Vid meme day 17

[sasha_feather]

Day 17 - A vid you wish you had made

I'm not a vidder. I don't know anything about vidding! I admire the talents of all vidders.

So I'll answer this question with two vids that speak to me very personally lately, from an emotional and aesthetic level.

Compass Points by newkidfan. SGA.

I haven't yet read the fic that this goes with, so my my interpretation of the vid is as a dream that Rodney is having. I love the color and focus changes, the feeling of slow exploration interrupted by quick moments of expression. What a gorgeous vid.

Evening on the Ground by hollywoodgrrl. SGA, John Sheppard character study.

It's amazing how many John Sheppard vids I have in my folder. That means a lot of us (myself included) see ourselves in this character. This vid is about John's guilt, and it's pretty intense. It has some rapidly flashing images that line up perfectly with the rapid, building music, evoking a life that is desperate, on edge; that John is hanging on for dear life, that he is afraid of losing even more people than he already has, and he feels a tremendous responsibility to prevent that from happening. There is just so much emotion here, under the surface.

Comments

[emceeaich]

The vid I wish I had made, and what slapped me over the head with the power of the genre was Absolute Destiny's "There's too much Light in this Bar," which still gives me goosebumps when I see it.

[sasha_feather]

Download link for that for anyone playing along:

http://absolutedestiny.livejournal.com/164966.html

:)

[sasha_feather]

Thank you for the rec! That is an amazing vid. I'm not familiar with the source but I've been meaning to check it out.

[bluemeridian]

Evening on the Ground is one of my favorite JS vids ever (along with isagel's The Temptation of John Sheppard). I recced it in its own post at one point. So spooky and so good.

[sasha_feather]

The song is so haunting! *goes to read your post*

were_duck and I were just discussing Temptation the other night. That is another essential, a classic. I only just downloaded Evening on the Ground a couple of weeks ago, though! I found it through other people doing this meme. Instant favorite.

[bluemeridian]

I found it via general_jinjur and, yes, we were all "The Madness of JS" because he's actually completely insane. *g* Which I could completely buy.