I have FINALLY finished assembling my basic materials -- cover letter (much revised since the version I posted, and with only two customizable sentences /FAIL), CV, dissertation excerpt, and a brand new teaching portfolio -- and sent applications to all the tenure-track jobs with October deadlines.

Here are the reasons I'm applying to every remotely plausible job, even those I don't seem likely to get (or want), for as long as I can stand it (according to advice from Brown's Center for Career Planning and Placement):
- sending out materials is a great way to spread the word about you and your research
- you never know whether the job ad accurately reflects who the department wants to hire
- the ones that would be cut are also the least time-consuming ones, so why not?

Most of these are still open; search on SCMS (members only), Chronicle, and/or H-Net to find them, or let me know if you need the info.

Ohio State University, Department of Women's Studies
Ohio State University, Department of History of Art
University of Michigan, Department of Screen Arts & Cultures
University of South Carolina, Film and Media Studies Program
Macalester College, Humanities and Media and Cultural Studies Department
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Communication Arts
Whitman College, Department of Rhetoric and Film Studies
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of Art History
Ohio University, School of Film
Keene State College, Film Studies
Clemson University, Department of Communication Studies
University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Humanities
Brooklyn College (CUNY), Department of Film
Harvard University, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies
Stony Brook University (SUNY), Department of Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies
California State University at Fullerton, Women's Studies
Catholic University of America, Department of Media Studies
Boston University, Department of Film & Television
NYU (Tisch), Department of Cinema Studies
University of Texas at Austin, Department of Radio-TV-Film
University of Wollongong, School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication
Griffith University, Film and Screen Studies
Central European University (Budapest), Department of Gender Studies

Now here's the list of jobs with November deadlines to which I hope to apply -- I'm sure this will grow as openings continue to be posted. NB: all jobs in English departments specify film/media/cultural studies.

DePaul University, College of Communication
Amherst College, Department of English
Pomona College, Media Studies
Arcadia University, Communications
Trinity College, English Department
University of Virginia, Department of Media Studies
Pace University, Communication Studies Department
University of Massachusetts at Boston, Department of English
Scripps College, Gender and Women's Studies
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Department of English
University of Minnesota, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
College of Charleston, Department of English
McGill University, Department of English
Concordia University, Film Studies
University of Western Ontario, Department of Film Studies
NYU, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication
Fordham University, Department of Communication & Media Studies
Queens College (CUNY), Department of Media Studies
Miami University of Ohio, Department of Communication
Denison University, Department of Communication
Bard College, Film and Electronic Arts
Pitzer College, Media Studies

Colby College, Mellon Postdoc in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Duke University, Postdoc in Women's Studies

I'm thrilled to be part of the editorial team that brings you the first issue of the new open access, international, peer-reviewed journal Transformative Works and Cultures! You can read the press release or dive straight into the table of contents. Many thanks go to our tireless editors, Kristina Busse and Karen Hellekson, without whom this project would never have come to fruition.

I'd like to call special attention to the feature I had the greatest hand in, an audio podcast of the presentations and discussion from the post-"fandebate" workshop at Console-ing Passions last Spring. It is our hope that sharing the event virtually will help inspire continuing conversations about gender and other inequalities in fan culture.

TWC is now seeking submissions for future issues including a special issue on video games and gaming. I've included the CFP below; please assist us in spreading the word!

Special Issue: Games as Transformative Works
Transformative Works and Cultures, Vol. 2 (Spring 2009)
Deadline: November 15, 2008
Guest Editor: Rebecca Carlson

Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) invites essays on gaming and gaming culture as transformative work. We are interested in game studies in all its theoretical and practical breadth, but even more so in the way fan culture shapes itself around and through gaming interfaces. Potential topics include but are not limited to game audiences as fan cultures; anthropological approaches to game design and game engagement; on- and off-line game experiences; textual and cultural analysis of games; fan appropriations and manipulations of games; and intersections between games and other fan artifacts.

