so, I realize I talk about my album way too much already, but it's occurred to me that it's currently split into a bunch of different, unrelated genres.
*straight-up hip-hop *trippy electronica *downtempo, dub or trip-hop style tracks *weird experimental pieces with a desert-y feel *whatever you'd call "How To Make a Living as a Rocketship in Modern America"
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Back in the Marines, I found some posterboard in our stock of that fluorescent yellow-green and showed it to my buddy there. We remarked about how bothersome it was just to look at it -- not quite as bad as staring at the sun, but up there.
Heh.
I was about 10 when (in Ohio at least) they started replacing the yellow school zone and crosswalk signs with the yellow-green ones. Even back then I paid attention to road signs, and these bugged me a lot because they were ugly.
Now they've kinda grown on me just because of mere exposure, though I happen to wonder if the wider exposure means their effectiveness as attention-grabbing signs is reduced as well.
I was about 10 when (in Ohio at least) they started replacing the yellow school zone and crosswalk signs with the yellow-green ones. Even back then I paid attention to road signs, and these bugged me a lot because they were ugly.
Now they've kinda grown on me just because of mere exposure, though I happen to wonder if the wider exposure means their effectiveness as attention-grabbing signs is reduced as well.
The thing is it commands the attention of your eyes, whether you want to or not. In order to ride a motorcycle in the military, you have to don one of these vests because a lot of motorcycle accidents occur because of visibility issues. That particular color is probably the most obnoxious color in the entire spectrum for the human eye, and couple with reflectiveness -- you're guaranteed to be seen.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
And then you have the cities that seem to use fluorescent yellow-green at random for signs that have nothing to do with schools or pedestrians.
Bonus points for mounting it on the wrong side of the road, genius.
^^Then you'd better save up the cash to buy Universal Music Group
I'm pretty sure that's Def Jam, Anonus.
Nope, he's right, Definitive Jux is part of Capitol, which is part of EMI. AKA Universal Music Group.
Def Jam is a different part of UMG.
That's just baffling. There's no UMG indicators on my vinyl copy of None Shall Pass (which I can't play because I don't have a record player lol), or at least I don't think there are.
Are you sure UMG isn't just the distributor? Because I could've sworn Def Jux was a largely independent operation.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The thing is it commands the attention of your eyes, whether you want to or not. In order to ride a motorcycle in the military, you have to don one of these vests because a lot of motorcycle accidents occur because of visibility issues. That particular color is probably the most obnoxious color in the entire spectrum for the human eye, and couple with reflectiveness -- you're guaranteed to be seen.
I gotta admit, as unpleasant as the color itself can be, I find the use of it pretty ingenious. By limiting its use to safety apparel and pedestrian/school signs, they're building an association that ugly yellow-green = WATCH OUT FOR PEOPLE.
That's part of why I find things like that "no passing" sign or the yellow-green cones my school likes to use for parking restrictions so infuriating. It undermines the safety aspects when you start using it for things other than people.
That's part of why I find things like that "no passing" sign or the yellow-green cones my school likes to use for parking restrictions so infuriating. It undermines the safety aspects when you start using it for things other than people.
You'd think that's the case, but it really isn't. I'll explain why using the most absurd degree I can relate, and that's USMC boot camp.
Our basic training's reputation has come back and hit us to such a degree that in boot camp, there are ridiculous lengths that are gone through to ensure our safety to concerned parties. It's so stupid that at dusk, we -- and I mean the entire fucking platoon -- have to wear glo-belts (of the color we're talking about, the term we use for them is geek straps) just to walk the 50 yards from our squad bay to the mess hall. Did I mention there's no fucking automobile traffic through this area, ever? But we do it to show the world how safe boot camp is.
We even had to apply geek straps to our ALICE systems (backpack/frame systems) because there was the tiny chance that a truck might cross our path going down the dirt roads after the sun went down. My entire time in boot camp was glow-belts and safety vests such as yours, and even then it's still not a detriment to what an assault on the eyes those particular colors are. It's something your eyes can never get adjusted to.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Oh, wow.
