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USC looks to transform research in the digital age
In which I overuse the em dash once again — my story on the future of research at USC
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It takes so much longer to change someone’s mind than to kill them"
COLT311, discussing the Orlando Furioso -
All fortune can be mastered by endurance"
The Aeneid -
Procrastination...
Really good read — had me captivated from beginning to end. Unfortunately, it doesn’t offer any solutions to the problem…
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High-res →
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I was a projectionist at that time at USC cinema, and there was a motor in the projection booth that had a humming sound when it just sat there idling. It had a very musical sound, a nice tone, almost a hypnotic tone. And I thought immediately that would be a good element for the lightsaber, so I recorded that motor. And a few weeks later I had an accident with a broken microphone cable, and the microphone picked up the hum from a nearby television. [It] had kind of a scintillating, angry buzz. Normally you throw that away, thinking it was a mistake, but I saved that picture-tube buzz, and I combined it with the sound of the projection motor, and the two sounds together became the basis for the sputtering hum of the light sabers….
The actors in the more recent Star Wars prequels found that when they were fighting on the set they were making those sounds verbally — unconsciously — ‘cause they might have done it as boys, from the original film.
- Ben Burtt, discussing his sound-effects work in the Star Wars films.
Luke…. I am your foley artist!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lddqxsZCKP1qdkv8qo1_500.jpg)
npr:
I was a projectionist at that time at USC cinema, and there was a motor in the projection booth that had a humming sound when it just sat there idling. It had a very musical sound, a nice tone, almost a hypnotic tone. And I thought immediately that would be a good element for the lightsaber, so I recorded that motor. And a few weeks later I had an accident with a broken microphone cable, and the microphone picked up the hum from a nearby television. [It] had kind of a scintillating, angry buzz. Normally you throw that away, thinking it was a mistake, but I saved that picture-tube buzz, and I combined it with the sound of the projection motor, and the two sounds together became the basis for the sputtering hum of the light sabers….
The actors in the more recent Star Wars prequels found that when they were fighting on the set they were making those sounds verbally — unconsciously — ‘cause they might have done it as boys, from the original film.
- Ben Burtt, discussing his sound-effects work in the Star Wars films.
Luke…. I am your foley artist!
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(Source: The Atlantic)
