Hello CluesForum Administrators,
My name's Tom. I'm from the U.S. but I live in Germany for family reasons (I'm not military). My academic training is in genetics. The genetics angle was spurred by my curiosity about molecular biology techniques. I entered the field just as genomics began to suck the air (and funding) out of that space. I've worked in basic research labs (my preference, as opposed to applied science) and, for the sake of having a job, also medical research labs. These jobs don't involve much if any computer-based video or motion graphics work, but do include micrograph manipulation in preparation for presentation or publication -- so I can, for example, competently use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
I'm more or less an autodidact with most subjects. I'm a terrible student -- abstract ideas are hard for my brain to process. Basically I don't retain info or "nothing clicks for me" unless I have some practical experience with the topic. I have broad but shallow knowledge of computers and image/moving image (movie) software. Some examples relevant to this introduction. I have used Blender -- open-source 3D modeling software -- on a project a few years ago. And in 2003 I took a 3-month digital editing course using Final Cut Pro (non-linear editing) with a post-production group in New York. More recently, the September Clues videos have spurred my online investigations into the capabilities of motion graphics and 3D modeling software (wow! -- mind-blowingly good, in expert hands). So I have some appreciation for the process and limitations of computer-based motion graphics and video production -- an appreciation that had me nodding my head in agreement as Simon Shack pointed out the artifacts he discovered in the 9/11 broadcast videos. The fabrication is self-evident. (Many, many thanks to Simon Shack for poring over all of the 9/11-related footage and producing his analysis videos!) It is my sense that any true resistance (as opposed to fake, CIA-sponsored resistance) to the September Clues discovery is an unfamiliarity with the state of the art of computer-based image/movie manipulation (and unfamiliarity with the fact that "TV journalists" are actors
portraying journalists). So I think an effective strategy of reaching most people about the 9/11 fabrication will involve an introduction to the technologies behind it (see footnote 1).
I was led to September Clues a few months ago by a link in an article by David Martin (aka "dcdave") about the death of Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham at age 84, just months prior to 9/11. Here is the quote:
"One doesn’t have to follow and accept everything that Simon Shack puts forward in his hour and a half long video, “September Clues,” to believe that prior planning went into the major media’s presentation of the events of 9/11."
Source:
http://www.dcdave.com/article5/120921.htm
The entire article is worth reading. David Martin describes the (lack of) media reporting on details of Graham's death. He points out that Graham’s multiple and "extensive" intracranial injuries were more consistent with a homicide (multiple intracranial injuries after falling on the sidewalk?), which begs the question: Was Graham not onboard with the 9/11 conspiracy? Martin suggests that her killing was a not-so-subtle reminder to all Western media members conspiring in the 9/11 events that a code of silence -- "omertà" as described on this website by Simon Shack — was expected of them from their masters.
Only tangentially related to all of this, but perhaps in order: My working hypothesis is that the Western (perhaps world?) elite operate as a mafia (mafias?) and that they've currently chosen "democracy" as the best social control system because it simultaneously placates the masses (politics as theatre/distraction/division) and effectively hides the identities and roles of the elites in their quest for world plunder. Contrast this with BC-era monarchies, where the buck truly stopped at the desk of the King/Queen. In democracy, the buck doesn't actually stop with the president or prime minister -- these public officials have relatively little power to change anything, or if they try they are assassinated by those that do have the power.
Okay, so given all the above background, my current interests are in educating people about the technology used to produce images and movies today, so that they can think more critically when presented with the 9/11 broadcast footage, amateur videos, "VicSims", etc. Further, I have a very young son. I can imagine he's going to be fed heaps of propaganda at school regarding politics and history. I am interested in hearing what other parents are doing to confront this attempt to indoctrinate their children and perhaps I would share my own relevant forthcoming experiences. I can imagine that there is a big risk of children being ostracized for rocking the boat where the Establishment Narrative is concerned. I would really be interested in a "how-to" book for parents regarding all of this, but I honestly haven't yet sought one out.
So that's an introduction to me and my application for admission to the CluesForum. Thanks for your consideration.
All the best,
Tom
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(1) I'm a lover of behind-the-scenes documentaries about how movies use special effects. I've recently posted a video called "Forrest Gump (1994) Movie Magic" to YouTube (it is an Unlisted video -- I'm essentially using YouTube to host it on their servers). I am going to share this and other videos with family and friends to provide some context for what is possible, technologically, in the "movie magic" space as well as a glimpse into the processes/mechanisms involved. For September Clues folks, note how professional the Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) and Skywalker Sound people are and how good the results are, graphics AND sound -- back in 1994! Puts the video/sound clowns behind the 9/11 footage to shame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9w3mOdEuxM&t=1 (the sound in this video has an annoying-but-tolerable echo, sorry!)
Another video I've posted concerns a more recent movie and it is interesting in that it nicely illustrates where rotoscoping and other graphic manipulation occurs and it also a nice visualization of the software-based layer metaphor (e.g., Adobe After Effects) in the production of a scene with a billowing cloud of dust.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqlfT11VmlQ
And another video showing a software-generated, billowing cloud of smoke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQZraoYBKa0