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“And this is where things get weird. Because you can’t eat money or wear it or shelter yourself with it. You can only spend it. Money is the legal ability to consume stuff that other people have produced.”
when the going gets tough, the tough go home, put on their jammie pants and favorite sleepytime t-shirt, and encase themselves in a super soft woolie sweater before 6:00pm.
phil can gauge how tough the day has been by my shirt choice and the rapidity with which i’m changed into jammies.
particle fever: pacing that creates a sense of urgency, you’re taken along on a ride through a passion for scientific explanation. thought this would be a simple nerd fest, turned out to be so much more.
we are the best!: assumed this to be a coming of age tale and was happily surprised to find more. lots of feminist issues woven throughout, this is a smart, unsaccharine view into the oddballness of the tween transition.
deceptive practice: if any part of you likes a good card trick, watch this. even if you’re not about magic, this is a worthwhile look into the history of the art of card tricks and into the life of a contemporary (and amazing) practitioner of the art.
The Metallica hit Enter Sandman, played backwards and then listened to forwards by YouTube sensation Rob Scallon, only gets more interesting the more you examine it.
Covers of Metallica’s music have been in the news several times over the last few weeks. There were the girls who played a rockin’ version of Metallica’s Enter Sandman, and the finnish band, Steve’N’Seagulls, who offered up a new video of themselves covering Metallica’s Seek & Destroy in a decidedly hillbilly, bluegrass fashion.
Now, the latest Metallica cover to hit the net is the strangest yet. Rob Scallon records music completely backwards. That’s not to say that his technique is wrong, but it is actually backwards. Scallon figures out the sounds of all the instruments and the vocals if they were to be played backwards, and records them like that himself. When the backwards track is then played backwards, you get the song – in this case, Metallica’s Enter Sandman – played forwards.
Confused? You’re not alone.
Here’s Rob Scallon’s backwards, yet played forward, video for Metallica’s Enter Sandman.
What’s really amazing about Rob’s crazy rendition of the Metallica mega-hit, is that not only does he have to write out and sing all the words phonetically, so he can sing them backwards, he also has to learn Kirk Hammett’s ripping guitar solos in reverse!
Here’s another video of Scallon’s Metallica cover, but this is the original, backwards – as recorded – version.
Not only does Scallon include all the word sounds in their proper order, but he also hits tone and accents, mimicking the way Metallica frontman James Hetfield actually sings the song. You might think that learning how to play Metallica’s Enter Sandman isn’t the most difficult of tasks. Let’s face it, the song is pretty basic, though learning the guitar solo would prove to be tremendously difficult. However, Scallon is calling this month Maytellica, and he pledges to deliver another new backwards cover of a new Metallica song each and every week. (Next week’s offering will reportedly be from Metallica’s debut album, Kill ‘em All.) Rob’s Metallica cover has become a bona-fide phenomenon with over a million hits on YouTube.
A million views on Enter Sandman already! Definitely a new record for me. Thanks everyone!
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Janne was shooting with a Nikon D800 and 100-300mm lens at 300mm, f/8, and ISO 100. The trick behind the shot was a 10-stop neutral density filter, which greatly cut down the amount of light hitting the sensor and allowed Janne to shoot a 2258-second exposure.
You can see the moon trail a bit larger here, and see more of Janne’s photos from around Finland on Flickr. (via PetaPixel)
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