British record producer, former member of Massive Attack and The Wild Bunch as well as being a Trip hop musician. Here's Tricky aka Tricky Kid and Tricky Rock (real name: Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws or just Adrian Thaws) in The Fifth Element, Ghost in the Shell and Tool's "Parabola" music video.

No lyrics because this is a cover. Details below the cut.

I thought about not censoring the YouTube channel name since these guys are pretty talented, and I think they're still around, but... that's kinda against the point of anonymity on this blog. Also until very recently, like Janurary-ish 2024, the original video was just "unlisted" and has since been set to "private" so, yeah.

The MP3 was actually already ripped by a friend on Discord so major thanks to them for editing it so it's just the cover with no chatter from the guys on stage.

tagged by: @ambreiiigns my beloved nay 🥰

rules: You can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. Put your playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, and then tag 10 people.

1. The Pot by Tool

2. Another One Bites the Dust by Queen

3. 7 Rings by Ariana Grande (I need everyone to know this is the only song I have from her and it’s because I saw a video once of this group of people freestyle dancing to this song and it was soooo good so. it scratches my brain. also I genuinely love the song from sound of music that this song is inspired by

4. Parabol & Parabola by Tool (this is two songs in one, genuinely you should always listen to Parabol first followed by Parabola always always always and I love them so much and for the life of me I’ll never understand why they made this two separate songs)

5. EAT ME by Demi Lovato (ft. Royal & the Serpent) Rachel’s anthem <3 <3 <3

6. Wildflower by the JaneDear Girls

7. Kevin Wendell Crumb by West Dylan Thordson (it’s from the SPLIT movie score it’s so good)

8. No Glory in the West by Orville Peck

9. Vicarious by Tool (why am I being called out for being a Tool fan by my own music)

10. Good for You by Selena Gomez (ft A$ap Rocky) I don’t really care for his rap in this one like at all but the rest of the song makes me feel sexy so shut up. babygirl music. I’m gonna do a hangman fancam to this one day

Not tagging anyone, if you see this on the dash feel free to tag me so I can see yours 💙

so i’ve been listening to tool because i love to roleplay as a cis male redditor and here are my takes so far:

i LOVE when music is about geometry. lateralus is the best song ever made

i think parabol/parabola is like if bjork made prog metal

between the pot by tool and supreme ascendancy by king gizz i can now think of two whole prog songs about the hypocrisy of the christian church! if i had a nickel etc

the music videos are good. i might describe them as “hylics but wet”

TIL that this pic is from a tool video:

anyway i’m having a good time

Metagoon: Chronicles of Future Geographies (Editor & Program)

March 2nd – April 1st, 2024. D.H. office, Salizada Malipiero 3208, Venice.

A wooden table sits in the center of a room. The wood comes from a bricola in the Venetian lagoon, and the table is named Tysbe, in dedication to a departed friend (the scientist Davide Tagliapietra). On the table sits a small wooden library, sourced from the timber archive of the Neringa peninsula (Nida), Lithuania. This library is there for reading and exploration. Discussions revolve around Venetian tales, maps of the Adriatic Sea, lagoons, and new geographies. People gather around the table, sharing and listening to stories. There’s space for drawing. Brick walls display film photographs, windows into the lagoon discussed at the table or out in the calle on a beautiful day.Metagoon: Chronicles of Future Geographies is a laboratory that combines meetings, stories, and drawings to explore possible visions of the Venetian lagoon in the future. What might it become in 500 years? Following a creative writing workshop organized for La Parabola della Montagna at the Panorama space, the project takes another step forward. With a program of meetings focused on mapping, in the workshop and working space of D.H. office on Salizada Malipiero, Metagoon aims to promote diverse perspectives on the future of the lagoon, encouraging reflection and reinterpretation of its geography. From historical maps to those of science fiction inspiration, from bathymetry to urban projects never realized to utopian ones yet to be conceived. Imagining new geographies becomes a tool to visualize desires and risks, but also, and above all, to raise questions about the present. The creative effort in tracing future maps forces us to reflect on the complexity of geographies, their arbitrary nature, and the hierarchies that often remain hidden. 

Metagoon: Chronicles of Future Geographies is also a recording studio. The program’s meetings will be documented and uploaded to the Metagoon website, updating the platform with audio-video and textual contributions in the new blog section, which you are currently reading. Curious minds and ironic spirits are welcome, those eager to imagine a meta-lagoon, making an interpretive and imaginative effort to go beyond the geographic-environmental, cultural, and temporal boundaries that geographies often present to us.

