You Had One Job

You Had One Job is a photo repository for the meme, which contains hundreds of photos already, with more coming in constantly. You can eat up quite a bit of time looking through them! Continue reading to see some of the best.

See more at the site You Had One Job. Link  -via Laughing Squid


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Workers on construction projects would install something wrong just to see if inspectors would catch it. An apartment we rented once had a soap dish in the bath put in upside down. Always thought it was an example of that.
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The lower attachment is broken, (you can still see the some of the remains at the front end of the rail...)
Considering the slant of the originally mounted rail (2 1/2 tiles horizontally and 3 1/2 tiles vertically) it matches exactly the slant of the stairs...
(Unfortunately the respective brown circle and attachment remains on the wall (expedted at 2 1/2 tiles horizontally and 3 1/2 tiles vertically from the middle attachtment point) are just outside the lower edge of the picture.
I.e. you just see a loosend and tilted stairrail, turned around the only remaining attachment point...
Tht is Barking Bud is just draw the correct conclusions...
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Technically, most of the time he is recording the sound of the sand on whatever object he's using.

Sand hitting the microphone. Sand hitting the glass. Without an object for the sand to hit and make different sounds, he'd only have the sound of sand hitting sand which is pretty boring.
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Technically, you didn't read the description of this project : )
Every sound you hear in the video is made from sand.
What I'm playing on the keyboard is the tuned noise of the sand, mapped into a sampler. The melody, the chord sounds, the bass, everything is extracted from sand noises.
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Diego, I DID read it and I'm saying that the sound of sand hitting a Piezoelectric Film Contact Microphone is different from sand hitting sand.

The sound is: sand bouncing off of the material of the microphone, or rubbing against it. Not the sound of sand. You are using 2 objects to facilitate the sounds. Sand + Object = sound of sand and that object.

Your hands pounding sand like a drum is not the sound of sand, it's the sound of your hands, your flesh, hitting sand.

Sand is hitting the glass, *ting!* : you would probably not get the same tone from sand hitting other grains of sand.

So, those are really nice samples of sand hitting a contact microphone or a glass, etc., but it's not 100% the sound of sand, alone... which, like I said above is pretty limited in range.
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Hi Sandy, I understand what you're saying but I'd like to clarify a couple of points.

It might not be totally clear from the video but the glass is only to contain the sand. The piezo microphone is not like a condenser or dynamic microphone, there's no *ting!* recorded, only the grains of sand rubbing against the piezo are recorded. I used a glass just because it's transparent, I could have used a paper cup or a wooden box and the sound would have been the same (but visually less interesting because you couldn't see the sand moving).

When I'm playing the groove at the beach it's not my flesh hitting the sand, I taped the piezo to my fingers, again, it's the sand hitting against the piezo transducers. I could have used gloves and the sounds would have been the same.

Ultimately this video is not to make sand sound like a grand piano or a guitar, it's a sound design experiment and it might sound nice or not depending on personal taste.

Have you ever heard of booming sands? Those masses of sand moving and producing a loud tone? Some people that have heard them say that they sound pretty interesting, even if it's just sand moving against sand. It's one of those fascinating mistery of nature! :)
Peace.
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