Escapade vid
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I think there are only about five Band of Brothers fans out there who'd care about this in the slightest, and only one who wasn't at the con, but this is the vid I premiered at Escapade this past weekend, anyway.
After Rain
Fandom: Band of Brothers
Artist: Oysterband
File: 28.6MB QT Divx avi (as always, I strongly recommend VLC media player, linked at my site, though this file is much more pixelly than usual and I can't seem to correct it)
Summary: Even in the worst storm, there is shelter in love and friendship.
All feedback is welcome, here or privately -- no, really. Good, bad, indifferent... it's the silence that kills. Not that this is a big fandom, though, I know.
I don't have much to say about the con. It was weird being in southern California again after all this time, knowing sis_r was not just a few hours' drive away. Even though we only got together during my Escapade vacation a few times, it was always something I knew we could do if we wanted to. The palm trees and sunshine and birds of paradise bring back a lot of feelings for me.
I loved seeing my friends who were able to make it (so many didn't!) and the vid show went surprisingly smooth this time, despite my forgetting to give people the rundown on how to behave (I find it so hard to believe that so many people have no ability to show common decency for the fellow audience members). Also surprising considering the personal traumas beforehand, and that there were only four of us doing setup that usually takes a lot more. I spent a lot of time on the beach that is so close to the hotel, taking pics with my digital camera (bad ones, though) and trying to get the hang of it.
black_bird_777 and I got stuck at Sea-Tac for six hours on Thursday with the most absurdly delayed series of flights I've ever experienced (taxiing back to the terminal TWICE on different planes) and that didn't start things out well for me, either -- we got up at 4 a.m. to catch a 3 p.m. flight, basically, and I had a hard time recovering from the fatigue; it isn't helped by the new pills I'm taking which make me so freaking sleepy I spend all day yawning uncontrollably. I'd planned to make up for the "spend the day in LA sightseeing" that blackbird and I always do before the con but which I missed last year due to my sister coming home from the hospital, but Alaska Airlines stole our entire day from us. I like going other places, but I sure as shit hate getting there, especially lately on these doomed flights.
I think both panels I helped out on went okay, the first ones I've co-modded since the Big Skinner Panel Debacle of 2000 (or whatever year it was). I didn't get to spend time with a lot of the people I'd earmarked to spend time with, but that seems to always be a problem.
thevetia gave us local LA expert directions on how to get to LAX from Ventura using surface roads and the PCH (we drove by Neptune's Net so fast I never got to really see it, my only Fast and the Furious landmark so far), and we made it to the airport this morning in not just record time, but totally stress-free on a Monday morning rush hour in the rain. Thevetia, you have been elevated to goddess status.
I haven't been updating much before the con, and I wanted to say thank you to the folks who gave me virtual roses... your thoughfulness really touches me, and I appreciated it, even if I didn't update soon enough to tell you. A while ago I tried trimming down my flist, which was next to impossible, and even though it's getting too hard for me to read, I finally gave up after I'd done a bit of whacking -- nothing personal, as they always say, just me trying to manage with the folks who still share some commonalities, etc. etc. I find it really hard to unfriend folks, even if we've drifted off a ways, unless they jettison me first!
Right now, I'm just happy to be home with Le Puss, and I have to get cracking on really trying to plan this class for spring quarter, even though I haven't got a clue what I'm doing.
After Rain
Fandom: Band of Brothers
Artist: Oysterband
File: 28.6MB QT Divx avi (as always, I strongly recommend VLC media player, linked at my site, though this file is much more pixelly than usual and I can't seem to correct it)
Summary: Even in the worst storm, there is shelter in love and friendship.
All feedback is welcome, here or privately -- no, really. Good, bad, indifferent... it's the silence that kills. Not that this is a big fandom, though, I know.
I don't have much to say about the con. It was weird being in southern California again after all this time, knowing sis_r was not just a few hours' drive away. Even though we only got together during my Escapade vacation a few times, it was always something I knew we could do if we wanted to. The palm trees and sunshine and birds of paradise bring back a lot of feelings for me.
I loved seeing my friends who were able to make it (so many didn't!) and the vid show went surprisingly smooth this time, despite my forgetting to give people the rundown on how to behave (I find it so hard to believe that so many people have no ability to show common decency for the fellow audience members). Also surprising considering the personal traumas beforehand, and that there were only four of us doing setup that usually takes a lot more. I spent a lot of time on the beach that is so close to the hotel, taking pics with my digital camera (bad ones, though) and trying to get the hang of it.
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I think both panels I helped out on went okay, the first ones I've co-modded since the Big Skinner Panel Debacle of 2000 (or whatever year it was). I didn't get to spend time with a lot of the people I'd earmarked to spend time with, but that seems to always be a problem.
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I haven't been updating much before the con, and I wanted to say thank you to the folks who gave me virtual roses... your thoughfulness really touches me, and I appreciated it, even if I didn't update soon enough to tell you. A while ago I tried trimming down my flist, which was next to impossible, and even though it's getting too hard for me to read, I finally gave up after I'd done a bit of whacking -- nothing personal, as they always say, just me trying to manage with the folks who still share some commonalities, etc. etc. I find it really hard to unfriend folks, even if we've drifted off a ways, unless they jettison me first!
Right now, I'm just happy to be home with Le Puss, and I have to get cracking on really trying to plan this class for spring quarter, even though I haven't got a clue what I'm doing.
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Date: 2006-02-28 03:42 am (UTC)rosnora [at] gmail [dot] com
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Date: 2006-02-28 03:51 am (UTC)I'm glad you're home too, and that you go to take the PCH. *G*
It's not only BoB fans who should watch this vid, you know.
