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I love vidding season! *grins* I normally don't really know where to look to find vids (I tend to stumble across vidders and follow them or see if they've recced anything), but things like Festivids and Vividcon mean that suddenly lots of people are posting recs lists and stuff like that, and I can find a bundle of stuff all at once.
So, following the Vividcon splurge of vids, have some more random vid recs from around the place?
So, following the Vividcon splurge of vids, have some more random vid recs from around the place?
Fourteen Vid Recs:
Starships (Monochromatic Remix) by Jetpack_monkey (Multifandom)
This one is an almost shot-for-shot remix of the Starships vid by Bironic that I recced a while back, except using ONLY pre-1969 sci-fi sources (as in, pre-Moon Landing). It's basically the dreams of futures past, humanity dreaming of space well before it was actually a real possibility for us. For concept alone, for the history of science fiction, it's fascinating.
And, strangely, I recognised a surprising amount of the sources. Apparently, I'd seen more of the pre-60s science fiction than I thought :)
Slippery Slope by Jetpack_monkey (The Wicker Man - Original)
(Spoilers of the movie) If you want under three minutes worth of a perfect illustration of how goddamn creepy this movie was, this is the vid. The whole vid follows the films devolution into insanity fabulously.
Supremacy by Rhoboat (James Bond - Daniel Craig)
(Spoilers of Skyfall) Oh, I love this. This is ... this is the dying of empire and the staggering forwards into a new world, bloodied and battered and still fighting. This is !M!, most importantly, M and Bond and Silva and Mallory, compare and contrast and bloody, brutal battle. Death and resurrgence and sacrifice and moral costs. Truly fantastic study of the Bond universe struggling to enter a new era.
Also? Judi Dench's M. Just ... just.
Take On Me by Greensilver (Doctor Who)
Um. It's the Doctor set to A-Ha? I actually clicked on it mostly for the song. But it works, it works so well, as a study of regeneration and companions and the way the Doctor keeps asking people to be part of his life. It's change and death and companionship and moving on, and it's very bittersweet but it's also kind of joyful. There were so many wonderful people he loved. (It focuses more strongly on the NuWho companions, but there's a substantial section celebrating Classic, and a continuation up through the character, so it's all good).
Gold Digger by Absolute Destiny (Gone With The Wind)
I actually haven't seen GWTW. I just like this vid because it's sharp and vicious and pointed, and Scarlet is a savagely vivid character in it.
Walking on the Ground by Flummery (Multifandom/Meta)
(There's two vids linked from this post, I haven't watched the first one). To be honest, I would probably have watched this entire vid for the brief A-team joke in the middle, because that will never get old. But this vid is a thoroughly amusing study of change and not wanting to change and having to change anyway, through the lens of fandoms, and I love it. Heh.
Call Me Maybe by Talitha78 (Person of Interest)
Apparently it's POI vid season right now? I'm totally fine with this. This one, this is Finch/Reese, but I love it because it's not ... Okay. I love the fluffy vids with these two. I adore them. But this, it's not fluffy. It's not easy. This is Finch and Reese through the troubled, uneasy and often incredibly violent intersections of their lives, slowly coming to stand together. It's kind of mournful, but kind of strong. I really like it.
When I Ruled the World by Astolat (Person of Interest)
Again, Finch/Reese, and again bittersweet. This one is more ... who they each were ('when I ruled the world'), what they lost, who they are now (alone and together), what they're slowly gaining, and how they might lose it. Um. I think I like the more bittersweet end, with these two?
Some Nights by Flummery (Person of Interest)
So, to counteract that, strong, triumphant, team vid FTW! This one is Team Machine, Finch & Reese & Carter & Fusco, and it's actually all of them, and not just in their standard pairs but all mixed and matched and all of them standing together. It's all four of them going through some incredible pain and shit, but finding that the others are there for them to pick them up again. There's Fusco!angst! Carter!angst. Everybody rescuing everybody else! It's awesome.
(Warning, spoilers of S2 in the vid - mostly backstory spoilers)
Wild Child by Calapine (Multifandom)
This one is a random thing I found, I think. I can't remember where I came across it, anyway. It's set to Enya, which is weird for me, but works, and it's basically ... it's a celebration of all the roles female characters have played in stories, the range of experiences they have in movies and all the things they do because why not. Warriors, scientists, mothers, friends, kings, commanders, space pilots, heroes, villains, explorers, rebels, oppressors, survivors and victors. I just love the sense of possibility, of 'you can do anything, and you don't even need a reason to want to'. Baby, lets do it all.
