Art-a-palooza!!
Apr. 9th, 2004 07:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynI guess there's a reason I don't have a new job yet -- I'm too busy doing fannish crap. ;-) Today I have a bounty of stuff.
First off is a new story, the insane-slayer-from-Damage one. I just know that the timing and placement will likely get Jossed severely, but I didn't feel like waiting till the end of Angel this season to write it. It's set around that time, but I decided that in my story 'verse, I would postpone any large-scale apocalypses that I can imagine Joss has in store for us till later in the summer. I'm just giving that way. Mercy Street is here . Many, many thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sweet_ali and juliaabra for their speedy and comprehensive edits.
I've also added two stories that previously only appeared here and on allaboutspike.com to the web site, so if you missed those last time, they're clustered right near the new fic.
Then, I finally bit the bullet and got a web space for hosting some of my vids. The site is password protected, so you'll need to drop me an e-mail (a link is on the page) for it, but once you have it, I don't plan to change it unless someone does something untoward. (One of the reasons I had a hard time deciding on doing this, besides the obvious financial thing, is the habit people have of stealing edits. The nice thing about not being online and being a nobody in vidding these days is that people were less likely to do this, and I confess it's something that really makes me nervous.)
Right now there are two vids up there (I thought Cannonball would be lonely without company), and I hope to add the third one currently linked later tonight -- unfortunately, I went to my dad's to take advantage of his high-speed access last night and after 45 min with tech support, and then another hour or so disabling every security setting and firewall and anti-virus program, I still couldn't get into the file manager admin section, so I ended up having to come home and upload these files on a crappy dialup connection that drops at random intervals and is slower than molasses. It's sooo frustrating. So that's why there are only the two vids right now.
The new vid is to Cannonball by Damien Rice, and it's a little look at what makes it so damn hard for Mal to show his feelings for Inara, as well as for his crew. I've also added an older vid that I did for Vividcon last year to Sheryl Crow's I Shall Believe, a Spike in season 7 tale that kinda make me go ehhhh now, but it was my first real digital vid so I'm proud of it for that. Making the transition from VCRs to digital was a little daunting to me. And as soon as I can add it, a really old vid that I recut with digital source when I first got the computer, Do What You Have to Do, will be up -- this one's about Buffy and Angel/Angelus (and I really mean the warning on the vid page -- don't be jumping on me for the song choice. I made it five freaking years ago, before there were a million vidders all doing Sarah McLachlan songs. So there.) I can't really check the vids because of that dumb dialup, so please do let me know if there are DL problems. Cannonball is a 17.5MB QuickTime file, and Believe is a 19.1MB QT file. I had this weird idea I could do .wmv versions, but for the life of me cannot find that option anymore, so QT is all she wrote.
And there are still three fairly recentish vids I've done either by myself or withfeochadn that morgandawn is generously hosting at her vid site, as well (Miracles, Keen Eddie, and La Femme Nikita). Vids all around! ::clink:: I would love to hear any feedback, good or bad. As I mentioned in my post last week, there's a strange kind of currency in fandom for the folks who spend the money to share their artistic creations. To me, it seems pretty inexpensive on the part of the consumer to drop a line saying what they thought, and that's really all we have to go on to know whether our efforts/expenses are worth it, really. I'm not begging for feedback personally here, nor trying to obligate people to pet me, but just using this as a reminder that I think almost any fannish producer (whether it's vids, stories, icons, screen caps, archives, what have you) values knowing what the fannish consumers think of their work. It helps people keep going.
And I know I'm overdue for a usage post -- I promise one this weekend. I was a little depressed last week, what can I say. Subject/verb agreement sound good?
First off is a new story, the insane-slayer-from-Damage one. I just know that the timing and placement will likely get Jossed severely, but I didn't feel like waiting till the end of Angel this season to write it. It's set around that time, but I decided that in my story 'verse, I would postpone any large-scale apocalypses that I can imagine Joss has in store for us till later in the summer. I'm just giving that way. Mercy Street is here . Many, many thanks to
sweet_ali and juliaabra for their speedy and comprehensive edits. I've also added two stories that previously only appeared here and on allaboutspike.com to the web site, so if you missed those last time, they're clustered right near the new fic.
Then, I finally bit the bullet and got a web space for hosting some of my vids. The site is password protected, so you'll need to drop me an e-mail (a link is on the page) for it, but once you have it, I don't plan to change it unless someone does something untoward. (One of the reasons I had a hard time deciding on doing this, besides the obvious financial thing, is the habit people have of stealing edits. The nice thing about not being online and being a nobody in vidding these days is that people were less likely to do this, and I confess it's something that really makes me nervous.)
