vid title: Après Moi music: Regina Spektor source: Person of Interest 2x16 - Relevance duration: 3:32 notes: Made for WisCon 2013 in the wiscon_vidparty. WisCon is a feminist science fiction con which had a "gender and technology" theme for the premieres vidshow. summary: After Samantha Shaw, comes the flood.

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vid title: When I am Laid in Earth music: Ane Brun source: Utopia duration: 4:11 notes: Made for 2013 vidukon. summary: He named his daughter Jessica Hyde. Jessica. Hyde.

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I signed up OTW Fundraiser Multimedia Auction, offering art work.

Fandoms (if appropriate): any
I am offering: sketch of anything you want
You can see things I've created at: http://miserychic.deviantart.com/
Additional Info (optional): I'd prefer drawing people as opposed to... Not people, like landscapes. I am crap at landscapes.
Starting Bid: $5

Bidding is open...

1. Comment with "I got drunk and bought a ton of flowers"
2. I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
3. Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
4. Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions. (If you want. Totally optional.)

My questions, from fray_adjacent12:

1. How did you get into vidding?
I started out as a viewer and then thought "hey, I could do that better" and taught myself how to vid. It's a complete rude and mean way to find a hobby. My early vids are shitty, but I had a lot of fun figuring things out, like how to write my own XMLs in Windows Movie Maker to create custom effects. Brad made an awesome vidder profile of me that I usually link people to when they ask about what got me into vidding because it explains how I wanted to vid before I actually knew there was something called vidding.

2. What vids of yours should I watch if I am squicky about gory and/or sexual violence?
There's not a lot because there's usually some level of gore, but here are some from 2009 to now. :)
Long, Long Time Ago- http://kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com/214436.html
He Called Me Baby- http://kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com/214669.html
MoneyGrabber- http://kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com/215080.html
Bright Star- http://kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com/210094.html
Somewhere Only We Know- http://kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com/210824.html
I'm on a Boat- http://kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com/170402.html
Betterman- http://kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com/184533.html

3. You once mentioned that you "want to try vidding female characters that do more than beat people up and make things explode while being pretty." How is that going?
For last year I wanted to be more subdued, which I think I did. This year I wanted to change the way I decide what to vid, which is different than changing how I vid. Looking at my current timelines I've widened my window of vid ideas, but my current vid timeline (for WisCon) is my typical sort of vid for a female character. It has a different angle than usual, but it is mainly a female asskicker (Samantha Shaw on Person of Interest).

4. What are your favorite and least favorite aspects of your job?
Teaching preschool isn't easy, but I love it. And being an Intervention Specialist isn't easy, but I love it. My least favorite aspect is probably the paperwork. I'm not very organized and I'd rather be teaching than calculating percentages on IEP goals. My favorite part is everything else. When a child with autism started talking again, when a child with cerebral palsy stopped needing to use their walker, and basically when a child does anything that they couldn't before. I don't even mind when they headbutt me in the jaw or scratch my face. It sounds strange, but it doesn't faze me at all and I love it.

5. Is there a story behind your default icon, and if so, what?
I saw the photo, which is an ad for Kate Spade and it instantly felt like it captured something of myself. It's hard to explain without showing you the inside of my brain.

I always screw up and do holiday cards late, so this year I'm doing valentines instead. If you can see this post, it means I want to send you one. If you'd like to receive one, leave your name and address on this post please. Comments are screened, obvi.

If you can guess which Festivids I made, I'll give you oral sex or cookies. Your choice...

ETA: Obviously I'll make you a vidlet.

#ruined by kings and now ruiner of kings #honestly do you know how much potential this film would have had as a real examination of queenship/femininity in a patriarchal world? #the answer is a lot #it could have been utterly breathtaking and amazing and ridiculously on point #if they had used beauty as a repeated motif - because yes yes ravenna is right #because queens are figureheads who rarely get to rule; because women are judged on what they look like #and so in a world like that - to take power; to take true power #you have to use your weakness and fashion it into your strength #so yes yes beauty is power #cosmetics and physical appearance as an extension of the will #’as strong as an arm’ #and beauty is how ravenna conquers but faith is how snow conquers #it could have been amazing as an examination of the two different forms of queenship #ravenna who uses her very self as a weapon against the world and snow #who had been forged by the world and comes back in armour with no pretensions to feminine beauty or tradition #to take the throne #two methods of conquest and both succeed. and in time the throne will rest as heavily on snow as it did on ravenna #jesus christ you deserved a better script

-Snow White & The Huntsman from from dance-at-bougival

January, February, March, April, May, June
none

July
11 - I See Everything (Firefly/Serenity) - prompt (I See Everything, Firefly, River/Inara, dance)

August
18 - Long, Long Time Ago (Destino) - A surreal dance through the universe with a woman who loves a man. A man set free from stone to go after the woman carved in his heart.

