronP why it’s equal to 40?
UPDATE: googled, two score means 40. Sorry, I’m just not english speaking person, so didn’t know this.
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Hmm, so that’s definitely the painting we’re supposed to look into. But what part of it or what about it? Is something supposed to go into the password fields in burrowinthefray.com? I tried the date @CameronP came up with but it didn’t work.
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Alright guys @Johanna is on to something. There’s a series called “The Wedding Portraits of 1943” which are two sketches, one of him and one of his wife (Helen). The one of Helen is basically a sketch of “Works Reconsidered #1”
Since KingRabbit spells out “1943” for us and mentions “Works Reconsidered,” I think there might be something for us in these two Wedding Portraits of 1943. See the first two in the following link:
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Anyone capable of isolating/enhancing images so we can get closer looks? Is that writing along the sides of the pictures or just lines?
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From this link: https://archive.org/stream/changinglikeness00whit/changinglikeness00whit_djvu.txt
“The John Wilde Wedding Portrait panels are decorated with texts,
mathematical references, architectural and landscape fragments. The
obsessive nature of his method, accumulating minute marks into nearly
unbroken tonal areas, reveals his interest in a Northern European
tradition exemplified by the drawings of Albrecht Diirer or Lucas
Cranach. A meticulous realist, Wilde strives to reconstruct objects on
the page in a clear light which also reveals the highest aspects of his
technique.”
But still unable to find what the actual text is.
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There is a book about Wilde, which contains lots of his works: http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/Arts/Arts-idx?type=turn&id=Arts.JWilde&entity=Arts.JWilde.p0045&q1=wedding
In addition to that both wedding portraits are present in this document http://images.library.wisc.edu/Arts/EFacs/ChazPubs/JohnWilde/reference/arts.johnwilde.i0008.pdf
But looks like it’s not possible to read anything on sides of pictures.
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Maybe we should keep a running list in a post of passwords we’ve tried in the forms on the burrow website? I think that might be helpful.
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Great find @Piki! Was able to get a closer look at those wedding portraits thanks to the link you posted. However, since the text does seem indecipherable, it feels like the wedding portraits are a dead end. Anyone else agree? So does that bring us back to the Work Reconsidered #1 painting. I’m at a loss. :-/
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I thought about that but I have thrown a hundred words at that site and now can’t remember what they are.
And I could be way off-base but I think the words may be unfamiliar, either made up or in a different language, so it’s not just something we can guess. Mind you, I’m still gonna try!!
And lastly, what are your thoughts on placement? For instance, if the four words are Kiss Me I’m Irish, if you put Irish in the first box, will it take it or do the words have to be in a certain order? I’m assuming any box will take any word and then give us clues that will give us the password to the 5th box. At least that’s what I’m hoping.
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Interesting @Johanna I’d thought the same thing, that the final form would be based on clues from the first four, but I assumed we’d be hearing more clues from Kingrabbit so I’ve only been trying words and phrases in the first form. Now I’m really lost!
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Yeah, @AlisonB. I hear you. I think I’ve hit a wall. If Mr. Rabbithole isn’t forthcoming with some more hints, I don’t know how to proceed.
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I ran the vine image through reverse image search and didn’t get anything but others should try since it’s possible I overlooked something.
Keeping mg a talley of failed words is actually a good idea even if we can’t remember them all. At least it might give us all an idea of our different approaches.
That Wilde site is great. His first wife Helen Ashman died “tragically” in 66 though I can’t find out how. Not sure if that’s relevant since it isn’t part of his 1943 works. And I have to think that there must be something in the wedding images other than the text were unable to read.
Something that strikes me as interesting on the borrow in the fray website is the fact that it asks for “magic” words. Is it possible the Guide to Magiq might hold clues?
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I couldn’t find anything about “OBJECTA e Dv.” online either. Objecta, sort of, but not the rest. Is the “e” a word on its own or is there a period after it which makes it an abbreviation? In Deirdre’s Instagram of it, it looks like a period, but there’s a speck below and to the left which obviously isn’t.
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I figured it out! I don’t know if anyone wants to solve it on their own or if I should post the answer?
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@AlisonB there’s a spoiler tag under the gear icon where you write posts. use that in case the other recruits want to figure it out too. so, what’s the answer?
