Speed metal

A sub-genre full of rhythm and speed

Speed metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that originated in the early 1980s from hardcore punk roots. It is usually described as extremely fast, abrasive and technically demanding music.

Motorhead is often credited as the first bad to invent/play speed metal.

Eric Peterson, guitarist of Testament, says about his band that "a lot of us did a lot of speed". 

 

Here it is an example of a speed metal song by the finnish power metal band of Stratovarius.

Medicine: cardiac arhythmia

When the heartbeats become irregular

Heartbeats accelaration

Tachycardia comes from the Greek words tachys (rapid or accelerated) and kardia (of the heart). Tachycardia typically refers to a heart rate that exceeds the normal range for a resting heartrate (heartrate in an inactive or sleeping individual). It can be very dangerous depending on how hard the heart is working and the activity.  

ECG showing sinus tachycardia with a rate of about 100 beats per minute.

Slow heart rate

Bradycardia (Greek βραδυκαρδία, bradykardía, "heart slowness"), as applied to adult medicine, is defined as a resting heart rate of under 60 beats per minute, though it is seldom symptomatic until the rate drops below 50 beat/min. It may cause cardiac arrest in some patients, because those with bradycardia may not be pumping enough oxygen to their heart. It sometimes results in fainting, shortness of breath, and if severe enough, death.

Sinus bradycardia seen in lead II with a heart rate of about 50.

 

Signposting

Slow down!

Everywhere we see signs that invite us to go slow or speed limits attection.

Spot and commercials

A mix of concepts and techniques

The concept of speed and the binomial Fast/Slow are very important in the advertisement's field: these are very useful to underline some aspects of the product. Usually, as we can see in the following examples, slowness is bad, old, passed, while fastness is good, modern, new and technological advanced.


In this spot of Renault Clio the rallenty effect is used to communicate that "slowness is ugly", while the car is very fast (and so this isn't ugly).



This is a very famous 90's spot, directed by Spike Lee for Nike: The rallenty effect underlines the unbelievable capacity of the shoes, that let Jordan to "fly".


This is a spot that takes advantage of speed dating to comunicate the different possibilities of combinations of the product.

TAV

How to shorten the distance

High-speed rail

High-speed rail(HSR) is a type of passenger rail transport that operates significantly faster than the normal speed of rail traffic. Specific definitions by the European Union include 200 km/h (120 mph) for upgraded track and 250 km/h (160 mph) or faster for new track. In Japan, Shinkansen lines run at speeds in excess of 260 km/h (160 mph) and are built using standard gauge track with no at-grade crossings. In China, high-speed conventional rail lines operate at top speeds of 350 km/h (220 mph),and one Maglev Line in Shanghai reaches speeds of 431 km/h (268 mph). The world record for conventional high-speed rail is held by the V150, a specially configured version of Alstom's TGV which clocked 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph) on a test run. The world speed record for Maglev is held by the japanese experimental MLX01: 581 km/h (361 mph).

While high-speed rail is usually designed for passenger travel, some high-speed systems also carry some kind of freight service. For instance, the French mail service La Poste owns a few special TGV trains for carrying postal freight.

TAV

High-speed Railroad Map Europe 2009

Tissues' accessories

Open and close quickly and easily


Zipper
 

A zipper (British English: zip or (rarely) zip fastener) is a popular device for temporarily joining two edges of fabric. It is used in clothing (e.g., jackets and jeans), luggage and other bags, sporting goods, camping gear (e.g., tents and sleeping bags), and other daily use items.



Zipper
Patent: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3775812.pdf



Drawstring

A drawstring (or draw string or draw-string) is a string, cord, or rope used (when pulled) to "draw" (tighten) or tie an opening in fabric closed/shut.

Drawstring
Patent: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3744105.pdf

How long it takes to button your shirt?

A very slow "operation"!

Let's cook!

Time is essential in the kitchen!

Time plays a fondamental role in the kitchen: there are recipes that have to be preparated in a very long time (also days), and others that need a few minutes.

Thus variable is so important that there are many kitchen books that are written in consideration of time; here there are some of these.

Super fast slow cooking

Make it fast, cook it slow

Slow cooker

Gordon Ramsay's Fast Food

Great fast food recipes

Sports: slower to win

Purpose: overcome the opponent



"Slow" sports



Cue sport
The player needs time to predict the ball's trajectory and calculate the best move to do.



Curling
The stone is thrown very slowly in a very calibrated way to get as close as possible to the target, considering the slipperiness of ice.

Golf
In this sport the player must think very carefully to the shot to do, considering many variables (such as the wind); it take place in a very large field, making the game so slow.

Marathon
Unlike the speed racers, marathon take place in a very long path (more than 42 km) and that's why the racers spend a long time to finish it.

Bocce

This game has to be very slow in order to calibrate very well the shot and get closer to the target.