TWC is a new Open Access, international peer-reviewed online journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works. TWC aims to provide a publishing outlet that welcomes fan-related topics and to promote dialogue between the academic community and the fan community. The first issue of TWC (September 2008) is available at http://journal.transformativeworks.org/. TWC accepts rolling electronic submissions of full essays through its Web site, where full guidelines are provided. The final deadline for inclusion in the special games issue is November 15, 2008.

TWC encourages innovative works that situate popular media, fan communities, and transformative works within contemporary culture via a variety of critical approaches, including but not limited to feminism, queer theory, critical race studies, political economy, ethnography, reception theory, literary criticism, film studies, and media studies. Submissions should fit into one of three categories of varying scope:

Theory: These often interdisciplinary essays with a conceptual focus and a theoretical frame offer expansive interventions in the field of fan studies. Peer review. Length, 5,000–8,000 words plus a 100–250-word abstract.

Praxis: These essays may apply a specific theory to a formation or artifact; explicate fan practice; perform a detailed reading of a specific text; or otherwise relate transformative phenomena to social, literary, technological, and/or historical frameworks. Peer review. Length, 4,000–7,000 words plus a 100–250-word abstract.

Symposium: Symposium is a section of concise, thematically contained essays. These short pieces provide insight into current developments and debates surrounding any topic related to fandom or transformative media and cultures. Editorial review. Length, 1,500–2,500 words.

Submission information: http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/about/submissions

I'm delighted to announce that I have been selected as one of this year's HASTAC Scholars! I will be posting regular videoblog entries about web technologies and participatory learning here starting sometime this week. I encourage you to engage with the work of all the HASTAC Scholars, as well as the organization's other exciting projects.

Also, I will be attending the LA Queer Studies Conference on October 10-11. Allow me to call special attention to my panel, which falls bright and early at 9:00-10:30am on Saturday morning:

Mediated Queer Socialities and Identities
Moderator: Mary L. Gray, Indiana University, Communication and Culture

Julie Levin Russo [my correction], Brown University, Modern Culture and Media
Labors of Love: Economies of Identity in The L Word’s Fan-Driven Online Promotions

Alexis Lothian, University of Southern California, English
Doing Boys Like They’re Girls, and Other (Trans)Gendered Subjects: The Queer Subcultural Politics of “Genderfuck” Fan Fiction

Jill A. Bakehorn, UC Davis, Sociology
Bordering on Activism: Authenticity and Identity Politics in Women-Made Porn

I'd be grateful for any feedback on this first draft of my cover letter template and dissertation description (for my CV, which is now updated). I've annotated the job letter for your edification; Tenured Radical's blog post is also a good place to start for understanding the formula. Please join the Media Studies Job Search facebook group if you're interested in such topics!

Indiscrete Media: Television/Digital Convergence and Economies of Online Lesbian Fan Communities
My dissertation analyzes how the convergence of television and the internet is transforming the relationship between the media industry and its consumers. Taking women's production of fan music videos, fiction, critique, and community as an exemplar of economic, regulatory, and technological struggles emerging today, I undertake three case studies of online lesbian fan formations around three television series. Through these artifacts, and drawing from media archaeology, autonomist Marxism, queer theory and cultural studies, I argue that fan engagement is a contested axis of immaterial labor in late capitalism. By framing convergence's technologies, discourses, and subjectivities as queer, I offer a schema for mapping its challenges to systems of ownership, circulation, and value. My work uniquely synthesizes media studies, fan studies, and industry studies, and makes critical contributions to scholarship on television, digital media, and lesbian representation.

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Dear [name or generic search committee],


[1] I am writing to apply for the position of [job] in [department] at [institution], as announced on [source]. My expertise is in television, internet subcultures, and their intersection in fan production, via the critical framework of queer, Marxist, and media theory. Currently, I am completing my dissertation, Indiscrete Media: Television/Digital Convergence and Economies of Online Lesbian Fan Communities, under the direction of Lynne Joyrich in the department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, and expect to receive my PhD in the summer of 2009. [one-sentence summary of my strengths tailored to the specific job]