19 - He Called Me Baby (Enlightened) - I feel so empty since he's been gone.

19 - Hand Covers Bruise Reprise (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) - Music without lyrics. People without faces.

20 - MoneyGrabber (Smash) - You're the one I just don't need.

21 - Dutch (Hell on Wheels) - Lily Bell, The Fair-Haired Maiden of The West

September, October, November, December
none

Total of 6 vids, one of which is a vidlet.

My favorite video this year (of my own)
MoneyGrabber (Smash) because it's a different vid for me. It's actually the second version because the first finished vid file was corrupted. I like how it turned out better because all the female rivalry turned into a more sexualized tension. The first version was more narratively even, but I like that Michael/Julia/Frank service as a cautionary tale in the beginning until it's time for them to go. I enjoy a good love rhombus until it's run it's track and Dev was a cheap time whore. Karen and Ivy have really good cheer sex and should role play in bed.

Least favorite
Hand Covers Bruise Reprise (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) because it did what I wanted it to do, which is make me uncomfortable when I watch it.

Most successful
I didn't really have a successful vid this year when measured in traditional terms, like number of comments. I approached vidding very differently this year and I was successful in eliciting certain things. In those terms, He Called Me Baby (Enlightened) was the most successful. Going to VVC for the first time I wanted to aim for one comment on a vid and if I got that comment, I met my goal. I wanted this one to break someone because I'm evil. I wasn't prepared for the weird looks after Challenges though, lolz.

Video most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion
I don't think any of them were "under-appreciated" simply because I made them with objectives and it doesn't bother me when people don't understand them. Until VVC I didn't fully realize how much of a minority opinion that was. If someone didn't like my vid or didn't understand it, that means it wasn't for them. I was surprised that Long, Long Time Ago (Destino) wasn't liked. I wanted to make something beautiful that I enjoyed, so I appreciate it and I overheard people saying it was beautiful, which is what I wanted.

Video with single sexiest moment
Duh, I See Everything (Firefly/Serenity) because there's actual pornography. I read up on masking tutorials and edited out The Operative. This vid was the only time it's acceptable to edit out Chiwetel Ejiofor. I played with coloring in more organic ways to match different sources. Seriously, why are people frightened by vaginas? They don't eat your soul or have teeth.

Biggest vid fail
I would say Dutch (Hell on Wheels) because I knew what I was doing wasn't going to work, but I did it anyways because I'm stubborn. I'm proud of that vidding fail though. I like it edited that way because Lily talks to fast and is the book that beat the speedreader. I love how her storyline is the more traditionally male origin story. Her husband died to give her motivation and she has visually beautiful dreams of him and his pretty eyes in fields. Hell on Wheels has flaws, but I'm well practiced in ignoring faults of a show for certain characters.

Hardest video to make
I am forever plagued with technical difficulties. ROSEBUD! I made Hand Covers Bruise Reprise (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) in Adobe Premiere 6.5 and I hate using that program for main editing. I like using it for "spices" when vidding primarily in Sony Vegas 11. I rendered that vid at least 50 times and I still think I messed it up in the end.

Most unintentionally *telling* video
Hmm, all of them have some level of personal issues that I leech into them, but He Called Me Baby (Enlightened) has a lot of emotional resonance for me in my real life. I stopped most of my emotional spewing on my livejournal, which is a good thing, but a couple of people would be able to watch the vid and see how telling it is.

Things I've learned
Last year I wanted to work on how to participate more and be meaningful in conversations about vidding. In my own way I did that, but I thought and talked more about vidding than I did actual vidding. I don't think I'll ever be able to talk fluidly about vidding because I don't translate the things in my head to words well. I cannot even count how many times at VVC I tried to think of a word and couldn't, stuttered for 30 seconds and gave up. I know I'm not verbally gifted, especially when it comes to something that I don't talk about, like vidding or art. I think I did ok, but probably came off like a tool.

While not strictly about vidding, I did learn that VVC is far different than what I expected. I tried to hang out with as many different people as I could. It's a lot more of a social arena than I expected. I thought it was going to be a hair-braiding, love fest and it's not. There's still rude people and people with stupid, uninformed opinions. It's exactly like a real world only with more glitter. I learned that the people I like online aren't the people I like in person and the people I dislike online aren't the people I dislike in person. That's a complicated way of saying that I learned that people didn't behave the way I expected for the better and the worse.

