Yes, they changed the company name to VDS Vandersanden S.A. Maybe that’s the clue.
Looks like a series of postcards. Is B-16 really the Atomium postcard?
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Vandersanden leads to a.. brick company in Belgium. I’m struggling to find the reason why they would have such a company on a postcard.
The atomium is specifically NOT made of bricks.
There appears to be a faint image on the postcode. Could be a brick factory, the building appears to have chimneys.
Has anyone transcribed the faint writing on the postcard?
Is this confirmation to be a continuation of WT?
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From @YourBasicMaths on Discord:
Lieve mama,
Ik ben goed aangekomen op de Wereldtentoonstelling. Het is hier ontzettend druk, met paviljoenen en mensen uit alle hoeken van de wereld. Je hebt echt het gevoel dat je even in de toekomst terecht bent gekomen.
Morgen begin ik als hostess. Ik ben een beetje zenuwachtig, maar ook heel blij dat ik hier mag zijn.
Ik stuur je deze foto van het Atomium. Je kan bijna niet geloven hoe groot het is.
Veel liefs
Which translates to
Dear mom,
I arrived safely at the World Exhibition. It is extremely busy here, with pavilions and people from all over the world. You really have the feeling that you have ended up in the future.
Tomorrow I start as a hostess. I’m a little nervous, but also very happy to be here.
I’m sending you this photo of the Atomium. You can hardly believe how big it is.
Lots of love
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This is exactly it. Good catch!
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Worlds Fair 1958
Postcard from 2011
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Why is someone writing about the World’s Fair in Brussels on a postcard from 2011? The Atomium was built for a World’s Fair in 1958, but as far as I can tell there hasn’t been one held in Brussels since.
“Postcard from the Future-Past”…
Could the date of the postcard be the anomaly here?
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I can’t find any adjacent/near barcodes in the barcode finder, so if it does have this postcard, it’s not obvious to find - unless anyone has an idea how they may vary?
If anyone wants to try, there’s a checkdi git calculator here.
After all, this might be the Artefact (Postcard from the Future-Past) from Brussels,
being like 16/16 audiotape from London, Le forgeron… turning to dust.
… hey @the_architect just for your eyes only (https://youtu.be/vPRqkxD9SjY?t=24)
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#SLP47 and JUN.6, 2026 STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS Still unstable.
Looks like Marc Boseret made a series of postcards for Belgium. Simply typing ‘Marc Boseret Postcard’ on Ebay brings up a few others with the exact same format. No barcodes. A few more reference numbers come up, but not B-16.
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Yeah, he took a lot of Brugge, for example. I think B-16 may be a partial one, based on that other one. I think @the_architect cropped it to make it 16. I think it’s B-16x
Also, I think Full Feeling Images was his company.
(sorry, still no likes)
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Wasn’t B-16 one of the types of Atlas Passes issued during Waking Titan..?
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Yeah so… Kathleen.
She’s "Kathleen van Overstraeten. A hostess at the 1958 world fair. Fictional protagonist of the Belgian graphic novel series Sourire 58 (French) / Glimlach 58 (Dutch). Brussels Expo58 – Into the Gyre
Glimlach58 (written originally in French as Sourire58) is a fairly straightforward espionage story. Kathleen van Overstraeten is one of the hostesses of the Expo, one of a few hundred women employed to help VIP and public alike in their exploration of the site.
“Sur les traces de Kathleen” (“In the footsteps of Kathleen”): A guided walking tour in Brussels that follows the character’s fictional path through real Expo 58 locations (starts near Place de Brouckère). Organized by OntdekBrussel guides.
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Aaaanyway, @the_architect replaced them with VDS, so either we’re supposed to ignore FFI, or it was a way to make it harder to find them. Don’t really know how ARGs work in this respect.
I did find the address of FFI (and possibly MB’s home). It’s all in the public domain, but I won’t post it here. What’s slightly odd is that the house, and just that house, is obfuscated in street view. I don’t know why they do that, but it might be a sign to not go down that route. 
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Great find!
IIRC Place de Brouckère is one of the webcams on that site posted yesterday (was it only yesterday?)
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Out of 
. but great work @y’all
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