Vid rec, birthdays, due date

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A whole bunch of very cool people had their birthdays on the 5th, 8th, 9th and 10th of August, namely:

dashan (5.8.)
non-LJ user but occasional commenter Kiki, magnifica7, (and me) (8.8.)
knorgk (9.8.)
beccatoria (10.8.)

Happy birthday to all - and also, belatedly, apologies to everyone whose birthdays I've already managed to miss this year - I'm notoriously bad at the social skill of birthday remembering, and can only remember this particular bunch so well because they form a remarkable cluster that happens to include several of my closest friends and both of my main betas(!).

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I got a nasty stomach bug for my own birthday, btw - started the day vomiting and spent most of the weekend recovering. (I'm fine again now.)

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Speaking of my beta and birthday-neighbour beccatoria: I've been meaning to post a vid rec here, but I wanted to do it well. As so often, that meant postponement after postponement, as I tried to find the time to write up a post detailing why exactly I think beccatoria is one of the best vidders I've had the joy of seeing work by. As I still haven't found the time, and other tasks - among them demanding ones such as starting on my thesis writing - are piling up as well, I've decided to just do a short rec instead:

This is beccatoria's vid website. It doesn't look like much, but the vids are superb. Her early work already showed great promise - in fact, already showed a level of accomplishment that many vidders never attain, with the only serious problem the sometimes poor image quality due to poor quality source material. She reached an early peak with "Jesus Walks", marrying BSG's Laura Roslin with hip hop with amazing success. I've recced that vid here before.

She's recently been vidding a lot, and making great progress. I could rec any of her recent vids - well, let's just make that: I *do* rec all of her recent vids. Particular favourites are the latest three, though. "There's a War Going On For Your Mind, Laura" is just... mind-blowing in its cleverness (and, if you've ever vidded in Windows Movie Maker, knowing that she achieved that vid in that infernal program will add another layer of mind-bogglement). It's also another successful combination of hip hop and president Roslin. "Tricks" and "Ghosts" I love (among other reasons) for their great sense of rhythm and movement - large parts of these vids play out almost like a dance, and this, for me, is one of the highest achievements in vidding.

So, go and download some of beccatoria's vids. Better yet, download all of them. There's not a single bad one among them, just mindbogglingly awesome ones and merely very good ones. *g*

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In other news: I have a due date for my thesis: January 30, 2009.

Comments

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Hooray for the August crop of birthdays! A great month to be born in!

I'm so sorry you were sick! At least you're feeling better now, right? Maybe you should hold yourself a belated birthday party with cake and stuff to celebrate your non-sickness?

Also, thank you very much for such a lovely recc! To be honest, looking back, there are a few in there that I think are kind of clunky, but it's nice to know that they showed early promise. ;)

And GOOD LUCK with your thesis! You have ages! You'll be fine! I have complete faith in you! I am always available for email discussions if necessary!