I also learned to look at my vidding catalog more analytically. I wrote meta this year too, Vidding as My Own Flavor of Feminism. I want to try vidding female characters that do more than beat people up and make things explode while being pretty.

And obsessive24 pointed out that I've been rendering wrong my whole vidding life, which I didn't know. I am FAILBOAT.

Oh, and what I thought was clipping was really me pulling an entire movie or a tons of episodes into Sony Vegas and trimming from there. Oops. FAILBOAT REDUX.

Things to work on
I sent the wrong file into VVC for the DVDs this year, so next year I will be very careful when I'm rendering and naming so that I don't send it a file with stray frames like a douchecanoe. This year I'm going to focus on making vids that have higher quality video instead of lower quality for artistic reasons that make them muddy.

Vid projects I definitely want to get finished this upcoming year
Every time I say to myself, "self, you are going to finish this vid this year," I don't do it. I will say that I'm going to make a premiere for WisCon. (Everyone should make a premiere for WisCon.) I have a WIP in mind for a Vidukon premiere too, but I'm not sure I'll be able to finish it. I have a Doctor Who vid that would be cool for CVV and an idea for a VVC Premiere as well. With VVC Challenge being Amnesty, I want to finish an old idea for that. kuwdora saw all my WIPs, so she can't tell.

Resolutions for 2013
Go to VVC again and hope that my school doesn't have another in-service on the dates.

I am planning to put together a femslash vidshow with lots of premieres for VVC2013 if everything pans out.

I'm going to use smaller journals for vidding, which makes them portable because writing on my arms and hands is not cute at 26. That and people shouldn't be able to read "dress = power" and wonder what drugs I'm on. Plus, I feel accomplished when I finish a journal. My first vidding journal was massive and took years to fill.

And in addition:
If there is any question you would like to ask me about any one of my vids, then go ahead! What I meant by a particular clip or sequence, why I chose to highlight that characterization, why I chose that song, what crack I was taking and where you can get some...anything. Anything you might like to know about how I made a vid, I shall do my best to answer.

not safe, but better

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"When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better."
~Neil Gaiman

Drawn for the Teen Wolf Big Bang Round 2. Story link forthcoming.

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Dear Festividder,

I am easy/hard...

Action [TV] - Anything, but nothing too serious.
Alphas [TV] - Anything, but go light on the Cameron angst.
Bob's Burgers [TV] - Anything, but a family vid would be nice.
Bunheads [TV] - Anything, but I'd love a Michelle vid or a Sasha vid. I love all the characters though.
The Cabin in the Woods [Movie] - Anything
The Fades [TV] - Anything, but a gen vid would be cool.
Raising Hope [TV] - Anything, except seriousness.
Workaholics [TV] - Anything, except seriousness.

As far as music, I can listen to anything for a vid.

Thank you.

LET'S PUT ON A SHOW

Hot in Herre (Cabaret) - A pitch perfect progression of narrative. -sweetestdrain

They Want More (Jurassic Park trilogy) - Sick and funny. -bironic

Manipulation (K-POP) - Great movement and editing from so many sources. -winterevanesce

Between Two Points (My Chemical Romance Bandom) - The look and atmosphere are like another universe. -josiemus_prime

Mama (Hamlet) - Such a twisted and slick vid that explores and deconstructs a Shakespeare play to the bone and then builds it back up. -obsessive24

Running Away (Son of Rambow) - A touching and charming vid to a movie that tore apart my heart. -absolutedestiny

The Royal We (Hunger Games) - Excellent editing. -bradcpu

CHALLENGE

Future Proof (Chronicle) - Deftly paced and edited vid that makes me want to check out the source. It looks similar to The Fades (which I loved). -obsessive24

Shake It Out (The New World) - A forcefully powerful and important vid. -mresundance

Jar Oh! Hearts (Multi) - OMGICOULDWATCHTHISONREPEATANDSEETHEJOURNEYOVERANDOVERANDOVER -Jescaflowne


AUCTION

Mama Said Knock You Out (Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005) and The Legend of Korra (2012)) - Excellent vid. Love it and I'm going to watch The Legend of Korra now. I give in. -absolutedestiny

The Death and The Navigator (The Navigator (1987)) - I have no idea what's going on, but I don't care because it's a beautiful vid. -absolutedestiny

