If you haven't heard, me and @thefoleyartist.bsky.social are going to be giving a talk at GDC about the importance of getting out and doing recording and how that improves your sound design in games! Please come check us out! schedule.gdconf.com/session/mics...

hi hi, myself and @pumodi.bsky.social are presenting at GDC this year! Our talk, Mics in Space The Importance of Field and Foley Recordings, is kicking off the audio track Wednesday morning 10:30AM! If you’re tired of staring at a computer screen all day, then this will the talk for you!

Went to Cirque du Soleil’s Mystere last year and haven’t stopped thinking about it. It’s Cirque’s longest running show and so much of the technology, set pieces, and talent has changed since its premiere in 93. Yet it retains a sense of wonder: human stakes give the performance meaning

Weapons is the most Junji Ito film i’ve ever seen

had a real bright moment today in Boston when I realized the restaurant I was in had Taiwanese staff and could understand my Taiwanese-American accented Mandarin. They even offered to charge my phone once I started chatting 🥰

haven’t posted here in a hot minute. Touching grass, enjoying life and working on undoing some significant burn out

Will be at GDC Wednesday and Thursday BUT ONLY as an exercise in R&R. For you see, i’m on a little thing called vacation

Piastri reversing out of the green and back onto the track had my entire viewing party SCREAMING. What an absolute banger of a race

So funny getting formative car experiences at age 33. My friends are like "🙄yeah pretty cool huh?”. Meanwhile i'm weeping behind my sunglasses with the windows down, wind in my hair, sunrise in the rearview, sundress flapping, driving to my childhood home. “It’s so beatiful 😭”

Foley is sonic cosplay. You break down the textures, clothing, props, and performance of the character: and then portray them in the world or the story. I say “weaponized asmr” to describe the effect of Foley but in the craft, we are sonically dressing the character. And then, walking the runway.

couples successfully matchmade: +1 tonight. 7 total ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

visited Insomniac Games earlier this week and had an absolute blast presenting some cool Foley concepts to the audio and design teams!! can’t wait to come back soon :))

got to visit the Fox Lot and One Step Up, one of the best Foley studios in the world. I also somehow ended up leaving the gift shop with a Simpsons production cell

every few months, i get a small burst of new followers on instagram or bluesky and i’ve realized, “somewhere, a sound design professor just started a section on Foley and played back the Wired Video or 32 Sounds to their students”

New year. new era.

Fun Joanna lore: did you know that of the 6 couples i’ve match made, 4 of them got married/engaged? The 2 that didn’t, one ended up being a long term relationship and the other was my only true flop.

yeah sorry we’ve had this discussion already, “not working for the modern American gestapo” is not actually a form of class privilege

the best Foley team in the world has zero social media presence and the proof is in the pudding.

As someone who transitioned from the highly regimented New York film/tv industry into game development, I can tell yah one thing. besides a design document, there really isn’t an equivalent of an elegant and simple screenplay that every department can use for budgeting and preproduction

post a picture YOU took. just a pic. no description

after dinner tonight, my parents and I ended up sobbing together in the kitchen after discussing how hard it was to raise a family and how much harder it must be right now with inflation.

this has been such a huge year for personal growth. Presented at GDC, worked on my dream project, actually bought a real bed frame and finally overcame my decades of car anxiety by getting my license and 1st car. worked on my mind and body, lost 40 pounds, and started dating again

That time I brought a box of magic cards to work during my first month at a new job, and somehow made friends along the way

my favorite Foley film this year would definitely be The Substance. I haven’t stopped thinking about some key sounds, but as both a Foley artist and shrimp enjoyer, it cannot be dethroned

People often ask me “what’s the most unique or tough sound you’ve had to recreate” and I usually give a pretty relaxed answer, eating grapefruit for dragon hearts or breaking pasta shells for bones. but the truth is, it’s the sounds of innocent people being executed, real people. 🧵

Four games i’ve worked on!

I super relate to this. I used to get compared to my dad a lot by the older Taiwanese moms of the town I grew up in, and it was only much much later that I realized he was considered “extremely attractive by Taiwanese standards” I’m compared to my mom way more now, but it was funny while it lasted

Growing up I got recognized around town because I looked like my dad, a lot, and he was a surgeon so randoms would wanna show me their scars. Anyway, for six months after coming out I heard over and over "you look just like your mom!" Which was new and weird for me but now is a feeling I cherish.

Last day of the break and my mom absolutely knocked out the Yoshitaka Amano puzzle. she told me it’s one of the hardest ones she’s done in recent memory but an enjoyable challenge

My mom is a puzzle fanatic and I unfortunately get a nasty headache whenever we play. i’m trying to spend more time with her on so in an effort to engage more deeply, I bought her an early Christmas gift of nearly every Yoshitaka Amano Final Fantasy jigsaw puzzle.

Whenever I wake up from my childhood bed, I spend the morning reminiscing. One of my best memories: coming home from high school one day, really low having gone through my first big heartbreak, to find my mom, dad, and sisters lifting my bed and giving my room a makeover

I got the opportunity to speak about Foley in #GameAudio at #GDC2024 alongside Joanna Fang and Blake Collins! The full recording is up on the GDC Vault. Come hear what we learned on Marvel's Spider-Man 2! 🕸️🔊 gdcvault.com/play/1034394...

Nevermind the lack of proper heel toe technique (the character is drunk), but for the first time in years, i got to break out my drag queen heels for a Foley cue today

Machine Girl was perfection 2nite

Easy

pretty sick day at work. finally got to put on the armor I got from Foley artist Reece Miller for some leather creaks

“a large group of funny, talented trans posters were the earliest adopters of Bluesky and were able to forge the platform into what it is today: funny, frequently horny, and with very strong moderation tools. If you like Bluesky’s vibe right now, thank a trans person,” journalist Katelyn Burns said

it feels so good to see the feed fill back up with so many familiar faces and a million percent less blue check bots

Post a picture of yourself to show the newbies what they’re dealing with

This is peak tho, this is the ideal !!

I am convinced my childhood obsession for the Metal Gear Solid series directly contributed to my adult Foley sensibility. Even before I went down this career path, I loved the game sounds of crunchy snow footsteps, the sizzle of cigarettes, or a hail of bullet shells raining onto concrete floors

back on bluesky and after some customization, my newsfeed is still a mess. might be a good thing to just, only ever post my Foley opinions on here?!

some of the absolute best Foley is in the Alexander McQueen documentary. Every gown, heel, and texture is passionately performed and mixed with refinement. All of the process of dressmaking: the sewing, snipping, and ripping sounds full and embodies the character and craft youtu.be/yKwCd6WLPdE?...

alright, looks like this is where game audio is heading. only took 2 years

MC’ed the PlayStation Float at SF Pride today and got to live out my dream of shouting into a mic to thousands of people “SCREAAAM FOR ME SAAAN FRANCISCOOOO” and hearing the ROAR from the audience back.

full disclosure, i started wegovy this week and it’s been wild. Does the average person have this amount of impulse control?! I feel like I have been in nightmare and just woke up

it’s weird. I got so estranged from twitter that I just sorta de-accelerated my tweets there. Going to get the rhythm back

i’m back motherfuckers YEAAAA