omg my 8 year old just pointed out that the Zora names in Breath/Tears are referencing the do-re-mi music scale (Mipha is self-explanatory; Sidon is “Sido” in Japanese) Nothing tops Teba Saki on the dad joke scale, but still

I received a request for commentary on my "Old School vs. New School" redesign (and comparing it to the original version), and I thought sure, if someone's interested, that'd be cool! youtu.be/G517fiS2nYs

I did brand new sound design and a new mix for "Old School vs. New School," the first RocketJump weekly video I ever did, back in 2012! Maybe I've gotten better at my job after thirteen years... maybe I haven't!🤪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWD1...

Old Leon Kennedy reminds me of classic “wrinkly age” movie makeup, where there’s clearly just a 25-year-old underneath

Hey all! I'm urgently looking for an audio editing / sound design gig from now until end of January or ongoing if part-time. I'm very experienced in voice editing (incl dialogue in film) and I love doing sound design for audio drama. Here's my reel. Reaper + iZtpRX soundcloud.com/melissapons/...

Silent Hill 2 is about James going to the town but it’s twisted and wrong and Mary was never there. Silent Hill 2 Remake is about the player going to the town but it’s twisted and wrong and Silent Hill 2 was never there. I should have expected as much, but give me a hole and I put my hand in it

Just replayed the original Silent Hill 2 (via Enhanced Edition), and finally decided to decide how I feel about the remake, and got up to the Wood Side Apartments. Without deciding if this is good or bad yet, I will say, WOW it is absolutely NOT giving Silent Hill 2 (original) in any way

Predator: Badlands is more like Predator: Pretty Good Lands A-haaaa-haaaahh-haahhhhhhhh HAWHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHkkkkttkktktttttthhhh

About halfway through Killer7 on Steam, which came out almost exactly half my lifetime ago. It is exactly the same experience today [positive]. Confidently unhinged. Every tiny detail perfectly wrong and upsetting.

Check out this preview scene from RocketJump's upcoming action-comedy feature, Nail House! Sound designed and mixed by me. There's also a feature-length documentary afterwards; I didn't do the sound on that but I assume the content is great 🤪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXnP...

There’s passive-aggressive, then there’s aggressive-aggressive

Of all the causes I could have possibly guessed, the LA fires turning out to be deliberate arson by a man from Florida with AI psychosis was not high on that list

I sound designed "Hollywood Hustler," out October 17th on Amazon Prime, and it is just as sleazy and sensational as the trailer makes it out to be! And perhaps, a hard look at what's too often the reality behind fulfilling the "American Dream." www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyBo...

My parents for some reason got a can of Irn-Bru for the kids to try (they don’t really drink soda?), so I snuck a couple sips for Science. Good when cold, and then immediately vile when it’s no longer icy, which was fun to discover. Better than expected; still prefer Scotland’s other national drink

With New Donk City, we can deduce the existence of Donk, England, and Donkshire pudding

I’m really enjoying Alien: Earth, but the Western sci-fi retro future (i.e. “dated”) Yutani office was a Bit Much. I love throwback chonky analog computers, reminders of childhood orientalism, less so

America is a vibe

Sister-in-law is visiting and wanted to do some retro games, so we played the first Mario Party on N64. By the end of the game, my eight year old was absolutely livid and unresponsive, proving the game is timeless in its devastation

Because of Bananza, the kids have questions about the old Donkey Kongs, and they’re about to find out I always was a full completion maniac

The beautiful IMMORTALITY: Design Works! It’s absolutely massive and features the full screenplay (all 400+ pages), as well as a wealth of interviews, that I’m very excited to read. I’m also interviewed in the book, and I am now immortalized (a-haaaah; sigh) in print calling the game “weird.”

"DEVO" the documentary is out on Netflix tomorrow, August 19th! It covers the band's history and messaging with a surreal, whimsical vibe that feels like a direct extension of their work. I had the pleasure of sound designing the film!

“Rental Family” trailer just came out; I had a lot of fun sound designing this film! youtu.be/n0pqP6ClcE8?...

A friend sent me this, asking if this person, or @krotos.bsky.social had anything to do with Jurassic World Rebirth, the answer is NO, I have no idea why Krotos is seemingly running what may be a pretty misleading ad that sort of implies it. But to be clear, I do not use Krotos software EVER.

Six year old said his brother kept saying “the n word,” which turned out to be “naa na na naa naaa” in a teasing tone

Boy Band is an awesome award-winning k-pop horror short film that I sound designed and mixed, and now be watched online for free! Yay free stuff! filmshortage.com/dailyshortpi...

