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Attention Vidders! Announcing my 20 Minutes Into the Future Charity Vidding Challenge.

Original Tumblr post: http://sigridellis.tumblr.com/post/166046794888/20-minutes-into-the-future-charity-vidding

I would love to see the 1986 Max Headroom tv series episode, “20 Minutes Into the Future,” made into a commentary about this year 2017.

I want y’all to use the dialog and soundtrack from the episode, over news footage images from 2017. Remake the episode using footage of news anchors and stories from the past year.

I will donate $10.00 per minute of vid created, up to 60 minutes, to Unicorn Riot media collective.

Rules:

1. Your vid must be at least one minute long.

2. Vids must be posted, and a link emailed to me, by December 31st, 2017.

3. The scene must be of consecutive dialog. You can use any section you like, but please do not re-cut the dialog. I would like a re-telling of the Max Headroom story as it aired.

4. Please use one modern avatar for each character in the show in your vid. If Anderson Cooper is your Edison Carter, great, but don’t use Anderson Cooper AND John Oliver for Edison Carter in a single vid. If you make more than one vid, you can recast your characters.

5. There is no limit on how many you can make.

6. Multiple vidders can use the same dialog and duplicate scenes.

Please contact me at sigridellis@gmail.com with any questions.

Please reblog / retweet / link this far and wide! I would love to see a lot of different entries!

Today's Fantastic Fangirls essay is a guest write-in from Power Girl and Polaris, discussing the empowerment they derive from their breasts. (Essay sparked by Megan Fox's comments on her sexual objectification.)

I found it, personally, hilarious -- check it out!

http://fantasticfangirls.org/?p=973

I can see things coming together for Slightly Obsessed Studio. In other words, my third job, the one as a writer. (As opposed to the first job, homeschooling parent, and second job, air traffic controller.)

The learning curve on all this is steep. But the positive news this week has me burbling and telling everyone I know that I am doing good, really good, despite day six of what I am now reasonably certain is the flu, not allergies or a cold. Positive things this week include:

Cut to my blog entry for the exciting news!

A not-at-all objective review of the Wiscon panel, "Turn Out This is Your Dad's SF."s

" . . . But here’s the thing — I don’t believe there’s a “real” sf. I don’t believe that a publishing industry gets to tell me how I can access my stories. I certainly don’t believe, at all, that anyone else can govern my response to a creative work. Work made on the internet, or through vidding or fanmixing or self-publishing, these are all creative works. They need to be judged, certainly! Some will be good and some will be bad. But the means of their production and distribution does not score points one way or the other on value. To assert that only works passing out of the hands of the artist, through gatekeepers who control the means of production away from the worker, and judged by those invested in maintaining that hierarchy of production are valuable is as self-serving a claim as I’ve ever seen. . . . . "