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humansoulsarg · 5 years

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Lasagna Solve

In this post: http://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/184191526847/ Pangent links to a new public Signal and Noise video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VewU7AZvIjQ

Towards the end are broken up characters and there is also audio spectrogram content. Both appear to be characters from the Moon System of Embossed Reading.

The broken up characters from the video we’ll get to later, first taking a crack at the spectrogram characters which appear to be digits. So interpret as decimal ASCII:

77 69 68 73 65 100 109 51 114 118 101 57 115 57 104 101 55 57 98 108 MEDIAdm3rve9s9he79bl

77 69 68 73 65 48 114 116 51 106 98 48 105 57 102 49 115 99 115 97 MEDIA0rt3jb0i9f1scsa

So we have two mediafire link IDs. These lead to the following:

birthdaywordcross: http://mediafire.com/?dm3rve9s9he79bl

touchwordcross: http://mediafire.com/?0rt3jb0i9f1scsa

Wowzers! Each of these contain a wordcross puzzle with a grid with numbers and shaded squares, and a matching list of clues which describe words that need to go into the grid, either across or down.

There is a lot to take in here. Huge thanks to player Zomperzon for taking the first cracks at these and doing so much of the heavy lifting. it’s a very impressive set of puzzles, even without knowing the solution, but after you see what all was involved, I think you’ll agree these are highly complex puzzles created by a genius.

We first made progress on the Birthday wordcross, and once answers were in place for all the numbers, the shaded squares were transcribed.

Taking the shaded squares in the order of the numbers we get:

ARMRDITICDRTINLAEIOIETIMIFRHRIRAUARHIGAIDEMNADORCLRAIETAHIAHREAFIICREAARARARMRGRAGIDEMNAHRDERNALFIIAETAIAANARFRIRIASIHGRTROAAIDEM

Which appears to have some backwards ‘MEDIA’ entries in there so let’s reverse it and separate them:

MEDIA AORTRGHISAIRIRFRANAAIATEAIIFLANREDRHAN MEDIG ARGRMRARARAAERCIIFAERHAIHATEIARLCRODAN MEDIA GIHRAUARIRHRFIMITEIOIEALNITRDCITIDRMRA

So we’re looking for mediafire links here, which are 15 characters either lowercase letters or decimal digits. We have 16 different characters here, and 38 characters for each row. If it’s hexadecimal ASCII we would expect 30 characters, so something needs to happen to remove 8 characters from each one.

In the previous Garbage Ape solve, Pangent introduced a 'Letter Frequency Cipher’ for the 10 digits. EATONRISHD so we thought we needed to find the next six letters in that sequence to assign to the final six hexadecimal values.

According to wikipedia:

Herbert S. Zim, in his classic introductory cryptography text “Codes and Secret Writing”, gives the English letter frequency sequence as “ETAON RISHD LFCMU GYPWB VKJXQ Z”

This could be the source of the particular English Letter Frequency code Pangent used, now to work on those extra 8 characters.

Then, it was noticed there appeared to be the word 'GARFIELD’ in each string, in order. So perhaps we need to do a 'minu Garfield’ operation? Interesting twist, Pangent.

However, the Herbert Zim encoding didn’t appear to give valid mediafire links, so something else was needed.

Pangent helped us out with a post around Easter (we took FOREVER to solve this puzzle, sorry intended Birthday recipients, enjoy the Belated Well Wishes) https://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/184341559352

This post was a negative image of a Garfield comic with Garfield removed, and hidden text in one of the panel gutters:

Here we see a sequence: ETAONRISHDFCMUGY - same as our assumption except the 'L’ is missing. Using this cipher, we made progress!

first one: MEDIA AORTRGHISAIRIRFRANAAIATEAIIFLANREDRHAN MEDIA AORTR HIS I IR RANAA AT AIIF ANRE RHAN MEDIA 34626 978 7 76 63533 32 377a 3561 6935 4bixwf5327z5ai5 - bingo! a valid medaifire link! to a file: 0626 birthday greetings.mp4

http://www.mediafire.com/?4bixwf5327z5ai5

A birthday video for Mayor Sassenheim who as we know from way back in the Party Planning Committee days has an at least symbolic birthday on June 26th.

