Vid! Finally!

[lierdumoa]

Title: The Chemicals Between Us
Artist: Bush
Fandom: TF&TF
Summary: Brian/Dom; Brian POV
A/N: Many thanks to my beta's. Thanks to permetaform, for the inordinate amount of hand holding she did. Thanks to gwyn_r for giving me such detailed input. Thanks to boniblithe for saving my viewers from the big bad anvil. Shoutouts to khaleesian, who got me into this fandom in the first place, maygra, thisisbone, and mlyn who rekindled my love for it, and all the people who read my ridiculously long vidding posts and encouraged me to keep going. Also, I'd like to thank dear heavenly, uh...spirit...for providing us with the direct quart nitrous injection, four quarter inner coolers and ball bearing turbos and, uhm, titanium valve springs. And car porn. Amen.
Extras: Making Of; Ship Manifesto; quarter_mile

720x300; 25.1 MB; Divx AVI

Please right click and save target as to the link above. If you want to recc this to someone, do not hotlink. Instead, refer back to this journal entry. If you don't have the Divx codec to play the file, you can download it for Windows or for Mac. It is free software.



Lyrics

I want you to remember
A love so full it could send us all ways
I want you to surrender
All my feelings arose today
And I want you to remain
The power of children can amaze
I'll try not to complain
I know that's a pisser baby

The chemicals between us
The walls that lie between us
Lying in this bed
The chemicals displaced
There is no lonlier state
Than lying in this bed

I want you to remember
Everything you said
Every driven word
Like a hammer, hell, to my head

The chemicals between us
There is no lonlier place
Then lying in this bed
The chemicals displaced
There is no lonlier fate
Than lying in this bed

The chemicals between us
The chemicals between us
Lying in this bed

We're of the hollow men
We are the naked ones
We never meant you harm
We never meant you wrong
And I'd like to thank
All of my lovers, lovers, lovers, lovers, lover, lovers

The chemicals between us
The army of achievers
Lying in this bed
The chemicals displaced
There is no lonlier state
Than lying in this bed

The chemicals between us
The chemicals between us
The chemicals

The chemicals between us



Like it? Comment on it. Pimp it to your friends.

Comments

[luckycharm-13.livejournal.com]

Am DLing now. But I can tell it's awesome. (Squids got me hooked on TFATF :X)

:D

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

:D!!!

TF&TF is the goooooood crack. This fandom needs more people! Once I get my shit together I'll be organizing links to the ship manifesto, the fic, the lj community, etc.

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

Whee. Love the sense of movement and the superimpositions. They were never confusing or busy and underscored the conflict vs connection between the 2 men. Also - the effort you put into the credits really shows. I also noted you paid attention to the speaking scenes - the lip synching seemed very anime in style.

I need to see the movie. Next on Netflix. Then on to the fan fic.

[norah.livejournal.com]

Morgan - there's a bunch of the fanfic linked and recced from the sidebar of my journal. Welcome - it's a GREAT fandom to be part of!

Lierdumoa, is there a good player for Mac OS X that can handle this format? All the DivX players at the site seemed to be for Windows.

[choimimi.livejournal.com]

It's wonderful vid.
Thank you for sharing it.
I love this vid.
^___^

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Thankyou for commenting! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.

:D

[(Anonymous)]

hi

i'm a lurker who's big into this fandom, previously unacquainted with your work. saw the vid, thought it was great. the music selection felt spot-on: it matched the tone of the movie. and then the video totally matched the feel of the music, (circular analysis, much? ;-)).
thanks for this treat - s

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Thanks for watching and commenting! I'm glad the vid worked for you.

:D

[maygra.livejournal.com]

I have this urge to break this down frame by frame, beat by beat, just to point and say "Look!!Look what you did there!! that's awesome." Because it is. I think my heart skipped a beat or two on the hit on "surrender". The fading overlays made me really happy...(and are we gald Cohen likes dramatic envrinmental camera sweeps or what>)and all I vould thing is there nothing that can rouse great anger as much as great love. You did a really excellent job of illustrating both what binds them together and what's likely to split them apart and how much effort it takes to overcome that. Thank you!

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

I think my heart skipped a beat or two on the hit on "surrender".

I'm assuming you mean "remember" there? With Brian yelling and pointing? And yeah, I think that affected people more than I was expecting it to. I thought it looked cool when I did it, but I didn't know it was going to get the kind of emotional reaction you and Gwen described.

Whee! I got across "big emotion"! Yay!



I have this urge to break this down frame by frame, beat by beat, just to point and say "Look!!Look what you did there!! that's awesome." Because it is.