If A Machine by Genusshrike (Multifandom)
This ... this is a very painful vid for me, a very complicated vid. It's an exploration of artificially created life and its relationship with organic life, drawing strongly on things like Ghost in the Shell, Terminator, BSG, etc. It's complicated because ... because there's wonder and discovery and then violence and war and an increasing ratcheting of tensions, and then at the end there's just a grace note of artificial beings still finding wonder, and it's a very aching look at possible wonder and possible strife and the knife-edge balance between them. I ... I have a thing for AI, and this vid is complicated for me, yes?
Welcome to the New Age by Starkk Productions (Avengers)
The Avengers (plus Loki) standing up at the dawn of a new and titanic age, awesome and terrible. Some of the best lyric-to-footage matches I've seen, really. Just strong. My only complaint is that Natasha seems slightly shafted (she's there and kicking ass, but there isn't a vocal focus on her as much). Could just be me wanting more Widow, though.
Born Too Late by Bironic (Star Trek DS9)
According to the vidder, for a 'historical roleplay' prompt. The DS9 crew and their fondness for holodecks and timetravel and generally living out the past. *grins* This vid is here for two reasons: one, if pushed DS9 is probably my favourite Trek, and two, the combination of nostalgia and futurism all at once. It's a wonderful mix of feelings, looking forward to look back, a nice dualism. A bit painful in places - it draws on the episode 'Far Beyond the Stars', where Sisko hallucinates that he's a 1950s African-American man trying to become a sci-fi writer during the civil rights movement, which ... does not end well. The past isn't always a rosy, shiny place. But overall there's the sense of simultaneous wonder and comfort from the fusion of past and future, and it's a fabulous vid.
And then, to finish up on another nostalgic high note, but this one rather more in the kickass vein:
Don't Call Me Baby by Greensilver and Sweetestdrain (Star Wars Original Trilogy)
Han/Luke/Leia, kicking ass and taking names across a galaxy, and always coming back together. Um. There's the incest angle, which would often squick me, but this time I'll make an exception -_-; The vid is the three of them as a unit, an OT3. It's the way they've all be shat on by the galaxy and the way they've all fucked that for a game of soldiers and made their mark despite it, and found joy and fun together in the process. *grins faintly* "Don't think that I'm not strong, I'm the one to take you on. Don't underestimate me boy, I'll make you sorry you were born." Um. Yeah, they rock. Absolutely.
Also? On a completely random and shallow note, I'd forgotten how damn pretty Luke Skywalker was. *blinks* It's been a while since I've watched these movies.
So. There we go. Fourteen vids I discovered due to the current fanvid season. Heh. That's all for now, folks. Enjoy!
Starships (Monochromatic Remix) by Jetpack_monkey (Multifandom)
This one is an almost shot-for-shot remix of the Starships vid by Bironic that I recced a while back, except using ONLY pre-1969 sci-fi sources (as in, pre-Moon Landing). It's basically the dreams of futures past, humanity dreaming of space well before it was actually a real possibility for us. For concept alone, for the history of science fiction, it's fascinating.
And, strangely, I recognised a surprising amount of the sources. Apparently, I'd seen more of the pre-60s science fiction than I thought :)
Slippery Slope by Jetpack_monkey (The Wicker Man - Original)
(Spoilers of the movie) If you want under three minutes worth of a perfect illustration of how goddamn creepy this movie was, this is the vid. The whole vid follows the films devolution into insanity fabulously.
Supremacy by Rhoboat (James Bond - Daniel Craig)
(Spoilers of Skyfall) Oh, I love this. This is ... this is the dying of empire and the staggering forwards into a new world, bloodied and battered and still fighting. This is !M!, most importantly, M and Bond and Silva and Mallory, compare and contrast and bloody, brutal battle. Death and resurrgence and sacrifice and moral costs. Truly fantastic study of the Bond universe struggling to enter a new era.
Also? Judi Dench's M. Just ... just.
Take On Me by Greensilver (Doctor Who)
Um. It's the Doctor set to A-Ha? I actually clicked on it mostly for the song. But it works, it works so well, as a study of regeneration and companions and the way the Doctor keeps asking people to be part of his life. It's change and death and companionship and moving on, and it's very bittersweet but it's also kind of joyful. There were so many wonderful people he loved. (It focuses more strongly on the NuWho companions, but there's a substantial section celebrating Classic, and a continuation up through the character, so it's all good).
Gold Digger by Absolute Destiny (Gone With The Wind)
I actually haven't seen GWTW. I just like this vid because it's sharp and vicious and pointed, and Scarlet is a savagely vivid character in it.
