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: Bale Out Christian Bale Remix music: RevoLucian source: Dollhouse duration: 2:43 notes: Made for Vividcon 2009's Club Vivid. A large part of my inspiration came from Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight TED talk, which was linked by @Dichenlachman, who plays Dollhouse's Sierra. (Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions -- motion, speech, self-awareness -- shut down one by one. An astonishing story.)

summary: Echo, Omega, Caroline, and her imprints.

download: youtube video
30.8mb xvid avi via sendspace

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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.

If you've watched the latest episode of True Blood, 2x04 - Shake and Fingerpop, then you have to watch this video because it will enhance your enjoyment of a certain scene.

(The part to watch begins at about :30 and continues until the end.)

( Spoilers for the episode in gif form )

*Needs a Jessica icon. Anyone have links?

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.)

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.

download: 30mb xvid avi via mediafire
youtube and BAM vid vault stream

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Everyone needs to watch this. Now.

Zachary Quinto video portrait by Tyler Shields

Thomas Dekker thanks fans for trying to save t:tscc and calls FOX himself.

Bonus ETA: Thomas Dekker's cover of Britney Spears' "Crazy" at the Viper Room.

Title: I AM A CYLON
Characters: Boomer
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Timeline: Spoilers for 4x15 - No Exit
Written for thearchive2's challenge 05 - memo.
Title Music: "I AM A CYLON (a crowd electric remix)" from David Crabb



( I AM A CYLON )

Peep Cave Microwave Disaster on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wneoc99d-tk] and vimeo [http://www.vimeo.com/4121584].


Three peeps go on an adventure into a cave and find DISASTER!

( 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.

Ok, I've watched this video about ten times in the last two days. I have no idea exactly what makes it and Sara Schaefer so great, but I've watch it so many times that I need to pass it off to my flist: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBzOfUTGTts]


VID RECS:
butterfly's Jacob Marley's Chain (Merlin) - A haunting Uther vid with simmer and barely contained emotions in the languid editing.

charmax's Smile (Buffy and Angel) - BEWBS ARE KEWL in this cute and fun vid.

deirdre_c's Supernatural (In My Pants) (Supernatural) - You haven't lived until you've laughed with this vid.

millylicious's Pandora's Box (Heroes) - She is a sick genius and I loves it. The vid is so creepy and amazing that I want to have it's scary Elle and Sylar babies.
millylicious's Soldier (Merlin) - Quiet sadness soaks this Hunith vid right along the sheer joy and beauty.

obsessive24's Love Lockdown (Battlestar Galactica) - An amazing destruction and construction of Gina/Cain that uses repeated imagery to give a more full representation with limited source.

COMIC/COLLAGE:
dogeared and aesc's Escape Velocity (Stargate: Atlantis) - This blew my mind with creativity and innovation. It's set before 5x16 with the Vegas!verse that pays such mind to composition and interaction between text and image that I could stare it at.

I think that might be the sweetest, cutest, most beautiful thing I've seen all year.

I hadn't intended it to spam today, but in honor of George Carlin:

OMGVVCYAY! I'm going to VVC this year! Who wants to touch me? I said, "who wants to touch me?!?!?!"

Love me, love me, say that you love me:

Get your own valentinr

Two viral videos that are similiar in awesomeness, but subject matter not so much:
Yes We Can [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHEO_fG3mm4]


Sarah Silverman singing "I'm fuckin' Matt Damon" with Matt Damon [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KUowJzpgxs]

My lesson rocked the cashbah today at preschool. Next week there's no school for Thanksgiving, so I'll have plenty of time to finish all my papers for my classes.

I has vidding awards, let me show you them: Stronger Forest got Best Editing, Best Music Use RU, and Best Character for Round 8 and Best Editing RU and Best Character RU for BOTB R1 at Driver Picks The Music Vidding Awards

My grandparents came back from their vacation and it's like I'm suffocating again. It's like there no oxygen left for me in the room.

On the art side of things, Jen Stark does some truely lovely work with paper.


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Six and Starbuck are getting it on the glowy swirly supernova.

Dudes I Think are Awesome:
Banksy is a British graffiti artist that I'm very into at the moment. Check out all the sections. The films are amazing too. There's something great about a guy that goes into the British Museum and puts up his own art prints.
M dot Strange's This is Str8nime video makes me brain hurt in a good way. Str8nime is an original animation style that combines stop motion puppets with 8-bit artwork and anime. I'm waiting patiently for his We are the Strange to come out.

VID RECS:
ghost_lingering's Pink Bullets (Heroes) - A spectacularly paced and edited look at Sylar parallelled and contrasted with other characters.
samertia's Only Disappear (due South) - due South seems to be a fandom that creates vids even someone unfamilar with the source can love. This vid is extremely well constructed with layers and motion.

Bryan Gaynor has pioneered a new form of the robot dance, which he calls Chibotics. This guy is freaking amazing. I want him to dance to all the tracks I'm ever going to vid so I can edit to his timing. ( embedded youtube videos of his work )

This is the reason why I'm a vidder. Seriously. It's a scene from a shortlived and underrated television show on in the 90's, Millennium, from Chris Carter (The X-Files). I cannot believe that this is actually on the internet. You may laugh at it, but 12-year-old me sat wide-eyed staring at the tv. It was long before I knew there was such a thing as vidding. Since I started vidding I never thought about it again, but I was watching a Patti Smith video on YouTube and it was linked as a related video. Looking back now, this explains A LOT about my vidding style now.
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