Since I seem to have some time on my hands, thanks to the US government shutdown, I think I'll finally do the Highlander vid I've been thinking about for awhile. I've been cruising through music sources for the fandoms I think I'll offer for Festivids, but I'd like to get Amanda and Duncan out of the way before sign ups start.

One of the biggest reasons I love Worldcon is the Hugo Award ceremony. I love reading through the nominated works. I love the suspense of voting and checking my list of choices against the winners. And I love the ceremony itself where you see seasoned veteran writers and new, young writers all get recognition.

( Sadly, my last day of panels )

And then I went back to the hotel to get ready for the Hugos. I always feel like I should at least make an effort to get out of jeans for the ceremonies. For the most part, my top picks all came in at least second. At least this year there were no winners that I strongly disliked, which has happened in the past. In case you're curious, here are the Hugo winners and picture of this year's winning base design.

The second full day at LoneStarCon and took in seven panels and strongly resisted temptation at the art show. There were some prints I liked a a couple of paintings that were tempting, but since I'm saving up for London next year, I resisted.


( the eclectic panels of day 2 )

This was the one day I thought I'd make time for hitting some of the bid parties, but I was so tired after SF Squeecast that I just went out to dinner and had a quiet evening reading. I know, sounds lame, but sometimes vacation means kicking back and being lazy.

Unlike many of my fannish friends I'm not at Dragoncon, I'm at this year's Worldcon which is LoneStarCon3 in San Antonio. I've been to lots of amazing panels re: sf, fantasy, space, and some media stuff and I've been taking lots of notes, so I'll be posting con reports later.

For anyone who loves reading sf and fantasy, consider a Worldcon. It's realtively small (4,000-5,000) and a great place to meet the old pros and the new generation of must-read writers.

Fashion is Danger
Star Trek: The Original Series
I'm not a dance party kind of girl, so I surprised myself a little this year by creating a premieres vid for Club Vivid. I was a little hesitant about the idea but when I got the green light from Ian on it, I plunged ahead. I have to say, it was a lot of fun to do. The idea was sparked by an article on io9 (I think) about the costumes from the original series. I started rewatching the series soon after that and decided it was a fantastic idea for a vid.

Flight of the Conchords are always a great band to mine for cracky, funny vids and this song was fantastic for the job. Most fun I've had making a vid in ages.

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Because Final Cut Pro X has a totally different user interface I decided to subscribe to lynda.com and do an online course and I'm glad I did.  One very cool thing I discovered is that you can scrub through your media and tag specific portions.  Instead of making lots of clips, imagine just adding tags to the sections that you're going to use, maybe different tags for the same bit if you're going to use it in different parts of the vid.

I've already made clips for the next vid I've got in the works, but the one after that - I'm going to try tagging.  

Finally upgraded my iMac to  Mountain Lion.  Now I'll find out is Final Cut Express will work with this OS.  That's the main reason I waited to upgrade but now that I don't have any projects pending it seemed like a good time to do it.  Plenty of time to find new vidding software if FCE craps out.

I've got a complete rough (and I do mean rough) draft of a VVC premiers vid.  It's kind of a departure for me and I think I'm going to let it sit and ferment a bit before I go and tweak it a bit.  I know there's a lot of stray frames that need to be cleaned up after I added some cross dissolves.  In any case, I think I'm going to like it.  Hopefully someone at VVC will like it too.  I hadn't ever planned on vidding Memento, but on the new They Might Be Giants album there was a song that jumped out at me as being the perfect fit.


Now, where's that draft I had for a light-heared Duncan/Amanda HL vid?  I think I'll have to just go and watch some HL and work on that.

 I'm in the middle of rewatching ST:DS9 and loving it so much.  When it was first broadcast I was really doing  a lot of SCA and must have missed a lot of eps, there's so many I'm seeing for the first time.  I'm in love with Sisko all over again.  But what I really want to read is Bashir/Garak and Bashir O'Brien and KIra/Dukat.

Besides AO3, I'm going to have to find some fic archives that haven't become obsolete since the series ended. 

I love Festivids - it’s one of my favorite fannish things of the year because everyone is on equal footing before reveals. Each vid you watch could be a real gem and without the vidder's name attached you go into it with no pre-conceptions. I also love finding new movies and shows through vids. My Netflix queue fills up more than usual after Festivids

My assignment was Queen of Swords for My assignment was Queen of Swords for rhoboat. I love her vids and was a little apprehensive that she wouldn't like this, but she claims I made her giggle profusely, which makes me very happy. I wish I had some great story about why I chose Sapphire Bullets of Love by They Might Be Giants for the vid, but I just don’t remember the thought process that led up to it.

It was important to me to show the constant tension between Colonel Montoya and Doctor Helm. I knew I wanted to end with Montoya giving Helm his dagger and Helm accepting it. It seemed to be both phallic and submissive.


I decided to make a treat, if possible, this year and I had recently rewatched The Grapes of Wrath so decided on making a treat for the only person requesting a vid for that movie, isis. At first I planned on using one of Woody Guthrie's dust bowl ballads for this vid, but Who Will Comfort Me by Melody Gardot came up on a Pandora playlist and I knew I had to focus on Ma Joad, Jane Darwell's Oscar winning performance as the woman who holds her family together no matter what is so wonderful. I love this vid and it still makes me tear up at certain points.

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