Hidden Message by Brad Troemel

1. sirwebster
   January 16th, 2009 at 4:12 am

   had to take the black one into photoshop to read it, the white and red ones i just looked at at an odd angle though, hooray for cheap lcd's

2. Alex
   January 16th, 2009 at 4:15 am

   Naw, man. You can read it at an oblique angle ...

3. Zecc
   January 16th, 2009 at 7:09 am

   I still can't read the last line.

4. SenorMysterioso
   January 16th, 2009 at 7:19 am

   I couldnt read this one without adjusting it, the other two were plain as day just by looking right at them

5. ted
   January 16th, 2009 at 7:43 am

   Couldn't read it. Kinda silly. The other two were pretty simple. Nothing to see here, folks.

6. Edward
   January 16th, 2009 at 10:23 am

   I have a hint for aspiring artists: When you hide a message, and then tell the world that you did it, be sure that the message is something worth the effort.

7. MikedeBC82
   January 16th, 2009 at 11:18 am

   for those who think these need photoshoppery.. try clicking and dragging the 'ghosts' of the blocks over each other.. voila. No adjustments needed. Way to overcomplicate things.

8. just a guy
   January 16th, 2009 at 11:40 am

   can't read black one. :c

   also, click and drag the images? O_o

9. Xerloq
   January 16th, 2009 at 11:43 am

   The ghosts thing didn't work for me. Magic Wand @ tolerance 1 worked on the black one. The other two were easy.

10. sw
    January 16th, 2009 at 11:56 am

    but why? not even an interesting message

11. Andrei
    January 16th, 2009 at 12:09 pm

    I just turned up the contrast on my monitor and i could read them fine

12. gwdMaine
    January 16th, 2009 at 12:15 pm

    Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.

13. Frau
    January 16th, 2009 at 12:20 pm

    Took the black one into a photo thingy and adjusted values. Maybe I didn't eat enough carrots as a child?

    But had no prob with the others.

14. Skipweasel
    January 16th, 2009 at 1:27 pm

    My son spent a happy holiday exchanging secret messages with a friend by printing them in speckly-filled yellow print on white paper. Very hard to read until you scan it.

    Recent printers add colour speckles in a predetermined pattern to let the government follow you up if you do naughty things.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography

15. doeabuck
    January 16th, 2009 at 2:53 pm

    that's really cool.
    my screen is at an angel to start with so no adjustments needed (:

16. Scotty A
    January 16th, 2009 at 6:07 pm

    Just stick it in Photoshop and turn the levels down.

17. matt
    January 16th, 2009 at 7:35 pm

    umm i just stood up and looked at my screen... no need for making it complicated

18. hohop
    January 16th, 2009 at 10:33 pm

    ########SPOILER BELOW##########

    ###############################

    For those that didn't have the time to stare long enough, the black panel reads:
    "ongradulations, you, are, the, millionth"

    Yes, I know the spelling is off for "congratulations" but that's what I could make out. (I reeeeeally stared)

    Can't say it was worth the 20 minutes. If only it had told me how to satiate my curiosity for lame, enigmatic art...

    #############SPOILER ABOVE#####################
    ###############################################

19. MikedeBC82
    January 17th, 2009 at 4:09 pm

    by clicking and dragging I meant if you click and drag any image (in firefox at least) you can drag around a transparency of that image.. if you drag the white block over the black you you can see faint white lettering.. same with the red one over the white one.. bleh

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