vid title: The Waters of Mars audio: Billy Crudup's Doctor Manhattan in Watchmen source: Doctor Who duration: 2:22 spoilers: The Waters of Mars

summary: The Doctor prefers the stillness here.

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vid title: that brøken day music: Michael Pitt source: The Brøken duration: 4:31

summary:
You have conquered and I yield.
Yet henceforward art thou also dead - dead to the World, to Heaven, and to Hope!
In me didst thou exist - and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.
-Edgar Allan Poe

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VID RECS (VVC disc 1 - also premiering):
keewick's Stars (Dexter) - My god, my heart aches when I watch this vid. I'm in awe of how it's constructed with only vague hints as to the true nature. It's the sweetness and love that Rita must feel and see. The vid is filtered through her and her life. She doesn't know what we know, doesn't see what we see. She sees a life that she's made with someone else that helped her come out of a protective shell that she made for herself when she needed it. The clip choice and editing is very restrained, which is a feat in and of itself. I can see how it would have been easy to let even more of the true nature of the show to creep into the vid. The first shot is like she's inviting us into her life to show us her world. The song choice is beautiful as well. I've watched a couple of times in different ways.

halcyon_shift's This Is The Place (Burn Notice) - The editing style is so perfect for the show, how it's well timed, yet jerky and stilted on the beat. I really dig how the scenes are paralleled amoung each other. The song choice is great too and I like how it plays into Michael's more manic moments.

obsessive24's Bachelorette (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) - Brillant editing, attention grabbing opening, epic and sweeping feeling, and amazing connections and concept.

keewick's Unforgivable? (Harry Potter) - The symbol use is amazing, especially the birds. The juxtaposition of the brutality of the Harry Potter universe coupled with the sweetness of Luna is jarring, yet lovely in contrast because it breeds hope. It's like her mere presense is calming in answer to the terrible nature of what surrounds her.

My class ended early today and I took advantage of the time to watch VVC DVDs, leave feedback, and make some recs. Look at my productive self. I'm all caught up with my college courses for today, but tomorrow is another story when we get more assignments. College makes me sleepy.

VID RECS (VVC disc 1 - premieres part 1):
halcyon_shift's VVC Premieres Intro 09 Star Trek In 60 Seconds (Re-enacted by Llamas) - Massive LULZ.

DC's We Are (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) - Calculated action, beautiful overlays, great pacing, and interesting lyrical interpretations.

bradcpu (and laurashapiro)'s Hard Sun (Firefly) - This is the vid that knows where I live.

I love the sounds in the beginning and how it just flows into the vid with all the twists and turns. Love the ivory tower. Love it like burning. It's amazing how well it all fits together and feels so right to me. It's like it couldn't be any other way than to see the lens flares at 1:09 blend together. The introduction of the rain is beautifully done and I love how the vid continues while the original footage is of walking away at the end. It's so full of love and appreciation that it bubbles up inside me and makes me smile and feel a bit better about certain things. There is sadness in the vid, like in the 2:20s when they walk away and the weeping, but I'm ultimately left with the crews and happiness.

jarrow's Learning to Crawl (Battlestar Galactica) - DAYUM, that's hot and I want to make out with it. There's so much tension and sexiness in the tight editing. Beyond the femslash and sexiness there's deep character beats within the vid and that's something beautiful.

mlyn and Jo's It Comes and Goes In Waves (Varg Veum) - Beautiful use of the source with the beautiful framing compositions and colors. I love the progression of the vid and how it changes into something so dark and violent, yet still beautiful with the changes in the music. The symbolism and emotions are so engaging that I connect with the vid without knowing the source.

hollywoodgrrl's Marble House (Doctor Who) - The editing and atmosphere is stellar. I think my favorite parts are the use of the watch in the instrumental section because it's so finely edited and heartbreaking. Honestly, the whole thing is edited with great skill.

