Stoned Ape Theory

Just remember folks, its just a theory.

Edited: January 5th, 2012

Breakz 5 – A Great, Natural Solution to RSI and Carpal Tunnel

Edited: November 4th, 2011

Music Mondays: ATAM004 – Massaad + Garland – Atmosphere

Edited: March 21st, 2011

Music Mondays: Inverse Phase (8-bit Cee Lo – Fuck You parody)

Edited: October 4th, 2010

Guitar Hero or Guitar God

Like many music lovers I learned guitar when I was in high school. I saw my first music video showcasing some really hot licks and I instnatly fell in love; I needed to master those six strings.

Unfortunately it’s not as simple as getting your hands on the instrument. There is tuning, pracice and guitar lessons that all helped to get me off my feet.

I have taken many classes to improve my skill, but this one tiny product helped me imensely. If you want to take your guitar skills to the next level find out about the Pentatonic Primer by Clicking Here!

Edited: May 7th, 2010

New Rubber Tiles could help with Soundproofing bass

By Alex Massaad

THE rumbling bass from the party animals next door need no longer keep you awake at night. Cheap and effective soundproofing can be yours in the shape of novel tiles made from latex and a few plastic buttons.

Low-frequency sounds, especially, seem to seep through most domestic walls. That’s because of their long wavelength, says Zhiyu Yang at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Kowloon. Bass sounds at 100 hertz have a wavelength of over 3 metres in air, “and several times longer in solids”, he says.

To block out all sound, buildings would need walls several metres thick. Now Yang and his team have developed soundproof panels made of latex and plastic buttons, that will do the job (Applied Physics Letters, DOI: 10.1063/1.3299007).

These noise-cancelling panels consist of a latex rubber membrane stretched over a 3-millimetre-thick rigid plastic grid of 1-centimetre-wide squares. In the middle of each square is a small, weighted, plastic button.

When sound waves hit the panel, the membrane and weighted buttons resonate at difference frequencies. “The inner part of the membrane vibrates in opposite phase to the outer region,” says Yang. That means the sound waves cancel each other out and no sound gets through.

Each weighted membrane only cancels out sound waves within a small band of frequencies. But changing the weight of the buttons alters the operational frequency, says Yang. By stacking five membranes together, each tuned to a specific band, you can create a soundproof panel that works in the range from 70 to 550 hertz.

With these panels you can soundproof homes, says Yang. And the panel’s weight is equivalent to ceramic bathroom tiles, “although it’s slightly thicker at 15 millimetres”, he adds.

The panels could be used “in noisy environments such as airports”, says Xuanlai Fang at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. “If these metamaterials can be manufactured economically, the impact can be very significant.”

Edited: February 27th, 2010

The XX vs Alan Fitzpatrick & Reset Robot – Silicone Shelter – King Unique Bootleg download

I’ve been listening to this for a long time now, and I really love this song. While this zippyshare download isn’t a release quality link, it does allow me to play this song out to more people who can love it too via iTunes or Ableton!

You can download this song here: The XX vs Alan Fitzpatrick & Reset Robot -Silicone Shelter (King Unique Bootleg) on zippyshare

Here’s proof that our future is not becoming less free.

Edited: February 3rd, 2010

The History of the Boombox

This NPR video looks at the history of the boombox:

The boxes had to be big, to make that bass boom. The speakers in early boxes had extra-large magnets to push all that air around, and they were housed in heavy metal casing to deal with the vibrations from all the bass. Fab 5 Freddy says they got pretty big.

“I remember some boxes so big, they required 20 D-size batteries to an already heavy box,” he says. “So these boxes were so heavy that some cats that would carry their boxes all the time, they would develop massive forearms and biceps.”

The boxes were part of a style that included white Adidas and big gold chains. Freddy was a filmmaker and artist at the time, and he says he took his box everywhere.

“I traveled with my massive boombox,” Freddy says. “That thing moved with me, you know. I remember, like, being on the plane — it couldn’t go in the overhead bin, but that was my baby. It traveled first class right along with me.”

Doesn’t it make you want to go hunting for a vintage boombox?

via noiseforairports

Edited: January 27th, 2010

Merry Christmas from Little Boots

Little Boots records a special merry christmas song. I love how she made a Christmas video specially for the Internet. Awww

Edited: December 30th, 2009

Laser Synth!

Edited: November 25th, 2009