The news

[bironic]

Life takes a turn for the exciting, on both RL and fannish fronts.

RL news - Moving to Boston!

You guys, I applied for what is basically the 9-to-5 of my dreams, and (several interviews and tests and negotiations later) they gave it to me. Then I went up to apartment hunt in the best/worst real estate season of the year there. I was so stressed out I got off the plane shaking, yet somehow I was incredibly lucky and landed my first choice. I am thrilled, even though it, like everything else in the city, is $.

Which means in less than a month I will be living in a beautiful 1 BR instead of a studio, giving the work I have been wanting to do for years a try, at a Prestigious University that I didn't expect to have a chance to be affiliated with.

Is this my life? I'm not sure this is my life. Something is bound to go wrong. Right?

(The downsides: becoming yet another person leaving my office, leaving some coworkers I like and sticking them with a lot of work; and, more important, leaving friends behind. deelaundry, cincodemaygirl, alpheratz, ellen_fremedon, recrudescence and v_greyson whom I've hardly been able to see, etc. etc., and of course synn, although we have already weathered three or four interstate separations. :( :( :(

It will be nice, though, in exchange, to see more of the Boston-area fanpeople - Ny and parrot and thirdmouse and kass, maybe get in touch with bathsweaver if she's still there, whom I barely got to know before I moved away last time - plus some grad school classmates who stuck around and also my college friend S., the fellow Trekkie I've mentioned here a few times over the years.

Whom else do I know or should I meet up there??)


Fannish news - Starships remix is live!

I have been remiss in not pointing you to jetpack_monkey's remix of Starships, along with a source list and a side-by-side comparison that will knock your astrosocks off. He used all black and white footage, all pre-moon landing air dates, aglow with hope and joy and silliness and the sort of string-and-matchsticks special effects that hold a special place in so many of our hearts.

As if the effort he put into securing and cleaning up the footage over the better part of a year weren't enough -- seriously, be sure to read the vid notes -- he scoured it all thoroughly enough and worked the speeds well enough to achieve pretty much a shot for shot homage to Starships. Cigarette smoking, salutes, bubble helmets, launches and crashes, little flying pellets, you name it. Chess for poker. Astro Boy for WALL-E, holding up the sky. The Lost in Space robot for Data the android, embodying the way technology and the sources themselves have evolved over the decades. A flying submarine for the flying Winnebago, because ridiculousness endures though it may change shapes. Billy Mumy for Nog, the boy wonders. And the TARDIS, stretching across eras. So many brilliant choices. So many I have yet to fully appreciate because I don't know all the source material.

It's an absolute thrill to see jetpack_monkey's vid come to fruition and receive the accolades he and it deserve. It's a humbling tribute to what I rushed to put together last year, and it absolutely stands on its own as a love letter to the sci fi shows and movies of yore.

What are you waiting for? Go watch it. (Or, you know, go watch it again.)

(I've been able to watch some other Vividcon vids and need to do a recs list. One of these days, in between packing boxes and getting paperwork settled.)

Comments

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Eee, congratulations! *dances delightedly*

I look forward to introducing you to azephirin and ninhursag unless TDP beats me to it. And to feeding you dinneR! And to Fangirl Time!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

\o/ You and ninhursag wrote most of my favorite Reboot kink meme fills; I may have to fangirl all over her for a minute before returning to my usual reserved self.

[anoel.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the job!! That's awesome. If you want to hang out with some Boston vidders, I know laura47, thirdblindmouse and shati throw some vidparties especially around Festivids :)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Oh, is shati there? Neat - we met last VVC and she seemed tres cool.

And, thanks!

[flywoman.livejournal.com]

That is awesome news! Congratulations!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

And glad you enjoyed the remix & came back to watch the original!

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the new job! How wonderful for you!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! It's exciting. Especially now that the apartment bit is settled.

[mific.livejournal.com]

Excellent news! And god, that side-by-side with the remix. Made me grin and tear up.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Is that not the coolest? It is the coolest.

And, thanks!

[amnisias.livejournal.com]

Wow, congrats on new job and accommodation. You must be so excited. And stressed. particularly with the house move, I love the house hunting, the opportunities it presents, and the possibility for day dreaming, but the ACTUAL, PHYSICAL moving I have with a vengance. Well, at lelast your in good practice, after you sorterd through your dad's garage. And from what I've seen, if you have even only a few of his organisation genes, you'll be okay. Do you get relocation money...?

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Ha, so true about the garage/basement practice and the inheritance of organizational skills. Already I have a stack of packed boxes lined up against one wall. The stress is much less now that the apartment part is settled. When I've got an actual move-in date and can arrange for the vehicle (be it a van/trailer or storage pod), then I'll be, as they say, golden.

They're giving me a sign-on bonus to help with relocation. I've already allocated most of it! Moving is expensive, yo. But I don't mind the labor of it. I like packing and considering how to move into a new space, when there's time for it. And I've had a lot of practice moving furniture, so as long as there's a friend or two to help on both sides of the trip, everything should be okay.

<3

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting this!

The Billy Mumy-for-Nog thing is actually one of those clips I put down because I liked the shot and I needed a face there. Only when viewing it in the side-by-side did I realize how appropriate the parallel was. Accidental synchronicity!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Hey, credit your subconscious maybe!

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Oh and congrats on the new job!

Boston has a great concentration of vidders and I often contemplate visiting. If I do, I will definitely want to hang out!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

That would be tres cool!

[therienne.livejournal.com]

\o/ !!!

someone else's loss is our gain? Welcome to Boston! We must have a vid party and grill some burgers when you get here!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Hi!! That would be amazing. Oh my goodness, even your comment and the thought of new fan friends is brightening my day.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I know it's not exactly BBQ weather at the moment, but hi, I'm moved in and settled and it would be great to meet you guys at some point! I'm also closet.fangirl at gmail if that becomes easier.

[stultiloquentia.livejournal.com]

I'm in Boston! I don't know many local fans, so I'd LOVE to meet up and have parties and things! :D

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Ah, right! I have enjoyed you and your brain on DW since con.txt and would love a chance to get together again.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I'm here now and settling in; hopefully opportunities will arise soon to get together. Not sure whereabouts you are based or what your activity preferences are... Want to connect by email? I'm closet.fangirl at gmail.