Laughing Out Loud

This time we invite you to laugh.

Laugh out loud. Record it. Email it to us/ or upload it on yousendit.com

3 months from today the Department of Fun and Games will construct devices that will broadcast your laughter through independent radio.



simply put- imagine a street scape filled with the sound of many laughing women!

Here's one Blank Noise recorded in 2006 August. This was played at Delhi's South Ex Subway. (hear)


Simple ways to record on a windows machine:

On a windows machine

1. Plug a microphone to the "sound-in" of your sound card
2. Open Windows sound recorder and hit the record button
Watch the instruction video here:

OR

2. Download a free recording and sound editing software-Audacity is one of the best one's around[download it from here:http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

and use it to record your audio:

Watch the instruction video here:

[more detailed instructions here:

http://info.umuc.edu/de/ezine/how_to/audacity/audacity.htm]

On a Macintosh:

1: Open Garageband

2: Record

watch the instruction video here:

Or read the easy insructions here:http://macaudioguy.com/2007/12/27/how-to-do-basic-audio-recording-on-your-mac-using-garageband-08/

Excuse Me? Are You Calling Me?

Tales of Street Love and Lust were compiled after bloggers/ blank noise members/ supporters/ Blank Noise agents emailed us what they were referred as or called on the street by random male strangers. This is an effort to compile an 'eve teasing' vocabulary. Statements received will be uploaded here. Food here. (Don't miss the song from Prema Loka- here comes a girl looking like a lemon)Movie Songs here. Below is a list of 'love' references- do keep sending them in if you've been shocked, amused, threatened, attacked, humiliated by them.
words of love:

1. chammiya
2. gudiya (doll)
   
3. 'gullabbo' ( miss rose)
   
4. 'sundari' (gorgeous)
   
5. laila
6. Juliet
7. baby doll
8. sweety
9. 'ms. busty'
10. baby/ bebe
11. sweetheart
12. darling
13. jaan (life)
    
14. chhokri ('girl' in vernacular slang i guess)
15. jaaneman( the love of my life)
    
16. phuljhari (firecracker)
    
17. Rani (queen)
    
18. Chhammak Chhallo
19. mallika (queen)
    
20. Bijli (lightening)
    
21. 'Bomb'
22. 'Item'
23. 'Soodu'
24. piece
25. bollySakkat,(super sexy)
26. sexy
27. GORI ( fair skinned)
    
28. ummmmmmmm!
29. Flower
30. Suzie
31. Lilly
32. taj mahal ( monument)
    
33. Photaka( fire craker)
34. mike( another very popular word in kolkata for breasts)
35. Headlights
36. rose
37. Yummy
38. Sexaaay
39. Chasmeesh....
    
40. pussy
41. Veena ( musical instrument)
    
42. Matka ( earthen pot)
    
43. khekda ( which in marathi means crab)
44. horn
45. lota (spinning top)
    
46. Tennis balls
47. Footballs
    
48. katori (bowl?)
    
49. CHIKNI MAST ( white exciting thing)
    
50. Scooby doo
51. Elephant
    
52. tortoise
53. sun silk
    
54. Malldaar (the jerk said this one looking at my boobs)
    
55. DAGAAR - a veryyy veryyyy cheap Kannada word which means 'cheap whore'.... usually they would say this when I would stare back at them with anger or scold them.... this word used to make me furious!!
56. Lal chhaddi" (red stick)
57. Hot
58. Kutri
59. kali( dark skin woman)
    
60. nagin(snake)
    
61. "Baby
62. "Sweetie"
63. "Lovely"
64. "Darling"
65. FIGURE - How could I forget this.... the most common word you here on the roads of Bangalore
66. DOVE - They pronounce it as DAWUU(I dont think u can guess how they say it unless u live in Bangalore). In their lingo its supposed to mean 'beloved'!!!
67. mast- exciting
    
68. cheez- thing
    
69. darling (accompanied by kissing noises
70. chhokri ('girl' in vernacular slang i guess)
71. maal (goods)
72. jaan( life)
73. Maskali
    
    
    
    

Excuse Me??

Street Tales of Love and Lust include a list of statements that have been sent in by YOU.

This online event was triggered in August as our collective attempt to 'define eve teasing'/ street sexual harassment/ street sexual violence.

In August we gave the list of food names you sent in the form of Food Charts/ IMAGE WORD MEANING REVISION: THINGS I AM NOT. Coming up is a list of 'things' and descriptors you have been referred to as while out in public.