[2] "Convergence" crystallizes a matrix of current cultural phenomena, from corporate consolidation to technical integration to user-generated participation, that are transforming the relationship between media producers and consumers. In my dissertation, my analysis of this formation takes queer female labor in the guise of online fan discussion, fiction, music videos, and community-building as an exemplar of the tensions emerging at the crossroads of television and the internet. Because the media industry is itself reorienting to privilege fan engagement, my approach to larger economic, legal, and ideological negotiations through the lens of fandom is timely. Beyond broadening the scope of fan studies, however, my work brings a unique critical theoretical perspective to bear upon popular "new" media dynamics, constructing a framework drawn from autonomist Marxism, media archaeology, queer theory and cultural studies. The core of my project consists of three localized evaluations of lesbian fan activity around the television programs Battlestar Galactica, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and The L Word, with attention to three intertwined registers: the screen texts still defined as television episodes; the transmedia texts online that include tie-ins, promotions, and gossip; and the fan texts produced by interpretive communities. These case studies exemplify disputes over technologies of reproduction (figured by the hybrid), politics of representation (figured by the closet), and commodification of identity (figured by the network), demonstrating that fan economies are a contested axis of immaterial labor in late capitalism. Concluding with an excursion into online video, my dissertation maps the queer interventions and global connections generated by a predominantly female fan subculture, arguing that convergence's technologies, discourses, and subjectivities pose structural challenges to systems of ownership, circulation, and value that corporate media is struggling to reincorporate. I maintain that scrutinizing the increasingly intermediated configuration of television and the internet is necessary to understanding the antagonisms shaping media evolution today.

[3] Beyond my dissertation, I have studied television form, queer spectatorship, digital politics, and cybersexuality, presenting on these topics at numerous conferences and publishing articles on lesbian representation and queer netporn. I currently serve on the founding editorial team of the open access, international, peer-reviewed online journal Transformative Works and Cultures, which exposes me to interdisciplinary scholarship on popular media and fan communities. In my next project, I plan to investigate the ecology of user-generated internet video, examining the ongoing spiral of grassroots participation and capitalist regulation that intersects global struggles over fair use, network infrastructure, visual publics, and self-representation. This expands my work on media fandom to encompass a wider range of subcultural production, with a continuing focus on television futures and on immaterial labor.

[4] My commitment to teaching arises from an investment in endowing young adults with the theoretical tools to think critically about the media engagements that permeate their personal and cultural experience. Pedagogically, I emphasize process-oriented and participatory learning, and mobilize online social media platforms to structure, share, and network course materials and student work. While I accommodate varying learning styles, I have a particular dedication to developing student writing skills, and have taken advantage of programs at Brown's Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning to refine my educational strategies. In my department at Brown, I had the opportunity to teach my own seminar, "Television on the Internet: Private Property in the Public Eye," which introduced students to a variety of methodological frameworks for analyzing how an array of convergent phenomena are reshaping media texts, reception, and production. This venture, along with my training as a teaching assistant for such classes as Introduction to Television Studies, Introduction to Digital Media, and Introduction to Modern Culture and Media, have prepared me to teach core courses offered by [name of department], including [list some]. I am also eager to develop new courses in the areas of [make up some that are relevant to the job description].

[5] [short paragraph expressing specific enthusiasm for the specific job/department]

Please find my curriculum vitae [and list any other materials] enclosed. The names and contact information of my references are included at the end of the CV, and their letters will arrive through Brown's dossier service. [if applicable: My proffered writing sample, "Many Copies: Conceptions of Battlestar Galactica," is a condensed dissertation chapter that is representative of my critical approach to transmedia artifacts.] I would be delighted to provide other materials upon request. Thank you very much for your consideration.

Sincerely,

[me]


NOTES

[1] The first paragraph gives basic information and is highly standardized. Basically, by sentence: 1) what you're applying for; 2) summarize yourself in one sentence (optional); 3) describe your current status (could be two sentences); 4) your pitch -- "I believe that my blah blah blah make me an excellent candidate for this position" (also optional).