Walking on the Ground by Flummery (Multifandom/Meta)
(There's two vids linked from this post, I haven't watched the first one). To be honest, I would probably have watched this entire vid for the brief A-team joke in the middle, because that will never get old. But this vid is a thoroughly amusing study of change and not wanting to change and having to change anyway, through the lens of fandoms, and I love it. Heh.
Call Me Maybe by Talitha78 (Person of Interest)
Apparently it's POI vid season right now? I'm totally fine with this. This one, this is Finch/Reese, but I love it because it's not ... Okay. I love the fluffy vids with these two. I adore them. But this, it's not fluffy. It's not easy. This is Finch and Reese through the troubled, uneasy and often incredibly violent intersections of their lives, slowly coming to stand together. It's kind of mournful, but kind of strong. I really like it.
When I Ruled the World by Astolat (Person of Interest)
Again, Finch/Reese, and again bittersweet. This one is more ... who they each were ('when I ruled the world'), what they lost, who they are now (alone and together), what they're slowly gaining, and how they might lose it. Um. I think I like the more bittersweet end, with these two?
Some Nights by Flummery (Person of Interest)
So, to counteract that, strong, triumphant, team vid FTW! This one is Team Machine, Finch & Reese & Carter & Fusco, and it's actually all of them, and not just in their standard pairs but all mixed and matched and all of them standing together. It's all four of them going through some incredible pain and shit, but finding that the others are there for them to pick them up again. There's Fusco!angst! Carter!angst. Everybody rescuing everybody else! It's awesome.
(Warning, spoilers of S2 in the vid - mostly backstory spoilers)
Wild Child by Calapine (Multifandom)
This one is a random thing I found, I think. I can't remember where I came across it, anyway. It's set to Enya, which is weird for me, but works, and it's basically ... it's a celebration of all the roles female characters have played in stories, the range of experiences they have in movies and all the things they do because why not. Warriors, scientists, mothers, friends, kings, commanders, space pilots, heroes, villains, explorers, rebels, oppressors, survivors and victors. I just love the sense of possibility, of 'you can do anything, and you don't even need a reason to want to'. Baby, lets do it all.
If A Machine by Genusshrike (Multifandom)
This ... this is a very painful vid for me, a very complicated vid. It's an exploration of artificially created life and its relationship with organic life, drawing strongly on things like Ghost in the Shell, Terminator, BSG, etc. It's complicated because ... because there's wonder and discovery and then violence and war and an increasing ratcheting of tensions, and then at the end there's just a grace note of artificial beings still finding wonder, and it's a very aching look at possible wonder and possible strife and the knife-edge balance between them. I ... I have a thing for AI, and this vid is complicated for me, yes?
Welcome to the New Age by Starkk Productions (Avengers)
The Avengers (plus Loki) standing up at the dawn of a new and titanic age, awesome and terrible. Some of the best lyric-to-footage matches I've seen, really. Just strong. My only complaint is that Natasha seems slightly shafted (she's there and kicking ass, but there isn't a vocal focus on her as much). Could just be me wanting more Widow, though.
Born Too Late by Bironic (Star Trek DS9)
According to the vidder, for a 'historical roleplay' prompt. The DS9 crew and their fondness for holodecks and timetravel and generally living out the past. *grins* This vid is here for two reasons: one, if pushed DS9 is probably my favourite Trek, and two, the combination of nostalgia and futurism all at once. It's a wonderful mix of feelings, looking forward to look back, a nice dualism. A bit painful in places - it draws on the episode 'Far Beyond the Stars', where Sisko hallucinates that he's a 1950s African-American man trying to become a sci-fi writer during the civil rights movement, which ... does not end well. The past isn't always a rosy, shiny place. But overall there's the sense of simultaneous wonder and comfort from the fusion of past and future, and it's a fabulous vid.
And then, to finish up on another nostalgic high note, but this one rather more in the kickass vein:
Don't Call Me Baby by Greensilver and Sweetestdrain (Star Wars Original Trilogy)
Han/Luke/Leia, kicking ass and taking names across a galaxy, and always coming back together. Um. There's the incest angle, which would often squick me, but this time I'll make an exception -_-; The vid is the three of them as a unit, an OT3. It's the way they've all be shat on by the galaxy and the way they've all fucked that for a game of soldiers and made their mark despite it, and found joy and fun together in the process. *grins faintly* "Don't think that I'm not strong, I'm the one to take you on. Don't underestimate me boy, I'll make you sorry you were born." Um. Yeah, they rock. Absolutely.
Also? On a completely random and shallow note, I'd forgotten how damn pretty Luke Skywalker was. *blinks* It's been a while since I've watched these movies.
So. There we go. Fourteen vids I discovered due to the current fanvid season. Heh. That's all for now, folks. Enjoy!
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