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I tried loads of words in all of the forms, and tried OBJECTA e Dv. in a bunch of different ways because it seemed like the most obvious “password”. There IS a period after the e! So the solution is “OBJECTA e. Dv.” with the spaces, capitalization and periods. It goes in the first form.There’s then a link to a video. It’s of a field with the sun rising. It’s fifteen minutes long.
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Way to go Alison! It’s good to know that kind of specificity is important because I tried several variations and got nothing. Way to be tenacious!
I haven’t had a chance to Watch it yet but there has to be a clue in there somewhere. In the description or title perhaps?
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The title is just Her and no description. I’m downloading it to see if there’s anything else.
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I’ve watched the entire video and didn’t see anything. It’s a loop of the sun coming up and going down.
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Well the first thing I’ve noticed about the video is that it cuts out at 1:34 to a black screen and then back in at 2:21. So, 47 seconds?
I also paused it at 7:17 to see if there was anything significant to the video there but nothing jumped out at me. However, that missing 47 seconds seems important.
There is also a description the side that says “Rabbit King will be notified.”
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I just finished downloading it. It’s not fifteen minutes long. It’s six HOURS long.
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Holy cow!!! 6 hours? I guess I’ll HAVE to download it now. That might explain the missing 47 seconds. That’s where the 5 hours an 45 minutes should be. Man, this is insane.
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And I don’t see the missing gap.
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Hmmm, the missing gap is on the 15 minute video. I had a friend play it and look for the gap too just in case it was my computer. She saw it as well. Of course, if you’re watching the 6 hour video, it’s likely the gap isn’t there. Maybe the gap is a hint to the missing 5+ hours of footage(!!!).
I still have another hour until the download is complete. What is in there?
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Sorry, I do see the gap. I’d skipped too far ahead. You may be right. It might’ve been a hint to download the full file.
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I’ve skimmed it and it looks like a six hour loop of the sun rising and setting. I didn’t notice anything else out of the ordinary.
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I haven’t had a chance to watch much yet but the gap is in the 6 hour video too. Hope to get to it tonight.
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Alright, I’m off to sleep. Skimmed through the video a few times but didn’t find anything. If there’s something in there it’s small or hidden. This is quite the needle in a haystack.
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I played all six hours and 25 seconds hoping that something would happen after having viewed the entire thing, but, alas, nothing.
I also wondered if there may be audio hidden somewhere so I tried playing the video back at multiple speeds, then slower in the hope that its recorded speed renders it impossible to hear at regular speed. Sadly, no luck. But there may still be audio (perhaps over the missing section?). I just don’t know how to find it. My audio skills peaked in the late 90s and I haven’t kept up with the latest gear and software (what you kids call apps these days) so if there is, I haven’t a clue how to find it.
Still working though. The video has to have something.
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DG’s instagram post of the Work Reconsidered was the key to unlocking the first magic word on King Rabbit’s page. Is her latest instagram pic the key to the second? A seahorse? There is a bar called The Monster with a seahorse type emblem in NYC but I don’t think the bar itself has anything to offer to our search. (Could be wrong.)
Can someone run a reverse image search on the pic she put up? I don’t know how.
Trying to think along magical lines – a hippocamp?
Also, should we be plotting her stops – the Whitney, the Gray Dog, The Monster. Feels like Rabbithole is already tracking her. Maybe we should be, too? But then again, unless her stops spell out a word or form a symbol, not sure what good it would do us.
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Shit:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJlvyVuAJBb/?taken-by=kingrabbit717&hl=en
“We found a somber view, and darker still, when visions change with changing tides.”
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I just saw this on Instagram. It’s the first of King Rabbit’s photos that’s not at the Whitney. Does that mean it’s part of the next password form?
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I just tried to check the audio in a spectral analyzer to see if the audio formed any weird images but it looks like there isn’t an audio track on the video (that I could find). I also noticed that the video seems to loop about every 7 minutes.
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We may want to divide an conquer. Anyone who is willing, we should take a certain time segment from the video to watch the entire thing. If we have enough people, it shouldn’t be too bad. Six people would mean we’d only have to watch an hour each and more people would mean less time. I plan on watching the entire thing, but thought this might be a way to help speed up the process.
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Also, not sure if there is a better place to post this but, “The Burrow” is the name of a Kafka story about a mole-ish creature underground.