I wonder what it is about that particular color that's so bizarrely unsettling and attention-grabbing. Perhaps it's because it doesn't occur in nature?
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
I don't think it does occur in nature, and we're not alone in how attention-grabbing this color is. For freshwater fishing, the most common color of lure is chartreuse (which is the color we're talking about.)
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
If I had to judge by this alone, I'd say Denmark must be the cutest place on Earth.
If I had to judge by this alone, I'd say Denmark must be the cutest place on Earth.
I'll post these and the other traffic sign/signal pictures when I get home, but the way Japan goes about with electric cables is frightening to say the least.
i mean i guess i could not have gotten Music For the Quiet Hour anyways
BUT IT WAS THERE
way back in the day I was the only one of my friends who had every single Halo from NiN, including the bootleg Halos. Buying a rare NiN Halo in the 90's was finding a needle in a fucking haystack.
Nowadays, we have the internet for audio. So yeah you could have gotten around that if you needed to
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iZotope Vinyl is really cool, but it doesn't quite sound exactly like authentic vinyl noise.
Still useful though.
...I'd have to make sure to exploit that and show the BET-bashing episodes on BET before I sold it. >:D
so, I realize I talk about my album way too much already, but it's occurred to me that it's currently split into a bunch of different, unrelated genres.
*straight-up hip-hop
*trippy electronica
*downtempo, dub or trip-hop style tracks
*weird experimental pieces with a desert-y feel
*whatever you'd call "How To Make a Living as a Rocketship in Modern America"
I think I'm musically schitzo.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
I was about 10 when (in Ohio at least) they started replacing the yellow school zone and crosswalk signs with the yellow-green ones. Even back then I paid attention to road signs, and these bugged me a lot because they were ugly.
...I'd have to make sure to exploit that and show the BET-bashing episodes on BET before I sold it. >:D
You'd own Adult Swim...The Boondocks is owned by Sony Pictures Television.
nutritious
all I want is bitches
big booty bitches
I forget where this is from.
I know Danny Brown shouted it out in his verse on "The Last Huzzah" though.
I'd buy it from them just for the sake of that joke then! XD
You guys and your hypothetical business dealings.
I just want to bring Def Jux back.
I still could though. And probably would, given the chance.
Def Jam is a different part of UMG.
how....fascinating.....???
That's just baffling. There's no UMG indicators on my vinyl copy of None Shall Pass (which I can't play because I don't have a record player lol), or at least I don't think there are.
Are you sure UMG isn't just the distributor? Because I could've sworn Def Jux was a largely independent operation.
Of course it's irrelevant, since El-P abandoned the company to go do features on Juicy J tracks (not that said tracks are bad, but still).
I guess dude does deserve mainstream success but I find his shutdown of the company baffling.
Anyone else find that hella ironic?
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
You'd think that's the case, but it really isn't. I'll explain why using the most absurd degree I can relate, and that's USMC boot camp.
Our basic training's reputation has come back and hit us to such a degree that in boot camp, there are ridiculous lengths that are gone through to ensure our safety to concerned parties. It's so stupid that at dusk, we -- and I mean the entire fucking platoon -- have to wear glo-belts (of the color we're talking about, the term we use for them is geek straps) just to walk the 50 yards from our squad bay to the mess hall. Did I mention there's no fucking automobile traffic through this area, ever? But we do it to show the world how safe boot camp is.
We even had to apply geek straps to our ALICE systems (backpack/frame systems) because there was the tiny chance that a truck might cross our path going down the dirt roads after the sun went down. My entire time in boot camp was glow-belts and safety vests such as yours, and even then it's still not a detriment to what an assault on the eyes those particular colors are. It's something your eyes can never get adjusted to.
or, cute
way back in the day I was the only one of my friends who had every single Halo from NiN, including the bootleg Halos. Buying a rare NiN Halo in the 90's was finding a needle in a fucking haystack.
Nowadays, we have the internet for audio. So yeah you could have gotten around that if you needed to