Us
| Title: | Us |
| Creator: | Lim |
| Date(s): | March, 2007 |
| Medium: | vid |
| Fandom: | multi |
| External Links: | download streaming @ youtube |
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Us is a multifandom metavid by lim.
It was released in March, 2007 [1] to great acclaim and some controversy. Many who loved the vid felt it was about them, as fans, as a fannish community; others felt that any "us" implied a "them" and feared or felt that they were of the "them" or were otherwise unrepresented by it.
Many loved the vid's use of effects, which turned the mass media footage of fannish TV shows and films into something that looked drawn in pencil and thus felt handmade; others felt that the effect was distancing or otherwise hard to see, that it stood between them and the footage. Those who loved the vid felt it staged a fannish way of seeing in its use of color to highlight particular things in a frame a fan might focus on; those who didn't like it felt it was hard to process, that the effects blurred the underlying images.
In any case, the vid has remained popular both with fans [2] and with critics (see critical reception, below); it was included in Michael Wesch's Anthropological History of YouTube and was part of an exhibition called "Mediated" which ran January 24, 2009 - April 4, 2009 at the California Museum of Photography.
Exhibitions of Us
- "Vidshow" at Millicon 2.0, July 19 - 22, 2007
- "Newbies Rock" at Vividcon, August 13 2007
- "Video Art Track" at Anime Weekend Atlanta, September 21–23 2007
- "24/7" DIY Video Summit at USC School of Cinematic Arts, February 8-10 2008
- "Vids As Meta" at VidUKon, Oct 24 2008
- "Video Show" at Bascon8, Nov 8 2008
- Catalog for exhibition, "Mediated"; at the California Museum of Photography. (January 24, 2009 - April 4, 2009)
- Spitting Video at Workspace, Mar 13 2009.
Discussions of "Us"
- Lim's production notes on Us.
- Fannish discussions in comments at: cesperanza's livejournal, corinna_5's livejournal, aycheb's livejournal
- Kristina Busse, Us: A Multivid By Lim at In Media Res, February 1, 2008.
- Michael Wesch, Anthropological History of YouTube presentation at the Library of Congress
- Remixing Television: Francesca Coppa on the vidding underground. Reason Magazine, August/September 2008
- Gender and Fan Studies Round Two Robert Jones and Louisa Stein at fandebate.
- "Mediated", exhibition at the California Museum of Photography. (January 24, 2009 - April 4, 2009)
- Alexis Lothian. "Living in a Den of Thieves: Fan Video and Digital Challenges to Ownership." (under review; forthcoming)
- Comment of the Electronic Frontier Foundation to their petition for a DMCA exemption, Docket No. RM 2008-08
- Reply Comment of the Organization for Transformative Works to the EFF's petition for a DMCA exemption
- New media and old institutions: 2 by Alexis Lothian
- Vidders Talk Back To Their Pop-Culture Muses by Neda Ulaby for National Public Radio's All Things Considered.
References
- ↑ Us announcement post on vidder, March 01, 2007.
- ↑ Us received an honorary award from The Fourth Wall in 2007, a fan-run vid award site.
