Obviously the real heavy hitters of vidding are waiting until the series finishes to get going. At least I hope they get going. I have high hopes for Club Vivid next year ( Read more... )

So there's good news and bad news. The bad news is that there don't seem to be any cycling fanvids, in the sense of "vids coming out of the media fandom tradition." The good news is that ITV do some amazing annual Tour de France montages that are almost as good ( Read more... )

A few nights ago I dreamt that Gillian Anderson was dying of cancer, that she had filmed the trailers for the next X-Files series but would not live to film the series itself. It's impossible to get across the mood of a dream, which never inheres in any of the facts of the plot - it's like trying to describe a scent to someone who has never smelled ( Read more... )

Last week was a rather drearily responsible one for me, with bid-writing interspersed with pondering gingivitis and taxes. (It's like the definition of oncoming middle age, isn't it?) On Friday evening I decided to relax and do something a little different by going through my collection of old fanvids. I used to watch them quite a bit, say between ( Read more... )

Day 9

In your own space, create a fanwork. A drabble, a ficlet, or an icon, art or meta or a rec list. A picspam. Something.

I was going to try to create a ficlet but my muse doesn't work like that, so instead I thought that I would do a little bit of musing on the art of warnings.

( In which I am a special snowflake who thinks she is creating Art rather than Porn )

So
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While I haven't been much in a vid-watching mood recently, I just have to rec yunitsa's Jerusalem, which is based on the docudrama When Boris Met DaveIt's set to a song by the Indelicates (whose fanbase seems to be almost completely made up of Oxford postgrads whom I know personally), cynical and tender by turns, wonderful and terrible at the same time. ( Read more... )

The Test by
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Why does the combination of BSG and politicized (white) hip-hop result in such a perfect vidding marriage? kiki_miserychic says that "the Flobots are the voice of BSG" and this may well be true. At least four vids out of one album and all of them are really good.

Televangelism by beccatoria
so say we all I (Handlebars) by kiki_miserychic
Mayday! by cherryice
there's a war going on for your mind ( Read more... )

Unnatural Selection by charmax (BSG, Terminator movies, Sarah Connor Chronicles)
Darwin. Robots. Religion. Evolution. Violence. Lots.

How Much Is that Geisha in the Window? by lierdumoa (Firefly)
"There is only one Asian actor with English dialogue in all of Firefly." Joss Whedon fans may wish to look away now.