Random thoughts

Title: When I'm Up, I Can't Get Down
Fandom: Firefly (Some Serenity)
Music: When I'm Up - The Oysterband
Length: 3:46 mins
Description: 'Wash' piot extraordinaire, Husband, friend and dinosaur wrangler.
Edited March 2015
Downloads Med mp4 55mB
HQ AVI 188mB
HQ mp4 104mB

Embed and notes under the cut( here )

So this tumblr thing can suck hours out of your day right?   I'm kind of picking random convention photos to post and some banners/cards  I have already made.   I also made a couple of simple pieces the last couple of days to tumble but I thought I would cross post here too.  From my experience so far, tumblr is big on images and small on words but I think that may be as I am not following many peeps/communities over there just yet.

The art work  I see on tumblr is very pretty  - definitely seems to follow a trend/ distinct style of intense colours,  or  sepia monochrome in a portrait format ,   and also plenty o'gifs.  Nice to see they increased the gif limit the ones I make presently are HUGE.

Anyhow I made the River Card for a challenge a long while back over at slayalive. May decide to do other characters just for the heck of it.  The other are new.




( Back of Card  )

And then the new pieces

I made some of these for a challenge over at slayalive.com  I only needed five but didn't stop there.


The rest plus a few random ones under the cut ( this way )

Way back when I was using WMM (haha yes, I remember) I made this vid. I have promised myself for the last couple of years that I would go back and 'redo' with higher quality source, fix those nagging technical faults (no thanks WMM) and change those clips choices that always got to me every time I rewatched it.  Now it's done and here it is, shinier and better. There's a faiir few scenes that I've changed but the essence of the orignal vid remain.  Something that I just had to do.



Fandom: Serenity (2005) with a smidgen of Firefly.
Music : Signal to Noise by Peter Gabriel
Length: 5:55mins
Download Tiny WMV 23mB       LQ AVI 83mB     Medium AVI 108mB    HQ AVI 223mB
Description: Focusing on Mal & River's struggle against the Alliance in Serenity. Send out the signal, wipe out the noise.
Lyrics

Streamed under the cut ( here )

Feedback is always loved.

Title : Underdog
Fandom: Firefly
Song: Underdog by Kasabian
Length: 4.30mins
Description: Capt Mal Reynolds action oriented character study.  This is Mal from Firefly, no clips from the film Serenity.  Mal wants to keep flying.
Lyrics here
Downloads:  in various sizes AVI/WMV  from my site here     streamed at BAM very soon here and embedded on Youtube under the cut
ETA:  Youtube has blocked this just about everywhere so the embed is now Vimeo - password 'shiny'

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Notes: Made for acrazywench  - just as a thank you for putting up with me for all those years, especially when I started vidding. Patiently watching all the vids, helping with clip suggestions and being supportive.  I hope you like it, and that you think I've done the Captain justice.

Comments are always appreciated.

Title: 'Puncture Repair'
Music by Elbow
Length: 1m .48sec
Description: Simon and River Tam.   I leaned on you today.     Very simple, brief look at  their relationship in Firefly (no Serenity footage) 
Download Links small & HQ in AVI's, lyrics  from my site here and it's streamed on Youtube 

Phew lots of photos to sort through.  And muddled brain to rack - acrazywench took shorthand notes of the Q&A 's but I tried to remember things from the Meet and Greet & autograph sessions.

Awesome group shot from Starfury - love the 'whodunnit ' montage. Especially Summer and Felicia's poses.  To see all the photos click on the Guests names to go to the page in the text under the cut.



( Day One - Opening ceremony and the Meet and Greet  )

Day Two - Q&A's ( Q&A's and autograph sessions. )

ETA : All the photos are up you have to click through the links on the site

Well if you want to see some more pics of the awesome Adam Baldwin, the small but perfectly formed Jamie Bamber and all the other shiny guests  then you need go no further than to click here 

I'm hoping thatacrazywench  may have a little time to transcribe the teeline notes she took in the Q&A's at some juncture, to go with the pics (you're a star!)

  I know the wonderfulmara_sho  also made notes but who knows if she'll be corresponding with me other than telling me to frak off after posting this or this.  In mitigation copious quantities of vodka were consumed and to be fair I will also post this so she is not alone in her jedi-ness. 

So I am back from the Weekend at Serenity Infinity.  Despite being extremely disappointed that Adam Baldwin cancelled again and Sean Maher also pulled out (all due to work commitments so I am perversely pleased for them too) I think acrazywench and I were determined to enjoy ourselves,  still missing our third amiga mara_sho who was poorly.

I don't think Sean Harry managed to get replacements - Richard Brooks was announced as such,  but I feel certain he was already stashed away as a surprise guest, along with Nectar Rose & convention stalwart Jonathan Woodward.  So a pretty thin line up compared to the normal standards  - true, true we've been spoilt by the past Serenity cons here but most of the BDH's have all got regular gigs right now so.....

Enough twittering.   Some snippets of trivia from the weekend.   Morena has a new short haircut. Very chic and suits her beautifully. She told me at the cocktail meet & greet that it was because of work and not her choice but she might keep it for a while. Her boyfriend Austin was with her. She also was aware of  the latest Serenity 2 rumour sparked from the Alan Tudyk interview but didn't have anything extra to add. Ellen Muth is tiny and loves the more bizarre questions in her Q&A.  Nectar Rose has good taste in music - she did a set at the disco, and probably played the best stuff all night, without line dances.  Richard Brooks is an awesome singer and told us that Jubal Early was planned as  a recurring character, and that his part in Drive was going to become a regular too by the end of the Season, had the show made it past the fourth episode.  Jonathan Woodward's father owns a pair of leather chaps and has lent them to Jonathan. 

The final Starfury Serenity con was announced too - Yes,  we have tickets.  Morena will be there along with Mark Sheppard and his father.  Mark is also bringing his good friend Jamie Bamber  - sorry but I let out a squee when I heard that, making  acrazywench jump. So, so sad and at my age, I should know better. I'm hoping for some more BDH's and  BSG guests.    Another coup for Sean Harry is that Kristen Bell has confirmed for his Prison Break/VM gig next year too - as much as I admire Kristen I can't see me going to that. 

fresleyforever celebrated her Birthday and even Nectar Rose remembered giving her a shout out at the closing ceremony.  There is a theory thatfresleyforever  may be spending the whole of  2008 attending conventions - there are so many.  

Here is the exquisite Ms Baccarin



( And more teaser pics here..... )

I've been so busy decorating and stumbling over firewalls/routers/speedswitches and thin clients that I have only just taken a peek of the pics from Serenity Four.  Small number of guests, but all so charming and entertaining to say the least.  Not so many to go through so I hope to have them uploaded to my site by the weekend along with some anecdotes from the weekend.

mara_sho  and acrazywench  were excellent companions - and like we said - we seriously need to do this more often. 

Sean Harry announced the first batch of guests for Serenity Infinity this October and Adam Baldwin has signed to attend along with Sean Maher and Morena Baccarin (I think)  Ellen Muth from Dead Like Me will also be there which should be dandy.  The three conventioneers have  booked so it will be something else to look forward to.