Pipsqueaky Vid Meme: Reunion Special!
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smashsc: You were so right on the money with "Freedom Park" - I am in love. So in love. It is on repeat. It might be vidded. It makes me happy. Thank you.
Back to your regularly scheduled self-indulgent LJ Post already in progress.
So, as a partial result ofsdwolfpup'sGreat Vidding Truth Meme (and a lovely place to hang out and comment and see some new and familiar vidders so consider this a pimp), heres_luck has resurrected the pipsqueaky Vid Meme from two years back. Also because absolut3destiny asked. Granted he did it a year ago but we vidders let things percolate. It kinda makes us vidders.
I too completed the the Pipsqueaky Vid Meme two years ago and yeah, I'll revisit. Navel gazing is good for the soul. Or the navel. My navel needs attention and possibly a piercing. Should I dye my hair? SOMEONE PLEASE GIVE ME SOMETHING TO DO, GOD!
*gets a grip*
Right, vids.
Which aspect of vidding comes easiest to you?
Last time I said the idea. I said I've never sat at the computer and not had an idea. In the two years since - I have found that maintaining the idea is possibly the most difficult. I've found that as I have increased harddrive space technical skill, I've had more and more creative sputterings. I think I possibly have less HD space working with almost 400 gigs than I did with 180. I'd say I don't know how this happens but I do:
The easiest thing about vidding? Abandoning a project. There is so much incomplete detritus just littering my various drives right now. There is a John/Stark vid I just can't get a handle on. There is a Fraser vid I am *this* close to just deleting. Maybe I have deleted it. I don't know. I can't stand to watch it anymore. There is a Smallville vid thatrenenet insists I will finish but I think I'll have to have something really radical happen to motivate me to do that. Poor f1renze has waited nearly a year for me to fill in the 10 seconds of a collaboration so we can finish. There is a zydeco vid that I like in theory but I don't know if I feel it anymore in my heart. I feel very apathetic about the unfinished vid folder, actually. I had a Deadwood vid but then gwyn_r did what I was struggling to do and I just don't think I have anything else to say that hasn't been wonderfully said already. And the process of making my attempted vid was almost physically painful and caused numerous breakdowns on my beta and I just don't think it is worth it. Sometimes it is worth it. Sometimes it isn't. Deciding that it isn't is really easy.
Really incredibly easy. I guess it says a lot about me that my big discovery in the past two years is that vidding is just like everything else in my life.
Which aspect is the most difficult?
Finishing a vid. I don't even have to think about it. That is the end all and be all of all my vid issues right now. I don't tend to finish things or sustain my energy to work out the hard stuff. I don't know if this is related more to vidding or just I am stressed and therefore everything around me is cracking up. Both? I'm pretty sure this will pass although I've been waiting for it to pass for over a year now and it seems to just be getting worse. But you know? Darkest before dawn - maybe it is coming to a head? Maybe.
*looks to see what I said two years ago*
Tech. Oh, right. I didn't knowabsolut3destiny back then. Tech is still a bear, but a trainable bear. Like a BDSM Care Bear.
What aspect are you currently trying to master or improve on?
I have no idea. I am so unfocused right now - I could truthfully answer this question and forget what I said 20 minutes later, so take this with a grain of salt:
I cherish all of the responses to me in the Great Vidding Truth Meme and I wonder about the comment that said that my latest vids have an air of sameness to them and they wanted me to break out of my comfort zone. This is exactly one of the problems I have with finishing my vids - the John and Stark vid? Uncomfortably close to SOS Part 2 and I need to figure out how to keep what I love about it and make it completely different. Problem is? I am still attracted to the themes in SOS - they are part of what I love about the show. I am always gonna be the me that I am and I have to figure out a way to be me and not become one-note.
So, I don't want to repeat myself. I also don't want to repeat everyone else. The unfinished Fraser vid? I honestly can't say that I say anything about him that has not been said before and said well. This is gonna be an issue with me and SGA, I can tell already. I don't know that I will have something new to say - or something different that warrants the pain of actually birthing a vid.
Because that is it - finishing a vid hurts. It isn't exactly a terrible pain but it does take a lot out of you, in the best way - you get drained creatively and you are challenged and you threaten your betas and cry and stay up way to late and in the end you get this little packet of data that you made and it says something and represents something and you worked soooo hard on it and now it is finished and it is a Great and Terrible feeling.
