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The BAMF bradcpu has started creating monthly vidder profiles featuring an audio interview with the vidder over excerpts from his or her vids. I'm the August Vidder Profile, so watch if it so pleases you. I discuss my frequent use of sexual or violent source material, my take on vidding as an art form, my concepts, my influences and more. After watching the profile I realized how much a giggle when I talk. Weird.

In conclusion, I am a Disney Princess.

August Vidder Profile (kiki_miserychic)

I read on TMZ that Jeffrey Donovan (Michael Weston on Burn Notice) was arrested on suspicion of DUI on Sunday and my first thought was, "he didn't twitter that."

My neighbor's dog got out through a giant hole in their fence and the mail lady brought him to me, so I have a furry little ball of "OMGZIWANTATTENTION" licking at my fingers while I try to type. He's cute, but I don't like small dogs.

I've been cooking and baking a lot lately. I mean more than never when I say a lot. I made bacon and cheese stuffed beer burgers this weekend, which turned out well. I made ice cream cone cupcakes to take to a party too and they turned out freaking awesome.

ice cream cone cupcakes by ~miserychic.

I've also been making my own cold-brewed coffee, which is so good that I think I might like it more than Starbucks. I know, I know, blasphemy, but it's true.

I've been using twitter instead of LJ for little things I find interesting. I used to make posts about little things, but now they're all on my twitter and never make it to LJ. This is probably a good thing because it spares everyone my squeeing over Eliza Dushku, Zachary Quinto, and Olivia Wilde; linking to pretty photographs; laughing about how I set off the smoke alarm baking; and mourning having deleted the Torchwood Children of Earth miniseries only to get a vid idea 3 days later. Link to my twitter.

VID RECS:
newkidfan's Blood Makes Noise (Lost) - A gorgeous layering and coloring that is lush and full with jumpcut editing and wavering images. The interesting framing choices feel like the zeroing in on a microscope that amps up the intensity and tension along with the effects. It doesn't hurt that I gave her the musical prompt because I've wanted to see this song vidded well to Lost for as long as the show has been on the air.

danegen's Down by the Water (Southland) - I've never watched Southland, but that didn't matter because I was able to plug into the more emotional aspect of the vid. I know I'm missing the depth and understanding that would come with knowing the source, but the vid is still terrific in the use of imagery. It feels like a great study of objects and how people can become objects in that sense. I think my favorite aspect is how a woman's dead body is transformed into a landscape.

WashingTones' Dr. House is a wicked cool music video that uses footage of the band performing and source footage from the show, House, too. The end result is an engaging music video that has me bopping around and singing the chorus in the shower.

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Title: Gone
Artist: kiki_miserychic
Fandom: Firefly/Serenity
Pairings: Kaylee/Inara
Characters: Kaylee and Inara
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Nudity and implied sexuality
Spoilers: (if necessary) for the fic
Summary: Scene illustration, mood music fanmix, and fic banner
Story bluflamingo's Gone
Artist Notes: Also comes with a fic banner and mood music fanmix.

( secondary mood music fanmix and fic banner )

Civilization by Marco Brambilla

"Civilization, a video mural created for the new Standard hotel in New York City, depicts a journey from hell to heaven interpreted through modern film language using computer-enhanced found footage. This epic video mural contains over 300 individual channels of looped video blended into a multi-layered seamless tableau of interconnecting images that illustrate a contemporary, satirical take on the concepts of Heaven and Hell."

I realized I'm terrible with words, so I started making book covers for the fics I enjoy as a form of feedback. I also made a little vidlet for one as well.

FIC RECS:

millylicious's The Music Box - Sylar/Claire, Nathan/Claire(ish) of Heroes. (Broken things need fixing.) -Download link for vid.

kuwdora's Through the Gates of Pandaemonium - Sylar/Mohinder of Heroes. (Abyssus abyssum invocat (Hell invokes Hell).)

dollsome's Lines - Sierra/Victor of Dollhouse. (Victor, Sierra, and crayons.)

raphaela667's the ups and downs of you - Kirk/Spock of the Star Trek Reboot. (Starfleet first officers did not regress to childhood without at least submitting prior warning to their commanding officers. They'd established that after the whole Pon Farr mess last year. There were rules about Vulcan biology and scaring the hell out of Jim now. This had to be in violation of at least three of them.)

beccatoria's The name of this story is your name. - Caprica of Battlestar Galactica. (What if Caprica didn't actually die. Ever.)

