LA Times: Web Surfer's Guide To Fringe

The L.A. Times has a great web-surfer's guide to Fringe. The article mentions official viral sites like MassiveDynamic.com and ImagineTheImpossibilities.com, semi-official sites like J.R. Orci's Blog and GlowingMonkeys.com, and important fan sites like Fringepedia.net, and of course FringeTelevision.com :), which they describe as:

It's where I go to find out most of what I missed, plus it has great links...

Thanks Andrew!

Click here to read the full article

'Fringe': Web-surfing for 'Fringe'-fanatics
By Andrew Hanson

"Fringe" might have taken a break with an encore presentation of "The Ghost Network," but there's no rest for fanatical Fringehead or devoted Show Trackers. As 'Fringe' reshows a few of its greatest hits over the next few weeks, there are plenty of places online to fill that all-consuming need for new facts and information on the Pattern.

Apply for an internship at Massive Dynamics: "Fringe" exists beyond your 46-inch LCD screen. There's a whole ARG (alternate gaming reality) growing on the Internet. Your best jumping-off points into this other world are the Massive Dynamics official site and ImagineTheImpossibilities. If you're the type that always needed the hint book for that extra edge when it came to puzzles, though, you might need to check out the next site.

War over edits to Astrid's page: Have an hour or six to waste? You might want to dig into Fringepedia. Take a dip in the pool of collective knowledge. Help figure out what the images that lead into or out of each commercial break denote. Meticulously catalog every narcotic Walter professes to take. Or just spell-check every instance of "Fibonacci Sequence." It's fun for everyone. And if a wiki doesn't give you enough opportunity to get into arguments with your fellow posters, you can always take your social issues over to the Fringe Forums.

Delve into your own fringe science: Glowing Monkeys. I'm not sure what this has to do with the show, but it's mentioned on several other "Fringe"-related sites. Plus it's just full of crazy science. Isn't that enough?

Track down any Observers you've missed: The encore episodes make for the perfect time to brush up on your baldy spotting skills, but if you want to go back and check where your keen eyes have failed you, check out this compilation. The Fringe Television site is a great location for tracking all the scavenger hunts going on throughout the series, whether you're looking for Observer spottings, next episode clues, Massive Dynamic posters or whatever. It's where I go to find out most of what I missed, plus it has great links like our last one.

Step into the mind of a writer/supervising producer: Want to see what the powers that be over a "Fringe" see? Pop on over to J.R. Orci's Flickr page. Not only do you get fun facts, like the existence of the Neoclinus Blanchardi or Sarcastic Fringehead, but you also can check out some cool behind-the-scenes peeks at meetings and late-night writing sessions and, of course, the occasional pic of the Hustler store.

Well, those should keep you busy until "Fringe" returns or at least until the holiday slump at your office passes and you have to get back to at least pretending to work. Looks like next week's encore is "The Arrival." Grab a buddy who's never seen the show and relive the exposure of the Observer. Should get him or her hooked. It's the episode that did it for me.

Fringe Pattern: Case 0091 - Evidence 0007

The FRINGE viral website PHI (also the Imagine The Impossibilities site) has been updated with a new piece of evidence.

Case 0091 - Evidence 0007, dated 8-25-08 12:03 PM, is an image of braille letters, which translates to PARKERSBURG. Parkersburg is a town in Iowa (see map), most notably known for a F5 tornado that stuck there on May 25, 2008.

UPDATE: If you click the dot which I highlighted in red, it will take you to the "weather" page, where you can download two actual Parkersburg tornado videos, titled "Bank" and "House".

BTW, the videos are hosted on WeatherMatrix.net, a large online weather community, which means these are actual videos from the Parkersburg tornado.

Fringe Pattern: Case 0091 - Evidence 0005

The missing Case 0091 - Evidence 0005 from FRINGE viral website PHI (also the Imagine The Impossibilities site) has been found.

The image appears to be DNA analysis taken from the sheep seen in Evidence 0002 video. The samples are all named after the Iowa towns - Caroll, Vinton, Cresco, Estherville.

This appears to be what was shred in the Evidence 0006 video, which could explain why the link was removed from the site. I'm not sure what to make of the actual DNA evidence, other than they all do not appear to be the same.

Fringe Pattern: Case 0091 - Evidence 0006

The FRINGE viral website PHI (also the Imagine The Impossibilities site) has been updated with a new piece of evidence.

Case 0091 - Evidence 0006 is a security video of someone breaking into what looks like a lab, and shredding a piece of evidence. The person's face can not be seen, but a Golden Spiral can been seen on the white board, and a gun can be seen in one of the drawers. Case 0091 - Evidence 0005 is skipped over for some reason.

* Thanks to Steve C. for the email!

Fringe Pattern: Case 0091 - Evidence 0004

The FRINGE viral website PHI (also ImagineTheImpossibilities.com) has been updated with a new piece of evidence.

Case 0091 - Evidence 0004 is an interview with one of the farmers whose flock sheep was affected by "The Pattern", which was shown in the previous evidence video.