Second one:

MEDIGARGRMRARARAAERHIIFAERHAIHATEIARLCRODAN MEDI ARGRMR ARAAERHII AERHA HAT IAR CRO AN MEDIA 6e6c6 363316977 31693 932 736 b64 35 nlcc1iw1i92skd5 - another match!

http://www.mediafire.com/?nlcc1iw1i92skd5 - 0401 birthday greetings 2.zip

This archive contains two videos, one a birthday video for Leslie (0401 birthday greetings 2.mp4) and a second one (VHS.mp4) which appears to be some clips of a younger Eric displaying his budding acting, writing, directing, and editing skills. (And is that a penguin mask?) Apologies, but I don’t know the background song.

third one: MEDIA GIHRAUARIRHRFIMITEIOIEALNITRDCITIDRMRA MEDIA IHR UA IRHR MIT IOIEA NITR CITIDRMRA MEDIA 796 d3 7696 c72 74713 5726 b72706c63 ym7ilrtq5rkrplc - bingo! 0401 birthday greetings.mp4

http://www.mediafire.com/?ym7ilrtq5rkrplc

This is 0401 birthday greetings.mp4 - another birthday video for Leslie.

Now that we’ve got a bit of a solution method, let’s go back to the broken up letters in the original lasagna video.

Taurtini combined frames to create these composite images, making decoding much easier.

SDALONER ARIRSNTF RAOARAEA RGFIDNTY

YDRLUOAE RYNIGONN HFRNRRAF RNGNOATY

This time the sequence (invert and remove Garfield, then use ETAONRISHDFCMUGY to hex) leads to non-public YouTube videos on the Signal to Noise channel.

YT NDIFGRAEARAOARFTNSRIRARENOLADS YT NDIF R EA AOAR TNSR RAR NO A S YT 507a 6 13 3436 2586 636 54 3 8 Pza3CbXf6T8 http://youtu.be/Pza3CbXf6T8 hex title: 736f6d6e69627573 -> somnibus

Latin for 'dream’ this includes shots of Eric in a room on and off a bed, close up and far away from the camera, possibly in reverse. I hope I don’t dream of this.

YT AONGNRFARRNRFHNNOGINYREAOULRDY YT AON NRF RNR HNNOG NYR AOU R Y YT 345 56a 656 9554e 5f6 34d 6 f 4UjeiUN_cMo http://youtu.be/4UjeiUN_cMo binary title: 01110011 01101001 01100011 01101011 -> sick

Two and a half minutes of Eric coughing, wheezing, dry heaving, and in general living up to the name of the video. Not one I will return to often.

After quite a lull in our timeline, work began again on the second wordcross, and almost all of the answers were found. Enough to suss out the final two characters and find the rest of this Pangent trail’s treasures.

The solution method is the same, take the shaded squares in the order of the clues, reverse the string, remove Garfield, and convert with Pangent’s version of the Letter Frequency cipher to ASCII hex. This time we have four mediafire links.

The string is:

IANDIORLHIIEAIIFISIFITIHADARARMARTGRHAAIDEMRAT?IDINRLDITRIERRIARAERFDIYRIRAIERGOAAIDEMSIDAFITAORDDLIIASEAHAHRURFIIFARAIRIGSIAIDEMTIFIRASDID??ILIADAHIEIAIFRFURRACRSIIGAAIDEM

Reversed:

MEDIA AGIISRCARRUFRFIAIEIHADAILI??DIDSARIFIT MEDIA ISGIRIARAFIIFRURHAHAESAIILDDROATIFADIS MEDIA AOGREIARIRYIDFREARAIRREIRTIDLRNIDI?TAR MEDIA AHRGTRAMRARADAHITIFISIFIIAEIIHLROIDNAI

First one:

MEDIA AGIISRCARRUFRFIAIEIHADAILIEADIDSARIFIT MEDIA A IISRC RU RF AI IHADAI IEADI SARIFIT MEDIA 3 7786b 6d 6a 37 793037 71307 8367a72 37 78 6b 6d 6a 37 79 30 37 71 30 78 36 7a 72 7xkmj7y07q0x6zr http://mediafire.com/?7xkmj7y07q0x6zr poweroffive.mp4 - A version of the Spice Girls’ video intro to the new Channel 5 station. Well, it was new back in the 90’s. This may have been cleaned up a lot by the Pangent crew as it looks pretty snazzy.

Second one:

MEDIA ISGIRIARAFIIFRURHAHAESAIILDDROATIFADIS MEDIA IS IRI A IFRURHAHA SAII DROATIFADIS MEDIA 78 767 3 7a6d69393 8377 064327a3078 xvszmi987pd2z0x http://mediafire.com/?xvszmi987pd2z0x tankgirl.zip - containing sp_tankgirl.mp4 which appears to be an audition clip for Tank Girl featuring Geri Halliwell from the Spice Girls.

also included is wounds.mp4 which appears to show Eric’s arms and face after an encounter with what would be presumed to be an angry cat as he is scratched up.

