Star Wars Exhibit

Since today was my unscheduled/on-call day at work, Marc and I decided to head over to OMSI to check out the Star Wars exhibit. We got in for free (score!) with the corporate membership that my company has and spent a couple hours wandering around the costumes, props, and information about the movie. I got a big kick out of the guy whose job it was to record sounds to reuse as sounds in the movie. He recorded a broken A/C unit in one of his hotel rooms to get a rumble for some of the ships. He recorded L.A. freeway traffic at 2 a.m. through a steel pipe to get the whine of lasers or something. There were tons of things like this that just blew my mind. I was never a big fan of the movies--I can never keep straight who's who or what the heck is going on. But seeing all this stuff was pretty cool.