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Here is the new Magnficent Seven vid from Escapade. It's 19.9 MB (I suppose we might as well not split hairs, and say 20) in QT, as usual. I just don't have the patience or time or energy to try to figure out some jazzy new cool supposedly superior codec that never looks much different to me than anything else, and if you have trouble with QT and want to bitch at me about it, just use the link to VLC on the same page as the vid is linked from -- VLC seems to play just about anything, and has a version for almost any newer OS and platform. It's the bomb.

In a Big Country by Big Country. Vin and Chris and the rest of the boys, in the landscape that surrounds them.

As always, it's yours also on shiny free DVD for a postage paid self addressed envelope. Details are on the vids page.

Date: 2005-03-01 05:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cranberryink.livejournal.com
omg, I LOVE the song "Big Country." I'm, like, the only person I know who likes that song. I don't know anything about Mag7, but I think I'll have to watch this anyway.

Date: 2005-03-02 03:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
You are so not alone. You'd be amazed at how many people adore the song. Though, when I mentioned it to people for Mag 7, they universally laughed at me except for [livejournal.com profile] killabeez. I might have never made it if not for her.

Date: 2005-03-02 08:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] norah.livejournal.com
Cranberry and I watched it tonight and loved it. The song goes so well with the source!

Date: 2005-03-01 05:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maygra.livejournal.com
I love this vid. It's my new favorite. I loved this vid so much I was inspired to jot down notes for an OW story...

Thank you.

Date: 2005-03-02 03:02 am (UTC)

Date: 2005-03-01 05:37 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] fishsanwitt
I'm thinking of you and your family :) ::hugs::

Date: 2005-03-02 03:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
Thank you -- it really does mean a lot to me that so many people are thinking of us.

Date: 2005-03-01 06:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elke-tanzer.livejournal.com
Your vid is one-third of my reasons for deciding to watch this show and start reading in the fandom!

*shakes fist at you in jest*

Curses! I don't need another new fandom to dip my toe into!

;-)

Seriously... this vid is just lovely. Excellent "watch this beautiful interesting show and come play in our fandom" kind of vid! Lovely, lovely music choice and just beautiful.

Date: 2005-03-02 03:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
Hey, having someone as pimptastically oriented as you in this would be a dream come true! it's really a wonderful show, and though some are more critical of it than I am, I found it to be exceptionally well done, especially in later second season -- they started going to some seriously dark and fascinating places just as the series was ended. Plus, pretty men and horsies!

Date: 2005-03-01 07:36 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] klia.livejournal.com
[personal profile] thevetia showed it to me last night, and it made me all gooey inside. I miss the show *so* much! ::sniff::

Date: 2005-03-02 03:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
Yeah, me too. But I pimped myself into writing another story, though I may never finish it at the rate things are going because of Sis_r.

Mmmm Nix and Winters.

Date: 2005-03-01 08:14 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] spasticat.livejournal.com
Lovely vid and such a perfect choice in song. Thank you for sharing the slashy goodness!

The art of vidding seems like such a mystery to me, how you folks are able to align key moments with key parts of songs and make it all so flawless. I know it has to be a long process but the end result is, as with this vid, beautiful.

OT...I continuously ask my Dad how to pronounce cymru and I always repeat it wrong. Welsh is so damn hard.

Date: 2005-03-02 03:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it -- it really is its own little slashy universe. One of the few shows where I saw the slash right up front, no one needed to explain it to me.

Sometimes, when I'm working on a vid, it seems like a mystery to me, too! And I've been doing it for nearly 12 years. ;-)

Date: 2005-03-01 10:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kadymae.livejournal.com
It's one of those vids that makes me wish that you were one of the people in the Big Chairs, Gwyn. TV would be so much better for it.

Date: 2005-03-02 03:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
Oh, thank you! I'm really glad you showed up at the panel -- it would be cool if your interest was piqued enough to drag you down into the dusty streets with us!

Date: 2005-03-01 11:24 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] elz.livejournal.com
Dude! It's Eric Close! (I've been looking at that icon forever, but somehow I never noticed this before.) I've never seen the series, so I have only shallow thoughts, but that was very, very pretty. Both the actors and the scenery. *g* And the shots of the characters on horseback silhouetted against the sky were breathtaking. So, the guy who's not Eric Close... he's got some issues, huh? But he's got a friend, and a horse, and a lot of space to ride around in, so it might work out for him after all. Especially since his friend looks like Eric Close. Thus ends my crack analysis. ;)

Date: 2005-03-02 03:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
It is! It's one of Eric Close's "kiss of death" series -- first there was that XF knockoff on ABC, then came two really good CBS shows that were killed early, Mag 7 and Now & Again. I was starting to think he was doomed, so thank god for WaT. Because his is a face and body that needs to be on TV so we can see him all the time.

