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  On 4/23/2013 at 5:14 AM, Lucy Faringold said:

what a strange article.

 

I'm fully behind ignoring Amanda Palmer but I don't really need to listen to BoC to do that.

Yeah, thought that.

That three second video has been broken down into stills. It seems as though the stills are from The Little House On The Prairie, Episode 69, Times of Change, aired Sept 19 1977.

That's really cool and cryptic, guys. but how much more of this do we have to wade through?

Just release it. Codes and cryptograms are tiring and were vogue back in the Geogaddi era.

  On 4/23/2013 at 5:21 AM, fumi said:

 

Just release it. Codes and cryptograms are tiring and were vogue back in the Geogaddi era.

I think it's odd that they're doing the hidden codes and messages thing after they themselves complained that people read too much into the stuff they hid in Geogaddi.

Did anyone follow the Death grips ARG a couple of weeks ago?

I mean before that I would have been totally sold on this, but to see how far that one got drawn out when it lead to nothing...

That being said I still love boc and if this is all real all the better. ARGs can be fun. Valve always had some killer ones. I got really into the Portal 2 one.

  On 4/23/2013 at 5:26 AM, Lucy Faringold said:

 

  On 4/23/2013 at 5:21 AM, fumi said:

Just release it. Codes and cryptograms are tiring and were vogue back in the Geogaddi era.

 

I think it's odd that they're doing the hidden codes and messages thing after they themselves complained that people read too much into the stuff they hid in Geogaddi.

Lol. Exactly. That's why I doubted its authenticity. I thought they were beyond that now.

  On 4/23/2013 at 4:59 AM, fumi said:

Hello everyone. This record is also in Japan, I think. If you can, please let me know.

 

Ahhh, thanks.

  On 4/23/2013 at 5:27 AM, rddm said:

Did anyone follow the Death grips ARG a couple of weeks ago?

 

I mean before that I would have been totally sold on this, but to see how far that one got drawn out when it lead to nothing...

 

That being said I still love boc and if this is all real all the better. ARGs can be fun. Valve always had some killer ones. I got really into the Portal 2 one.

It's definitley real.

  On 4/23/2013 at 5:28 AM, fumi said:

 

  On 4/23/2013 at 5:26 AM, Lucy Faringold said:

 

  On 4/23/2013 at 5:21 AM, fumi said:

Just release it. Codes and cryptograms are tiring and were vogue back in the Geogaddi era.

I think it's odd that they're doing the hidden codes and messages thing after they themselves complained that people read too much into the stuff they hid in Geogaddi.

Lol. Exactly. That's why I doubted its authenticity. I thought they were beyond that now.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was the label that insisted on this kind of promotional gubbins and BoC felt like they had to oblige because they'd been ignoring their deadlines for half a decade.

BoC needs to stop String[]ing their args out so fucking much

  On 4/23/2013 at 5:28 AM, fumi said:

 

Lol. Exactly. That's why I doubted its authenticity. I thought they were beyond that now.

 

Warp's marketing dept. arent :-)

I'm down with this. I got my heart broken over redmoon (it really damaged my love for the band, that they could create something that drove the fanbase crazy, and yet not offer any reward or further hints...it was a real missed opportunity). But if this pays off at the end, it will have been fun. As someone else here said, better than just the bland announcement on warp.

edit: lucy beat me to it

  On 4/23/2013 at 5:34 AM, Lucy Faringold said:

 

  On 4/23/2013 at 5:28 AM, fumi said:

 

 

  On 4/23/2013 at 5:26 AM, Lucy Faringold said:

 

  On 4/23/2013 at 5:21 AM, fumi said:

Just release it. Codes and cryptograms are tiring and were vogue back in the Geogaddi era.

I think it's odd that they're doing the hidden codes and messages thing after they themselves complained that people read too much into the stuff they hid in Geogaddi.

Lol. Exactly. That's why I doubted its authenticity. I thought they were beyond that now.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was the label that insisted on this kind of promotional gubbins and BoC felt like they had to oblige because they'd been ignoring their deadlines for half a decade.

Yeah, could be. They really kind of tried to distance themselves from all that stuff, especially in The Wire interview.

Queue the interview in an obscure Portugese magazine where they claim that all the talk of hidden messages is mostly just imaginative fan talk.

Also bring on the hijinx. It's great to have the boys back.

  On 4/23/2013 at 5:47 AM, LOL Alzado said:

Also bring on the hijinx. It's great to have the boys back.

has anyone ever been to the hamilton mausoleum

  On 4/23/2013 at 5:51 AM, setanor said:

has anyone ever been to the hamilton mausoleum

no, why?

When I was ten, Kit Williams was the man.

Anyone from the UK remember the Masqurade Hunt?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/aug/20/kit-williams-golden-hare-masquerade?mobile-redirect=false

"It made for an unlikely national obsession: an 18-carat gold, jewel-encrusted hare buried somewhere in Britain, and the fiendishly complicated clues to its secret location contained in a lavishly illustrated children's story.

Kit Williams sparked the nation's biggest treasure hunt 30 years ago with his book Masquerade, which sold 2m copies worldwide. But the public response was so overwhelming Williams received more than 100 letters a day for two years that the publicity-shy author and illustrator became a virtual recluse.

Today Williams was back in the public eye, reunited with his handmade amulet for the first time in three decades. The makers of a BBC documentary traced the owner of the golden hare to Egypt after an appeal on Radio 4.

