Comments on: Bird sings dubstep, convincingly

By: Bobsyeruncle

Bobsyeruncle — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:41:00 +0000

Are you implying that the cockatiel acquired it’s, um, distinctive musical tastes entirely on its own? :-D

By: Lyra S

Lyra S — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:15:00 +0000

Some parrots can live to be 100. This is a cockatiel, so it’s lifespan is more around 15-20 years.

By: darladoon

darladoon — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:55:00 +0000

the odd thing is, at the origins of dubstep (in the UK), dubstep sounds nothing like this anymore, and hasn’t in several years. this is what it sounds like now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7AXRJsXjk0 in other words, chicago 808-driven house music. yeah, mala, pinch and benga still crank out the occasional “OG” dubstep sound, but rarely do you hear it pervade in clubs.

now, if that bird could mimic this……

By: Once Dead Flesh

Once Dead Flesh — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 08:42:00 +0000

Well, it is doing a terrible job. I can’t really handle listening to dubstep at home or in the car… but under the correct influences I will lose my mind and dance for hours to it. I think it is designed for people on MDMA, how it specifically effects each person isn’t in the planning.

By: Once Dead Flesh

Once Dead Flesh — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 08:40:00 +0000

thankyou very much, that was pleasant.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:57:00 +0000

They were feeding the bird his lunch, but he dropped the beet.

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:46:00 +0000

I have the break from Skream’s ‘Listenin to the Records on My Wall’ as my ringtone because 1) it vaguely sounds like a phone-tone 2) it’s simple enough that the tiny speaker doesn’t butcher it.

So if I ever spend time around a mimicking bird I’ll have to see it does copy it

http://youtu.be/1WUZf0JmBsU?t=1m23s

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:42:00 +0000

It was waiting to loot your dead body.

By: ldobe

ldobe — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 04:04:00 +0000

I enjoy Dubstep. I find wobble-bass playful when done right. But yeah, I can be pretty thought disrupting. My hypothesis is that it’s intentionally designed to keep kids on MDMA from dancing too long.

By: Michael Crumpton

Michael Crumpton — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 03:59:00 +0000

Slow it down to half speed and that would drop pretty hard.

By: Ernest Valdemar

Ernest Valdemar — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:59:00 +0000

Selected high-traffic intersections in my city have that “audio tone for the vision impaired” thing going on with the pedestrian crossing signs, but intersections with no pedestrian crossing light lack the tone. One weekend, I was walking past City Hall when I heard the signal indicating that it was safe to cross the street. I stepped off the curb before I noticed that the crosswalk had no pedestrian light at all, and a car was coming at me. Nonetheless, I continued to hear the “safe to cross” sound.

I looked up to see a magpie sitting on a second floor building ledge across the street, singing and waiting … singing and waiting. So patiently.

By: Shane Simmons

Shane Simmons — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:20:00 +0000

Not to mention Youtube

By: Shane Simmons

Shane Simmons — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:18:00 +0000

I had a suitemate in college that did live PA, and his stuff sounded a lot like that. It tended to get closer to Aphex Twin, the more acid he’d dropped…so you may be onto something.

By: rachel ten bruggencate

rachel ten bruggencate — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:15:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIv-qsH40m0

This bird > these birds

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:22:00 +0000

I wonder if the thought-disrupting effect is intentional, given the intended club-going audience

By: Syn -

Syn - — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:08:00 +0000

most likely, not on full screen. Sensible cropping should fix that right away.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:40:00 +0000

Do you not understand that most people are viewing things on monitors with a horizontal orientation?

By: Syn -

Syn - — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:36:00 +0000

I don’t understand this knickertwisting about vertical video. Is it some weird attempt at being cool? I must be getting old.
It makes sense for cinema, tv, whose supports are predone, and are intended to be seen in full screen, but in video embedding, much like photography, composition and framing is up to whatever the fuck the onewith the camera wishes. I wonder if cartier bresson (or my grandma on her birthday party, for what its worth) thought he was offending anyone when framing vertically.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:34:00 +0000

This video has been removed due to copyright infringement.

By: Paul Downs

Paul Downs — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 23:25:00 +0000

I used to work in an office where the bird (bought in to relieve stress!) had learnt to mimic individual ring tones. Desk workers had their own unique tone so they knew, when they were at another desk, if it was their phone ringing. The bird would watch from it’s elevated perch and mimic their phone when they weren’t there. I was doing filing at the time so I thought it was frickin’ hilarious. Relieved my stress.. :D

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 23:08:00 +0000

Some of us don’t care. My antediluvian HTC Incredible is kinda slippery to hold sideways one-handed, especially when using the camera. If I were shooting something where the aspect ratio was important, I might do something about it. A bird sitting upright on my hand with an irrelevant background? I’d probably be lazy and hold the camera upright.

By: Steve Mullis

Steve Mullis — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:44:00 +0000

Do people still not realize you can turn your phone sideways to get rid of the “bad cropping?” You know, like a camera.

By: Ladyfingers

Ladyfingers — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:33:00 +0000

Is this a dubstep bird or is Skrillex a cockatiel human?

By: nixiebunny

nixiebunny — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:38:00 +0000

It sounds exactly like what the bird’s doing. Having two teenage male children, I can assure you that dubstep was invented precisely to annoy parents. I can’t think straight when it’s playing.

By: Jonbly Herbert

Jonbly Herbert — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:17:00 +0000

45 seconds of this = funny.

A lifetime of this = ouch.

By: yragentman

yragentman — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:06:00 +0000

This will be it’s own reward for the owner – these birds can live to be 100!!

By: Matt G

Matt G — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:56:00 +0000

How, in 2013, do people not know to rotate your phone 90 degrees when shooting video?

By: Mister44

Mister44 — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:26:00 +0000

Where is the PETA when you need them? Imagine the untold hours that bird had to listen to dub step to learn to mimic it so well. :o(

By: franko

franko — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:20:00 +0000

so now all i have to do is imagine dubstep as birds singing, and voila, it’s tolerable? i’m dubious.

By: Souse

Souse — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:14:00 +0000

Better haircut.