new vid! Doctor Who, Handlebars

[flummery]

Our Vividcon Premieres vid is up now:

Vid title: Handlebars
Song artist: Flobots
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Vidders: Seah and Margie (Flummery)
Vidder website: http://flummery.org
Summary: I'm the Doctor. Look me up.

Notes: Thanks to merryish for the all the help, and especially all the baking, without which this vid probably never would have been finished in time. (she made us say that -- but it's true anyway.)

Right-click to download: http://flummery.org/handlebars/handlebars_dw_flummery.avi

There's a streaming version up on our imeem (http://flummery.imeem.com), but it's a little stuttery in spots and we're not sure why. Hopefully we'll get it figured out and fixed soon.

Imeem went boom, so we put a streaming version up on our site, which you can watch there or here:

ETA April 17, 2012: Our streaming vids are temporarily offline while we look into a technical issue. Sorry! The download still works, and we'll get the streaming version back up as soon as we can.

Comments

[darkseaglass.livejournal.com]

Exquisite!

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[slodwick.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, that is insanely awesome -- I love that song anyway, but man, now I'm gonna get chills whenever I hear it! *applauds*

[flummery.livejournal.com]

It seems sort of odd to say "yay, we changed your reaction to the song" when that reaction is now, you know... shivers, but -- Yay! Thank you!

[cereta.livejournal.com]

Yay yay yay yay!

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thank you!

[cromarty.livejournal.com]

This is absolutely superb, the living embodiment of "sometimes I think you need someone to stop you".

The chilling progression from exercising power for fun; to being judgmental with Harriet for doing what he does all the time; to destroyer of worlds (all for their own good, of course) is beautifully laid out and cut with tremendous wit and panache. And you never forget that his saving grace is that he loves too.

And as for the way you used the throwaway moment from Forest of the Dead as a crowning clip - it gave me chills.

I love dark Doctor, when its acknowledged in the show as ambiguous and not all "the Lonely god knows best" and this video made me very happy. And a little afraid ;)

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you so much for this. When we first heard the song, the progression in it made us go straight to the Doctor, and it's seriously cool to see people's reactions to that, and that it works as well as it does for us. Yay!

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

This vid blew me away, y'all. It was one of the standouts of my weekend. (Yeah, me and everybody else, I do realize that. *g*)

I don't watch Doctor Who; I've seen all of 2 eps. But I have some sense for the universe and the characters via fannish osmosis, and on Friday I was talking with laurashapiro about it, and she was noting that a lot of people seem to forget that the Doctor is not only adorable but also 900 years old and incredibly powerful and dangerous. Your vid took me from a place of "oh, hey, he's charming" to "OMG apocalypse" and back again, and I loved that journey.

Also the song is a total earworm and I think I have to acquire it just so I can learn something beyond the opening line which has been looping in my head for 2 days now. :-)

[flummery.livejournal.com]

*hugs you!* That is so incredibly cool, that you got so much out of it with so little context to go on! And hee, what perfect timing for Laura to have been talking about that! Because yeah, that's exactly it. I love the Doctor to bits, and have for 30-odd years now, but dude -- he ain't human, and his agenda is not our agenda, no matter how much he likes us. You get flashes of that coldness and arrogance and sheer power/danger in all of his incarnations, but Ten can just be completely out of control sometimes, and... yeah. He really is the Oncoming Storm, for all his charm and whimsy.

And hah, you expect sympathy for a few days of earworming? We've been listening to the damn thing since the first week of April -- in the thick of the vidding, I woke up singing it in my head every. damn. morning. Heh.

(You can get it off amazon downloads for $0.99, but I think you'd like the whole album -- these are very smart, very angry young men and women, who have very smart, very angry things to say about a whole lotta stuff. It's fabulous.)

[dancinguniverse.livejournal.com]

Wow. I just heard the song for the first time recently, and I never knew it was a perfect Dr. Who song until you vidded it. Fantastic. Really awesome.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

You would not believe how hard this song ear-wormed us! I am still playing it endlessly. Thank you so much for your kind words!

[eponis.livejournal.com]

Wow. This may be one of my favorite fanvids ever. You take the song and work with it so fabulously; the flow of images is just perfect, both at matching the lyrics and at telling a subtle, scary story. Recced here. (http://eponis.livejournal.com/361621.html)

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you so much - and for the rec, as well! That was really lovely, and I can't tell you how happy we both are that this worked so well for you. Yay!

[nam-jai.livejournal.com]

Came here via a rec and that was brilliant. I've got shivers. I'll have to echo what others have said -- the match of lyric to Harriet Jones could not have been more perfect, and that last shot was chilling.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! It seems so odd to say "yay we left you in shivers!" but -- yay, we left you in shivers!

The Harriet Jones bit was one of the very first we thought of, because it just personified that lyric for us, and we are both so psyched that it worked for people.

