▶ Hip-hop’s iconic images and the stories behind them – in pictures
▶ “You think with your language so your language dictates how you think. But when you’re making music it doesn’t. That’s why I love making music so much. You’re not limited by vocabulary and words.”
– guess the artist?
▶ “We are offering a FREE 349-page downloadable pdf compendium of Raymond Scott artifacts and ephemera, including previously uncirculated historic material” Thanks @Repeater
Love this idea: “For listening to records in his living room, Scott designed this custom amplifier cabinet system, which had a removable tray filled with water under the speakers, because, as his first wife Pearl explained, “he thought sound came over water in a more sonorous way.”
▶ Crumpling sound synthesis
▶ Crumpling maths
▶ 10 paradoxes that will stretch your mind
▶ Myopia = better bokeh than the most expensive camera lens!
▶ Great initiative for UK Sound Post, to establish basic parameters for sound post work – I agree with it, with two exceptions that I think do not go far enough:
– Post 14 hours into Overtime @ 2x Hourly Rate
– 7th Day Worked Payable @ 2x Daily Rate
Should be:
– Post 14 hours into Overtime @ 20x Hourly Rate
– 7th Day Worked Payable @ 20x Daily Rate
While I appreciate there are plenty of people who do crazy hours on projects to meet delivery deadlines, I also think such scenarios are toxic, unhealthy and do you really think you are doing good work with your ears after 14 hours???
Such schedule blowouts should cost a fckng fortune. Only then will producers & post supervisors fully appreciate that they are costing people their health and sanity. While there are many reasons for such crunch periods (eg late VFX, late picture changes etc) double time goes nowhere near far enough to compensate for the mental & physical stress involved, because despite the scenario being dumped on them such workers still have to take responsibility for the quality of their work. If the final mix has a technical or creative error, no one in the audience will care that you did a week of all nighters to meet a stupidly unrealistic under-resourced deadline. /endrant