Comments on: 333-333-333 We Present A SPECIAL PRESENTATION 333-333-333

333-333-333 We Present A SPECIAL PRESENTATION 333-333-333

Rev. Syung Myung Me — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:36:09 -0800

333-333-333 YOU WILL SEE SUCH PRETTY THINGS (via) 333-333-333

By: doublesix

doublesix — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:39:57 -0800

l33t.

By: subaruwrx

subaruwrx — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:47:20 -0800

cr33py

By: infinitewindow

infinitewindow — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:47:37 -0800

Beware the Fish.

By: interrobang

interrobang — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:48:24 -0800

Creepy, thanks.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:48:34 -0800

HIRES FILES PLZ. MST XPRMNT W/ HEAD. WOMB. THX.

By: ScotchLynx

ScotchLynx — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:57:37 -0800

If you're going to go through the trouble to hack broadcast television, why not actually put something interesting on?

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:58:03 -0800

It's a mystery wrapped in a riddle shrouded in mystery. I am *so* blogging this.

By: DragonBoy

DragonBoy — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:59:22 -0800

That's not even a proper telephone number.

By: Leather McWhip

Leather McWhip — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:02:10 -0800

If you're going to go through the trouble to hack broadcast television, why not actually put something interesting on? Considering that he interrupted a Dr. Who broadcast, I'm of the opinion that he did.

By: The Straightener

The Straightener — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:03:21 -0800

The original Japanese version was way more scary.

By: denpo

denpo — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:09:34 -0800

speaking of broadcast hijack?
Damn Interesting had an article about this a couple of week ago. The video reminds me the creepy video footage in Kyoshi Kurosawa's Kairo.

By: craniac

craniac — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:11:07 -0800

Are we going to die now?

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:12:07 -0800

Oh great. Now I have seven days to live. Thanks.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:27:11 -0800

Meh. Since we've become so desensitized, The Videodrome Signal will be broadcast during something bland and innocuous like the American Idol finale.

By: nj_subgenius

nj_subgenius — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:32:04 -0800

Samarra! And there isn't even eny Naomi Watts. Pfui!

By: milarepa

milarepa — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:36:03 -0800

Wyoming is sooo weird. Creepiest state by far.

By: Brak

Brak — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:53:47 -0800

From the description of the video:

In this clip, the frequency being played is somewhere between 17 and 19 hz. This range of frequency, when played for long periods of time, causes the eyes to subtly vibrate, sometimes inducing visual hallucinations.

Guess I know what I'll be doing tonight.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:55:44 -0800

From the description of the video: In this clip, the frequency being played is somewhere between 17 and 19 hz. This range of frequency, when played for long periods of time, causes the eyes to subtly vibrate, sometimes inducing visual hallucinations. Guess I know what I'll be doing tonight. posted by Brak Too bad those frequencies don't come through the Google video player. But don't let that stop you from having an enjoyable evening of hallucinations.

By: Heywood Mogroot

Heywood Mogroot — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:00:03 -0800

The Videodrome Signal will be broadcast during something bland and innocuous like the American Idol finale heh, I just watched that last night (netflix is awesome for catching up on all those R-rated classics I couldn't/didn't go to as a youngster). -- spoiler -- Anyhoo, part of the premise was that the violence opened the cortex up for the programming. . . -- spoiler --

By: clevershark

clevershark — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:01:22 -0800

You know, posting the same link 3 times doesn't take away that "single-link WTF post" stigma.

By: Brittanie

Brittanie — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:03:38 -0800

That's what I was thinkin'. And the only other link doesn't give much info.

By: phooky

phooky — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:15:07 -0800

Actually, thanks most of all for the via-- I probably haven't seen The Adventures of Mark Twain in a couple of decades, but that sequence had me absolutely awestruck as a rugrat. Still creepy and beautiful. It's also the film that introduced me to the word "superfluous", for what it's worth.

By: mosk

mosk — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:16:08 -0800

Japanese Seizure Robots, anyone? (the robots start about 1 minute in).

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:20:07 -0800

Long Live the New Flesh

By: ashbury

ashbury — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:38:56 -0800

phooky, that was some seriously weird shit. I've never come across the show, but it looks pretty interesting. I hope it wasn't a kids show! Creepy and beautiful indeed.

By: Western Infidels

Western Infidels — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:50:29 -0800

Burhanistan: Too bad those frequencies [between 17 and 19 hz] don't come through the Google video player.

Those frequencies don't come through the average dinky TV speaker, either. This seems awfully hokey. When was this supposed to have aired?

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:58:04 -0800

Long Live the New Flesh posted by brundlefly Nice backhand!