I do worry about repeating myself. I do - but then I look at my last completed vids: Bucket, Icebound Stream, Ring Them Bells, and Weeping Willow and an as yet to be unnamed recently completed vid. I can see that "Weeping Willow" is practically WYIN for I-man, but I like that and I wanted to expand upon that platform so I'm okay with that. "Ring them Bells" was the easiest and the hardest vid I've ever made. It was certainly the easiest vid I've ever had beta'd. It just kinda happened. I think I do rely on some of the same gimmicks I've developed over the years with that vid, and I think it is possibly the pared down cousin of "Paradise" but I see progress there. I feel like, something, is developing.
"Icebound Stream" is something else entirely and I do feel I am, again, relying on the same effectish gimmicks but I like to make things glow. I like to highlight objects in a frame and go in and out of focus. I like it when I see these things in other visual mediums and the fact that I can use it as a tool excites me. Tremendously. You have NO IDEA. But beyond the fact that things glow in Icebound (yet again), the narrative and the setup was so tremendously rich (god, the source was a complete GIFT) and I had so much to play with - well more about that in a bit.
I can truthfully say that in Bucket and the as yet to be posted and named vid, I did not make anything glow. Sometimes? Sometimes you have something very simple to say and you just want to cut the source and fit it to the music and say your piece and walk away. It doesn't have to be Shakespeare and sometimes Shakespeare isn't even Shakespeare. Sometimes you want a gala and sometimes you want a hoe-down and sometimes just hanging out with a few friends is fine. And this is okay.
Of all the vids you've made, which one is your favorite and why?
Icebound Stream. Hands down, no contest. Do not pass go and do not collect $200. Everything I have ever learned as a vidder went into making that vid. I squeezed the source - I let go of a lot of higher mental processes and I am so pleased with the end result. I knew I wanted water and containers and contained wildness and things breaking and vast vistas and the terrifying aspects of freedom and connections and I wanted it all beyond good and evil - I just wanted it to be natural. I wanted to get into what happened to Fraser and how he experienced it and I wanted to claw around in that and examine it and represent it and I feel like I did everything I set out to do. I haven't felt this pleased with a vid since "Two Words" so there is that.
Also? The feedback is so much fun. What people are getting out of this vid is just good as what I originally put into it. That and FRASER IS A POLAR BEAR, OMGWTF!!!
Who's your favorite vidder?
My previous answers still hold true -sockkpuppett and heres_luck never disappoint me and always innovate and as such, drive me further. It is just the fact that I am a petty petty person and I am always wishing all the vids belonged to me that this works. Jealousy as motivation. It works.
But, there are other vidders I'd like to mention - many of whom I shamelessly copy and cop style from all the time:
astolat: So yeah I am still enamored with "Zebra" and I think more than any other vid I have seen in the last two years, it has influenced *how* I cut. Her vid with cesperanza at VVC, "A Day In the Life" was a deserved show-stopper. "Bohemian Like You" is adorable and fun and I am fuming with jealousy, or I would be if I could stop watching it long enough to wish it was mine. I covet her vids. This is a really good thing.
f1renze: I'm amazed by Flobee. I just, I have NO idea what she will connect with next and when she will just pop into chat toting a vid in progress along like it is no big deal and yet...and YET OMG! And she has no idea exactly how exciting her style is and that it is her style and it is developing and I really think "Deja Vu" is one of the best executed fanvids I have ever seen. Again - I FUME. I despair. I watch and I love.
sdwolfpup: Yeah, yeah yeah - "Woman King" and "Cold, Cold Water" were fucking brilliant and amazing and we all know this but what I don't hear enough about SDW is her AMAZING comic timing. Seriously? Have you seen "Footloose"? "I Am I Said?" SPIKE!!! NOT EVEN THE CHAIR!!!
*dies*
It isn't just that she is funny and she knows how to make things funny. She knows how to incorporate humor into a narrative to increase the poignancy. "Coin-Operated Boy" is a fantastic example of this and I just really like how real her vids feel. They are balanced. This gives me much happiness. Also, again I fume. I am a terrible person. I want it all. I am Spike.
Seah and Margie: so consistently good. So consistently forcing me to be interested in new shows. So consistently creative and innovative and HOW IN THE HELL DID THEY DO WALKING ON THE GROUND? I'm not even fuming with jealousy over that one because I am still freaked out that they were even able to make it. I know people who made that vid. I am freaked out.
smashsc: You were so right on the money with "Freedom Park" - I am in love. So in love. It is on repeat. It might be vidded. It makes me happy. Thank you.Back to your regularly scheduled self-indulgent LJ Post already in progress.
