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beccaelizabeth) wrote2006-06-27 07:35 pm
beccaelizabeth) wrote2006-06-27 07:35 pm
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I'm reading the bit in Jenkins "Textual Poachers" about fan videos (songvids). The bit that impresses me is all the vids he's talking about were made with VCRs. I don't reckon I've seen any from pre-computer, and I think I had the vague idea that computers made them possible. But no, people used to do this with *tapes*.
*is awed*
*gets to feel like a relative newbie again*
There's some interesting stuff there, and other things that seem a bit specific, as in specificly out of date. The songs most vidded to, for instance. Though I reckon every fandom has at least one version of "Holding out for a hero", many of the other artist I'd have to look up.
I haven't looked at vids for a while. I think I started feeling a bit the way I do about drabbles - there's only so many tricks the form can play, and if you consume too many in a row they get a bit samey. This is *not* me being rude to vidders, there's some excellent songvids out there doing lovely creative things. Just they can blur together a bit if you watch too many at once. Especially many from within a single closed canon, where the favourite clips tend to turn up rather a lot.
This isn't actually helping me finish my essay.
There is always more interesting stuff in the world than there is essay to talk about it with.
*is awed*
*gets to feel like a relative newbie again*
There's some interesting stuff there, and other things that seem a bit specific, as in specificly out of date. The songs most vidded to, for instance. Though I reckon every fandom has at least one version of "Holding out for a hero", many of the other artist I'd have to look up.
I haven't looked at vids for a while. I think I started feeling a bit the way I do about drabbles - there's only so many tricks the form can play, and if you consume too many in a row they get a bit samey. This is *not* me being rude to vidders, there's some excellent songvids out there doing lovely creative things. Just they can blur together a bit if you watch too many at once. Especially many from within a single closed canon, where the favourite clips tend to turn up rather a lot.
This isn't actually helping me finish my essay.
There is always more interesting stuff in the world than there is essay to talk about it with.