Spinning on that dizzy edge

Title: What's Your Naked
Fandom: What's Your Number
Music: "I like you so much better when you're naked", by Ida Maria
Vid Download Links: 2:56, 49 MB here at Sendspace (updated link 5/30/2015)

Watch here or at the AO3 link!

Summary: "What's Your Number" and Chris Evans - I like this movie so much better when he's naked.

Notes: This is a treat for gwyn, for Festivids 2014. Her request was for a vid showcasing Ally and Colin falling in love, with as much naked Chris Evans as possible. I think this fits the bill. :)

A big thank you goes out to talitha78 for taking an initial look at this and giving it her enthusiastic approval, and to everyone who left fantastic comments on the original Dreamwidth and Livejournal Festivids posts!

( Vid here! )

( Lyrics )

So, I created a new Vimeo account to upload my Festivids entry, and it immediately got banhammered. Then when I tried to submit a fair use appeal, it gave me a smug error message. NYARGH.

Guess I'm going to see tonight if I get the same thing with an anon YT upload.

But hey! At least I'm done with the vid, any last-minute nervous tweaking aside.

TGIF(estivds)!

Oh, vidder, I can't begin to tell you how giddy you're making me just in anticipation. A vid for me? *BLISS* This hobby of ours is hard and frustrating and occasionally drives one up a wall, but I hope it pays off for you with an end result that makes you as happy as I know it will make me.

For music suggestions, I will steal from last year's description: I am wide open. Anything from opera to Broadway musical soundtracks to bluegrass to techno to industrial to whatever song your delightful brain hits upon, I will love. Feel free to ignore any suggestions I may make below if you find something that better tickles your fancy.

Vidding-wise, things that I love include character movement to the beat, literal (or liberal) interpretation of the lyrics, people with expressive faces, awesome women doing awesome things, characters who take and express joy in being around each other, and people who are phenomenally good at what they do, whatever that might be. Extreme competence FTW!

If you want further general inspiration, you can take a trip through my Festivids tag.

I can't wait to see your amazing work. :)

Here are some slightly longer descriptions of my requests:

( American Gothic )

( Anne of Green Gables series )

( Grease 2 )

( Heathers )

( Hudson Hawk )

( Misfits of Science )

( The Pirate Movie )

( Wolf Lake )

I've been dipping my toes into the pool of Festivids offerings, going by people's recs lists (a big thank you to those who have posted them!) and the vids they themselves made, as well as the other fandoms that catch my eye. At this rate, I may finish going through the whole collection by Vividcon.

I am still squeefully happy about the fantastic vid littleheaven made for me, Sunrise, a Footloose vid. (There was only one version of "Footloose", made in 1984. Anything else is a figment of someone's deranged imagination.) I love it to pieces! It hits so many of my favorite parts of the movie: the dancing, teenage rebellion, smart-ass confident girls with secrets and inner lives, Kevin Bacon's FACE...the first time I saw it, I clapped during and when it was done, no lie, and then watched it again and again. Thank you, littleheaven! I am thrilled with this gift.

I actually branched out this year and made two vids, a gift and a treat. I don't know that I'm entirely happy with my "Strange Days" vid, Strange Times, especially after seeing the other amazing entries in that fandom, but giftee bironic enjoyed it, so I will call it good. Thanks again, jetpack_monkey for the timely beta assist!

I couldn't have asked for a better reaction than fan_eunice's flails for the treat I made: a vid for "The Last Starfighter", The Moment of Truth. I had a lot of fun pulling that one together and going deep into the zone of blowing things up in time to the beat.

This has been a long week of bleh, so I'm looking forward to holing up at home in my PJs. Hurry up, Friday night, and get here already.

Title: Strange Times
Fandom: Strange Days
Music: "Strange Times", by The Black Keys
Vid Download Links: 58 MB here at Sendspace.

Watch here or at the AO3 post!

Summary: Strange times are here.

Notes: This is for bironic, for Festivids 2013. She called "Strange Days" a "great, underappreciated movie", and I have to agree. It's a bizarre trip through the weirdness of the human mind and soul, full of kinks, greed, love, hate, obsession, devotion...I guess you could call it an id parade. ( More notes... )


( Vid here! )

Lyrics:
( 'Strange Times' by the Black Keys )

Here in Central Illinois we are being battered by a blizzard. It's been snowing since last night and is due to continue for another 12 hours, with 25 mph winds and a steadily dropping temperature. It's estimated to hit -17 degrees with a -42 degree wind chill tomorrow morning.

I did the grocery shopping yesterday at my husband's urging and got to witness the marvel that is emergency paranoia; entire shelves of supplies were depleted, like bread and vegetables (aside from a sad stripe of radishes - I love you, radishes, even if no one else does!). For once, I actually got everything that was on my list.

