Outside the Massive Dynamic building in New York, there are a few possible clues:
- The light post has a sticker of a website - www.glowingmonkeys.com. The site appears at first glance to be Fringe related, but for what purpose?
- There is a pen and rose (Penrose?) on the newspaper stand.
- Though it is very hard to make out in these pictures, if you look though the glass doors of the Massive Dynamic building, you will see the phrase "must not be bought"
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The PEN ROSE does mean something and I have FOUND IT.
Science and the Mind
Dr. Roger PENROSE!
Oxford University
Google his name, Is a Great Prof. Dr. that works on things like,
Consiousness, etc.
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there is a penrose.com, a password is required though... one might be provided with time
scratch that, it looks like its OOG, if you want to study it further though you can go to http://www.penrose.com/hhh.html
Sir Roger Penrose, Ph.D., OM, FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. He is renowned for his work in mathematical physics, in particular his contributions to general relativity and cosmology. He is also a recreational mathematician and philosopher.
Hee! I mentioned the writing in the window in your previous blog entry, but I saw it on my HDTV, and I think it's saying "Which must not be bought"
PenRose! I noticed that as well! All because of the creepy man in a suit. Before I saw the trailer for "this season" I thought he seemed to look different, paused and saw all those things in the frame. Crazy!
If you look even more closely, you'll notice that underneath the glowingmonkeys sticker, the lamppost has a green page on it that says "PARKING SATURDAY". The full poster would read "NO PARKING SATURDAY".
That intersection is Bloor and Avenue in Toronto, facing south towards the Royal Ontario Museum which was initially used as the exterior for Massive Dynamic (and would be inserted into a New York streetscape in post). While the interior lobby of the ROM was used as the interior of Massive Dynamic (thus all the strange shapes) they replaced the exterior with a building that fit in with "New York" better.
That lamppost is totally Toronto, though :)
Haha, Dr. Penrose was the Pituitary Gland guy in episode 2. I wonder if there was some hidden reference like that alluding to someone in the next episode!
Pen + Rose pictorial, as well as using the name "Dr Penrose".
Look up Penrose tilings, there is a relation between PTs and Fibonacci numbers....
Checking out glowingmonkeys.com , I found that it is a site that gathers links to, and quick descriptions of, all kinds of interesting/weird/noteworthy science & tech news articles on other web sites. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot to *it*, the site itself, but it points out (and to) a whole ton and more!
That said, I don't see any direct relationship between this site and *Fringe*.
I'm surprised nobody has looked into the "Glowing Monkeys" website any further. One of the contact emails for the website is named "Capuchin," presumably after the species of monkey. I looked up Capuchin monkeys on Wikipedia out of curiosity and I came up with some interesting results. Turns out the monkeys are named after the Order of the Friars Minor Capuchin. The Wikipedia article for the Order has quite a bit of interesting reading in it, namely in the "Origins" portion. The first sentence reads, "The order arose in 1520 when Matteo da Bascio, an 'Observant' Franciscan friar native to the Italian region of Marche, said he became inspired by God with the idea that the manner of life led by the Franciscans of his day was not the one which St. Francis had envisaged. He sought to return to the primitive way of life in solitude and penance as practiced by the founder of his order." Would it be too far-fetched to believe that this is maybe a hint at what the show could be lining up?
Oh and to add - the order also preached the importance of living a wholly simplistic life, with only the barest of necessities available. This seems to go against the whole Fringe concept of advanced technology and intense science. It sounds interesting.
In the Official Fringe Podcast, Kurtzman and Orci say that GlowingMonkeys is a site where they get inspiration for the show. However, I suspect it is created by someone else connected to the show...
i think youll find the whole capuchin mnkeys and against technology is the whole zft thing and i have a sneeky sucipision "tom" knew that before it came up in the show
the riddle pen rose might be read with gematria (a=1, b=2...)
PEN = 35
ROSE = 57
and 57/35 is a fair approximation of Phi while Penrose's tiling has to do with Phi.
The approximation of pi is out by a factor of shall i say double!
Speaking of LSD themes!
Oh Phi not pi such a leap but nice extrapolation that 57/35 character number swap.
Still, nearly need LSD to do that.
U need a job with NSA ;p
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