Third one:

MEDIA AOGREIARIRYIDFREARAIRREIRTIDLRNIDI?TAR MEDIA AO REI IRYID REARA RR IRTID RNI I?TAR MEDIA 34 617 76f70 61363 66 76270 657 7?236 34 61 77 6f 70 61 36 36 67 62 70 65 77 ?2 36 4awopa66gbpew?6 4awopa66gbpewb6 - bingo! http://mediafire.com/?4awopa66gbpewb6

oneofthesegirls.mp4 - an aceppella version of 'one of these girls’ by all five Spice Girls. They sound great.

Fourth one:

MEDIA AHRGTRAMRARADAHITIFISIFIIAAIIHLROIDNAI MEDIA AHR TR M ARADAHITI SIFIIA IIH ROI NAI MEDIA 396 26 c 363039727 87a773 779 647 537 9bl609rxzw7ydu7 http://mediafire.com/?9bl609rxzw7ydu7 touchumentary.zip - An 18 minute documentary featuring early Spice Girls auditions, practices, interviews, and details about the Girls before they were Spices, maybe when they were to be called 'Touch’ before they broke out on their own.

It appears that brings us to the end of this puzzle trail. Tons of Spice Girls content, somewhat timely in our present timelne as the Spice Girls are now launching their reunion tour here in 2019.

Another amazing puzzle from Pangent, I can’t imagine creating these wordcross puzzles, so many moving pieces. It took our crew a while to solve as we don’t really have the numbers for quick work and life can sometimes get in the way.

#video #unlisted video #puzzle #puzzle solution #human souls arg #submission

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makingnewenemies · 5 years

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Hi Hi Hi. Here is a little blurb I wrote off the top of my head about all my friends on this year’s Group Picture Vol. 8. I love them all. I love their songs. And I love that we still keep up this stupid tradition; and somehow the comp keeps getting better and better. Thanks everyone! Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays :) - walt

Sour Guy - All Those Plans Were Wrong

Last summer Kris Schobert (Sour Guy, Walter Etc. / Mitty core member, Ernie…) was admitted to the hospital… and then again… and then again…. I think he spent like a month total in the hospital. It was not chill. But when he got out, the whole experience gave him a bit of clarity and new perspective on his life and the decisions he has made thus far. I won’t speak any further for him, but Kris… hey, nice song! And your quality home recording production and continuation of the WMAHMO slop sound doesn’t not go unnoticed! This song made me tear up in a coffee shop the first time I heard it.

Slaughter Beach, Dog - Big Band

Slaughter Beach, Dog are randomly GP staples by now but also one of my favorite bands and greatest friends. This song is a bit of a sound change for them, swapping mid tempo soft rock John K Sampson vibes for a theatrical late 60’s / 70’s sound that is a bit more light hearted than normal and I LOVE IT. It’s catchy, it makes me laugh, yet its so true. Glad to have these boys back this year.

Teal & Jer - Alphabet

Portland’s dreamiest duo Teal & Jer (Chain, Riled, Loose, lots of projects) bring a quirky alt edge to our otherwise bland and boring comp. Without them, we’d just be us. I personally would like to hear more Teal solo work??? Teal???

Milk Flud - Rodeo

If you don’t fuck with Milk Flud then you can get out.

Chase Hoyt - Health

Chase Hoyt (Ubu Roi, Feed, Chaz and the Minions of Chaz, The Rodeo…) is a GP fixture by now, and important asset to MNE because it’s his classic rock sensibilities that balance out the overload of folk / indie rock that we swim in. This song not only has a comically true message (health is the most important, i agree Chase) but the vibe, especially the chorus, has my head bobbing and me feeling like I’m on a grassy hillside at an outdoor concert in the 70’s, but also one glass of wine deep making homemade pizzas at an Air BNB with a girl I love, and that is a nice combo of feelings. “Let’s wrap it up / I’ve embarrassed us all enough”

Dry Goods - Learnt Nothing

You hear that flawless acoustic finger picking? That masculine story telling voice that sounds somewhere between a suburban Bob Dylan and a cowboy singing to the emptiness of the high desert? Yup, its Russell Park AKA Dry Goods and FKA Weston Bookhouse coming at us with another folk masterpiece, but this year adding in some new elements we aren’t quite used to- namely some cruisey guitar solos! Rumor has it Dry Goods is in the studio recording a new album right now and I would not be bummed out if this song were on it.

