I wish I could attach a title to this post since the clips I’m about to link you to are obviously promotional clips for something but the problem is, I don’t know what it is. Yet. In the past, I’ve tossed my hat into the ring in this or that alternate reality game (ARG) but I find that the pace moves too quickly for me and between the times when I’m sleeping, eating, working, doing stuff in real life, I have to spend twice as long to get caught up. So I don’t bother anymore, but I’m fascinated by the ARG culture. As a matter of fact, I already contributed to the comments at Bloody Disgusting where most people are just trying to covince the others that the kill videos aren’t real.
Well, no kidding.
In spite of your suspension of disbelief, being part of even the most convincing ARG is always interrupted by the occasional reminder that what you’re investigating isn’t real. But these are kind of cool, particularly the video labeled Carolina. That one is a riot.
So here’s the trailhead. Run wild on this and if you can figure it out, let me know where this is going. Someone at Bloody D suspects that it’s promo for The Poughkeepsie Tapes.
Go to http://www.holytaco.com/2008/06/05/link-time-45/ and at the bottom of the list of links, you will see the statement “Sad news, just got word that Brooke Marks, the taco belle this week passed away yesterday.”
Then go check out who this Brooke Marks girl is:
http://www.holytaco.com/2008/06/04/brooke-marks/And if you click on the link “video blog on Break.com” you will get to her video entitled “Brooke Marks Speaks Out!” A reply to the top comment “I think im in love” is from a user named “IntellTinkerer” who says “STAY AWAY: or this will happen to u IP ADDRESS 72.167.205.77”.
Go to that IP ADDRESS.
I have some experience with servers and few are set up to just allow folder browsing so what you’re actually looking at is an image map. If anyone knows what this is, please let me know.
