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As I mentioned previously, once the Reverie style contest was over I'd have some recs to share. bradcpu and obsessive24 have already beaten me to the punch with these but I wanted to mention them as well because these were my pick of the bunch. I've reached vid talk overload (almost) so here are the recs with lazy copy and paste comments. Please tell the vidders what you think!

Vertigo by bradcpu
Show: House
House as a sort of Xbox game trailer? That shouldn’t work should it? And yet it does. Perfectly! I absolutely love it when vids surprise me like that. I don’t really know where to start but it is just so awesome. You don’t have to know House to love it because it is visually stunning but there is enough in there to reward people who know the context. Motion, Motion, Motion it’s all about the motion except it isn’t because there is a decent overview of season 2 in there too. It flies by in a whirl of images all of which compliment the next.

Precious by xandra_ptv
Show: Dexter
I haven’t seen Dexter and it’s not really the sort of show I’d ever be into but I absolutely love this vid. It manages to make serial killer/sociopaths seem quite sympathetic! I came to the vid knowing next to nothing and yet was able to follow the plot with ease and that’s all credit to the vidder. It’s gross and yet strangely beautiful and the song really pulls the narrative along, it feels like the song could only have been made for Dexter. It should make everyone want to watch this show.

One Of A Kind by obsessive24
Show: Heroes
That song is just sooooo Sylar. It’s an inspired choice. This vid really gets inside the head of Sylar and somehow humanises him for me. “I am one” - he may not be a hero in the conventional sense but he does have superpowers which to his twisted way of thinking makes him one of the heroes but also far superior than the rest of them, “one of a kind”. It’s very easy to follow and also has some great subtle moments where the visuals match specific sounds in the audio, the toaster melting springs to mind and the cockroach at the beginning like a clocks springs unwinding. It’s all very classy and really brings Sylar to life for me whereas in the show I didn’t quite get him. This really puts flesh on the bones and I now see him in a slightly different light.

Break by bananainpyjamas
Show: BSG Lee
I should state from the start that I cannot abide Lee Adama. I care not one iota for him in the show. That’s why I give this vid such credit because actually here, I kind of do give a damn. It’s an angsty song for an angsty character and it sucked me in from the start. There’s some great motion and some fast cutting that is consistently good throughout. It starts with the first sound of the intro and carries right through to the jump cut/single frame fireball crashes at the end. It’s all so very shiny it’s hard to pick out individual examples.

The Reverie style contest is is in it's final stages now so once that's over completely, in a couple of days, I'll have a few recs to share. There have been some *fantastic* vids come out of it. Dexter, House and Heroes to name a few. I may also have one of my own...

In the meantime here are a couple of awesome Smallville & Animated videos to check out. I was suggesting them for vividcon's experimental and Saturday Morning Cartoon vidshows so I thought I may as well plug them here too. If you download them please feed the vidders. :)

Vidder: mranderson71
Title: Ultra Violent Deunan
Fandom: AppleSeed
This combines live action audio from the trailer of Ultra Violet with AppleSeed's visuals to make a stunning combination.
stream at imeem

Vidder: frivolity65
Title: Bionicle
Fandom: Bionicle 2
Frivolity brings her unique vidding style to Bionicles.
download at vidders page

Vidder: Becky
Title: Confession
Fandom: Smallville
This vid uses Smallville footage Chloe and Lex with the tango scene from Moulin Rouge to make a very sexy vid which is also unique in it's story-telling.
download at vidders page

Vidder: Becky
Title: There's Only Me
Fandom: Smallville/Batman
This is such  a clever AU narrative that places Michael Keaton's Bruce Wayne into Smallville.
download at vidders page



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I made this for the Reverie summer vidbite challenge. It's a "pop up" video for the shows The L word and QAF.
It's only a minute long, it's Xvid and it's 14.4MB



Download here :)

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