Detachable Penis, political statement

This is really cool -- blogger and video artist Elisa at the Political Remix Blog wanted to talk about Detachable Penis, the Media Cannibals vid we made originally about... what, 11 years ago? Maybe more? If you haven't been to the blog, they look at video "remixes" that use what we consider basically the art of vidding to make political commentary. A while ago they began on occasion looking at specific fan vids that make statements, and discussing what those statements may be. She really listened to what I had to say about how people have made some rather definitive assertions about our motivations based on their particular interpretation (most of which are incorrect) of the vid, and she discusses that in her commentary.

While you're there, go look at the other vids they have up. One in particular I mentioned last night to some of the Cannibals, a commentary on the economy using footage from the Dark Knight with our ex-moron president talking about the state of the bailout. Very cool stuff.

Detachable Penis is here and the home page of the blog is here.

Escapade vid show review and panel

I'm sorry that it's taken me so long to get a report done of the Escapade vid show and the review panel the next day. To tell the truth, I didn't want to relive the horror, and I was busy, so it was easy to avoid. We had some really old style technical glitches with no sound on a bunch of vids, which we discovered only about an hour before the show was supposed to start; I'll leave out the rest of the gory details but suffice to say, we were really late, and the solution we used was glitchy in and of itself, but the audience was really nice about it. The DVDs all have the same sound problem, and so for those of you who weren't there and don't know, these won't really play (after the first three vids, the sound disappears on most of the vids) in a DVD player but they will often play on a computer IN a program like VLC. They are getting newly remastered discs though, and you can request a replacement from the con comm, probably soonish.

Me and mlyn ran the vidshow review panel the next morning. It was sparsely attended, and it was hard to get people to talk about things. But there were a few places people spoke up and offered some really interesting insights. A lot of the vids didn't get talked about due to my horrible sense of judging time; I totally misunderestimated how much time we had this year, a bit different from previous years, and getting set up took some time. These comments are pretty much my recollection and opinion of the vids; I'd love others to please add comments about what they thought. Especially since so many people who usually talk a lot at the review panel weren't there this year - here's your chance. par_avion has put together a complete list of the vids with the LJ names of the vidders and the locations of the vids online, if available, here.

( Escapade 2009 vidshow and review panel )

I can add links to this if anyone feels like supplying them to me.