Vidrec Thursday
Aug. 20th, 2020 09:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretooh, three weeks in a row, go me!
I honestly can't believe I haven't recced this vid on dreamwidth yet, I definitely ran around reccing it to everyone as soon as I watched it.bironic premiered "Game On" at con-txt this year and it is so amazing.
The relevant xkcd:
This is a vid about seeing narratives in the randomness of sports, about how sports lets stories about relationships unfold, stories about trying to be our best selves, stories about how we interact with the world. It's a vid about finding patterns in randomness. And it is so incredibly good at using visual patterns to stand in for other kinds of patterns.
The most stunning element of the vid, and there are many stunning things, is the match cuts of balls moving from sports to sport.bironic throughout the vid transitions between different sports by matching someone throwing a ball in one clip to someone catching a different ball in the following clip, coming from the same angle. It's so good it almost makes me angry, because if I'd thought of it I could have solved several significant problems with "Ein Hanamer". It suggests multiple kinds of continuity, continuity of disparate sports, continuity of the patterns we read into sports, continuity of the emotional narratives that surround sports.
But I love many, many other things about this vid! I love that its representation of athletes in wheelchairs is set in a continuum of different people doing sports at different levels: amateur athletes, pro athletes, children, adults, the elderly, men, women, everyone finding their place where they can express themselves and push their limits in physical competition.
I love the way it represents the cycles of joy and pain, success and failure, that are inevitable in sports and which we can shape into narratives even if they don't naturally fall into them.
I love the way it moves seamlessly from real sports of science fictional sports and shows that continuity, that when we imagine sports we imagine the same mechanics of success and failure, the same pushing of limits, but in venues where our bodies can do even more- fly on broomsticks, handle light, leap impossible distances.
And I just love the sheer musicality in the motion of the vid, which is not surprising because it's one ofbironic's trademarks, but wow is this a mesmerizingly beautiful vid to watch.
"Game On" at AO3
I honestly can't believe I haven't recced this vid on dreamwidth yet, I definitely ran around reccing it to everyone as soon as I watched it.
bironic premiered "Game On" at con-txt this year and it is so amazing. The relevant xkcd:
Commentator to the left: A weighted random number generator just produced a new batch of numbers.
Commentator to the right: Let's use them to build narratives!
This is a vid about seeing narratives in the randomness of sports, about how sports lets stories about relationships unfold, stories about trying to be our best selves, stories about how we interact with the world. It's a vid about finding patterns in randomness. And it is so incredibly good at using visual patterns to stand in for other kinds of patterns.
The most stunning element of the vid, and there are many stunning things, is the match cuts of balls moving from sports to sport.
bironic throughout the vid transitions between different sports by matching someone throwing a ball in one clip to someone catching a different ball in the following clip, coming from the same angle. It's so good it almost makes me angry, because if I'd thought of it I could have solved several significant problems with "Ein Hanamer". It suggests multiple kinds of continuity, continuity of disparate sports, continuity of the patterns we read into sports, continuity of the emotional narratives that surround sports.But I love many, many other things about this vid! I love that its representation of athletes in wheelchairs is set in a continuum of different people doing sports at different levels: amateur athletes, pro athletes, children, adults, the elderly, men, women, everyone finding their place where they can express themselves and push their limits in physical competition.
I love the way it represents the cycles of joy and pain, success and failure, that are inevitable in sports and which we can shape into narratives even if they don't naturally fall into them.
I love the way it moves seamlessly from real sports of science fictional sports and shows that continuity, that when we imagine sports we imagine the same mechanics of success and failure, the same pushing of limits, but in venues where our bodies can do even more- fly on broomsticks, handle light, leap impossible distances.
And I just love the sheer musicality in the motion of the vid, which is not surprising because it's one of
bironic's trademarks, but wow is this a mesmerizingly beautiful vid to watch. "Game On" at AO3
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Date: 2020-08-21 02:08 am (UTC)oh hey, Dreamwidth didn't copy LJ's blunder of axing the comment subject line feature! sweet.
Date: 2020-09-01 04:45 am (UTC)the way you describe it immediately reminded me of this AMV (Best Action at AnimeNEXT 2015) which does some similarly clever juxtapositions to tie together various animé (usually sports animé) -- it's a different kind of "action" video than what one usually sees, and I love it.
also, sorry I did not comment here sooner, but it seems that you're no longer crossposting to LJ, so none of these posts have been showing up on my friends page.
Re: oh hey, Dreamwidth didn't copy LJ's blunder of axing the comment subject line feature! sweet.
Date: 2020-09-01 01:55 pm (UTC)But thanks, that'a a really cool AMV.
Re: oh hey, Dreamwidth didn't copy LJ's blunder of axing the comment subject line feature! sweet.
Date: 2020-09-01 11:03 pm (UTC)