this place is a narrative mess

Vidder: electrizity
Music: Tears for Fears - Start of the Breakdown
Rating: PG
Warnings: Violent content (slapping, Vulcan nerve pinches, Kirk's karate chops... you get the idea)
Summary: The Enterprise endures crisis after crisis, and Uhura kicks ass through them all.
Download: Mediafire 58 mb, avi
Streaming:



( notes and lyrics )

... I guess I should post this here as well. I ought to work on it more to make it, like, a respectable work of art, but honestly it's probably best if I just post it and move on as soon as possible. I really need a blushing emoticon.
Vidder: electrizity
Music: Sugababes - Freak Like Me (We Don't Give a Damn Mix)
Lyrics by Adina Howard, music taken from Gary Numan's "Are 'Friends' Electric?"
Rating: PG
Summary: ...You know.
Notes: Super cheesy. I want to be unapologetic, but honestly I'm a bit embarrassed.
Download: Mediafire 41 mb, mp4
All comments, particularly criticism, are very welcome.
( :X )

Preview:


( into the sensual world )
Enjoy! Comments and credit appreciated.

Vidder: electrizity
Music: Lady Gaga - So Happy I Could Die
Rating: PG
Summary: I love Lady Gaga.
Notes: Just a basic music video. I'm pretty sure this is the vidding equivalent of 'Plot? What Plot?'
Streaming: BAM Vid Vault, in case UMG's copyright claim succeeds. :|
Download: Mediafire 44.35 mb, mp4.

All comments, particularly criticism, are very welcome.

Yup, that bit of respect has definitely gone down the toilet. I'm hoping she'll continue to think about everyone who is angry, and why we are angry, and will eventually gain an understanding of the pain that she has caused and continues to cause. I believe 100% in the potential sanctity of art -- have you ever heard me talk about Vespertine? -- but art does not occupy a separate world. Art exists in this world, and is subject to and complicit in axes of oppression. I know that beautiful art often emerges when the artist unearths and captures some inner pain that the consumer deeply connects with; that shared feeling can be cathartic, healing.

The narrative of Evelyn Evelyn relies on feeling that is masked in the metaphors of disability, abuse, and freak show. How much does that suck for people who actually have disabilities, who have been exploited by child pornography, who are perceived as "freaks"? You may sometimes feel like an outsider, Amanda, but you have not lived these experiences and are not entitled to carelessly inhabit the bodies of those who have for fun and for show. It's easy to put on "crip drag" when you can step out of it the same night, when you really don't have to experience the systemic oppression of people who live those lives every day. Way to use your ableist privilege to profit from the bodies of people with disabilities! >:(

I really was looking forward to seeing her perform live one day, and now I don't want to anymore. I don't want to hear the music she makes, I don't want to buy her merch, I don't want to tell people that I love Amanda Palmer. The LP and Who Killed Amanda Palmer book in my room are distasteful to me now.

People really suck sometimes.

Preview: ( more )
Credit would be lovely, and comments are always appreciated.

Title: Feelin' So Good
Musician: Jennifer Lopez
Author/Artist: electrizity
Characters, pairing(s): Kirk, Kirk/Uhura
Rating: G
Summary: 'cause not one thing can bring me down / nothing in this world gonna turn me 'round
Notes: For zephyrprince's birthday. Many happy returns! I just realized that I have no idea what pairings you like (if any) -- woops! Hope this is okay.



Comments and concrit very much appreciated, as always. I'll put up a download link once I figure out how to export it so it's less than 500 mb. :/ You can download an MP4 here.

Also, I just want to say: I love this song completely non-ironically. This is damn good pop music.

Have embarked on a quest to update my icons... It's difficult when there are so many beautiful icons made by such talented artists, and you can only choose fifteen! I also had to have at least one each of Björk and Patrick Wolf, so I fired up the trusty old Photoshop. I deleted the other PW icons I made before I thought of posting them here, but oh well.

( Six icons + 1 wallpaper below the cut. )

The Björk images come from the July issue of Interview magazine, and the Patrick Wolf image comes from the Spring/Summer 2009 issue of Dazed and Confused. Really, really gorgeous photography.

This is the worst time to delurk -- I have my statistics final in two days! Aghhhh!

Oh my god, a post! A public post! Who knows, maybe this will mark the end of my lurker days.
...
Well.

Hello to anyone who's come across my journal! Feel free to say hi! There may or may not be more posts coming, can't be sure.

Here's a Star Trek fanvid set to, of course, Kate Bush. It had to be done.

Title: Hello Earth
Musician: Kate Bush
Author/Artist: electrizity
Pairing(s): N/A. I guess you could see it as Spock/Amanda, if that's how you roll.
Rating: G
Summary: ...which makes Earth the only home I have left.
Notes/Warnings: None



ETA: download link (MP4): http://www.mediafire.com/?dmdwfmotzxm

Obviously I'm the noobiest noob to ever noob in Final Cut Pro, but I'm glad to have at least produced something. I'm just going to ignore all the bits that could be better. >:[

Mission for next time: work with better quality source material! Actually mark your in/out points! Also, make sure the clip and sequence settings match, so that you don't have to render every single clip! Ahahaha, ouch. ;_;