Star Wars Rebels. I started that series as a curiosity, but it got its hooks in me. The last two seasons are some peak SW storytelling and character development, some scenes quite artful, visually. If you’ve not tried it, do. Investment pays off after S1.

Over 20 miles of hiking last weekend through coastal forests. Sweaty good times.

Huge props to @sskorkowsky.bsky.social's latest video. Which has NOTHING to do with current events. Nope. Nothing at all. Zero. Zip. Nada. (I lived through ALL of this, including my own grandmother convinced that I was in a cult because of D&D) www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpjV...

Huge thanks to @tonebenderspodcast.bsky.social for sharing my #fieldrecording story of being trapped in a vehicle by Bison without my key equipment! (and for using my photo for the show thumbnail!) My story is the first, starting at 04:06 or so. tonebenderspodcast.com/334-2025-lis...

What a day. It's time to listen to The Necks. ("The Boys" OST, specifically)

Mochi looking utterly spoiled

See also: “Sunk Cost Fallacy”

Scrumpy snuggs at sunrise. Take that, Monday.

Sunday prop crafting. #Foley #sounddesign

The "trust" argument made me rage quit my last job. "Trust" that is given blindly is better known as "faith", and last I looked, the office wasn't a temple, and executives were not gods. And if they are gods, I choose heresy.

BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct. Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Happy Devils Night from PizzaNOMicon and the Berry-Al Pies

Doing #filmsound and #sounddesign for @arielwaldman.com leads to some rad field trips. This is the synchrotron called the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. #fuckyeahscience

It’s a start.

Sitting here printing a mix, marveling at the effort I've spent to remove shitty-sounding 2024 superbrood cicadas from dialogue, only to...replace it with good-sounding 2024 superbrood cicadas. #filmsound #dialogueediting #sounddesign

“X of Y” titles are all the rage in my reading stack.

Summer dawn chorus #fieldrecording: Up at 4am, out the door by 4:30, on location 5am, recording 5:30am. Fall/winter dawn chorus #fieldrecording: Up at 5am, make breakfast as I wait for twilight, oh no wait now the kids are at the nearby school, oh crap it's rush hour already, gaaaahhhhhh......

Thinking back to "I Am the Wolf," a short film I sound designed and mixed for director Christopher Mann, starring the utterly fantastic Edwin Nwachukwu Jr. (Recently, it was wild to see a different actor from another project with Mann, years ago, show up with a speaking role in "Slow Horses" S3!)

Truer words have never been spoken

I jammed a #fieldrecording rig in this lone tree for a few hours. Volcanic cinder desert all around, above 7,000’. Birds landed, flitted, about, had a nice chat. Lovely soft gusts, that “jet engine” sound of wind through pine needles. I listen now and I’m transported back there.

Pulled my hair out for hours over a sync issue only to find there was a critical bus that had some how had its delay compensation disabled entirely. #protoolsergeist #filmsound #sounddesign

I just had one of those "nice mic ≠ nice sound" moments. Rather than struggle in post with an unexciting recording made with a nice microphone, I recorded it with my iPhone 12S. It was thick and rich and awesome. It's going in the film (as a layer). #filmsound #sounddesign #Foley

I don’t need to explain why it’s wildly unacceptable for the military to be illegally privately financed by the president’s wealthy allies, right?

#Foley gets duuuuurty

TFW you meet a co-worker and they've been at the same place for __//TEN TIMES//__ longer than you have. 🫣

Shutting down for the day

Scrumpy likes being held like the big baby he is.

I remember holding this specific issue of Mondo 2000 in my hands. A year prior, I met the magazine's art director, Bart Nagel, who was wearing a blazer made of a fabric pattern of white sperm on a black background.

Saw several squares of various types of fake turf. Took them to the counter to buy them for #Foley. Cashier said, “We sell massive rolls, not those samples.” I said, “Cool, will you sell these to me anyway?” I was buying other stuff, so he said, “We’re getting new samples soon, just take them.”

That’s been my experience as well. That guy is a disconnected idiot.

I respect the many sound cues present on the first page of @stevebrusatte.bsky.social’s “The Rise and Reign of the Mammals.”

Dear Rest of the World, We genuinely don't want these people in power. Most of us didn't vote for them. Here's proof. We're in a tight spot and working really hard to get out of it, and we hope you'll protect yourselves against the same and strive to keep safe from us until we get things straight.

If anyone wants to see a show with perfect representation of Delta Green style deflection of Sanity Loss on their Bonds, watch The Bletchley Circle. Amazingly accurate representation of relationships fraying while secret, dark work happens. Available at Amazon and via BritBox. #ttrpg

Real men only wear masks because it's barely 7° C and the wind is blowing at 30 knots and they can't feel their nose anymore. (Cinder Cone, Lassen Volcanic National Park)

#Foley contraption of the day. #filmsound #indiefilm #documentary

My #mastering desk has become my #Foley recording chain. Props yesterday, footsteps today. (Performing things myself on this project.) #filmsound #indiefilm

A year later, I’m finally using the #fieldrecordings I made for this film project. I’ve used every single “keeper” recording I made, and even some of the outtakes. Audio post wraps in a few weeks! #filmsound #indiefilm #documentary youtu.be/fjUZvXY0aTg?...

Well, that's pretty rad. Well done, Owlcat.

IT'S THE REASON FOR THE (SPOOKY SEASON) meatbeatmanifesto.bandcamp.com/album/tinos-...

I'm just gonna say that I saw some Sora-generated shit tonight that makes me really, really confident in our job security.

My favorite Raven sound, in a pine forest in the Southern Cascades (stock footage, my #fieldrecording).

Always beat up your outdoor gear. It'll encourage people to make assumptions about your skill level. Heard today (an earnest statement with no sarcasm): "Wow, your kayaking drysuit looks trashed. You must be a total bad ass!"

It won’t affect audio.

Saturday morning. Sun hasn't risen. Drinking coffee while collecting squishy mud #soundeffects that I know I'll need next week for a film I'm working on. I try to protect these moments of creative quiet before the needs of fitness, cats, house care, and errands demand my attention. #filmsound

Hiking Cinder Cone. Took 30 minutes to hike a quarter of a mile (700’ elevation gain). 30-35° slope made of loose volcanic sand. Most goth sand dune in the world. View into the crater and beyond was pretty sick, though.

Your nicest mics may not record the best sounds because you won't put them in the right situations. Inexpensive mics will get put in more interesting, exciting, or risky places to capture sounds you'd never put a nice mic in front of. #fieldrecording #sounddesign

Our team at Skywalker Sound had a great time working on this for ILM. For me, it was such a joy to also implement the incredible score by Clark Rhee and Joe Trapanese. From surf/rockabilly guitar to remixing the Imperial March, they did a killer job forging new musical ground.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Release day! Proud to have been an audio lead, mixer, and Foley supervisor on this project. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nWu... #ar #vr #gameaudio #unreal #wwise #starwars #podracing