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Last one, I promise
2004-02-12 21:19:08
Okay, what gets me amused enough to work on this vid is scrubbing through episodes looking for clips while listening to wildly mismatched music. In this case, syrupy shoujo-style scenes backed with Blur's "Song 2".
I should remember that for next time.
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2004-02-12 20:29:43
Whaaa-t? Not Found?! As if I needed ANOTHER reason to hate my craptastic host. Grr.
Somebody IMed me about, of all things, Fate and Frustration. X_x Why is it always the ones I don't like? Anyway, I hadn't looked at the vid's page since I put it up, and now I see a "not found" error. I thought errors turned up on your members page? Meh, anyway... that's annoying. Stupid server going out randomly. -_-
I've always meant to stop being lazy and move it somewhere else, but I've had trouble finding a host that doesn't suck. The last one I signed up for - on the recommendation of an acquaintance - took my sign-up fee and refused to acknowledge an account for me. Ratbastards.
Anyway. Video not found. Grr.
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2004-02-12 19:59:51
[Music: NoppZ - FFVI - Kefka Goes West - see below]
Feh. Right when the timing is just right to work on my AMV, and I'm in the wrong mood. Eh... well, I guess if I work on it I can get into the spirit.
I have to do *something*; my hard drive is full, againnnn, and I have to clear something off. I think I'm going to put off my serious vids for another time, burn off the project and title files and just work on finishing this upbeat one so I can wipe out the vobs.
(Actually... *goes to wipe out some of the vobs* okay, there's 6 G free, but still.)
And then there's the problem of the FFVI vid, for which I have absolutely zero inspiration. -_-; Anybody could do this in an afternoon, but I can't, for some reason. I wish I could give up, but they keep saying I should try. I did. I can't. I feel nothing. The movie is very sweet, but the only part that compels me is the end, really. I don't have much of a reaction to the part I'm supposed to be using.
And oh yeah, I suck and all. ;)
Have been trying to get a series by BT to eventually mess around with - yes, I know, downloaded files are teh devil!, but I could care less right now - but it's slow going. Suppose it's just as well, since I don't have the song I mean to use on CD yet anyway. (But my mom might. X_x)
Hm.
You know, borrowing other people's CDs is a thought that hadn't occurred to me. I've tapped out my collection for the time being as far as ideas go, I think, but I should borrow stuff from other people and see if some idea springs to mind. *lightbulb*
Speaking of BT, I have to recommend this if you've got a sturdy connection:
http://bt.ocremix.org/
3.41 G of OverClocked remixes (the stuff used in the NES Project), split in two parts. Just under a thousand songs. Very, very cool.
Um... that's it. One month till Tekkoshocon. Making lists and checking them twice. ;)
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AMV/con status
2004-02-10 23:26:15
- Am working on an AMV that will, horror of horrors, probably actually get FINISHED eventually. !!! It's upbeat, but not dance. It's actually a weird limbo-land between fun/dance/upbeat/humor, but not quite any of the above. It's also annoying as hell, and I like it that way. *eg*
- Two definite cosplay commissions for Otakon; details have been hammered out for a friend of mine, who wants to cosplay Andy Bogard from Fatal Fury / King of Fighters. He'd actually make a half-decent Andy if he bleached his hair, which he says he will do. (Dedication.) A little skinny, but I'll be making a newer version with sleeves that, I must say, looks pretty badass as well as minimizing stringy-fanboy syndrome.
I am happy he settled on this, because it's simple; he's also a "Gargoyles" fan, and his first idea was from that. Yes, we're talking, like, prosthetic everything and wings. X_x Not with my level of non-expertise, buddy.
- Tekko-con is coming up, but there's not much that has to be done for that; it's like half an hour up the road from my mom's (woo... hoo, road... trip slightly longer than a trip to the store ^_~) and I don't intend to prereg, since it's a "how bored are we today?" situation. Just have to decide what I'll buy, because if I don't have at least a list of possibilities set down beforehand, I'll probably waste money on stuff I don't REALLY want. Maybe some manga, as I have hardly any of that yet (um... one) and they're relatively inexpensive. I'd also like to find a copy of "Orrizonte" or any other arranged game soundtracks that I don't have yet, as that's become a fun little collection. I don't think I can drop enough for a whole box set, not at this con, right after three family birthdays and in the middle of crap-I-have-to-save-for-Otakon season.
Hm.
That, of course, does mean I'll go YET ANOTHER season without any source to use for AMVs, but I've gotten to the point where I really don't care anymore. I'll make AMVs when I buy anime, because I can't afford to buy anime when I want to make AMVs, like most editors. Working the other way around is good enough for me. I don't send in to cons, so I'm not on any timeframes or deadlines.
So!
T-con registration for everyone, no doubt, as I have more money than anyone, dinner maybe (Cranberry is suburban-shopping-center-sprawl hell, there's at least one E&P out there AND ANYONE WHO GOES TO THAT CON IS BEHOLDEN TO GO AT LEAST ONCE, SAYS I) ... a couple of soundtracks, and some manga if they have something I like.
Yes.
(Eat 'n Park is a regional restaurant chain very similar to Denny's. Their food is pretty standard low-end dinery stuff, but there is nothing like drinking coffee at an E&P for four hours, because *no one cares* and in fact, it is expected. And since its clientele is primarily old folks - this is *Pennsylvania*, after all - one can do that without the coffeehouse pressure to be Cool. You can just go, and do crossword puzzles, and get insanely wired. It's one of my favorite things.)
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Odd.
2004-02-08 07:37:08
(While waiting for my ride to work I turn the comp on to set up some bittorrents to run while I'm away. Dork? Absolutely.)
Done with voting. You know what's weird, though, it wasn't very fun. I mean, I was downloading what was supposed to be all the best vids of the last year - and I'm not questioning that part of it - but I didn't particularly enjoy it. It was like, okay, what's next on the list, let's get through *this* folder.
Which... doesn't seem right. Dunno what's wrong with me. It doesn't make sense that I should be particularly hard to impress, because I'm not that good of an editor. It's not like I'm sitting there going, "Oh, I could do that." Not at all. Matter of fact, I can see when a vid is well-edited; I completely appreciate that. I can see that these vids are *good*; I just... don't feel anything.
And I mean, of course, what it seems like the vid is trying to do. In a sentimental vid you get a different reaction from an upbeat vid or an action vid, etc. etc. But in too many cases I'm just ... not feeling anything at all. I'm still sitting there going "Well, nice edits." And IMO, if I notice the editing, something's wrong.
This isn't universal, of course; if I like the song, I'll get into it. But that seems unnecessary, right? These things captivate EVERYBODY, whether or not they like the songs. Just not me. :/ It's weird.
Maybe I'm just not in the AMV spirit. I've been working a little on mine, but not watching too much apart from the VCA block. Something tells me, though, that that isn't really it. I have a history of not feeling anything toward vids that people orgasm over. Again, I can appreciate the technical and artistic merit; they just don't move me. And... to me, that's important.
Maybe, I'm thinking, it's a matter of POV; I'm a different gender and age and ... generally everything from most AMVers, and what's emotionally wrenching to them may not mean much to me just because of context. Who knows.
I don't *mean* for it to be this way. Heck, if I could get as frothily excited over everything as everybody else does, I would. I'd love for it to be THAT fun THAT much of the time.
But so far, it's not.
hm.
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