The exhibition is the result of a collaboration between Metagoon and D.H. office.

Read more and find out about our program and workshops here.

Free entry upon request: [email protected].

TOOL - Parabola (Official Video)

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TOOL PART I!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey everyone, here's my 12th review of 2023, Tool!!!!!!!!!! Reason this is my 12th review is because last show I saw was Unleash the Archers with Lutharo, but I didn't bother reviewing that show as to me that was more of a local show and I had missed Ammo at that time as well. But anyways, this was my 4th time seeing Tool and first time in 4 years seeing them as I last saw them on 11/12/2019, which was 4 months before Covid took a stranglehold on the world and when I saw Tool both times 4 years ago, they delivered the goods live.

Let's start the festivities!

First band up was Steel Beans. I had never heard about them before, but from what I saw it was a one man band who could drum, sing, and play guitar all at once and that took a helluva lot of mad skill to perfect those 3 things at once. In between songs the Steel Beans dude told a story of meeting a chap in a washroom in Saskatchewan and the chap said something about being in a small town and noticing the Washington state licence plate, and the dude said to the chap that they were heading to Manitoba to which the guy replied "Manitoba's a shithole" which drew laughs from the crowd and he then mentioned Toronto and Montréal and the chap said "Oh those are both shitholes and all they do is vape with that Blueberry cheesecake" and then went on another comical rant. All in all, he was more entertaining compared to Killing Joke. At the end of his set, there was a giant bag of popcorn that dumped from the rafters, which was fun to watch.

After Steel Beans it was time for TOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This was my 4th time seeing Tool as it had been 4 years since I last saw them which was their 2nd show on 11/12/2019 and at that time, Tool played a number of their hits which included Schism, Parabol, Parabola, Ænema, Vicarious, Forty Six & 2, etc. This setlist was more deep cuts this time around, which was a pretty good change of pace if you ask me. After Fear Inoculum ended, Maynard was telling the crowd to get loud and he said "Toronto, this is one of my favourite cities, don't embarrass me" and he then also said "Don't make me call you Montréal" which drew resounding boos, probably from all the diehard Argo fans who were still salty after they got trounced by eventual grey cup winners, Montréal Alouettes, hahaha 😆. He had also told the crowd to "Keep your phones in your pocket" in line to their strict no photos and no recording policy. Before Tool got into their last song Maynard had said "Here's the deal, take out your fuckin stupid cellphones you selfish entitled pricks" in which it was him trolling the crowd like he's known to do and he said "Here's the thing, people in the front, no light, no flash, no light, no flash. If you do it! We'll have no choice but to come down there and shit in your mouths" which drew resounding laughter and Maynard continued "I mean not healthy like runny option shit, but your hands are tied now, open your mouth wide. We love you, see you tomorrow". Maynard definitely was making the crowd laugh with his in-between song banters. I'll also say at 59 he's still got it and it's more remarkable he made a recovery from having contracted covid 3 years ago and having his lungs damaged from when he first contracted it in February 2020, and he's since contracted it 4 times but he sounded great on stage. Here's their setlist:

Fear InoculumPlay Video

The PotPlay Video

Rosetta StonedPlay Video

PneumaPlay Video

DescendingPlay Video

The GrudgePlay Video

Jambi(with Alex Lifeson) (with “A Passage To Bangkok“ intro and guitar solo)Play Video

Intermission

Chocolate Chip TripPlay Video

Culling VoicesPlay Video

InvinciblePlay Video

StinkfistPlay Video

Dancing Queen(ABBA song)

All in all a great show and a great way to spend a Monday night. Tonight is round 2 for Tool.

HEAVY METAL FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TOOL - Parabola (Official Video)

TOOL - Parabola

After “finally!!!” (xD) releasing their new album Fear Inoculum, Tool has become extremely popular for a progressive alternative metal band, even reaching #1 at the Billboard chart (sorry Taylor Swift xD) Let me share with you one of their old yet visually amazing videos From Youtube channel TOOL: TOOL - Parabola Deep lyrics, hypnotic visuals and powerful music - that’s why we love them Yeah \m/ ..,

Parabol and Parabola

Now, as with all of these upcoming posts, I remind you that the full storytelling playlist can be found at this link, in what’s intended as a master spiral of tracks trying to represent as much of the story symmetry and character growth of SPN as possible. 

