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Wee! I managed to whip up some edits of my waaay-on-the-backburner fanvid for all of one verse yesterday. Sure, there's a scary-long (almost one minute) guitar bit coming up which I have no idea how to fill, but... Oh, who am I kidding, it scares the bejeebus outta me. On the other hand: progress!

Today I finally edited the introduction entry of [livejournal.com profile] amboseli and finally caved and made a separate Spanish-version [livejournal.com profile] amboseli_es. That one is still very much not-worked-on, but I've promised myself (again) to do this.

I've decided that [livejournal.com profile] sickle_stories ought to be better organized in terms of prompts and WIPs and scenelettes. As if I had time, right? Oy. I've done the Fanvids Prompt Masterlist, and flocked it. (Shock! Horror! But really, I don't think I want my plotbunnies running free.) I'm working on the Fanfic Prompt Masterlist, and there's a lot of summeries where I can only write "Fuckery ensues." Oy again.

And I've also printed out guitar chords, but haven't had time to practice. Oh, Betsy...

I've sworn up and down I'll wake up early tomorrow. It's now past midnight. This doesn't bode well.


* Marcus Aurelius
bending_sickle: (iSquee)
Fanvid Fandom: Supernatural
Song Title: Running Up That Hill
Artist: Placebo
Summary: Making deals, trading places: round and round the Winchesters go.

Category: Narrative, Character/Plot Study
Characters: John, Dean and Sam
Spoilers: Until 4x09 I Know What You Did Last Summer
Format / Size / Length: .wmv / 25.5 MB / 4:58


Editor's Note: This is the first fanvid I have ever made. :) Constructive criticism is appreciated, but please be gentle.


Download: Megaupload / Sendspace


Comments: I'm pretty happy with it, even if there's three beats that are a bit off because I edited upstream, which messed everything up. (Oh Movie Maker, why can I not lock a clip in the timeline? Why?!?) Fixing that was 99% successful. Trying to get that 1% will ruin all the bits downstream, which is most of the fanvid, so...

It's pretty straightforward, narratively, and ridiculously simple in its effects (fade in/out). My main woe is that I couldn't get the camera pan of Dean at the crossroads to fit - alright, I didn't try, but it doesn't - because it's exactly the same as Sam's. Also, that damn truck vs. Impala crash was hellish to edit, and I'm still displeased somewhat with it.

Also, for the record, 1) two of the views on YouTube are mine, when I was trying to get the html and 2) this fanvid took over 14 hours of work.


Cross-posted to [livejournal.com profile] supernaturalvid, [livejournal.com profile] fan_vids, [livejournal.com profile] spn_theboys, [livejournal.com profile] spnforthesane


ETA: Sweet jambalaya, there's a lot of SPN fanvids to this song. Thank gods I didn't check this prior to making the fanvid.


* "Running Up That Hill", Placebo
bending_sickle: (iSquee)
I've just spent over 2 hours working on my first ever fanvid. !!! I have finally managed to have a) the necessary clips b) the music and c) a detailed plan. It's Supernatural meets Placebo's "Running Up That Hill". I've just done the intro and first verse, and have the clips set up for the first rendition of the chorus. I am so psyched! I'm actually pleased with it!

Squee with me!** XD


* Common phrase.
** I was so full of squee I had to share with mom, explaining the concept and showing a bit of the clips selected. She was interested. Also, guhed about Jensen Ackles. She was appreciative of teh Ackles ;)
bending_sickle: (Science!)
Over on [livejournal.com profile] sickle_stories, I've been working on gathering quotes for the essay I swear I will totally write some day, Real Heroes Give Up: On Personal Sacrifice for the Cause. It's all still very preliminary (what with most of the shows being dead and gone and dusty in my memory bank), but if you guys have any examples, feel free to share 'em. (Credit will be given, obviously. I am a student: crediting is practically instinct by now.)

There's also a crack!idea and more on the SPN/Threshold concept.

Those contents have sort of sucked up all my time for this evening.

