VVC: overall reactions and Thursday

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so I'm back home and with the VividCon-Has-Exploded-My-Brains reactions, not that I could be coherent anyways, and floating on a bubbly high and.

Wow.

I AM SO GLAD I WENT. And yet there were so little time, and me running around to try to perhaps meet people and just. Wow. Premiere's this year was FANTASTIC, with awesome range and stylistic complexity and they make me want to babble at length about narrative compositions and mood-driven versus event-driven organizations and draw up charts and just wiggle in delight.

AND I MET sisabet and sockkpuppett! My vidding mommies! And I thought I had more time with them, but turn around and the weekend was over and good goddamn I'm figuring out next year better. or something. or at least working out how to be less tongue-tied around them.

Also! Also! I met silviakundera! Who's work made me start writing again and whose Butter And Pigtails and Legends has forever imprinted themselves on my brain.

And just the whole entire con I swear I was spazzing at people and being all amazed and in hindsight I'd probably fangirled too much, but, dude seriously?, if you want to meet cool people every single one of the people at vividcon are just awesome and intelligent and interesting.

::blinks:: I should probably work through this in a more logical way, eh?


Thursday

So what with the lightning storms and the weekend and the full moon, transportation of all sorts was insane; not only were planes delayed by godawful amounts, but there was apparently a traffic accident or construction or something that tied up basically the entire Chicago freeway (tollway?) system around O'Hare. Not that my flight was delayed, but rather that entire airports of people were cranky and/or freaking out; this I can actually attest to 'cause my flight actually came in Midway and I had to shuttle to O'Hare to catch the hotel shuttle to the con. (however the shuttle guy was nice and gave me his fries, w00t!)

Arrived at the hotel and vaguely recognized cofax7 (who is cool, bubbly, and talkative) from a vidparty earlier that summer. Eventually worked out rooming situation which would be cheaper with her with planning to talk it over with loligo (fellow BPAL fiend!) and lierdumoa the next day. Am very sad I was not able to room with boniblithe this year (::HUGS::), but maybe next year? =)

After that there was a vid-watching with...argh, damn my memory, but I'm fairly sure there was cofax7, shrift, and destina (who are both just as intelligent in person as they are online), and vonnielake (who is just so chipper and just brings energy) and I'm kicking myself for blanking out on other people. ::grovels:: But we watching several vids from Escapade dvds and vonnielake's collection before we dispersed to nap for tomorrow's festivities.

[Friday: in which there is squee and vids and dancing in the night!]
[Saturday: And Teh Brain Exploded!]

Comments

[f1renze.livejournal.com]

::squeezes you::

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::squeezes back:: Gah, I have to ramble in particular about the awesomeness of Killing In The Name Of.

Also? You are COOL. =D

[f1renze.livejournal.com]

You too OMG. Also? ::loves In The Breakdown v. much::

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::wry grin:: oh man, I talked about this more in the response to sockkpuppett, but in short, wow, thank you =D

[lapillus]

It was great to meet you in person!

If you have more questions about set-up and the like feel free to drop a note in my journal or to carols at winternet dot com.

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::hugs deeply:: you are SO awesome about that, thank you so much for everything I've managed to absorb over the weekend.

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

::HUGS::

We so have a date next year.

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YAY! ::bounces::

I'm not sure entirely that I did that well pimping Saiyuki, but I think Death Note (via lierdumoa and FMA (via DVDs) were pimped fairly well. It wasn't the same without you ::longface::

[killabeez.livejournal.com]

It was such a pleasure to meet you -- one of the highlights of my weekend! And I'm not just saying that because you and lierdumoa made me the BEST VID EVAH!OMG!!1!11! (I hope it's okay that I claimed that vid for my very own and got my hug-prints all over it, meep.) Your panel with heres_luck was wonderful, and I remember with great fondness how I laughed out loud at your chart of the POV shifts in Jerusalem. A classic VividCon moment. And your Premieres vid is just amazing. Gorgeous beyond the telling, and it was one of the vids I could not stop watching during the testing process. But more than that, you are a wonderful, positive presence, and bring so much to the con. I hope you'll make sure to come back.

