About The Scarlett Kite

Scarlett's Story

Hi! I'm Scarlett Kiteway, I'm 20 years old, a journalism student in Perplex City and this is my blog all about the excitement over the search for the Cube. I'll be keeping track of what the media over there is saying about it, and maybe a little bit about my life as well!

 

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Thursday, April 28, 2005

This is funny

Category: web, 11:26 AM

A cartoon about us. I guess you guys liked my dad's surprise, then! Just wait and see what he has in store for you.... (I'm teasing, I shouldn't).

For some reason lots of you have been emailing me to ask when my birthday is, and what sign I am! Don't know why - I don't believe in that star sign stuff at all. It seems a bit silly. But, just to keep you happy, I'm an Archer. July 2nd. I love having a summer birthday - means I can always have a picnic or someair party. :-)

Friday, April 22, 2005

Catching up with you

Category: print, 11:17 AM

Oh oh! I've had these photos for a little while now, but forgot to put them up. I asked Dinah at MC (hi Dinah!) to take them for me when the MC guys set you all that little puzzle. So, some pix of you all at Abbey Road. Looks like it was a really fun day. Sad I couldn't be there :-(.

Oh and here's a great article from Liberation. I'm pretty sure that Adrian from MC's a real person - my dad's in contact with MC all the time right now, so I hope he's not making them up - still... I'm starting to have my doubts!

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Shhhh...

Category: me, 02:13 PM

Probably shouldn't say this, but everything's going a bit mad in my house right now. There seem to be people calling all hours, and my dad's really stressed out, so I'm hiding in my bedroom most of the time and sneaking down to make toast when they've all gone! Sigh. This is not going to make me a top reporter... On the other hand, it means I'm getting way more studying done than usual. Term paper on Classical Riddles is almost finished. Yay!

Still, it's a bit tiring living here right now. I just don't want to upset my dad by asking him questions when he's so exhausted. I guess you've all seen the leak at the Sentinel; I know there's something planned for Friday but, before you ask, I don't know what it is and if I did I probably couldn't tell you! I'm sure you'll love it. :-)

Hmmm... time for toast, I think....

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

I give in!

Category: me, 04:49 PM

So, I've received a huge pile of emails (can you have a pile of emails? A flurry, maybe? ;-)) asking about keys. This is another one of those questions that's tough to answer... to find parallels that'll make sense to you. I'm talking to a couple of people at the Academy, Von and my sister's friend Kurt, and they're going to come up with some useful analogies for me. Watch this space!

Meanwhile... Another ambigram has arrived! This one's just for me and my blog :-). A guy called Bruce has sent it over and I love it. Thank you!

Monday, April 18, 2005

Questions, questions, questions....

Category: web, 06:25 PM

Has to be a short one today! I'm going out this evening... dinner at Conundra with Violet and some of her friends! Seems like a perfect opportunity to answer the question that keeps being sent through: "what is your sister like?" So, ummm... :-) like most older sisters she always thinks she knows best! She's cool, though, doesn't complain too much when I borrow her clothes, and she does ask me out sometimes with her friends. All in all, love you sis!

And, just to continue the theme of brevity, this only has a little mention of us, but I thought I'd put it in anyway. I like hearing about these puzzle-solving teams... you're obviously the ideal people to find the cube!

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Blushing...

Category: print, 12:11 PM

Looking at all your emails (they just keep coming, wow!) I feel like I want to say a couple of things. One is: thank you so much for being so lovely and supportive and kind about my blog. You're all just wonderful! (Well, all apart from this one guy who called me an "insolent child". I'd hate to see how he'd write to my dad! ;-)) And the other is... thank you for all your lovely emails about me. I don't think I've ever had quite so many offers all at once! You're all very sweet, and I hope you don't mind that I'm not writing back to you individually. And hey, if we ever find a way to get, you know, things over to your world, maybe I can be in touch with you!

Till then... nose back to the grindstone. This article is great. I'd forgotten that you guys had seen that postcard of the city. It's beautiful, huh? I love looking at the city at night, when it's all lit up. The view across the park from my house is so peaceful, even though I know the city's full of busy-ness...

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Ambigram

Category: me, 04:33 PM

So many emails, so little time! A guy called Brett has sent me this great ambigram of "Perplex City". Turn your head upside down (or, you know, turn the paper upside down, whichever works better for you...) and it looks the same! Very cool.

Oh and I wanted to say hi to Jemima, who's been emailing me even though she's not well. I'm sorry, Jemima - I hope you feel better soon. And, to answer your question, yes we get sick too. Some awful flu went round everyone I knew last winter; we all felt pretty low for ages. So, loads of sympathy to you!

Friday, April 8, 2005

What's wrong with this picture?

Category: print, 12:35 PM

Hello all!

