Fermín Godinez

[Banff @Banff_eth]

In the quietest room in the world, you wouldn't be able to survive for more than 30 minutes

Even people who have been in it for just a few minutes begin to feel nauseous and dizzy

Your vestibular system works by constantly picking up tiny echo signals, but in that room it receives no response, so your body thinks something is wrong

Clap your hands -> and the sound will simply cease to exist

Pop a balloon -> and there will be no explosion, just the snap of the shell breaking

Everyone's voices sound as if they're right next to your ear, no matter where they are in the room

And the reason this even exists:

Harvard built the first devices of this kind during World War II, because testing acoustics outdoors meant spies could watch what they were doing

Here's what most people overlook:

This video racked up 11 million views in a single day

No complicated editing, no plot, no climax. Just one question your brain refuses to let go of -> What does silence actually feel like?

That's the whole point. The experiment doesn't need a plot. It needs a question that people can't stop trying to answer

In the article below Paone wrote about two forms that underlie every viral video. This video is the purest version of one of them

Save this. The most-viewed video of the day was a video in which 11 million people listened to silence

[Comfort Eagle @ComfortEagle1]

Kurt Cobain never hid it.

He said he was basically trying to rip off the Pixies when he wrote “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”

Soft-loud dynamics, the whole thing.

“I should have been in that band, or at least a Pixies cover band.”

That honesty came out of a different world.

Small rooms, concrete floors, almost no lighting, a stage that was barely a step up.

No production, no choreography. Just the band three feet from the crowd.

Maxwell’s in Hoboken was one of them. The Pixies played that room in 1987. Nirvana played it in 1989.

There were versions of that room all over the country. Those were the proving grounds.

Can you hold a room when the audience is only three feet away?

Without Auto-Tune or a digital remix to hide behind?

“Hey”
The Pixies

[✳️Ⓐ Armed Joy 🔫💣 @ArmedJ0y]

Anyways
My plans:

[𝙼𝚁. 𝙻𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚂𝙻𝙸𝙽𝙶𝙴𝚁 @MrLeadslinger]

I don’t need a double stack 10mm 1911 with a 6” barrel in Rhodesian camo but now I kinda want one.

[Fermín Godinez @FerminGodinez47]

@femfattie @pusheenlover600 Bold and brash?

[Dotcom📟🌐 @Y2K_DOTCOM]

Back in 1997 17-year-old Daniel Malmedahl from Sweden recorded himself imitating the sound of a two-stroke engine as a joke with friends

[Jasper @Jasp3r_0]

I know he’s lost it in recent times but let’s be fr

[ye @kanyewest]

“OK” MUSIC VIDEO OUT NOW ON APPLE MUSIC AND SPOTIFY

DIRECTED BY BIANCA CENSORI

[Fermín Godinez @FerminGodinez47]

@nick6942067 Damn all that?

[L7 | Petey @peteyburn]

Kinda funny that if ur religion loses enough wars it gets downgraded to mythology after a generation or two

[Fermín Godinez @FerminGodinez47]

@GustiloGreg @Mericamemed Drill holes through floor joist to run wire if you can’t lift up the floor above it.

[Champagne Joshi @JoshWalkos]

Deer antlers can "remember" damage from previous years, despite being shed and regrown every season.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Just saying…

48 million Americans have a substance use problem.

8 out of 10 don’t get treatment.

The crisis isn’t addiction. It’s access.