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God, and you! =D It delighted me to no end that I was able to meet you and that you loved the Kurdy vid, because honestly we sorta made it with you in mind. Your 'Because I Told You So' totally pimped us into the fandom and the first time morgandawn played the vid we were both like "...can we see that again??? pretty please?"

In my mind, 'Moment Couldn't Break' is like the other side of 'Because I Told You So', with like Kurdy not realizing just how in love with Jeremiah he really really is, like this Big Huge Blindspot. ::wibbles::

I'm glad that the In-Depth Review panel worked out well, I think I was more worried about that than even any of my vids that were premiering, with perhaps the exception of my auction vid. I really couldn't help the chart, heh, I draw better than I explain. (And I stole the chart to reference for when I post notes on that panel. ;D)

::hugs:: heh, I'm just glad that I didn't seem too out of it, and I'm definatly coming next year! ::knocks on wood:: barring emergincies.

[killabeez.livejournal.com]

In my mind, 'Moment Couldn't Break' is like the other side of 'Because I Told You So', with like Kurdy not realizing just how in love with Jeremiah he really really is, like this Big Huge Blindspot. ::wibbles::

Eeeee! Until he watches the helicopter take him away, and it hits him -- gah.

You know what really fascinates me about this vid is how you showed Kurdy's love for Elizabeth in such a poignant and powerful way, and yet kept weaving it together with his love for Jeremiah and the way he cares for those around him. Some of the juxtapositions you used to do this made me want to jump up and cheer, they were so subtle and perfect, like the transition on "gotta take my mind off you" at 2:33 or so - I love that moment so much. The other one that brings that full circle is where you cut from him slamming Jeremiah against the truck to Elizabeth reaching out for him near the end. The vid doesn't seem to make Elizabeth less important, but rather to show that he's so focused on her that he never really fully acknowledged how vital Jeremiah was to him until she was gone, and he was faced with losing them both -- which is exactly how I see it.

It's funny, I was not that crazy about Elizabeth the first time I watched the series. Not because I wanted the pure slash, so much, but just that I always have a hard time with the sweet, angelic types of female characters. But on re-watching, I came to like her more, and especially after I wrote a story from Kurdy's POV, I really learned to love her and their relationship. I do love Constance, though, and always did. Of course, Kurdy/Jeremiah is still the core of the thing for me, so it made me insanely happy that you were able to integrate and weave together all of Kurdy's relationships so well, and in what felt like exactly the right proportions. This vid really could not have made me any happier, and I feel incredibly lucky that even though Jeremiah is a tiny fandom, when it does speak to people, they make such shiny and wonderful things!

I could probably go on all day about Kurdy and about your vid. I should go work now. *g*

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heh, much belated HUG THANK YOUS for the beautiful feedback. I'm so glad that we got the porportions right on everything, it was something that we were really concerned about.

The vid doesn't seem to make Elizabeth less important, but rather to show that he's so focused on her that he never really fully acknowledged how vital Jeremiah was to him until she was gone, and he was faced with losing them both -- which is exactly how I see it.

::jumps up and down:: yes! That's exactly it, thank you!

[luminosity]

It was wonderful to meet you, and I feel like we just didn't have enough time! Maybe next year? :) Your premiere vid was gorgeous. Wow.

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Oh man, we really didn't have enough time! I didn't even get to properly say goodbye; so most definately yes next year!

::wry grin:: I'm almost a bit shocked at the response to that vid, it's sorta the vid that I thought a bit snot-nosed and simple and that I dressed it a bit funny but I'm going to send it out into the world 'cause I'd love it if no one else will and gosh. ::beams:: thank you.

[cofax7]

::blushes::

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it's tru~ue =D (heh, answering backlogged comments)