POST 07 - WHERE ARE ALVAR'S CHILDREN? HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT

A picture of Alvar’s (?) children showed up on the internet yesterday on the WhereIsAlvar.com website before it went live. The image has since been posted to Lostpedia. It’s an obviously doctored photo. Fuzzy black-and-white images show through even to a casual viewer. We don’t know exactly what images hide behind the smiling kids, but we do know that the subject of hidden images and lost children go together in The Lost Experience.

It was the clown map picture (from an earlier post) that decided us to look for clues in places no one else seemed to be looking. The Lost Experience has been filled with images—maps, memos, glyphs, and other unexplained pictures, like those fuzzy jungle scenes that led us to the dharma shark.

Then there are all the unexplained, cryptic images on the Dharma Orientation Video. So, with nonexistent skills and access to Gimp, a Photoshop-like program, we started tinkering with the images.

Each one contained other images, sometimes several layers of images. Perhaps someone with excellent Photoshopping skills could make clear sense of all they contain, but so far the hidden images are as ambiguous as the original Dharma Orientation shots.
However, a story does begin to emerge.

The Lost Children

The images seem to relate a story of catastrophe from a child’s point of view. Twins, a blonde and a brunette are often depicted. Toys, which seem to be featured players, include a robot, a rabbit, a Barbie doll, a teddy bear (sometimes dressed as a clown), a chicken and a black hobby or rocking horse. A white puppy and a white dog are also integral to the tale. And, of course, clowns. Enough to fill, say, 108 clown cars.

(The top image is from the “Orientation Testing Issue 1980” video from the hacked and closed Hanso Foundation website. The bottom image is the same image tweaked. See any clowns?)

A place suspended above ground by pillars is featured, and when the catastrophe strikes the pillars crumble from the bottom upward while the children and their toys appear to be scrambling either up away from the crumbling part or down toward solid ground. One interpretation might be that the children are left behind to fend for themselves. There is also a button or a switch that looks a little like a Pez dispenser that shows up frequently. It looks like the button the dog is about to push in the chocolate video. Don’t know what we mean? Try running the video frame by frame and images will pop up out of the chocolate. "The Chocolate Video" can be found here.

We’re going to keep Gimping along to try to unravel the secrets that have been hiding in plain sight from the beginning. We’d welcome anyone with Photoshopping expertise to join in this hunt. And remember that the back story here concerns two displaced children in trauma. While the Experience world searches glyphs we’ll keep searching for hidden images. The mysterious answer surrounding their lives lies buried somewhere deep within them…