Love Letters to the Future News

Final Transmission Unlocked

2009-12-18T05:41:00.000-08:00

When key words from the location clues were entered in order , they unlocked the last video! Thanks to everyone that helped unlock them - watch Maya's final transmission on the site. Let's hope we can change our world for the better, for our grandchildren - and Maya's - sake...

Time Capsule Party in Copenhagen!

2009-12-16T06:07:00.000-08:00

The live event in Copenhagen was a huge success! We saw some of the letters that went in the time capsule, heard from our supporters, and some climate change activists, locked the capsule, and then it was time to celebrate - with a number of fantastic performers - Nabiha, Dokkedal/Dixon, Flowjob, and of course Thure Lindhardt presenting the love letters.

City Clues

2009-12-16T06:05:00.000-08:00

From each of the cities we seem to be finding phone numbers that give us a message and a key word clue -it appears that they need to be added in order to unlock the final video:

We have a number of clues and key words discovered so far in various locations that match the coordinates.

In Amsterdam:
The number is 020-203-1120. Here's the message:

"When I was small, my grandmother would whisper rhymes in my ear as I fell asleep. I forget how it ended, but one of them started this way:
While I am sometimes kept in cages
to bring luck to everyone whose ear my sound engages.
Other times you might hear me free
Chirping a jubilant symphony.
I am not to be confused with the game
even though it is true that we share the same name.
When you go camping and you hear me in the thicket
rest assured, I am not some strange bird, just an ordinary..."

In Hong Kong:

We don't have a transcription of this message, but thanks to those over at the Unfiction forum, we found out the key word is "Window"

In Rotterdam:

"When I was small, my grandmother would whisper rhymes in my ear as I fell asleep. I forget how it ended, but one of them started this way - Sometimes I am a greeting when planted on a cheek. Although some men refrain from this so they are not perceived as weak.
I am a symbol of romantic love, but also of friendship deep
In some fairy tales only I can awake the heroine when she is asleep.
When thinking of a sweetheart, I am difficult to dismiss.
When things are very close together, they are often said to..."

In Washington D.C.:
The number is 202-315-3396. This is the message:

"When I was small, my grandmother would tell me about when she sat at the window watching the grey STATIC and especially the red STATIC steal seeds from the birdfeeder. She loved the STATIC big bushy tails and the way that the STATIC would leap nimbly from branch to branch as they stole acorns and seeds from one another. What have I missed? What have I missed?"

In Toronto:

The number is 905-248-3006. This was the message:

"(*static sound*)When I was small my grandmother would wrap me in a warm (*static sound*) when I was cold. She would tell me stories about how snow used to cover the earth like a heavy down filled (*static sound*). That no longer happens not since I've been alive. But I still trace the quilt and the hem of that same (*static sound*). Every morning when I make my bed...What have I missed? What have I missed?"

Coordinates

2009-12-10T12:05:00.000-08:00

Maya's messages tell us to leave the screen and find her outside - are you near any of these coordinates? Do you know someone who is, who can find her mark there?

52° 22' 20.64" N 4° 52' 33.54" E
I have found a different method. I think this is more secure. Harder for them to notice. You'll need to leave your screen and find me outside. Look out on the wall, in the back 'Garden' at the Cafe of Sound. Look for my mark, friends have placed it there.

55° 39' 41.73" N 12° 33' 59.23" E
I have found a different method. I think this is more secure. Harder for them to notice. You'll need to leave your screen and find me outside. On the Bridge for New Bikes. Look to your feet. Look for my mark, friends have placed it there.

59°19'6.98" N 18° 4'25.59" E
I have found a different method. I think this is more secure. Harder for them to notice. You'll need to leave your screen and find me outside. Take the Elevator Katarina uptop. Under where the bridge meets the mountain, look on the wall. Look for my mark, friends have placed it there.

19° 1' 43.14" N 72° 50' 48.48" E
I have found a different method. I think this is more secure. Harder for them to notice. You'll need to leave your screen and find me outside. To the railway station: Matunga Road. Look on the wall outside. Look for my mark, friends have placed it there.

22° 16' 59.40" N 114° 9' 10.32" E
I have found a different method. I think this is more secure. Harder for them to notice. You'll need to leave your screen and find me outside on the ground beneath your feet. I wish we could have met for a drink at Pub 7.1. Look for my mark, friends have placed it there.

38° 55' 14.163" N 77° 2' 29.9832" W
I have found a different method. I think this is more secure. Harder for them to notice. You'll need to leave your screen and find me outside. I wish we could have met for a drink, maybe at the Pharmacy. Look to the ground for my mark, friends have placed it there.

