Uploaded September 2012 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
For the full narrative effect, I recommend watching the vid first, and then reading this.
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So you watched the vid? Good.
I don't quite know how I came across this song, but it really touched me with the tenderness and purity of its intent. I hope it was a surprise that we find Hiccup proposing to Astrid, instead of just saying he loved her -- which is wonderful of its own, of course, but for some reason the "next step" seems so much deeper and beautiful.
About the vid: I got my voiceovers!! And, no, this still isn't the video I was telling iVishu about, LOL. But it's got the VOs I was trying to achieve anyway. Tell me what you think of them! I also discovered how to fade-into-b/w so I used that. There's a lot of overlays going on, since it's a slower song, plus some narrative matching. I hope you can find the little story going on here, especially on the "marry me" lines.
Anyways, it's been an insane day, and I even watched hictooth's tearful "Last Goodbye" in the morning and then didn't comment and then I did schoolwork and only now got to comment, LOL (night of that day).
I want to also thank hictooth for giving me the Rob0105 video, which I immediately used on this!
edit: Link to the lyrics! elyrics.net/read/t/train-lyrics/marry-me-lyrics.html
For the full narrative effect, I recommend watching the vid first, and then reading this.
...
...
So you watched the vid? Good.
I don't quite know how I came across this song, but it really touched me with the tenderness and purity of its intent. I hope it was a surprise that we find Hiccup proposing to Astrid, instead of just saying he loved her -- which is wonderful of its own, of course, but for some reason the "next step" seems so much deeper and beautiful.
About the vid: I got my voiceovers!! And, no, this still isn't the video I was telling iVishu about, LOL. But it's got the VOs I was trying to achieve anyway. Tell me what you think of them! I also discovered how to fade-into-b/w so I used that. There's a lot of overlays going on, since it's a slower song, plus some narrative matching. I hope you can find the little story going on here, especially on the "marry me" lines.
Anyways, it's been an insane day, and I even watched hictooth's tearful "Last Goodbye" in the morning and then didn't comment and then I did schoolwork and only now got to comment, LOL (night of that day).
I want to also thank hictooth for giving me the Rob0105 video, which I immediately used on this!
edit: Link to the lyrics! elyrics.net/read/t/train-lyrics/marry-me-lyrics.html
![lυĸe ѕĸywalĸer ϟ W∆RRIΘЯ [ STAR WARS ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EFzNGT5YSYM/mqdefault.jpg "lυĸe ѕĸywalĸer ϟ W∆RRIΘЯ [ STAR WARS ]
Well this is rather unprecedented!! Been a while since I posted a video, and part of that was Life, part of that was my computer being short on memory (hence screwing up my video editor) but my sister and I got into Star Wars recently and now Im pumped for The Force Awakens.
So, quickly now… why Luke Skywalker? Hes a simple boy with a far-flung dream to be something more than what his life was back home. Hes struck by tragedy at every turn and comes out of it a grown man, but still so very vulnerable. Hes good, convicted, wide-eyed, powerful… and through it all, still a child looking for a mentor, a confidant, a father. In the end it is his unadulterated, truly unconditional love that brings him to accept, love, and change his father, Darth Vader. The mythic power, angst, and Shakespearean glory is astounding. Ugh.
Im also really in love with the concept of the Force and how much mythology George Lucas put into his world. Like Tolkien, he created a universal story that fits the template of all great Myth and thus created the SW phenomenon that we have today. As for the Force, it was meant to have universal elements of all faiths and right now I love having that spiritual component suffused in this world.
❝ about the vid
The song is all me. Lately Ive been feeling like I need to get out and DO something with my life. So a lot of my online hiatus has been in reading, watching stuff, trying to capture all the culture I feel I missed. I have big dreams, and I want to one day fill the hole in my heart with all the things I always said Id be. This is the first time Ive used caption words like this; Im excited. I just love the feels we threw into this in general.
❝ credits
song: Warrior by Paradise Fears
footage: Star Wars Episodes 4-6")
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RIP Leonard Nimoy, 1931-2015, a man of gentleness, wisdom, and humanity.
Well this is sure coming out of nowhere! I never even mentioned before how Star Trek was an old fandom of mine, alight some 8 years ago. The news of Nimoys passing in February saddened me, then inspired me as I learned about his life. The old nostalgia came back, and since then Ive been so happy rediscovering this classic and the cast and crew behind it. Its chock-full of epic broship, humor, and quite insightful thematics. This vid was made to make up for the sorry shortage of Kirk/Spock/McCoy TOS videos out there. I ADORE this trios friendship, banter, and chemistry. The reboot films dont quite capture the balmy fun of The Original Series, but I totally dig the clever callbacks and in-references JJ Abrams submerged in them. And who can deny the old USS Enterprise all prettied up in CGI? ;)
❝ about the vid
Not my most nit-picked outing, I made this fairly quickly for my standards. Courtesy the song, which gave itself well to slap-dash editing. Ive been quite busy with Life that it was quite fun to make something up on the spur of the moment. The song is one of my favorites, honest with its joyful sound and yet equally a tragic and uplifting vignette of the Challenger shuttle explosion of January 28, 1986.
Also, apologies for not getting back to folks here. Job search and other first world concerns took time and energy. *sniff*
❝ credits
song: Galaxies by Owl City
footage: ST: The Original Series, Wrath of Khan, Search for Spock, JJ Abrams Reboot and Into Darkness")
