>Congrats to Ray Beckett (production sound mixer) and Paul N.J. Ottosson (sound designer, supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer) and all of the sound team for winning both sound Oscars last night for The Hurt Locker But the most momentus award must surely be to Kathryn Bigelow the first woman to ever win an Oscar for Best Director – one would hope thats a permanently shattered glass ceiling!
> There was one weird Kanye moment earlier in the evening at the Oscars – read here for the back story to it…. yikes!
> Also film related, here is a great infographic: film by the numbers
> A theory about how Hendrix’s talent may well be related to his dual-handedness (not that he has two hands silly, its that he could use both with similar dexterity!) and how that may relate to inter-hemisphere traffic in his brain…
> A site that busts Advertising creatives for stealing ideas…
> A great thread at Muffwigglers: how on earth do people with HUGE (modular synth) cases decide what modules go where?
> Vague terrain discuss electronic music performance interfaces
> I came across the vinyl of this the other day – ode to a foley artist?
Funki Porcini takes me back. Brilliant album. I had the vinyl at one point too. Back when Ninja Tune were gods.
Kinda weird for Ms Bigelow to be constantly referred to as James Cameron’s ex….. Wouldn’t have happened to a guy….
And nice for a small film to beat a bulldozer blockbuster too!
I totally agree on both counts!
I’m not sure which is the saddest aspect of Avatar – that so much money was spent on it, or that it will age faster than a crack addict!
Imagine how many great films could have been made in its absence, on the scale of Hurt Locker… in fact no need to imagine:
Avatar $237,000,000 / Hurt Locker $11,000,000 = 21.54
I absolutely LOVE Funky Porcini. Along those lines is also Amon Tobin. And one of my favorite is Felix Laband, he’s a friend of mine (I’m not being biased), he’s great and uses a lot of foleys in his music.