So, the guy who's not Eric Close... he's got some issues, huh? But he's got a friend, and a horse, and a lot of space to ride around in, so it might work out for him after all. Especially since his friend looks like Eric Close.

I almost wish I could have this as my synopsis! I love it, totally love it, it sums up pretty much everything about the vid I wanted to convey. (The dude who isn't EC is Michael Biehn, my lifelong throb from The Terminator and Aliens, to name a few. It was like slash pairing heaven when I frist heard about them.) I want to make a t-shirt out of this!

Date: 2005-03-03 03:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zebra363.livejournal.com
...he's got some issues, huh? But he's got a friend, and a horse, and a lot of space to ride around in, so it might work out for him after all.

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. I'm putting this post in Memories just so I can keep coming back to this.

Date: 2005-03-02 01:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] true-enough.livejournal.com
I really like the use of the Wagon Train clips with the Obsession ones. I love pointing out what a seamless friendship Chris and Vin have but there's a lot of push and pull between them, too and those scenes illustrate that very nicely. Of course, I'm assuming they push and pull to make room for each other. ;) Very telling vid. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Date: 2005-03-02 03:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Showtime will not stop the episodes early, and we'll get Wagon Train, because I would love to replace the clips since the Hallmakr copy of WT was terrible, and the clips I used from Nemesis and Collector were on six hour tapes, and show. Since so much of the vid is from WT, it would make it look a lot better!

I'm glad you enjoyed it -- your manifesto has led a lot of people my way, so it means a lot to me that you liked the vid.

Date: 2005-03-02 04:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] paris7am.livejournal.com
Beautiful imagery, beautiful everything...
Never have seen Mag7 before, but this is about the best reason I've seen so far! As you said, pretty men! The chemistry between them is so hot! I think it just took seeing them, seeing the little details, the way pants drape on hips, the shape of a boot, the symmetry of hats and mountains, hair flowing in the wind. Really loved it.

Date: 2005-03-02 04:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
Very cool! I love making vids that transcend people's knowledge or interest in something, and grab them anyway. That makes me inordinately happy. It's really a great show -- I keep hearing fans criticize it, but by and large I think they did a wonderful job with it, and it's one of the rare shows that dealt with vigilance committees, which weren't uncommon in the West. Usually a town has a sheriff, but that wasn't always the case, and I like how they both work outside and inside the law on the series.

And yeah -- Chris and Vin together were one of the slashiest couples I've seen. From the beginning they pass the broccoli test -- they look at each other across a boardwalk, nod, and go off together to save the day. Without speaking.

Date: 2005-03-03 03:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zebra363.livejournal.com
This is wonderful! The song is perfect, and it's one I've always liked.

You've caught me in that first flush of wild new-fandom enthusiasm. I've only seen 6 episodes so far and am desperate to see more canon, so I was thrilled to see scenes I hadn't yet watched or heard about. Oohh, Vin kneeling over an injured, shirtless Chris, Vin being shot off his horse (?) - how intriguing, what joys await me! I haven't yet seen the pilot, either, so I loved the extended footage of their first meeting.

In addition to the Chris/Vin scenes, I especially liked the beginning, with them appearing individually on the rocks and Nathan cocking his rifle. The clip of Chris walking briskly in his dark coat and then the Seven riding up and halting on a rise about 3/5ths the way through the vid really appealed to me and seemed to fit the music, too.

I really appreciated the way it was a relationship-focused vid in addition to the fantastic wider scenery/riding/time and place shots. For some reason I expected it to be more of a general M7 vid, and I felt like I got bonus material!

If my friend hadn't lent me about 10 episodes last night, I'd probably just re-watch this vid all day.

Thanks so much for making it available, especially at a time when you have many other things to worry about. I'm in that new-fandom the-world-is-wonderful place right now (in no small part thanks to your stories and vids), and if there was any way I could siphon off some of that and send it to you, I would. Take care.

(More to follow on Showdown at Big Sky, too - another fantastic song choice for the fandom.)

Date: 2005-03-03 06:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
Wow, thank you so much for such detailed feedback! That's really a vidder's dream come true. I'm especially glad to hear that you enjoyed the relationship aspect within the larger aspect of the guys at work, and the landscape -- that was really important to me, to show that it was Vin's place, and how he sees himself and Chris and the others fitting into it.

And you've seen Showdown! Whee! So few people have becuase it's only on tape. It's my favorite of our M7 vids. Jo and I are thinking about remastering it with the new Showtime footage.

Date: 2005-03-04 06:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zebra363.livejournal.com
to show that it was Vin's place, and how he sees himself and Chris and the others fitting into it.

