Jamie Hardt
@jamie.squad51.us
Sound Designer & Re-Recording Mixer. He/him. MPSE • CAS • IATSE
Posts here are my own, lots of spoofs and goofs.
Avatar: A Кругозор face.
Banner: Delia Derbyshire working her tapes
Links: https://squad51.us
Posts here are my own, lots of spoofs and goofs.
Avatar: A Кругозор face.
Banner: Delia Derbyshire working her tapes
Links: https://squad51.us
Follow of the Beast.
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Follow of the Beast.
Hollywood in 1946: Rita Hayworth is livid when she finds out she's been painted on the side of an atom bomb (for the Bikini Atoll tests) and her husband Orson Welles has to talk her down because her first instinct is that it's all a publicity stunt by Harry Cohn:
November 3, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Hollywood in 1946: Rita Hayworth is livid when she finds out she's been painted on the side of an atom bomb (for the Bikini Atoll tests) and her husband Orson Welles has to talk her down because her first instinct is that it's all a publicity stunt by Harry Cohn:
Not the original, but the one that’s always stuck in my head since wandering the video store aisles as a kid.
November 1, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Not the original, but the one that’s always stuck in my head since wandering the video store aisles as a kid.
I'm helping out with a lab demonstration of lav mike placement and mixing techniques at Sounding Board v5.o, at Loyola–Marymount on November 2nd! Come on down and say hi!
October 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I'm helping out with a lab demonstration of lav mike placement and mixing techniques at Sounding Board v5.o, at Loyola–Marymount on November 2nd! Come on down and say hi!
Not just a DVD but my first DVD...
October 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Not just a DVD but my first DVD...
I Hhave been told quite directly by the clients if I use generative AI at work with any work products I will “be in trouble,” and I am not the only one.
!["No one's going to say to [students after they graduate from college],
'Do the best job you can, but if you use Al, you'll be in trouble,'" Roberts tells me, leaning into his central thesis about preparing students for the real world. "Yet we have some faculty members who are effectively saying that to students right now."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bu5r2jciq5jov554ii6il7r4/bafkreiaxhlbrk6ijj6mgtfzper5ly6snl7uyemciyp6n4wgdrdlpld33km@jpeg)
October 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I Hhave been told quite directly by the clients if I use generative AI at work with any work products I will “be in trouble,” and I am not the only one.
Transfer function for numbers of people in reality to numbers of people in a New York Times article (where K = maximum number of people that can possibly matter)
October 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Transfer function for numbers of people in reality to numbers of people in a New York Times article (where K = maximum number of people that can possibly matter)
You may recognize Tighe as Firefighter-Paramedic Roy DeSoto in “Emergency!” and the owner of the roadhouse in the titular Patrick Swayze film. 2/
October 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
You may recognize Tighe as Firefighter-Paramedic Roy DeSoto in “Emergency!” and the owner of the roadhouse in the titular Patrick Swayze film. 2/
Falling back in love with this thing even though I know it’s going to hurt me.
October 16, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Falling back in love with this thing even though I know it’s going to hurt me.
This isn't expressly true, there are tools like Respeecher that we can use to reproduce an actor's voice, but their top-of-the-line service is a service: you have to contract for it, you pay them gobs of money, they need to see a legal release from the actor.
October 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This isn't expressly true, there are tools like Respeecher that we can use to reproduce an actor's voice, but their top-of-the-line service is a service: you have to contract for it, you pay them gobs of money, they need to see a legal release from the actor.
This was less problematic when I got it but came back in my mind due to recent events.
October 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
This was less problematic when I got it but came back in my mind due to recent events.
Anybody else think crypto’s getting a little desperate lately?
October 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Anybody else think crypto’s getting a little desperate lately?
Fun fact: the stars in the Paramount logo signify each of the actors that were under contract to Paramount when it succeeded Famous Players-Jesse Lasky.
October 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Fun fact: the stars in the Paramount logo signify each of the actors that were under contract to Paramount when it succeeded Famous Players-Jesse Lasky.
Poasting from the HI Bakery in the Arts District, which is great and where you should get a croissant (do not stalk me).
October 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Poasting from the HI Bakery in the Arts District, which is great and where you should get a croissant (do not stalk me).
This is like the oil derrick near my old house in West Los Angeles that’s been done-up to look like the synagogues that are to either side of it.
October 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This is like the oil derrick near my old house in West Los Angeles that’s been done-up to look like the synagogues that are to either side of it.
It won't get that far...
October 2, 2025 at 6:28 AM
It won't get that far...
It looks like Kiwix is selling these now in a variety of different formats, not so sure about the brand positioning.
October 2, 2025 at 6:08 AM
It looks like Kiwix is selling these now in a variety of different formats, not so sure about the brand positioning.
Ron Howard gave all of the Mission Controller actors on “Apollo 13” a challenge: research the record and find cool bits, and if you find them you’ll get in the cut with them.
![RON HOWARD [The Mission Control actors] still get together about once every month or two and have breakfast.
They were so close knit, starting with our Mission Control school, which was this two-week intensive period on the set with several Mission Control consul-tants, helping them understand that the technical vernacular.
CLINT HOWARD We got handed a lot of paperwork that at first was sort of intim-idating.
RON HOWARD I gave them all a chal-lenge. I said, "Hey, the more cool stuff you come up with, the more facetime you're going to have in this movie. I'm interested in that minutia and that detail, and I want the authenticity."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bu5r2jciq5jov554ii6il7r4/bafkreicxsjuypj776jz5ww3dzanyn4xbq6szhvf5m7uzp5vuxqseurt5am@jpeg)
September 29, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Ron Howard gave all of the Mission Controller actors on “Apollo 13” a challenge: research the record and find cool bits, and if you find them you’ll get in the cut with them.
![RON HOWARD We started off thinking we were only going to do five or six days, but it was so effective that I convinced the studio to let us build not just the command module, but also the LIM and the tunnel so that we could shoot every master shot for the movie on the KC-135.
HANKS The time shooting on it could not have been replicated in any other place at that time, cinema-wise. No wires, no tilted cameras, nothing would have produced the true look of zero gravity weightlessness [other] than going up doing those parabola over the Gulf of Mexico. Even today, no one would try to do that because it would all be done with CGI and newer techniques that take away all of the manpower and danger and time-consuming qualities of actually building a set, sticking it in a plane and going around flying up and down.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bu5r2jciq5jov554ii6il7r4/bafkreiej5yp6mwohh2elrkkgbzktsdgs2j4tamlb5cl7c2nnhk2sbancce@jpeg)
I refuse to believe this is a thing.
September 28, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I refuse to believe this is a thing.
