IT'S HALLOWEEN BEACHES!!!

I just reblog stuff, and post art sometimes. Autistic. Astro or Tom I guess. Skele-Tom preferably. They/them. 17/♊/INFP-T/ I try my best to tag things correctly(pairings, unpleasant imagery, etc.) But, if I miss anything, please feel free to tell me so and I'll try and fix it ^^ ✧✧✧Askbox is always open!

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Howdy friends, I’ve moved

I made a new blog, which is where I’ll hopefully be active from now on. Go follow me at @astronnonyy if you want to see art and stuff from me. I’ll hopefully start, uh, actually posting my art there at some point. Alternatively, you could follow my Deviantart at astronnonyy, or my twitter at, shockingly, astronnonyy.

It’s been great here, but you know how it is. This account will stay up as an archive of sorts, or something like that. But there probably wont be any more activity here after this post. Love yall~! <3

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[foreverjade7]

[adhighdefinition]

anyone who says these unironically now owes me 10 dollars

[mysharona1987]

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[calocera]

[darklephise-art]

🔸 Don’t make the doggo angry! 🔸

[honigimohr]

trust your mother’s opinion on people

[cloudbeam]

um. she married my dad

[oil-diffuser]

This is just so powerful

[nuka-rockit]

made a frog with the trans flag colors!!!

[srsfunny]

*headlight intensifies*

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[nunyabizni]

Avengers Endgame: 2019

[fencehopping]

Electron microscope video of a needle on a vinyl record.

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H O W 

like you can tell me all you want how the sound is stored in the grooves but fucking H O W 

HOW DOES THAT GET INTO THE NEEDLE

HOW ARE THE VIBRATIONS TURNED INTO MUSIC THAT YOU CAN HEAR???

H O W

[disparition]

The vibrations aren’t “turned into” music, they are music. When vibrations occur inside your inner ear, your brain processes this as sound.

The grooves in a record are an analogy for these vibrations, a method of remembering them so that they can be recreated later on. 

Put your hand on a speaker while loud music is playing and you’ll feel the vibrations. Those are exactly the same vibrations happening inside your ear when you hear the music. 

But how do you capture that? 

Take a surface that vibrates strongly when a sound is played, like the skin of a drumhead for example. Connect that surface to a little tool - when sound causes the surface to vibrate, the tool digs a little bit into some wax, leaving behind a pattern that matches - in proportion - the vibrations of the surface caused by the sound. This is your analogy (hence: analog music). 

Now, when there’s no sound playing, you run that little tool back over the pattern. This causes the skin to vibrate again, this time in response to the tool running over the pattern instead of because of an external sound. The vibrations should match, proportionally, the original vibrations of the music.. and thus these new vibrations, if you were to amplify them, would be a recreation or “recording” of the original music. 

That’s oversimplified of course and things have changed a lot since the days of wax, but that is very basically how the process of recording music worked at first, and the general idea of how sound gets from a groove in a record into your brain. 

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(reblogging for Disparition commentary) 

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Thank you Science side of tumblr

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I hugely appreciate people taking to the time explain stuff like this, as it helps put an end to the “wow, science is magic!” trope that’s become far too common.

[amargedom]

Daily reminder!

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[rotg-deactivated20190330]

the fact that literal kids, 12, 13, 14 year olds, are scared of getting put on cringe comps for making art they’re proud of is fucking disgusting. it’s not funny or anything, it’s just horrible. if you would genuinely bully a kid for making some undertale art with bright colors i don’t quite know how to say this but die