My first video completely free of Adobe software. I challenged myself to make the same kind of edit as before, without compromises, and without using any Adobe products. I am ending my Adobe subscription this month. The replacement was DaVinci Resolve, which turned out to be much more capable than what I was used to in ways I can tell I will only continue to grow into. I will continue to use it, predominantly from now on. The sense of freedom I feel from this, creatively and financially cannot be fully expressed.

In high school, my friend Laura's sister, Emily was in a great band called Thee Autobots. Everybody I hung out with thought that was pretty neat here in Huntsville, Alabama. My boyfriend still listens to their records often. He had a track on, a couple weeks ago and it made me think about Sherlock Hound, and marvel anew that we had a great band like Thee Autobots here in the '90s. You can get their tracks from Bandcamp, here: https://theeautobots.bandcamp.com/album/discography-1995-1996 #theeautobots #sherlockhound #meitanteiholmes #animemusicvideo

I decided to think more about cultural infatuation, rather than personal infatuation, in the context of the way we continue to fixate on Elvis Presley, and Marilyn Monroe. By pairing them in this video, I don't mean to imply that they had any type of relationship, as it is known they did not. I am using footage of both Elvis, and Marilyn together to emphasize the aspect of our culture that elevates celebrity to this type of status. So this edit can be more of a meditation on that, rather than a devotional video about a star. Get Infatuation by SG Lewis and over 1M + mainstream tracks here https://go.lickd.co/Music License ID: QqoawZj98Wx https://t.lickd.co/wgPWk67rKPD

A dedication to Christopher Reeve as my generation's Superman, with Margot Kidder as his incredible Lois Lane. When it comes to Superman, you really can't do better than Christopher Reeve, or Henry Cavill. I feel lucky to have witnessed the two greats during my lifetime. Find BetaBlock3r's official music and videos here: https://www.youtube.com/@BetaBlock3r This video features 'City Ambiance (Kansas City)' by knufds -- https://freesound.org/s/345950/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

If it weren't for Funeral Parade of roses, we would have very little video insight into queer culture in 1960s Japan. I've also heard that it was one of Stanley Kubrick's favorite films, and that he drew visual inspiration from it for A Clockwork Orange. The first time I watched it, I thought about this Boy Harsher track and thought It'd be fun to pair them.

François Reichenbach and a trove of portraits from the early 20th century are the video track to this unofficial Kylie Minogue edit, from her album Tension. Though this year has been a horror, I am choosing to celebrate the fact that we've been through times of adversity before, and we made it through, with love. I don't care if I see the results of my efforts, as long as I can know there's a point in trying.

I really enjoyed editing Funeral Parade of Roses to a Boy Harsher track a couple years ago, so I've been thinking about doing another Boy Harsher track with another Japanese classic. When I got this pairing in my mind, I kept thinking of it, to and from work every day. So I finally just cut it together.

"Your mother was a woman with no common sense, of course your father was a man without a conscience." Sometimes a movie comes out looking like fluff, and then you revisit it later and realize you just didn't have the taste for it yet. It's a classic with something to say. Or it's a beautiful scrapbook of a time you took for granted. Or it's just fun. In the case of Daisy von Scherler Mayer's 'Party Girl,' from 1995, its all of the above. By the end of this video, you should fully comprehend the The Dewey Decimal System. If not, please re-watch. By the way, don't you think Parker Posey is doing the proto-Carly-Rae-Jepsen pose in that cover art? The outfits in Party Girl as pretty CRJ, as well. Carly posts her music here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-4NAdFIP6h9BmtGUFL94Pg Check the official trailer for Party Girl here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y-TvmzQ8qA For your entertainment, here are the misspellings I came up with for the metadata on this upload: parker posing , carly rae jetson, curly ray jepsin, jespin, parker possy, karl e. ray jetspin.

Paris is Burning by Jennie Livingston is one of the most transportive, immersive, honest, and beautiful documentaries ever made, and it is known as such. Recording the late '80s and early '90s New York Ballroom scene, and the Legendary Children who made it the cultural touchstone that remains today, with an emphasis on what it means to create a chosen family, in a city where one's chosen family can be a source of joy and stability, but also a matter of survival. My goal in with this music video edit was to do the Ballroom proud, and make something they'd like today, if they saw it. It is up to you if that goal was achieved, but my endeavor was sincere.