Spinning on that dizzy edge

When I said I fell hard for "Heartstopper", I mean I fell HARD. I think it was during my third watch-through that my enabling husband said, "Maybe you should start clipping as you watch?" because he knew before I did that I was going to be vidding this show. Bless him.

The reminder of More Joy Day popped up last week, so with so many "Heartstopper" feels swirling in my brain, I was helpless to resist. The fact that this got made at all is a miracle. My vidding laptop is positively ancient, so old and cranky that Vegas Pro takes 5-10 minutes to load, and every time I switched to a different application like Avidemux to clip the next several parts, or Firefox to look up something, VP would then have a hissy fit and lock up for another 5 minutes of blue-circle-not-responding before it would let me back in. I might have quit out of despair if the song had been any longer than two minutes. (That's a lie. I totally would have kept at it, but would have been even more full of ARGH about it.) I even had to uninstall and reinstall VP just to get it to let me render the last version.

So it's not the shining gem of a vid that I aimed to make, but I still loved pulling it together (aside from the technical issues) and hope that people find themselves smiling while watching. I love fandom, and I love More Joy Day, and I am maxed out on Heartstopper squee, so here you go.

This is dedicated to heresluck, for being a creator and sharer of joy.

Watch here or at AO3!

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TvTropes, I am very disappointed in you. Why don't you have a category named "Secret Agent Ma'am" for all the lady spies?

In other news, I'm pondering a multifandom vid inspired by Agent Carter and all the Black Widows (and all the other fantastic MCU women), about a Ladies Super Spy Academy, with the motto "You'll never see us coming".

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 )

I want a pony, and a Tardis, and a return of SGA but written by fangirls...

Wait, no, Festivids!

To my most esteemed Festividder:

I am already tickled pink and excited about anything you might bestow on me. This is my first time participating in Festivids, and I am still a bit nervous about offering up my services, as n00b as they are. So really, the fact that someone would create a vid for me? Awesomesauce on a frabjous cake.

To put it simply, I love vids in almost all shapes and sizes. I love ones that make me laugh, and ones that make cry. Ones that make me bop in my seat, and ones that suck me in, *chinhanding* until the end. Ones with shiny effects and ones with simple but effective clipping - both will leave me wondering "How did they do that?"

I must admit, sometimes I will twitch at aspect ration incongruities, but feh. Glass houses throwing black kettles at pots...or something.

As to my specific requests, let me repost my original choices, but now with more babbling! (Please don't be scared, or scarred, or run away screaming. I'm harmless!)

( The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension )

( American Gothic )

( Animaniacs Pinky & The Brain )

( Babylon 5 )

( Real Genius - 1985 )

( Chuck )

( Eureka )

( A Dog's Breakfast )


I hope I haven't scared you off entirely, my dear Festividder, because I look forward to seeing the end result. Good luck, and may it bring you joy in the work.

In preparation for making a vid for the upcoming Chicago Creation con, I re-ripped all of my SGA DVDs (stupid external HD literally crashed, from the table to the tile floor, thanks to the Emperor) at a leisurely pace. Then I looked at the due date and had a panic attack.

The result is, I've spent the last week immersed in vidding and finally came up for air today. I haven't kept up with anything or anyone, I'm low on sleep, and I feel a little out of touch with the world, but my first draft is done!

Anyone want to beta a goofy SGA vid? It's two minutes long, so it's not a huge commitment of time.

Thanks!

(Now, off to conquer my reading lists...)

Title: Particle Man
Fandom/Characters: Stargate: Atlantis, Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Ronon Dex
Music: "Particle Man", by They Might Be Giants
Spoilers: Through season 5
Vid Download Link: 25 MB, WMV format here at Sendspace

Being a superhero is all in a day's work for Rodney McKay, with a little help from John Sheppard and Ronon Dex.

Notes: If my first vid came rushing out like a river busting through a dam, this one was a trickle during a drought. It fought me about every step of the way. Problems included finding clips of Rodney not talking, John without a gun in his hand, and Ronon sharing a screen with the other two. Plus, I felt bad for cutting Teyla out. I hope to get her in her own vid someday.

ANYWAY. Thanks again to kazbaby for looking this over and giving me some stellar feedback, and to darsynia, miniglik, and my husband for putting up with me shoving this in their faces again and again. I'm proud of the end result. I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I do, and I'd love to know what you think of it.

