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Various bits of mostly upbeat ramblitude.
2004-07-18 00:13:06
A tip: Don't swallow bleach. It gives you a stomachache. Blegh.
No, sorry, I'm not attempting suicide. I'm obsessed with bleaching my teeth because of the chance of getting my picture taken at Otakon. Yes, there are larger issues here, but I will feel better if even one little thing is improved.
Yeah, I know. :P
Anyway, dudes. I am chilled. Had a phase of cantankerousness because I was feeling frustrated over never having any good AMV ideas. But the last week or so has been okay. Got a little work in, and although the vid I'm mainly working on is nothing special, I'm enjoying it.
That, and my cosplay commissions are all done. That was stressing me out as well. I had two due for Otakon and some accessories for a third, which weren't due so soon, but which I wanted to get done anyway. Two of the three have gotten back to me and like them. So I'm happy about that. Urge to kill sinking. The third hasn't said anything, but the third is an asshat former friend of mine who likes to play mind games and may never get back to me. (I said before our friendship went screaming off the tracks that I'd make him a costume for Otakon as a Christmas present. Fast-forward 6 months; he's decided anime is for losers, developed schizophrenia and all but stopped talking to me. But I still make the costume. Because I said I would.)
Also have a lead on a commission from "Now and Then, Here and There," which is awesome. Few people cosplay that series. Dude still has to get back to me, though, I'm not sure if I'm going to get that one.
So all this adds up to Warning Level Green.
This morning on a whim, I watched about half of my old catalog... I like it. I get to the end and I wish there were more. I can see every little flaw, so I'm under no delusions over my own m4d Sk1lLz. Thing is, I make the sort of videos I like to watch, and most importantly, I use music I really like. I will put up with a lot of substandard editing if it's a song I love. And obviously I use shows I like too, so I'm especially easy to please on that front.
Thing is, I'm not a visual person. Touch is the sense I pay most attention to, followed by hearing. Which is why I'm easy to win over with a good song, and why I don't have that innate ability to compose interesting visuals that's key to doing fabulous AMVs. I just, like, cut stuff up to music.
(speaking of "cut stuff up to music"...this has a long lead-in)
My sister and her housemate are coming with me to Otakon, as they did last year, and we're trying to go about things a bit better this time. Last year my sister had seen, I believe, essentially no anime at all. I think she saw Mononoke, and maybe an episode of CB. And that's it. Her housemate was a little better prepped, having watched some stuff on CN - but that's about it. I've since tentatively exposed them to a bit more stuff (based on what I think they'd like) and, I've noticed, become REALLY chatty about the geek hobbies that I used to keep separate from my personal life. This could be baaaad bad bad. We'll have to see.
Anyway, AMVing comes up every so often. She's amazed that anyone takes this kind of thing seriously at all. Her attitude is basically "Yeah, they're fun to watch, but you're still cutting up somebody else's visuals to music. It's not *art.*" Ah...heheh. I swear I didn't tell her that. ;P
I hope to arm-twist both of them to go to the panel at Otakon, though. I don't hope to recruit, although that would be hysterical. More to, I don't know, share this geeky hobby of mine and shed a little light on what it is that we do. I like sharing things I like. I'm a natural plugger, I guess. Although of course I try to tailor my plugs to what a particular person would like, I love turning people on to new things. It's fun.
(Though going back to the beginning of that ramblyass paragraph, neither of them have seen any of my vids. They just know I do something or other. *looks shifty* They COULD; everybody more or less knows my online handles and could look me up.)
The Otakon schedule went up recently, and I'm starting to get psyched. Does anyone even say "psyched" anymore? I'm starting to look forward to it excitedly. (see, we need "psyched.") I'll get some pictures up next week if all goes well, but basically, anyone anytime SAY HELLO DAMMIT. I am extremely, painfully shy and can't approach people, so even if I recognize you I am not going to say anything. This is not because I'm a snotty bitch. It's actually because the thought of going up to people and saying hello makes my stomach flip over. I managed once last year and it went very, very wrong, so I'm twice as likely to keep my mouth shut this year.
