6 Hidden Messages You Never Knew Existed

The title says it all. It's been a while since I made an interesting post for you guys to read, so here is my list on different subliminal messages that you probably didn't even know were there. Well....maybe you do know them. I don't even know. But in case you don't, here are 6
of the most wackiest and slightly disturbing hidden images compiled from famous films. I can guarantee the next time you see these films you'll be keeping an eye out for them. (Warning, some graphic images AND spoilers ahead. You have been warned internet.)

Number 1: The Uncomfortable Silence of Fight Club's Ending

So you just finished fight club, and what a roller-coaster story it has been. There was insomnia, and schizophrenia and fighting and explosions and- oh my god was that a naked man you just saw in a split second? Did....Did anyone else just see that? Guys? In the credits?!

I had to crop the full image because I love censorship.

Yes it is true, Fight Club's director David Fincher did actually include several subliminal images (as a social experiment), but the most prominent of all is the final scene where for a microsecond the image of a naked man with his junk hanging out blasts across the screen...then disappears. Needless to say that it left a rather awkward silence in the theatre/living room. Oh don't worry, it's not enough to cause any mind control or subliminal acts or anything....

Number 2: Show me the MONKEY.

No, this is not a reference to Tom Cruise's stellar role in Jerry McGuire. Instead, this was a hugely unnoticed message in Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005). In the movie, towards the beginning as the crew approach skull island, Captain Windhorn receives a morse code message asking for the arrest of Jack Dawson and Carl Dennim. Regardless, sneaky Peter Jackson thought it would be funny to uneducated audiences to make the morse code a different meaning. Upon analysation the morse code actually says, "Show me the monkey," an eerie pre-prediction of the demise of the crew. 

Well, we found him.

Number 3: Dead Hawaiian Inmates

Number 3 takes a part of the more scary side of hidden messaging in films. The movie we're focusing on is Sunshine; a sic-fi thriller turned horror where a group of astronauts are set to re-ignite our sun, but instead encounter another ship destined to do the same process. An empty ship with the warnings of a dead crew. Ignoring the gaping plot-holes, there is a scene where they enter dark space ship and flash their torches around like a parade of show ponies. The scene itself is very un-nerving, but what makes it even more terrifying is the flash of a single image as the light beam hits the camera. The image, if paused at the right time, is actually one of the inmates on the abandoned ship at a hawaiian party. Except now he's dead. Oh yeah, and why did the director do it? To make the audience uncomfortable apparently. Well done, snaps for Danny Boyle.

Eyes lead towards the soul right?

Number 4: A Sign of The Future...

Ok, I love Steven Spielberg as much as the next guy. But when I saw JAWS for the first time, and then did some research, then my respect expanded tenfold. In the final tense scenes of the thriller movie, where Brody fights the shark one on one in the early dawn, a beautiful quiet moment happens. Like the calm of the storm, the camera captures this facial shot of a shooting star barreling down from the sky, with a twinkling noise. There is much debate over this film as to whether it's real or fake or some kind of hidden message. The most commonly known explanation is that the shooting star was an added effect as a hint to Steven Spielberg's next box-office hit Close Encounters & E.T The shooting star symbolised the world of sic-fi that he would be entering into (if this is true, then does that mean somewhere in E.T there is a hidden symbol of dinosaurs to echo the making of Jurassic Park?!) Whatever the explanation, it's mystifying, beautiful and a foreboding symbol.

Number 5: Evila lilts s'ti

The last thing you need to know after a giant monster has been bombed the shit out of is "It's Still Alive." Well for fans of the cult-classic Cloverfield (2008) there was a short, 5 second message at the very very end after all the credits. A very simple, strange, diluted voice message with a man's voice saying "Evila Lilts s'ti." Reverse the recording and it simply says: It's Still Alive. We're not sure whether this confirms a sequel, but we're hoping that somehow this will become the standpoint for another monster vs city film. We can't get enough of those.

WHY. ARE. YOU. NOT. DEAD?!

Number 6: Disney Ruined My Childhood

This one is going to be a montage of several culprits. But we'll start with the straw that broke the camels back. Enter The Lion King (1994); it's cute, it's got a good message, it's got a hell of a lot of songs to sing along with (dat Scar montage though). But when movie analysers came up with this image, it began the revelation of movie subliminal searchers and 'tin-foil hat' enthusiasts. 

Ok...well that could mean anything...

And then came the 'other' images, which we'll post below. I don't think we need an explanation for each of these. Just enjoy the show and try not to let Disney atomic bomb your childhood...

Ummm....I...don't see it.

Oh come on!

WHAT.

OH JESUS I HOPE THAT'S EDITED.

A little bit of a break...

Hello Hello! What an intense and amazing past month it has been. I apologise to anyone who actually reads this that I have not actually written anything, but when university kicks you to the ground, it's difficult to get back up. Nethertheless I am sort of back and ready to give you a quick update. Mostly about the fact that I, for the first time in forever, did online shopping.

And of course what did I buy? Something unnecessary like an antique or some kind of collectible? Hell no!

I want to do an introduction first. Please meet the lovely shop of Billy Barron, AKA ArtIsLife. His amazing handmade converse designs have had me looking for several months before the actual purchase, and until recently I decided that it was too risky. I mean, buying shoes online has a lot of risks. Does the artwork really look like that in real life? Is that actually my shoe size or did I go too big? Why does it have the silly US measurements?!