Poker
Card games are usually slow because the player has to think to a good strategy to win, and anticipate the opponent's moves



Sports: faster to win

Purpose: overcome the opponent

"Fast" sports

Skiing
 The althlete must do the slalom course in the shortest possible time, the slope of the mountain increases the speed of the skier.

Moto GP
The fastest, riding your bike, needs to reach first the finish line.

Cycling
Cyclists make a default route, and using their sports training, which aims at upgrading the speed in the race, must reach the finish line.

Swimming
Should be trained and speed to reach the other end of the pool.

Formula 1
Each team develops its own technology to improve the performance of the car used during the race, focusing first on the final podium place.

Athletics
Running speed is the main subject of many athletic sports.

Palio
The jockeys run their horses to reach the finish line as quickly as possible.

In Medicine, what does FAST stand for?

"Fast" as acronym

FAST is an acronym for quickly remembering the symptoms of a stroke. It is more frequently used in Australia, than in the United States, but a 2007 episode of the medical drama House featured the concept. It’s an excellent acronym to remember because early treatment of stroke is essential to reducing brain damage and mortality associated with stroke.

FAST is a fairly loose acronym, and the letters only correlate to a few symptoms of stroke. These are facial paralysis, arm weakness, and speech difficulties. The “T” in FAST is often translated as “time to act fast.” Others interpret the “T” as “test all symptoms.” The first interpretation is used by the Stroke Foundation of Australia, and for most laypeople, it’s probably best to remember the first definition. It is definitely essential to act quickly by contacting emergency services if a stroke is suspected.

http://www.wisegeek.com/in-medicine-what-does-fast-stand-for.htm
http://freeliberal.com/archives/001179.php

Speed of Light

Faster than light!?

The speed of light in a vacuum is presently defined to be exactly 299,792,458 m/s (approximately 186,282 miles per second). The fixed value of the speed of light in SI units results from the fact that the metre is now defined in terms of the speed of light.

Different physicists have attempted to measure the speed of light throughout history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light

Machines do it faster!

Manual tasks become mechanical works

Combine pieces of cloth or other material, using needle and thread, has always been a slow manual work, that asks lot of care and skills; nowadays in factories and often in our houses we use the sewing machine, a mechanical instrument invented in 1790; from the early hand-operating models, technological evolution has produced foot pedal sewing machines, and finally with an electric motor within.
Sewing has therefore become much faster, no longer requiring ability.
The sewing machine has so changed this world that hand sewing has become an hobby.

This argument can be extended beyond the borders of sewing, infact it concernes any work that technological evoltion changed from manual to be done with machines.

Hand sewing in a very slow work, requiring time and ability.
http://www.gettyimages.it/detail/85210070/Digital-Vision

The sewing machine made this work a lot faster and simple.
http://www.gettyimages.it/detail/78325162/Brand-X-Pictures

Alphabet

Letter as a word

These "light letters" are made with a photographic technique that works around the speed of realization.

A as  Accelerator
B as Beat
C as Car
D as Drawstring
E as Elevator
F as Food
G as Ghepard
H as Hurricane
I as Imola
J as Jet
K as Km/h
L as Light
M as Music
N as Notebook
O as Oryx gazelle
P as Pitometer
Q as Queue
R as Radar Gun
S as Snail
T as Tortoise
U as Usain Bolt
V as Vortex
W as Windshield wiper
X as X-wing
Y as Yahoo
Z as Zipper

Photographic Techique

How to capture the movement 

The panning technique is used to suggest fast motion, and bring out the subject from other elements in the frame. In photographic pictures it is usually noted by a foreground subject in action appearing still (i.e. a runner frozen in mid-stride) while the background is streaked and/or skewed in the apparently opposite direction of the subject's travel.

Subject in focus and blurred background.

Blurred subject and background in focus.

http://gerasimone.altervista.org/2007/fotografare-il-movimento/

http://ste95.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/le-foto-in-movimento-si-fanno-con-la-tecnica-del-panning/

http://www.fotografia-digitale.info/tecniche/560/catturare-leffetto-movimento-in-fotografia/

Cinematographic Techniques

Slow down fastness, speed up slowness!

Fast Forward: to fast-forward means to move forward through an audio or video recording at a speed faster than that at which it would usually flow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKCG9rGFgqA&feature=related

Slow Motion: is an effect in film-making whereby time appears to be slowed down. It was invented by August Musger.

Slow motion is ubiquitous in modern filmmaking. It is used by a diverse range of directors directors to achieve diverse effects. Some classic subjects of slow motion include:

• Athletic activities of all kinds, to demonstrate skill and style.
• To recapture a key moment in an athletic game, typically shown as a replay.
• Natural phenomena, such as a drop of water hitting a glass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBTbM80Aer8