In other news:

a) Have an oral exam tomorrow on the Textbook Self Study thing.

b) My arm's itching like a bugger. (Yay last rabies vaccine!) *writhes and squirms*

G'night.


Links of the Day:
Supernatural: Read more... )
Random Fandom: Read more... )
Random: Read more... )


* Crow, in Serenity: The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Version by Eric Johanson
bending_sickle: (Girl Scream)
Caitlin Kiernan's Threshold and Supernatural would go fantastically well together, particularly Dancy Flammarion's past.

I'm working on collecting quotes and screencaps from both sources. See the maddness here!

One day, I swear to my dear and fluffy Lord, I'll actually sit down and do more than just note down and neurotically expand on ideas. I'll actually do them. Shock! Horror!

I'm actually quite serious about wanting to do some fanvids and fanfics, but I get can't sit the muse down to focus on one project. Instead she takes crack and rambles on and on about different ideas that's be pretty swell.

This SPN/Threshold concept is one of those I'm pretty serious about, although I've got a clearer idea of it as a fanvid or fake trailer than I do as a fanfic. *sigh*


* [livejournal.com profile] greygirlbeast's Threshold
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Omg, I just printed out my paper. It's huuuge! *pets big baby that is Sickle's paper*

I've started today a bit late, and have been dalying about doing very little. Spoke to Myra (roomate) and she's invited me to have supper tomorrow with Elisa and Laura (the squee, still there). Today I need to change my address at the bank and maybe, if I have time, at the city hall. Regardless, lunch is going to happen now. I haven't had proper food in ages.

And I've posted a fanvid idea on [livejournal.com profile] sickle_stories. I might even sit down a do one someday, if my new laptop isn't a total bastard with Movie Maker as the old laptop was. (Loving the new laptop, btw.)

Quote of the Day:

"I have a huge, active imagination, [and] I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman." - Claire Danes


* William Makepeace Thackeray
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Alright folks, the frustration has to be shared. Now, I finally managed to get my hands on Shivaree's song The Snake. Not, of course, by dominating the iPod, because the only way to get songs off it is to use EphPod (or similar), and my EphPod won't work. (Well, it could, but the solution involves erasing my entire iPod library, which isn't really a solution at all.)

So, we got the song, we got the clips. Happy?

Hell no. The song's in MPEG4 format, which isn't compatible with Window Movie Maker. Gargh, says I. And then I promptly download 2 covnerter programs, one after the other, with less that favourable results. The first one does nothing by dangle carrots at me, because, as it's the trial version, it only deigns convert 30% of a file. WHY?!? And the second program just won't open the song at all, so I don't know if it can convert or not. (And never will, 'cause it's just gone out the window.)

This is frustrating, because I wanted to try and make a fanvid out of this. It was going to be pretty short and straightforward vid, just something to start with.

But no! The universe toys with me yet again. *grumble*

I couldn't have picked a more known song, eh? Nooo. Obscure song by semi-obscure band. *flail* I'm all googled out (and it's 2 am).

The plan for the vid was Read more... )

So instead, let's all go to Australia and accidently get killed:




* Anon.
bending_sickle: (Angry Bitch)
Mohinder! Did we learn nothing from the Science Stick for Greater Justice?

*sigh* Some notes to Mohinder Suresh, in the hopes that he'll get a clue-by-four and stop hurting my precious Science-baby )

***

If I could write real crack, and not cracky!serious fic, I'd write a fic where Sylar's newly acquired kitty powers result in the Heroes cast fawning over him, oo-ing and ahh-ing, smothering him with hugs and kisses, petting his lovely, lovely hair and fighting over who gets to keep him. Mama Petrilli will be required to sigh heavily and say that, yes, ok, he can stay, but the boys better damn well take care of him. Sylar is, of course, appropriately horrified but helpless at convinceing them he's evil. Like Spike after his little "trip to the vet".

