NEW Vid!!! Smallville

[sisabet]

It is finished. Whew.

Okay, so one day I am over at seperis's site and I'm all trying to make her QaF WIP "How It's Gonna Be" update by staring at it and I realize that she has written just a ton of Smallville stories and I like Smallville okay and I was bored, so I read one. And then I read another. This then became a habit...habit, addiction, it is all semantics really. A few days later I realize that the combination of both "Shattered" airing and Jenn's stories have sucked me into yet another fandom. Cool.

So here is my first Smallvile vid - and I have to say that if it were not for my betas sockkpuppett and renenet, this vid would not even be finished or make sense or well - without ya'll, I am nothing.


Vid: Without You I am Nothing
Song by: Placebo
WMV
Take the plan. Spin it sideways

ETA: 8-19-09, the wmv file is now available again as a download:

Here


Feedback, thoughts, criticisms and hidey-hos always welcome.

Comments

[nekofreak.livejournal.com]

WOW!! really, really awsome! ^_~

Such a fantastic vid!

[metal-dog5.livejournal.com]

Unbelievable. Totally blew me away. The way you weaved the images together... I just don't have the capacity to say how good I think your vid is.

Thanks ever so much for making it and sharing it.

[nerodi.livejournal.com]

you're probably sick of answering comments on this already, but just thought i'd drop a comment to say how much i enjoyed your video.

[serasempre.livejournal.com]

I've seen a few of your vids over the last few months because of friends pimping them in their LJs. From the very first one, I was just amazed by the quality and envious of your talent. This one... this one is just amazing. The beauty of the vid transcends the show. I'm not amazed or envious; I'm just in awe. What a wonderful talent you have and what incredible work you must have put in to it to make it say so much. I'm so glad I got to see it.

[obsidian-rai.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous! Absolutely gorgeous! And sad and angsty and just perfect. You completely captured how it's gonna be. *hugs* You rock!

Rai

[selectclientele.livejournal.com]

I'm just copy-pasting from my lj entry cause I'm lazy, but-

Ah, I've just had my heart broken. I'm sure I'll cry when I see Asylum and Shattered, because this vid (http://www.livejournal.com/users/sisabet/107735.html) just broke my heart, but also made me fall in love with MR like never before, because he is just so brilliant at what he does, he is absolutely flawless as Lex; he *is* Lex. And made me fall in love with the characters all over again in a heartbreaking way; Lex because he's so doomed and vulnerable and makes me cry, and Clark because he has to live with guilt, and with being alone, and ohhh it's all so sad. I'm so terribly sad now, I'm just shellshocked.

More Worship

[(Anonymous)]

I need to watch it like a twenty more times before I can find the words to express just how much that rocked.

This was exactly my reaction. That was amazing. I have so much love for you and your betas. Welcome to the fandom!

[coweyes.livejournal.com]

*clapclapclap* Wow, quite amazing. Thank you for this.

-cowEYES

[vylit.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to let you know how much I love this vid. Love doesn't even come close to describing it. I've been recently sucked into the Smallville fandom, and this was just perfect. The song, the clips, and the pacing all come together just right.

Really gorgeous.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for letting me know that you liked it!! And SV will eventually get the best of us - I blame the fanfic and MR's face!

yeah - what they all said!

[oboros.livejournal.com]

I saw your vid rec'd in TWOP months ago and tonight I am on yet another re-watch kick. But this time I have an LJ account so I look you up from your sig in the vid and hey what do ya know! Here you are! And here is your Post for the announcement of The Most Amazing SV Vid out there!

So here I am - providing delayed feedback. This vid rocks.

Re: yeah - what they all said!

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Hee - wow - thanks so much.

I was rec'd at TWOP???

[goodnightsong.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. God. Wow. I can honestly say that this is the *best* vid I have ever seen.
You know, I have never seen a smallville episode in my life yet, but I've attempted to. And now that I've seen this vid, I am encouraged to buy all 3 seasons on dvd. GAH! I love you!
Unfortunately though, my speakers don't work, and I haven't heard that song by Placebo yet, so I had to play something else in my CD player, hehehe.

[netweight]

So I went and downloaded this yesterday - which was something that had been on my to-do list for a while. Smallville is a recent love of mine - I caught season 3 on TV last Spring and Shattered/Asylum were the deal-breakers for me too. I fell madly in love with the show then and during the Summer my brain has been literally *eaten*.

I waited till today to see if I can give you some coherent feedback. As yesterday I was just... all hollowed out. But I'm not sure if I can. You see - you vid the stuff I have in my head. I have all these notions and theories and analysis - and *massive* emotional investment - and your vids give it... audiovisual media. And you break me again and again.

