[arg_discuss] English Gargoyle ARG?

[Beth Aileen Dillon]

Yeah I sent a link to that as well. I'd still debate. I mean, sure,
they say the mystery has been solved, but why can't they reach the
artist?

And it's certainly an interesting form of art to be considered for
commercial ARGs.

- Beth


On 10/3/07, Morbus Iff <morbus at disobey.com> wrote:

> > Perhaps an ARG?

> > http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071002/od_afp/britainsculpturesoffbeat_071002171837

> > http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071002/od_afp/britainsculpturesoffbeat;_ylt=Anh_DG13oeTLVpsHoY.nEvmhOrgF

>

> Nope. See:

>

> English villagers' gargoyle mystery solved

>

> by some guy at Agence France-Presse

> Tue Oct 2, 3:12 PM ET

>

> A mystery over the unexplained appearance of a string of gargoyle-style

> stone faces in northern England was solved Tuesday, when the artist

> behind them was named.

>

> The sculptures, which all have a carved symbol which apparently spells

> "paradox" and a riddle, have been left outside homes and businesses

> across the northern county of Yorkshire over the last few weeks.

>

> The story was picked up nationwide, with the stone heads appearing in a

> number of national newspapers and broadcasters including the BBC.

>

> But the culprit was finally identified Tuesday as Billy Johnson, who

> makes the stone heads using fossils and rocks found on beaches.

>

> "Using minimal hand tools, Billy works with natural materials in a fluid

> and responsive way, bringing out the beauty of each individual piece,"

> said the website of Paradox Carving.

>

> "Each of the larger head pieces is completed by twilight," it added.

> "Paradox Carving explores hypnagogic concepts love, madness and

> evolution. He started his latest work on 24 August 2007 and it is a

> long-term project."

>

> Twelve of the heads had been left in the villages of Goathland and

> Kilburn in north Yorkshire, four in Arthington in west Yorkshire, and

> three in Braithwell, south Yorkshire.

>

> They were accompanied by a riddle, reading: "Twinkle twinkle like a star

> does love blaze less from afar?"

>

> Security camera footage caught a man leaving three of the heads outside

> a post office, but detectives had until Tuesday drawn a blank over who

> was behind the bizarre nocturnal activity.

>

> George Griffiths, an artist from Arthington who was among those to

> receive the heads, said he had tried to contact Johnson through the website.

>

> But he received an email in return to say the artist was out of the

> country for a few weeks, does not have a phone, does not use the

> Internet and does not have access to television.

>

> There is no greater folly than to be very inquisitive and laborious to

> find out the causes of such a phenomenon as never had any existence. -

> John Webster

>

>

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-- 
Beth Aileen Dillon
PhD Student, Simon Fraser University
School of Interactive Arts and Technology
Research Assistant, Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace
http://www.bethadillon.com