::blushes::

Oh, you flatterer.



all I could think is there's nothing that can rouse great anger as much as great love.

Hee -- yes! They're just so passionate, which works great in a vid because it's written into their expressions and their gesticulations.



You did a really excellent job of illustrating both what binds them together and what's likely to split them apart and how much effort it takes to overcome that.

Heeeee! Cool. Yeah, I want to get people into the fandom with this vid. Showing that it's really gay is one thing. Showing that it's a starcrossed kind of gay is something else altogether. I really wanted to get that second point across, because I know for me angst is like a car wreck, so to speak. I can't look away. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping that people will see my vid and think "must read fic now."



Thankyou for such nice feedback!

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'm always impressed by those who can take apart a movie and reconstruct it against a song. Very nicely done, I loved the song as I'd never heard it.

::curtseys::

You're so good for my ego.



It flowed very smoothly and the fades and transitions were very nice. I loved all the looks between those two because I knew they were really there it wasn't just manipulation.

Hee! That was a point of pride for me. I refused to let myself use anything out of context, so at the end of it I could say my vid wasn't falsely representing the movie in any way (yes it really is that gay).

[quitesparkly.livejournal.com]

*SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEE* TF&TF vid! I'm downloading it now! I'll save it in my pocket pc to watch it everyday!

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

I don't know that this vid is worth carrying around, but thanks for the lovely compliment!

:D

[vagabondage.livejournal.com]

AMAZING!!! That was by far, the BEST Fast and the Furious vid I have ever seen. Blew me away! Your clip use is spot on, full impact, knock me over and out of my shoes. Also, the song choice is f**cking perfect. Your use of white and black space is very effective, as are all of the effects in this vid. Oh yeah, and the credits are genius, very cool. Thanks so much for sharing this vid!

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

AMAZING!!! That was by far, the BEST Fast and the Furious vid I have ever seen. Blew me away!

::blushes like whoa::



Your clip use is spot on, full impact, knock me over and out of my shoes.

I'm so glad the vid had an emotional impact. I've seen the whole thing so many times I can't tell what's effective anymore.

:D!!!



Your use of white and black space is very effective, as are all of the effects in this vid.

I think the white and black spaces were some of the most instinctual parts of the vid, where I basically just listened to the music and thought "this sounds like a fade to black"/"no, this sounds more like a fade to white" and didn't actually have any solid reasoning for doing one or the other. Glad it worked for you!



Oh yeah, and the credits are genius, very cool.

I went a little...insane...over the credits. I was determined that they look exactly like the ones in the movie. I'm so glad people noticed them!

[khaleesian.livejournal.com]

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!! "Pimp it to your friends"? Pimp it to total strangers is more like it!!!

khal shrieks out her window: "You! Get in here! Watch this vid! And if you don't think it's genius, I've got a torque wrench with your name on it."

....okay, more measured coherent feedback to follow, as soon as I can stop squeeing like a hysterical child.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Yaaaaaaay!!! You like it!!!

Just so you know, this is about the same reaction I had when I first read your fic. I was poking all my fandom friends on IM going, "Hey you! READ THIS!!!" They were like, "I've never seen the movie." I was like "I don't care. Read it or get shanked."



::waits impatiently for more feedback::

[absolutedestiny.livejournal.com]

Bravo! That's some really sweet work there. That's some very precise, individual and accomplished work. Well done :)

[kadymae.livejournal.com]

::head explody::

And in the good way.

I liked the trope of using the car crash sequence and telling the story of how the relationship between Brian and Dom built in a non-linear way.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

I liked the trope of using the car crash sequence and telling the story of how the relationship between Brian and Dom built in a non-linear way.

I actually had this idea of Brian seeing Dom's car fly into the air and having their whole relationship flash before his eyes, so I basically constructed the vid as if it were actually taking place during the finale of the movie, with everything else being a series of flashbacks. I don't know if people actually got that sense when watching it. I don't suppose it really matters, cause it's more of a character study than a narrative anyway.



I'm so glad you liked it! Thanks for commenting!

[twistinside82.livejournal.com]

Holy fucking shit.

That was fucking amazing.

Just ... all the time you spent on that and all the hair pulling I'm sure you did, totally fucking worth it.

I'm commenting in hopes that my repeated use of the word "fucking" will convey how fucking awesome this is.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

:D!!!

Thanks so much for commenting!

[rhipowered.livejournal.com]

Never seen the film, but this is a great piece of vidding. Fantastic and evocative.