Another fanfic idea that's been nibbling on me - or, more recently, screaming at me from the grave - is that of Adam Monroe. Because "I'll sleep when I'm dead" has so much more meaning now, and the mental anguish and time for reflection is just perfect. Damn you, Adam, I'm not smitten with you yet. You need more layers aside from the whole "I'm evil, evil, eeeeevil, and I want to be a god." *flashbacks to BtVS's Andrew & co. singing We are as gooooooods*

I've also been waylaid by more fanvid ideas than I care for. Particularly since all but one is Maya/Sylar. (Saya?) And I don't even ship them; I ship the manipulation of Maya by Sylar, which is a whole different deal.

The songs for Saya and Mylar )


[livejournal.com profile] projectdownload - - What is this?


* Voltaire
bending_sickle: (Good Omens - sushi)
Shiver me timbers, I was finally peeved enough at Life, the Universe and Everything to dare answer the [livejournal.com profile] ljdq. *cue morning-after scream* Omg, what have I done!

I was going to post a load of stuff, and linky-links too, but I'm sleepy as all fuck and the completely innaccesible ventillation shaft at the top of one of my windows has come open again, meaning I's a freezin' chick. (And the wind! Loud!)

Posted a few paragraphs of Chip's life on [livejournal.com profile] sickle_stories.

(I was also going to splice the Sylar bits of the episodes into a video, because a girl gets tired of Ffwd through 3 eps to get her eyeful. But, late, tired, etc.)
ETA: Canna do it, cap'n, 'cause of bloody absent codecs. Bloody Windows Movie Maker. *pout*

Have decided that Within Temptation's Angels (lyrics) is a perfect Sylar/Maya fanvid-song. (By which I mean, The Mindfucking of Maya by Sylar, accompanied by general What the Hell Happened to Poor Gabriel. So it's all good.) All we need is a bit more Maya&Gabriel screentime and a hell of a lot of Season 1 Sylar. What the lyrics have in store. )

[livejournal.com profile] projectdownload - - What is this?

Links of the Day:
[livejournal.com profile] fallen_iceangel is lovely and wonderful and *omgsquee* because she posted Dr Who Season 3 Deleted Scenes. *glomps*
Neil's in the lead at the Best Literary Blog Poll. Support!
[livejournal.com profile] active_apathy, [livejournal.com profile] analise and [livejournal.com profile] daphyn set up [livejournal.com profile] critique_club, for folks who want useful critique on their fics, or are willing to do the same.


* Angels, Within Temptation

Quickie

Jan. 13th, 2006 12:32 am
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Three music videos I´d totally die to make (or have made):

1) "I love you" by SMcLachlan for Mal/Inara (Firefly), Inara leaving.
2) "Things change" by BDylan (?) for crossover Firefly -> Buffy/Angel for Mal/Evil Priest, Zoe/Jasmin (Evil Goddess), Jayne/Marcus Hamilton (liason to Senior Partners)
3) "Pretending" by HIM, Spike´s difficulty with loving Buffy (including shots of the Buffybot).

All are pretty lyric driven and would be so frelling cool.


Must find someone who´ll take requests. [livejournal.com profile] spikeylover?

Frelling awesome, I say.
bending_sickle: (Default)
Saw documentary of lioness that adopted various oryx calves, the first one for 16 days before it was killed by a by-passing lion. Here is an article.

Let me say "squee" in honour of finding that Alan Tudyk did the voice for the Dodo in Ice Age. How adorable is that?

Nathan Fillion was apparently in Dracula 2000 and I have absolutely no recolection of the fact.

And apparently *everyone* was in Saving Private Ryan.
By everyone I mean NFillion, VDiesel, GRibissi, PGiamatti...

...Does the fact that Morena Baccarin is the daughter of someone called Vera have anything to do with there being a mighty gun in Firefly called Vera?

If I made videos, Johnny Cash´s "Don´t take your guns to town" wouldn´t be the first contender, but it would be interesting to make for Jaynestown. Or maybe I´m just tired.

Oh, and...woot!, icon tutorial!
Now I just need the actual, you know, programs.

PS: You know how you´re copy-pasting stuff to a draft email, and then you get an error message about how Explorer has to close?
The appropriate response, obviously, is "AAAaaarGggHhh!!!"

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