A full set 152

We have been sent the photograph below from an anonymous contributor who has a full set of posters. Not only a full set but it appears from the signatures and numbering that these are the mythical (well not anymore) artist proof copies.

The Favourite Poster is.....

641 votes were cast from people in at least 26 countries, and the top five are :-

	1st Eric Tan for The Crash
	2nd Olly Moss for Locke's Secret
	3rd Daniel Danger for Jacob's Cabin
	4th Tyler Stout for Lost
	5th Kevin Tong for The Hatch

The full breakdown is -

The list of countries that voted :

Picture This

Crash, Bang, Wallop what a picture - Thorsten has excelled and produced a fantastic poster of everyone that sent a photo in.


A huge thanks to Thorsten for creating this for us.

Announcement - Photographs Needed

In the comments yesterday RobPerrin sparked an idea that we create a poster of our own to celebrate the fans of the art project.

Thorsten has kindly said that he will create the poster, however we need your photographs to make it happen. Send a photograph of yourself (headshot is preferred) either next to one of your posters or at a reveal event or with something else relevant to the art project.

Email your photographs to thorstenwulff@gmail.com with the subject lostarg. Pictures need to be sent before the end of Sunday.

Washington Post - Paul Scheer Interview 275

The chat with Jen, Liz and Paul is now over, see the transcript here, lots of intersting questions submitted and answered. including this answer -


There was also this question which was submitted by Amy Lynn, and I think the answer clears up a few things about the 16th reveal.


Paul also gave this answer to a question, for the relevant post which includes a still of the piece of paper click here


Finally a very intriguing couple of answers for us all to get our thinking caps on for -



Click here or above to see the full transcript of the interview.

While We Wait 123

The sequence above shows the frames as they were updated on the main DamonCarltonandaPolarBear.com page.

If you need something to read, have a look at the great article that Lottery Ticket created for the sl-Lost blog.

Also one person that went to the 44th Ward Dinner Party wants to try and trade some napkins for other Lost stuff. Email "Caleb_stead (at) yahoo (dot) com" for more details.

Announcement - Contest to win Jacob's Cabin

A philanthropic Lost fan has contacted us to say that he will shortly be offering all Lost fans a chance to win the Daniel Danger print, Jacob's Cabin.

Head on over to The RamHatter Blog
for more details.

The Seven Stages of Poster Loss 133

SHOCK & DENIAL	You will probably react to not getting a poster with numbed disbelief. You may deny the reality of the loss at some level, in order to avoid the pain. Shock provides emotional protection from being overwhelmed all at once. This may last for at least a week.
PAIN & GUILT	As the shock wears off, it is replaced with the pain of knowing that eBay may be your only option. It is important that you experience the pain fully, and not hide it, avoid it or escape from it with alcohol or drugs. You may have guilty feelings or remorse over things you did or didn't do to try and purchase a poster. Life feels chaotic and scary during this phase.
ANGER & BARGAINING	Frustration gives way to anger, and you may lash out and lay unwarranted blame at Tyson. Try to control this, as permanent damage to your relationship with Tyson may result. This is a time for the release of bottled up emotion. You may rail against fate, questioning "Why me?" You may also try to bargain in vain with the powers that be for a way out of your despair ("I'll be Darlton's slave for a week if you will just let me have this poster")
DEPRESSION, REFLECTION, LONELINESS	Just when your fellow Lost fans may think you should be getting on with your life, a period of sad reflection will likely overtake you. This is a normal stage of poster loss, so do not be "talked out of it" by well-meaning forum members. Encouragement from others is not helpful to you during this stage. You may isolate yourself on purpose, reflect on things you could have done with your poster, and focus on memories of the clue hunt. You may sense feelings of emptiness or despair.
THE UPWARD TURN	As you start to adjust to life without your poster, your life becomes a little calmer and more organized. Your physical symptoms lessen, and your "depression" begins to lift slightly. You may find that another Lost fan is willing to sell you a poster at cost price.
RECONSTRUCTION & WORKING THROUGH	As you become more functional, your mind starts working again, and you will find yourself seeking realistic solutions to problems posed by the next clue.
ACCEPTANCE & HOPE	During this, the last of the seven stages in the poster loss model, you learn to accept and deal with the reality of your situation. Given the pain and turmoil you have experienced, you can never return to the carefree, untroubled YOU that existed before the reveal but you will now want to purchase the next poster.

(With apologies to the recently bereaved)

Black AND Orange

As the observant MEL has mentioned in the comments, there is a small change at DamonCarltonAndAPolarBear.com.



Is it a nod towards Halloween or a clue for the 12th frame ?