So, as a partial result of
sdwolfpup'sGreat Vidding Truth Meme (and a lovely place to hang out and comment and see some new and familiar vidders so consider this a pimp), heres_luck has resurrected the pipsqueaky Vid Meme from two years back. Also because absolut3destiny asked. Granted he did it a year ago but we vidders let things percolate. It kinda makes us vidders. I too completed the the Pipsqueaky Vid Meme two years ago and yeah, I'll revisit. Navel gazing is good for the soul. Or the navel. My navel needs attention and possibly a piercing. Should I dye my hair? SOMEONE PLEASE GIVE ME SOMETHING TO DO, GOD!
*gets a grip*
Right, vids.
Which aspect of vidding comes easiest to you?
Last time I said the idea. I said I've never sat at the computer and not had an idea. In the two years since - I have found that maintaining the idea is possibly the most difficult. I've found that as I have increased harddrive space technical skill, I've had more and more creative sputterings. I think I possibly have less HD space working with almost 400 gigs than I did with 180. I'd say I don't know how this happens but I do:
The easiest thing about vidding? Abandoning a project. There is so much incomplete detritus just littering my various drives right now. There is a John/Stark vid I just can't get a handle on. There is a Fraser vid I am *this* close to just deleting. Maybe I have deleted it. I don't know. I can't stand to watch it anymore. There is a Smallville vid that
renenet insists I will finish but I think I'll have to have something really radical happen to motivate me to do that. Poor f1renze has waited nearly a year for me to fill in the 10 seconds of a collaboration so we can finish. There is a zydeco vid that I like in theory but I don't know if I feel it anymore in my heart. I feel very apathetic about the unfinished vid folder, actually. I had a Deadwood vid but then gwyn_r did what I was struggling to do and I just don't think I have anything else to say that hasn't been wonderfully said already. And the process of making my attempted vid was almost physically painful and caused numerous breakdowns on my beta and I just don't think it is worth it. Sometimes it is worth it. Sometimes it isn't. Deciding that it isn't is really easy. Really incredibly easy. I guess it says a lot about me that my big discovery in the past two years is that vidding is just like everything else in my life.
Which aspect is the most difficult?
Finishing a vid. I don't even have to think about it. That is the end all and be all of all my vid issues right now. I don't tend to finish things or sustain my energy to work out the hard stuff. I don't know if this is related more to vidding or just I am stressed and therefore everything around me is cracking up. Both? I'm pretty sure this will pass although I've been waiting for it to pass for over a year now and it seems to just be getting worse. But you know? Darkest before dawn - maybe it is coming to a head? Maybe.
*looks to see what I said two years ago*
Tech. Oh, right. I didn't know
absolut3destiny back then. Tech is still a bear, but a trainable bear. Like a BDSM Care Bear. What aspect are you currently trying to master or improve on?
I have no idea. I am so unfocused right now - I could truthfully answer this question and forget what I said 20 minutes later, so take this with a grain of salt:
I cherish all of the responses to me in the Great Vidding Truth Meme and I wonder about the comment that said that my latest vids have an air of sameness to them and they wanted me to break out of my comfort zone. This is exactly one of the problems I have with finishing my vids - the John and Stark vid? Uncomfortably close to SOS Part 2 and I need to figure out how to keep what I love about it and make it completely different. Problem is? I am still attracted to the themes in SOS - they are part of what I love about the show. I am always gonna be the me that I am and I have to figure out a way to be me and not become one-note.
So, I don't want to repeat myself. I also don't want to repeat everyone else. The unfinished Fraser vid? I honestly can't say that I say anything about him that has not been said before and said well. This is gonna be an issue with me and SGA, I can tell already. I don't know that I will have something new to say - or something different that warrants the pain of actually birthing a vid.
Because that is it - finishing a vid hurts. It isn't exactly a terrible pain but it does take a lot out of you, in the best way - you get drained creatively and you are challenged and you threaten your betas and cry and stay up way to late and in the end you get this little packet of data that you made and it says something and represents something and you worked soooo hard on it and now it is finished and it is a Great and Terrible feeling.
I do worry about repeating myself. I do - but then I look at my last completed vids: Bucket, Icebound Stream, Ring Them Bells, and Weeping Willow and an as yet to be unnamed recently completed vid. I can see that "Weeping Willow" is practically WYIN for I-man, but I like that and I wanted to expand upon that platform so I'm okay with that. "Ring them Bells" was the easiest and the hardest vid I've ever made. It was certainly the easiest vid I've ever had beta'd. It just kinda happened. I think I do rely on some of the same gimmicks I've developed over the years with that vid, and I think it is possibly the pared down cousin of "Paradise" but I see progress there. I feel like, something, is developing.