At first I was reading as the Doctor has the choice to run off in the TARDIS, while the humans have to stay and face the fights. The Doctor plays with humanity, including John Smith, without having to face the darker aspects of it. He can go hands off whenever he wants. The Doctor can deal with aliens fine, but he doesn't stick around for humanity's darkness. That he leaves to us (and Torchwood I suppose). The Doctor leaves humanity to its own darkness. A darkness that isn't supernatural, but coming from within ourselves, which makes it all the more frightening, especially for The Doctor, who wants to love humanity. He just wants to run away from the darkness in our hearts.

dualbunny's Video Killed the Radio Star (Wizard of Oz - Elphaba [Wicked]) - I don't know Wicked very well, but I still was able to enjoy the vid. The motion and jumpcuts in the editing are great. I love how you take the footage and have us look at it from a bit to the left. The zooms make the footage more interesting and grabbing, while it also has me thinking about the scenes differently in my mind because they look different than I'm used to. It's so fun and even more fun with femslash goggles!

I made a Whiskey vidlet, The Night, with the prompts: Dollhouse, epitaph one, The Night by Morphine for the Itty-Bitty Viddy Ficcy Thon.

VID RECS:
danegen's Slobo Babe (Lesbian Vampire Killers) - Has me LOLZ-ing forever. The movie is complete crack and it's well used in the vid with good timing.

giandujakiss's A Charming Man (Supernatural) - Excellent song choice, interesting lyrical interpretation coupled with brillant musicality in the visuals.

newkidfan's Human & Monster (Supernatural) - A beautifully subdued pair of companion vidlets that feel bittersweet and sad.

FIC REC:
serrico's Primogeniture is a Supernatural fic of Claire, Castiel's vessel's daughter, set post-Rapture that hurts in a good way.

Lastly, I've become a resident of Zombieland by zombifying myself.

vid title: Once Upon A Time music: "Excess" by Tricky source: The Fall duration: 4:42 notes: Made for Vividcon 2009's Club Vivid (not shown). resource: I took visual coloring cues from typicalrobots' gorgeous The Fall picspam.

summary: "Why are you making everybody die?" / "It's my story." / "Mine, too."

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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.)

vid title: I'm on a Boat
music: The Lonely Island featuring T-Pain
source: Star Trek (new 2009 reboot whatever we're calling it)
duration: 2:37
notes: For all my GQ motherfuckers at ontd_startrek and thanks to kuwdora.
summary: I am on the Enterprise.

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( 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.

RiP: a remix manifesto

In 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.

The films central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil's Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are also along for the ride.

A participatory media experiment, from day one, Brett shares his raw footage at opensourcecinema.org, for anyone to remix. This movie-as-mash-up method allows these remixes to become an integral part of the film. With RiP: A remix manifesto, Gaylor and Girl Talk sound an urgent alarm and draw the lines of battle.

Which side of the ideas war are you on?

Watch full movie here.

If you've ever wanted to know what it's like for me to work in a grocery store (because you're all dying to know what working in a deli/bakery feels like), this is the brillant short film (Cashback) that comes the closest.

( Ben is an art college student in London, whose imagination runs wild as he works the late-night shift at the local supermarket. What do he and his colleagues do to pass the long, endless hours of the night? )

vid title: Between the Bars
music: Chris Garneau
source: Merlin BBC, King Arthur, Mists of Avalon, and Merlin (with additional footage from Blade Runner)
duration: 2:30
notes: Thanks to obsessive24, millylicious, sol_se, and kuwdora for the betas.
summary: The images stuck in his head.

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I have two recs that feel like they should be enjoyed in conjunction.

VID REC:
castorsfate's Just a Dream (The Matrix) - An extremely well paced and edited vid with nice movement in the transitions. The timing of the action and fight sequences are amazing. The editing and style sold me with the effects and cutting on the song choice. There are some really great movement moments too.

FIC REC:
liminalliz's never cared much for moonlit skies (The Matrix) - Honestly beautiful reworking of the canon. It feels like it is the back story and additional text that was meant to be. The construction is simple and uncluttered. Every word, phrase, and sentence are nothing more or less than they need to be.

VID RECS:
beccatoria's Televangelism (Battlestar Galactica) - Amazing manual effects that have heavy meaning and purpose

buffyann's New Soul (Edward Scissorhands) - There's a feeling of sweet sadness within the quirky editing and movement.

chasarumba's Skin (Casino Royale (2006 James Bond movie) - Tight editing, motion, and structure.

sdwolfpup's Paralyzer (Prison Break) - Dirty/beautiful effects and quite a few perfect editing moments (mmmm, wall porn).

sol_se's Satellites (Tin Man) - Love the recurring witty imagery and the editing changes with the character development.

