not much of a con report
Vividcon was great, not least because I got to introduce my college friend tinzelda to the world of shiny fangirls and con insanity. I was wiser about taking some down time this year and so found the stress levels much more bearable. I drank way too much at Club Vivid -- no hangover, but terribly embarrassed the next day about having been loud and obnoxious and putting my foot in my mouth. Maybe less wine next time. Gotta find that fine line of "just enough drinking to get me dancng."
Compared to last year, there weren't quite as many vids that absolutely blew me away, and there were more that I thought were ambitious but didn't quite work. I still find it very difficult to get a handle on vids where I don't know the source: I nod and smile and think "Ah, there are people on screen." Sometimes I can get as far as "Happy people" or "Angry people." Movies seem more accessible than tv shows.
Standouts for me:
The Glass - Just beautiful, and made more so with the tag at the end about the people on the other side of the computer screen.
Pressure - (Not available online because it consists of footage of the vidders.) Not really a vid as I think of them -- more a short film. Three people get together for a weekend of VCR vidding. (Of Quantum Leap! My first slash fandom. Yay!) Cute; showcases community; and wow, VCR vidding is hard.
Sea Fever (Slings and Arrows; heresluck) - A perfectly drawn metaphor: the ship, the star to steer by, the journey. I don't have much to say about it because the vid is so eloquent.
Hard Sun (Firefly; bradcpu & laurashapiro) - I found the mix of live and source footage terribly exciting: it was (to me) about bringing the adventure and wider world of a show into everyday life. Our input makes the show richer to us, and the show makes our lives richer. During the vid review, I was surprised by how many very different perspectives there were: the lyrics were vitally important (I barely noticed them); it couldn't have been any fandom but Firefly (for me, it could have been almost any fandom); the end is sad because all shows go away eventually (for me, the show is just as much there when it's no longer airing).
Marble House (Doctor Who; hollywoodgrrl) - I need to watch this one more. (I wasn't at the indepth review and haven't yet read the notes.) At this point, all I can say is, pretty, and interesting, and there's definitely something going that I want to understand.
Comfortably Numb (T:SCC; sisabet) - Again, I need to watch it more (and get caught up on the source).
When You Wish upon a Star (BSG) - Made me cry. I love it when there's an (effective) mismatch between lyrics and visuals, and here, over and over, people died and were lost, set against the sweet-sweet-sweet "your dreams come true."
Swing (ST:TOS; Mary Crawford) - Uhura as bandleader plays the Enterprise. Sheer fun!