Perplex City Video

Theories

• The audio overdub may be the results of the social study by Sarah Covington mentioned in Errorlog 5957496696.cache. The title "Subject: Civilisation and Late Stage Urbanisation, A Phase 2 Consumer Transition" sounds like it would fit this overdub.

• The video was shot in Shinjuku, a Tokyo entertainment district. The pictures in the images section are proof of that theory: (the right parts are from the video), Comparison 1 and Comparison 2

Content

• Original 2-16-05 video available here
• Flashes of dates and names of US newspapers:

1) 17th February : USA Today
2) 22nd February : New York Sun
3) 23rd February : The Times, London
4) BLANK
5) BLANK
6) 8th March : LA Times
7) BLANK
8) BLANK
9) BLANK
10) BLANK
11) 21st March : The Guardian

• Voiceover to the video is transcribed as:

"There is a theme that has risen again and again in our studies across all relevant disciplines. The similarities between our peoples are truly profound and consequently serve to make the differences all the more shocking. It is as though our modern-day societies took our collective cultural experiences - all of our shared histories - and learned from it completely different lessons. One could expect, then, a feeling of alienation from the subjects of our studies. This is not so. Our researchers have, instead, come to identify very strongly with their counterparts on the other side of the current. The rhythm we occupy seems to be a long period of comfortable familiarity, with a counterpoint of sudden, and often sharp, culture shock."

• The newspapers named have classified ads mentioning The Cube.
  • 17/02/05 USA Today Advert was:
    LOST. The Cube. Reward Offered.
    not only an object of great
    significance to the city but also a
    technological wonder
    www.perplexcity.com

• UPDATED 19.02.04 - Video now has extra papers in the blank spaces:

• New Video available here

1) 17th February : USA Today
2) 22nd February : New York Sun
3) 23rd February : The Times, London
4) 28th February : Sydney Daily Telegraph
5) BLANK
6) 5th March : Toronto Globe and Mail
7) 8th March : LA Times
8) BLANK
9) BLANK
10) BLANK
11) 21st March : The Guardian

• The NY Sun advertisement actually ran on the 23rd, and read:
  LOST. THE CUBE
  REWARD OFFERED. Able to trace it without any
  difficulty, wherever it may be. The Cube is
  www.perplexity.com

• The London Times advertisement read:
  LOST The Cube. Reward Offered.
  confirmed the thieves reprogrammed
  portions of the Academy's security
  systems, disabling three different
  www.perplexcity.com

Puzzles

• What is the audio voiceover explaining?
• Is there anything hidden in the video? Why is it in Japan?
• Why the intentional blanks?

Images

Lost Cube

Video Comparison 1

Video Comparison 2

Video Comparison 3