Byronius Punk - Beautiful Things

I just spent 3 weeks with Byronius Punk (Ian Farmer of Slaugher Beach, Dog / Modern Baseball) at his studio The Metal Shop in Philadelphia making a record with his beautiful mind and his new drum machine- so this song really hits home for me. I could write an essay on why this is the perfect Group Picture song- my three main points being - 1. It is a song about the act of creating. (“in everything that exists there lies a certain beauty / I want the world to know how much it all means to me”) which is exactly what Group Picture aims to celebrate. 2. It’s a song written and performed by someone who is usually more in the background of his bands (bassist / backup vox / recording engineer) but here has a platform to express his own individual style and skills, which is exactly what Group Picture wants to promote. 3. It has a Milk Flud name drop, which is a classic and classy GP / MNE move. Thank you Ian. You rule.

Dante Elephante - It Bothers Me

Dante Elephante are Santa Barbara legends and their new album “Rare Attractions” shows them evolving their sound into more loungey and ethereal territory. I am so glad they have joined GP this year, because I see singer / songwriter Ruben almost every weekend when he DJ’s at The Tavern in Ventura and I drunkenly annoy him / vaguely fan boy out on him. Dante being on Group Picture is a sign that our friendship extends beyond Saturday nights at the Tavern. Also their album vibes hard. Check out Rare Attractions on Spotify.

Peanut Butter Cups - Highest Quality

Petition for Aaron Kovacs (Peanut Butter cups, Lauren Records CEO, Winter Break and Summer Vacation drummer) to finally put out a full album? This catchy lo-fi pop rock is undeniably infectious. Fun fact: I’ve been hanging with this boy for almost 10 years and I’ve never heard him sing, but then he sends me these recordings and I’m like wtf your voice is so cool! If he makes a full album, MNE will put out the LP and still give him 100% of the digital income. That is how much I like Aaron’s style.

Anika Pyle - Young Love

I once wrote a song with the lyric “I’ll probably see her on tour but she won’t be on Group Picture this year.” I’m so glad I was wrong. Welcome to GP Anika Pyle! Anika (Katie Ellen, Chumped) plays raw emotional pop rock songs and this gem “Young Love” is just the tip of the iceberg. When her vocals max out at the end of the tune and you get a little bit of musical goosebumps, that is the feeling you get for a full 30 minutes of watching her play live. Anika, please come in and stay for a while!

Walter Etc. - This Would Only Happen to Me

Ok ok enough of the soft emotional bullshit. Here’s a song about someone coming to kill me! It’s 100% true. If you’re reading this, help!!!

Jake Lee - Good Run

Jake Lee (Bleeding Gums Murphy) strikes again with a lo-fi indie gem in which we hear Jake Lee reflect on his gaime from last year. Sounds like he made some interesting choices and is coming to terms with them? Or did I miss the mark, Jake? He is and always will be one of my favorite songwriters and his voice in this fuzz effect is not a bad look, I have to admit. The only way my life would be better is if Jake made a full album. Cheers homie.

Babytooth - State Quarters, OR

Technically, this is Babytooth’s official debut on Group Picture, but Portland, OR singer / songwriter Isabel Zacharias had a song on the comp last year that blew me away. It was her vocals and lyrics that hooked me then, and are still yanking me now. Now backed by a full band that gives dynamic range to her songs, it was still that first line “now you know you want a girl without a phone” that had me nodding “yup i love this”. Fingers crossed for Babytooth to become a GP staple.

Trashbike - Weasel

Trashbike is Bread (Blowout, Walter etc., Donkey Lips) and his homie Ru playing the pedals. He told me he wrote this song while stumbling home from the Bye and Bye. Bread is like a sexy emo prince, can’t you hear it? This song rules and I really hope Trashbike is more than just a one and done GP band. I would listen to a few albums of soft songs like this, wouldn’t you?

Banned From Japan - Vegan X

Welcome back to the Socal Valley punk rockers Banned From Japan! If you know that singer / songwriter Matthew Earle has been sober for a few years, this song is hilarious, simultaneously poking fun at vegan straight-edge and himself. The music rips and his vocals are catchy af. Fat Wrecks Chords come and sign Banned From Japan asap!