[2] Explain your dissertation and its contribution to the field. I worked from a further breakdown of the formula that went, more or less sentence-by-sentence:
1. context
2. intervention
3. methodology
4. contents
5. conclusions
6. big picture

[3] There seem to be differing opinions about the purpose of the third paragraph, but I adopted the model that says this is where you outline your larger research interests and apocryphal next project (NB: invented completely out of thin air). It could also be a catch-all for anything else you think is important about you, outside of dissertation and teaching.

[4] The teaching paragraph. Others might prefer to go into less detail about nebulous principles and more detail about courses you have taught/would like to teach. I haven't really gotten around to imagining new courses yet.

[5] This is a kind of unofficial paragraph, but I wanted to template out this flexible space rather than attempting to rewrite the whole letter in each case. I think it will prove useful as a spot to construct a tailored pitch. Whether you include it or not, do make sure you conclude with an inventory of all the materials you've sent as part of your application package. I'm also putting my contact info both at the top and the bottom of the letter.

Last night I dreamed a brainstorming session for a "visibility"-themed vidshow, covering invisible characters, queer representation (complete with debates on where subtext ends and text begins), and ending with lim's "Us" as a meditation on "mainstreaming" via its literally effaced footage. (I still don't think this tops my waking idea for a vidshow on cyborgs, which also culminates in vidding self-reflexivity.)

Obviously a sign that I should spend today finally finishing this post.

I rationalized attending vividcon by calculating the time and energy I would save catching up on the deluge of premieres through watching them all in one fell swoop. It certainly lived up to my expectations on that account! I plan for this to be the last recs post for a long while. Keep in mind that my taste in vids is idiosyncratic, and this is intended as an inventory of my subjective favorites, not as an objective hierarchy of craftsmanship.

In this vein, I made an executive decision to exclude stand-alone movie vids from this list of recs. While I saw a number of vids from single-movie source at the con that were individually captivating, I don't find movies very interesting on the whole, and thus I don't find movie vids very interesting as a genre.

Complete playlists for all VVC08 vidshows are helpfully compiled HERE.

My Winner's Circle
For all my disclaimers, I imagine this resembles many con-goers' top three (1 and 2 were the selections for in-depth review). The marked similarities here are telling: in addition to Summer Glau, all these vids feature perverse relationships, cleverly manipulated and/or external footage, and a gradually emerging reveal. The latter strategy has a particular payoff in the reception context of VividCon. Typically, one would click through to a vid motivated at minimum by the framing information in the author's post, and often by the supplementary comments of a reccer as well. A premieres show, by contrast, guarantees a captive audience "unspoiled" by any paratexts, creating different narrative opportunities from the internet's temporal and spatial dispersion. And yes, I am about to spoil you.

vidder(s): sweetestdrain
title: Gloria
music: Patti Smith
fandom: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
focus: Sarah/Cameron
availability: download (xvid), imeem
summary: People say beware, but I don't care.
comments: The premiere of this vid alone was worth the price of admission: watching surprise lesbian robot porn unfold was an unforgettable encounter. Already thrilled with butch Sarah at the beginning (remember how dualbunny taught us that Starbuck IS Pink? well sweetestdrain makes a convincing case that Sarah Connor IS Patti Smith), I may never recover from how thoroughly I was bowled over by my own kinks as the story developed. jagwriter78 recently coined the term "vidfic" -- I think we have here an exemplar of that mode. I'd venture that this is the greatest femslash vid made to date.

vidder(s): obsessive24
title: Climbing Up the Walls
music: Radiohead
fandom: Supernatural, Heroes, Firefly/Serenity
focus: Sam/Dean Winchester, Nathan/Peter Petrelli, Simon/River Tam
availability: download (xvid, wmv), imeem
summary: Siblings. "I am the pick in the ice."
comments: My lack of patience with either Winchesters or Petrellis had me rolling my eyes when this started. My date whispered, "I don't think this is a vid about 80% boys, I think it's a vid about INCEST." Well THAT I can certainly get behind! As the author notes, this is open to multiple readings (and various commentaries are linked) -- personally I experience it as gleefully cracktastic, but I'm aware that there's a darker morality tale lurking within if one takes it seriously. For the uninitiated: these are three wildly popular pairings in fandom, not simply three random pairs of siblings -- this is a metavid about a topical fannish phenomenon. Here's to the queer frontier.