Date: 2006-02-28 04:05 am (UTC)I can't wait to re-watch it with the rest of the vidshow DVD, and give you more detailed squee. It's such a gorgeous vid.
Re: It's not only BoB fans who should watch this vid, you know.
Date: 2006-02-28 10:23 pm (UTC)Re: It's not only BoB fans who should watch this vid, you know.
Date: 2006-02-28 10:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-28 04:41 am (UTC)Glad you're home safely. No virtual roses, except in my imagination, but lots of hugs and good wishes.
I'll email you about the vid show DVD after we get a chance to watch it. Maybe after I get home from the business trip to Denver next week.
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Date: 2006-02-28 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-01 03:32 am (UTC)Sorry we missed you.
I didn't end up making it to the beach until Monday morning, and that was just a very brief jog between raindrops.
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Date: 2006-02-28 05:34 am (UTC)I really love that picture freeze frame thing (but not quite freeze frame because they blend and move into eachother. Whatever that is, I really think it's very nifty looking) and it looks and feels like a WWII photograph and then you tie in that effect all together at the end with the real picture. I love that!
And now, you've really inspired me to watch to see all the emotions of those two (i.e. Office Space Man and The Other Guy *g*) played out in the series. You've captured it so wonderfully in the vid.
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Date: 2006-02-28 10:30 pm (UTC)I need to get my con dvds back from Jo so I can rewatch the HLotS vid you showed again. All I have is my first impression which was "HELL yeah" and it was one of my favorites of the show (which is also saying a lot, since there weren't a lot of huge faves for me this time), but I want to be able to articulate things and stuff.
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Date: 2006-03-01 04:17 am (UTC)I keep intending to watch BoB, but I want to make sure I have a chunk of time. (Which is different than thinking I might have chunks of time.) I anticipate a March 18ish marathon.
And that photo effect was darned effective. They totally evoked the old photograph image.
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Date: 2006-02-28 05:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-28 09:48 am (UTC)Oh people! Run, do not walk, to
It completely captures the relationship between Winters and Nixon. The song is gorgeous and appropriate and the editing is magnificent, with cleverly paced stills interspersed with the clips.
It shows a more uplifting side of the series; how the relationship that these two men had with one another (whether you're coming from the slash angle or from simple friendship) carried them through some of the really awful times.
It's simple and breathtaking and it's simply breathtaking.
You'll need to email her for the password but she's very quick in responding. And while you're there take a look at some of her other vids. They range far and wide and are all a cut above. She just keeps getting better and better.
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Date: 2006-02-28 10:34 pm (UTC)(I'm also really grateful for you including your message, as the one site people mentioned in a couple of password requests is one of those grotesquely overdesigned and poorly designed LJs that only work in one browser, which pisses me off to no end, and I couldn't see anything there.)
I am really glad to be able to give other fans of this series something of value, since it's so small and often a hard sell. Maybe, if we're lucky, a few others might join us someday!
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Date: 2006-03-01 04:17 am (UTC)Oh, I did like it that much! I think this is my favorite of your vids so far. But then I say that about all of your vids. You just keep getting better and better. And I thought the choice of song was perfect.
Also, I went back to the 2 BoB communities and added and edit letting people know exactly where to look for the link to ask for the password. Next time I'll be a little more exact to stave off confusion. *G*
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Date: 2006-02-28 10:36 pm (UTC)I manage all the password stuff out of my email account.
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Date: 2006-02-28 02:55 pm (UTC)And I was glad to have the chance to chat with you at least for a bit ...
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Date: 2006-02-28 11:32 pm (UTC)Oh my, so not the case. I feel like I've been waiting forever for a vid like this to be made, and here it is and it's so fabulous I'm almost at a loss for words.
I adored the way you did the stop-motion bits, which reminded me of the opening credits of the miniseries. The movement, all the "raining" down of shells and mortars, how Winters and Nixon found in each a haven in the middle of all the storm and chaos. Beautiful.
I'd offer to pimp this out at
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Date: 2006-02-28 11:53 pm (UTC)I thought your vid was lovely. As
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Date: 2006-03-03 10:13 pm (UTC)If that made any sense at all. Anyway, as lovely on rewatch as it was the first time.
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Date: 2006-03-01 12:39 am (UTC)"Fraternite" was cool also, another good song selection, and reminded me how much I loved that movie.
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Date: 2006-03-01 09:09 pm (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2006-03-03 03:29 am (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2006-03-03 03:07 pm (UTC)I absolutely adored this video; I found it wistful and unusually gentle for a movie about war. But you focused so strongly on the bond between these two soldiers, and you used some absolutely breathtakingly quiet moments, by the lake in the sun, sitting on the tank together, it was marvelous. I also loved the photograph effect very much; it added to the feeling of nostalgia. I don't know the source at all, and it still really moved me.
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Date: 2009-06-25 09:44 pm (UTC)what an absolutely lovely, melancholic vid. i LOVE the way you used a similar technique to the intro of BoB, the desaturated stills... just beautiful, ♥.
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Date: 2009-10-21 06:30 am (UTC)I saw your vid at a friend's house and only got one quick watch in, and the first couple seconds she was still messing with things, so I need to get my own copy and watch it, but it was LOVELY from what I saw and I can't wait to watch it again. I am SO glad you watched the show because OMG vids -- not just vids, but a GOOD vid, which in this fandom is kind of short supply, sadly. The music just fits so beautifully and I loved that everyone is in it and my heart went pitty pat.