[arg_discuss] Useful puzzle books?

[Geoffrey Richards]

Sgt. Pepper's was sort of like an ARG, but it was more of a 'concept
album.'  The premise was this:  the Beatles were getting sick of touring,
and they were interested in using the studio as an instrument, and in doing
things musically that couldn't be reproduced easily live.  So they sent the
album on tour.  It was Paul's idea, or so the story goes.  Beautiful album,
but I like Revolver a bit more, and also all their albums, but particularly
(most of) the White album, and a lot of their B-sides like "The Inner Light"
and "Rain" (aka Oasis ~20 years earlier) which was more like 4 solo albums
(well, kind of), as they went off and wrote most of the songs separately and
then came together and recorded some more and polished it up (in India, if
memory serves).

Sorry if this is off-topic.
All the best,
Geoffrey

On 8/3/07, Andres M. Quijano <andres at jengibre.com.ar> wrote:

>

> I think (and I read it elsewhere if I'm not mistaken) that Sgt. Pepper's

> Lonely Hearts Club Band was kind of an ARG. Too bad there was no

> internet at that time, but surely every single one started looking for

> meaning and clues in that album cover!

>

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> Andrés Martínez Quijano

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> despain at quantumcontent.com escribió:

> > "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Jorge Luis Borges from 1940 strikes me

> as

> > proto-argish. More info:

> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tl%C3%B6n%2C_Uqbar%2C_Orbis_Tertius

> >

> > I'm also told Peter Greenaway has done some interesting things with his

> > project Tulse Luper, which is kind of all over the place on the

> > net. Here are some good starting points:

> >

> > http://petergreenaway.co.uk/

> > http://www.tulseluper.net/

> > http://www.tulseluperjourney.com/

> >

> > For anyone interested in just plain puzzle books, a recent one is called

> > "The Mammoth Book of Secret Codes and Cryptograms" by Elonka Dunin.

> >

> > I agree the overlay of wacky puzzles ontop of most ARGs these days is

> kind

> > of redundant and over-used, but many ARG players seem to have come to

> > expect it, and aren't sure it's "really an ARG" if there isn't a word

> > puzzle to figure out in the first week.

> >

> > I guess what I'm really saying is - can you blame the developers? I

> think

> > they're just playing to their audience.

> >

> > Wendy Despain

> > quantumcontent.com

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