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A lot of people don't know this, but Justin Bieber actually started out as an experimental sound artist who was forced by popular demand to speed up his music to make catchy pop songs.
This is the Real Justin.
Jokes aside, this video from 2010 is a wonderful application of a sound plugin called PaulXStretch which seamlessly extends audio files to create majestic ambient/sound design pieces that have an otherworldly feel to them. The plugin is free to use, open source, and available for multiple OSes (Mac, Windows, Linux etc.). I've yet to be disappointed with the results of this tool and the works that other people have created with it.
If you're a musician, sound designer or someone who just likes experimenting with audio, watch the linked video to hear an example and give the plugin a try 😊
Sep 16, 2024
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If you don’t have a DAW like Ableton you can use Audacity, an open source music software, to slow down time. Audacity comes with an effect called Paulstretch, named after an old program called Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch that was used to make this iconic YouTube video. It allows you to slow down audio files by inordinate amounts, turning silly little love songs into monumental drone landscapes. You can discover hidden melodies buried in the waveform and imagine life outside of time.
Sep 13, 2022
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y'know how everybody loves sped up songs, or slowed down and reverbed songs? this extension lets you do that on any online video, to your exact specifications (putting it in the key you want, speeding it up or slowing it down as much as you want)
this might just be a weird me thing, but there are certain songs that i think just sound so much better in any key other than the original. can't explain it, it just makes sense in my brain.
will say that it does delay the audio slightly on whatever video u use it on, and the delay will remain in that tab, but if you close out of it and open a new one, everything goes back to normal, so i don't mind it much. give it a spin if you'd like
Apr 15, 2024
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I adore finding a random video from like 2005 and reading through the comments the way a historian would examine an old manuscript from the 1700s. Are these people still active YouTube users? Or are they forgotten accounts? What did @jjlwis mean by "awww im gonna miss rob too!!!" ? Who even is Rob?? Anthropology in the digital age... so many questions... it's fascinating.
The important thing for me is not to add new comments. I feel like I'm disturbing an old archeological dig site and my sticky modern commentary will make the video crumble away into oblivion. More importantly, I don't want the algorithm to suggest the video to a bunch of people who will spam the comments section– major yuck 🤢
Jan 25, 2024
early 80s to early 2000s truck models are the perfect sizes imo. current trucks are transformer-sized behemoths that could easily crush normal vehicles into smithereens upon impact and i legit don’t know how those things are even street-legal. also, idk if it’s their design, reliability or the nostalgia factor per-se, but there’s a certain sazón those older trucks have that newer ones don’t.
2024 Ford F-150? 🤮🤢
1980 Ford F-150? 🫦🫦
Feb 9, 2025
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with social media being this pervasive entity that has weeded its way into our daily routines for the past 20ish years (plus a global pandemic that really solidified those habits), many young adults today have spent a large amount of their lives living online. it has become the new norm and i’m not gonna pretend i’m above any of this because it’s so easy to fall into it (i am literally writing this rec on my phone whilst it’s a perfectly sunny day that i should probably go out to enjoy).
with that being said, in the larger scheme of life, being in your 20s is still in a weird way the beginning stages of your life. it’s a period to try new things, make mistakes, learn from them and develop an identity that’s independent from the environment and people who raised you. though you can learn to do some of those things online, they don’t hold a candle to actually experiencing those things for yourself in real life.
all in all, the best way to not sleep thru your 20s is to prioritize in-person experiences that allow you to get a better understanding of yourself and your values. whether that be getting your first tattoo, moving to a new city or country, exploring your personal style or taking up hobbies you couldn’t or would‘ve never done as a kid, this is an important formative time to venture out and get a sense of who you truly are.
Sep 30, 2024