The first (and second) track in the “Holy Gift” order of this project are Parabol & Parabola. In both orders they’re together and the songs seamlessly and shamelessly share lyrics like a unit, so they were put together.

On an SPN level, this is an extremely Sam-and-Dean centric video for the first half before evolving into mistakes and resolutions on the path to found family. (Tumblr is being stupid about letting me do this normally for some reason so if, for some reason, the video shows as a broken image on your feed, open this post to my actual blog and it seems to work or just use this link to navigate to the video in the playlist.

First, in short about Parabola: Essentially, the lyrics are that of someone who has realized that their conscious ability, awareness and spirit goes waaaay beyond what they CURRENTLY understand about human experience. There's a hermetic belief that to some extent you choose what family to be born to (or in SPN, that your family was chosen for you) based on "control dramas" parents have created in their life experiences. There is a reason to be born in your place and time and intended purpose. The song touches on remembering that they're in the world to achieve something. The idea is that not everybody completes the path they were chosen for and on death sort of get a life review that lets you know what you missed in your answer to life, which leads to your new path and next chosen life to try again.

Of course, lyrics are somewhat up to interpretation but within the hermetic vein the album is themed after front to back, that's your base. If you want to pull something else out of it in application to yourself or the video, by all means. That's the fun part of a theology that's more philosophical than it is dogmatically religious.

So familiar and overwhelmingly warm This one, this form I hold now. Embracing you, this reality here, This one, this form I hold now, so Wide eyed and hopeful. Wide eyed and hopefully wild. We barely remember what came before this precious moment, Choosing to be here right now. Hold on, stay inside... This body holding me, reminding me that I am not alone in This body makes me feel eternal. All this pain is an illusion.

We barely remember who or what came before this precious moment, We are choosing to be here right now. Hold on, stay inside This holy reality, this holy experience. Choosing to be here in This body. This body holding me. 

Be my reminder here that I am not alone in This body, this body holding me, feeling eternal All this pain is an illusion. Alive, I In this holy reality, in this holy experience. Choosing to be here in This body. This body holding me. Be my reminder here that I am not alone in This body, this body holding me, feeling eternal All this pain is an illusion. Twirling round with this familiar parable. Spinning, weaving round each new experience. Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing. This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment. Remember. we are eternal. all this pain is an illusion.

As with all of these, seasons in-use for this video are based on the concept of the Holy Gift order and a specific swing in the Fibonacci sequence back and forth, wider and wider until it goes full circle.I’m not going to bother everybody with the math of it in this post, but to simplify it, all videos in this project show the available tracks for use, with an understanding that season 14 is applied as a master track on what has been addressed regarding these things this season, specifically.

We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion

Parabolas are your friend.

A photographer I follow made a post about a Broncolor parabolic reflector umbrella. They cost over $2,000. He said that you probably wouldn't be able to tell a difference between a $20 umbrella that you could find on Amazon.

That's... just not true.

I felt like maybe he didn't know how parabolic reflectors functioned and that was why he made that claim.

I also think he'd love having a parabolic reflector because you can get a bunch of different effects with them without ever having to take it off your light stand.

Whereas with a regular umbrella or softbox, in order to change the look you have to change them out for bigger or smaller sizes and that can be a hassle.

Below is a message I sent. But I'm worried I just sound like an obnoxious know-it-all instead of a kindred spirit trying to pass along cool knowledge he may not be aware of.

A parabolic umbrella is almost like an adjustable beauty dish and ring light combined. My big problem with beauty dishes is that sometimes they could give you a bit more hard light than you want. So you'd have to change out the silver one for the white one and it was a whole process. But then maybe the white one would give too soft of a light. PLUS, they only come in one size. So they could only light a face. If you wanted to do a torso shot, you'd have to add ANOTHER light underneath the beauty dish.

But if you look at this video at about 1:10, you can see how he adjusts the refelctivity bigger and smaller, thus creating harder or softer light. You can literally tune the amount of diffusion.

I'm sorry, but a $20 amazon umbrella isn't going to do that for you.

Broncolor is top of the line and they have a small customer base. So they price their equipment for professionals. Commercial equipment is always pretty expensive. But if it is for a business, usually the cost is totally worth it. Their stuff is also built like a tank and will hold up for years of abuse. Sometimes paying extra for rugged build quality is worth the cost, depending on your use. Some photographers take their equipment all over the world to deserts and rainforests and all kinds of climates.

