PODCAST – Sound Effects, LucasArts and Star Wars Podracer

As some of my readers know, I graduated from Flashpoint College in Chicago with a degree in Sound Effects Editing almost half a decade ago! One of my professors, Jeff Kliment, was a creative lead at LucasArts in the late 1990s and regularly told us stories about working on games like Grim Fandango, Yoda StoriesContinue reading “PODCAST – Sound Effects, LucasArts and Star Wars Podracer”

The Tragedy of Anakin Skywalker: The Star Wars Prequels as Classical Tragedy

Deconstructing the multitudinous problems in the Star Wars Prequels became a cottage industry online for much of the late 2000s. 21 years later, I still hear grown men whining about how Jar Jar Binks ruined The Phantom Menace. In truth, I’ve mostly gotten bored with this dialog. Maybe it’s a symptom of the fact thatContinue reading “The Tragedy of Anakin Skywalker: The Star Wars Prequels as Classical Tragedy”