Ten years ago, in August 2005, we premiered Walking on the Ground for Vividcon’s Challenge show. The theme that year was “Milestones” in honor of the 30th Anniversary of (fannish, live-action) vidding. In 1975, Kandy Fong set a slide show to music with still-shots of Star Trek, and an art form was born.
That art form changed a lot over the next thirty years, and that’s what we wanted to do here - vid our take on vidding history.
Rewatching this today, we wonder if the context and meaning still make their way through clearly; it’s always hard to know, with something like this. If you’re interested in a more detailed look at what we were shooting for, a full list of clips, and why we chose them, they can be found in the post we made on the subject back in 2005.
Anyway, enjoy! We hope to put up our entire back catalogue of vids on Tumblr and Youtube this fall, to help inspire us to keep going make more vids (maaaaan are we sloooow).
Always awesome.