Vividcon 2011

[samvara]

I did my best to download ALL THE VIDS for the monthly slash gathering. We watched a lot and I've been watching the rest over the last week. I can't possibly do justice to all of them but I can pick out some that struck me for various reasons. Organised by playlist vidshow: friday (2011) and vidshow: saturday (2011)

Nearly New Part 1
Whole New Way by mresundance. Sherlock Holmes (BBC, 2009 film, ACD canon). Holmes/Watson/Fandom. Epic romance since 1887.
Counterpoint (Concerto No 1 in D Major ("Allegro")) by Deejay. The King's Speech. Voices don't have to be vocal. I haven't seen this movie but now I want to, there was so much love in this.

Nearly New Part 2
The River Flows in You by jspencer1986. Fingersmith. This is visually beautiful, the music is haunting and it has pretty girls falling love.
Better by WiliQueen. Desperate Romantics. Beautiful. Another fandom I'm unfamiliar with and now desperately want to watch.
Losing My Religion by akemi42. Supernatural. Castiel struggles with defining his relationships, his faith, his reality. Hee, I probably shouldn't find this amusing but I do.
Friends by f1renze. How I Met Your Mother. Pop and lock together. Love the song choice.
Things That Go Bump in the Light (Montezuma) by Luminosity. Blueberry. Enigmatic and visually lovely.
What About Love by Greensilver. Youngblood.  Don't you want someone to care about you? OK we're gonna get this and we're gonna watch it, possibly back to back with Blades of Glory and it's gonna be FUN

Constructed Reality
I love this as a genre so if it's your thing, go check them out, my favourite is still probably Papa Don't Preach by Greensilver & Eunice. Doctor Who & Torchwood. Uses a story-specific song to build a non-canon plot.

History of Vidding: Vividcon
Black Cat by Seah and Margie. The Sentinel. Who says a black cat has to ruin your day? (2002 premiere) This was pure nostalgia.
To Touch the Face of God (Nasivern Pi) by Destina. Multi. This kind of makes me want to cry, I am invested :)

Triangles, 3-somes, and Trios
there still remains the cocaine bottle (We Insist) by skud. Sherlock Holmes (2009). Sherlock Holmes is never alone. (Holmes/Watson/Adler)
Let's Misbehave by Greensilver. White Collar.  It's not a crime. It's not even a poor life choice. (Peter hopes.) (Elizabeth/Peter/Neal)

Heavy Metal
Shock the Monkey by giandujakiss. Hawaii Five-0. On the surface, this is a vid about Five-0 using full immunity and means, but when you look a bit more closely, it's about the way the show fetishizes and glamorizes violence. Yeah, that :)

Setting: It's Where You Are
All of these are worth seeing and are gorgeously lush in the choice of landscapes or environment. Standouts for me were
Ghost of a Shark by SE. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Intercutting landscape and shadowed rooms with the quiet interplay between Jesse James and Robert Ford adds to the vid's overall sense of regret and longing.
Compass Points (Comfortable Mystery) by newkidfan. Stargate Atlantis. The construction of new, surreal settings works to alter the story told by what might be, in their original context, familiar clips.
Anomie (People Are Strange (Infected Mushroom Mix)) by Charmax. Sherlock (BBC). London serves as the framework for this perspective on societal dysfunction (and also serves as a character in its own right).

Comments

[sara]

...you guys have a lesbian separatist commune and a monthly slash gathering and competitive orienteering?

Daaaaaaamn.

[samvara]

*flexes and poses with a turnip*

*falls over*

Feminist Housing Collective! Males are welcome so long as they are not obvious candidates for Feminist Boot Camp 101.

It should be noted that the slash gathering and competitive orienteering aren't very compatible, there is limited overlap ;)

[sara]

Sad but true. The closest person I know who would be good at both is Cofax, and she lives like 500 miles away so I get to see her maybe once a year.

[samvara]

That is a true story of woe!

[sara]

But I may be down that way more soon, because my brother and SIL are getting transferred to northern CA (I am so happy about this, there are not words -- my niece, within long-weekend-trip striking distance! An excuse to go see friends down south! Woot!)

[samvara]

That is AWESOME!

Out of curiosity, what's your 'reasonable' driving distance? Most of the SouthWest of Western Australia is accessible within 3-4 hours and that's kind of my 'yeah I'll do that' for impulse road trip range.

[sara]

Hmm...it's about two hours to Portland, and we do that several times a year; about five hours to Seattle, and we used to do that regularly when C. was doing his graduate degree up there, but haven't since. I have gone down to Northern CA either two or three times in the six years we've lived here, once on the train and at least once in the car; to the SF Bay Area is about seven or eight hours. L.A. is at least a two-day trip in the car and so we usually fly that (there's a discount flight that goes direct from our airport). We've also gone out to Salt Lake twice, which is not quite two days in the car; when we do that we tend to spend several days on the trip.

D. and M. will be about seven hours away in the car, which is much less bad than the last few years, when they've been in the Midwest or the South. They've also usually been stationed places that are pretty remote from other people I'd like to visit with, whereas when they move to CA, they'll be near everyone I know in the Bay Area, both friends and relatives.

[lilysea]

Yay vids! :D

Thank you for the links, after your previous entry about All The Vids, I went looking for links @the VividCon website, but couldn't find them.

[samvara]

The DW was everything I could ask for :)

[fred_mouse]

I haz disc drive, I can haz vids?

[samvara]

Heck yes, I'm home most evenings after 5:30, I'll be out most of Saturday and no plans for Sunday as yet.

[deejay]

Somebody actually liked my "Counterpoint" vid, yaaay!

*insert mad flailing here*

Thanks so much! Really! \o/

[samvara]

I haven't got to the individual comments on artists posts stage yet - things kind of happened in bulk so my apologies but yes, I loved it.