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| Monday, December 1st, 2014 | |
| 8:36 pm | ballon d'or - the really short list Last three announced for Ballon d'Or: 1. CR7. 2. Messi. 3. Some guy, can't even tell what position he plays. :P    |
| Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014 | |
| 8:46 pm | 2014 vidding meme Output is declining - by choice, but still - so this is probably the last year I can do the meme. Unless I sekkritly made like a million festivids. ;) 2006 meme | 2007 meme | 2008 meme | 2009 meme | 2010 meme | 2011 meme | 2012 meme | 2013 meme Vids premiered in 2014 February Festivids reveals Freedom at 21 - The White Queen Stop - Spiceworld You Look So Fine - Whitechapel Who Are You Really? - Dredd No Church in the Wild - The Tudors Young and Beautiful - The Tudors July The River, The Woods - Football World Cup / Germany August Vividcon premiere A Single Man - A Single Man September Wonderwall - Hikaru no Go My favourite video this year (of my own): A tie between The River, The Woods and Wonderwall. I think No Church in the Wild is an objectively better vid than both, but there's really no substitute for vidding what you love with all your heart. My least favourite video this year: None really, I guess Stop because it was the most throwaway of the bunch. Most successful video Maybe No Church in the Wild, or maybe The River, The Woods by virtue of timing. If the vid was late by a couple of weeks I think the sentiment may have fizzed out a bit. It was too much of a heightened emotional state to sustain for long. Video most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Wonderwall, but then I think Akira/Hikaru is underappreciated by the universe in general. Most fun video: During the anon period I rather enjoyed messing with people about who made Who Are You Really? :D This is probably not "fun" in the spirit of the question, but I absolutely loved being able to vid the entire stretch of reigning monarchs from Richard II to all the Tudors in the space of three festivids (Somewhere a Clock is Ticking the year before, then Freedom at 21 and No Church in the Wild). Video with single sexiest moment: The River, The Woods 1:07 as Lahm kicks off the Brazil semi-final; and Wonderwall 2:08 as the wind starts and Akira rejects Hikaru and it's such exquisite paaaiiinnn. Biggest vid fail: Didn't intend at all for PoV to shift to Henry at the end of Young and Beautiful, but once it was pointed out, it seemed definitely possible, which was annoying because if that was the apparent narrative, then it was some very shitty construction. In hindsight a rather elementary mistake to have made. It was festivid #6; I ran out clips and was tired and made do with the last clip. :-/ Just goes to show that one should never take eyes off the ball. Hardest video to make: You Look So Fine. The narrative didn't want to fall into place. (It probably never did.)  isagel later wrote that this vid knew that it could have been Kent-the-serial-killer's origin story; I wish the vid was self-aware enough to know that at the time.Most unintentionally telling video: No Church in the Wild. In the sense that it was (apparently!) easy to guess as one of mine, and also in terms of content. For 2015: Probably not a lot of vids unless I desperately fall in love with something. Happy holidays all! In my grand Christmas Eve tradition it'll be nothing but champagne and Pringles tomorrow. (By the by, Mireille Guiliano - ex-CEO of Veuve Clicquot - in her book recommends pairing champagne with pizza. Who knew!) |
| Tuesday, January 13th, 2015 | |
| 6:16 pm | ballon d'or shenanigans. and shiny shiny suits.  And as a bonus, CR7's newly "erected" statue in Madeira. You can't make this shit up.  |
| Monday, August 10th, 2015 | |
| 6:42 pm | new vid - "Keep Your Picture Clear" - House of Cards  Keep Your Picture Clear Fandom: House of Cards (US) Song/Artist: Keep Your Picture Clear by Tom McRae Duration: 3:45 minutes Summary: Do not mistake any history you have shared for the slightest understanding of what our marriage is, or how insignificant you are in comparison. Spoilers: s1 - s3 Made for destina for the VVC 2015 auction.Password: black egg Here I go, back again, sliding off the ceiling Was I gone for long Did I just flick the switch? Across the street, away from me A man is singing Sympathy for the Devil and he's getting all the words wrong His newspaper flies desperately but words aren't wings like gravity they'll keep you here It's a theory to subscribe to but you know you're being lied to So keep your picture clear Stay awake, the lines are drawn You're never right until you're wrong in the eyes of the world And a picture tells a thousand lies Little dots in black and white, you have no idea The strongest will survive but it's the scum that always rises