Fandom: YAMI NO MATSUEI/TWILIGHT
Music: "Twilight" trailer audio
Pairing: Hints of Tsuzuki/Hisoka and Muraki/Hisoka
Length: 1:11
Vidder on LJ: Unknown
Vidder's Website: http://www.youtube.com/user/MakoProduction

Why this vid kicks ass: I found this quite by accident whilst I ( Read more... )

Fandom: DOCTOR WHO/SHERLOCK
Pairing: none
Music: Cracking the Code by PostHaste Music
Length: 1:39
Vidder's LJ: di_br
Vidder's Website: Di on YouTube, vid announcement on LJ

Why this vid kicks ass:If you are a fan of Doctor Who OR Sherlock, you've probably already seen this. It has over 100k views for a reason. However, just in case you haven't... ( Read more... )

Vidder: SE
Musical artist: Amanda Ghost
Pairing: Various
Vidder on LJ: sol-se
Vidder's website: fannish.flux
Why this vid kicks ass: Today's vid is a gorgeous journey into a surreal dreamscape, in which sol-se's editing matches up echoing images from different source texts. The result will linger in your mind for a long time.

Filthy Mind

Vidder: OTW (directed by Francesca Coppa and edited by Laura Shapiro, sound editing by AbsoluteDestiny)
Musical artist: Various
Pairing: Various
Vidder on LJ: None
Vidder's website: Vidding History Projects
Why this vid kicks ass: I kicked off meta week with songvids about songvids, and so now it seems appropriate to rec a project that takes this ( Read more... )

Vidder: counteragent
Musical artist: Thomas Dolby
Pairing: Various
Vidder on LJ: counteragent
Vidder's website: My vids
Why this vid kicks ass: counteragent has a real gift for remixing disparate sources and styles, and forging them into something seamless, with it's own narrative drive and logic. This songvid is a perfect example. It's gorgeously framed with the ( Read more... )

It's meta week in Songvid Oddity land! (And yes, how ironic is the timing, given this week's meta about meta ( Read more... )

Vidder: Barkley
Musical artist: Olivia Newton-John/Electric Light Orchestra
Pairing: None
Vidder on LJ: barkley
Vidder's website: Barkley's Vids
Why this vid kicks ass: In fandom there's a grand tradition of people putting things together that just should not work, and yet, beyond all sense, somehow they not only work, they are glorious. For example, this ( Read more... )

Vidder: SandraInTheSun
Musical artist: David Holmes
Pairing: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Vidder on LJ: sandrainthesun
Vidder's website: Vid Tag
Why this vid kicks ass: I love crime capers; they are just made of awesome -- the snark, the cunning plans, the comedy arising out of things going wrong, the twist ending. What's not to love? This songvid has all of that ( Read more... )

Vidder: Ferd
Musical artist: Shakespeare's Sister
Pairing: Bruce Wayne/Lois Lane, Batman/Catwoman
Vidder on LJ: ferdalump
Vidder's website: Ferdalump on YouTube
Why this vid kicks ass: This songvid is technically the second of a matching pair, but I think it stands alone just fine (the other is available at the same splash page linked below, if you're ( Read more... )

Vidder: Dani C.
Musical artist: Enya
Pairing: House/Wilson
Vidder on LJ: mystictwilight
Vidder's website: MysticTwilight on YouTube
Why this vid kicks ass: This is such a clever piece of work, using the footage from Dead Poets Society to give a gorgeous, angsty twist to Wilson's backstory. To say more is to spoil this. Just... wow! What a great piece of ( Read more... )