Mr. Brightside (The Talented Mr. Ripley) - I love the use of an instrumental version of a song a lot of people know the words to without hearing them. It adds an interesting level to the vid. Very effective pacing and clip choice, especially the way the murder scene plays out in the vid. -jarrow

Moves Like Jagger (multi) - Scientologists are going to come for you. When this vid is over, you have my permission to freak out. -kuwdora

vid title: Dutch music: Dessa source: Hell on Wheels duration: 3:24

notes: Made for 2012 vividcon Also Premiering.

summary: Lily Bell, The Fair-Haired Maiden of The West

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Say Aha (Alien) - I love this vid not only for what it is, but what it's not. The vidder knew exactly what garbage to leave out from the movies. -absolutedestiny

Smack My Bitch Up (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) - I love the compare and contrast effect of the vid with the impeccable editing. -hollywoodgrrl

Everything is Wrong (Community) - It's a massive in joke of epic love. Community has been traveling down the path that Farscape did in terms of rewarding longtime viewers. That makes it inaccessible to a lot of views. The same is true of the vid because it rewards the people that love Britta. It's everything I've wanted for a Britta vid. Also, the music offers such a great range of emotions, which the vidder uses beautifully. -laurashapiro

Games (Sherlock) - There's a beautiful subtlety and nuance that I find refreshing and entrancing about this vid. -lolachrome

How I Got Over (The Wire) - I feel like I've been waiting for this vid my entire life and now that it's here I'm left with an overwhelming feeling of sadness. It's a brilliantly constructed in depth study of the kids in season 4. -heresluck

Real Wild Child (Lost Girl) - I love the energy and fun of this vid. -jetpack_monkey

Barton Hollow (Homeland) - There's nothing knowledgeable I can say because I haven't watched the series, but the vid is extremely well conceived and executed and moving. -fan_eunice

VividCon Premieres 2012 Intro Vid (multi) - EPIC AS HALE. -greensilver

Fields of Coal (The Unusuals) - I have such a deep love of the show that I was worried the vid would just be someone who watched for Jeremy Renner. I cannot express how happy I was with this vid. I had a doofy smile on my face the entire time, even at the sad bits, because I was just so happy that it existed. -barkley

The Adventure (Harry Potter) - Who doesn't love Neville? If I had feelings, I'd probably have gotten misty. I thought it was interesting during In Depth when it was said that most of fandom is coming from the "same place" as Neville. I don't know how true it is, but I do know that Harry Potter, the character, was like boring sand paper to me, so anything that makes someone else's journey the focus it fantastic. -greensilver

Forever Yours (House) - The enthusiasm and love in this vid is unparalleled. It took 8 years and it needed to be made and it needed to loved by me. For a brief moment I forgot that Wilson was totally dying. -anoel

Let Me Put My Love in You (Bitchslap) - This movie owned me, so I was sold before the vid even started. The added bonus was that the vid is so amazing and I didn't want to blink for fear of missing a second. It has the witty tongue-in-cheek winking thing going for it because it never takes itself too seriously and when it does, there's a hilarious edit to bring it back to camp. -sweetestdrain

Lateralus (Fringe) - I love how this stood out among the other vids because of how it handled the opening. It's all about consequences for actions. I'm continually torn over Walter's character because he's so many things and there's so many different ways to feel about his character. This pulls a lot of those feelings into one coherent vid. The cause and effect throughout the vid is killer. -rhoboat

White Rabbit (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) - Trippy as hell and I loved it. -shati

Masters of War (The Pegasus Rising Remix) (Stargate: Atlantis)- A lot of people in SGA fandom have been waiting years for a vid like this. Much like Lateralus from above, it's all about consequences. SGA tended to be a show of squee, but it always something dark with a mask painted over it for me. -bironic

Possession (Legend of the Seeker) - So beautiful. -bradcpu

The Lightning Strike (multi) - When the vid first started my thought was, "ohhh, Nicky would hate this. It's a bunch of white dudes clowning around making war." Then after a moment I recognized the editing and realized it was her vid. Oops, that will teach me to not look at the program beforehand. This is absolutely the ultimate epic slash vid throughout history and beyond. -obsessive24

vid title: MoneyGrabber music: Fitz & the Tantrums source: Smash duration: 3:09

notes: Made for 2012 vividcon Let's Put on a Show vidshow.

summary: You're the one I just don't need.

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vid title: Hand Covers Bruise Repise music: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross source: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo duration: 1:52

notes: Made for 2012 vividcon Let My Lyrics Go! vidshow.

summary: Music without lyrics. People without faces.