Hmm, so Vin belongs to the open country more than the others, who are more people of the town? I need to see more eps to really get this sense from the show itself, though it's certainly coming through in the fanfic I've read so far.

I did see enough yesterday to figure out that it wasn't Vin getting shot off his horse - that was one of the bad guys!

Showdown was until recently one of my "interesting, but not-my-fandom, so do other useful things like clean the house" vids on the MC5 tape. All of a sudden it's my No.1 favourite, rewind-and-rewatch vid on the tape. Funny how that happens!

(I'm embarrassed to note that I used the subjunctive incorrectly in my earlier comment!)

Date: 2005-03-04 07:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
I personally do see Vin as more of a creature of the land than the other 7. JD, the young one, has more city in him, and came out west to seek adventure. Josiah has an interesting, scholarly background due to his religious teaching and upbringing. Nathan might be tied to the land in a way, as a former slave, but I think he left that behind a long time ago. Ezra definitely is not. Chris and Buck have their history as horse ranchers, so there's a certain connection, but it's more of a job of work, as they say, than because of a connection to nature, I think. Vin, though -- buffalo hunter, lived with Kiowas and Comanches for a while, learned to track, knows more than others how to use a rifle as a way of life (in terms of hunting, sustenance)... he's definitely the one at home in the greater landscape.

He has a very elemental quality about him, doesn't talk much, pays careful attention to things, is totally fearless. He's always portrayed as the girl in the pairing in fanfic, which makes me nuts, because his strength is indisputable. But gosh, he has long hair! Which was so not uncommon back then.

The funny thing about thinking Vin was shot off his horse -- in the show, he is only ever injured once. Sort of almost a second time in Wagon Train, but it's only in the episode Lady Killers that he ever gets wounded. Yet in fanfic, he's always, always the one who gets shot or stabbed or tortured or whatever. I'm just as guilty as anyone, I guess it's more fun to cause him harm because he's so tough otherwise.

Date: 2005-03-05 01:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zebra363.livejournal.com
I've now seen him tracking in Witness and heard how he described himself to Charlotte in Wagon Train, so I have more context.

I read Don't Get Much today, after watching Wagon Train last night, and was interested in and moved by how you portrayed him:

Chris had the same notion of Vin that Charlotte had -- that he was wild and woolly, that he would never stay in one place or keep to one person. When all that happened, Vin hadn't understood he wasn't that kind of man.

and

He'd never thought to be tied to land, not in his wildest dreams, but he was tied to Chris and if this was where he wanted to be, then the land it was.

I loved the story and will send some proper feedback after I've read it a few more times. I am so glad you wrote C/V Old West - it seems to be a fairly rare commodity!

Date: 2005-03-15 01:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zebra363.livejournal.com
When I commented on this earlier, I hadn't seen Obsession, so I didn't appreciate how perfect the scene to the words "because it's happened doesn't mean you've been discarded" is. Now I do!

Know thy canon!

Date: 2005-03-03 07:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zorrorojo.livejournal.com
It was so great seeing you and actually getting a chance to talk to you.

Your vid made my weekend. Just wanted to let you know. And you've done more for pimping in this fandom with that one vid than anything I've done through years of nattering on about how great the show and characters are.

And that? Is awesome!

Date: 2005-03-04 03:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
I really enjoyed getting a chance to actually talk to you, too. And I totally do not believe that statement, but if I can help the pimping effort even one iota, then boy am I glad to! Hopefully we can come out of it with a few more fans -- and it owuld be extra cool if they got into the western angle, as well. Crossing fingers!

Date: 2006-12-05 07:37 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] spikedluv
Thanks so much for the password! I DL'd the vid this morning and just had a chance to watch it. Twice. *g* The song was perfect! Loved the introductory scenes of the boys against the backdrop of the 'big country' surrounding them. And the way you fit the clips to the lyrics, like, 'you can't stay here', for example. Adored the clip of the horses coming up over the ridge. So much. *g* And the lovely clips of Chris and Vin, but that goes without saying. *g*

Date: 2006-12-06 12:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
Thank you so much! I'm so glad to see people finding this vid anew, it makes me really happy to know it's still connecting with people.

Date: 2006-12-31 05:16 pm (UTC)
celli: Mag7's Chris and Vin, laughing, captioned "joys of friendship" (Mag7 friends)
From: [personal profile] celli
I can't remember if I've send you feedback on this already (swiss cheese brain) so: I loved it. I loved it a LOT. I keep watching it over and over!

Date: 2007-01-10 02:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwyn-r.livejournal.com
Thank you so much! I'm constantly suprised and pleased by how many people have connected to this vid. Makes me very happy.

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