Wilson,
Thanks for sharing this.
My wife started as a sound technician at LucasFilm in the 80s at about the
same time as Gary. She stayed 2-3 years, and of course he went on to win 7
Oscars since then.
- Rich
At 10:23 PM 1/3/2012 +0000, you wrote:
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>Fun little article in today's NYTimes, about the Oscar-winning sound
>designer ("Saving Private Ryan", "Titanic", "Jurassic Park") Gary Rydstrom:
>
>Incoming shell: "That's one of the scariest sounds in war to me, knowing
>that a shell is coming in to explode near you. I recorded my vacuum
>cleaner. I was vacuuming my stairs and if you vacuum in the crack of the
>stairs in the carpet, it makes this crazy whoosh. This happens to sound
>people all time, you're doing something mundane one day and you hear this
>great sound. My wife has long thought I'm crazy; she probably had to be
>quiet for a few hours while I recorded a vacuum cleaner. The cracks of my
>stairs are so clean now."
>
><http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/war-horse-sound-tricks-otters-stand-in-for-horses-and-other-trade-secrets/>http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/war-horse-sound-tricks-otters-stand-in-for-horses-and-other-trade-secrets/
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