- Thank you 2006-10-02 10:32:40 Thank you, mystery person, for the q.c. on "Boy, What a Blend"!
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Atobe on Utube
2006-09-16 12:14:52
I found a video of mine on youtube and I didn't post it there myself. haha! I'm actually a little happy to find that someone liked something I made enough to want to share it with others. The person didn't claim it as their own, just "something I found", which is a hell of a lot better than the "stealing" of credit that's been happening to more talented amv creators.
I posted a comment letting the person know the vid was mine and I was glad he/she enjoyed it. That was two days ago and the person hasn't responded in anyway at all. I don't know what kind of response I'm expecting, but something along the lines of "I'm glad you don't mind that I posted this. So it's okay if I keep it on youtube?" would've been polite, if not nice.
I forget there are many children within the internet/amv world that haven't yet learned to use "real life" common curtousy online. Some of them just don't know any better and hide behind silence. Some don't know how to handle the embarrassment and have temper tantrums, refusing to take responsibility for their actions.
Everyone can have fun, enjoying things like anime and music videos with a child's sense of enjoyment, but maturity doesn't have to be completely tossed aside.
Ha, but this is all hopeful wishing on my part. - Thank you angel in blue jeans! 2006-08-30 22:21:08 Thank you, oh mystery person, for the nice qc about "inconceivable"!
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Otakon: it's that time again
2006-08-01 14:08:09
I finished my "Rozen Maiden" Hina Ichigo costume yesterday. Hurrah! Will be kidnapping my friend from New York tomorrow, then we're heading off to Baltimore on Thursday. I hope our hotel is not too far from the convention. This heat is horrendous.
I've been visiting the org alot lately in a desperate last search for AMVs to collect. The weekend after Otakon I'm heading to a "home-made" con, which is basically a gathering of a bunch of anime friends. We share our goodies: anime, manga, games, and I like to bring along an hour's worth of AMVs to view. Kinda like having our own AMV screening added to the lot. ^_^ I finished the amv collection last night, but I can't stop the habit of coming by the org on a regular basis. ha!
I kinda want to stop by the AMV related panels at Otakon just to see who's there. I'm curious to know who the people are from the org, but it's awkward (and I'm too wussy) to come out and say, "Hey, there! I'm a mediocre editor at the org. I wanted to put faces to the names I've seen there, so excuse my curiousity. And you are?...." Heh heh. I think I'll just peer from the shadows. -
It's hard to be truthful
2006-07-21 21:12:45
I just left a few qcs for people on vids that I really didn't take a liking to. Oh they were excellently done! It's just that they didn't hold my interest and I said so in my qc. And left my name. I felt that if I was going to leave a remark that was less than glowing, it wouldn't be right to run off and hide. Though I don't look forward to a response that aims to hurt me as much as I may have hurt through my qc, it's only fair. Right? Hm, maybe not. But that's life.
It's not that those AMVs were horribly made. They had excellent quality clips, synched them to the music well, and made use of some eye-popping effects. I'm just unusual in my taste, I guess. I'm not interested in alot of "pretty and flashy".
Commenting on AMVs is hard. I tend to like an AMV according to many different factors which may change depending on so many unknown things. I could really like the song that was used, or the anime that was chosen, or the concept, or the feeling of the video. I might be in the mood for something funny, and a serious AMV would put me right out. Or vise versa. So I guess that's why I don't do opinions that often. Sometimes I don't see the attraction of a video until after the third or fourth viewing, or sometimes I don't see its problems until then. And fso I feel that my opinions are incomplete.
Ah well. At least I make some comment, which is better than nothing at all.
Heh, I guess this entry is mainly an attempt at quelling my bad feelings for possibly hurting the ego of some creators. I've worked in the theatre arts, dabbled in fanfiction, have friends who are artists and writers, singers and dancers. I know the ego is a fragile thing. Even for fledgling amv creators like myself.
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