Piano Tuna... Parallax Error Beheads You.
October 11, 2008 2:50 PM Subscribe
I don't know how I feel about this post.
But anyway I've heard the upcoming album, and it BLEW MY GODDAMN MIND. Album of the year, easily.
posted by naju at 3:09 PM on October 11, 2008
But anyway I've heard the upcoming album, and it BLEW MY GODDAMN MIND. Album of the year, easily.
posted by naju at 3:09 PM on October 11, 2008
All that glitchin' is making me itch :)
the sound of mathematics
posted by vronsky at 3:14 PM on October 11, 2008
the sound of mathematics
posted by vronsky at 3:14 PM on October 11, 2008
Max Tundra is a genius. And he still uses an Amiga to make his songs.
Best lyric on the new album: "I found a girl on Google Image Search, she was in the background in a picture of a church"
Quite possibly the only album to come in the ground-breaking 'can of soup' format.
posted by tapeguy at 3:21 PM on October 11, 2008
Best lyric on the new album: "I found a girl on Google Image Search, she was in the background in a picture of a church"
Quite possibly the only album to come in the ground-breaking 'can of soup' format.
posted by tapeguy at 3:21 PM on October 11, 2008
What they said, 'cept I'll throw in a "fuck yeah," because that's how I roll.
posted by sleepy pete at 3:29 PM on October 11, 2008
posted by sleepy pete at 3:29 PM on October 11, 2008
He's absolutely fantastic live, too, which you maybe wouldn't expect from a laptop an Amiga musician. (Also, possibly the most fun I ever had while DJing involved Mr. Tundra gathering together all the other short men he could find in the club for a tiny dance off.)
posted by jack_mo at 3:55 PM on October 11, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by jack_mo at 3:55 PM on October 11, 2008 [1 favorite]
HOLY FUCK WHAT DID YOU PUT IN MY COFFEE!?
posted by loquacious at 3:56 PM on October 11, 2008
posted by loquacious at 3:56 PM on October 11, 2008
The 1st and 2nd videos tickled me. Thanks!
posted by not_on_display at 4:14 PM on October 11, 2008
posted by not_on_display at 4:14 PM on October 11, 2008
Another great lyric:
"Did you ever see The Holy Mountain on ice?
Thirty tons of frogs and blood, cascading like dice?"
posted by naju at 4:54 PM on October 11, 2008
"Did you ever see The Holy Mountain on ice?
Thirty tons of frogs and blood, cascading like dice?"
posted by naju at 4:54 PM on October 11, 2008
"what's glitchin?"
Not much dude, what's glitchin' with you?
(not really sure faze, I was making a dumb reply to rabbitsnake. Hey rabbitsnake, what's glitchin'?)
max reminds me of this :)
posted by vronsky at 5:00 PM on October 11, 2008 [2 favorites]
Not much dude, what's glitchin' with you?
(not really sure faze, I was making a dumb reply to rabbitsnake. Hey rabbitsnake, what's glitchin'?)
max reminds me of this :)
posted by vronsky at 5:00 PM on October 11, 2008 [2 favorites]
new album, yay! he's an eight-armed prince :P
speaking of parallax...
posted by kliuless at 6:45 PM on October 11, 2008
speaking of parallax...
posted by kliuless at 6:45 PM on October 11, 2008
"The sky is blue because air is blue.
This one isn't purely an error. Still, it involves misconceptions on the part of authors.
Why is the sky blue? Usually the books start going on about wavelengths of light, Tyndall effect, and Rayleigh scattering. First they teach some correct but complicated physics. Then they use it to explain blue sky and sunsets. But what happens when you don't understand the physics? Doesn't this make their explanation useless? And do you just give up?
They're wrong: you don't need complicated physics to understand this. The sky is blue for a very simple reason:
Air is not a perfectly transparent material. Instead it is blue!
The sky is blue for much the same reason that a cloud of powder is white. Powder isn't invisible. Throw some dust into the air on a sunny day and you'll see a visible white cloud. But what happens if you could throw some AIR? You might think that a cloud of air would be invisible. You'd be wrong. Air isn't invisible, instead its molecules scatter light in the same way that any small particles do. Air is a powdery-blue substance. (But then... shouldn't air be a white substance. Yes! And explaining why it's blue rather than white is where the complicated physics comes in.)
The color of air can be confusing because air seems transparent. It's true that small amounts of air are almost perfectly transparent. So are small amounts of water. Go to an opaque muddy river or pond and use a cup to dip out some water. The water looks fairly clear, no? Yet the deep river is opaque brown. Whenever you try to look through ten cups of water, or a hundred cups, the water seems to turn into brown paint. Yet a single cup of river water almost looks clean.
Air behaves like this too. A mile of air looks clear, but ten miles of air looks misty blue, and a thousand miles of air looks opaque white. The air is acting like the dirty river water, where a thin layer looks colorless but a thick layer does not.
