Trans Canada Highway Microsite - Revision history

Fredd-E at 11:00, 1 March 2025

2025-03-01T11:00:46Z

162.158.49.75: /* 00:30 - 01:10 */ sample source

2024-12-11T18:37:34Z

‎00:30 - 01:10: sample source

Fredd-E at 19:07, 6 June 2024

2024-06-06T19:07:33Z

Fredd-E: new video link

2024-06-06T19:07:15Z

new video link

Fredd-E at 15:27, 12 April 2021

2021-04-12T15:27:29Z

162.158.62.46: /* 00:30 - 01:10 */

2021-02-16T08:25:44Z

‎00:30 - 01:10

173.245.54.42 at 06:09, 1 December 2017

2017-12-01T06:09:49Z

172.68.65.113 at 00:32, 22 May 2017

2017-05-22T00:32:20Z

172.68.65.113 at 00:27, 22 May 2017

2017-05-22T00:27:25Z

172.68.65.113 at 00:22, 22 May 2017

2017-05-22T00:22:01Z

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 [[Image:Hexagons.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Trans Canada Highway]] announcement e-mail picture]]
-On May 11, 2006, in a Warpbot email titled "Boards of Canada Trailer", Warp unveiled a new Boards of Canada microsite at http://www.warprecords.com/666.
+On May 11, 2006, in a Warpbot email titled "Boards of Canada Trailer", [[Warp]] unveiled a new [[Boards of Canada]] microsite at http://www.warprecords.com/666.
 The site asks the used to select "hi" or "lo" bandwidth options.  Upon choosing, the site plays a video composed of multiple spliced video segments with music from a number of [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] interlude tracks from various releases (not all of them official).
-After the video finishes, the Trans Canada Highway cover appears, then scrolls horizontal leaving only the text portion showing.  Additional text appears promoting the [[Trans Canada Highway]] release and giving credits for the video.  An interlude from the new EP, "[[Heard From Telegraph Lines]]", is played in the background.
+After the video finishes, the ''[[Trans Canada Highway]]'' cover appears, then scrolls horizontal leaving only the text portion showing.  Additional text appears promoting the ''[[Trans Canada Highway]]''  release and giving credits for the video.  An interlude from the new EP, "[[Heard From Telegraph Lines]]", is played in the background.
 == Video ==
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 *Music: "[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]"
 *Video:
-** Counting section: a brightly colored kaleidoscopic background with numbers synchronized. The numbers are taken from the Mystic Twenty segment of Episode 0276 of Sesame Street<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOkbuwRUTZo</ref>
+** Counting section: a brightly colored kaleidoscopic background with numbers synchronized. The numbers are taken from the Mystic Twenty segment of Episode 0276 of Sesame Street<ref>{{#widget:YouTube|id= LOkbuwRUTZo}}</ref>
-** "Bears" section: a dark, more menacing kaledoscopic view.  A time sequence counter flashes quickly between "TCR 00:06:06:00" and "KILL 00:06:06:06". The footage being used for the kaledoscopic effects are taken from the Madrigal Alphabet segment of Episode 0615 of Sesame Street<ref>https://youtu.be/jDDFh7Un3Ps?t=44</ref>
+** "Bears" section: a dark, more menacing kaledoscopic view.  A time sequence counter flashes quickly between "TCR 00:06:06:00" and "KILL 00:06:06:06". The footage being used for the kaledoscopic effects are taken from the Madrigal Alphabet segment of Episode 0615 of Sesame Street<ref> {{#widget:YouTube|id= jDDFh7Un3Ps |start=44}}</ref>
 ** Squelchy noisy section after "Bears": underwater view of the water's surface, mirror horizontally about the center axis.
-** "I'll be gone about a week" (from the 1972 movie "Season of the Witch"): a group of men in business attire seated around a large round table; one facing us appears to be saying the sample phrase.
+** "I'll be gone about a week" (from the 1972 movie "[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069239/ Season of the Witch]"): a group of men in business attire seated around a large round table; one facing us appears to be saying the sample phrase.
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 == Authorship ==
-The page itself was created by ''Remote Location'', a one-man graphics design firm run by Adam Rodgers.
+The page itself was created by ''Remote Location''<ref> https://web.archive.org/web/20120101131704/http://remote-location.com/</ref>, a one-man graphics design firm run by Adam Rodgers.<ref> https://uk.linkedin.com/in/adam-rodgers</ref>
 According to his page, the video short was directed by [[Melissa Olson]].
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 * [http://kaen.org/use/video_hi.mpg The video in MPEG format]
 * [http://silencer.re-loc.net/about/weblog/ Remote location blog]

