Vid:: Unsteady Ground [multifandom]
About a month ago, I said, "The world does not want a vid about land registration. But I PLAN TO GIVE IT ONE ANYWAY."
Here it is.
This is my very first vid ever, and I'd like to take a moment to thank
thingswithwings, my dear and patient friend who walked me through a tonne of stuff for this (she made me not one but several video tutorials about aspect ratio, srsly) and the wonderful
such_heights, who betaed it, and also who talked me into trying to vid in the first place.
There is some meta to go with it, but, eh. Possibly in the set of things only interesting to me. eta: I posted it.
[vid] Unsteady Ground [multifandom]
by Raven
Know where you stand.
music: Catherine Feeny, from Hurricane Glass
warnings: do not use for navigation none.
download from mediafire, 85MB
unsteady ground from Raven on Vimeo.
password to stream: ordnance
Sources in order of appearance:
Donald Strachey mysteries, Sapphire and Steel, Firefly, Doctor Who, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Fringe, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Star Trek (2009), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Middleman, Slings & Arrows, Master and Commander, The West Wing, Parks and Recreation, Goodbye Lenin!, Defiance, M*A*S*H, Battlestar Galactica, Due South, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Little Mosque on the Prairie, The Dish, Life On Mars, Babylon 5, Bllly Elliot, Quatermass and the Pit (1958), and "Earth", by Michael König.
The Ordnance Survey drawings come via
generalising and the British Library (go look at them, they were drawn by hand in preparation for the first eighteenth-century Ordnance Survey, they're beautiful).
Lyrics:
At night we plant bones
In the dark as you children sleep
You should know by now
There is always something moving
Under your feet
Black water runs deep
Underneath these titanic plates
Where you build your homes
And you tie up your safety nets
But when these plates meet
It is mountains they make
When these bones shift
There's an earthquake
Watch your step
You should keep your head down
You never know what tomorrow will bring around
You hold onto what good fortune you have found
For you are walking on unsteady ground
We will drill the earth
And you'll ride that slick
When it dirties your hands
Yeah, it's a dirty trick
But it's like quicksand, you know
To distinguish the top from the undertow
It gets harder as your eyes and your bellies grow
Watch your step
You should keep your head down
You never know what tomorrow will bring around
You hold onto what good fortune you have found
For you are walking on
You love God
You love your president
You want them both, but
We must keep them separate
The left hand don't know where the right is at yet
The children don't know yet that
We're bombing Baghdad
Keep your head down
Keep your head down
Keep your head down
We are walking on
We are walking on
We are walking on
We are all walking on
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Here it is.
This is my very first vid ever, and I'd like to take a moment to thank
thingswithwings, my dear and patient friend who walked me through a tonne of stuff for this (she made me not one but several video tutorials about aspect ratio, srsly) and the wonderful
such_heights, who betaed it, and also who talked me into trying to vid in the first place.
There is some meta to go with it, but, eh. Possibly in the set of things only interesting to me. eta: I posted it.
[vid] Unsteady Ground [multifandom]
by Raven
Know where you stand.
music: Catherine Feeny, from Hurricane Glass
warnings: do not use for navigation none.
download from mediafire, 85MB
unsteady ground from Raven on Vimeo.
password to stream: ordnance
Sources in order of appearance:
Donald Strachey mysteries, Sapphire and Steel, Firefly, Doctor Who, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Fringe, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Star Trek (2009), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Middleman, Slings & Arrows, Master and Commander, The West Wing, Parks and Recreation, Goodbye Lenin!, Defiance, M*A*S*H, Battlestar Galactica, Due South, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Little Mosque on the Prairie, The Dish, Life On Mars, Babylon 5, Bllly Elliot, Quatermass and the Pit (1958), and "Earth", by Michael König.
The Ordnance Survey drawings come via
generalising and the British Library (go look at them, they were drawn by hand in preparation for the first eighteenth-century Ordnance Survey, they're beautiful).
Lyrics:
At night we plant bones
In the dark as you children sleep
You should know by now
There is always something moving
Under your feet
Black water runs deep
Underneath these titanic plates
Where you build your homes
And you tie up your safety nets
But when these plates meet
It is mountains they make
When these bones shift
There's an earthquake
Watch your step
You should keep your head down
You never know what tomorrow will bring around
You hold onto what good fortune you have found
For you are walking on unsteady ground
We will drill the earth
And you'll ride that slick
When it dirties your hands
Yeah, it's a dirty trick
But it's like quicksand, you know
To distinguish the top from the undertow
It gets harder as your eyes and your bellies grow
Watch your step
You should keep your head down
You never know what tomorrow will bring around
You hold onto what good fortune you have found
For you are walking on
You love God
You love your president
You want them both, but
We must keep them separate
The left hand don't know where the right is at yet
The children don't know yet that
We're bombing Baghdad
Keep your head down
Keep your head down
Keep your head down
We are walking on
We are walking on
We are walking on
We are all walking on
raven is also at Dreamwidth: there is or are
comment(s). Comment there or here.