Poll: Vid Watching

[thefourthvine]

This is the counterpart to the poll I posted earlier. (It, uh, had to undergo some revisions after the results of that poll.) And this one is for anyone who has ever seen a vid.

Again, feel totally free to pimp. I'd love to get a range of responses on this one.

After this, there'll be a round of vid meta coming out, but then I swear we'll go back to fan fiction. I'm really starting to miss recommending the written word.

[Poll #800594]

Comments

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Like some other folks, I pretty much only download vids that have been rec'ed.

This is giving me, as a recommender, delusions of power. That's, um. Probably not a good thing.

One of my favorite vidders does it like that and of course I emailed once, immediately lost/forgot the password, and it's just not worth it to have to email again. And it makes me feel stupid, which doesn't help.

Allow me to recommend Opera, which saves all the passwords you enter; that way, you don't have to worry about losing the password. (The only annoying part is that I always forget to clear wrong saved passwords. Like, before I used Opera, I had Laura Shapiro's site's password and username memorized, except I could never remember which was which. When I started using Opera, I tried it the wrong way first. And as a result of that (plus my laziness), it always offers me the wrong way by default, and I always forget and try to use that way before I remember that I have to choose the other version. But, still, I only have to remember to use the drop-down menu, not remember the whole username and password. Improvement!)

Oh- but I'll show vids to non-fans, no problem. My 1.5 year old nephew is completely infatuated with that 'Itsy Bitsy Spider' SG-1 vid.

That doesn't actually count as showing vids to a non-fan; clearly your nephew is a fan. Just, you know, a pre-verbal one.

No, showing it to your nephew is totally fine. What is wrong about that whole scenario is that you didn't include a link for those of us who have not seen the itsy bitsy spider vid. *eyes you sternly*

IBS Vid Rec

[taverymate.livejournal.com]

No, showing it to your nephew is totally fine. What is wrong about that whole scenario is that you didn't include a link for those of us who have not seen the itsy bitsy spider vid. *eyes you sternly*

You know, this whole post and the comments has been full of odd fannish convergences for me. Hand to heart, I just had an extended email exchange last month with Margie about IBS, wherein I finally redeemed myself by giving detailed feedback to the vidder - as opposed to the gushing I've been doing about the vid for years to other vid watchers.

IBS is a great vid by Margie, who often vids with Seah, but sometimes vids alone. IBS was put out in 2003 and has remained on frequent rotation in my viewing cycles. I'd offer a fuller rec, but you should see the vid first unspoiled.

Margie & Seah's vids are here - and everyone is a keeper. Not a bad vid in the bunch. I really do like all their vids a lot, but my top three personal favorites are Kryptonite (Invisible Man), IBS (SG1), and Walking on the Ground (multi-fandom, meta).
http://www.trickster.org/vids/

Re: IBS Vid Rec

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, I have seen that one. (I mean, it's Seah and Margie - I'd download anything they posted.) But I've never made it all the way through because I'm afraid of bugs, and that kicks me square in the arachnophobia. It makes the damned things much more spiderlike and real looking than any other vid I've seen.

OMG.

*hyperventilates*

Re: IBS Vid Rec

[taverymate.livejournal.com]

I thought it odd that you didn't recognize IBS as Margie's vid because I was certain that you knew the wonder that is Margie & Seah's vids. I don't always track vids by their titles, so that was also a possibility. But then I thought maybe - just maybe - somehow you'd not run across Margie & Seah's site. And that was a possibility too dire to contemplate. I didn't consider arachnophobia, though I must agree with you that: It makes the damned things much more spiderlike and real looking than any other vid I've seen.

There's a moment that always gives me pause that I don't know if you saw before you bailed on the vid. It's where the female for whom the replicators were originally built is in a room playing with one. It's the wing movement, I think, that is so effective there in giving the replicators a sense of aliveness.

Given your bug phobia, you probably will want to avoid Jackie Kjono's VVC premiering vid Beep Beep which uses Starship Troopers, a movie about fighting giant alien bugs.

Re: IBS Vid Rec

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Given your bug phobia, you probably will want to avoid Jackie Kjono's VVC premiering vid Beep Beep which uses Starship Troopers, a movie about fighting giant alien bugs.

I approached Beep Beep with some trepidation, but actually, those bugs didn't bother me at all. I do much better with giant bugs than I do with small bugs; the Replicators are almost too big to trigger my phobia, but then they are, as I said before, very very real looking in this vid. (It's an unpredictable phobia; I track bugs in real life better than anyone I know, but on film, it varies. Like, in Minority Report, they use devices called spiders to search houses, and although they should trigger my bug ick - the right size and everything - I actually thought they were adorable - and so, I must note, did my very arachnophobic mother. It's a mystery.)

And, no, I didn't see the part with the woman playing with the Replicator; I bailed fairly early on, earlier than I normally do, because - eeek! Bugs!