95.7 KEZJ - Southern Idaho's Best Country » artist http://kezj.com Southern Idaho's Best Country Fri, 24 May 2013 19:05:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Artist Covers Potholes in Paris With Knitwork http://kezj.com/artist-covers-potholes-in-paris-with-knitwork/ http://kezj.com/artist-covers-potholes-in-paris-with-knitwork/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:33:07 +0000 95.7 KEZJ http://kezj.com/?p=7195 Artist Juliana Santacruz Herrera was fed up with Paris' pothole problem. So, like any upstanding citizen, she did something about it.

Only in this case, instead of contacting her local representative, she took the matter into her own hands by knitting multi-colored plugs and filling in the crevices herself.

]]> http://kezj.com/artist-covers-potholes-in-paris-with-knitwork/feed/ 0 See How a Foley Artist Creates Movie Sound Effects [VIDEO] http://kezj.com/see-how-a-foley-artist-creates-movie-sound-effects-video/ http://kezj.com/see-how-a-foley-artist-creates-movie-sound-effects-video/#comments Fri, 25 Feb 2011 04:19:35 +0000 Brad Weiser http://kezj.com/?p=4343 When a Hollywood movie is shot, the microphones are only focused on picking up the dialogue. This means most of the background noise is lost, and it is up to an artist called a "Foley artist" to go back and recreate this background noise in post-production.

In this clip, Foley artist Gary Hecker, who got his start working on "The Empire Strikes Back," demonstrates the unexpected techniques a Foley artist will use to make movies sound right.

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