Sterling 'Sterlz' Lev

Old Dust, a short film I did post-sound on, will be playing at this year's New York Short's International Film festival!

Such a fun and refreshing film to work on!

#sounddesign #film #postproduction #filmfestivals

The Long Walk was an incredibly haunting and emotional film. Very intense moments of sound design that unapologetically made you feel like you were in those moments with the characters, with the editing not being shy of keeping you there with them in those moments as well.

Once you have an extendable kitchen faucet you kind of can't go back.

28 Years Later did not dissappint one bit. It felt so faithful to 28 Days Later and its Vision. Incredible creativity shown throughout every department too

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I'm so sorry Miles.

Reminder that your local library is FREE and offers ebooks, audiobooks, and online database and newspaper subscriptions! All of these stats are counted, so the more you use it, the more your library can beef up their collection.

Been a while since I've been on here. Things are pretty hectic out there right now, but I hope all is well with everyone.

A winged serpent winds around the composition in a vague spiral shape, covered in sigils, and crowned with a silver halo encircled with the word 'holy' in Wormrōte. The background is patched with collage of hymns, a sword, a cross, a flower, a skull, stars, and the word 'decay' in Wormrōte.

Sigil 10 (Decay)
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8" x 8"
Casein, Graphite, Collage, Silver Leaf
Wood Panel

Question for film dialogue editors/post production audio folks: when you're cleaning dialogue or location audio on a film, how hard do you try to salvage and use PFX from on-set recordings? Do you find that you end up using a lot of it, or throwing most of it away?

In my "I eat protein ramen" era.

A very simple but helpful practice I've gotten back into for organization and task management is writing to-do lists every day, along with a project list to go with it. It's gone a long way in helping me know what to prioritize and when.

It's a film mixing day today, which means a loooooot of coffee

Very hyped that I get to see the new Godzilla movie tonight! I've been waiting for this!

Remember: the Washington Post union is asking us not to read, click, stream or otherwise engage with any Post journalism (which I will not call ‘content’) today so as to support their strike.

Question for other freelancers:
How often does responding to gig posts on social media (Facee**k, X, Insta, etc.) get you the gig or at least a connection? Do they respond to you typically, or do you feel like you're essentially cold emailing someone?

Something I hadn't thought of as a milestone until now, but I may be working on my first ever bi-lingual film soon, and that's pretty exciting!

I have never sound designed so much garbage (literally) before until this project I'm working on right now, and I think I'm okay with not having to do it again for a little while 😅

Thanks for the suggestions!

Does anybody have a recommendation for a solid pocket recorder? Right now I have a Zoom H6, but I'd like something smaller that I can literally put into my pocket to record things I come across.

Literally everytime I open a door somewhere new

"I should record that."

Sound Design by Cathryn StarkAll visual works/music are copyright their original creators--http://starkandsterlz.com/stark.html Cathryn Stark - Sound Design Reel (2023)

S O U N D. O N.
Presenting the official 2023 sound design reel!

Come November, I'll be available for freelance work for those in need of a sound designer/audio engineer 🦾

🔊: shorturl.at/jstLN
📧: cathryn@starkandsterlz.com
🔗: deltaexmachina.com
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How do I keep somehow not wearing my fitbit watch when I workout, but always have it on at any other time?

It's a total trip hearing something we worked on in another language. Super cool moment for me

Had to kick out an M&E for this awhile ago & excited to share the Russian Dub of Transformers Combaticons!

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We've never heard our work in something other than English before and it's def amazing 😌✨ Super exciting to hear the team imitate the vocal fx I designed too!

Any audio folk have someone looking for an invite? I have one and am pretty sure I'm shadowbanned on Twitter 🙃

Wrapped up another mix for a short film today and it feels good! Gonna get back on the Wwise grind until the next one comes in this next week.

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Hellscreen is being featured in the latest Reload magazine
WHICH IS AWESOME (THANKS RELOAD TEAM!)

So feels like it's a good time to tell bluesky that Hellscreen episode 1 is out now, with a controller support update on the way!

Go grab it now!

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