Getting a Broncolor modifier is probably not a good idea for a lot of photographers. But there are several more reasonably priced parabolic reflectors that will do a similar job. They still cost several hundred dollars, as it requires some pretty precise construction to get the reflectivity and shape perfect.

Unfortunately there are a ton of umbrellas that *claim* they are parabolic but they are actually just deeper umbrellas. You cannot focus the light, eliminating the actual purpose of it.

A good reflector like this is versatile and can save you a lot of time, giving you many looks with one device so you don't have to have multiple softboxes, reflectors, and umbrellas at hand and change them in and out. But it does cost a little more to get that versatility. It may not be worth it for a lot of photographers. But if you shoot enough and you make your income from photography, it is a worthy investment.

I was hoping I could help this photographer see the light (pun intended) because he actually could really benefit from some parabolic fun times. But if he is happy with his current gear, that's fine too.

Honestly, I think he just wanted to complain about the expensive thing.

In any case, this is the video we talked about in our exchange.

Maybe Karl has an unconscious bias. I mean, we all do. But I don't think he needs to justify spending a lot of money on anything. I've seen him use scrims that he built himself out of scrap wood. From what I've seen, he always uses the best tool for the job. Whether it costs $20 or $2000.

And while he does use *very* expensive gear, I have always been able to take his teachings and adapt them to my modest gear. He's really a great teacher in that way.

The proof is in the pudding, as they say. Karl gets results. His portfolio is amazing. His results aren't just because of the fancy gear, but that gear does allow him to achieve photographic effects that are hard to create with basic tools.

Hey guys!!! Can I request you some headcanons? Like what kind of music our characters used to listen in the 90's before the Mansion Incident

Chris, Jill, Wesker and Rebecca

Please and thank you:)

this is WILD, i was literally working on a post like this earlier. you read my mind! 🤍

author: nell

chris: is a lover of the classics, which he gets from his parents. during the stars era, pretty much had his walkman on 24/7 while doing paperwork. queen (of course), tom petty, oingo boingo, billy idol, bon jovi, and the talking heads are all great examples of bands he likes. if you were to pick songs out of his playlist, you might see white wedding, no one lives forever, smells like teen spirit, our house, and video killed the radio star.

jill: likes her music a little rougher, more raw. the type to yell-sing her favourite songs in the car and get a little too into it. she’s a big fan of musicians like faith no more, the cure, the pixies, rob zombie, system of a down, placebo, and rammstein. if you were to pick songs out of her playlist, you might see pure morning, engel, be aggressive, gouge away, and lovesong.

wesker: got the majority of his music taste from william when they were teenagers, and built up on genres from there. does not listen to music in the car on principle, but does like to play it on the lab radio to filter out white noise. wesker enjoys bands like blue öyster cult, echo & the bunnymen, tool, the rolling stones, the birthday party, and queens of the stone age. if you were to pick songs out of his playlist, you might see no one knows, burnin’ for you, the killing moon, paint it black, and parabola.

rebecca: listens to whatever’s on the radio to expand her horizons. she’ll write down a lyric to a song she hears and likes so she can hunt it down later and buy the cd. musicians rebecca enjoys include REM, kate bush, depeche mode, pink floyd, foo fighters, and johnny cash. if you were to pick songs out of her playlist, you might see get out of my house, losing my religion, everlong, wish you were here, and policy of truth.

Watch All of Tool’s Music Videos, Uploaded to the Band’s YouTube Channel The hits just keep in coming for Tool! In addition to their stunning new album…

Did you know? Before @toolmusic, @adamjones_tv was a sculptor and special effects designer. He learned the stop motion camera techniques he would later apply in Tool's music videos, such as "Sober", "Prison Sex", "Stinkfist", "Ænema", "Schism", "Parabola", and "Vicarious". He started to work at @ricklazzarini's @thecharactershop. During the next couple of years, he worked on the Monsters TV show. He designed and fabricated a Grim Reaper makeup and a zombie head on a spike (later used in Ghostbusters II) among others. After that, he went to Stan Winston Studio, where he worked on Predator 2, Jurassic Park, Terminator 2: Judgment Day. #adamjones #artist #specialeffets #terminator2 #predator2 https://instagr.am/p/CK6qM2cJMFa/