Time for the next installment of Scarlett's Amazing Answers to All Your Perplex City Questions. :-D This is fun! I never realised there were so many things I knew about that other people would be interested in! So, quite a few people have asked "what's up with the pictures?" My first thought was: Hey! I thought they looked pretty good! But, looking a bit closer, it seems like you're asking why we use drawings a lot, not photographs. I had to think a bit about this one. (Scratches head.) It's kinda weird to work out why things are the way they are, you know?

I asked my sister, and she showed me in some old books and papers that we used to use photos a lot more. So... I think it's a "cool" thing. Like, when photos were pretty new we seemed to use them a lot, and now that they've been around for a while, not so much. I mean, it's not like we need them for ID, and you can get a lot of live feeds with your key so... they're a bit irrelevant. :-( (Feels sad for photographs.) I did see an amazing exhibit of photographs of leaves at the Restructure Gallery a few months ago, though.

Phew! Now I'm done with the anthropology, a bit more investigating your world! Much more interesting, to me at least :-). Here's an article that mentions Adrian from MC again! Seems like all he does is give interviews ;-). I love that story about the guy running to get his guitar - you have some amazing ways to have fun!

Thursday, April 7, 2005

Not the Cube... but really clever

Category: web, 01:09 PM

I'm still getting so many emails from you guys! It's great, and the guys at the Academy are really pleased that the connection between us is working so well. Don't have time to answer a question today, but promise I will very soon.

I found another cube that's not ours! But this time you can actually move it around and look at it... Very cool.

Tuesday, April 5, 2005

The mysterious cube ;-)

Category: print, 11:04 AM

Just a quick post but... huge-enormous article in the Guardian yesterday about us! Mentions Michael from MC who I know my dad's been in contact with quite a bit. I don't know all the details of what they've been planning together, but the bits I've seen look amazing. I can't wait for you guys to see it too!

When the guys from MC sent me over the story, though, I noticed it says that the "mysterious cube" is "pictured above". Which it is not! :-D That's not a picture of the cube - I should know, my dad took me and my sister to the Museum to see it enough times!

Here's the picture:

It's not the real thing, but it is pretty cute!

Now for an answer to a question.... So many questions, so little time! So, just a quick one for today: A few people have asked if they can access The Column. The answer is... sadly not if you're not in Perplex City :-(. Maybe one day, but I don't think providing access to student newspapers is top on the Academy's priority list right now!

Monday, April 4, 2005

Zowie!

Category: print, 05:04 PM

Oh wow, so suddenly I get about 50 million emails from all you guys! Amazing, I'm just so (blush) flattered, and excited to hear from you all. You've asked so many questions about the city, and about me and the cube... I just don't know where to start. Mission number two then: not only to keep up with the press, but also to try to answer some of your questions!

Hope you won't mind if I start with kind of an easy one ;-) A couple of people asked what Ascendancy Point is. Easy! It's the big spiky thing at the bottom of this page! Heh. Not just at the bottom of this page, though.... It's the tallest building in the city. It's ummm... (goes to look up info) apparently 1.3km tall, and is just amazing inside. Like, it's so huge that people say you could live for weeks without leaving it. (It'd be kinda weird to do that though :-))But they have all these great restaurants near the top - the sweet rolls at the Red Hot Bakery are just fantastic. Ooh, and the 125th floor is this foresty sort of garden. Sooo peaceful.

And, now I've made a start, today's bit of media! (Loads of those to get through too :-)). Here's a cool one.
We're hot! And the guys at MC say that we've had loads of sign-ups on that page, so I guess we must be!

Friday, April 1, 2005

Hello World!

Category: print, 10:04 AM

Hi everyone! So, there are some bits of info about me and this site available over to the side but first of all, Well Done for finding me! I just knew those boring people at the Sentinel would delete my URL, but I thought it was about time you guys knew where I was. I was sure you'd all be up to a little challenge.... Plus, they really are extraordinarily trite at the Sentinel. Tee hee.
:-)

Anyway, what I'm mostly going to do here is talk about the media from your world. The feeds are kind of slow coming through (all your internet and stuff comes to us through the Academy) but we're getting there... (yawn yawn, this guy Von at the Academy seems to get everything more quickly than I do - he's always boasting about it). And, yeah, my dad keeps saying how you'll be interested to hear about my life, so a bit of that too! And, OK, before you ask, no I didn't steal the Cube. And no, I don't know who did! Wish I did... that'd get me a job on the Sentinel for sure! ;-)

Time to get going on these press links.... There's so much to catch up on already. So over the next few days I'm going to be finding all those links I know I've put here somewhere and putting them up for you all to see what's been going on!

And for my first trick (drumroll....)
Crazyexciting! An article in the Times! And it talks a lot about Adrian from MC - I've emailed him myself (waves) - hi Adrian! And it's so amazing to hear how interested you guys are in us... after we've spent so long hearing about you!