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I, luckily. found something while scanning the video. Spoilers below
At timestamp 5:28:35 the word “EYE” appears for 2-3 seconds and then disappears. Here’s a screenshot:
I’ve watched most of the first half of the film and haven’t seen anything else. I suppose it’s quite possible that this is the only clue in the video but I’m hoping there’s more. Will watch more this weekend.
This text will be blurred
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great work @Mike. anybody wanna draft a short post with the progress on this fragment? I can wiki it so anyone can edit it and pin it to the top of the topic. this things gettin long.
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I can do that this week Bash.
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thelastofthetravelers: A brave sourl released from jewelled eyes bereft of home, his light soars free.
kingrabbit77 We found a somber view, and darker still, when visions change with changing tides.
Both this quotes about eye or vision, so I think it’s hint that we need to find some software to analyze video.
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https://www.instagram.com/kingrabbit717/?hl=en
KingRab has posted the same pic of DG at Battery Park but with a different filter.
There seems to be a word on the sidewalk behind her. So this idea of “decoding” the image seems right to me. How do we take this image and “normalize” it to see what the word is?
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Also, this is now underneath a pic of a bunny below the first unlocked word on burrow in the fray:
Illustrator Helen Wilde
did not die in 1966
@Mike, seems like you were on to something when you were looking into Wilde’s wife.
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Beware, spoilers ahead.
This text will be blurred I’ve watched all six hours and 25 seconds of the video. This is what I’ve been able to come up with so far:
The screen goes blank for 47 seconds, cutting out at 1:34 and then coming back in at 2:21. It is also my observation that the video loops every 47 seconds. What does this missing space mean? I think it is meant to urge us to download the entire video. I can’t think of any other purpose, but would love to hear others’ thoughts.
And then of course there is the needle in the haystack:
The word “EYE” appears for a scant three seconds, fading in at 5:28:35 and fading out at 5:28:38.
Now, the first thing I think of when I see this image is “Eye in the sky.” However, I’ve tried multiple variations of it in the “magic words” field of King Rabbit’s Burrow to no avail. Being that the first clue had to be entered exactly right, this leads me to believe if “EYE in the sky” is the right phrase, it’s just a question of finding the correct way to input it into the field. “EYE in the sky, Eye in the sky, The EYE in the sky, EYE IN THE SKY, etc.”
This, of course, could just be a hint to look for images with eyes that show up in relevant Instagram accounts, too. So if anyone else has any other thoughts or suggestions as to what this clue might mean, please let us know.
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I wanted to start a new thread since the last one was getting a bit unwieldy. Beware, spoilers ahead.
This text will be blurred I’ve watched all six hours and 25 seconds of the video. This is what I’ve been able to come up with so far:
The screen goes blank for 47 seconds, cutting out at 1:34 and then coming back in at 2:21. It is also my observation that the video loops every 47 seconds. What does this missing space mean? I think it is meant to urge us to download the entire video. I can’t think of any other purpose, but would love to hear others’ thoughts.
And then of course there is the needle in the haystack:
The word “EYE” appears for a scant three seconds, fading in at 5:28:35 and fading out at 5:28:38.
Now, the first thing I think of when I see this image is “Eye in the sky.” However, I’ve tried multiple variations of it in the “magic words” field of King Rabbit’s Burrow to no avail. Being that the first clue had to be entered exactly right, this leads me to believe if “EYE in the sky” is the right phrase, it’s just a question of finding the correct way to input it into the field. “EYE in the sky, Eye in the sky, The EYE in the sky, EYE IN THE SKY, etc.”
This, of course, could just be a hint to look for images with eyes that show up in relevant Instagram accounts, too. So if anyone else has any other thoughts or suggestions as to what this clue might mean, please let us know.
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Hey recruits, I merged the two King Rabbit topics because it was a little confusing for (me) other new recruits. Please click “like” on posts that are moving the fragment progress forward and they’ll automatically become part of the summarized post if people click “Summarize This Topic” at the top of the topic. We have an announcement later today about some changes at Basecamp, but it’s probably clear by my sudden presence here that I’m going to focus more on the forum and keeping track of all the information while Eaves heads up the Basecamp blog and Weekly Update. If you have questions please don’t hesitate to reply or private message me.
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