I have never done this before, but I am offering to vid to raise money for the bushfire appeals. I will ask the highest bidder to make a donation to either the Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Appeal or the RSPCA Bushfire Appeal (if you prefer to help animals ( Read more... )

So, short story: I've signed up for an 'Insane February Vidding Project', with daybreak777, chaila43 and taragel. We've each set our own goals, depending on what we want to work on, but the idea is that we create a series of vidlets quickly, to push our comfort zone into new areas ( Read more... )

This is a speculative vid chat. Or a pre-vid-chat post. I feel a bit sheepish calling it a proper vid chat because it's a very personal post, but at the same time, I'd love other vidders to feel they could share their own experiences with these issues, and since I want to start vid chats up again this year, I thought I may as well just leap in.

( I have a confession to make: I have a creative block when it comes to effects. )

Aka, my second year of vidding. I'm kind of sliding two posts into one here, as
This was my post for 2007, and my post about my first year of vidding.

( cut for self-reflection )

I should have remembered that fandom 'lows' often come right before the highs... in this case I have bounced back from my slump with something to celebrate. And while I am shy, I'm also too euphoric about this not to share. (And also I *do* think everyone should 'own' their successes when they have them--even though I usually suck at doing so ( Read more... )

Recently I've been having a lot of lengthy and very rewarding conversations about vids and vidding with various LJ friends (some vidders, some vid-watchers). Mostly these conversations have been one-on-one by email or IM, and since I've been discovering that there are other people out there who want to have similar discussions and who have a lot of ( Read more... )

My Vividcon supporting membership pack came today! \o/ It was very exciting to see the program with my name in it. *pats ego* I may have bounced and pointed.

And now I have EVEN MORE vids to watch. *happy sigh*

Of course, it would arrive on the day I got better enough to return to work. *headdesk*

I am hopelessly sniffly at the moment, thanks to a pesky cold that descended on me on the last day of a long weekend. It's been hard to take time off work (I've got some really high maintenance authors at the moment) but today I couldn't string long enough between sneezing fits to actually drive to work, so I've been at home watching 30 Rock, which ( Read more... )

Paranoid Android feels like a milestone in my history as a vidder. I learnt so much in making it, both about vidding and about the show (Smallville) and the character (Lex). Originally I was going to post notes about the vid with the vid, but I decided against this for two reasons ( Read more... )

Guess who I saw play my favourite venue this week, snarkist?! Sufjan! It was absolutely brilliant. ( report on the important stuff--like hula hoops )