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August 12, 2014 4:45 PM

12 Hours of the Ambient noise in Deckard's apartment in Blade Runner.
posted by The Whelk (20 comments total)

That goofy look on his face in the screen cap is priceless. It's like he just stumbled across an episode of "Ow My Balls!"
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 4:48 PM on August 12, 2014 [6 favorites]

I've never trusted these multi-hour youtube ambient noise videos. You know some griefer is going to put a Wilhelm scream somewhere in the sixth hour, long after you've fallen asleep.
posted by dr_dank at 5:00 PM on August 12, 2014 [11 favorites]

Skip ahead to 18:13, that's when it starts to really pick up. Kidding aside, though, can't you just sit close to a refrigerator for this sort of entertainment?
posted by Metro Gnome at 5:02 PM on August 12, 2014

AlonzoMosleyFBI: "That goofy look on his face in the screen cap is priceless. It's like he just stumbled across an episode of "Ow My Balls!""

You mean, "Where are my pants!?"
posted by chavenet at 5:03 PM on August 12, 2014 [4 favorites]

Wait- this just sounds like my apartment.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 5:21 PM on August 12, 2014 [2 favorites]

I want a 1080p looping video of one of the vacant, rolling black and white video screens from Deckard's apartment.
posted by Auden at 5:43 PM on August 12, 2014

Great for when you need to help androids dream of electric sheep.
posted by NotMyselfRightNow at 5:51 PM on August 12, 2014 [9 favorites]

A suggested video, if you enjoyed this, is Star Trek TNG Ambient Engine Noise (Idling for 24 hrs). Captivating. In fact, there's a whole playlist.
posted by Jimbob at 5:56 PM on August 12, 2014 [7 favorites]

Guess I should return that Aphex Twin CD I bought today.
posted by ZenMasterThis at 6:05 PM on August 12, 2014 [4 favorites]

The ambient sound in my apartment is more like the outside scenes in Blade Runner.
posted by birdherder at 6:49 PM on August 12, 2014 [3 favorites]

Los Angeles, November 2019
posted by honestcoyote at 6:57 PM on August 12, 2014 [4 favorites]

In fact, there's a whole playlist.

To be humane, I'm omitting a whole string of terrible Philip K. Dick puns about seeing this playlist before. All I really want to do is point out the great post about crysknife007 that included it.
posted by knuckle tattoos at 7:28 PM on August 12, 2014 [4 favorites]

Enhance 34 to 36. Pan right and pull back. Stop. Enhance 34 to 46. Pull back.
posted by srboisvert at 7:46 PM on August 12, 2014 [4 favorites]

Reminds me of Myst.
posted by benito.strauss at 7:54 PM on August 12, 2014

Los Angeles, November 2019 is also on Grooveshark

It's likely also available for download if you know where to look.
posted by hippybear at 1:07 AM on August 13, 2014 [1 favorite]

Also, if you're looking for the Blade Runner musical soundtrack (which is ACTUALLY by Vangelis, as opposed to LA:N19, which is not), what you want to look for is the Esper Edition, which is not available for purchase.

But which can also be found online.
posted by hippybear at 1:09 AM on August 13, 2014 [4 favorites]

It's like he just stumbled across an episode of "Ow My Balls!"

Oh, great. Now I can't get the image of Harrison Ford yelling "Go away! 'batin!" out of my head.
posted by Mr. Bad Example at 4:07 AM on August 13, 2014 [1 favorite]

If only I could find 12 hours of this.
posted by mubba at 7:44 AM on August 13, 2014

mubba, it isn't twelve hours per se but there's always infinitelooper. Also, some more bleepy bloopy and some wooooosh. And some warp core bup bup.
posted by gem tactics at 9:19 AM on August 13, 2014

I love me some warp core bup bup
posted by GallonOfAlan at 12:56 PM on August 13, 2014