"It is wonderful to see it after all these years," said Williams. "It was a very emotional moment. I had not remembered it being as detailed. The bells jingled and it sparkled in a way I had forgotten."

The hare's trail has been a complicated one since it was buried by Williams in Ampthill Park, Bedfordshire, one night in 1979 in a secret ceremony watched by a celebrity witness, Bamber Gascoigne.

Williams's book used 15 detailed paintings to tell the story of Jack Hare, who is charged with carrying a treasure from the moon to the sun. On arriving at the sun he discovers he has lost the treasure, and it is left to the reader to find it.

The riddle was finally solved by two Manchester teachers in 1982, but by then the amulet had been claimed by a searcher who, it emerged, was given the approximate location through a connection with Williams's former girlfriend.

The hare was later bought by a mystery buyer for £31,900 at a Sotheby's auction in 1988. Williams had tried to buy it but was outbid, and it has remained unseen in private hands for more than 20 years.

Williams withdrew his artwork from public display after he grew uncomfortable with the huge public attention generated by the hunt, which at the height of his fame saw him appear on Terry Wogan's BBC1 chatshow.

"I could not take the razzmatazz," he said. "There was pressure on me to do all sorts of things and I just did not want to do that. I felt I lost touch with myself for a little while. I worked on paintings but I never put them on public show."

I'd bet money the Sandisons have a memory of this, too.

  On 4/23/2013 at 6:05 AM, fumi said:

I'd bet money the Sandisons have a memory of this, too.

Ha! The Masqurade Hunt was one of the first things I thought of when I found out about this BoC mystery. I'm not quite old enough to remember it firsthand but I do remember reading about it and seeing some of the pictures in an old book about British idiosyncratic artists - it was one of my favourites when I was growing up.

Morning all!! (its 5.20 am lol)

First time I ever checked watmm before going to work

*yawns*

*drinks tea*

  On 4/23/2013 at 6:31 AM, beerwolf said:

Morning all!! (its 5.20 am lol)

 

First time I ever checked watmm before going to work

 

*yawns*

 

*drinks tea*

MORNING BEERWOLF.

I would like to take this opportunity to apologise to daycrew, on behalf of the nightwatch, for page 31.

  On 4/22/2013 at 5:09 PM, playbynumbers said:

 

  On 4/22/2013 at 4:10 AM, zaphod said:

i think i may have located a way out. there's a back door through the plaid subforum. it opens up once every night for three minutes. if i can get a mimetic subprogram going i can probably create a countermeasure to blank a core command. maybe from a tokyo number. i'll pop out somewhere in empty dataspace, but at least i won't be on the boc subforum anymore. i'll have to unregister from watmm and trash my ono sendai. it's a big risk. i could end up on xltronic. i could end up dead. i don't have a choice.

 

 

 

lol i come on here for the first time in a great while and see a classic zaphod post. i thought we were both done with watmm, dude?

 

 

yet here you are

  On 4/23/2013 at 5:37 AM, lumpenprol said:

if this pays off at the end, it will have been fun. As someone else here said, better than just the bland announcement on warp.

True. I'm actually really enjoying all this, sad as my life is right now. And if it does all turn out to be horseshit we wont't mind that much because we are quite used to all that stuff by now. Everyone's a winner ;-)

  On 4/23/2013 at 6:49 AM, usagi said:

reading this confused the fuck out of me because I forgot what thread I was in. it could've been related to like 4 or 5 threads going on on WATMM right now.

 

ah you must in twoism, i can help you get to watmm. all you need is a golden egg my friend.

Any more news? :-/ The suspense is killing me!

I wonder how many emails Warp have received asking if this is real or not? :D

  On 4/23/2013 at 6:49 AM, usagi said:

 

  On 4/23/2013 at 5:10 AM, fumi said:

 

From the Chicago Reader:

 

"Ignore the Troll, feed the Boards Of Canada Mystery"

 

"For an artist with only a modest-sized fan base, Amanda Palmer has an exceptionally large and passionate group of antifans. It's a diverse group of haters: professionals and amateurs, people who despise her for the disparity between her artists' rights advocacy and her blithe willingness to ask other musicians to donate their time to her profit-making ventures, and ones who simply think that she makes terrible music. One thing that we all have in common is that we're easily trolled.

 

Palmer's exploited that tendency masterfully, which is basically the only reason why anyone who's never self-identified as steampunk even knows who she is. Her latest attention-seeking gambit is a poem about suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev that is one of the worst things ever written, on a number of different levels. Seriously, you shouldn't read it unless you want to get worked up over something stupid, which this poem definitely is. (Not to mention tone-deaf, solipsistic, and badly composed enough to qualify as an insult towards any potential readers.) It's already been written, it's already been read and reacted to, and if anyone else reads it and gets pissed off (which is really the only proper response to the poem), Palmer will have already won.

 

So instead, I suggest you check out what cultishly adored Scottish electronic group Boards of Canada have been up to, which is kicking off a deeply cryptic puzzle that might possibly have something to do with their long-awaited next album and definitely has something to do with a surprise mega-limited-edition Record Store Day exclusive that appears to be full of coded information. It's fun and mysterious and in no way callously exploits a national tragedy in order to feed a pathological hunger for attention that's so insatiable that it doesn't matter what kind of attention it is. Saying no to trolls is good for you, and it's good for America."

reading this confused the fuck out of me because I forgot what thread I was in. it could've been related to like 4 or 5 threads going on on WATMM right now.

Sorry. Yeah, a bit off topic.