VidUKon 2021

[bonibaru]

Hello Vexercisers! Hope you're having a good time working on your projects, or, if you're like me, thinking about working on your project, then accidentally re-watching your source all day until it's too late to work on your project 😬 (grimace.emoji) but that's OK!

VidUKon convention is coming up soon (details at vidukon_cardiff). This year lola and bonibaru are running both a Vexercises Panel to talk about this project, and a Vexercises Vid Show to exhibit some of the different creations this talented group have made in the past two years.

Before finalizing the vidshow playlist, we need to confirm whether everyone is OK with having any of your vexercises shown at the convention (creators will be credited in the show program). If you do not wish to have your vexercise(s) played in the vidshow for VidUKon, please let lola or bonibaru know as soon as possible. The deadline for the final playlist is May 23 - please let us know no later than May 21 if you would like to opt-out (this will give us time to rearrange or substitute as needed).

Unfortunately we can't show all the works, as much as we would love to - there are ~150 works in the AO3 collection so far, representing 50+ different fandoms! Narrowing down to a vidshow time limit of 45 minutes has been a challenge - so many good works! So much creativity! We're working on having a good mix between the different exercises as well as spreading the works out between fandoms as much as possible. But we want to make sure to respect individual's wishes, so if you would prefer not to have your vids used, we're happy to oblige.

You can comment below or, if you wish to speak to an admin privately, you can DM lola or bonibaru via Dreamwidth, Twitter, e-mail, or however you prefer. Thanks everyone! Keep up the great work!

Lyrical Play Check In

[lola]

Hi folks--Sorry for the last-moment-of-the-weekend check in.... (that 2nd dose of vaccine was a doozy and I was a little out of it this weekend!) BUT how are the lyrical play vexercises going? This is a funny one, because a) using text is not a thing that some folks do much at all in certain vidding corners and b) the second version, where the text doesn't go with lyrics, can feel especially out-of-the-norm from a vidding perspective. But it can also produce some really cool results!! Can't wait to see what folks come up with this round :)