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vid title: He Called Me Baby music: Candi Staton source: Enlightened (episode 1x09 - Consider Helen) duration: 2:05

notes: Made for 2012 vividcon Challenge (transformation).

summary: I feel so empty since he's been gone.

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vid title: Long, Long Time Ago music: Javier Navarrete source: Destino duration: 2:15

notes: Made for 2012 vividcon Premieres.

summary: A surreal dance through the universe with a woman who loves a man. A man set free from stone to go after the woman carved in his heart.

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Long Version: I have plans to do a femslash vidshow for next year's Vividcon. Ideally I would like a to create a show of mainly premieres. I thought the best way to do that would be to give vidders plenty of time to vid, so I'm asking around to see if anyone would be interested.

Short version: Would anyone like to make me a femslash vid for Vividcon 2013, please?

Feel free to comment, or private message, or email me (miserychic47 at hotmail dot com). It's a long way off, but letting me know fandom would help so I make sure the vidshow sticks to one vid per fandom and not 3 of one show.

I'm slowly making my way home after Vividcon! I'll post vids and con report when I get there, but short version: VVCYAY!

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Ehh, it was better than nothing, but it wasn't the greatest.

The best part was when the ticket counter clerk asked how old I was (probably due to my skirt twirling in line because I was bored), thinking I could get a 12-year-old child ticket. I said I was almost 26 and then she tried to cover it up by saying I had a "baby face." Things become awkward and my aunt make fun of me.


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Today has proven that I should be crowned The Dumbest Person Alive.

I had what I thought was a health screening for work, so I fasted until my appointment because they were taking blood. Got to the appointment and realized it was just meeting with someone about my insurance plan. Doctor is a different day. I'd had no coffee so I couldn't fully comprehend everything.

Went shopping and tried to pay with my Target credit card in Charming Charlie's. Swiped it twice before the clerk noticed.

Dropped my debit card in the Starbucks drive thru window and had to ninja myself out of the door to pick it up. Didn't put my car in park and nearly ran myself over.

Went in Target and tried to pay with my Kohls credit card. Honestly, I don't even know what what was wrong with me at this point. The entire store is red, how did I not pick the right card?

Got my mail and realized that my car payment was due today. Made the payment over the phone, but the robot voice lady said it was overdue because it was made after 5pm. I didn't know that was a thing, so I was 2 hours late.

Knocked over a lamp and my downstairs neighbor came up to make sure I was ok. She said she was impressed that I hadn't turned the air on with it being so hot. I said that the windows were too small for a unit. She explained that we both had central air and showed me the thingy on the thermostat that flips from heat to cool and off.

ETA ...and I just got my period, so now I'm sure that god hates me.

I'm going to bed before I do anything else stupid.

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vid title: I See Everything music: "I See Everything" from Hans Zimmer source: Firefly/Serenity duration: :39 notes: Made for Fireworks 12: The [Totally Not] Annual femslash_today Porn Battle. summary: prompt (I See Everything, Firefly, River/Inara, dance)

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Photographs from my summer vacation to New York.


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For me, writing meta for vidding is a daunting task because I fear sounding unintelligent and childish. Generally I enjoy sounding childish, but if I have set out to sound smart about vidding it defeats my purpose. Therefore, I use the thesaurus tool and hit up spell check LIKE A BOSS.

The only essays I write are for my college classes, which consist of early childhood education theorists and methods. I'm not an academic by any means of the word. Generally, I'm not good with words, hence vidding. When I have something to say, I usually produce a vid instead of saying something. This is not a professional essay or a work of literature. Most of the thoughts are my own, but nearly all my thoughts have been synthesized from somewhere else. This is my disclaimer of trying to not come off as a stuck up vidding expert snob.

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Sorkin Supercut of the Day: It appears The Newsroom will be a mere rearrangement of the same tired perfectly crafted lines that Aaron Sorkin has used for every project since the early ’90s. (That being said, I'm going to watch it anyway.)

Ingenious editor Kevin Porter borrowed scenes from:

Malice
A Few Good Men
Bulworth
Sports Night
The West Wing
Studio 60
Charlie Wilson’s War
The Social Network
and for some reason, Tom Hanks’ 1993 Oscar speech.

Are there such things as vidding tropes, like in fanfic?

Discuss amongst yourselves...

