Sakura of DOOM

First off, something completely unrelated! fan_eunice has made a fun and bouncy and happy Martha vid! I, um, haven't actually seen Dr. Who, but it is cute and bouncy and my feedback is mostly: "Martha! So pretty! Want her jacket!" Also, I love the ending of the vid.

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Download vid (goes to website)

Alas and alack, I didn't get a chance to go to Vividcon and have been jealously reading everyone else's posts and downloading scads and scads of vids.

Since I can't do con reports, I figure I will write up in detail the vids that really got to me somehow, even if they weren't shown at VVC.

This one apparently premiered there. For some background, I've seen the BSG miniseries and the first six episodes, and then bits and pieces of S1. So I have a vague idea of what happens.

Everyone seems to be talking about Coldplay as a musical choice; I have no idea what is and isn't popular, so I had no idea. I had also read a little commentary prior to watching the vid, so I knew it wasn't going to be what it seemed.

That said, having the vid be from Six's POV, having this rather gentle, loving song be about Six's love for humanity and her desire to fix them, all this totally bowled me over. Also, it didn't hurt that the editing is awesome.

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So, I've had that Big Red Boat vid everyone has been talking about playing over and over and over because I like the song so much. And Joan is cute. Plus, she gets her leg stuck in a washing machine ^_^.

Er. Does anyone on the FL watch Joan of Arcadia? Where could I get S1 episodes? And when does S2 start (and at what time, and on what station)?

Some legitimate company actually found my resume off Monster.com and called me for an interview. I feel extremely intimidated and nervous now... blech.

Buying today went fairly well -- no bugs found, at least! And I got some nice orders with pretty things, and ended up taking in a lot of books for the store. There was even one order for which we gave 40%-60% for nearly everything, which is very rare... usually it's around 20% (of what we'll sell it for). So that made me happy, because hopefully the person who brought the books in was pleased and will bring back more nice stuff, and hey, nice books in the store!

I totally blame this on coffee_and_ink and her vid recs for X, but I have now joined AMV.org and even paid money so I could download videos rightthissecond.

And now I'm completely lost because AMV.org is a LOT bigger than it used to be!! Lots! Jeez. Things change in three years after one leaves a fandom.

So I'm trying to dig up all the old vids that people showed me waaaay back when I was the anime club president. Luckily I found two familiar ones on Phade's Required Viewing (keep in mind this list was around several years ago, so it's not quite as required anymore). Engel and Episode I, both Evangelion vids, are pretty old by now, so I don't know how revolutionary the concepts are anymore. But Engel was awesome because it had really great lip-synching of the music with the anime characters.. I used to be so wowed by this that I didn't actually notice that the focus on talky-face really slows down the momentum of the vid. But it's a great Asuka-kicks-ass vid and reminds me of why I love the character. Unfortunately, it's also got some spoilery bits for End of EVA in the middle. Sigh.

Episode I can be used as a conversion vid, maybe? It's basically the trailer for Star Wars Episode I set with Evangelion footage. Again, not a new concept now, but really really awesome when Brad DeMoss first did it. No spoilers. Great sound effects.

And, of course, Kusoyaro's Bachelorette, which does have spoilers for the Utena movie. But then, the movie is so incoherent anyway, that I feel it largely doesn't matter. And gorgeous, gorgeous visuals.

I'm sad Get a Job doesn't seem to be online anymore =(.

I still love Justin Emerson's Cowboy Blues, a great character vid for Cowboy Bebop which amazingly is not subject to his tendency to edit the hell out of everything. Unfortuantely, again, it's kind of spoilery for Faye Valentine and Jet's arcs (more Jet's than Faye's), and this is driving me crazy because I want to make everyone watch Cowboy Bebop. His other vid for Bebop starts out with the Giant Honking Spoiler, so I'm not even going to link to it.

And I finally managed to find Doki Doki Productions' Right Now Someone is Reading This Title, which is a huge love letter to anime fandom. It's also probably tons more fun watching with a roomful of anime fans than by yourself at the computer (so I have discovered). And Disney has finally (finally!!) released Laputa, so that's off. I also noticed that really, the music has nothing to do with the clips, but no one really cares because the subtitles are so funny. Also, I think he managed to get his hands on a clip of a Takarazuka production of Utena and now I want to know how because I have to see that someday. (Takarazuka's an all-female revue, and they've put on Rose of Versaille and Utena)

And now AMV is so big that I don't even know where to start finding new vids. It's also strange noticing that all the anime vidders I have heard of are male, given the predominance of female vidders in the Buffy fandom. I think it's probably because most of the anime released in America prior to the past two or three years were all very aimed toward guys (mechas, girls in skimpy clothes, almost no shoujo to speak of). So I feel cheated because I never got to see enough shoujo anime.