I woke up at 5am this morning to take my first PRAXIS test out of the four I will do this year. I had planned on coming home afterward and working on some projects, but that did not happen. I was so wiped after the test that I took a nap that lasted a few hours, woke up, watched Hellboy II: The Golden Army, and played in the first snow. It was not a productive day in the end, but I did succumb and join Twitter. I'm kiki_miserychic on there, of course. So be my friend, add me, or whatever the appropriate vocabulary might be. :)

vid title: Closer ("For Jamie")
music: String Quartet Tribute to Nine Inch Nails
source: 9 Songs, Lie With Me, and Shortbus
duration: 3:35
warning: This vid contains full name and female nudity, as well as sexually explicit scenes. You must be over 16 or over the age of consent for your country, whichever is greater, to view this vid.
summary: A meta!porn vid using movies with various levels of real sex. I wanted to explore the point when voyerism becomes participation, the nature of vidding, the blurry line between art and pornography, and sex itself.
notes: I promised kuwdora I would post our chat to go along with the vid, so those are here: ( behind this cut )It's entirely odd to see her username with a strike through it. Strikethroughs make the baby Jesus sad... And onto the meta porn.

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vid title: I Want You (She's So Heavy)
music: Dana Fuchs, Joe Anderson & T.V. Carpio's "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" from the Across the Universe soundtrack
source: Supernatural, Planet Terror, and Zombieduck (with addition footage from I Know Who Killed Me)
duration: 3:52
summary: Within the Supernatural universe, there is Planet Terror with zombies. Those zombies are from Zombieduck. Also, there are strippers.
notes: Made for 2008 VVC Challenge
warning: Ummm... blood, guts, nudity, sex, guns, and rock'n'roll. Please don't let your grandmother watch unless she's superawesome.
Oodles of meta on this vid in the comments of this post.

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vid title: Bootystyle
music: "Bootystyle" mashup from Dunproofin' using Teddybears STHLM's "Cobrastyle" and Robyn's cover.
source: The Cell
duration: 3:46
summary: remember when you dig a hole it's two you gonna dig
notes: Made for 2008 VVC Club Vivid. I think everyone takes the movie, The Cell, too seriously. When I watched this movie with friends, I was the only one laughing because everyone else was creeped out. These same friends thought that Teddybears STHLM's "Cobrastyle" is a fun song. I think it's creepy as all get out and awesome. So this vid is a melding of a movie I think people take too seriously and a song I think people don't take seriously enough.
warning: OMG, don't watch if you're squemish or offendable.

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vid title: Piece of Me
music: Britney Spears' "Piece of Me (rough mix by Mike Rizzo)
source: The Royal Tenenbaums
duration: 2:47
summary: Everyone wants a piece of Margot Tenenbaum
warning: Nudity
notes: Made for 2008 VVC Club Vivid

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vid title: Natalie Has Seen Things
audio: Blade Runner: The Final Cut
video source: Battlestar Galactica
duration: 1:09
summary: My elaboration on Natalie's death.
notes: Made for thearchive2's challenge 09 - projection. In reply to heyiya's BSG meta and vid playlist, I was reminded of my own personal reading between Battlestar Galactica and Blade Runner. "[Lum's More Human Than Human] is part of what sparked my own obsession with the Cylon. Blade Runner was one of the first movies I remember watching as a child. I was so engaged by the ideas of "robots" as a child. The idea that they could be so similar to humans, but not be considered on the same level blew my young mind. So when I watched Lum's vid that used the White Zombie track that was based on Blade Runner, my love was crystallized." Within that same thread, we discussed the shared consciousness and individualism among the Cylon. I wanted to address many things within a short duration. One being that despite being in a different location, the Hybrid new when Natalie was shot. Rather transparently I wanted to show that without the ability to download, Natalie's memories and experience are lost to the collective. There are other vague references, but this is the most I've ever rambled in the notes of a vid post, so I'm stopping because there has to be room for expansion for the viewer.

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