Originally posted by anjak_j at Google Privacy Issues: Web History

January
none

February
06 - Brand New Key (Pulp Fiction) - Some people say I've done alright for a girl.
It's my own little take on the movie. I remember watching it when I was very young and wanting it to be more about Mia Wallace, Honey Bunny, Fabienne, Esmarelda, Jodi & Trudi, Raquel, and even the waitress that corrects Pumpkin with flat confidence. I watched the insanely edited version that was on tv, so I fell in love with a horribly cut up and pasted together movie. I watched the VHS of it so much that it warped (the same way my Mary Poppins tape did). My aunt rented me the original version to watch and my mind was blown because it made actual sense.

March
none

April
13 - Spit the Devil (V the Series) - Erica/Anna: firedogs
The series was never as good as when these two were on screen together. There was a sizzle and smolder when they interacted because they were two powerful, willful, strong, intelligent characters on opposite ends of a spectrum. While opposing each other, they were quite similar in their actions, motivations, and emotional status. Together they would have been a flash fire that destroyed everything around them. I only wish that it was possible to watch, therefore, I created an alternate universe where we could see those Ladies of War interact on a sexual and romantic level.

May and June
none

July
13 - Lullaby (Damages) - Ray Fiske's life spent trying to do well.
There has never been a character that filled me with such sadness and sorrow as this one. He never lived his life for himself. It becomes his purpose to make everyone else's life work and to fix the problems of others, but he pushed aside his own needs and feelings. When it did finally address them, the results were not entirely favorable and he spent the rest of his life seemingly crushed under the weight of his own weaknesses like a broken puppy.

August
14 - Bright Star (Bright Star) - Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever--or else swoon to death.
I wanted something delicate and light in the editing and I wanted to capture a mood and atmosphere with it like falling in love when you find it hard to breathe and everything slows down and speeds up like you're dying inside.

14 - Black Dove (January) (Doctor Who) - River Song was a January girl, she never let on how insane it was.
Fuck Yeah River Song and other unconventional aspects of her great and powerful awesomeness.

September, October, and November
none

December
21 - Somewhere Only We Know (Winnie the Pooh) - I'm getting old and I need something to rely on.
I have loved Winnie the Pooh from my first memory. It is like the pain from an old wound soothed.

Total of 6 vids.

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And in addition:
If there is any question you would like to ask me about any one of my vids, then go ahead! What I meant by a particular clip or sequence, why I chose to highlight that characterization, why I chose that song, what crack I was taking and where you can get some...anything. Anything you might like to know about how I made a vid, I shall do my best to answer.

vid title: Somewhere Only We Know music: "Somewhere Only We Know" from Keane source: Winnie the Pooh duration: 2:29

notes: Made for 2011 BASCon, the Bay Area Slash Convention.

summary: I'm getting old and I need something to rely on.

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I want to talk about vids... Where can I go?

vid title: Black Dove (January) music: "Black-Dove (January)" from Tori Amos source: Doctor Who duration: 2:46

notes: Made for 2011 vividcon Non-Attending Premieres.

summary: River Song was a January girl, she never let on how insane it was.

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vid title: Bright Star music: "Love Song" from Mikal Portnoi Lazarev and "An Ex-Girlfriend From an Ex-Life" from Bobby Johnston. source: Bright Star duration: 2:34

notes: Made for 2011 vividcon Challenges show, "Blast from the Past."

summary: Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever--or else swoon to death.

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vid title: Lullaby music: Sia source: Damages duration: 3:04

notes: chaila is a fabulous person for looking at the mess I sent her and telling me how to fix my sleepless mistakes.

summary: Ray Fiske's life spent trying to do well.

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Photographs from my summer vacation to New York.


New York 011 by ~miserychic on deviantART

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Photographs from my summer vacation to New York.


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I'm going to New York next week! I need people to suggest good cafes, chinese food, shopping places, and anything else I must see. :)

vid title: Spit the Devil music: Olivia Ruiz source: V (the series) duration: 2:30

notes: Made for vidukon in 2011.

summary: Erica/Anna: firedogs

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vid title: Brand New Key music: The Dollyrots source: Pulp Fiction duration: 1:36

notes: Made for danegen in 2010 festivids.

summary: Some people say I've done alright for a girl.