[beledibabe.livejournal.com]

Awesome!!

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[the-shoshanna.livejournal.com]

Did I actually manage to tell you that this vid is chillingly awesome, or did I just hug and babble a lot? Also, you guys are the queens of the perfect final clip.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

*hugs you madly* It's always good to hear it again! *g* And aw, thank you! We were beside ourselves with glee when that final clip aired in the show, because we instantly wanted it for our ending, and you would not believe how happy we are that it worked for people.

Poor Merry, though -- I don't think she's ever going to watch anything with us again if we're vidding it as it airs. Heh.

[nina-ds.livejournal.com]

Really excellent technical work, one of the best fanvids I've seen in that regard. In terms of content, I'm not sure where you stand on Ten (just as I don't know exactly where the show stands on him), but this certainly shows him to be the egotistical, hypocritical, petty, vindictive little creep I've always found him to be, in any case! His "power" is used in such a selfish way that it somehow seems small, even when it's destructive.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm really glad the vid worked for you -- and as a total aside, wow, I sort of adore that icon. Jabe!

[mildmannered.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's kind of amazing. That's also my old friend Jamie rapping, and he would love this vid.

[jenlp.livejournal.com]

Here at vonnie_k's rec. That was brilliant. I have to go watch again now...

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[lunasky.livejournal.com]

Wow. This is an amazing vid. I love the song choice and the selection of clips. Just--wow.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[petronelle.livejournal.com]

ficbyzee sent me. This is brilliant and makes me afraid of Ten, all over again. I'm also afraid *for* him here, which is something of a change.

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

Hey you! I was just thinking, you know who would like this: Petra. Only then I had to watch it again to be sure...

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

This is truly excellent. :D

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[alchemise]

Amazing vid. All the dark, scary parts of the Doctor (which are such an important part of him) laid bare. Fantastic use of the song too.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

[jhava.livejournal.com]

Words fail me. This was ... exquisite. I'd never heard the song before, but I can't think of a better one to exemplify who the Doctor is and your choice of clips sealed that deal. This vid is -- without question -- one of my all time favourite vids. Thank you for creating this and sharing it.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Thank you! When we first heard the song, we went pretty much directly to the Doctor, and it's making us both so happy that that's working for other people, too. Yay!

[oxoniensis.livejournal.com]

Wow, that was fantastic. I loved the way it showed all the shades of who the Doctor is, his humour and his power and the loyalty he engenders in others and so much more besides. Loved it!

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! All those shades are so fascinating to us, and it is so cool to hear that the vid worked in that way for you. Yay!

[rheanna27.livejournal.com]

Wow. Superb. That last shot -- ::shivers::. Yeah.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

ee, thank you!

[aurora]

Oh wow. This was absolutely amazing.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[dragojustine.livejournal.com]

I am so bad at vid feedback (I Do Not Get vids, as a general rule), but this was ASTONISHING. The lyrics match like they were made for it, and you problematize the doctor in a way even a vid-idiot like me can understand, and the sense of little-boy glee at the beginning is SO PERFECT.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Dude, you are not bad at vid feedback, trust me. :) This was so great to hear, thank you! When we first heard the song, all we could see was the Doctor; the matchup was perfect in our head, and you wouldn't believe how happy it's making us that that's working for other people too. And I'm so glad the progression made sense to you! *beams*

[20thcenturyvole.livejournal.com]

This impressed the hell out of me. Just so you know.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

[mycenae.livejournal.com]

I AM GIVING THAT A SLOW CLAP.

I think it was the 3rd or 4th time I heard that song on the radio that I actually listened to all the lyrics and went "whoa, this isn't just a silly, catchy song." My experience watching Doctor Who has been rather similar, in the way that the wacky fun adventures pull you in, but then when you really pay attention to it there's this dark rummination on power and how it can corrupt.

A seriously fantastic character study of the ambivalence of the Doctor.

[mycenae.livejournal.com]

Wow, that made less sense than I thought it did before I posted it. It's because I had to force myself to stop rewatching the vid to try to form thoughts and clearly not all my brain came with me. *rewatches some more*

[dementedsiren.livejournal.com]

To quote my reaction as I sat in my empty apartment for five minutes after watching this:

Wow. Wow. Wow.

The way you put this together, particularly as a statement about the Doctor, himself, is absolutely brilliant. The song lends itself to vidding, and the escalation in it is powerful on its own, but mixed with the increasingly destructive image of the Doctor, and particularly in the context the Series 4 ending, it fit in a truly organic (and more than a little frightening) way. Lovely, lovely job.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you so much! The song really is incredibly well-suited to vidding, and once we realized that in our heads, it was a perfect match to the Doctor (which was pretty much immediately), everything really did start growing organically from there. I'm so glad it worked for you so well!