First of all, I'm pleased as punch to have added a new fandom to Vividcon's database. I'll be adding more as time goes on. Next year... I have plans. Awesome plans. Of awesome.

I'll be making a separate post here later that's a general introduction for folks friending me for the first time. Don't be shy about friending me if I haven't done so first. I met a lot of neat people at Vividcon and I'm having trouble remembering all of their LJ/DW names. I should've kept a notebook!

Vividcon was... exceptionally different. I haven't had this much socialization at a Con since, um... ever. In a lot of ways, it was thoroughly exhausting for someone like me who's a stealth introvert. I did get to meet a ton of great people, see a lot of awesome vids, and learn a few things.

I had a minor-key introduction to showing my content to a group for the first time in the Bechdel Test vidshow, where my Josie and the Pussycats vid More Than One Way to Celebrity Skin a Pussycat debuted. I think the response went quite well, all things told.

Then came Premieres. The response to my Hammer Frankenstein vid Don't Stop Me Now didn't seem as positive, but at the time, I felt it was largely because I couldn't really hear that much over the sound of Freddie Mercury. A few people did approach me later to tell me they liked it, though!

Then... then came Vid Review. I don't really know how I felt about it. I think I heard more of the negative comments than the positive ones, but listening to other tear-downs directed at vids made by relative newbies, I can't say I found the experience to be an endorsement for return visits. I'm committed to being a better vidder and I will improve, however.

A list of vid recs will come later. Right now I should probably get back to work.

This is half for my own tracking purposes and half just to illustrate my own insanity. My to-do list through October:

( To spare the uninterested... )

First, I have started a new project with an attached blog. Visit Sifting Through the Great Unwatched as I try to watch four hundred movies in my DVD collection that I've never seen before. In the course of a single year. Should be fun.

Second, I will be attending VividCon this year. It'll be my first year in attendance and I'm totally stoked.