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Tiddles
2015-11-03 19:14:36
It's recently come to my attention that I'm once again in a creatively... nuclear winter... state. This occurs when I have nothing creatively exciting going on, and at one point was extreme enough to cause of a major career change. That change got me to where I am today, theoretically doing what I want to be doing, but realistically and effectively creatively frustrated.
This is one reason I've begun to (somehow...) look back on my AMV hobby with a certain fondness. I may have ranted and raved furiously about it, but at least it was a creative outlet, something I cared a lot about and put a huge amount of time and effort into. Watching one of my AMVs just now made me think, "Huh, I wonder how I did that effect," and prompted this post. I learned things as I needed to, and I loved the learning process, but it takes a challenge to get that kind of results. If I'm not challenged (in a reasonable way, not "Go make an Oscar-worthy movie, Lauren!), I'm not going to discover what I'm capable of.
Now take my dog, Rynne, my second corgi. No, *deletes comments about how great her dog is* that's just being ridiculous. Er hem, sorry...haven't posted in a while and my writing style is rusty. Back to AMVs.
Was disappointed by the lackuster quality of the new VHD: Bloodlust release. I have been sitting on an AMV concept since 2000 (good lord... have I really been at it this long??) and even cobbled together the opening from DVD footage, but used the excuse of holding out for better video as reason for not going further. Well, it's here and that excuse no longer flies, since it's as good as it's going to get and I'm still not editing again. *SIGH*
That's more like it, back to my good 'ole "why I can't make XYZ AMV" platform! Heh, I don't even WATCH AMVs anymore, who am I kidding? :) -
*crickets*
2015-07-17 19:53:40
I think this has been my quietest year in about a decade at the .Org. Combination of downswing in my anime fandom, lots of general life stress and lack of ideas/motivation for AMVs. It's bad enough that I don't even spend energy complaining about it anymore, you'll notice.
Today I got a little niggling longing for ye olde hobby, which I tracked down and stomped brutally into the sand. I *live* for those creative moments where everything clicks and falls together exactly as I want it to, that just hardly ever happens (in my experience) where AMVs are concerned.
*flops* At least VHD: Bloodlust is finally being updated. I'm trying not to think about the CG potential horror also looming. -
@ Bashar
2015-06-03 21:54:49
They really don't want me to dispute things. They say bad things will happen it I do. LOL Damned if a do, damned if I don't! Apparently I don't care very much either way, because I haven't done a thing about any of it. It's just not that important to me. I didn't make my videos to get lots of views or whatever, I made them for other reasons, and it's not as if humanity is going to suffer World War III for lack of another 1,000 plays of 'Bustin.
*sigh* Strange story, I am contributing to the site server fund in part because two of my videos were recently blocked on YouTube. I held out against posting on YT for a number of years, then gave up and also put some things up on the Tube because that's just the way the world was moving. The .Org remains only place I can rely on to host my videos, though, and the danger of server/site failure only emphasizes the importance of supporting this site financially.
I will not speak for anyone else, but I've put too much time and effort into this hobby to complain if the .Org goes down when I haven't done a thing to support it, monetarily or otherwise. Hosting my videos here is a drain on the site's resources, so yeah, I do owe the .Org. But it's more than that, because this is the only place I trust has as much interest in preserving my videos as I, the creator, do. The .Org probably has MORE interest, actually, because it's attempting to save the legacy of thousands of people, not just one. -
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2015-05-16 18:02:45
*Rein
...bugs me, obviously.
And one other thing! I have a new corgi named Rynne. She is not a replacement for Rhea, my beloved corgi who passed away in November at the age of 14. Rynne is a very nice dog, extremely smart, cuddly, etc., but she's not Rhea and that's ok - no dog ever will be. Today Rynne graduated from Puppy Kindergarten and was caught on film by yours truly climbing a vertical, 3' pen and squeezing out the top 4" gap in the wire like some kind of weasel. If she didn't have such short legs, it would be impossible. Maybe I should make that corgi AMV I never got to with her predecessor. -
Now 'Bustin is being blocked on YouTube... what the heck is going on?
2015-05-16 17:53:30
It hasn't been yanked totally like my Harlock AMV, but I got a notice that it's now being blocked in some countries (including the U.S.) due to FOUR different claims of copyright infringement. Is someone out to get my stuff or is this truly corporate panties getting in a bunch all of a sudden??
They are going after all things Ghostbusters in "Germany, American Samoa (wtf?), the U.S., Puerto Rico and U.S. Outlying Islands." That song is piled on with usage restrictions all of a sudden, plus my ONE use of the Stay Pufft Marshmallow Man has flagged it as using someone else's monetized content. Ghostbusters III ripple effects, I'm assuming. Did someone not inform someone at Sony that you WANT fans of your franchise to express their appreciation and spread the gospel? Yeesh...
You know, it's a sad day when the only reliable places my videos can be viewed are those (at the moment) out of reach of copyright claimants who apparently have free reign to yank whatever they want off the world's #1 video site.
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