Why don't law enforcement officers have miniature audio recorders? With today's technology, they could even have miniature video cameras, similar to the tiny "ref cams" used by referees in some sports.

It would be for the protection of both the public and the officer.

Good song, good try, bad audio recording and acoustics.

>> ^braindonut:
seems like it is just automating through preset samples - I fail to see how this is unique from any talented keyboardist performance, tbh. I wouldn't really call it a one person orchesta... Or maybe I'm missing something.

So what makes a Pianist great? At the end they're all just playing the same notes from memory, over and over again, aren't they?

This woman took a pretty unique instrument and programmed it herself to create every aspect of this performance. The timing, the precision and the sheer amount of practice it must have taken to get this perfectly right are pretty incredible.

What makes this a one-person orchestra? Try taking an audio recording of this performance, play it to someone who hasn't heard it before and then ask them how many people are playing. One won't be an answer anyone not familiar with this would give.

knows so much about video effects but nothing about proper audio recording...

rgroom1:
Kanye West's brilliant oration. Mike Myers sounds intelligible, Kanye sounds like a moron.


You sound like a moron. Must be nice not to feel empathy. It seems a lot of people only recall the final comment, that 'GW hates black people.' Is this statement so over-the-top that it negates the very real observations made prior? Kanye is literally heartbroken, you can hear it in his voice and you can see it in his eyes. This moment had as much impact on me during the catastrophe as the 911 audio recordings of people trapped in their homes drowning as the water level rose.

>> ^dag:
What causes all the radio signals from gas giants?
How are they translated from radio into sound? Is it kind of an arbitrary sampling where they pick a range?


http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/media/cassini-072505.html
"The high-resolution measurements allow scientists to convert the radio waves into audio recordings by shifting the frequencies down into the audio frequency range."

>> ^blankfist:
Is this game really as awesome as everyone says?


Any game where using the sound files allows you to make a fairly involved audio recording of gay rape can't be all bad.

Definitely not a live performance.

edit.
In fact if you compare with the Lotr vid, it's the exact same audio recording.

So for who else was looking for the original, the guy's name is Nicholas Lovelady, and the audio clip was apparently first made public here
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6507106
(that is also where the laugh 'track' is coming, I figured Obama did it on a talk show or something, but the laughing comes from playing the audio recording in a program with audience I guess)

3 PC desktops (one set up for audio recording, the other two, cheapies for the kids to mess around on), 1 Mac desktop
1 PC laptop, 1 Macbook Pro

The PC laptop has only needed to be completely reformatted 3 times, so I'm doing pretty good with it.
I had a PC desktop die a slow agonizing death last week, taking its last breath several hours after a complete reformat and re-installation. That's why I now have the Mac desktop. I'm not feeling PC love at the moment.

Here I am in all my hyperallergenic middle class vegetarian stereotypical glory.


1. What do you do when you are not on the computer?

eat vegetarian food, fuck a vegetarian, buy vegetables, that sort of thing.
And make music, but that's on a computer... so.... but I play trumpet... Into a computer.


2. Approximate the percentage of time you work and you play on a computer.

like all the freaking time. since i was 5. asthma (see hatred of cars below)
but mostly design or chatting to people back home, i am not a hardcore leet geek hacker or something.
i like any sport that's wet, but i don't live near a lake or sea, so i don't do much sport.
I DJ, with proper records, dnb, dubstep, triphop... no computer. Then i upload the mix into a computer.


3. If you had a time machine would you travel to an era in the past or future? Explain.

depends if you can guarantee my safety, if so, i would like to see the future. but not my own future.


4. What is your ratio of pairs of shoes to undergarments?

1 to 20


5. Do you wear boxers or briefs?

i think you call them trunks.


6. Do you have a Mac, PC or Linux?

mac, but honestly it's only half as annoying as a pc.


7. Would you prefer death by firing squad or salmonella poisoning?

yo firing squad for real. what kind of idiot says anything else? i turned vegetarian after bad food poisoning so, no thanks, not again.


8. Do is you add sprinkles, gravy, nuts or a cherry on top?

gravy? on top of what?


9. Are you a tits, ass, or legs man?

yes.


10. What kind of pet(s) do you have? Include name(s).

none, i would have a cat if i wasn't allergic and i liked the smell of cat piss, i would call it tony blair. no, i would call it whatever my girl wants to call it (see previous question)


11. What is your favorite kind of taco?

those things that break when you bite them and spill meat all over you which (did i mention) i don't eat?


12. What is your favorite source for news?

videosift


13. What is your beer preference? Or other beverage (poison) of choice?

beeeeeer. anything english from a local brewery. Or Svyturys in Lithuania if i want lager, or a real lithuanian live beer, preferably dark. I feel old just typing this. I even like whisky now.


14. Have you ever been arrested?

No. Searched, but they didn't find it hahahahah.


15. Which is your Cheetos preference: Crunchy Cheese or Puffs?

Yikes. You eat that shit?


16. How would you describe your coif: bangs, balding or rug?

bangs wtf?
it's just off the collar, and a bit girly.


17. Is your face clean-shaven or do you have a beard, a goatee or a mustache?

smooth skin: kiss.
scabby red itchy hairy prickly skin: no kiss.


18. List your five most cherished possessions.

any video or audio recording i ever made.
banksy print, powerbook, trumpet, erm... i haven't got much else.