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FESTIVIDS VID RECS:
Ghost of a Shark (Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)
Serpent Charmer (Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)

Hurt (Batman Beyond)
State of Confustion (The Big Lebowski)
You say tomato, I say tabarnak (Bon Cop Bad Cop)
Ain't No Easy Way (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
Don't Let it Bring You Down (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)

Blinding (Charlie Jade)
Another One Bites the Dust (Clue)
Space Oddity (Community)
tv taught me how to feel (Community)
In a Moment (Constantine)

Black Horse and a Cherry Tree (Dead Like Me)
There is a Boy Who Never Goes Out (Dead Like Me)
Cowboy Singer (Deadwood)
New Shoes (Doctor Who)
One Day Like This (Doctor Who)
Hardest Man (Double Happiness)
Hey Now Now (Dragonslayer)

Witchy Woman (Eastwick)
Do You Want To (Eddie Izzard)
Amnesia (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
Big Pimpin'/Papercut (Event Horizon)

Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts (The Fall)
The Next Time You Say Forever (Felicity)
Float On (Finding Nemo)
Paranormal Activity (The Frighteners)
The Great Architect (From Hell)

Walk the Walk (Hackers)
Runaway (Homicide: Life on the Street)
Blue (Hot Fuzz)
Friends (How I Met Your Mother)
In the Sun (Huge)

Pure Imagination (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus)
Fire in the Ivory (Inglourious Basterds)
All the Way (the Invisible Man)

I'm Your Man (Jekyll)
Anywhere on This Road (Jericho)

Ballad of the Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn)
End of the World (Life After People)
Slow Burn (The Lives of Others)
Life During Wartime (Lone Gunmen)
Pump It! (The Losers)
The Owl Means Low (Lost in Austen)
Samsa Morning (Lost in Austen)

Let It Be (Mad Men)
Between the Bars (The Mentalist)
Get Some (Millennium Trilogy)
Nowhere Near (Miracles)
Misfit's First Christmas (Misfits)
The Rules of Parenting (Modern Family)

Threnody (Nikita)

As Above, So Below (Pan's Labyrinth)
Attention Please (Paprika)
A Well Respected Man (Profit)
Don't Walk Away (Psych)
In the City (Psych)
Brand New Key (Pulp Fiction)
Father & Daughter (Punky Brewster)
i gave you all (Push)

Battle Without Honor or Humanity (R.O.D. - The TV)
Inyodo (Riverworld)
Skinny Genes (Rizzoli & Isles)
Dance in the Dark (RPF - Lady Gaga)
I Follow You (Rubicon)

Make It Pop (Scott Pilgram vs the World)
Teenage Dirtbag (Scott Pilgram vs the World)
Bare Your Teeth (Snow White: A Tale of Terror)
Who Needs Enemies (Star Trek Deep Space Nine)
Resistance (Star Trek - Next Generation)
Hook and Line (Superman cartoons)
Her Name is Alice (Syfy's Alice)

L.E.S. Artistes (Terminator movies)

Truth is in the Dirt (V)
Jaded (Velvet Goldmine)

VID RECS:
kuwdora's Outer Space (Stargate Ark of Truth)- The movements are flowing and beautiful with the fading and the feel of the music.
kuwdora's Under My Skin (Heroes)- LOL, I have no clue what is actually going on, but it looks like a hilarious romp, like a mind control Weekend at Bernie's. OMGINSANITY!
kuwdora's Hot Mess (Heroes)- That's hot.
kuwdora's If You Stayed Over (Sleeper Cell)- My heart is broken after watching. It looks so beautiful with all the tragedy and sadness, then those brief moments of hope that are dashed to pieces.
kuwdora's Suddenly I See (Castle)- Sweet and adorable with a lovely concept.

chaila's Lucky (Rubicon)- Very interesting editing. The vid really made me miss the show. I can't believe it was cancelled. It was so flipping good, I don't understand it. The music choice was excellent, like a lovely kind of weirdness with the jumpcutting structure.
chaila's Pokerface (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)- Hell yeah, love the editing and style choices with the interesting religion themes, the use of hands, the turning, and how the men twirl around her until she twists them up.

hollywoodgrrl amd ohvienna's Seven (David Lynch Films)- The narrative of the vid very much echoes the construct of a Lynch film. The editing is meticulously calculated and pay mind to recurring compositions and logics. I love how she played with the fractured identities to the point of them all, mainly female characters, being one solid character because they are all from Lynch's mind. They split and crack and form one monster. The vid begins as a typical vid might with set up and an evolving narrative, then it tumbles down the rabbit hole into a wonderland of audiovisual nightmarish delight. I've watched many of his recent documentaries and there is something of the man himself captured in the vid. It's a nearly unexplainable quality that the vid has manipulated his life's work to create a deconstruction draped over a man.