I have already lost count of the number of times I've watched this. And this might be my favourite of your vids to date. A lot of that has to do with the giant involvement I have with this story right now. But... the way you fit the images to the lyrics, or the lyrics to the images, I'm just not sure anymore, it's... the way Clark and Lex are bound together from the start ("I'll take it by your side"), the opposite influences of Lionel and Clark struggling to save/doom Lex, the way it was perhaps inevitable that Lex would fall because of the way Lionel shaped him and his own ruthlessness and viciousness and potential for destruction ("I'm unclean, a libertine") but the fact that Clark *might* have saved him if he hadn't hesitated, if he hadn't doubted, if he hadn't just kept taking that step back ("you're slipping slowly from my reach") and the memory-wipe is the crucial turning point, the moment he loses Lex, the moment Lex loses himself ("I... fall."). The way you illustrate all of this and there are just too many perfect images there where it all comes together perfectly - the sequence of Lex holding the gun and Lionel holding his face and Lex reaching for Clark after and just *everything* after that till the hug at the end and by then their fates are sealed, because without Clark there is no moral compass for Lex. ("Without you I'm nothing.") There's only the creature that Lionel made of him and that *Clark* made of him because Clark ends up being the thing that gives Lex a focus for his ambition and by saving Lex at the start, Clark may have damned him. ("Take the plan, spin it sideways.")

I just... god, woman. You're a freaking genius.
Thank you for this. Thank you so *much*.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Wow - thank *you*

Also...

::does the little crazy dance::

You got it, you got it!!

I wanted -- at the end -- to demonstrably *show* the moment that Lex figures it all out (where it all falls into place for him - basically at "You never see the lonely me at all") and in that moment he *knows* all this other stuff as well about Clark (showing the various *saves* over the years) and then after "I fall" I wanted to violently show this being ripped away from him in the electroshock therapy. How he loses Clark and also the other - maniacal thing - that lives in him. All that rage just being unleashed and then harnessed.

And yeah - I made it almost 2 years ago but I still like this vid and I am thrilled to pieces you do as well.

[trepkos.livejournal.com]

Wow! That was fabulous!
Now I'm spoiled but it was worth it!

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[timbermeshivers.livejournal.com]

I have no words.

I was on my way to sleep but I saw where this was rec'ed and I had to see it.

It was just so *perfect.*

For the last few days I have been sitting through my SV DVD collection, and I have been missing them so much. God, I miss their friendship. I sometimes think they were so cruel to give it to us, knowing it could only be lost.

[dolphinchic.livejournal.com]

That was beautiful. I love there friendship. I'm gonna go watch it again.

[nailfile.livejournal.com]

I've been going though old vids i forgot to leave feedback on for vidvent.

As a major Clex fan, this was awesome vid. You managed to smush several of my favourite moments into a 4-minute vid, and include all these snapshots of Lex being worse off without Clark.



Also, i just found a Spike/Angel vid of yours, set to "Closer", that completely blew me away, but i can't find anywhere to tell you how much it rocked.
I'm completely wired in a way that only a 10pm slushie run can cause, and you've completely taken away any brain coherancy i had left and replaced it with vampire!Slash - in the best possible way.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I have not been able to check my email for months so to come back and find this was just wonderful. I'm glad you liked the vids.

[mirrorskippy.livejournal.com]

Hi there, I'm another one of those people who have seen maybe 2 episodes of smallville in the however many years its been on, and still saw this vid, because it was that highly recommended. Having watched it (a couple of times now *g*) I gotta say I totally get the enthusiasm. It's just great. Seriously, about every 5 seconds there was something in the vid that made me grin with glee or gasp or just rewind to see it again. I love the tone and the effects you use the first minute or so; the way it's like a dream descending into a more nightmarish type experience. Wonderfully creepy stuff.

I'm gonna stop with the rambling now, you did an amazing job on this, thanks so much for sharing XD

[grook.livejournal.com]

So I downloaded this and, you know, sort of sat there through the first few seconds and then got PUNCHED IN THE STOMACH (in a really good way). This totally sums up Lex for me, even if I am about 3 years late to the party.

[quickthorne.livejournal.com]

Hmm... any possible chance of a reupload? I've seen this recced EVERYWHERE and am so far past curious that I would have to make up a new word.

Please?

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

The link has now been fixed, thanks for your interest.

[k-e-p.livejournal.com]

hey, i'm new to the fandom, and i've seen this vid recced by a lot of people, and would love to see it. sadly, i can't seem to find it anywhere. any chance of obtaining it?

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

The link has now been fixed, thanks for your interest.

[drglam]

This is one of my favorite vids ever; I'm delighted to be able to download it!

[bunnymcfoo.livejournal.com]

You know, vylit first had me watch this, oh gosh, it was back in 2006. I had downloaded it onto my desktop and then lost track of it. Fastforward to nowish when I was reccing vids to a friend who had no idea what they were, and this one came back to mind.

I realize it's been forever in fannish terms since you made this, but I just wanted to let you know that it's still every bit as powerful and striking as it was when I first saw it. You did such an amazing job of capturing the incredibly intense emotions that Clark and Lex inspired. It's funny, but I almost think that the passing of time has given this vid a little extra emotional oomph for me, given that it's so clear that Lex could have been saved. At one point, Clark could have saved him.

So yeah. Brava. :)

[fruitbat00.livejournal.com]

I came late to this fandom and Clark and Lex. As a result I missed out on a lot of stuff. Stories, art, discussions and videos. A lot of sites and journals are long gone. So I want to thank you so much for reposting this it makes a new fan VERY happy. The video is awesome.

[tehomet.livejournal.com]

I'm here via destina's rec. I just watched the vid and I'm really gobsmacked. It's like Lex and Clark's entire relationship crystallised. Beautiful editing. Thank you.