First some links:

One to chaila43’s two TSCC vidlets done for the Itty-Bitty Viddy Ficcy Thon challenge. Small is beautiful!

The other to thuviaptarth’s commentary on kiki-miserychick’s fabulous Sarah Connor vid Ding!Dong!

The latest challenge in vid commentary is for vidders and viewers to do paired commentaries on their own vids. I’m in two minds about this ( Read more... )

Someone on metafandom made a post about finding it difficult toget vids and parts of the subsequent discussion turned to accounts of ‘why we vid’ or why vids make sense. This would have been my contribution except that it got too rambly and off-topic.

A while ago the ipod was playing an old Joni Michell song from her jazzy experimental era. Hejira to be ( Read more... )

An article in Tuesday’s Guardian talking about how the possibility of gene therapy for various forms of congenital blindness raises issues about ‘disability’ and identity.

Do I want my sight back?From physical to political blindness a whole series of recent posts on colour blindness and racial stereotyping in the UK and other places outside the US ( Read more... )

Some old, some new, all Who.

Don’t stop me now by charmax. Let all other Master vids speak its name. Finger drummingly, reloadably, I love Lucy bad. So very, very bad.

The Lonely People by laurashapiro Rose as Eleanor Rigby drifting through life. He comes but it’s all too much, no one was saved. Father Mackenzie burys her in blue, Wendy abandoned by Pan. A vid that ( Read more... )

I’ve had a vid recs post in mind ever since reading narahttbbs’s post on the appeal of vids being about being able to experience what other people see. As brain posts tend to, it grew and grew but here at least is the beginnings of a list.

Vids of vicarious love.

Don’t Panic by cherryice I’m not able to watch Heroes but have enjoyed reading about it in other ( Read more... )

Watched the Royale Family swansong last night , sniggered a little and wept buckets over Nana’s death. K says it’s all too much like experimental theatre for him, there’s no real plot just excerpts, each ending in a song. It’s really a musical. But we both loved that Terence Davies film Distant Voices, Still Lives, which was similar in subject and ( Read more... )

It’s been a little serious round these parts lately so time to bring the fun in:

The Female of the Species by gywn-r

The Buffyverse. A place where the women are scary and the men should be so lucky.

Whatever it takes by just_eunice

It’s my long standing theory that all sports movies really want to be musicals. Bend it like Beckham is obviously the Bollywood ( Read more... )

Have now seen up to Downloaded in S2 of BSG and it was so good I’m taking a breather. Thoughts to come but first a vid rec:

A Day Like Today by laurashapiroLee Adama was a character I never particularly cared for in the first season but he’s slowly grown on me and this vid pushes that evolving appreciation to a new level. I mean I wouldn’t say I loved him but ( Read more... )

Vids what I have downloaded and loved

Premieres
Subterranean homesick blues
by sockkpuppett and tzikehThere’s a track on OK Computer that’s always seemed X-files inspired and now I realise where the title “Subterranean Homesick Alien” comes from. This is one of those vids where even if you know you don’t know, you know that everything to know is in there. ( Read more... )

butterfly’s new Gunn vid set to ‘Sunset Boulevard’ from the Andrew Lloyd Weber musical sung by John Barrowman is a remarkable character study that weaves elements from the show, the movie and the series to make one exhilarating whole.

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