Passing on the torch?

[Kitsuner]

Back in 2002, we had an "Image Hosting" tab?!

[Radical_Yue]

I saw the title of the thread and immediately thought of the game "Burn The Rope."
I then went and played the game several times for it is glorious.


I have yet to read this thread.

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I saw the title of the thread and immediately thought of the game "Burn The Rope."
I then went and played the game several times for it is glorious.


I have yet to read this thread.

Maybe press refresh and start again~

[Knowname]

I coulda swore there was a time (in simpler days) when the top 10 was displayed on the front page. I thought that was an awesome idea. If so that was just before the way back machine. But I can't figure it was much before cuz this site is only what, 8 years old? I wish the top ten was prominently displayed still...

[SQ]

I know the discussion is over, but I got linked to this thread from an outside source and damnit, I want to post. D:<

I haven't really edited anything for maybe, god. a year or two? And haven't edited anything seriously since before I went to college, which was like. 2006. I think.
I had a brief stint editing commercials and documentaries for a tiny company in Florida and after that I was like "Wow, I really don't want to sit at a computer all day long."
It finally hit me... I mean, I've been a huge computer obsessive shit since I was 11, and I just didn't want that any more.


I always felt sort of out of place in the AMV crowd. I started in 2002 when I was like. 13. Or something. Screw me, I can't do basic math. I'm 21 now. I'd go to AWA and even though I never won anything or hardly submitted anything half the time, I still enjoyed making AMVs, and watching them. Downloading AMVs has always been a huge drag for me, so AWA was my release and I'd literally sit in the expo room for hours taking notes on what AMVs I really liked and who they were by so I could watch more of them.
And of course meeting the editors was amazing fun too, even though I didn't fit in over half the time (Or felt like I didn't. Whatever)

I never feel like I had a torch so I could never pass on anything, lol. But I know that the people on the internet I speak with now, when they watch AMVs... it's like... "What? You like that crap?"
And although I don't watch anime a lot, and I haven't watches any recent AMVs, I still always relate to the .org for community and funtimes and AMV help, even if i haven't personally posted here in.... forever.

Any time someone asks me if I've seen an AMV, I ask "Who's it by?"
And they'll say some name I don't recognize, and the next thing I'll ask is "Well, is it on the .org?"
And then inevitably I'll start watching it anyway and it'll suck, and I'll say something like "You should watch [amv title] by [editor]" or "You would like the AMVs that [particular editor] makes."
But the problem was that at the time in order to get people to even view the good amvs, they had to be on Youtube. I was at the forefront of this site getting streaming and I figured. Wow, as soon as the .org gets streaming videos I can finally show all my friends whata GOOD AMV is!

But here streaming videos are, and I haven't watches a single video from this site since 2007. Hell, when the announcement came out (I get the newsletter) I came to the site and I was like
HOLY SHIT THE FORUMS ARE DIFFERENT WTF.

I stopped coming to the site when my donation ran out. I only hung out in the OT forum. I'd probably still be there if I had just donated again. I have the money now, but it seems like a waste since supposedly I'll only be home for a few days.

I never lost my interest in AMVs. I got tired of sorting through crap to view decent ones.
When the latest laughable thing are Youtube Poops I sit in my chair wondering "wtf is this shit and how the hell can anyone view it as humor?" And lose my will to search anything that was edited by a name a don't recognize, which has been a huge downfall on my part, probably.

I still have ideas for music videos I want to edit. When I listen to a song or see a certain show or movie, I think to myself "Wow this would be a great idea". But once it comes down to actually edit the thing, even if it's JUST for myself, so I can watch it (I still watch my old AMVs!) I can never finish. It just feels like work, or I could be more productive doing something else. I am editing something now, simply because I'm forcing myself to and I wanted to finish an AMV before I went to basic training (I'm in the Navy, btw).
If I ever finish it (I hope I do), I think it will turn out great. It's a very emotional video. It's about lies and what can happen to you if lie too much.

It'll probably never win any awards or even be seen by other people, but I'm finishing it for me damnit, and that's good enough.

I missed AWA last year and I was told that a bunch of people didn't go.
I am hoping I'll get leave around the time it is this year, or at SOME POINT. I really want to go to AWA again. Even if it's only a one-day pass, seeing AMVs on the big screen has always been something I liked, and it'd be a great use of my time watching them again all in one sitting in rando-order and maybe discovering "new editors".
I just hope that I'll still recognize some faces at the con when I'm there.

[Elcalavero]

I am editing something now,....
It'll probably never win any awards or even be seen by other people, but I'm finishing it for me damnit, and that's good enough.

Well said....interesting read.

[Vlad G Pohnert]

Getting old and outgrowing anything is all in the mind... I don't know, I done pretty good over almost 1 1/2 decades of AMVs... As to older AMV creators barely getting into contest finals, I don't know about that, I can still kick most editors’ asses half my age...

Actually, considering I make video, run a lot of AMV room and many other things, I think I'm more active then most of those so called young people I guess they don't build them like they use to

Ya only got one life to live people, so don’t consider leaving something just because you think you’re too old.

Vlad

[Panky]

It'll probably never win any awards or even be seen by other people, but I'm finishing it for me damnit, and that's good enough.

That's what I think the most, and it must be one of the most important things that everybody should remember at the hour of editing. I think maybe all of us came here to learn, or to show off, in part, but let's not forget that the most important thing is to have fun and feeling satisfaction while doing it.

PD: damn, someone posted something similar before I did

[OmniStrata]

Screw the pass...

I'm gonna light the newbie torches so everyone will burn Burn BURN!!!

The classics can NEVER die.

Those of you who've never heard of Odorikuruu, the amv that started my all, may you all burn in shame!

[Koopiskeva]

Vlad's got the spirit!