I paid off a couple more hospital bills that came in. It's getting annoying because they bill everything separately. There isn't one bill, but 20 bills for individual things like sterile gauze, doctor's time, the room, transport, aftercare nurse's time, bandage tape, and so on. I decided to go all in and pay off my car completely before I have no money left. I'm not sure it was the smartest thing, but at least my car is paid off and it's mine, so I don't have to worry about having no money left after hospital bills. This is the poorest I've been since I was 7 years old and my great-uncle opened a CD account in my name. (Side note: that was college money that my dad gambled away, yay!)

I had to take the semester off of school, which has turned out to be a better and better choice as time goes on. I've been working more, so I have more money than I did when I could only work on the weekends. Sadly, that money has gone to pay ridiculous hospital bills. Going back to how shitty my dad is, he promised to pay what hospital bills were left after insurance. Now that I'm not dying and the bills have started coming in, he's not paying.

I went to breakfast with my grandparents this morning and studied a bit while drinking coffee. I have my forth and final PRAXIS teaching licensure and certification exam on Saturday. I went overboard studying this week. I'd planned to study over two weeks and be confident and ready by Thursday, using Friday for overall review. I finished my outline and information gathering far sooner and I studied far more than I'd planned. It's Monday and I feel like I could take the test right now. I suppose that's a good thing though.

I received the results from the one I took in March too. I got a 191 out of 200, which is quite good considering the average is like 170 or so.

a few recent DeviantArt photographs of mine:

Kitchen Window


Mostly Ceiling


Violet of African Variety I


Violet of African Variety II

( Where I ramble and relate vidding to Twyla Tharp's The Creative Habit Learn It and Use It for Life )

( Where I relate the book to The 5 Obstructions (with trailer) and vidding )

All of this has brought me to a vidding idea. I would like people to leave me "obstructions", restrictions like having at least one clip that plays for 10 seconds without cut, not using effects, or anything. I'll pick out some and complete a vid according to the specifications.

I’ve been meaning to post these for a while, but never can seem to remember to do it. So I present some things I made for Julie: Christmas card porn and a birthday wallpaper.


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Caprica, D’Anna, Athena, Laura, the Hybrid, and Hera in the Operahouse.


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Title: Robot Sexy Time for Julie
Author: kiki_miserychic
Fandom: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Rating: Vaguely explicit
Characters/Pairings: Sarah/Cameron
Timeline: anytime during series
Summary: Sarah and Cameron have robot sexy time. I wrote it in Julie’s Christmas card last year.

( Robot Sexy Time )

Last week I posted the trailer and information for RiP: A remix manifesto. Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers. Today I finally had a chunk of time to sit down and watch the film. Streaming video of RiP! A Remix Manifesto is available via NFB.ca, a web site produced by the National Film Board of Canada.

Chapter 1 - Meet Girl Talk. Today we're going to make a mash-up, find out who Girl Talk is, and why his music holds the key to the future of culture.


( chapter 2 - 13 embedded videos )

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If I Had My Way

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Title: Back with Your Racks as the Stacks You Know
Author: kiki_miserychic
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Rating: Explicit
Characters/Pairings: Helena Cain/Gina Inviere
Timeline: Pre-Razor
Summary: A small measure of Helena and Gina's downtime.
Beta: demonqueen666, all mistakes my own.
Written for thearchive2's challenge 07 - found.

( Back with Your Racks as the Stacks You Know )

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Title: Hearing Only One True Note
Author: kiki_miserychic
Recipient: sheepfairy
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Rating: Explicit
Characters/Pairings: Boomer/Caprica
Timeline: In the slight gap between Exodus Part 1 and 2 (3x03 and 3x04)
Summary/Prompt: The world is moving beyond our grasp.
Written for hot_toaster in the Cylons vs. Humans INTERNATIONAL FEMSLASH DAY ficathon.

( Hearing Only One True Note )

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Title: I'm the One and Only Sound
Author: kiki_miserychic
Recipient: sheepfairy
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Rating: Explicit
Characters/Pairings: Natalie/the drowned 6
Timeline: Sometime between Exodus Part 2 (3x04) and Faith (4x08).
Summary/Prompt: If you can be good, you'll live forever / If you're bad, you'll die when you die
Written for hot_toaster in the Cylons vs. Humans INTERNATIONAL FEMSLASH DAY ficathon.

( I'm the One and Only Sound )

YAY!

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Caprica and Boomer randomly hang out by a fireplace.