vidder(s): bradcpu
title: Tear You Apart
music: She Wants Revenge
fandom: Firefly
focus: Simon/Kaylee (River)
availability: download (xvid, wmv), imeem
summary: It feels so right.
comments: This vid is fiendishly disorienting until the POV coalesces. Exquisitely edited, deliciously disturbing, and perfectly River. Smart notes by bradcpu: "I tried to make a vid that would look and feel fractured, but not really tell the viewer why it looks fractured until the final segment of the vid. Hopefully the first 2/3 of the vid looks different on a second viewing. I tried to push the River POV by using lots of jump cuts and medical shots (tons of secondary source); and by connecting sexual desire to violence and Reavers, because I would imagine it would have all looked the same in River's head." It worked.


Additional Top Ten Premieres (includes Also Premiering and Fuck You! challenge shows)

vidder(s): Seah + Margie
title: Handlebars
music: The Flobots
fandom: Doctor Who
focus: Ten
availability: download, imeem
summary: I'm the Doctor. Look me up.
comments: I was skeptical that I'd enjoy another vid to this song after spending so much time with kiki_miserychic's BSG 4.0 Handlebars, but it turned out to be refreshing to experience it with a close internal POV. There was another Handlebars vid in Premieres, deejay's Iron Man version, which I also enjoyed (but see above re: not putting movie vids on the list). This is the consummate portrait of a megalomaniacal hero, or, why The Doctor is a jerk.

vidder(s): buffyann
title: This World
music: Zero 7
fandom: BSG
focus: ensemble
availability: download (imeem coming soon)
summary: This world is still afloat, we still have hope.

vidder(s): nightchik
title: Beautiful Struggle
music: Talib Kweli
fandom: Harry Potter
focus: Harry
availability: download
summary: Life is beautiful. Life is a struggle.

vidder(s): kuwdora
title: King of Spain
music: Moxy Fruvous
fandom: Little Mosque on the Prairie
focus: Amaar Rashid
availability: download, imeem
summary: It's not the spiritual enlightenment he was expecting.

vidder(s): heresluck
title: Strength in You
music: Kim Richey
fandom: Gilmore Girls
focus: Lorelei/Rory Lorelei + Rory
availability: download, imeem
summary: I swear I'll be there forever.

vidder(s): cesperanza
title: Supersmart
music: The Headstones
fandom: SGA
focus: meta
availability: download (divx), imeem
summary: Pay no attention to the woman behind the curtain.

vidder(s): keewick
title: 32
music: Regina Spektor
fandom: SGA
focus: Teyla
availability: download
summary: 32 is still a goddamn number.

vidder(s): kiki_miserychic
title: Special Death
music: Mirah
fandom: Deadwood
focus: Joanie Stubbs
availability: download (divx), vimeo
summary: A terrible mistake was made.

vidder(s): aycheb
title: Scarlet Ribbons
music: Sinead O'Connor
fandom: Buffyverse
focus: slayers
availability: download (divx), imeem
summary: She will not sleep on a bed of bones. / Your faces, O my sisters! Your faces filled of light!

vidder(s): lierdumoa
title: How Much Is That Geisha in the Window?
music: "Boyd's Journey" by Damon Albarn and Michael Nyman on the Ravenous (1999) Original Soundtrack; Adam Baldwin, Nathan Fillian and Gina Torres in the "Firefly Extended Gag Reel"
fandom: Firefly (2002), w/ additional source from Serenity (2005), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), 3:10 to Yuma (2007) and Gone with the Wind (1939)
focus: Invisible Asians
availability: download (imeem coming soon)
summary: Fuck you Joss, you racist asshole.


