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

[baffledking.livejournal.com]

Holy wow. This was awesome.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Here via a rec on my friendsfriends list, and I just want to say that was a stunning vid. I've never heard the song before, and it worked so well with the images you used, circling round from light to dark to light again.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

OMG. Just wow.

Wow.

*loves*

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[the-star-fish.livejournal.com]

I really really really really really really really really really really loved this vid. A lot.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thank you very much!

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Oh my, me and the eight odd friends who came over tonight just want to say we loved, loved LOVED this and thank you so much for sharing.

It really brought up how much we love Ten :)

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is so cool to hear. Thank you!

[kattahj.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. That is seriously perfect. Beautifully made video, and such a chilling yet fitting song choice.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[naye]

I don't really have any words for how perfect this vid is, in every sense of the world. Absolutely stunning, what you bring into sharp focus about the Doctor. And it's such a beautiful vid, too - the way the lyrics and the clips and the pacing of it all works, it's a sheer joy to watch.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Wow -- thank you so much!

[anenko.livejournal.com]

That was an incredible vid. Absolutely stunning.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[fannishnonsense]

Wow. Just, wow.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!

[stultiloquentia.livejournal.com]

Brilliant. I'm saving this. I think it's an awesomely readable, note-perfect example of "What Vidding Is" to show to a newbie.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. That is such a cool thing to hear! Thank you!

[kheha.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'm crap at commenting to vids, but you guys -- this is awesome. LOVE it. Chilling and stupidly reckless, and oblivious to it all. That's my Ten.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

I dunno, you don't seem like a crap commenter to me at all! Thank you so much!

[vivien]

This video is brilliant. You capture not only the spirit of the song - how absolute power corrupts absolutely - but you also captured the awesome (in the traditional sense of the word) character of the Doctor, who is pretty damn scary at times. Well done.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

[travels-in-time.livejournal.com]

You know, when I first saw the finger-snapping door-opening--during the actual ep--it looked so cute and innocent, like a little kid getting something right finally and being so thrilled about it.

By the time I got to the end of this vid, it didn't look that way at all.

The clips were perfect, the timing was excellent, and the way it escalated so subtly that you almost don't notice...that is the way the Doctor's been portrayed in the new series, to me (at least Ten), and it's brilliant and terrifying. Excellent vid.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Yay, thank you so much!

[meteordust.livejournal.com]

Wow. I came here via a rec, quailed a little when I saw the vid size, but downloaded anyway. So worth it. I didn't know the song, but I had a sense that something would be coming, and man it did. Just brilliant. Now to watch it again.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Ack, sorry about the large vid size. But I'm very glad you liked the vid -- thank you so much!

[vivian-lake.livejournal.com]

Brilliant. And scary.
I spent almost all day trying to download it - but in the end it was worth it.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

eep, apologies for the difficult/long download! But I'm so glad you enjoyed the vid -- thank you!

[effulgentnida.livejournal.com]

Fantastic, great song choice and the fantastic editing and selection of clips, great video.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[keiko-kirin.livejournal.com]

So, tonight klia and thevetia show me "Handlebars." I think my immediate reaction was:
Ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod.

Then I moved on to more coherent analysis:
That was fucking brilliant.

I can't grow up to be you, so I want to grow up and become one of your vids. Because then I'll be: brilliant, beautiful, perfectly timed, interesting and entertaining at the same time, and *fucking awesome*.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Dude, of course you can't grow up to be us. Not if we're trying to grow up to be you guys! Duh.

But that aside -- eeeeee thank you so much!! *beams madly*

[lyn-b.livejournal.com]

omg, i'm shocked speechless. LOVE IT. You really captured all the sides of the Doctor very well, especially the more dangerous, slightly unhung side of his personality.
*shakes head in admiration*

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

[beccaelizabeth]

That's a good vid. It builds up slow and sneaks up and Says Something. And also is fun.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[foreverdirt.livejournal.com]

Wow. This took my breath away.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[storybystory.livejournal.com]

Okay, this was brilliant. I really liked the Ninth Doctor and was not at all sure about Ten. He's totally won me over, and what I lovelovelove is how you captured why in this vid: he's so believably that joyful, playful goof right up to the minute he scares you to death.

And I kinda live under a rock, musically speaking, and love it when I find songs that I clearly need to go get **right now** through someone else's art, so thanks!

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Yay, thank you so much!

[ellie-i.livejournal.com]

Totally, totally love this vid. It gives me shivers every time. Sometimes literalism turns me off, but sometimes it's just perfect - *shivers on cue*.

Thought you might like to know (if you don't already) that it's been linked to by Paul Cornell at his blog here (http://paulcornell.blogspot.com/2008/08/worldcon.html), who seems impressed. Nice one!

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And eeee, thanks for that link! omg.

[longtimegone]

This might seriously be one of the best Doctor Who vids I've ever seen. You've captured the glory and the horror of the Doctor in a really effective way. Excellent vid!

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you!

[sundancekid.livejournal.com]

Wow. This is just -- what I love is the relentless progression, the way there is no stopping the build of this vid (or of the Doctor's actions), they way that his charm is what makes him a monster, that the funny silly side and the oncoming storm, one cannot exist without the other. Good work.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Yay, thank you! As soon as we heard the progression in the song, we knew it had to be for the Doctor.

[batyatoon]

Wow. Just wow.

Because the Doctor really is that awesome. And he really is that dangerous. And he really is that flawed.

And he really is that awesome.

I didn't know this song before I saw the vid and now I have it stuck in my head. And, I think, inextricably linked to the Doctor. Well done.

[flummery.livejournal.com]

Yay, thank you so much!