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• July 13, 2007
• 23:08

  1-18-08.com Open Thread

   » ‎ We'll Miss You Rob

  There’s now a live page for the 1-18-08.com site. I’ll try to update with new photos when they appear.

  Feel free to comment until your fingers fall off!

• 17:32

  And Then There Were Three…

   » ‎ We'll Miss You Rob

  Another player has joined the hunt.

  The Slusho Wiki  is also gathering information. It looks like a good resource as well.

• 17:24

  Ken Tarallo speaks up on his official forums.

   » ‎ Project Cloverfield

  Thanks to HetMasteen from the Unfiction Forums for finding this and letting us know in the #slusho IRC channel (server: irc.chat-solutions.org:667). He was approved for his membership at the Tarallo forums and found this little bit posted in one of the threads there:

  First post: July 8th.
  user clownnation: I just saw the “cloverfield” teaser when i went and saw Transformers. All I can say Ken, is WHOA! Its amazing how that teaser hooked me and I have no idea what the movie is about, who ever put that teaser together is brilliant! There is a HUGE internet buzz about it now!

  user fxdude (Ken):Yes it will be interesting.. did you see the Statue Of Liberty head fly down the street?, we shot all that at Paramounts backlot, New York Street, most people think we are shooting it with a handy cam, but NO we are using the state of the art DVD Panavision camera. Also the press is stating that it is shooting now in New York… WRONG AGAIN media people ..

  user doghead76: hehe…they thought statue of liberty…that’s New York. isn’t it fun though, when you can keep on fooling people that way? I mean…that’s just another shade of movie magic, don’t you think?

  user clownnation: Yes I did see the Statue of Liberty’s head. That wasnt CG? It really does look like a handy cam, GREAT EFFECTS! I usually dont like trailers these days, they give away the entire movie, but this trailer told me very little and hooked me right in!

  user fxdude (Ken): Some of it was CG the rest mechanical, as the head hits the ground we yanked the cars out of the way shook the buildings, broke the glass, created sparks, anything the CG item hits we have to destroy. a lot of work.. “Godzilla meets Escape from New York”

• 16:24

  Article Link List 1

   » ‎ Project Cloverfield

  Cloverfield Comment That Had Me Intrigued - Is it me or did that sepuence look and sound very similar to the sequence when the tripods rise from under the street in War Of The Worlds?
  

  Official Drink of ‘Cloverfield’ Viral Marketing Campaign - If I learned one thing from playing Nintendo games in the ’80s and early ’90s is that the adventure is more fun than the end of the game. I’d play hours upon hours to win countless games that just end with a lousy ‘congratulations’…
  

  Jinkies! It’s a Mystery! - Thanks to a posting by TV’s Franklin (LJ’s own Gradma Helsing) I’m in danger of falling tits-deep into speculation and buzz over this “Cloverfield” movie (a.k.a. “1/18/08″, “The Untitled J.J. Abrams Project”).
  

  JJ Abrams Is The New Yoda - Unless you’re a nerd, you may not know about the fervor being created around an unnamed J.J. Abrams movie that has been referred to as “Cloverfield.” All that’s really known about the film is…
  

  Bournes Movie Marketing - With the net being alive with Cloverfield rumors, puzzles and links, it seems to have given studios and fans new ideas on how to market a film. The latest for The Bourne Ultimatum

• 12:54

  There is…Another

   » ‎ We'll Miss You Rob

  They say that there are only two true 1-18-08-related blogs that can exist at any given time. One is the Master and one the Student.

  And since My efforts here are new and I’m working solo at this point, I must point to Project Cloverfield as the Master. So far they’re a two-person shop and are looking for more help. They have some rather interesting posts and are into the sort of light speulation that’s fun, but doesn’t get bogged down in the  “I’m holed up in my basement, scrunched over a drafting table full of clues, illuminated only by a 15-watt light bulb hanging from an extension cord” crazy talk.

   Go check them out, let them know where you came frome. Maybe between our two blogs we may rule the galaxy find the clues and solve the mysteries.

• 9:30

  Exit To Mystery Street

   » ‎ Cloverfield News

  

  I completely forgot about this little tid bit until someone just commented about it, so thanks again for all the comments.

  So anyways, there is a sticker on the fridge in the trailer, it’s hard to make out in the normal versions, but in the hi-def version its pretty easily read. It is a bumper sticker that says “Exit to mystery st” and according to someone over at the 1-18-08 live journal discussion, the sign is from a Jazz Fest that took place in New Orleans this year. And also if you head on over to www.exittomysterystreet.com you are redirected to www.humidbeings.com and the whois log shows they are located in New Orleans. Now obviously if the sticker is from the Jazz Fest in New Orleans, whatever website that uses the mystery domain should be located in New Orleans, so I really don’t find anything special about it and after digging around the humid beings site, I don’t really think it has anything to do with the movie, but check it out see if I missed something. I did notice that they do use the same analytics found on the official site and slusho, but it’s googles analytics, it’s pretty common so we can’t go based on just that.

  Here is the picture from the Jazz Fest

  

• 9:13

  Interesting Info Regarding Domain Registrants

   » ‎ Cloverfield News

  I know other sites have posted this but I just now found it kind of interesting for some reason, plus I like giving you guys stuff to read on a boring day at work on Friday. So just looking at the “whois” for the domains we know I came up with the following after the jump. It got kinda long so i didn’t want to take up space on the main page, but click the more link for some interesting stuff.

• 3:58

  Fake Cloverfield Websites Exposed: ABZ3293.com and ParasiteMovie.com

   » ‎ /Film

  

  
  It started with this whole Ethan Haas fiasco. It seems like a new website appears everyday claiming to be the next official Cloverfield viral website. The problem is 99% of the websites are obvious fakes, yet the internet chatter continues to consider them legit. We’re getting sick of all the false information still floating around, so we’ve decided to make it our mission to expose the more widespread fakes. Here is a round up of sites that are NOT connected to Cloverfield’s viral marketing plan:

  

  ABZ3293.com: If you go frame by frame through the 1080p version of the Cloverfield trailer, right before the Statue of Liberty head incident, you might notice a black SUV with a license plate that reads ABZ 3293. See the photo at the top of this posting. The website features the following posting:

  “I am in need of the driver of an SUV - New York Plate ABZ 3293
  He has an item, that is considered a family heirloom.
  If you know who this person is, or where I could find him please leave a comment.”

  The post has over 207 comments at the time of this posting, so obviously people think this website is connected to the movie, but it isn’t. On the top right corner of the website’s design, you will find a bunch of links. The site claims that the linked websites linked to the ABZ website, but that isn’t true. The top link in this section and in the blog roll is to a 21 year old German student/ freelance web designer. My guess is that he could be the one responsible for this site. The other links appear to be obvious advertisements. Why would Paramount link a swing sets depot? Whomever set up this page is probably trying to raise the pagerank of these pages in Google. The domain name was also registered on July 10th 2007. Don’t you think that Paramount probably would have registered and created the websites that will be used in this viral web game before the trailer was released theatrically on July 2nd?

  

  ParasiteMovie.com: Aside from the sad looking logo, badly cropped eyes from the Bad Robot logo and the countdown till the next Evan Haas message (which should be proof enough that the site is not legit), ParasiteMovie.com features a link to some free game website. If Paramount were running this website, they would not be trying to promote some lame badly designed online game website. It’s an obvious ploy to drive traffic to the game website. This site was also registered following the worldwide release of the movie trailer, on July 7th 2007.

  Remember, as of right now, the only official Cloverfield websites are 1-18-08.com and Slusho.jp.