The Emperor is ensconced on the couch, watching Minecraft videos on YouTube. He's been pestering us for a month now to buy him the full version, but I've been leery. I tried to explain to him that people online can be cruel and unforgiving to n00bs, that I worry about the language being used, and most importantly, that his computer won't handle the load. Anyone else have Minecraft experience that can give me tips?

I've been home with the Emperor for two weeks now; I took off days around Christmas and New Year's and finished it off by working from home. Alas that my free time got eaten by Christmas shopping and decorating and wrapping and cooking and cleaning, so I have not been keeping up with everyone's posts. I've bookmarked a couple of Yuletide recs lists to peruse, but I think I might have to give up on a full wayback dive. Sorry if I miss something amazing you shared!

My Festivids entry is kicking my ass. I procrastinated so long that it's now a ticking time bomb in the back of my head. I've got about a minute down, and hope to bang out the rest today just to have anything done as a first draft.

I hope everyone else that is being snowblasted can stay inside cozy and warm. May the power stay on and the hot beverages flow!

The weekend is soooo close now. We're having a potluck today at work, and I am about two bites away from uncomfortably full from the sheer deliciousness available. (And about two blinks from a nap, too.)

I could/should be working, but there's a code freeze right now as an urgent project gets approved to go live, so everything I do has to wait until next week anyway.

Instead, I am working on my Festivids offers and requests. I copied the whole list of available entries to a spreadsheet, then went through and deleted everything that didn't immediately pique my interest. Now I'm going back and removing those items that I merely own and/or have enjoyed, feel like I should want to do, or would like to see a vid for, in favor of the ones that really resonate with me, because 60 fandoms is kind of a ridiculous amount to offer. This is so HARD. I need to make another list of things I would consider making as treats, so I don't feel so bad about cutting them from the list.

Vidders, what's your winnowing process and criteria?

Quite the opposite, really. Though I am dead tired, with sore boobs and EMOTIONS (ALL THE EMOTIONS). Luckily, the hungry/queasies are subsiding into mainly hungry.

So, yeah, um...( In short, have a picture from yesterday: )

The pregnancy test was positive right before Christmas, but with all the ups and downs we went through in the last round of IVF and the miscarriage, I was not about to let myself feel anything other than "cautiously optimistic". Three ultrasounds later, two of them with a very healthy heartbeat, and a glowing report from the nurse, I think I may be ready to upgrade to "happily pregnant". We still have to get through testing, though (I'm on the older side for a pregnancy, seeing as I'm turning 40 in a couple of months), so I'm not going on any shopping sprees or announcing it on FB yet.

Being OMG tired all the time hasn't helped with the emotional hormone wallop, so I apologize if lately I've been even more of a drama llama than usual at people. Festivids has been weirdly tough for me - I tried really hard with my entry, but I'm disappointed in myself with how it turned out and how few responses there have been. At least my recipient liked it, so I know I should count myself good with that.

I'm also in a weird dilemma, as the dates were just announced for Vividcon. It's going on the same weekend as the Chicago Stargate Creation con, for which I've already bought a ticket. (Amanda Tapping! Ben Browder! David Hewlett! Kate Hewlett! It's like they handpicked all my favorites just for me!) So I may attempt the impossible and pull a Peter Brady, trying to attend both. Considering I'll be 8 months pregnant at that point, who knows how that will go. I want to see all my Stargate friends (Hewlett Harem represent!), but I'm also now addicted to the Vividcon crowd, and I don't want to give up either of you. Especially since this will most likely be my last opportunity to attend cons for a year or two.

First world fangirl problems, I know. I could come down with a bad case of bed rest at that point, in which case I'll have a row D Stargate ticket for sale.

Thank you all for being so supportive on this wild ride of mine. Some people get a new car or take up exciting new hobbies when their midlife crises hit. Me, I'm gonna have a baby. :D

Title: Weapon of Choice
Fandom: Jake 2.0
Music: "Weapon of Choice", by Fatboy Slim
Spoilers: Through episode 1.14, "Get Foley"
Vid Download Links: 56 MB here at Sendspace. (Updated 6-12-2015)


After a lab accident, Jake Foley is now the NSA's Weapon of Choice.

Notes: This is for Valika/valika56, for Festivids 2011. The request was for an action vid focusing on Jake. I hope this fits the bill! I'm sorry that the source isn't the best quality - I wish it would come out on DVD already.

This is my first time participating in Festivids, and hopefully not the last.

My hat is off to the sensational sabaceanbabe for her wonderful feedback and squee (I should have known you'd be familiar with the source, you sci-fi goddess!), and the divine cee_m, who gave me some uber-helpful advice and thoughts. Thanks, ladies - you rock!

To preview it, use the password "nanites" below.
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I came, I saw, I...waited until nearly the last minute to get going on my Festivids entry. *sigh* I've been going nearly nonstop on this thing for the last two weeks, and I think I'm close to done.

I have a rough cut that I would desperately love for someone to take a look at. Subject knowledge not necessary - I'm mainly looking for a second pair of eyes to tell me if it's presentable.

Any betas, please?