Gift Vid: Skynet: Life in the Balance - for ghost lingering

[chaila]

Title: Skynet: Life in the Balance
Recipient: ghost lingering
Vidder: seekingferret
Music: Philip Glass, "The Grid," from Koyaanisqatsi
Summary: "John Henry processes more information in a minute than we do in a lifetime. A millisecond for a supercomputer like this, it's almost like forever to us."

~Matt Murch, ZeiraCorp

A musical essay on Skynet

Notes: Warning for effects that probably count as strobing, albeit fairly slowly. Thanks for chaila for beta help.

Link: Link to signed vid post.

Comments

[ghost_lingering]

hahaha, I am going to count that as an ALL IN.

Thinking about it, I think you'd have to format it similar to how Big Bangs are formatted. Turn in drafts of x number of vids/minutes every month until a final deadline at the end.

I think you'd either get 32 vidders who have become a tight knit group at the end or you'd get 32 vidders who have all smashed their computers in rage. WHO KNOWS.

[sanguinity]

Count it as you like. Getting me to behave like I've committed is another thing. :-P

Those options aren't exclusive!

[seekingferret]

That's certainly one way to format it. The other way is to not have any deadline and just have a signup list of variations and check off variations as someone completes them. Maybe claiming a variation gives you exclusivity for a three month period?

I dunno, I'm just always in favor of figuring out lower pressure ways to do things as well as higher pressure ways. With the Big Bang-style approach, if we don't get 32 vidders right away, it loses the urgency instantly. With a more relaxed approach we can start small and gain vidders one at a time as they see a neat project and have time to make a vid for it.

[ghost_lingering]

Oh, yes! That actually sounds better. It is also looser in that you wouldn't *have* to cap it at 32 if there were more than 32 vidders interested. ...which of course there would be, clearly. (or possibly not) I think regular check-ins would be cool though, perhaps in part because I'm a deadline motivated person. (If Losing Our Religions had just been a thing I thought of with no deadlines it might never have gotten made, much less posted.)

I have been contemplating what fandom I would want to claim and that is really where things are getting tricky for me. So many fandoms, so many variations!

[seekingferret]

I know, so many options!

I know I'd want there to be a C.J. Cregg variation, because of "The Long Goodbye". I'm not really sure which variation, though. I think in the episode they only play the aria.



Anyway, should we set up a community to start planning this?

[ghost_lingering]

Definitely! (Comm name = Goldberg Vidderations?) (Which is more vidder+iteration than vid+variation, but it sounds better than other things, possibly?) (Terrible puns, I haz them.)

I'm already working on a C.J. Cregg vid so I leave that variation up to someone else, but I can see the West Wing in general being good fodder for the project. There are some interesting (and some too-on-the-nose) ideas I can see for that show in the context of the variations.

FYI, my e-mail is ghost (dot) lingering (at) gmail (dot) com if you want to chat about this more before starting a comm? e-mail is easier for me to respond to most days than dw comments.