Merlin Vid: Should I Stay or Should I Go
Yeah, you read that right. A Merlin vid. I made a frakkin' vid, and I'm still not sure how it happened.
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Should I Stay or Should I Go (37.9 MB, AVI)
Brief Vid Notes:
"Should I Stay or Should I Go" by The Clash was one of the songs they played at every high school dance I went to in the *koff* Eighties (the other two being "Time Warp" and "Stairway to Heaven"), and dancing to it was a joyous occasion, where you'd flop around like Snoopy on top of Schroeder's piano, adolescent limbs flailing. No surprise then, that hearing it recently made me think of Merlin and Arthur. What was a surprise, though, was having specific images come to my head to fit with the music, something that had never happened to me before, and before I knew it, I had half a vid planned out. It was insane since both the art and science of vidding had always seemed mysterious and incredibly daunting to me, but I was driven and a little barmy, and I had to find a program and give it a try. I used AVS Video Editor 4, which this newbie found tremendously easy to use. Conversion, one of the things I feared, was also a breeze.
Thanks so much to crysothemis, kassrachel, sihayab, and tzikeh, who all helped make this a reality. It consumed my entire three-day weekend putting it together, and my eyes look like two pissholes in the snow, but I've never had so much fun with insomnia.
Download:
Right-click and save:
Should I Stay or Should I Go (37.9 MB, AVI)
Brief Vid Notes:
"Should I Stay or Should I Go" by The Clash was one of the songs they played at every high school dance I went to in the *koff* Eighties (the other two being "Time Warp" and "Stairway to Heaven"), and dancing to it was a joyous occasion, where you'd flop around like Snoopy on top of Schroeder's piano, adolescent limbs flailing. No surprise then, that hearing it recently made me think of Merlin and Arthur. What was a surprise, though, was having specific images come to my head to fit with the music, something that had never happened to me before, and before I knew it, I had half a vid planned out. It was insane since both the art and science of vidding had always seemed mysterious and incredibly daunting to me, but I was driven and a little barmy, and I had to find a program and give it a try. I used AVS Video Editor 4, which this newbie found tremendously easy to use. Conversion, one of the things I feared, was also a breeze.
Thanks so much to crysothemis, kassrachel, sihayab, and tzikeh, who all helped make this a reality. It consumed my entire three-day weekend putting it together, and my eyes look like two pissholes in the snow, but I've never had so much fun with insomnia.