Right now there are two vids up there (I thought Cannonball would be lonely without company), and I hope to add the third one currently linked later tonight -- unfortunately, I went to my dad's to take advantage of his high-speed access last night and after 45 min with tech support, and then another hour or so disabling every security setting and firewall and anti-virus program, I still couldn't get into the file manager admin section, so I ended up having to come home and upload these files on a crappy dialup connection that drops at random intervals and is slower than molasses. It's sooo frustrating. So that's why there are only the two vids right now.
The new vid is to Cannonball by Damien Rice, and it's a little look at what makes it so damn hard for Mal to show his feelings for Inara, as well as for his crew. I've also added an older vid that I did for Vividcon last year to Sheryl Crow's I Shall Believe, a Spike in season 7 tale that kinda make me go ehhhh now, but it was my first real digital vid so I'm proud of it for that. Making the transition from VCRs to digital was a little daunting to me. And as soon as I can add it, a really old vid that I recut with digital source when I first got the computer, Do What You Have to Do, will be up -- this one's about Buffy and Angel/Angelus (and I really mean the warning on the vid page -- don't be jumping on me for the song choice. I made it five freaking years ago, before there were a million vidders all doing Sarah McLachlan songs. So there.) I can't really check the vids because of that dumb dialup, so please do let me know if there are DL problems. Cannonball is a 17.5MB QuickTime file, and Believe is a 19.1MB QT file. I had this weird idea I could do .wmv versions, but for the life of me cannot find that option anymore, so QT is all she wrote.
And there are still three fairly recentish vids I've done either by myself or with
feochadn that morgandawn is generously hosting at her vid site, as well (Miracles, Keen Eddie, and La Femme Nikita). Vids all around! ::clink:: I would love to hear any feedback, good or bad. As I mentioned in my post last week, there's a strange kind of currency in fandom for the folks who spend the money to share their artistic creations. To me, it seems pretty inexpensive on the part of the consumer to drop a line saying what they thought, and that's really all we have to go on to know whether our efforts/expenses are worth it, really. I'm not begging for feedback personally here, nor trying to obligate people to pet me, but just using this as a reminder that I think almost any fannish producer (whether it's vids, stories, icons, screen caps, archives, what have you) values knowing what the fannish consumers think of their work. It helps people keep going.And I know I'm overdue for a usage post -- I promise one this weekend. I was a little depressed last week, what can I say. Subject/verb agreement sound good?
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Date: 2004-04-09 09:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-10 07:22 pm (UTC)Mercy Street
Date: 2004-04-09 11:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-09 12:08 pm (UTC)Still, he grabbed up a lotion with the word aromatherapy (soothing and calming apparently the best choice; rejuvenating and exciting seemed rather the wrong direction for a psychotic),
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Date: 2004-04-10 07:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-09 04:25 pm (UTC)As for your vids, I'd love to see them. If they are anything like your writing, they have to be lovely and stunning. Still got my email addy, right??
Small Mercies
Date: 2004-04-10 07:37 am (UTC)Towards the beginning of the story I noticed what I think is a typo. You wrote 'disremembering' instead of 'dismembering'. I've always thought 'disremember' was a very good word, though.
Brenda
Re: Small Mercies
Date: 2004-04-10 07:27 pm (UTC)I like the idea of Spike having a resume -- what a great concept. It would read very, very strangely, especially if it were chronological!
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Date: 2004-04-10 09:14 pm (UTC)it's a little look at what makes it so damn hard for Mal to show his feelings for Inara, as well as for his crew.
Hard to show them, but they're still there, which is one of the things I love about Mal. He's lost so much, but there's still a sense of hope and humanity that he never relinquishes, even if he's wary of expressing it.
And the story is wonderful. I love the way you wrote Dana (well, and all the characters) - her voice, Spike's responses to her, and the sense of fragile hope in her recovery. The whole thing is beautiful, and the ending was just perfect.
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Date: 2004-04-19 06:09 am (UTC)I enjoyed Mercy Street trememdously. Amazing how you got into Dana's mind, all the layers of insanity and vulnerability. I didn't think a relationship with Spike would work so well, or at all - but it did, without ever drifting into cliché.
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Date: 2004-04-20 10:24 am (UTC)Thank you for the comments about the story! I almost worry that I found it very easy to write Dana's disconnected thoughts and visions -- it was easy to feel that. And I'm not sure what that says about me! ;-)