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As part of my commitment to make 50 fannish posts this year I thought I'd start with two books about fannish subjects that I really enjoyed in 2022.

Phasers on Stun by Ryan Britt

I'm old enough to have watched TOS when it was originally broadcast. Through the years I've loved many of the series and some of the movies and continue to be an avid fan. Britt's book explores the making of Star Trek up to the present, finishing his book just before Picard 2 and Strange New Worlds aired in 2022. Based on research and interviews, his love of the franchise is evident throughout the book.

Vidding: A Historyby Francesca Coppa

My academic background is in Public History and Archival Management and this book hits both those buttons in a big way. The study and preservation of popular culture means a lot. In this book Coppa traces the history of vidding, delving into the people, the technology, the methods and interpretive instincts that have motivated vidders since those first slide shows were set to taped music at Star Trek conventions.

I would highly encourage anyone who loves watching and/or making vids to read download the free ebook version of this book. When she talks about a some groundbreaking element of a specific work, you can watch the actual vid in the online supplemental material.

I really had absolutely no plans for vidding Doctor Who. Then Sacha Dhawan's delightful face came on the screen. I'm blaming this on the Master - he compelled me to make it!

There was a point in working on my equinox_exchange vid that I didn't think my idea would work. Then I was afraid I would have enough time to review all the source I needed or have time to get it edited to my satisfaction.

Needless worrying, as usual. I've got a full first draft and three weeks to tweak it into shape.

Now that I've got my VVC vids done and submitted (2 for premieres this year!) I think I"ll get back to working on something I've been mulling over for a long time: a multifandom vid to Everything Stops for Tea by Professor Elemental. So I'm off the create a spreadsheet and keep my eyes open for tea drinking in action & sf movies and tv. First off, I need to clip Highlander and the last season of Blackadder. What I'd really like to find, either in cartoon, tv or movies, is a clip of Batman drinking tea, as there's a verse in the song just for that.

I've tweaked my Premieres vid enough and it's uploading as I type. I thought I had an idea for a new project, but as listened to the music a few more times and rewatched season 8 of Doctor Who, the inspiration pretty much evaporated, so I don't know what I want to do next. I have a couple of ideas that really aren't quite fanvids, I don't know what you might call them.

The first one came to be literally in a dream. I dreamed that I vidded Bob Dylan's Masters of War with print ads and promotional footage of military industry contractors, interlaced with photos and headlines of industry lobbyists and elected officials. I also worked in portions of President Eisenhower's Chance for Peace speech and Farewell Address that serve as cautions from the 1950s against letting the military contractors gain a foothold over driving the legislative agenda. I'm conflicted about this. On the one hand it sound very, very doable. On the other, it's far more political and work-related for my comfort for reasons that I don't want to discuss in fannish spaces.

The second idea, that I'm still interested in, revolves around the gentrification of eclectic urban spaces. This one comes directly from listening way too many times to What's Happened to Soho by The Correspondents. I'd like to use historical footage and photographs compared to modern for entertainment districts, not just in London, but elsewhere. I've been casually browsing the internet for sources and historical background, but this isn't something that would come together quickly.

In the meantime, I just finished Daredevil and OMG is this some good shit! I wish I was inspired to vid the show, but I think I may have to just settle for looking for things other people have done instead.

Reveals for Festivids happened while I was at Gallifrey One . I also a month behind getting a con report written, but that's a problem for another day.

My asignment for a Fargo vid for deelaundry. I absolutely loved this show and has some vague ideas for a vid when searching for a song I had a revelation. You normally wouldn't think of a beloved children's animated Christmas special and an amoral killer who loves to spread chaos, but seriously this song was written just for Lorne Malvo.


Creating a vid for Doctor Strangelove has been in the back of my mind for several years, but this year it was one of the fandoms nominated for Festivids and when I saw that colls requested this movie I decided to make this treat. Originally I was thinking about using something like Tom Lehrer, but then I stumbled across this, a song inspired by the movie.

I've had to bow out of Britishfest, but I should be posting con reports for the little PWFC con in Manchester, New Hampshire in June and for Loncon3 in August. I've actually offered to be on panels at Loncon3 relating to vidding and other fan remix activities and they followed up by asking me for best times and so forth, so it looks like that's a go. I also offered to put together an sf-themed vidshow, but haven't heard back on that.

Even though I've got two vids for Vividcon, I won't be making this year. Too many cons and not enough time or money. I've got a vid plotted out for Sleepy Hollow that I hope to get done before the new season starts, but we'll see.

The two non-convention, non-vidding fannish things I really want to do this summer are to plunge into tumblr and to add my vids to AO3. I know that's where I usually go these days to prowl for fanfic and, sometimes, vids, so it just makes sense. So far I only have a couple up,
Stuff is Way , the Memento vid I premiered last year at VVC, and I'm British , the Sleepy Hollow vid I did for Festivids this year.

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.

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.