JOURNAL: Illia Sadri (Lynn Hunt)

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  • The AMV maker a a con staffer 2003-12-04 04:27:54 Most staffers at a convention are pretty jaded people. Chances are we have seen most of the shows you can list off the top of your head with the exception of those suckers who get dragged in by a pretty girlfriend or other signifigant other. Chances are by now we are quite tired of seeing the countless parades of Chiis and Vashes withthe wrong color hair. And after awhile even the fanboy funk is tolerable in our sleepless haze.

    Such is the fate of the amv maker who works for multiple conventions. Upon another staff meeting of bickering between department heads and con chairs about trivial matters that must be decided upon, there's no energy left to go through every frame and lip synch that insane video where the villain is busy pimping all the chicks.

    You pull up Adobe Premiere and wait for it to import all those clips you segmented only to get asked abhout such and such minute issue that really wasn't your department to begin with. Or you get to hear someoen ranting about a personal vendetta and asking for specific advice and dealing with it.

    Quite simply it drains the life of the unwitting victim and you stare at the screen and constantly loop the two minutes and forty two seconds you have complete... your mind barren of any coherent artistic thought.

    Why continue? Because it is rewarding and enjoyable. Yet the two simply cannot co-exist without any real logic.

    This is why not many amv makers staff conventions. Or if they are not insane they stick to one relatively close to home to do so.  
  • Brainwashed Hysterics 2003-06-10 03:10:45 Television came into politics and altered an election. And it was not just the 2000 vote that is in reference. No, by then they far perfected the tool.

    Think back to Vietnam which was the first war to be given the play by play telecast. Our parents watched for their own living rooms with the same gruesome details as the ramblings of veterans driven insane on the battle field.

    Those near incoherent babblings of mentally fallen soldiers gave rise to a counterculture. As unrefined as the bloody baby my mom probably saw on her old black and white television screen at the tender age of 14. There was no need to believe in the good fight our governement told us about because we saw for ourselves through a new propaganda that the counterculture was indeeed the norm and it carried a generation like a heard of sheep.

    Now we are still influenced by our box of propaganda, willing to fight a war from behind out television screen, masking truth behind ideals spewed to us with all the discreeetness as a freight train or a murder victim laying in a busy intersection.

    Half truths and blatant lies can be reitterated in our brains as we leave our sets on at night, the message pounding into our subconcious as we sleep to CNN.

    For the first time in military history our general public was more informed than those fighting. We made it too easy to hold an ideal from our living room.

    However, with this does not come genuine information. Vietnam ruined an administration as thye tool was misused. Never again would government officials undermine the efficiency of the dreaded box nearly 99% of americans own. Never will it come down to undermine its own cause.

    It is simple to brainwash the masses into a realm of hysterical emotions. It took 40 years to refine it but surely Johnson is proud knowing that some sucessor in teh furture will not suffer his fate. That it is for the good of the nation to stand behind the flag blindly.

    Because that is what the televison tells us now, that must be what those in the past believed. 
  • To Hitchhike to Otakon 2003-06-01 15:39:27 The car likes to make a lot of noise and it has a little coughing complaint when it gets into higher gear. It doen't like how I like to drive too fast and hit the brake too hard. It voices its complaint when I make the hundred and twenty mile trip to Chicago much less the nearly 1000 miles that comprises the trip from my little town just east of Madison to Baltimore.

    So why not hitchike it like a purist? For all the fans there who say how elite they are and so on and so forth in their drabble, I could outdo their stories. It would be the ultimate otaku road trip that would be hard pressed to be outdone.

    However, when i consider all the factors, one of which including that my Irish skin does not appreciate being exposed to the sun in any way, I would not be cosplaying as any normal character. All I would be good for is dong on of the versions of that pink creature thing from Dragon Ball Z.

    So this concludes nothing, i am either going to beg a friend to borrow the car or just not be sucha cheapskate and go with a greyhound. 
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