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I didn't realize there was audio in Vine until this morning. I always have my phone on mute and didn't think to try the app out with mute off. I prefer it with mute on, specifically because the sound takes away from the experience because it's clips of sound stitched together, which does not sound very nice.

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That was my reaction. When vinepeek.com was posted over the weekend I thought it was fantastic.

It was only later when showing it to my family I realized there was sound, since my laptop is always muted if I'm not actively listening to something on it.

Withou the sound, it was sort of like amazing slice-of-life home movies from all over the world in a neat little mash up of humanity.

With the sound... it was a bunch of videos. Often neat, but somehow less.

Yeah it is an interesting choice. I may be wrong, but when I saw the first Vines shared by Kevin Rose on twitter they were without sound. I think it was a conscious effort to differentiate themselves from gifs, and all the internet baggage that come with them

It can also be beautiful though, sound is just another texture to work with. The thing that comes to mind are Wes Anderson's many 'breakfast sequences' where he shows preparation in jump cut 'vine' style

Yeah but that's one hollywood movie, this is every movie.

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