After about 2 weeks of back and forth messaging, Billy helped me sort out every issue. And now I have a pair of amazing shoes that I literally cannot stop staring at.

Any way, if you want to check out his store, or even easy in general, please click this link: https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/ARTisLIFEcustomART?ref=l2-shopheader-name

He does not just Pink Floyd. Any band you want. David Bowie, The Beatles, Metallica, 1D (Oh god I hope not). Any band or design he'll take, and he'll include a nice little message in the box. This, dear readers, is the pinnacle of amazing online service. Nowadays the internet and buying can be seen as such a shady place, but it's people like Billy Barron who are shining a retailer light into the darker corners of the internet.

Cam xx

The Real Challenge// Russian Adventures

Sorry for not posting for five days. It has been a ginormous week of activity and study for me, and I'm only finding free time on my bus commuting. Today's article is more of the same thing- me giving silly advise through a quirky article- however I want to take a different approach. It's about doing something spontaneous and learning a language; it can often be made into a mountain when really it's just a mole hill (depending what language you learn. Don't start commenting about latin- that's a dead language and very very hard).

So what's the first thing you need to know when studying a new language? The biggest thing is to have passion for the language itself. It's no picnic to immerse yourself in an alien like culture (mine is Russian and believe me it's like another planet) so if you're gonna start off learning, decide firstly what interests you about the culture specifically, and make that your goal.

Besides the obvious 'language passion' there are other ways to improve visualisation of another speech. Scientists argue that by the time we are 9 years old the main language we have learnt will be our core cultural provider, and everything based around that, so what a person studying a language would need to do is re visit the basics. Place everything into a context and learn that context through a child like manner. Sure it will feel like repeating the first grade, but you need to crawl before you can walk and you need to pronounce before you speak.

Other tips:

1. Place yourself in the context of that language.
Visit the country. Go to an international film night and watch movies in that language. Cook foreign foods for your friends and follow that menu. By assimilating the lifestyle, it can trick your mind into relearning new subtle frames for the language itself.

2. Don't just speak.
Write, speak, memorize, develop. Make creative sentences or find little quotes in another language that seem interesting or funny. If you make it exciting, it will be exciting.

3. Find a tutor.
Don't bear the burden alone. There will be days when you skip a letter or mispronounce or get swamped with the *grimaces* culture-shocking-status-quo moments, so you will need someone to lift your spirits and encourage you to keep going.

That's about it. Pretty basic I know, but it's still good. Have a great week!

Cam xx

Can't make up my mind...

I change my interest in art like I change my clothes; one day it will be line art and then splotch paintings, then in a few weeks it'll change to (god forbid) surrealist visions or Shakespearean sketch art of the victorian century. Pens to paints to pastels.

As of now I have a huge obsession with cultural art, particularly those associated with Scandanavian Folklore and Artistry with local history. Things to do with myths, prints, patterns and historical imagery create interesting geometric paintings. I have them strung all over the wall. My bedroom is a mess of geometric paintings and colorful line drawings.

Nothing wrong with a guilty art pleasure right?

Cam xx

The Style of the 60's

Who even knew these kinds of cameras existed?! Seriously, I wish the 1960's would come alive again in the digital media world- all I see are black Nikons and 35mm Lenses with no style and all heavy capacities.

Sorry, got a little bit rant-y there. I just feel so inspired by cameras like the Girl Scout Imperial XII, which comes in 20 different colours (I have a preference for the mint green) or the Savoy Instant, a Russian favorite. Probably the saddest thing about all these cameras is that there is no more film for them. Just a dying fad now.

I wonder if we'll ever make cameras like these again, or just continue to buy the 'corporate styled' buzz-cut cameras that are all about modifications and over the top digital screens. Perhaps the world is moving on from the creativity of cameras themselves. Shame.

So this is the stage I'm at...

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.” 

― Ira Glass

Yes, I am definitely at this stage. I write. I backspace. I throw a piece of paper in anger that my sass isn't sassy enough or my humor isn't humorous enough. And now I spy this quote on a blog and know that... I have to keep going (oh what a cliched sentence that was. Please excuse me whilst I barf). Anyway, just a small update to say this: If you are starting something creative; a magazine, a business, a craft, hobby, sport, you will hit this stage where your passion seems to reach for the stars yet shows no fruit.

Do not panic. Everyone has this stage. Actors need to hunt for acting positions, artists paint and yet sell for a nickel. Even politicians begin by handing out flyers to passerbys who gruffly say "Hoo tha bloody 'ell is Labour?!"

It's that moment of breakthrough. So keep going.

Cam xx

C-C-College Time// My Adventures in Drinking

So apologies for not updating for a few days, things have been off the rails with trying to pack then re-pack then unpack then stop boxes breaking and hugging and all that goes on when you move back to college after the holidays. I can definitely say I am excited for 2nd year this year, but apparently I'm not supposed to show feelings of happiness so I'll be like my peers and say "yeah it's cool" in a nonchalant way.

Last night was Tropicana night and I actually don't remember that much but that's ok because I had fun, which is actually my point of going to college. It's not to get drunk or even tipsy, I just wanted to have fun and laugh and I did that. Gosh, I don't know what it is with other people who drink to just get smashed, because I had more fun dancing with friends.

Anyways, will try and update soon with a new article about artworks so get ready for that.

Cam xx