Songvid: Avatar Dance Mix (United State of Pop 2009)

[sholio]

The Avatar AMV of doooom is finally ready to be released into the wild! Thank you very much to gnine for looking it over for me, and giving very helpful feedback & suggestions. (And if you guys haven't heard this song mashup before, it's brilliant - I was blown away the first time I heard it, because the songs fit together like they were meant to be. And it was so much fun to vid!)

Title: Avatar Dance Mix
Song: United State of Pop 2009 - Blame It on the Pop (mashup of the Billoard top 25 pop songs of 2009)
Artist: Mashup by DJ Earworm - full list of songs & artists at www.djearworm.com
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Seasons/Spoilers: Clips from (nearly) every episode for all 3 seasons
*If you haven't seen the series at all, the clips are short and out of order, so I'm not sure how spoiled you'd actually be, depending on how spoilerphobic you are. If you're currently watching it, you'll be spoiled for future events out the wazoo.

Download: Large - MP4, 74 Mb | Small - WMV, 25 Mb
Streaming: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAf53g_D5So

ETA: Now with embedding! (Further ETA 1-2-13: The embed turns out to be broken, for who knows how long, but it's fixed now!)

Comments

[stultiloquentia]

You are barking mad and a genius and I LOVE YOU. *downloads large version, puts on repeat, and stares, chin in hands*

Oh god, that is so full of happy. You got all my favourite moments. (You kinda just got all the moments, there, period. Dude.)

[twtd]

Wow... Just, wow.

[chagrined]

Awwwww that is so great. Now I am full of all these ~feelings~ toward Avatar and it is making me sad that I cannot rewatch the entire show RIGHT NOW. *shakes fist at other things to do* So I am definitely keeping this vid for future rewatching, yay!

[sholio]

*squees and bounces* Thank you so much! I think I have most of my favorite moments in there, too. (I couldn't cram in everything, but I tried!)

Happy show makes me happy!

[sholio]

Thank you! :)

[sholio]

Thank you so much! I kinda just started from the idea of making vid about everything about the show that makes me happy, and went from there. *g* (And now I want to rewatch it all over again from the beginning - for the first time! AND I CAN'T, because there is only one first time! *is sad*)

[cofax7]

OH!

Oh, I LOVE that mashup, ever since I saw that Glee vid to it last spring, and this is even better because I love all the ATLA characters, and you included so much of everyone, even Haru and Hakoda.

I think my favorite bit was the clip with the planetarium opening: just lovely.

What a wonderful vid!

[kouredios]

I just finished the series yesterday (with much urging from my 5-year-old daughter, who is completely in love with the show), and this was a gorgeous coda. Thank you!

[musesfool]

Oh, lovely!

[sholio]

Thank you so very much; I'm delighted that you liked it! I couldn't fit in everyone, and I ended up stiffing Mai a bit (I had a lot more clips of her that I wanted to use, but they were nearly all clips of her and Zuko, and I had fifty billion clips of Zuko already ...) but I tried to get as many of the supporting characters as possible, because this is truly a show where I love everybody, and wanted them all to have their moments in the sun. I'm so happy you enjoyed it!

[sholio]

Thank you so much! I'm delighted you enjoyed the vid, and I think it's awesome that you and your daughter were able to love the show together!

[sholio]

Thank you! :)

[kouredios]

I've shown her the vid a few times now too, and she's all, "I remember that part! I remember that part too!" And when it gets to Sokka's loopy vision of the mushroom cloud, she giggles and says, "Friendly mushroom." :D

[arduinna]

Right now the embedded version is only on LJ because for some reason I can't get it to work on DW. *flappy hands* Embedded video to follow once I figure this out. (Does anyone know how to do it? The LJ "video" tag doesn't seem to work, and the Youtube embed code causes the embedded video to bounce to the very top of the entry, which is not what I want at all!)

DW uses [site-embed] instead of [lj-embed]. If you're using the DW post-entry page, just click the "embed media" button and paste the embed code into that, then hit "insert", and your video will be embedded between [site-embed] [/site-embed] tags. The downside is that no matter where your cursor is in the post when you hit "insert", it'll put the video at the bottom of the page; if you want to move it, just cut&paste the chunk of code to wherever in the post you want it to go.

p.s. I think you want to say "the clips are very short and out of order" -- for video-related things, interlaced means that there are lines running through the footage because of how it was created to be displayed on CRT tvs.

[sholio]

Aha! Thank you so much; I will go and try that! I was tearing my hair out, trying to make it embed. :D (And thank you for the terminology note, too! *edits*)

ETA: I tried it, but it's still bouncing the embedded video to the very top of the post. Is that just a glitch in my site style, maybe? I want it at the bottom so that I can hide it under a cut.

[sholio]

Incidentally, this is what happens when I try to embed. I'm putting the code at the end, but the embedded vid is showing up at the top; I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

[livrelibre]

Awww Avatar! That was so much fun!

[sholio]

*giggles* Friendly mushroom! That whole hallucination sequence was so hilarious.

I'm so happy that she likes the vid too! :D

[actiaslunaris]

Aww, there's just so much there that puts a happy lump in my throat--'life (?) knocks you down' clips especially, and Zuko on 'the risks that I'm taking', and Katara and Toph breaking rules! It's all awesome.

About the embedding, you might try embedding and then cutting and pasting the code it puts in your post in your text where you want it. (For me it always knocks it down to the bottom of my post, so I know how frustrating that is, but c&p always seems to work for me.)

[arduinna]

Hm - that shows up at the bottom of the post for me, so I'm not sure what you're seeing. This is what I get:

[arduinna]

And for completeness' sake, here's what I see looking at your front page - it's at the bottom there, too:

[sholio]

Oh, weird! It must be a Safari thing, then, because I see it like this in Safari (and switching to light mode, etc doesn't help):



I guess that one's a legitimate bug ... though a very confusing one.

[arduinna]

... Oh, that is just bizarre! What an odd bug.

Aha!

[sholio]

And now I've determined that it does in fact display correctly in the newest version of Safari, which I have on my laptop ... just not in ye olde Safari that I use for most of my browsing. Ha. That thought had not even occurred to me!

Thank you very much for helping me troubleshoot this! I guess I'll go ahead and embed, trusting that it displays correctly to most people who are not me. *g*

[sholio]

Yeah, though apparently (see following comment) it's really more of a browser-version issue, and they strongly imply in their FAQ (I just went and looked) that they don't plan to support older browsers, for which I cannot blame them. I'm not sure whether to report it as a bug or not, because I'm sure there are other people out there using Safari 3, but not very many of them, and it's such a rare/odd display issue that I had certainly never noticed it before!