Fish(er) Tales

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! These posts will give you a better idea about what this site is about. Start here, then go here, and here, and then here.How do you become a much sought-after expert in the field of sound design and sound supervision? It’s an easy three step process. 1) Do the soundtrack for a film. 2) Make mistakes, and then...

Wow. That uber-cool Kindle device from Amazon is something else. Not only can it convert a printed book into an electronic format and beam it wirelessly anywhere in the world … … it can even change the actual author:   Amazing. Don’t you agree?   ((Update 10/6/10 Amazon fixed the author to be the right one: me!)) (And I thought I, Jeffrey P. Fisher co-authored this book? Well, if you...

Sad news to report today. According to the US Census (as reported by Yahoo!): The number of people living in poverty in the United States leapt by nearly four million last year to 43.7 million, the highest number since the US Census began collecting data on America’s poor 51 years ago. The current poverty rate is 14.3 percent, the highest level since 1994. That’s 1 in every 7 Americans...

“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.” – Bertolt Brecht Hey, I decided to give a acelift to the Fish(er) Tales blog today. Actually, I merged my old Website and the blog together into a single entity. I’m pretty excited about it. And I hope you are, too. There is a lot of material already here. And still more coming all the time. Browse...

A couple of days ago, I stopped in a local restaurant on my way to class for a grilled cheese sandwich. I’d brought along a book to read (Chris Guillebeau’s The Art of Non-Conformity) as I often do in these situations. I was approached by another server, who introduced herself as Maria, as she asked about my book. “That’s an interesting title,” she asked. “What’s...

Sometimes you lose sight of the full scope of your endeavors. Y’know Newton’s Law of Motion that says that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction? In sound, often the on-location dialog recordings suck. Hey, we live in a noisy world, and that noise usually finds its way on to our recordings. Couple that notion to the bad practice of using inexperienced people in critical...

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” — Albert Einstein. Or to put it more simply in the irreverent  words of comedian Ron White: “You can’t fix stupid!” Ignorance is a completely other matter, though. It is acceptable not to know something as long as you are willing to explore further and discover...