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Dear Ronie Midfew 133

Dear Ronie Midfew,

Please find enclosed a collection of your correspondence starting from your most recent letter which seems to contain the word "Super" as a clue to the next poster reveal. We have also tried to point out any mistakes you may have made in your correspondence.

Incidentally, you always end your letters "Best and thank you", I wonder where all your wishes have gone ?

If you wish to contact us to discuss, please write to us at the usual address.

Kind Regards

LostARGs.com

Announcement - Podcast Mosaic

A couple of posts back reAnimated asked if there were any podcasts for this poster reveal. Apart from an interview with Paul Scheer at DocArzt there have been none that I'm aware of.

Then AmyLynn suggested that maybe it would be good to put together peoples experiences of the poster reveals so far, in a kind of Flash Forward Mosaic style.

So what we need are your experiences for the Flash poster reveals.

Send us an audio file preferably in MP3 format (but we should be able to convert other formats) covering the following topics :

Name (real or nickname)

Location in the world

Have you been to an event, and if so what happened

Which posters have you bought

What moments would you like to see covered by the remaining posters


Send your submission to lostargs(at)hotmail.com


Files cannot be bigger than 10mb (Hotmail limit)

The LostARGs podcast elves reserve the right to edit any submission for content and length.

We cannot guarantee every submission will be used, but we will try and use as many as possible.

Who is your Poster Buddy ? 30

A few people have emailed and commented that, given the surprise nature of the Poster 8 reveal, in order to give yourself more of a chance to get the poster you want we ought to set up a poster buddy list.

So what we propose is that the comments in this thread are used to request / offer help in buying posters.

In the comments please restrict yourselves to these topics

• I want to collect all the posters and I want help in purchasing them if I'm not available when a new poster goes up for sale.


• I am willing to offer help in purchasing a poster.

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Disclaimer - Please Read

Although LostARGS.com recognises that Lost fans are some of the best SciFi show fans in the world we need to set some ground rules.

LostARGs.com is providing this post for people to communicate, LostARGs.com cannot guarantee anyone a poster.

Any arrangement is between individuals and is not facilitated or helped in any way by LostARGs.com, other than to provide a forum to initiate the conversation.

LostARGs.com will not accept any liability financial or otherwise for any issues that might arise.

LostARGs.com recommends that should you wish to you do not add your email address in the format xyz@domain.com, but rather you use xyz(at)domain.com, this is purely to stop spam bots from harvesting email addresses. Also do not reveal any financial information of any sort in the comments.

Please use this post comments section to discuss buying posters for each other, and not general poster discussion. For general discussion please use the latest LostARGs post.

If this thread gets abused it will be removed along with all comments.

Artist Roundup 144

As there have been a few updates about the various artists mentioned in the comments it seems sensible to post the details in a main post.

First up is Olly Moss on Twitter (thanks to roxanna)

Update - As you can see from above Olly Moss has retracted the original statement

Next we have a post on OMG Posters about The Hatch. There is also a comment from Kevin on this blog post that says - Kevin Tong, on October 7th, 2009 at 12:59 am Said: It says Deus Ex Machina, the name of the episode.

Also regarding Kevin Tong, LostInLondon posted a link to these pictures :



There is also this intriguing picture from Dan McCarthy on Facebook (thanks to waffle)




Finally, just because the Inside The Rock Poster Frame blog has lots of information on cool posters.







Don't forget you can still vote in the favourite poster poll in the post below.

Information - Backdoor ordering

During the poster reveal today one of our commenters posted a method to purchase the poster before the main web page said it was for sale. The comment in full was :

Poster is totally sick.

Aside from the typo, the website also closed a loophole wherein purchasing the poster could be done before the BUY NOW button went up. Now, everyone will have a fair shot at #101.

On the previous posters you could go to the following early...simply insert the earlier url prefixes...

http://ithinkthatmanwasyou.com/dcpb/xr/body.php?module=store&id=1

A few insiders/sneaks won't like me for posting that, but oh well, now everyone knows.

Good luck all on getting #101!

This did work as I tried it myself (purely for research of course) and I did not get the first purchase as someone had already got that.

There was a lot of discussion about this in the comments and a few people have felt a little disappointed. So I contacted DamonCarltonandaPolarBear to ask why and how this was possible. This is their reply -

We were alerted to this issue a few prints back and have attempted to fix it each time, but due to the quick nature of our project isn't always possible. The good news is, every first poster order has been double checked each time to make sure the order was placed only after the site went live. We then give that information to the people who reward the first order. Even if the people order the poster "backdoor" - the time must match when the print was available for sale. As the group that checks the time ordered, I wouldn't trust everything everyone is telling you.


TGCustomerService

I hope that quells some of the unrest about the poster reveals.

