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I love Festivids, as a chance to both make and receive vids for fandoms that need a little love. This year I’m determined to watch at least a little of each vid, it’s one way to get introduced to movies and shows that are fantastic and unfamiliar.

I received two vids this year and they are both wonderful if very different. Every year I request a vid for Good Eats and this is the first time that wish has been granted. The Creationist blends the show, Alton Brown’s live shows and his attitude towards food and cooking into a delightful stew of goodness.

One of my favorite movies of 2013 was Gravity, a movie that I was happy to vote for and see win a Hugo Award. It was a visually stunning view of space as a beautiful and hostile place for humans and showed how one astronaut used luck, science and determination to save herself. Nothing but Time beautifully captures all of this and brought me to tears as I watched.

14 Blades (Duel)
I haven’t seen the movie, but this vid shows how stunning an instrumental action vid can be.

Gone Tech (Almost Human)
Once you gone tech, you ain't never going back. I miss this show, so much!

Sugar Shack (Antique)
This vid is charming and ’sweet’ and now I’ve got another movie to track down.

Dance (Armour of God series)
With Jackie Chan, fight choreography IS dance choreography!

I Am What I Am (Batman - the Adam West series
The whole campy Bat Family

Dear Festividder, before I say anything else let me start with thia: Thank you! That someone else shares my obscure fannish loves is so wonderful.

Song choice I'll leave totally up to you. I've got fairly broad taste in music and love finding new artists and songs, so even if you use something I've never heard of, I'll be happy. Also, if you vid like I do, vidding inspiration is so tied up in song choice that I would hate to muddle you're creative process.

Here's my wish list.

3rd Rock from the Sun
I'd absolutely love a vid focusing on Sally or Tommy or anything, really, highlighting the sheer insanity of the show.

Good Eats
This is my “Please, Santa, bring me a pony” Festivids request. Every year I ask for a Good Eats vid. And every year I do not get one, just like Santa's lifelong failure to bring me my beautiful pony. At this point I’d love any vid at all with Alton Brown and his puppets and his props and his food.

Europa Report
I'm not sure what kind of vid I want for this movie, but I can tell what I liked about it. I am an absolute sucker for stories of space exploration, for examining what it takes to live together in the enclosed space of a ship, for the wonder and terror of the unknown.

Gravity
Ryan Stone’s sheer determination to keep struggling against the seemingly hopeless situation and her drive to survive made me love her and and the movie so much.

Endgame
A vid all about Arkady Balagan, his arrogance and flaws and quirky approach to helping those who come to him would make be very, very happy.

War of the Worlds: Goliath
Any vid at all for this movie would be wonderful, but I particularly like the dieselpunk atmosphere and the way the Eric Wells and his team pull together to kick Martian ass. And Teddy Roosevelt! A kick-ass Teddy Roosevelt vid would be sweet, too.

Queen of Swords
Colonel Luis Montoya makes my heart go pitty-pat. Add a side helping of Dr. Helm and I’d be even more delighted.

Reveals are up, and I now know that sabinetzin made the wonderful the Monty Python vid Banging Them Together

I made two vids this year: I’m British, a Sleepy Hollow vid for sabaceanbabe



and Madness, a Warm Bodies vid for Dayln

Just thought I’d leave a few recs here from Day 1 of Festivids viewing. There’s over 200 vids and I’ll at least take a peek at each of them. Today, these are the vids that moved me and made laugh or cry or love the source all over again.

Banging Them Together (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Feelling Good (Agents of Shield)
Run the World (Agents of Shield)
How Does it Feel (Almost Famous)
Who Are You, Defenders of the Universe (The Americans)
Ready for the Storm (Apollo 13)
This Could All be Yours (Big)
Learn to Fly (Brave)
Adam Raised a Cain (Caprica)
Keep Breathing (Chariots of Fire)
Living Backwards (The Ghost and Mrs. Muir)
221B And A Half (The Great Mouse Detective)
What Sharp Teeth You Have (Hanna)
Do My Thing (The Heat)
Flight Path (How to Train Your Dragon)

It's clearly going to take me a while to get through this list. Oh, how I suffer :-)

I've finished my Festivids assignment and it looks like I might actually finish a second that will either be a treat for someone or, possibly, a pinch hit if one comes up that includes this particular fandom.

The end of next June I'm going to be going to to Britishfest in Omaha. It looks like a lot of fun for fans of Brtish tv, movies and other media. I've volunteered to do a vidshow so I'm compiling a list of vids to consider. I'm also considering cosplay. If I can figure out how to get the feet done, I might just try for a lady hobbit.

I've got my Festivids assignment and I am so in the vidding groove right now. Source acquired and clipped, audio track laid in and edited and I've got a mental outline of how it will all go down. If things go this smoothly, maybe I'll have time to make a treat for someone, too. There's a couple of ideas percolating.

Festivids nominations are open and several fandoms I thought about adding are already there, so I only needed to add these:
Tampopo
Good Eats
Alice Guy Blache (the Gaumont collection of her 1897-1907 short films)
Seven Samurai
Ikiru
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
Warm Bodies
Highlander: The Raven
Endgame (the Canadian tv series)

I was also thinking about Sleepy Hollow and Orange is the New Black, but these are already there. Someone also nominated Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which I've thought about vidding. Reading through the long, long list of nominated fandoms I've got no idea what I'll be requesting versus what I'll be requesting. In years past I've abandoned fandoms I nominated in favor of other awesome stuff on the list.

Between watching the Inauguration and several other things I didn't watch nearly as many vids as I meant to today. Here's the best of what I did manage to squeeze in, a real mixed bag, both of sources and vids.

Who Will Comfort Me (Grapes of Wrath)
Living in a Box (Maru the Cat)
Another Code Against the Gone (Moon)
Rondo (Sense and Sensibility)
The Fucking Manual (The Thick of It)

I'm so happy!!! I got three vids made for me in festivids this year. The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr!!!!! Blackadder!!! Alphas!!! Off to watch all the lovely vids!!!

I've very happy to have a three day weekend. I'm gonna watch all the vids!!!

Got a complete draft finished of my Festivids vid and it truly doesn't suck! Gonna move on the the treat I want to work on and come back to my assignment in a couple of weeks with a fresh point of view.