I was a sound designer on “Rental Family,” directed by Hikari and starring Brendan Fraser, premiering at Toronto International Film Festival! My kid chatted with Brendan for an hour about Star Wars during production downtime; he is a very nice guy so I’m rooting for this film 😛

"100 Foot Wave" is Emmy nominated again this year, for both sound editing and sound mixing! And maybe other categories; I dunno, I have a short attention span and didn't look!🤪

Having the paleontologist in the new Jurassic refer to a mosasaur, pterosaur, and sauropod as “three dinosaurs” is horseshit This is the only hyper-focused opinion I will be posting about this movie

The Splatoon kids still keeping it real

Has anyone discussed how the next 28 Years Later movie is coming out 28 weeks later (in the UK at least) sigh / applause

28 Years Later was weird as hell and I didn’t like it [positive intonation] A rare treat these days to get a genre sequel that’s just whole-ass bizarre; bravo (I really hope the sequel doesn’t clarify any of it, because that would sour it for me)

old Star Wars was kinda great

Although I don’t have a custom FYC jpeg for it, HBO Max (that’s almost their name agaaaain) would love for YOU to consider 100 Foot Wave for Best Sound Editing (nonfiction/reality). Sure there’s a whole lot of waves that go “boom,” but it’s about HOW they go boom, right

"Mo" Season 2 is wild, vital, stylized storytelling, and it's cool that Netflix thought my sound editing is worth YOUR consideration! 😜

Wasn't able to score a Switch 2, so I told the kids we can get one later, and they were fine with the reasoning. Another plus, they're gaming a bit too much now anyways, so gives us time to adjust their task/game balance. My dad texts immediately after, "hi I got the kids a Switch 2" 🤪

Following up Andor by rereading the OG spin-off novel. A few pages in, it’s fun having the universe contract down to just the first movie — Luke’s father is very dead, Vader is just a “henchman,” and Luke DEFINITELY wants to fuck Leia

I'm one of the guests on the new episode of "The Process with Jude Brewer," with my interview being turned into part of a wonderful essay and exploration of film history, creativity, and "what the heck is life anyway" open.spotify.com/episode/60U7...

Our next meetup is on June 14th at the Arts District Brewing Company from 2pm-6pm. This is a part of Air Wiggles' Air Con 2025. We have an event page set up, come by! www.airwiggles.com/c/live-event...

So I’m learning guitar with my kid, which means I’m terrible, but the fun thing about having guitarist friends is they lend you stuff. So I now have both a 7 string and 8 string Ibanez and it makes me look WAY more competent and genre niche than I really am, which amuses me

To me there's something funny about pre-purchasing Doom so I can have it installed in advance, only to get smacked with "unpacking files" the moment I'm ready to actually try it. I feel like every culture must have a folksy saying that captures this exact vibe

Sad that this company ELVTR is posting ads like this on Facebook and other places. This person does trailers, he is not the sound designer 'behind' any of these projects. So sad and disrespectful and deceptive. I hope people do not support them @elvtrcom.

I'll be speaking on a panel at #AirCon25, which is a free online audio production conference June 7-14 at airwiggles.com/aircon! Talks are recorded and available later for free as well. Unlike the picture, I will probably not be wearing a tie as I stare into my phone camera via Zoom

The Midnight Walk makes really neat use of 3D scanning - pairing the uncanny feel of scanned objects with a claymation aesthetic is an excellent and coherent art-meets-technology vibe. Also some fun binaural sound use!

Morning coffee kicked in during the latter half of Andor S2 Episode 6, and now I'm feeling very wired and don't think I'll be blinking at all today thank you very much

If you’re in LA and wanna catch Revenge of the Sith in Atmos with a Matthew Wood Q&A this Sunday, MPSE has opened the event up to non-members too! mpse.org/event-6138445

I contributed sound design to some of the key sequences in this film, about nursing school students in the aftermath of the Nagasaki bombing. Getting a theatrical release in Japan this summer, and maybe it'll be available elsewhere later! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Evn...

Playing the Mad Max videogame, and remembered that I did post sound on a video for it 9 years ago, in the era of the "YouTube promo short." Though I had Fury Road in my brain at the time, having played the actual game now, I'm pretty happy with my work 😂https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDG-l5Y9O64

Showed up early to the @tonebenderspodcast.bsky.social Los Angeles sound design meetup to have a casual work conversation, and was photographed by MPSE Wavelength sitting at a tiny table being antisocial 😂

A friend sent me this, and why is it just the Eric Serra GoldenEye soundtrack www.youtube.com/shorts/0T2y8...

I don’t know my Pokemon very well. I was told “Mimikyu” and I wanted to confirm I knew the right one, but the best my brain could do was “you mean Klansmen Pikachu?” 🫠