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back on AMVing itself...
2004-02-20 22:47:03
(Is that one banner a broken image, or is it just me? It has, like, 140 votes, so maybe it's just me.)
I love that new-bunny feeling. ^_^ Definitely have a viable - if not brilliant or original - idea for Rose of Versailles. I think this will be one of those projects that you just make because you want to make it, whether or not it turns out great or not.
And considering that there are only two RoV-only vids on the org, hey, there's not much competition. ^_^;;
Anyway, some concepts just make you feel happy, and I like that. Sigh.
Won't be for a while, for various reasons (have to buy a CD, for one thing) - but I am now determined to do it eventually.
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2004-02-20 18:02:54
I didn't even know this existed, but it seemed like a good idea to say this.
Apparently my comments about my nomination in the VCAs were taken badly. I was nominated by a member who has, in the past, tried to get on my good side by posting ridiculously inflated scores for my vids, which had annoyed me. Thus I was really harsh on them for having nominated me. I really was too rude about it, and I'd like to apologize.
Shinji, I really don't know what you were trying to do with that op. I'd heard that you were trying to establish a name for yourself in the community, and although that's a fine enough goal if that's what you want, I don't think this is the way to do it. I'm hardly involved in the community at all, and I can't - do what, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with this. Put a good word in? I don't really know anyone here. I talk to a few people, here and there. But despite the fact that I post constantly, I really don't know the community. So if you want to establish yourself, it's not doing you any good to target me.
That, and I feel very strongly about giving fair and critical evaluations of people's work. Yes, I can enjoy them; I quite enjoy my own vids too. (You should see how much I watch DW&R. It's pathetic, really.) But there's a line between enjoying them and posting inflated scores to get in good with the editor. I really don't like that sort of thing, personally. I'd rather have an objective view of how the vid works and how it doesn't. Straight-10 scores, even on a *really* good vid (like Euphoria-good), go against my philosophy of trying to improve as a creator even as I enjoy the work as it is. And let's be perfectly honest, that vid of mine barely deserves straight 8s, let alone straight 10s. I have a great personal fondness for it, and sometimes I think it may be the best work I've done yet, but it is not a good AMV.
That's where I stand. However, I stated it in the worst way possible out of irritation about this. (I was also very embarrassed by the nomination, because I hate public attention and I knew I had no right being on the slate with the others, who outclass me by light-years. I felt like being on the list would make people think that I was going above my station, fancying myself as good as the others. Which is absolutely NOT the case at all. If I were given the choice I would never have gone on. But they don't ask the nominees.)
Anyway, ranting and raving about it was not the best way to go about it. That was really stupid of me. I know ultimately this doesn't mean anything, my apology, but I felt like I had to do it.
So, I'm sorry. I still wish Shinji would stop trying to curry favor, because it makes me uncomfortable and there's really nothing I can do by way of popularity in the community. But I shouldn't have lashed out about it.
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2004-02-19 18:55:18
That screaming you hear from southwestern PA is me. My ex-roommate/semi-significant other, who is a fixture on my three-ring circus of a LJ if you read that, is coming to town on Saturday for a week. He may be moving here, not with me, but I thought I'd be generous and let him stay with me while he looks up jobs/apartments in the area.
So just, y'know... ignore the screaming. Thanks.
He won't be here long enough to catch Tekkoshocon, which is kind of a shame, but hopefully we can watch some stuff while he's here. He likes anime more than anyone else I know IRL, so it's an opportunity to hang and watch stuff.
Only 5 more eps left in my drawn-out BTing of "Rose of Versailles." Very old animation-wise, but I've never watched a historical-type anime (that I can remember, anyway), so that's kind of a nice change of pace. Heck, if nothing else, I don't watch much old-school anime at all. It's good for my horizons. :P
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2004-02-16 22:42:59
F&F is now gone. The end. Kaput. If anyone in the future would like to complain about my song choice *yet again,* contact me on AIM.
With my two drama vids killed (I rewatched "Deluge" and realized that there is just *no* reason for me to even bother), and the humor vid pushed back to early summer, this takes just about all the pressure off AMVing for the foreseeable future. I'm free to work on my cosplay commissions and play video games and, you know, sleep. Occasionally.
This'll be my longest hiatus since I started AMVing - finally, I'll go more than three months without spitting something up. :P
If the mood strikes me to start up a project again, other than finishing this one, I'll watch that vid again and realize that there's nothing more I can add, so I should just shut up. And I have no really solid song calls for YnM, so that's out of the question. And I won't be buying any box sets till Otakon, I think. Regardless, jesus fuck, *the first time people ever look at an editing program* they make things like "Deluge" and "Chihuahua!" Just shut the fuck up, self, there's nothing you can add. You will never come close to that, so don't even bother. Edit for yourself if you must, but keep it to yourself. Because it's stupid and embarrassing putting it out for view.
There is nothing you can add. Remember that.
All right then.
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2004-02-15 18:46:09
(WTF? So nobody's allowed to be happy but you? That's rather selfish, isn't it? Figures...)
I'd wanted to get my next AMV done before V-Day just to counteract that kind of schmoopy, "my gf is teh mostest ownderfulest angle ever fallen frm heavn omg! n someday ill actually meet her!" - instead, you know, something with a sense of humor and a little spark to it. But I had an attack of the lazies through January, so it's not to be. Since I'm the only one who'll be watching, I'll make it a birthday gift to myself. That's actually pretty appropriate, considering. ^_~
Ooh, actually I like that. Heheh.
Work on #10 continues ever slowly, but hell, if I have till the end of May to screw with this one, I may as well take it slowly. Themed slackage! Yeah, that works.
[music: "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer." I swiped a bunch of stuff off my dad's HD for a change of pace, in the vein of the rambling about CD swaps from a couple of entries ago. He's a big fan of that kind of thing, Brecht and such.]
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