So keep your picture clear You talk just like a diplomat but hide the gun behind your back Leaders need a bloody war Congratulations, this is yours Looking through the history books of liars, cheats, and petty crooks They'll print your picture clear Keep your picture clear Destina very kindly bid on me for the VVC auction, and even kinder basically told me to vid whatever I wanted. It just so happened that high on both of our lists was some sort of Claire vid, and I had a song in mind already, and am extraordinarily lucky that Destina was so accommodating. We agreed from the outset that we didnt like where season 3 took Franks character and how that impacted their marriage, so thats mostly passed over, including the season ending. I still have faith that things can be mended, but that depends on what Frank does next. Well see. So that created a problem of, if the vid deliberately ignores what happened at the end of s3, does that seem disrespectful or dismissive of Claires hard-won agency? Claire giving up what she wanted for what Frank wanted wasnt a new thing, it happened in seasons 1 and 2, but season 3 pushed it to a new level. I didnt want to diminish her decisions in any way, but couldnt agree with the events that brought them about. That was a particular problem with this vid because it was so dominantly about their teamwork in seasons 1 and 2, so tonally it felt wrong to try to wrangle it into a complete 180 in the last 30 seconds. The other concern is how to communicate that her pain mostly came from feeling underutilised and underappreciated, with only a small part to do with Lady Macbeth guilt*. Theres no doubt that she felt bad for the things they had to do, but I maintain that she felt bad mostly for herself. She knew she had to break some eggs on the way and she had more or less made her peace with that; it was the lack of personal reward that made it not worth it. Again, if there was more room to manoeuvre that might have been better executed with a light hair / dark hair distinction, but the vid structure being what it is and things only really getting going by about 2:45, it just didnt seem like the right sandbox. So just the usual problems of talky show with lots of intricacies + unable to make a vid that is anything other than a blunt instrument. That said, I think that a quintessential Claire-ness did come through. Might be better viewed as a primer rather than an in-depth character study. * Off topic - zomg Fassbinder/Cotillard Macbeth. I die in anticipation. |
| Saturday, November 28th, 2015 | |
| 10:58 pm | plays, stuff This year I signed up to nanowrimo for a piece of original fiction. (I've done it before but it was with fanfic.) Finished my 50k today, it's utter shite, as one can well imagine of something that has effectively no plot and a lot of run-on internal monologue (mostly therapeutic rants about my mother), but hey, it's something. Mostly it focussed my mind on what I actually want to write for original fiction, and I think I actually want to start writing YA fiction with two gay boys in a castle in some made-up Historical Tiems. So basically Merlin. Two upcoming plays I'm excited about: Andrew Scott! David Dawson! (Brothers not lovers, alas. Unless this play goes somewhere unexpectedly awesome.)  Dirty hot Richard Madden and Lady Rose Lily James in Romeo and Juliet. (With Derek Jacobi as a 70-old Mercutio because that is unaccountably  |
| Saturday, July 2nd, 2016 | |
| 10:28 pm | germany vs italy Wasn't gonna post about the Euros, but now I shall have to post. Germany 1 - 1 Italy, Germany wins on penalties 6-5. (Actual number of penalties taken - I've lost count. 9? 10?) I was remarkably calm for this. Very fatalistic attitude, very zen. Of course, if we hadn't won the World Cup two years prior then I'd probably be dead of a heart attack by now. Stray thoughts: 1. People need to cut Boateng a break because he's been great throughout this tournament, and everyone makes mistakes, and he got his penalty in. Same goes for all of the other guys who didn't get their penalties in. In particular, Basti taking the 5th penalty was always going to be either heaven or hell. So it goes. 2. Neuer. So goalkeeper. Such saves. Many excellent. Wow. 3. Felt very sorry for Buffon, who's been such a great captain, so full of heart and wisdom. I've never been a fan of Italy's cynical style, but they seemed to rein it back a little this time. A revenge ten years in the making, so I'm glad it was a worthy opponent and a worthy match. (And thanks to them for knocking out Spain in the round of 16. :P ) 4. Big shame that Hummels will have to miss the next match. Which I hope will be against Iceland but that's probably too much to hope for. :D In other - much less stressful - news, I fed a couple of red pandas today. Soooooo cute!!    |