Virtual barbershop

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1. WOOOOOOOO!
2. Is it just my tired brain, or are we missing a link here?
3. And in the time it took me to check the source, type and submit, it appeared!
4. Yes, I heard this a couple of weeks ago and it’s very good. Almost unnerving in places. But certainly cleverly done.

   Enjoy your weekend too and can’t wait for the fun of The Events to really start up next week! 😀

   Take care,

   LC x
5. That was absolutely brilliant! I kept jumping, amazing…. I’m well impressed with this 🙂 🙂 Who knew my old ears were so clever???
6. I’ve done this before, it’s very cool! Well, as cool as getting a haircut can be…

   Squeeeee! Can’t wait til “The Event” starts!
7. This scares the bejesus out of me! x
8. Thank you soooo much, oh mighty mind reader! =) I’ve been looking for this for ages…
9. Done it before, brilliant 😀
10. That is amazing! x

    Also can’t wait for The Events stuff to start 😉
11. Oh that is wonderful! So beautifully recorded. I am listening to it now and can see the whole seen. Thank you!
12. what? monday now?…damn your devious
13. seen/heard this about 2 yr ago quality lol
    still think there should be more talk about “the events” nearly an anagram of seventeen lol
    more opinions on the ad clues ect cant wait till mon aaaaaarrrrrrgggggggghhhhh!
14. cannot wait! only 1 week left! roll on monday =)
15. Hmm. Beat you!

    http://derrenbrown.co.uk/scary-music-spookier-eyes-shut/#comment-16901
16. Ya I remember this. It’s really clever ^-^
17. I’ve been out all evening – not on the gin. Would a kind soul tell me what’s new on The Events front and what’s happening Monday? Pretty please? I forgot to set the Virgin Machine to record Ch4 before I ran out the door. I’m googling now for news.
18. This is so weird, and fortunate, for me, that you’ve posted this. My sister showed me it a couple of years ago and I recently remebered and kept telling my self to find, but got distracted each time. So thank you for posting this! x
19. Wow. I’m impressed. Thought he was coming right at me with that electric razor.
20. Thanks Derren,

    Was very interesting.
    I’ve played with some sound recording myself, funny how with some tweeking the mind can be fooled.
    When playing some ‘tweeked’ stereo sound recordings back through headphones, I remember wishing the seaguls would be quiet… only to realise they were in the background as part of the recording, haha.

    Hope you and the scooby gang all have a good weekend yourselve’s
    😀
    I’ve said it before… I’ll say it again (No, not “Man, I love being a turtle”)

    Peace people 🙂
21. I remember this from a couple years back. When I first heard it I was sitting in a cubical at work, and when the first door opens/shuts in the audio track, I swore it was an office behind me. The depth of the audio is so incredible.

    I remember at that time, there were people trying to trace the origins of the audio file … I think the consensus was that the audio was from a Disney attraction from many years ago.
22. That was brilliant! Thank you so much for sharing.
23. Very amazing but very scary – nearly had a heart attack on the last thing, and also felt clautrophobic with the bag thing. Realised had the head phones the wrong way round though when he was talking about l and r.

    Very good 🙂 Thanks Derren, was a lovely experience to wake up to tho – at one point i was worried about still being in my jim jams they felt so close – felt like a bit of an idiot! 🙂 Have a nice wkend too. xxx
24. Weird. He almost cut my ear off! And what a coincidence, I’m going to get my hair cut today (last time was over a year ago – i know, well overdue).
    Really excited about monday.
25. I had this on my phone last Christmas, kept me entertained for days!
26. yh that thing is freaky, cant wait for the events derren.
27. EEECCCHHHKKKK, The scissors made me flinch!

    The guy whispering in my Left ear was sooo, creepy! I swatted him away with my hand!

    **urrgghh, shivers up my spine, much**

    Can’t wait for Monday, Let ‘The Events’ begin!!!

    XX
28. how do you listen to it…? is there a play button?
29. Am I missing something? What’s happening on Monday?
30. Haha that was amaaarzing ! Very clever indeed.

    6 days till The Events w00tw00t <@:)
31. am i missing something how do you listen to this,plugged ear phones in and nothing happening.Help!!
32. Very, very clever, and not just a little disturbing. It’s ‘just’ an audio recording, yet I felt my hackles rise, my adrenalin kick in, flight or fight everytime I heard a sound.

