Aaron's Room

04:06 PM

Check out this screen cap from Aaron's room.

Do you find anything interesting in it? For sure I noticed the playing card in the monkey picture. It might be a seven of spades (Daniel's were queen of diamonds, six of clubs, three of spades - but Daniel guessed the ten of hearts) What else can you find that would be a link to past episodes? (The original picture of Aaron's room is from DarkUFO's site.)

What do you think the writing on top of the painting reads, queenbeesteph?

I remember saying to myself with this scene on "there must be tons of connections here now PAY ATTENTION" and ... didn't notice anything till this post

05:19 PM

I am wondering if it is Portuguese. I need to have my friend who grew up in both Brazil and on Madiera see if it is. (she understands both Brazilian and European Portuguese.) Or is it Russian?

I am really interesting in the playing card, though - is it code? We have Daniel and Charlotte with a deck of Swan Station Cards, on the ARG game Find815 we have a deck of cards as a clue on the Christiane I which seem to have a Swan Station Logo (and is showing us a queen of diamonds) and now we have a card in Aaron's room.

OK, the writing on top of the painting looks to me a fun list of major tempo's in which a classical piece can be played. If you notice the lower part of the painting includes a piano too. I was able to read (from top to bottom): adagio andante (first line), jubiloso largo (fourth line), misterioso (fifth line), presto (sixth line). It looks neither Portugese nor Italian fully- possibly Esperanto?

In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for "time", from Latin Tempus) is the speed or pace of a given piece

Andante — at a walking pace (76 - 108 bpm)
Largo — Very slow (40 - 60 bpm), like lento
Marcato — marching tempo
Misterioso - slightly slower than marcato
Presto — very fast (168 - 200 bpm)

Maybe it is a reference to the pace of the show
With only so many episodes left, things are going to start moving quickly??

haha, it's a play on words for different speeds...such as speed of time both on and off the island? in the case here, the pace of the music, but i think it's a wink wink to the passage of time itself as it will come up in next ep by daniel faraday about the islanders perception of time.

i also see a lot of black vs white: the piano keys a classic image of black and white; that is supposed to be a major theme of lost (the rocks found in the cave, locke's backgammon game) (did i spell backgammon right?)

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OK, the writing on top of the painting looks to me a fun list of major tempo's in which a classical piece can be played.

Great eyes, Flaneuse! I could not read those at all.

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In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for "time", from Latin Tempus)

Excellent observation, Folie! I bet it is just like pchee noted--> a play on different times.

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i also see a lot of black vs white: the piano keys a classic image of black and white; that is supposed to be a major theme of lost (the rocks found in the cave, locke's backgammon game)

Ooh! Pchee,YOU have good eyes, too! The black and white of the piano keys, the playing card the musical words... yes, black and white, yin/yang, light and dark are definitely themes of the show.

Everyone here is so good at catching the details. I'll watch the enhanced episode on Thursday and see if they mention anything about the bedroom. They have to say something.

I think there is a platypus on the dresser. They are from Australia.

About the card..
Lost has a lot of influence from Alice in Wonderland in it. Playing cards were a HUGE part of Alice in Wonderland.