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The favourite poster so far is.... 43

In our completely unscientific poll 150 of you voted and the favourite poster so far is...

	The Crash - 45%
	Locke's Secret - 40%
	The Dharma Van - 6%
	The Numbers - 4%
	The Love Triangle - 4%

As the last two posters were equal on votes they have been listed in release order.

Poster URL's

It's about time we cleared some things up about the URL's for the poster reveal websites as several other forums are awash with talk about them being found and now at least one blog has published them.

Ever since the first poster URL was revealed it was a fair bet that there would be one URL per poster, and after the second was revealed it was certain. So being an investigative sort of person I started looking for the other URL's.

At the time of the first poster I could not find any trace of them, but then, around the time the second poster was revealed, it became possible to find them all.

Around the 27th of August LostArgs was made aware that at least one other person knew, we have both been trying to protect the URL's as long as possible, but it seems that the cat is out of the bag.

Some points about these URL's

• Having the URL's does not give anyone an advantage - as I already have them I can check which site will be live about 2 hours before it is revealed. The poster is not usually displayed until a couple of minutes before the URL is given out. The only thing this allows me to do is prepare a post in readiness for the reveal.


• Knowing the site before the reveal will not give anyone a head start in ordering a poster. The posters have been for sale at least 30 minutes after the URL is made public at the clue location.


• The URL's becoming public knowledge may result in DamonCarltonandaPolarBear changing tactics and the format of releases may change.


• LostArgs.com will not be publishing the list and will remain spoiler free to allow people who do not wish to know, the chance of staying unspoiled.


• Please refrain from discussing the unpublished URL's in the comments if they are known to you.

http://impatientashell.com/

Frame 3 Clue 1 163

A new clue for Frame 3 has been posted



This translates to A-O-T-S

Thanks to Sayid'sGirl for letting us know about the clue and Cypher80b for the translation.

There are two possible web sites that this clue could lead us to -

The Canadian G4 TV show - Attack Of The Show (Pat advised via email that the show is in fact filmed in Los Angeles)



The British Art website - Art Of The State



There is also ArtofTheState.Com which only has a triangle image on the site, it looks a little like the Greek Delta symbol. The name of the .jpg file is AOTS.JPG



Could AOTS be an anagram of SATO, as Bryan Sato played a background Character called Richard.

Click here to read more on LostPedia

Cupcake Capers 79

We shall find it via Twitter, Blog, highway or byway.

This post has been created to cover all the fun of the next artwork reveal today in Boston, it will be a living post that will get updated when new information is available.

Twitter Updates - We have several people out and about, and if we get any updates they will be posted here.

IyemMary - They gave some girl a Canton Rainier shirt, but it's the same shirt they sell online. -Mary!

Lewis_C815 - Sticker that Johnny cupcakes was told to put into window yesterday
(picture of a Build Our World logo - organisation Sayid was a member of)

IyemMary - Uneventful. No scavenger hunt. Cool, though. -Mary!

Lewis_C815 - There are all of the numbers carved somewhere on the skateboard

IyemMary - Boards say ThatAndBasketWeaving.com the numbers are carved into the back of the board -Mary!

Lewis_C815 - T-shirt on top of box that held skateboards

Lewis_C815 - Dharma skateboard from Johnny cupcakes

IyemMary - Store workers don't know anything. They gave us wooden dharma skateboards -Mary!

IyemMary - Opening -Mary!

Lewis_C815 - The crowd is going wild!

IyemMary - About a dozen people waiting outside -Mary!

IyemMary - Not open yet -Mary!

IyemMary - In Boston on Newbury St -Mary!

IyemMary - Almost in Boston :D -Mary!

IyemMary - Posting updates from Johnny Cupakes tomorrow for you Lost fans!

IyemMary - Johnny Cupcakes at 10 am tomorrow :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Dharama Skateboards have been handed out with the URL http://thatandbasketweaving.com. On this site is the new poster :-



It is entitled "Olly Moss for Locke's Secret"

Special Delivery 63

This is a photo of one of the posters that has been received. To the right is the number of this print.

Special thanks to Holywood_Bob on Twitter for giving us permission to post the photos.

ReverendMilo and LotteryTicket have sent us lots more pictures, see the comments for some more links, however this is the poster under blacklight from Reverend Milo.



Some close ups from LotteryTicket (click to get a larger image)

Update - 27 Aug 09

Jim W has emailed to say that when he received his Hurley print he received another parcel, that contained a Damon Carlton and a Polar Bear print as he was the first person to order the Hurley poster.

Read about this here http://jimmywellington.com/?p=233

If you receive your poster, please send us a photo of it (and yourself) and we will show them here.