19. What religion did you practice as a child?

anglican christianity, but i didn't get it.


20. What is your favorite childhood memory?

yikes.
can't choose a favourite. i get vivid flashbacks though, normally embarassment or mundanity.
probably best feeling was sailing, in the sun, in a one man boat.
what i didn't like was the time i fell off waterskiing and forgot to clench my buttocks and about 30 litres of water raped me.


21. What was your favorite childhood television show?

terrahawks (gerry anderson... i think i have a sift somewhere)
things that fly out of buildings into space are awwwwweeeeeesssssssommmmeee.

22. What is your most sacred personal rant?

people should fucking create their own shit, and the government should invest more in creativity and education, capitalism alone doesn't work for art.

also cars and outdoor advertising should be banned. especially outdoor advertising of cars.


23. What is a reason not to go to Burning Man?

it's thousands of miles away and the water's expensive?


24. Who is your favorite Sift Hero?

choggie for insisting on creativity, literally with every word he writes.


25. How would your characterize SiftBot: slave, servant or secret overlord?

fiction


26. Do you have any image(s) of yourself online that you're willing to share?

if the roast is fun i am willing to unmask myself a bit. maybe some music. but i post as MINK, not myself, so my face is not relevant to the roast.


27. What is your quest?

to make 100% of my money from creativity and to spread that around. sounds lofty, but so does the word "quest". I do hope that after i die, someone enjoys something I made, and they say "hey, that guy made cool shit, shame he's dead". That's all.


28. What is your favorite color?

red. aries. what can i do.

Let the record show that I resent the male meat eating american bias in these questions but i'm like cool with it, you know, you can't help being a freaking yank.

I admit it - I downvoted.

You pasted the wrong description.

Instead of pasting the description for "#7. - Listen Up" you pasted the description for "#9. My Lil' Reminder".

Here it is:

Listen Up, a hearing aid for people who can't admit they need a hearing aid, has the added bonus of endowing users with super-hearing so that they can eavesdrop and generally hear things they aren't supposed to.

Hey, that's the My Lil' Reminder chick. The poor dear must have tried playing back her audio recordings only to discover that she was going deaf, too.

The hyperbole:
It starts with the old guy listening to the TV and then his radio too loud, then getting totally owned by his harpy of a wife. He takes it surprisingly well (his grin is slightly maniacal), perhaps because he couldn't hear what she was saying.

Then the whole thing strays into the reprehensible, when it boasts that you can eavesdrop on people's private conversations from "Up to 100 feet away."

Then there's a shot of an elderly couple using it in church. We found it weird that they would market their product to both eavesdroppers and church-goers in the same ad. But then isn't God the biggest spy there is?

The reality:
The false advertising is blatant. For example, the guy at the football game can apparently hear the quarterback call plays in the huddle from the stands. Unless the Listen Up is capable of some fancy Fourier analysis for isolating specific sounds, and you can be sure that it is not, then he would bleed from the ears due to amplified crowd noise before ever hearing a single call. The only reason his ears aren't bleeding is because, as the customer reviews can tell you, the piece of crap doesn't work:

I totally agree.. it's transparency. Would Foley have fessed up without the IM transcripts? Would OJ be in doodoo if not for the audio recording? Nope. Those kinds of records make it real.

Sure looks like this cop belongs in Jail.. sadist.

I'm pretty sure that this is from the recently released Led Zeppelin double-DVD. The sound is from a different concert than the video. The video is from Australia (Feb, '72) and the audio is from LA the following summer. I think they purposely blur and distort the video to hide the differences and help make it fit the music better. I think it works, giving us a fitting video to a great audio recording from about the same time. If you like Zeppelin at all, then I totally recommend the DVD--MUCH better than "Song Remains the Same". This is the only clip on it where they mix audio and video from different sources. It's amazing that all that great material sat around unseen for 20-30 years.

Agreed that we could have had a viable electric car by now that could go hundreds of miles on one charge IF the big car companies set their R+D brains to it and it was fully backed by the government. You know it only took our engineers approx. seven years to develop a "vehicle" that took three men to the moon (in 1969 for a nice moon walk on the surface for two) and back here to Earth.

Our government needs to require the car companies to produce a workable affordable vehicle starting NOW to get out from under the need for Middle Eastern oil which is ruining the environment. It is a absurd situation we are in.

I do wonder what our world would be like if the inventions of Nicola Tesla were allowed to be developed. Wireless free energy is quite a concept. He had hundreds of patents for his numerous inventions---a true genius. It is a shame that his competitor, Edison, resorted to Mafioso thuggery to stamp out the ideas of any competitor he viewed as a threat (including Tesla). It is hard to fathom the fact that the man who developed + invented the electric light bulb as well as the "recording arts" of 35 mm film movies (around 1888) and audio recording had a group of thugs sent out to stop his competition. Edison was inspired by the work of Muybridge in 1888 who made some rudimentary "movies" which had some very beautiful nude+natural females in them as the very first movie actresses. Edison went on to invent 35 mm film and the first Movie Production Studio. He was an enigma who had genius none the less.

It is also an amazing fact that Edison actually developed+produced Electric Cars from 1907 to 1915--the Bailey-Edison Electric Phaeton Cars which ran on electricity A CENTURY AGO ! They could go 100 miles on a single charge purportedly. Amazing, isn't it ?

Who killed the electric car a century ago ?