34° 36' 23.7492" S 58° 27' 41.5254" W
I have found a different method. I think this is more secure. Harder for them to notice. You'll need to leave your screen and find me outside. Look on the wall where it curves around the great tree at the intersection. Look for my mark, friends have placed it there.

51° 54' 9.99" N, 8° 28' 34.73" E
I have found a different method. I think this is more secure. Harder for them to notice. You'll need to leave your screen and find me outside. Go to the Firkin Crane and look to your feet. Look for my mark, friends have placed it there.

+43° 39' 13.90", -79° 24' 6.34"
I have found a different method. I think this is more secure. Harder for them to notice. You'll need to leave your screen and find me outside. In the park with the Belle View. Look for my mark, friends have placed it there.

51°53′N 4°38′E
I have found a different method. I think this is more secure. Harder for them to notice. You'll need to leave your screen for a slightly smaller, more mobile Andriod one and find me outside. On a Layar with my name near the mills of Kinderdijk. Look for my mark, I have placed it there.

39° 52′ 56.07″ N 116° 24′ 23.29″ E
I have found a different method. I think this is more secure. Harder for them to notice. You'll need to leave your screen for a slightly smaller, more mobile Andriod one and find me outside. On a Layar with my name near the Temple of Heaven. Look for my mark, I have placed it there.

41° 0' 27.95" N 28° 58' 42.68" E
I have found a different method. I think this is more secure. Harder for them to notice. You'll need to leave your screen for a slightly smaller, more mobile Andriod one and find me outside. On a Layar with my name near the Blue Mosque look for my mark, I have placed it there.

23° 35′ 5.01″ S 46° 39′ 17.1″ W
I have found a different method. I think this is more secure. Harder for them to notice. You'll need to leave your screen for a slightly smaller, more mobile Andriod one and find me outside. On a Layar near with my name near the Obelisk. Look for my mark, I have placed it there.

Feet on the ground

2009-12-10T09:25:00.000-08:00

The newest video that has been unlocked displays the phrase : feet on the ground. When you search for this on the site, you see a series of letters with images and what appears to be coordinates...do you know which locations these point to?

2009-12-09T08:44:00.000-08:00

When you search for Maha-Amba you get a new video.What is Maya dreaming about? here is the transcription:

. . . As I lay in bed at night, in that state between dream and wakefulness, they would merge together. It still happens. Even more now that I am more widely read. Maybe it is a way of escaping. Maybe they are meaningless. Let me tell you about my dream last night, perhaps you can figure out the places that I spoke with my dream-friend.

I stand next to a clock tower, it looks proper and British like Big Ben and seems out of place as the salty breeze from the Arabian Sea curls around it. I walk north. I stop in the middle of a triangular green. I breathe in and listen to cricket sound. A man strikes up a conversation, but as we progress beyond greetings, I see my breath in a cloud in front of me, and realize that I am now much farther from the Equator. I am talking with Alan again. It feels as though we are close friends, although I do not know him in waking life. Perhaps it is because he always wants to help. I mention something about his mother, the washing mashing, and he turns red. I am embarrassed, I was not supposed to know. He tells me about his new house and his new neighborhood.

Maya's Dream...

2009-12-08T12:47:00.000-08:00

The latest clue "NACOTCHTANK" takes you to an audio message from Maya

Below is the transcription - what do you think she saw in her dream?

As a child I read histories and fictions. Anything that I could get my hands on. I was inspired by my grandmother. First I read about what it was like when she was small. That's your time. Then I read further back. All of the stories seem so disconnected from my time now. Like fairy tales. As I lay in bed at night, in that state between dream and wakefulness, they would merge together. It still happens. Even more now that I am more widely read. Maybe it is a way of escaping. Maybe they are meaningless. Let me tell you about my dream last night, perhaps you can figure out what monuments I imagined.

I was walking through Byzantium under a single star and crescent moon. It was empty, nothing moved. I passed a tall column, free standing. I squinted up at the top and thought I saw a sun god, but it could have just been glare of the light. I continued walking southeast, expecting to find chariots, and the sounds of horses' hooves. Instead, I stepped into another place-- a far away capital, once inhabited by Algonquins, the Nacotchtank. They were long gone in the place that I walked. I walked towards a frozen woman astride a horse. She was atop a plinth along L'Enfant's Longitude.

Flower clue

2009-12-07T13:05:00.001-08:00

The new code word brings up a message involving flowers. What do you make of the white markings on the top left and bottom right of the image? Does anyone know a flower code that these might be part of ? Or what they symbolize?