Here is a transcript of the video:

Interviewer: Tell me about this picture of your sheep.

Farmer: Well, I’m not sure really, the sheep were going about there business, then I heard an earthquake or something underground.

Interviewer: And then what did you see?

Farmer: I’m not sure. The sheep didn’t make a sound, so I looked out of the kitchen window and saw them walking around in a circle... a perfect circle... like something was... controlling them. I've never seen anything like it.

[unintelligible voice]

UPDATE: Here is the audio of the strange voice at the end. I tried reversing the audio, but that didn't help. It really sounds like it is possibly a different language...?

Fringe Pattern: Case 0091 - Evidence 0003

A new piece of evidence for Case 0091 of The Pattern has been added to the PHI website - 1.61803398874989484820458683436563811.com (also at ImagineTheImpossibilities.com)

Evidence 0003 dated 8/4/08 10:41am, is crude map of coordinates from Evidence 0001 which plot out four cities in Iowa - Estherville, Cresco, Carrol, and Vinton.

Also listed is the formula: a+b/a = a/b which is called the Golden Ratio (also know as PHI.)

a is listed as the distance between Estherville and Cresco - approximately 150 miles
b is listed as the distance between Estherville and Carroll - approximately 100 miles

The equation does not quite work with these numbers, but it is close.

I'm not sure what to make of this new evidence, but I'll tell you one thing right now - I am not going to Iowa.

Imagine The Impossibilities: Case 0091

The official FRINGE website - Fox.com/fringe - added a new Horn glyph.
Clicking the glyph takes you to the ImagineTheImpossibilities.com website, where the content of the site has been replaced.


The first screen, is a list of coordinates (all in Iowa), and the text CASE_0091: EVIDENCE_0001 0711P 170708 NEXT


Clicking next takes you to "CASE_0091: EVIDENCE_0002 1200P 250708" which plays a video describing an incident of "The Pattern" where 11 groups of sheep in Iowa are lining up in giant circles. I checked the video frame-by-frame, and I don't see any hidden, apart from the usual mathematical formulas.

Imagine The Impossibilities: Seahorse Glyph

A seahorse had been added as the seventh Fringe "glyph" on the ImagineTheImpossibilities.com (aka Find The Pattern) website. Hovering your mouse over the seahorse outlines a Fibonacci Spiral pattern and reveals the chemical compounds for the amino acids Histidine and Hydroxyproline.

Clicking on the seahorse displays a paragraph of braille. A few of the words are already translated for you, but you can read the full translation below.

Click to reveal the translation...

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
HAVE ADVANCED FAR BEYOND
OUR ABILITY TO CONTROL
THEM. THE ABILITY TO
GENERATE LIFE HAS TAKEN
A NEW COURSE.

Fringe's Imagine The Impossibilities Site Updated

A butterfly (or moth) has been added as a sixth element on the ImageTheImpossibilities.com (aka Find The Pattern) website for Fringe. The highlighting triggered by hovering your mouse over the butterfly appears to outline the bone structure of five-fingered hands, two per wing. Clicking on the butterfly cycles through the Fringe radio ads which ask listeners to find the pattern.



The butterfly has also been added to FOX's official site for Fringe, http://www.fox.com/fringe/.

Fringe Ads: Imagine The Impossibilities

Mysterious flash ads for Fringe have begun appearing online. According to The Hollywood Reporter:

[The ads are] placed on Web sites outside of the usual entertainment hubs to catch viewers attention in unique locations. Users on such sites as Automobile.com and recipe site FamilyOven.com will see mysterious ads encouraging them to "Imagine the Impossibilities."

"They will be very quick sort of messages, leading people to nondescript Web sites that will ultimately lead them back to 'Fringe,' " [Laurel] Bernard (senior vp marketing at Fox) said.

The ads don't specifically mention Fringe, but they do take you the ImagineTheImpossiblities.com website.

One very interesting tidbit about the ads...

The film strips that drop down have printing on the bottom; some sort of date, and the words "Drs Bell & Bishop" - most likely referring to Dr. Walter Bishop, the institutionalized father of Peter Bishop, and Dr. William Bell, the founder of Massive Dynamics.

Fringe: Expand Your Consciousness

When you select the leaf image (braille #5) on either the Fox.com/Fringe or ImagineTheImpossibilities.com sites, a weird sound is played. By isolating the sound, and playing it backwards, a hidden message is revealed - Expand Your Consciousness!

Thanks to Pwn Master Paladin for noticing the strange sound.

You can hear the original and reversed sound below.

Original (Download MP3):


Reversed (Download MP3):

Fringe: Imagine the Impossibilities

A new official website for Fringe is online. I found it as a sponsored link during Google a search for Fringe:

Google Sponsored Links

What is The Fringe?
Are you a part of “The Pattern?”
Find Out Now!
www.ImageTheImpossibilities.com

As for the site's contents, it would appear to be the same as http://www.fox.com/fringe/, so nothing new there, yet. One positive to note, from my end at least, is the flash seems to load faster on the new site. We'll keep watch.