I have to scream but I have no mouth

[aycheb]

I want to be vidding now. It’s been months since I so much as opened Final Cut and that’s not right. Vidding takes time and work/life/work gets in the way. Still the worst of that is over and yet nothing. No one idea that’s compelling enough to force its way through the clipping barrier. Clipping is too much like work, the bad bits of work, the grading and the costing and the goddamn impact statements that everyone knows are lies, well not exactly lies but not truths either. Actually there’s no part of vidding that’s like writing impact statements. This is why it’s called fun not work. The fun parts of work are like vidding, the reading and thinking and the bench work, actual experiments. It’s odd really, I was never a VCR vidder but the editing part of viding has that feel of something you make with your hands. It has this sense of moulding the images even though all I’m doing is clicking and dragging and typing. It’s only pixels not clay or dough but there’s phantom tactility to the whole process and I miss it.

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