Walter X - Winter Shy

Ok. This is a bit meta. Walter X (Michael Mahaffie and his WMAHMO / Walter Etc. hardcore chip tune cover project) covers an old Walter GP song as his own GP song. Pretty niche MNE content! This song, in this Lifetime-esque style, his vocals so clear but so gruff, those guitar harmonies, the creative intro and chip-tuney bridge…. this literally gives me chills and is so much better than the original. I encourage anyone reading this to go check out his own original music under the name Jump Cut. It sounds just like this but with Michael’s own songs, shedding the limitations of the musical simpleton Walter songs. Also, check out the full Walter X album on Spotify! What a talented dude…

Curling - Genkai Trip

Curling released their MNE album “Definitely Band” this year and the musical arrangements / song structures absolutely floored me. Genkai Trip is a song that got left off the album, but lives on through GP! Singer / guitarist Bernie Gelman noted “There's some pretty wacky guitar overdubs where Jojo and I each doubled some guitar parts while the other person was playing with the trem on the guitar, so you get this really weird detuning effect.” and yup that is Curling in a nutshell for you. Always excited to play around with gear and recording techniques that are way beyond my level. I think this is an extremely underrated band and highly encourage the world to check out Definitely Band on spotify!

Ali Muhareb - DIY Hell

Ali? What the hell did you even make this song? It’s intriguing in the verses and then when the chorus busts out it sounds like if Dough Martsch were an up and coming artist in Portland in 2018. I actually had to text Ali to ask what these guitar sounds were and, if anyone is interested, he responded, “I compressed two guitars together through a virtual amp. And they’re both running through this sick pedal I got called the Data Corrupter.” For sure Ali! Thanks for a bad ass tune.

Dakota Loesch - Don’t Solve My Mysteries

I’ve been listening to a lot of Dakota’s music (solo, Animal City, Lemp Lungs) recently. I keep coming back to it, and its not a mystery. After hundreds of songs in his pocket, songs like “Don’t Solve My Mysteries” still sound musically and lyrically fresh, like Dakota has never had writer’s block in his life. When I listen to his music, I feel like it vicariously breaks down my own creative barriers. For instance when I first heard this song and he dropped the hook “just don’t solve all mysterious” I had that knee-jerk urge to ditch what I was doing and go write a poem or something. His will to create is just that contagious. Combine that with the Casio-keyboard bedroom drum machine vibe that I love so much about his songs like “The Basmati Rice” and you have a 10/10 GP banger.

Jerbear - Nowhere Girl

Jerbear is Jeremy Murphy (Teal & Jer, Riled, so many) and he is the king of a few things: weird bad guitar tones, asymmetrical organic song structures, rad lyrics that I never understand, and a voice that is universally loved. He stole my heart with Cranberries in the Cosmos on a previous GP, but I think Nowhere Girl takes the cake. Jer- when do we get the full solo album? Please don’t fall into the category of GP lost wonders. You’re not too shabby at this music thing!

Hemingway - Catch My Cool

Catch My Cool is a B-side from Hemingway’s You Will Never Be Happy.

I played drums in Hemingway at this time and I always vibed that Benny didn’t really like the way this song came out int he studio. I don’t get why? That vocal melody, soft sad and surfy guitar leads… it makes me wanna hold hands with a girl on Christmas Eve while walking down some bougie street looking at Christmas Lights. It sounds like a Starflyer 59 worship track and I love it for that. Benny, you made a mistake. This song should have made the album.

Alex Maddox - The Hypocrit’s Dilemma

I’ve heard Alex play this song when we get together to jam, and he always laughs it off as a Walter Mitty rip off song. But honestly, this is what I wish WMAHMO would write about if we made a folk punk record today. If you listen to this song knowing that Alex Maddox was a guy who quit his high paying job to travel Europe in his van, surfing and skating and working on farms, the lyrics to this song are way more wanna-be Walter Mitty. The song depicts a transformation in his paradigm and is completely raw, authentic, and sincere. Alex inspires me to chase a wholesome life that is designed for and by myself, rather than the obvious and sterile template that is provided for us, and this song exemplifies that 1000%.

Uncle Uncle - Nira (I’m Alive)

We played with Uncle Uncle last year in Santa Barbara and I honestly think we should have opened for them. They are actually a good band, both live and recorded. Stylish, friendly, and comically laid back- they might be the quintessential Santa Barbara band. A semi-new band, Uncle Uncle is gaining momentum quickly, and I won’t be surprised when the day comes that Kevin and Dom big time me on State st. Til then, I’m just glad I get to claim that they were on a Group Picture.

Humphrey Orlando - Set U Free

Ah, Humphrey. No, Humphrey accompanied by Toast. Two legends as old as MNE itself. What is there to say? I could listen to their wandering ballads til I fall into the Big Sleep, and still the melodies linger on…

#group picture #group picture volume 8 #making new enemies

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