To preview it, use the password "superheroez" below. Download link is available above.
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Hey you guys! Anybody want to cast a beta's eye over my SGA vid for "Particle Man"?

kazbaby, I'm looking at you in particular!

There is something sublimely ridiculous about clipping SGA's Duet for Ronon scenes. I feel like both a bad Hewlett fangirl AND that I'm guilty of rehashing the most-used Ronon sequences. (I'm trying to assuage my conscience by promising each of them their own vid at some point in the future. That future where I have copious amounts of free time. *headdesk*)

Buh - I can't believe it's Friday already. There's nothing like a short week to make time feel like it's passing on the speediest fast-forward setting. I'm eyeing next week with a certain wariness; I can already tell that I'm going to be feeling like I'm caught in a taffy pull, stretched between the drag of waiting for the Minneapolis convention and racing to get caught up with everything I want to do. The convention still seems woefully undersold (the Hewlett M&G is hovering at 8 people, yay!), and I wonder how Creation is going to handle it. Will they remove rows (and rows and rows) of empty chairs, or squish us all up in a happily small crowd? Whatever benefits us the least, I suppose.

It helps immensely with my con-related financial guilt that after repeated battles with the paperwork, my FSA balance from 2009 was FINALLY refunded in full. *phew* They did not make that easy, but I'd have had a battalion of outraged ancestors spinning in their graves if I hadn't fought for every last penny of my damned money.

Mmmm, Friday - my favorite day of the weekend, because all that free time's potential is still intact. I hope to come out the other side with my garden fully planted. I've already had the pleasure of strolling around the backyard and harvesting some results: a few strawberries and some chives. I think the raspberries will be ready sometime next week, if they haven't departed to take over the world by then. (You have to love a plant that thrives on neglect and waste - rejected and missed berries become new sprouts.) Any locals are more than welcome to take as many canes as they want. Please dig up some mint while you're add it; I don't like the way it's been plotting to take over the rest of the backyard.

Back to Ronon-clipping. Oh, the hardship. *grin*

...but the clipping that's the hardest part. I'm through the first verse of my vid and onto portraying Sheppard as Universe Man. The portion with McKay as Particle Man was soooo much easier in comparison. I still have two months until the deadline; hopefully I won't need it all.

Open tabs! Getcher open tabs here:

Star Wars cookie cutters. I need these like you can't imagine. Never mind that my cookie baking in recent years has been limited to Christmastime...with these I could conquer a galaxy! Or eat Yoda's face, your choice.

With thanks to seperis, and of hopeful importance to dsjones, Technique yields potential biological substitute for dental implants. Stem cells are so damned amazing.

Ancient Egyptian eye makeup might have helped prevent or treat eye disease and skin ailments. I wonder what Daniel Jackson would say about this. I can just picture the Egyptian scientists in the Stargate timeline scrambling to replicate Goa'uld tech once they buried the Stargate.

A review of "Torchwood: The Radio Adventures". These sound REALLY good. *ponders acquistion*

I was talking with miniglik a bit ago about how much I love "Glee", but that I would be leery of hanging out with Lea Michelle, since she gives off the impression of having more than a few of Rachel's more obnoxious personality traits. This interview with her and Jonathan Groff only further confirms my feelings. Um, yeah.

In other news, I continue to Hate Exercising. I've been hitting the treadmill most mornings for a 2-mile brisk walk for the past two weeks, and my weight seems to be bouncing up and down the same damned 2-3 pounds. I'm thinking (hoping!) that it's a case of my muscles gaining ground on the fat. The corners on my thighs seem to be re-emerging, and my husband has noticed a new firmness in my derriere. (He would know, since he checks it daily. *grin*) I have observed too that, though it's not really a burst in energy, I'm developing an aversion to being a couch slug. I've been gardening and weeding much more than last year, and I think I've kicked the Mafia Wars habit. Phew! But between the exercise and giving up chocolate at lunch, I had expected to lose more weight than this. *sigh*

In other other news, because I am a ridiculous fangirl for David Hewlett (and because my inner sulky brat is still pouting about missing the Vancouver opportunity), I am attending both the Minneapolis and Chicago Stargate Creation Cons, but I have doubts that the former is actually going to go forward. Ticket sales have been abysmal (why yes, I have been checking them on a daily basis), and the VIP passes and SGU people meet'n'greet didn't even have any bids. What would be awesome (like a renovated room) would be if they kept it going and simply went ahead with limited attendance - small crowd FTW!

*glares back at vid* John Sheppard, I'm going to make a Universe Man out of you no matter what. Onward!