    The team who made that could really mess with your head if they wanted to. All without physically harming you. Disturbing.
33. This creeped me out! especially the bit where they (virtually) put a bag over my head. I stopped breathing and felt like i couldnt breathe! :S
    and i jumped when the guy whispered in my ear. haha.
    it was a great piece of audio though.
    if you listen to the events advert it has a simelar sound to it.you can hear the cars go past and people and stuff.

    🙂
34. First I thought .. oh, I’m gonna listen to that on monday (no audio here), no problem. But after having read the comments … I’m sooo pissed .. I want to hear it now too …
35. Are we to listen to this again on Monday?
36. I am going for a real hair-cut tomorrow. How come you knew????
37. I’m a chicken :-p I was too scared to listen with earphones. Doesn’t really work without them. Sounds like it’s really good though so might try again with earphones later.

    x
38. Why do Virtual Barbershop and Exquisite Bodies come up when you type in The Events? Hmmmm…

    And I’ll never work anything out if I can’t even minus the days off that clock in the ad. I’m going mad. I’m sure time is shifting…

    But I can’t be sure of anything anymore.
39. Jay Kay- Clock? Have I missed something else? x
40. @Julie, look for the Events Comp ad. Go to any of the spoof websites eg http://www.forward-splash.com and a countdown clock will appear in the top left corner.
41. Thanks JayKay 🙂 It does if I click to go to The Events main page (3 days 17 hours and 31 minutes!!) but not on the other websites ? Is that right?

    Probably not significant again but what is the picture in the ‘O’ of Forward Splash on the forward splash wbsite? Can’t make it out.

    x
42. @ John

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUDTlvagjJA

    The link is actually on the “this” in post but ^ that’ll ^ do the same job for you 🙂

    I think they actually got the L & R the wrong way round though, so you may need to put your ear/head phones in/on the wrong way round to compensate.

    I decided to listen late at night, with all the lights off (and eyes closed)… although it wasn’t as ‘scary’ as I’d initially hoped 😉

    Peace people 😀
43. Argh… ok this is my 3rd attempt at trying to post this one, possibly spam filter working against me so I will leave out the ‘code’ quotation.

    On the forward-splash page I have noticed a couple of ‘odd’ things…

    1) In the source code of the page… ‘hidden’ in comment markers, there is an odd sequence of #tag’d numbers. Make of these what you will, just to add to the insanity inducing mystery, haha. Although please note, it could possibly be nothing of interest or relevance at all!
    😛

    Number 2 will follow (hopefully)…
44. 2) I’m not sure if anyone else has noticed this, or mentioned it before, so forgive me if i’m repeating old news (can’t find it mentioned when searching).

    On the foward splash page I notice the statement (under the heading “Death-slide not so deadly now”):

    “We’re also pleased to be able to report that last Summer’s problems encountered with Wrenderbom, our 47ft vertical slide, have been completely fixed! Our engineers discovered what’s technically called a ‘WN bend error’ in one of the pipes, but it’s been replaced and the slide is open for use once again! Hooray!”

    Can anyone else spot the REAL cause of the problem here? 😉

    …..
45. Julie, I dunno about that? It seems to come up each time I click on that ad wherever I’ve found it. Can’t really see anything in the O. And that was a mighty late night you had – posted 5.07am? Haha!
46. I think I’m missing an ear now…
47. It came up as a rapidshare wav, but google said it didn’t match anything. I don’t know anything about source code, so I’m lost from here. What is the REAL cause of the problem Mr Woolf?
48. It didn’t match, cos I didn’t include the whole thing – duh! But I got Domz, not rapidshare.
49. The problem with the water slide would appear to have been derren broWN all along, 😉

    I did, at first, think that the name of the slide could have also been an anagram of something, but after a little playing I couldn’t come up with much that made sense other than:
    be mr Wonder | red me broWn | doWn mr beer
    But let’s face it, they don’t make much sense either, haha.

    @ JayKay

    I only get the countdown clock on the main events site too not on forward splash page. I’ve tried it in a couple of different browsers.

    Peace People!
50. Mr Woolf, I meant that if you click on any of these sites, the ad then comes up and that’s where the clock is. You’re not missing anything on that front.