Man with the world’s lowest singing voice

Man with the world’s lowest singing voice:

Tim Storms holds the World Record for the lowest note ever sung by a human. He can hit a G-7, or .189 Hz. It’s so low you can’t even hear it, but it’s measurable. I like how Tim’s website says “Biography of a Bass Freak.” Tim also has the world’s widest vocal range for a male. He was profiled this week by NPR’s Morning Edition and also CNN. You can also hear Tim perform on the St. Petersburg Chamber Choir’s new album, Tranquility: Voices of Deep Calm.


Fake celebrity pranks New York City in social experiment caught on video

Fake celebrity pranks New York City in social experiment caught on video:


Brett Cohen pranked NYC on the night of July 27th, 2012, and he has video proof: he “came up with a crazy idea to fool thousands of pedestrians walking the streets of Times Square into thinking he was a huge celebrity,” and succeeded.
He is not a celebrity—or at least, he wasn’t before this video went viral. He’s a 21 year old SUNY New Paltz student.
Snip from the project description:

This social experiment, of sorts, makes a profound statement about how modern culture is so attracted to pop culture, without any real credibility needed. He dressed up like a typical celebrity and was accompanied by an entourage of two professional bodyguards, two assistants, and photographers pretending to be paparazzi. While the assistants and photographers waited for Brett to exit the 49th street marquee at NBC Studios, they started a buzz that a “big star” was about to walk out, thus making it worth their while to wait and get a picture. Many asked the crew whom Brett was, and no answer was given. They were forced to either make something up, or just take a picture with him in hopes that their Facebook friends or Twitter followers might have a better idea.

As the crew walked over to Times Square, the crowds around Brett grew on each consecutive block. Very few people even questioned who he was, where he was from, or what he does. Brett took pictures with nearly 300 people before the stunt ended. The video even includes interviews with people who had just taken a picture with Brett, and puts them in an awkward position when they’re asked questions such as, “Where do you know Brett from?” and “What’s your favorite movie he was in?” Many of them were overwhelmingly excited over Brett’s walk through Times Square, and it showed.

He hired the bodyguards and photographers from Craigslist, and wore cheap knockoff sunglasses and a shirt from an Express clearance rack.

[Video Link], and NY Daily News has more on the making of, via Joe Sabia.


The colorful results of playing Cypress Hill through a squid

[Possibly the awesomest misic video ever. -egg]

The colorful results of playing Cypress Hill through a squid:

[Video Link]

Greg Gage of the DIY neuroscience company Backyard Brains stimulated the axons of a squid with the electrical signals coming out of a headphone jack plugged into an iPhone playing a Cypress Hill song. He videotaped the Squid’s pigmented cells called chromatophores, which changed with the music.

We’ve been working hard on many new experiments at the Marine Biological Labs in Woods Hole, MA this summer and have some exciting (and beautiful) results. While working on the giant axons of the Longfin Inshore Squid, we decided to see what would happen if we played music like we do with our dancing cockroach leg experiment. The results were very cool.

Insane in the Chromatophores