(via permetaform)

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm so glad the vid hit a chord. Thanks for taking the time to feedback!

[voleuse.livejournal.com]

Damn. That's just. Slashy.

Great vid! Thanks for sharing it.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Thanks for commenting! And yeah -- sooooo slashy.

In case you're interested, this fandom has a *lot* of goodfic (surprising considering how small it is). It's all linked to in the ship manifesto (http://www.livejournal.com/community/ship_manifesto/48308.html).

::pimps fandom like mad::

[tehshiny.livejournal.com]

Noidy has a headache right now. And loud music is not helping.

So I watched the video on mute. :|

Everyone is so pretty. Their love is so pretty. The end credits are pretty.

*pokes*

I should be able to give more detailed feedback once the headache goes away.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Heee! Their love is so pretty. Do tell me what you think of the vid when you get to see it w/ sound.

[url-girl.livejournal.com]

So, apparently my computer hates me and refuses to play this without lagging and throwing the timing horribly off, but I don't care--it's still very prettiful to watch. <3333

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Awwww! Well, thanks for commenting! Maybe you could tell me what you think of it once your computer stops bitching.

[f1renze.livejournal.com]

Pretty, pretty vid! Loved the timing and how you did the echo-y fades. And the cool credits! Very nice.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Thanks for commenting! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

Oh, my God!

This is so much better than the movie!

Love the repeated images, the super-imposed stuff showing their continuing conflicts, all of it. I never saw that look of Mia's before this vid. It's so cool!

The whole thing makes me ridiculously happy, and I'm off to watch it again.

I missed it earlier because I was out of town and hadn't managed to go back far enough in my Flist -- thank goodness for thefourthvine. :)

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you enjoyed the vid.

[cosmic.livejournal.com]

Absolutely gorgeous. It took my breath away more than once. And made me crave for good slash fic on those two again.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Thankyou!

There's been a lot of good slash fic on them recently. Have you read any of maygra's or thisisbone's stuff?

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

Ev0l one, I watched it! I loved it. The title and credits are very cool, and I love all the cars spinning and flipping everywhere. I think my favorite part is the guitar bridge with the overlays of their faces and all that intense emotion. I really love the framework of that crash of Dom's that you've used, that works so incredibly well. This was great.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

:D!!!

Yaaaaaay! So glad you liked it!

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

I just want you to know I am addicted to this vid, thankyouverymuch.

Oh and the anvil! It's missing-ness was so smooth I didn't notice it was gone until I remembered that it had been there in the first place - much better now :) I like the edits you made!

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

I just want you to know I am addicted to this vid, thankyouverymuch.

XD Good crack, hopefully. I'm so glad you pointed out the anvil, because the scene I exchanged for it was one of my favorite scenes in the movie that I'd been dissappointed about not being able to fit into the vid.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

drive-by commenting to say I love the vid. it was enough to make me go and rent the movie. was flabbergasted to see that damn, no, you really weren't putting any more subtext in the vid than was actually there. yow!

I thank you for sharing. now I'm off to fic-hunt...

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Heeeeeee! I can tell people the movie is gayer than the vid, but it's the kind of thing people don't believe until they see.

;-)

You can go to the ship manifesto (linked to at the top of the page) for links. khaleesian has a lot of really good (and long!) fic (see here (http://www.khaleesian.com/fast%20and%20furious/nasty-curious.htm)). My personal favorite is Repo Men.



Dude. I looked at your userinfo. You love One Piece! I love One Piece! The only good fic I ever managed to find was devosama's stuff, so if you could link me to some, I would, like, love you forever. I'm planning to vid it, btw. Eventually (like, June). Finally got a vidbunny tonight -- "Brand New Colony" by Postal Service.

[spasticat.livejournal.com]

Like it? Um, yes. A breathy yes in regards to that thar vid. I'm sure others have said this but that was exciting and hot and, at least for me, kept my heart beating at a fast pace.

Angsty, sharp and fast. You said a lot with the cutting and flowing from one scene to the next. Said a lot that is ten times stronger than the subtext from the film.

Again, wowah. Thanks so much for sharing it.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

:D!!!

I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

[skyshark.livejournal.com]

*worship*

*fangirl*

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

*blush*

Thankyou for commenting!

[bunnysquee.livejournal.com]

have recently discovered the fnf fandom - yeah, i know i'm YEARS behind - and discovered this vid via thefourthvine.

just wanted to let you know that i absolutely loved this video - delicious scenes layered over each other and an explosive song.

thanks for making and sharing.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Thanks for watching and commenting! I'm glad you liked the vid.