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 ** "Bears" section: a dark, more menacing kaledoscopic view.  A time sequence counter flashes quickly between "TCR 00:06:06:00" and "KILL 00:06:06:06". The footage being used for the kaledoscopic effects are taken from the Madrigal Alphabet segment of Episode 0615 of Sesame Street<ref>https://youtu.be/jDDFh7Un3Ps?t=44</ref>
 ** Squelchy noisy section after "Bears": underwater view of the water's surface, mirror horizontally about the center axis.
-** "I'll be gone about a week": a group of men in business attire seated around a large round table; one facing us appears to be saying the sample phrase.
+** "I'll be gone about a week" (from the 1972 movie "Season of the Witch"): a group of men in business attire seated around a large round table; one facing us appears to be saying the sample phrase.
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 {{#ev:youtube| wyblQRk47UY }}
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 *Music: Generic TV news logo sound from the beginning of "[[Red Moss]]"

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 == Video ==
-{{#ev:youtube|qIB6219fg_k|500}}
+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyblQRk47UY
 ===00:00 - 00:05===
 *Music: Generic TV news logo sound from the beginning of "[[Red Moss]]"

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 == Video ==
-{{#ev:youtube|heiQKuUqvSs|500}}
+{{#ev:youtube|qIB6219fg_k|500}}
 ===00:00 - 00:05===

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 ===00:00 - 00:05===
-*Music: generic TV news logo sound from the beginning of "[[Red Moss]]"
+*Music: Generic TV news logo sound from the beginning of "[[Red Moss]]"
 *Video: Animated version of the [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] "Trees" promo sticker logo; each part of the logo appears synchronized with a different note.
 ===00:05 - 00:09===
 *Music: None
-*Video: Seagull flying
+*Video: A seagull flying
 ===00:09 - 00:29===
 *Music: "[[The Smallest Weird Number]]"
-*Video: caterpillar, praying mantis from the [[Telecom Italia ad]]
+*Video: A caterpillar crawling, and a praying mantis from the [[Telecom Italia ad]]
 ===00:30 - 01:10===
 *Music: "[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]"
 *Video:
-** counting section: a brightly colored kaleidoscopic background with numbers schronized
+** Counting section: a brightly colored kaleidoscopic background with numbers synchronized
 ** "Bears" section: a dark, more menacing kaledoscopic view.  A time sequence counter flashes quickly between "TCR 00:06:06:00" and "KILL 00:06:06:06"
-** Squechy noisy section after "Bears": underwater view of the water's surface, mirror horizontally about the center axis.
+** Squelchy noisy section after "Bears": underwater view of the water's surface, mirror horizontally about the center axis.
 ** "I'll be gone about a week": a group of men in business attire seated around a large round table; one facing us appears to be saying the sample phrase.
 ===01:10 - 01:32===
 *Music: "[[P:C:]]" ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]" continues in the background)
-*Video: scrambled pornographic clip
+*Video: Scrambled pornographic clip
 ===01:32 - 01:38===

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 === Numbers ===
-Aside from the sychronized numbers displayed in time with the "counting" segment of "[[A is to B as B is to C]]" and the time codes, a number of other numbers also appear repeatedly, in brief flashes.
+Aside from the sychronized numbers displayed in time with the "counting" segment of "[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]" and the time codes, a number of other numbers also appear repeatedly, in brief flashes.
 * 12817 (with an 8 superimposed on the final digit)