By: disillusioned

disillusioned — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:00:50 -0800

I cannot find *anything* on Google about this. Max Headroom comes up with a LOT more, and is corroborated. Hrm... Bullshit?

By: OverlappingElvis

OverlappingElvis — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:08:30 -0800

Video of the damned.

By: empath

empath — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:15:50 -0800

What the fuck was that Mark Twain thing about, that was fucking brilliant..

By: metaplectic

metaplectic — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:21:48 -0800

These eyes... they vibrate? No, they do not vibrate at all!

By: empath

empath — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:25:55 -0800

the edited a bit of the actual story: It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream - a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought - a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!"

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:30:26 -0800

that the violence opened the cortex up Leave me out of this or I'll kick your ass.

By: elf_baby

elf_baby — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:37:54 -0800

I don't know if it was a psychosomatic thing, but when the file started, I immediately got a headache. My guess it was the power of suggestion, but it was still kind of an interesting thing... I wonder if the people who claimed to have these reactions were truly reacting to the frequencies or to the idea that perhaps they should be having some kind of reaction to the weirdo stuff on their television.

By: metaplectic

metaplectic — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:40:40 -0800

There is a high-pitched tone throughout the video, but comparison with a tone generator puts it around 8kHz. Note that the frequency of CRT scan noise is already 15.625kHz.

By: infinitewindow

infinitewindow — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:43:46 -0800

17 to 19 hz is a very low pitched tone that most humans cannot hear, metaplectic.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:05:32 -0800

Yeah, see, that's what I'm saying. I sat there and manually relooped that shit for an hour and all I got was a cramp in my finger. I need a better, longer source file. Disgustingly pornographic amounts of cubic inches of speaker excursion and kilowatts of amplifiers pointed at my head would probably help as well, but I already know how to make my eyes go all stupid with that quantity of advanced sound reinforcement technology. And, really, you haven't lived until you've used a small pile of 1200 watt 2x18" bass cabs as the base to your futon. (I especially recommend using an analog bassline synth. Oof.)

By: homunculus

homunculus — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:14:31 -0800

Mark Twain?

By: roboto

roboto — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:05:05 -0800

Captain Midnight HBO 4/26/86 Max Headroom Chicago 11/22/87 [Max Headroom interviewed by David Letterman, Terry Wogan]

By: phylum sinter

phylum sinter — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:16:41 -0800

Binaural beat encoding, creating pulsations in the spatial field [i.e. bouncing left to right] is one way that ultra low frequencies can be sent to the brain. I'm not an expert, but I've had some success with this. Whether or not you could send television in stereo at that time is another matter altogether. For the really curious, i offer bwgen, a program that can allegedly change brainwave patterns.

By: bam

bam — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:32:58 -0800

creepy ladyface.

By: metaplectic

metaplectic — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:03:43 -0800

Oops, I misread Hz as kHz. Anyway, its still bullshit.

By: serazin

serazin — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:31:33 -0800

roboto - did you note in the Captain Midnight link that he used transponder 23 (!!!) to disrupt the HBO signal?

By: roboto

roboto — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:52:58 -0800

23!! Max seems to have noticed as well.

By: elpapacito

elpapacito — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:53:18 -0800

*sneeze* damn viruses *beurk*

By: dozo

dozo — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:11:04 -0800

Link to the Max Headroom incident mentioned in the description for this video. I think I understand why these "hacks" are uncommon...all the precedents are incredibly stupid. Throwing Pepsi cans and "the Brown Note"? What a waste of man hours and creative opportunity.

By: Pastabagel

Pastabagel — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:24:53 -0800

It occurs to me that the Max Headroom pirate broadcast on Nov 22 1987 interrupted an episode of Doctor Who a day before the 24th anniversary of the first Doctor who broadcast in the UK (Nov 23, 1963). Given that WGN was broadcasting the Dr.Who on a weekly basis, that episode was the closest he could get to the anniversary. Was Max Headroom a Doctor Who fan?

By: TheWhiteSkull

TheWhiteSkull — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:17:36 -0800

I personally enjoyed this statement Viewers were dumped back into the pedestrian world of Dr Who

By: MrBobaFett

MrBobaFett — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:40:47 -0800

This sounds sketchy to me. Why would the specs for television audio broadcast allow for bandwidth to transmit audio below 20 Hz (the low threshold of human hearing.) Also how many people have an audio system capable of playing back at a reasonable amplitude a 17-19 Hz signal? No stock TV speaker is going to do that. Nor a standard shelf speaker. You'd need a nice subwoofer and then I would wonder why you don't have it cut of signals lower than 20Hz.

By: Ritchie

Ritchie — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:32:07 -0800

If this were the promo for a new TV series, I would be a dead cert to watch the pilot. Yes, I am easily led.