"Icebound Stream" is something else entirely and I do feel I am, again, relying on the same effectish gimmicks but I like to make things glow. I like to highlight objects in a frame and go in and out of focus. I like it when I see these things in other visual mediums and the fact that I can use it as a tool excites me. Tremendously. You have NO IDEA. But beyond the fact that things glow in Icebound (yet again), the narrative and the setup was so tremendously rich (god, the source was a complete GIFT) and I had so much to play with - well more about that in a bit.
I can truthfully say that in Bucket and the as yet to be posted and named vid, I did not make anything glow. Sometimes? Sometimes you have something very simple to say and you just want to cut the source and fit it to the music and say your piece and walk away. It doesn't have to be Shakespeare and sometimes Shakespeare isn't even Shakespeare. Sometimes you want a gala and sometimes you want a hoe-down and sometimes just hanging out with a few friends is fine. And this is okay.
Of all the vids you've made, which one is your favorite and why?
Icebound Stream. Hands down, no contest. Do not pass go and do not collect $200. Everything I have ever learned as a vidder went into making that vid. I squeezed the source - I let go of a lot of higher mental processes and I am so pleased with the end result. I knew I wanted water and containers and contained wildness and things breaking and vast vistas and the terrifying aspects of freedom and connections and I wanted it all beyond good and evil - I just wanted it to be natural. I wanted to get into what happened to Fraser and how he experienced it and I wanted to claw around in that and examine it and represent it and I feel like I did everything I set out to do. I haven't felt this pleased with a vid since "Two Words" so there is that.
Also? The feedback is so much fun. What people are getting out of this vid is just good as what I originally put into it. That and FRASER IS A POLAR BEAR, OMGWTF!!!
Who's your favorite vidder?
My previous answers still hold true -
sockkpuppett and heres_luck never disappoint me and always innovate and as such, drive me further. It is just the fact that I am a petty petty person and I am always wishing all the vids belonged to me that this works. Jealousy as motivation. It works. But, there are other vidders I'd like to mention - many of whom I shamelessly copy and cop style from all the time:
astolat: So yeah I am still enamored with "Zebra" and I think more than any other vid I have seen in the last two years, it has influenced *how* I cut. Her vid with cesperanza at VVC, "A Day In the Life" was a deserved show-stopper. "Bohemian Like You" is adorable and fun and I am fuming with jealousy, or I would be if I could stop watching it long enough to wish it was mine. I covet her vids. This is a really good thing. f1renze: I'm amazed by Flobee. I just, I have NO idea what she will connect with next and when she will just pop into chat toting a vid in progress along like it is no big deal and yet...and YET OMG! And she has no idea exactly how exciting her style is and that it is her style and it is developing and I really think "Deja Vu" is one of the best executed fanvids I have ever seen. Again - I FUME. I despair. I watch and I love. sdwolfpup: Yeah, yeah yeah - "Woman King" and "Cold, Cold Water" were fucking brilliant and amazing and we all know this but what I don't hear enough about SDW is her AMAZING comic timing. Seriously? Have you seen "Footloose"? "I Am I Said?" SPIKE!!! NOT EVEN THE CHAIR!!! *dies*
It isn't just that she is funny and she knows how to make things funny. She knows how to incorporate humor into a narrative to increase the poignancy. "Coin-Operated Boy" is a fantastic example of this and I just really like how real her vids feel. They are balanced. This gives me much happiness. Also, again I fume. I am a terrible person. I want it all. I am Spike.
Seah and Margie: so consistently good. So consistently forcing me to be interested in new shows. So consistently creative and innovative and HOW IN THE HELL DID THEY DO WALKING ON THE GROUND? I'm not even fuming with jealousy over that one because I am still freaked out that they were even able to make it. I know people who made that vid. I am freaked out.
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Date: 2006-02-26 08:28 pm (UTC)I knew you'd love "Freeedom Park" the world needs more songs that shamelessly "shimmy shimmy koko pop."
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Date: 2006-02-26 09:00 pm (UTC)Down, down, baby, down by the rollercoaster...
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Date: 2006-02-27 12:02 am (UTC)I am always gonna be the me that I am and I have to figure out a way to be me and not become one-note.
Yeah and see, one of the things I love about your vids is your particular style, so you staying You is of high priority to Me. (I also don't think you've been doing the same thing over and over, either; you are all about variety.) (And, I would love to see that John and Stark vid finished if you ever did figure it out.) (Though I enjoy the rough draft I still have on my hard drive. Heh.)
"Icebound Stream" is the reason I am forcing AHH to go back to due South again. I really want to see this video.
They are balanced.
Thank you so much. Your comments made me very happy; that in particular, as it's something important to me.