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Year end vid meme going around which...I'm not going to do because I made a vid, as in singular, this year. People seemed to like it, I had fun making it, and really if you're only going to have one vid in a year Galaxy Quest is not a bad way to go.

I did learn stuff, though. Having now conquered festivids, I know that even a long dry spell has an end, and I will vid again. The Shiny Things Project, even though I never made anything that ended up public was...interesting. I was glad to get more familiar with the effects programs, so that if I do need them I won't be scared to at least try.

But, I also reached an understanding with myself. I'm not a graphic artist, and more importantly, I don't want to be a graphic artist. Fiddling around with the shiny can be fun, but it just doesn't have the same bone deep satisfaction that I get from me and the razor tool and a solid edit...and that is most likely to match what's in my head when the vid comes out. Other people 'see' in swirls and shiny and that's awesome and brilliant. I 'see' in straight cuts and that is also awesome. I will also throw down with anyone who says it's not as challenging or effective a technique, and mostly I'm aiming that at myself and my inferiority complex. Yo, self, a solid sequence of strong straight cuts is nothing to sniff at, so quit being so down on yourself.

I'm entering the new year a lot more confident than I was even a few weeks ago. It's amazing what actually filling up a timeline will do for a person. Now, to keep it going and get some of the backlog of vids on my hard drive on their way. \o/

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A True Story About Bananas

This happened over the course of the last two weeks (distilled to the basics),

my leg: *hurts*
me: *freaks out*
sisabet: are you eating bananas?
me: wtf?
leg: *hurts more*
me: OMG I AM DYING
sisabet: no, seriously bananas?
me: I'm dying and you're talking about bananas?
chest: I think I will tighten now and freak you out more
me: blood clot! I am SO DYING.
*rushes to er*
er: *scans and scans and finds no blood clot*
me: then it's cancer, the cancer is back
sisabet: ba. na. na.
me: SHUT UP I AM DYING
*asks oncologist about hurty leg*
oncologist: are you eating bananas?
me: *FACEPALM*
me: eats bananas
leg: awesome! I'll be hurting less now, thanks!

In conclusion...sometimes you should just eat the damn banana.