everything but the girl

The president takes on the Dark Side Defeating evil on the White House grounds, Sept. 16, 2009. Originally from Getty Images.

There is something very nifty and karmic about picking the Star Wars-inspired spn_j2_bigbang prompt on 5/4 since, of course, there's two nifty things about today's date:
1. Add the month and day to get the year; and
2. MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU!

Star Wars Weekends are coming up at Disney, and the new posters are out, and adorable. Testing the LJ-cut and how it works when I crosspost with something unspoilery - ( This one is my favorite! )

Hurrah, it worked!

Glancing at my LJ, I have really been AFK apart from twittering for the last week.

One reason was because I was setting things up over at spn_summergen, which morgan32 and I will be running this summer as ignipes and mahoni have stepped down. Go sign up this week to write a wonderful gen gift-fic - they're not going to be posted until August, so you'll have a lot of time!

A second reason involved working with gwendolyngrace on finishing many of the menu drafts for azkatraz and they are going to be delicious! Lots of the team will be in San Fran for a site visit this weekend and we should be able to start posting menu information after that. We've already posted a list of all accepted programming sessions (except for the ones where we haven't heard back from the presenters yet so if you're one of them please get in touch with us asap!).

We're also almost out of space for participant/sellers at the Craft Faire on Saturday afternoon, so sign up asap if you're interested in that.

Third reason is that I was in Chicago last week with my Eldest Son at the premiere for the Harry Potter exhibit at the amazing Chicago Museum of Science & Industry. Even if you don't normally read twitters posted to LJ, if you want some info about what's at the exhibit, check out my tweets here. And Harry will be doing a report on the museum for an upcoming episode of SpellCast, too! If you have any chance to get to Chicago this summer, make sure you check out the exhibit, even if you're not a die-hard Potter fan. Anyone who's enjoyed the films will definitely love this.

Fourth is because I've been worried about Chuck. No, that's not really a reason, but I am worried about Chuck being renewed - any news yet on that? I did see that Bryce will have his own show on USA next season....

Given the presence of a lot of HP fans - including a number of Azkatraz and Infinitus team members at Dragon*Con, what better place to have the next Azkatraz+Infinitus Meet-Up?

As I just posted in the forums:

Learn more about the events, meet some of the organizers, talk HP for a while, and enjoy nibbles and drinks at Fandangles at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel from 8:30 until at least 10:00 on Friday night.

RSVPs appreciated but not required - you can text me if you can't find us when you get there. Or leave me your phone number and I'll text you sometime on Friday so you can text me back later.

We'll have some nibbles, postcards, a few sets of Azkatraz handcuffs and some sneak peeks at plans for Azkatraz and Infinitus.

I can't believe it's been over a month since I last posted a vid - and this one is something I actually finished in June, as it was the vid voleuse won by bidding on me in the vividcon auction last spring.

Title: This Is The Last...

Song: Stockholm Syndrome by Muse

Summary: "This is the last time I'll abandon you...."

Download it on MegaUpload or watch it ( behind the cut )

I made another version of the vid too, by running the video backwards ad re-synching it - you can download that version - the Stockholm Syndrome Dance Remix - here or watch it on YouTube ( behind the cut... )

Note: I wasn't very familiar with the song before voleuse requested it - and that's exactly why I love doing auctions! I get to hear all these songs I never thought about in a particular context before, and play with them with a specific concept or image in mind, and it's a challenge, but such a fun one. The complicated thing in this case was that I had two specific sets of images in mind, like I'd had for The Hero Is Me, which I made for seimaisin back in February, but in that vid, I was telling two parallel stories, and here, the reason for the double-tracking of the video was because I wanted a moebius-strip type of thing going on. While they're fighting at the end of Episode Three, all their experiences together from the past and the future are in their minds and their hearts. At the same time, to us - to the audience, every single thing we see in the series *before* their battle begins is filtered through the knowledge that (a) there will be this epic battle where Obi-Wan will damage Anakin so severely, and (b) that about twenty years later, Anakin will kill Obi-Wan, basically at Obi-Wan's wish.

What amazed me when I was first putting it together was that there are almost exactly as many seconds of actual fighting amid the volcanoes as there are seconds in the song. I had to leave very little battle footage on the cutting room floor. It was lovely synchronicity!

So thank you, voleuse, for prompting the vid! It was a delightful head-trip to make and then to play with!

Discovered via oliverw_feed, a reinterpritation of The Last Supper.

Discuss.

Also, specifically for laughingirl, ginsu and others who recognize the specific provenance of this icon: now that there are eight planets, should Ms Neville revise her novel?

1. Finally saw ( Attack of the Completely Terrible Script )

2. Got Douglas Adams' Salmon of Doubt, which I will read when I'm traveling next week. Meh, the sadness that this is the last book of his that we will get...

3. Went swimming. A lot. And finished another scene from SoC. 6 down... who knows how many to go..