jmtorres | Entries tagged with fandom: star trek: deep space nine

found and unspooled the epic DS9 poster. It actually measures about six and a half by two and a half feet.

Hahahah it's too big to get matted at joann's or michael's. Michael's would frame and plexiglass it for starting around $600 bucks.

I am strangely tempted to go over to home depot and start looking at flat-sized pieces of material.

I am vidding, so of course I think I might like to do some writing now.

Things what I have watched recently:
Being Human
Logan's Run
Zero Population Growth
Dark City
1984
Raines
DS9
Enterprise
(and have read) Vorkosigan

Anyone have requests for fic?

Are we still spoiler cutting for the reboot movie?

niqaeli and I went to see ST:Reboot for the, uh, seventh time. In addition to vid-related "covered in fangirls!" moments and our usual assorted fanwanks regarding Daddy's wink and sex on the bridge and how the f-bomb was clearly used, we, uh, developed a new theory.

( supernova my ass, also interstellar politics )

Current Mood: awake
Current Music: being human pilot

Vid: The Long Spear
Vidders: MANY--Please credit to "jmtorres, niqaeli, et al", not JUST to jmtorres. This was NOT a solo vid
Music: The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel, with additional material
Fandom: Star Trek and... Star Trek. Yes.
LINK (right-click or ctrl-click to download and save): http://houseoftorres.dreamhosters.com/vids/jmtniqetal-startreks-longspear.mp4 (60MB) (link updated 16 May 2020)

I promised since, oh, about the second time I saw the movie that this vid would say everything I wanted said and that if it didn't I would cry and hang up my hat as a vidder because clearly I would be no good at communicating in the medium.

So I will limit my remarks here and let the vid do most of the talking. I really only want to say three things:

1. An expansion of the credits:

jmtorres and

niqaeli were the primary vidders in the sense of putting material on the timeline.

traykor,

echan, and

grey_bard did lots and lots additional clipping above and beyond what

jmtorres and

niqaeli managed.

grey_bard also recorded the vocal track for the last verse specifically for this project. The other women whose singing I sampled for this vid are Joni Mitchell and Lorenna McKennit.

killabeez and

slasher69 are two vidders to whose work we paid homage. Those vids were: Killa's Dante's Prayer, because Killa is a seminal Trek vidder of the modern era (Dante's Prayer has been cited as "Hey, you guys! We can use those computers things for vidding!"), and Kandy Fong's Both Sides Now, which is, so far as I know, the earliest vid of which we have visual record (see this OTW journal article for more on the history of vidding).

The following fangirls took pictures of themselves in Vulcan salute for me to use at the end of the vid:

ysobel,

lierdumoa,

settiai,

lferion,

azurelunatic,

revolutionaryjo,

gchick,

zarhooie,

missingwatch.

elfling made the awesome costumes we wore to Club Vivid.

I would also like to give a special nod to

nshoe, who, while not one of our women's voices in the traditional sense, did help out with Memory Alpha abuse for clipping and making one of my hard drives live again. His wife,

niqaeli, also notes that he was very patient with the crazy women in the house.

2. I did, briefly, want to explain the title, because I used a metaphor that I thought was not uncommon, but google entirely disagrees. So you may never have heard it before unless you read all the same stuff I do.

papersky writes about her spearpoint theory; the example she was using it on when I appropriated it into my personal vocabulary was the Vorkosigan novels, how the later novels like Brothers in Arms and Memory are that sharp point on the long spear, they have an emotional impact because of the history of the other novels they carry. I consider the Star Trek Reboot movie to be the sharp point. Since I'm trying not to overexplain the vid, I'll leave the rest of the metaphor unspoken.

3. My hat is made of tin.

I will now take questions from the audience.

(Holy cow, it's harder to hear people cry than to hear them laugh.)

Current Mood: tired

So sometime around watching the Enterprise episode "Acquisition" I decided that not only was Enterprise the trashy holonovel it is depicted as in the finale, it was written by Jake and Nog.

Today

grey_bard pointed me at an Enterprise tie-in novel entitled "The Good that Men Do." It has a fascinating framing device.

( Read more... )

Current Mood: amused

What is your favorite episode or movie of Trek? Any series. Tell me why.

I am exceptionally fond of DS9 "The Wire" personally. Because you know, I ship Bashir/Garak a lot and Garak snarking about the value of truth and lies is awesome. I also quite like TNG "Tapestry," for the moment where Picard rolls over to discover Q in bed with him.

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Current Mood: curious

Off the prompt "cuddles."

Warnings for character death.

Entries tagged with fandom: star trek: deep space nine

closing out my tabs part II: the revenge

ha

prompts?

"Tell the internets about how gas, er, high warp is destroying the planet, I mean, galaxy!"

Vid Announcement: Star Trek, The Long Spear

HEEEEEEE

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