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touchline is having a Lady Love Prompt Fest! Go, prompt, comment, tell your friends! (I am serious. All of you, if you want more fic about ladies, put up a notice on your journal so people will know this is going on. I AM WATCHING YOU.) I'm officially done with my month of football RPF recs on
crack_van! If you're curious about what I recced, it's all under the rpf: professional athlete tag. And finally, I usually rec fic on this journal and save other media for tumblr, but I put together some vid recs for
crack_van and it occurred to me that maybe some of you wouldn't have seen them yet. Enjoy! -----------------------------------------------------------
"World Cup 2010"
Vidder: Vlad
Musical Artist: 65daysofstatic - Radio Protector
Pairing: gen
Vidder on LJ: n/a
Vidder's website: TheVladVideo on YouTube
Why this vid kicks ass: Football fandom doesn't really have "vidders" the way media fandoms do; pretty much everything is on youtube and almost all of it is goal compilations, game highlights set to techno music, and the occasional terrible slideshow of shippy pictures. The vidders who have real skill are usually interested in the showing the game, not the characters. This is one rare example that tries to show the game through the characters. Even if you have no interest in watching football, watch this vid. It's not about the sport; it's about the emotions of the people who play it. It's also one of the most beautiful vids I've ever seen.
World Cup 2010: Highs and Lows
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"Torna la gent normal"
Vidder: fcbarcelona
Musical Artist: Manel - Torna La Gent Normal
Pairing: gen (Barcelona-centric)
Vidder on LJ: n/a
Vidder's website: fcbarcelona on YouTube (combination of news reports, press conferences and music videos)
Why this vid kicks ass: I'm not entirely certain this qualifies as a "fanvid"--it was made as a promotional video by the television channel associated with FC Barcelona. (Yes, they have their own television channel. Yes, that's ridiculous. But awesome.) But if you watch it, it's a fanvid; it just happens to have been made by someone with access to otherwise unavailable video footage. And it's such a wonderful vid about the sense of family at Barcelona, starting with some truly amazing footage (that no one else would be able to get, so yay BarcaTV!) of the players as kids at their academy. Everything I love about FC Barcelona, packaged into four minutes with a fantastic soundtrack. Watch it.
torna la gent normal
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"El Clasico"
Vidder: Richard Swarbrick
Musical Artist: Ludovico Einaudi - Lady Labirynth
Pairing: gen
Vidder on LJ: n/a
Vidder's website: MissingPictures1 on YouTube or www.richardswarbrick.com
Why this vid kicks ass: WATCH THIS, IT'S AMAZING. Richard Swarbrick took the highlights from a very high-profile football match and made an animation out of the footage. It's a gorgeous work of art. The emotions that are conveyed through just the hasty paint-strokes of the animated figures--I can't even describe it. You have to watch and see for yourself.
El Clasico
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"The Feet Continue To Dance"
Vidder: The Wizard of Ox
Musical Artist: original mashup feat. Ray Hudson & Joaquim Maria Puyal
Pairing: Lionel Messi gen
Vidder on LJ: n/a
Vidder's website: TheWizardofOxDotCom on YouTube or www.thewizardofox.com
Why this vid kicks ass: The creativity that went into this is mindblowing. It's an original techno song featuring samples of two very famous football commentators reacting to Messi during live matches. (There's a really cool vid of just the goal-call that's used as the chorus here, if you're interested.) The vid itself is beautifully edited and features some brilliant kinetic typography. It's definitely something different, and it's so cool!
The Feet Continue to Dance
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"The Magic of Lionel Messi"
Vidder: ElAlonso
Musical Artist: Coldplay - Fix You
Pairing: Lionel Messi gen
Vidder on LJ: n/a
Vidder's website: ElAlonso14 on YouTube
Why this vid kicks ass: It's Leo. :') For the most part I've avoided reccing anything that's really about football in an intrinsic fashion, but everyone should see Lionel Messi being his fucking genius self on the football pitch at least once. The moment when the guitar kicks in and he starts to run--it gets me, every time. If I can't be self-indulgent just this once, when can I? Watch it, appreciate it. It's a brilliant vid about a brilliant man.
The Magic of Lionel Messi
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Date: 2011-09-30 10:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-30 10:43 pm (UTC)gol gol gol gol gol gol gol~
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Date: 2011-10-01 01:07 am (UTC)you had me at "heavily Messi-centric" ♥____♥
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Date: 2011-10-01 01:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-01 01:40 am (UTC)HE REALLY IS
AND I DON'T EVEN CARE WHEN PEOPLE PUT 23423423434 FILTERS ON HIM, THE BEAUTY OF THE GOALS RISES ABOVE EVERYTHING
There really isn't anything too self-indulgent when it comes to Messi (except what I did with vids, that's unforgivable). He's just too awesome. Well done you for sifting through all the vids, there are just so many. That world cup one I'd never seen before, it's beautiful
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Date: 2011-10-01 01:58 am (UTC)THAT WAS THE FIRST FOOTBALL VID I EVER SAW, IT IS SO GORGEOUS. I actually have two others that vidder did for the WC that got lost when his account was deleted, too.
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