Top Ten Club Vivid Premieres

vidder(s): Abby
title: I Will Survive
music: Gloria Gaynor
fandom: BSG
focus: Number Six
availability: [please help me find it!]
summary: As long as I know how to love I know I'll stay alive.
comments: Frankly, this vid isn't very well constructed, but it doesn't matter because the concept is pure genius. Its wrongness made me dance and scream and short-circuit.

vidder(s): laurashapiro
title: Shut Up and Drive
music: Rhianna
fandom: Doctor Who
focus: Martha (Martha/Ten, but I'm ignoring that)
availability: download (divx), imeem
summary: Martha > you.

vidder(s): charmax
title: Smiley Faces
music: Gnarls Barkley
fandom: Torchwood
focus: Jack, ensemble
availability: download, vimeo, imeem, youtube
summary: Team Torchwood and "how hard this life can be."

vidder(s): kuwdora
title: Hold Music
music: Architecture in Helsinki
fandom: So NoTORIous
focus: Tori Spelling, Mimi LaRue (her pug) and one of her BFFs, Sasan (Zach Quinto)
availability: download, imeem
summary: For the 98% out there who don’t know anything about the show: It’s a semi-autobiographical comedy about Tori Spelling’s life.

vidder(s): f1renze
title: Television, Television
music: OK Go
fandom: The Sopranos
focus: ensemble
availability: [not posted yet]
summary: Give up the world, give up your life, 'cause you cannot fight the television.

vidder(s): mamoru22
title: A Little Less Conversation
music: Elvis Presley
fandom: Boston Legal
focus: Denny/Alan
availability: download (xvid, mp4), imeem
summary: Because Denny IS Elvis in every way that counts.

vidder(s): millylicious
title: Don't Cha / Seether
music: Party Ben (Pussycat Dolls + Veruca Salt)
fandom: Buffyverse
focus: Buffy/Faith
availability: download, imeem
summary: Two slayers, two seperate paths.

vidder(s): counteragent
title: Ladies Night
music: Kool and the Gang
fandom: multi
focus: hotness
availability: download (xvid, wmv), youtube
summary: Professional competence is sexy.

vidder(s): foomatic
title: Girl 4 All Seasons
music: Northern State
fandom: multi
focus: hotness
availability: download (divx), imeem, youtube
summary: Girls kick ass.

vidder(s): dualbunny
title: Party Join Us
music: "Shin Chan" ending theme
fandom: She-Ra
focus: ensemble
availability: [not posted yet]
summary: dualbunny was DRESSED UP as She-Ra at Club Vivid. Enough said.


Top Ten New-To-Me Vids (does NOT include Action, AMVs, and Second Bananas, which I didn't attend -- sorry!)
Honestly these categories are somewhat arbitrary, as I later discovered that I HAD demonstrably seen a couple of these before -- certainly they were less familiar than those below.

vidder(s): xandra_ptv
title: They
music: Jem
fandom: Big Love
focus: sisterwives (and Bill)
show: Ensemble
availability: download (xvid, wmv), imeem
summary: The problems and paranoia of living the polygamist lifestyle.

vidder(s): laurashapiro
title: The Lonely People
music: MystiQuintet
fandom: Doctor Who
focus: Rose
show: End of the World
availability: download, imeem
summary: What is the cost of a better life?

vidder(s): charmax
title: Don't Stop Me Now
music: Queen
fandom: Doctor Who
focus: The Master
show: Sense of Play
availability: download, imeem, youtube
summary: Sometimes an evil genius just needs to let his hair down and have some fun.

vidder(s): sisabet
title: Doctor Who on Holiday
music: Dean Gray
fandom: BSG, Farscape, Doctor Who
focus: Cylons, Peacekeepers, Daleks
show: Club Vivid
availability: download [currently broken]
summary: Remix of sockkpuppett's mashup Sci-Fi Friday in a Blender.

vidder(s): counteragent
title: In These Shoes
music: Kirsty MacColl
fandom: Alias
focus: Sydney, Nadia, Rachel [femslash subtext]
show: Nearly New
availability: download, imeem
summary: "In these shoes? I don't think so." Sydney and Nadia and Rachel supporting each other and being awesome.

vidder(s): andrastewhite
title: Baby, You Can Drive My Car
music: The Beatles
fandom: Heroes
focus: Hiro/Ando
show: Joy
availability: download (divx)
summary: "Our life of legend begins!"

