The Scream

We interrupt me talking about my dogs for...

The Wilhelm Scream

I found this while googling something entirely unrelated ("Seahorse"). If you've ever thought you heard a familiar scream in a film, chances are your ears are correct! In the sound effects biz there are certain ontologically perfect sounds-- which sound designers are perfectly happy to re-use...over-and-over-and-over...

One of the most over-used is the screaching hawk sound heard any time there's a shot of a wide-open wilderness ("Kree-aah!"). The reason? It's a freebie on a sample disk from the premier sound effects library.

Back to "The Scream". The scream was originally from an obscure move, "Distant Drums," but is named for the character in "The Charge at Feather River," that Ben Burtt-- sound designer of the original Star Wars movies-- first heard the cry. The sound is a perfect blend of surprise, desperation and pain and has become something of an inside joke for sound designers (sound effects geekery-- so sad).

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The video is almost surreal as it fugues...

The Scream

We interrupt me talking about my dogs for...

The Wilhelm Scream

I found this while googling something entirely unrelated ("Seahorse"). If you've ever thought you heard a familiar scream in a film, chances are your ears are correct! In the sound effects biz there are certain ontologically perfect sounds-- which sound designers are perfectly happy to re-use...over-and-over-and-over...

One of the most over-used is the screaching hawk sound heard any time there's a shot of a wide-open wilderness ("Kree-aah!"). The reason? It's a freebie on a sample disk from the premier sound effects library.

Back to "The Scream". The scream was originally from an obscure move, "Distant Drums," but is named for the character in "The Charge at Feather River," that Ben Burtt-- sound designer of the original Star Wars movies-- first heard the cry. The sound is a perfect blend of surprise, desperation and pain and has become something of an inside joke for sound designers (sound effects geekery-- so sad).

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The video is almost surreal as it fugues...

The Scream

We interrupt me talking about my dogs for...

The Wilhelm Scream

I found this while googling something entirely unrelated ("Seahorse"). If you've ever thought you heard a familiar scream in a film, chances are your ears are correct! In the sound effects biz there are certain ontologically perfect sounds-- which sound designers are perfectly happy to re-use...over-and-over-and-over...

One of the most over-used is the screaching hawk sound heard any time there's a shot of a wide-open wilderness ("Kree-aah!"). The reason? It's a freebie on a sample disk from the premier sound effects library.

Back to "The Scream". The scream was originally from an obscure move, "Distant Drums," but is named for the character in "The Charge at Feather River," that Ben Burtt-- sound designer of the original Star Wars movies-- first heard the cry. The sound is a perfect blend of surprise, desperation and pain and has become something of an inside joke for sound designers (sound effects geekery-- so sad).

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The video is almost surreal as it fugues...

Charlie Brown Farms

Turns out the big stop of the day was at Charlie Brown Farms in the tiny desert city of Little Rock. This is way out in the desert, about an hour or so north-east of Los Angeles.

OHMYGAWD! the KITSCH! Every brand of candy still being manufactured... brands of soft drinks I've never heard of... life-sized cavemen ...a bath shop with everything you wanted to decorate your bathroom as an Egyptian tomb, D&D dungeon or fru-fru lacy-flowery-cherub porcelan . Cephelapods on swings . Life-sized dinosaurs . A collection of bronzes that look stolen from mortuaries. GREAT SAUSAGES! A million flavors of shakes-- I got "marshmallow-bannana" and loved it!



There is also a lot of WTF ...great ART ... need a life-sized pirate skeleton?

If you ever find yourself out this way I pity you be sure to stop here! For the great food even if uber-kitsch isn't your thing!

Charlie Brown Farms

Turns out the big stop of the day was at Charlie Brown Farms in the tiny desert city of Little Rock. This is way out in the desert, about an hour or so north-east of Los Angeles.

OHMYGAWD! the KITSCH! Every brand of candy still being manufactured... brands of soft drinks I've never heard of... life-sized cavemen ...a bath shop with everything you wanted to decorate your bathroom as an Egyptian tomb, D&D dungeon or fru-fru lacy-flowery-cherub porcelan . Cephelapods on swings . Life-sized dinosaurs . A collection of bronzes that look stolen from mortuaries. GREAT SAUSAGES! A million flavors of shakes-- I got "marshmallow-bannana" and loved it!



There is also a lot of WTF ...great ART ... need a life-sized pirate skeleton?

If you ever find yourself out this way I pity you be sure to stop here! For the great food even if uber-kitsch isn't your thing!

Charlie Brown Farms

Turns out the big stop of the day was at Charlie Brown Farms in the tiny desert city of Little Rock. This is way out in the desert, about an hour or so north-east of Los Angeles.

OHMYGAWD! the KITSCH! Every brand of candy still being manufactured... brands of soft drinks I've never heard of... life-sized cavemen ...a bath shop with everything you wanted to decorate your bathroom as an Egyptian tomb, D&D dungeon or fru-fru lacy-flowery-cherub porcelan . Cephelapods on swings . Life-sized dinosaurs . A collection of bronzes that look stolen from mortuaries. GREAT SAUSAGES! A million flavors of shakes-- I got "marshmallow-bannana" and loved it!



There is also a lot of WTF ...great ART ... need a life-sized pirate skeleton?

If you ever find yourself out this way I pity you be sure to stop here! For the great food even if uber-kitsch isn't your thing!