Once someone approaches *me*, however, I'm quite nice. So stop me! Seriously. I'm ridiculously easy to spot (I look like a linebacker and tend to wear business-casual type clothes), but as I said I'll have some pictures up on LiveJournal next week.
All of you have a standing invitation for lunch, coffee or alcohol if you're overage. (and...assuming they take my ID. meh.) My associates and I will be at the Holiday Inn Inner Harbor if anyone else is out that way. We travel on Friday morning, so I miss most of the gatherings, which tend to be on Thursday. :/
And please, don't freak out because I'm not by myself. :P I heard that so many times last year. If you manage to get along with me, chances are you'll get along with the others, and if not, then they are big kids too and completely free to wander off on their own. They're family, or close to it, not surgically attached to me. I do want to hang out with other fans. Dudes, that's one reason to GO to conventions. No offense to them, but I can hang out with those guys every week.
I'm going to end up repeating this whole damn speech on LJ next week. Heheh. Maybe I'll just link to it.
ANYWAY! Have fun planning! Don't burn yourselves out on your AWA Pro videos! Drink water and get sleep! You're gonna need it. ;)
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2004-07-15 00:21:01
Ever start thinking the site may not be full of halfwits?
Go to the (spiffyfresh) search-by-artist feature and click on the "I" section.
Oh.
My.
God.
Your stupidity hurts, kids.
note: I'll remind you all that I am not dead, so shut the fuck up. I still edit, I still watch. I said I wouldn't post on the forums anymore, and thus I don't. Except, and this may be a mistake, the Vid Announcements thread, to let people know I watched their vids. That's all. -
This is what some call a flame-out.
2004-07-01 19:31:10
On second thought I'm going to get out of the public eye altogether where AMVing is concerned. I'd still love to talk to other editors, but I won't be posting in the forums, or making entries here unless it's just to say "hi, I have a new video, check it out."
At times it's been fun, but it seems a lot of what I say gets misinterpreted, and I get too easily upset. So it's just easier for all if I go away. Less stress for me, less annoyance for all of you. Besides, AD came right out and said he hated me, and I feel bad infesting his message board now that I know that. I don't want to be that pain in the ass who doesn't know when to leave when they're not welcome. (And no, I *won't* be making another name and coming back as a newbie. ;P)
So, I'd love to hear from anyone, anytime - I get mail notification of PMs, so that's one way of saying hello; please do. Or, my email is climbingaswefall at yahoo dot com, or my LJ (I post over there a lot and also have notify on, so I'll always get messages there too) is http://www.livejournal.com/users/sarahtheboring/.
I'll still edit as before and watch videos, and watch them at cons; I just don't want to deal with being in the public eye anymore. I've become a joke, a stupid parody of myself, and that makes me sad. I don't make this stuff up; I don't have a persona. This is what I really think. So when I see what kind of joke I am, how people roll their eyes at every mention of me, it really hurts.
Enough about that. I'm sad; there are a lot of people I don't talk to one on one whose posts I find interesting, and it's a shame to miss that. But it's a price of damage control.
Those who are happy at my leaving, no problem; I don't blame you. ;)
Have fun, guys. This is a fun hobby we all have. I hope people sling hate on each other less, particularly for silly things like what shows they watch, and edit more.
Later.
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2004-06-26 21:10:09
Okay, that's it. Time to take a little break and keep my head down and edit. Y'all know where to find me. I'll bother you all again before Otakon or when I run into the inevitable exporting problems with this video, whichever comes first.
If anyone knows of an AMV site that is not full of bigots, please let me know. Kthx. -
Trailer people?
2004-06-25 22:18:56
http://www.movie-list.com/classics.shtml
Trailer site. Useful or not, I thought this might be interesting to pass on.
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