The sky is blue because air is a powdery blue material, and when the sun shines upon it, we can see this blue color. Each molecule of air behaves like a bluish-looking mote of dust. Stare upwards on a sunny day, and you're looking into a thick cloud of brightly-lit air. (Note: there really is no "sky" up there. The sky is an illusory surface. You're not really looking at a blue surface. Instead you're just seeing the Earth's layer of blue air against the blackness of outer space. )
Suppose you could go far out into space away from the Earth, then build yourself a thin hollow glass bubble a thousand miles wide. Viewed from the Earth, your empty glass bubble would be almost invisible. OK, now fill your bubble with air. It won't be invisible any more. It will look like a giant droplet of bright blue paint. It might even look whitish in the middle, since very thick layers of air seem as white as milk. What if you let your giant glass bubble crash into the moon? The air inside would pour out over the moon's surface and form a thick temporary layer of atmosphere. The moon wouldn't look white anymore. It would turn blue.
Photos of sunlit air, observed against black space:
Astronomy Picture of the Day: Moonrise
Spacewalk,
Spacewalk 2
OK, now here's a question. Smoke is white, milk is white, and powder is white. A big cloud of particles should look like white smoke, not like blue dye. Why is air blue? Shouldn't it look white? And even more important, why are sunsets red? (Does this mean that air is also a red substance?!! I'd have to say yes. Air is colored reddish for transmitted light, but it's color is bluish for reflected light. The color of air is not fixed, instead it's like opal jewlery: the color changes with viewing angle.)
Ah, if you start wondering about such things, then *now* you finally need the advanced physics explanations. Many physics books will explain Rayleigh scattering; explain why an air molecule looks like a bluish dust mote."
posted by vronsky at 6:53 PM on October 11, 2008
This one isn't purely an error. Still, it involves misconceptions on the part of authors.
Why is the sky blue? Usually the books start going on about wavelengths of light, Tyndall effect, and Rayleigh scattering. First they teach some correct but complicated physics. Then they use it to explain blue sky and sunsets. But what happens when you don't understand the physics? Doesn't this make their explanation useless? And do you just give up?
They're wrong: you don't need complicated physics to understand this. The sky is blue for a very simple reason:
Air is not a perfectly transparent material. Instead it is blue!
The sky is blue for much the same reason that a cloud of powder is white. Powder isn't invisible. Throw some dust into the air on a sunny day and you'll see a visible white cloud. But what happens if you could throw some AIR? You might think that a cloud of air would be invisible. You'd be wrong. Air isn't invisible, instead its molecules scatter light in the same way that any small particles do. Air is a powdery-blue substance. (But then... shouldn't air be a white substance. Yes! And explaining why it's blue rather than white is where the complicated physics comes in.)
The color of air can be confusing because air seems transparent. It's true that small amounts of air are almost perfectly transparent. So are small amounts of water. Go to an opaque muddy river or pond and use a cup to dip out some water. The water looks fairly clear, no? Yet the deep river is opaque brown. Whenever you try to look through ten cups of water, or a hundred cups, the water seems to turn into brown paint. Yet a single cup of river water almost looks clean.
Air behaves like this too. A mile of air looks clear, but ten miles of air looks misty blue, and a thousand miles of air looks opaque white. The air is acting like the dirty river water, where a thin layer looks colorless but a thick layer does not.
The sky is blue because air is a powdery blue material, and when the sun shines upon it, we can see this blue color. Each molecule of air behaves like a bluish-looking mote of dust. Stare upwards on a sunny day, and you're looking into a thick cloud of brightly-lit air. (Note: there really is no "sky" up there. The sky is an illusory surface. You're not really looking at a blue surface. Instead you're just seeing the Earth's layer of blue air against the blackness of outer space. )
Suppose you could go far out into space away from the Earth, then build yourself a thin hollow glass bubble a thousand miles wide. Viewed from the Earth, your empty glass bubble would be almost invisible. OK, now fill your bubble with air. It won't be invisible any more. It will look like a giant droplet of bright blue paint. It might even look whitish in the middle, since very thick layers of air seem as white as milk. What if you let your giant glass bubble crash into the moon? The air inside would pour out over the moon's surface and form a thick temporary layer of atmosphere. The moon wouldn't look white anymore. It would turn blue.
Photos of sunlit air, observed against black space:
Astronomy Picture of the Day: Moonrise
Spacewalk,
Spacewalk 2
OK, now here's a question. Smoke is white, milk is white, and powder is white. A big cloud of particles should look like white smoke, not like blue dye. Why is air blue? Shouldn't it look white? And even more important, why are sunsets red? (Does this mean that air is also a red substance?!! I'd have to say yes. Air is colored reddish for transmitted light, but it's color is bluish for reflected light. The color of air is not fixed, instead it's like opal jewlery: the color changes with viewing angle.)
Ah, if you start wondering about such things, then *now* you finally need the advanced physics explanations. Many physics books will explain Rayleigh scattering; explain why an air molecule looks like a bluish dust mote."
posted by vronsky at 6:53 PM on October 11, 2008
Thanks for the post. Parallax is no Mastered (but what is?), unfortunately, but there's some good stuff nonetheless.
posted by wemayfreeze at 1:02 PM on October 12, 2008
posted by wemayfreeze at 1:02 PM on October 12, 2008
Thanks vronsky! I needed a Tundra update.
posted by tiny crocodile at 4:00 PM on October 12, 2008
posted by tiny crocodile at 4:00 PM on October 12, 2008
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