The statements have been heard by women from across geographies. Over 80 people participated to compile this list. You can still add to it..email us subject titled 'excuse me?'
e: blurtblanknoise@gmail.com. You can be anonymous if you like.

Besides being published on the blog, all responses to collectively building the 'eve teasing' vocab will be printed in the form of a book .

All email responses will be listed below- keep sending them in!
statements will be uploaded here. Food here. (objects / descriptors/ songs coming soon!)

1. ooof ...so niissse
   
2. where fr u go? where do you go?
   
3. I want to be youwer friend. I want to be your friend.
   
4. up and down ( to be repeated very fast )
5. rapchik maal. good thing/stuff
   
6. ' kya maal hai' what a thing!
   
7. Small baby with big balls.
8. Muslim phuljhari(at the sabzi market) muslim firecracker
   
9. Oh beautiful gori. oh beautiful fair woman
   
10. nice tits.
11. i want to fuck you
12. "F@!k me baby one more time"
13. Ure so sweet as honey bhaybe
14. PUT SOMETHING IN HER MOUTH
15. KODTYEENEE (WILL YOU GIVE in kannada)
16. COME 'DO' SEX WITH ME
17. COME 'DO' LOVE 'WITH' ME
    
18. CHECK OUT MAN, THIS SLUT DOESNT HAVE ANY SHAME.
19. can i have a ride? (many times when i was riding my bike in nyc)
20. rambe urvashi menake (the heavenly angels)
21. ghonti chepe debo( i want to squeeze your bells, in bengali)
22. Ki maal(what a thing)
23. Hi plumpy
24. hi chink chong. chinky
25. hey silky
26. aye item hey you thing!
    
27. SEE HER BUTT - ive heard this in Kannada... sounds very gross
    
28. kya lag rahi hai! you're looking hot
    
29. want to come for a ride, baby?
30. waiting for me?
31. (after flashing his penis) "well, did you see it? did you like it?"
32. "ashbi" ("aati kya?") will you come?
    
33. what a handful?!
34. sardi ka saman sardi-winter/ saman-thing/object
    
35. soda buddhi (when i used to wear glasses)- old woman with glasses
    
36. Dekhle hobe? khorcha achhe"( referring to a girl with a man, meaning it takes money to keep such a girl.")
37. "Pooro makhon" ( Following a Bengali Butter Biscuit ad, meaning very smooth like butter)
38. CHEWING GUM CHIPKEGI KYA? will you stick like chewing gum?
    
39. How much?
    
40. Rose for me?
    
41. Hi! Julliet
42. Hey Bob-cut!!
    
43. Hai Babiiieeee
44. Maal hai yaar!
45. ki bodo(what big ones!!)
46. Hey- you breastfeeding those books?
47. excuse me baby
48. hello..excuse me..hi sexy..
49. item hai
50. jhakas
    
51. “kahaaaN se aayeeeeee?” [sung in unrecognizable melody- where have you come from?]
52. “hi gorgeous” [in nattering nasal chipmunk voice]
53. "Jaldi karo, seth-ji" (yes, that too. Whatever it meant.) hurry up! you rich man
    
54. WHAT, SHE HAS NOT KEPT ANY 'SAAMAAN' ONLY- likely to mean that she does not have breasts.
    
55. Kya Garam Hai / She is hot
    
56. Soni Kudi/ beautiful woman
    
57. KUUTCHI MAAL HAI
58. Aye Soniye/ beautiful woman
59. Front or back?
60. “nice girl” [by a 65 year old retired police officer who then tried to sweep in for a kiss]
61. “Yes? Yes?”
62. “WOOOO!”
    
63. “hi beautiful"
64. "tight-jeans"
    
65. "white-bra" - because my bra strap was visible
66. WHY EVEN THIS, SHE SHOULD HAVE COME NAKED - when we were wearing Jeans and Tees
67. I WILL F@#K HER - I cant even repeat the words in kannada... sounds soooooooooo gross!!
68. "####### bitch!"
69. Bade hilla hilla ke chal rahi hain/ you're moving your breasts as you walk
    
70. Neena na kachch haki bidtini (i'll eat you up!)
71. Isko bana do! (make her up!)
72. kela chahiye? (do you want a banana??)
73. rambe urvashi menake (the heavenly angels)
74. One shot- 1000 Rs. Barthiya? (Will you come?) *NEW*
75.