Brief update with 4 days to go. Score is: CE 82 / Urbanists 205 / Codemakers 211
Crossmedia Ecologist: she is missing in action. Strange coincidence given this. Posting it on your own blog won’t draw suspicion…
Locative Urbanist: renewed hope with a score of 205. The autonomous city-cum-program lives again?
Master Codemaker: off on his own mission it seems. Check this out and the message received from him in the field – - -
‘The revelation is at hand.
The MasterCodemaker invites players to seek out the final co-ordinates in the Ludean origins of Melbourne. Two maps will be shortly posted that will guide you to your final destinations. Seek out the true identity of Rebus Stroller!’
MC.
Rezone the city through play indeed.
2 unique tags found at the map locations. Pics will be posted ASAP
Ok, flickr is annoying me. So here are the links to the pictures of the wooden tags on my facebook page-
http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?id=100001233773710&pid=371724
(Found at the state library)
and
http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?id=100001233773710&pid=371725&fbid=161735433877581
(found on the hoddle bridge)
Therefore, Rebus Stroller = Robert Russell
Bold Herder To = Robert Hoddle
So what does that make the ‘Gelded Third Ho’ as described by the Master Codemaker at http://urbancodemakers.net/blog/183/ ?
The Hoddle Grid
Jampd: can you describe where you found the tags, what you think they are, and what do you think they mean?
chicken: what is the connection between all three?
Superficial connection: Russell created the first plan for Melbourne (beyond his remit). Hoddle used this as the basis for his more famous plan, the main element of which is known as the Hoddle Grid. As to what the vertical line / three box symbol means, I’m still to make the link… I’m not seeing an overlay to the Grid…
Far from a superficial connection. The symbol in question is nothing less than an early Ludean rendering of the Gelded Third Ho; drafted, no less, by its original and, until today (see MasterCodemaker’s final post) usurped designer, Rebus Stroller.
You would be well served to seek out documents in the Public Records Office (from the Victorian Government Gazette) cited in the MasterCodemaker’s Planning Reclamation Project application (see on Urban Codemakers blog) to witness how Rebus Stroller (aka Robert Russell) was indeed within his remit, under the imprimatur of the Colophon Rippley Ti, to design what came to be known as the “Hoddle Grid”– though soon to be renamed the Russell Grid.
Ah, now I understand the point of this project.
On the symbol: So there was a diagram of the Grid by Russell in the Gazette? Interesting.
On colophon: I can’t quite decode “colophon…” from the Third Language. The best I can do is “Port Philip Colony”. It doesn’t quite work. I would have expected Port Phillip Association (or indeed NSW Government) in any event. I’ll have to wander down to the State Library sometime to look at the old Gazettes.