vidder(s): giandujakiss
title: The Real Slim Shady
music: Eminem
fandom: Starsky & Hutch (mostly)
focus: Everything but the redheads.
show: Hip-Hop
availability: download (wmv), imeem
summary: This vid is a shaggy dog story. You have been warned.

vidder(s): mamoru22
title: Without Me
music: Eminem
fandom: SGA
focus: David Hewlett
show: Hip-Hop
availability: download, imeem
summary: David Hewlett, how are you so awesome?

vidder(s): wistful_fever
title: Chasing Arizona
music: "Meds" by Placebo
fandom: Fall Out Boy RPS
focus: Pete/Patrick AU
show: Push the Envelope
availability: download, imeem, youtube
summary: Pete is in love with his best friend. Life is great. Only... his best friend isn't real.

vidder(s): Hana no JudgeHolden Productions
title: Lost in an Anime Dream
music: Jump by Madonna
fandom: ROD TV, Lost in Translation, Fast and Furious 3: Tokyo Drift, music video for "Jump"
focus: Charlotte
show: Push the Envelope
availability: download
summary: counteragent - "This vid not only merges live action and anime and real-person source in a technologically riveting fashion, it also speaks to both the isolation and connection engendered by our relationship with modern media."


Top Ten NOT New-To-Me Vids (that I haven't gotten around to reccing previously)

vidder(s): heyiya
title: The Future Stops Here
music: Rabbit in Your Headlights by UNKLE featuring Thom Yorke
fandom: 28 Days Later, Children of Men, V for Vendetta
focus: dystopia
show: Push the Envelope
availability: download (mov, avi), imeem, vimeo
summary: "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face. Forever." - George Orwell

vidder(s): halcyon_shift
title: Big City Life
music: Mattafix
fandom: Dark Angel
focus: Max
show: Hip-Hop
availability: download
summary: It's all good, all the time.

vidder(s): mranderson71
title: This Is Matrix Life
music: “This Is Your Life” by The Dust Brothers feat. Tyler Durden
fandom: The Matrix Trilogy
focus: Fight Club mashup
show: Nearly New
availability: vimeo (with download)
summary: Action-sarcasm.

vidder(s): di_br
title: All the Small Things
music: Blink 182
fandom: The Daily Show + The Colbert Report
focus: Jon/Stephen
show: Push the Envelope
availability: download, youtube
summary: This is a video about the friendship between Jon and Stephen... It's NOT meant to be a slashy vid, but these two don't make things any easier for me, OH NO!

vidder(s): newkidfan
title: The Tree
music: Chanson de L'Arbre by Autour de Lucie
fandom: SGA
focus: McKay/Sheppard
show: Push the Envelope
availability: download (rar), imeem
summary: Since the day John left him, Rodney hasn't moved.

vidder(s): keewick
title: Martina
music: Meryn Cadell
fandom: Veronica Mars
focus: Veronica
show: Push the Envelope
availability: download
summary: Knock on wood.

vidder(s): jarrow
title: About Schroeder
music: No More Kings
fandom: Farscape
focus: John/Chiana
show: Nearly New
availability: download, imeem
summary: Chiana tries to understand John, but he isn't reaching back.

vidder(s): beerbad
title: Early Winter
music: Gwen Stefani
fandom: Grey's Anatomy
focus: Lexie/Meredith Grey
show: Nearly New
availability: download, imeem, youtube

vidder(s): beerbad (with jarrow)
title: Promiscuous Girl
music: "Promiscuous" by Nelly Furtado featuring Timbaland
fandom: BSG
focus: Kara/Laura
show: Hip-Hop
availability: download (wmv), imeem, youtube
summary: OTP, baby!

vidder(s): fan_eunice + greensilver
title: Papa Don't Preach
music: Madonna
fandom: Torchwood + Doctor Who
focus: Jack/Master, Jack/Ianto, with Ten as "Papa"
show: Nearly New
availability: download (divx), imeem
summary: Jack is keeping his baby... yeah, we went there.