Throwback Thursday #2

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Gahhh, my friends page is full of such wonderful stuff today, especially in amilliondays! Most of you are talking about t.v. and music and show, and you know I'll be talking about that a lot in coming weeks, but for now I'll blab more about gishwhes, because it's my favorite event of the year and it's still not over for me mentally (fegvep!! coming soon).

Gradually managing to catch up, on lj and everywhere else, after gishwhes! Our house wasn't quite the wreck it's been in past years; just some clutter, mostly, that cleaned up quick. One year there was food coloring on the bathroom walls and an entire tray full of gingerbread; at least it's not that bad this time around!

I promised in amilliondays that I'd post my gishwhes items from this year, but since it's Throwback Thursday, I figured I would post my items from past years, since that's certainly a thing that's made me happy in the past, and I'm not sure I was brave enough back then to post my items! It'll also serve as an introduction to this year's items inasmuch as maybe it'll show you why I'm so pleased with my growth as a video-maker, because my first year's videos ... pretty basic. I've learned a lot, thanks to gishwhes. It's the only time of year I make videos, and I have an absolute ball at it. I was a film major once. That dream seemed long dead, but for 15 seconds at a time for one week out of the year, I get to delve into it!

The item was: VIDEO. It turns out that jellyfish will be big winners in global warming. Create a PSA to help the humans prepare for a future with jellyfish overlords. 23 points

Fun with Windows Movie Maker, which it turns out isn't the virtually useless video editing program I thought it was! I only learned that this year. The transitions still aren't the best, but with enough creativity and experimentation, you can make them look pretty good. This was me just starting out using the program:

Jellyfish PSA:

VIDEO. Tweed Porn. Let's see it with an appropriate porn sound track played on a lone kazoo. (No nudity required.) 23 points

LOL--I like that no nudity is REQUIRED. Merely SUGGESTED, maybe? Were I to do it now, I'd do a lot more with the visuals. ... Then again, the dimly lit room, cruddy camerawork and close-up is rather suggestive of porn. Still, I adore this one, because we totally went for it, Patty's kazoo-porn-music is hilarious, and the whole team came up with ideas for the script, most especially SpringLea, queen of puns.

Don't make me get the lint roller!

VIDEO. Which is faster: a baby learning to crawl or a turtle? Let's see a race. 26 points

An otherwise almost completely uninvolved last-minute member of our team (who kind of seemed offended by the whole idea of gishwhes--it seemed like the person who talked her into joining hadn't actually told her what she was signing up for) happened to have a crawling-age baby, the guy on our team who has virtually every object you could ever want somewhere on his property happened to have a turtle (we named him on the spot so we could cheer him on in the race), so we managed to get this item! Toby, dude ... maybe you should have trained more.

Baby vs. Turtle Race

IMAGE. Gingerbread Villages are always so cute and quaint. Make a gingerbread village that shows urban blight: needle exchanges, prostitution, heavy police presence, etc. 97 points

Here's the source of all that food coloring and gingerbread! If you look closely, you can see all sorts of unsavory details ....

http://i.imgur.com/XgR0O7e.jpg

I'm loving all the amilliondays happy, people!! And seeing what used to float your boat/still does. <3

Comments

[kalliel]

I couldn't tell you why, but "entire tray of gingerbread" made me laugh. I love that that sentiment bookends this post. XD And I remember the jellyfish PSA! Which is great. You're so right, though--your camerawork and what you do with WMM has totally transformed, beginning with this PSA and coming up through the tweed porn (which is SO so low-q porny, ahahaha YES) and then the Sinscreen commercial this year. Just WOW. So awesome. Hoorah for gishwhes and its week of madness / aple reason to strut your stuff in all possible ways!

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

You know what, there's no greater joy than watching someone achieve something, GISHWHES allows us to achieve something. It may be silly, it may be irreverent, or it may be sentimental but it's a damned fine thing to know that one week out of the year we're gonna be pushing ourselves to create and enjoy and just jump in feet first! Thank you for this, I adore Tweed Porn, just AWESOME, and I dunno why but "entire tray of gingerbread" just made me giggle!

[septembers-coda.livejournal.com]

Ah, these are SO GREAT. Jellyfish PSA will forever be one of my favorites. I loved that I just came into your room from whatever I'd been doing and you had just DONE it, all on your own, and it was GENIUS. And hilarious. Ah, I just watched it again and I always have to watch it at least twice. :-D :-D

I am proud to have my tweed porn kazoo serenade in your shuffle. And we've done some awesome stuff in GISHWHES since then, but Baby vs. Turtle is kind of one of the most accessible entries; I find it's a good way to explain what GISWHES is to confused coworkers.

You are amazing, and I loved hearing your memories and your process, even if I was there for much of it-- it adds so much. <3

[jj1564.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing your wonderful vids, "Don't make me get the lint roller!" made me laugh, and I love that Toby the turtle barely moved at all! The urban gingerbread scene is awesome, it must have taken ages to do all that!

I'm looking forward to seeing what you did this year :)