Latest Clue

2009-12-07T05:39:00.000-08:00

Wow- the last video was unlocked really quickly! Here is the newest clue...

2009-12-04T12:33:00.000-08:00

The newest video shows this clue at the end - the symbol of a snake swallowing it's own tail. Traditionally it's called an Ouroborus or Uroborus. When you put "ouroborus" into the search bar you get the next clue!

Q'orianka Kilcher introduces a new channel on the site...

2009-12-03T14:24:00.000-08:00

Q'orianka asks us to think about what we would preserve for the sake of future generations.

BlinkBlinkBlinkBlink, BlinkBlink

2009-12-03T07:02:00.000-08:00

Big thanks to Sal for the idea of looking at the spectrogram! Here's what it looks like...

When the newest key word "mores" from the video is put in the search box on the site, it takes you to this letter. In the video the eye blinks a number of times at different intervals, creating a sequence or series of blinks.

Time Capsule construction update...

2009-12-02T12:47:00.001-08:00

Maydwell Mascots created a beautiful lining for the Time Capsule.

Polishing the Time Capsule at Polishing Depot.

Never Enough

2009-12-02T07:00:00.000-08:00

For the new clue - when you type the words into the search box on the site you get a video and a short text . How does the text relate to the video ?

P-A-R-T-Y!

2009-11-30T09:03:00.000-08:00

If you will be in Copenhagen on December 13th, please join us to celebrate the sealing of the time capsule. There will be music, dancing and great people - together we can rewrite the future! The best Love Letters will be sealed in the time capsule and presented as gift to the city of Copenhagen - to be opened in 100 years...

The next video is almost unlocked!

2009-11-29T15:08:00.001-08:00

Wow~ there is only one segment of the next video left to unlock! Soon we can see the entire clip - solve the new clue to activate it...

Maya's Message

2009-11-26T13:26:00.001-08:00

When you search for Maya 2109 it links directly to the hidden page with the fragmented videos.

Search for the clue in the newest fragment - we have to help decode her message!

The first segment is unlocked!

2009-11-25T12:07:00.000-08:00

Here is an image of the next segment - When you place the word at the end of the new video fragment in the search bar on the site, you get another clue!

This symbol links to the message

2009-11-25T11:45:00.000-08:00

If you click on this symbol when you see it on the site it links to a space where the message is. Though it appears that the rest of the message still needs to be unlocked - has anyone figured out a code to open the video?

Message From 2109 - We need your help

2009-11-23T10:38:00.000-08:00

A message from the year 2109 has been received on the loveletterstothefuture.com site however it appears it is encrypted and needs to be unlocked.

It seems possible that your Love Letters, to be sent in the Time Capsule on Dec 13, 2009, have reached the future. The Time capsule was opened – and now someone is answering us back in this message!

There are signs that a number of clues planted on the site hold the key to unlock this message. We believe that this message may provide evidence of the world as it is in 2109…

If you notice anything unusual, or pick up on something that might help unlock the message, please share it here on the site’s news feed and check back for updated information and info on the location of these clues.

Search for: Me2109

Natalia Oreiro on Arctic ice melting

2009-11-18T14:07:00.000-08:00

New channel opened today on the Love Letters to the Future site. Uruguayan singer, model and television presenter Natalia Oreiro contemplates Arctic ice melting and asks us to explain to our grandchildren how we allowed this to happen.

2009-11-18T08:39:00.000-08:00

The Lock

2009-11-12T12:15:00.000-08:00

The time capsule will be capped off with a brass lock, featuring a series of four turning dials.

Time Capsule Construction

2009-11-12T11:45:00.000-08:00

Constructing the stainless steel body of the time capsule.

For more pictures of the construction see our facebook page

Love Letters to the Future featured on CBC Newsworld

2009-11-10T14:02:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Love Letters to the Future!

2009-11-09T07:26:00.000-08:00

We've launched!

Announcing the start of our time capsule's future.

The is the beginning of our project to send Love Letters to the Future. You've joined us at the start of our five week blitz. Five weeks from now, we lock the time capsule for 100 years!

We have five weeks to gather as many Love Letters as possible. Your Love Letter could be in the time capsule. Your vote will determine the Top 100. Contribute. Tell your friends. Vote on the other Love Letters. Check back here frequently to see if your Love Letter is voted into the time capsule. And check regularly to see if it stays in the time capsule...

For inspiration, check also for new topics to be added weekly...Plus other developments, soon to be announced!

the time capsule

2009-11-04T05:03:00.000-08:00

Andrew Sliwa, the time capsule builder, and Thomas Wallner, project visionary, testing the new locking mechanism for the time capsule.