hollywoodgrrl's Deeper and Deeper (Legend of the Seeker)- I have a thing for violent sex fights, therefore, I love this vid.
hollywoodgrrl's Vertigo (Twin Peaks)- I need to take a shower after that horrid and disturbing vid. I loved it. The dancing and kissing and twirling and the hits and the back and forth between Leland and BOB.
hollywoodgrrl's Boom Boom Pow (Fringe)- MY FAVORITE PART WAS EVERYTHING

VID RECS:
bop_radar's Brand New Start (True Blood)- Aww, Jessica and Hoyt are probably my favorite couple on True Blood. The music is cute for them in the vid, which is strange and adorable.
bop_radar's When life gives me lemons, I make lemonade (Community)- Great quirky editing, music use, and sound matching. I had the doofiest grin on my face for most of the vid.

danegen's Power (True Blood)- The song choice fits Russell absolutely. I wanted to laugh, which I did, but I ended up taking the whole thing seriously. I was caught between the LOLZ and the SRS BSNS.
danegen's Sweet Ones (Were the World Mine)- Total fun! Great music and it does a great job of fitting in with the movie too. It has a fantastical feeling in the music that is perfect for the movie.

sol_se's Evil Love Shack of Darkness (Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness)- LOLZ, hi-larious and awesome. I'm bouncing along with the song and the chainsaw. KILLED ME DEAD WITH LAUGHTER.

January
01 - I Wish It Was Christmas Today (Parks & Recreation, 30 Rock, The Office, and Community)
10 - so say we all iii (Rise) (Battlestar Galactica)
18 - I Threw it on the Ground (Legend of the Seeker)

February
08 - Lullaby (Fringe)
15 - O Death (Battlestar Galactica)

March
none

April
none

May
01 - The Dream and the Tunnel Pie House Rats (Fringe)

June
21 - We Are All Connected (Stargate Universe)

July
21 - Let's Go Fucking Mental (Charlie Jade/Fringe)

August
06 - A Bar in Amsterdam (Ginger Snaps trilogy)
08 - U. R. A. Fever (Fringe)
08 - Heads Will Roll (Misfits)
09 - twinkle, twinkle (Doctor Who)

September
none

October
none

November
14 - Double Helix (Fringe)

December
none

Total of 13 vids, which includes 5 vidlets.

I always find weird things when I watch my yearly vids all in a row. This year was saturated with Fringe because a loved it and I can't stop vidding Anna Torv's face. I really liked the color blue too.

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And in addition:
If there is any question you would like to ask me about any one of my vids, then go ahead! What I meant by a particular clip or sequence, why I chose to highlight that characterization, why I chose that song, what crack I was taking and where you can get some...anything. Anything you might like to know about how I made a vid, I shall do my best to answer.

vid title: Double Helix music: Phyllis Chen source: Fringe duration: 2:06 Premiered in the 10th Bay Area Slash Convention (BASCon 2010).

notes: The music, Double Helix for toy piano and bowls, was composed and performed by Phyllis Chen at the Chicago World Music Festival in September 2009. She is brillant. Flat out brillant. For more visit her website.

Fringe is one of my favorite television shows and Walter is one of my favorite characters. This vid is what going mad feels like. Being in Walter's mind can be a great and terrible thing. The editing drove me toward insanity with frame by frame editing that could make someone puke, cry, and eat some red vines. beccatoria has a beautiful exploration vid of Walter, his character, and interactions with others with heart and soul. I strongly suggest Split Up Six Ways instead of this vid.

summary: Walter Bishop: Brillant. Passonate. Arrogant. Forgetful. Productive. Mischievous. Unfiltered. Regretful. Medicated. Fragile. Caring. Angry. Convalescent. Tortured. Heartbroken. Desperate. Reckless. Believer. Shattered. Unhinged. Devious. Loved. Scientist. Father. Friend.

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vid title: twinkle, twinkle music: unknown Dead Space videogame developer source: Doctor Who duration: 1:29 Premiered in the vividcon Challenges (Self-Portrait) vidshow.

summary: Amy's mind holds a living mental image and anything that holds the image of angel becomes an angel.

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Vividcon 2010 premieres:
twinkle, twinkle (Doctor Who) - Challenges
Heads Will Roll (Misfit) - Club Vivid
U. R. A. Fever (Fringe) - Also Premiering
A Bar in Amsterdam (Ginger Snaps trilogy) - O Canada

Previously released shown in vidshows:
Skinny Love (House) - We're Here, We're Queer
Closer (For Jamie) (9 Songs, Lie With Me, Shortbus) - Sexuality
I'm on a Boat (Star Trek new 2009 reboot whatever we're calling it) - Club Vivid
that brøken day (The Brøken) - Nearly New