Dept. of Fandom gets a Gander

[kaffyr]

Why I Like PBS, Reason # FANDOM!

Sometimes I go to You Tube for reasons other than fanvids. Not often, you understand, but sometimes. And of course when I actually do that?

Fandom happens. Heh.

(And fandom discussed without all those enraging "Oh, goodness me! Just look at all these amusing freaks and losers! Why do they do these things? Amusing, eh wot? Oh, let's just point and jeer, shall we?" overtones that make me want to chew nails and spit tacks. Yay, PBS!)

Comments

[promethia_tenk]

No lie, I just found this last night myself and was thinking 'gee, I should post that sometime.' I do rather love PBS sometimes . . .

I think I liked the one about gifs even better.

[kaffyr]

Yeah, I saw the GIF feature a couple of weeks ago, and thought how fannish the take on it was. And of course those with discerning taste would think about posting this feature. Heh.

ETA: Of course, sahiya over on LJ pointed out something I should have noticed before; that they completely failed to seek out and speak to some of the many women who are involved in fanart. Given how many of us power the field, it was a heck of an oversight. Sigh.

[yamx]

Okay, when I watch that vid, I see music video about "Living Things," but from your posts and the comments at LJ I conclude that other people see some typo of documentary?

Wait... I just realized, if I click on the video HERE, while I have your entry open, I get some type of documentary, too. But when I look at it on my "reading" page, I still see that music video... weird.

[kaffyr]

I've had that experience myself. The ways of friends/reading pages are mysterious.

[kerravonsen]

Worthy! They are worthy!

[kaffyr]

Heh. Yup!

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool! I'm putting it in my watch-later queue. :)

[kaffyr]

It's worth it.

[sahiya.livejournal.com]

Would be cooler if they had a single woman anywhere in the video. Major oversight.

[kaffyr]

Ack. Now I feel more than a bit oblivious for not twigging to that. I did like the bit about the woman who created her own story out of Adventure Time. I'm sorry now that they didn't find her and talk to her.

[sahiya.livejournal.com]

Yes, I liked that, too, but I thought it was weird that they were talking to her co-worker (or boss?) and not her.

Otherwise I thought it was really well done. Surprising oversight on their part.

[kaffyr]

Hmm. Now I feel like leaving comment asking if they had the chance to, or thought to, look for women and girls involved in fanart. It might be interesting to read answers, if they gave any.

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

AWESOME, lol!!

Amazing how Fandom just HAPPENS when you are least expecting it!

*HUGS*

[kaffyr]

Fandom ... death will not release you. And I'm glad of it. Heh.

Hugs to you!

[maruad.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this. I really enjoyed it.

[kaffyr]

Glad I went traveling through new You Tube areas so that I could find it!

[tardis-stowaway.livejournal.com]

This was indeed overall a very well done and respectful video. Nice to see a piece on fandom that doesn't feel like it's pointing and laughing. sahiya beat me to pointing out the glaring and bizarre total lack of ladies. Maybe fanart isn't quite as heavily female-dominated as fanfic, but there's still a high percentage of female fan artists. It should have been easy to interview one or more, but for some reason they didn't. Hmph.

I was amused by the accurate depiction of Sherlock fandom as especially prone to oddness. We get VERY bored in the long waits between series and turn to crack to keep ourselves occupied.

[kaffyr]

Yeah, I'd like to ask the creators why they didn't reach out to women - or if they did and were rebuffed, or just couldn't touch base. At that point, I'd say, "then you might have waited until you did touch base instead of going ahead and creating something without taking all the female-type people who create and appreciate fan art."

We get VERY bored in the long waits between series and turn to crack to keep ourselves occupied.

Heh. I tend to think of crack as whimsy on steroids, and its flowering as the result of both boredom and mischief.