Otherwise Award Auction donations & commissions

[brainwane]

Hi all! Two years ago I started a bit of discussion about how vidding and a fundraiser that I emcee could cross-connect, and I'm following up on that now.

I love the Vid Party and I am one of the people who runs the Otherwise Award (formerly Tiptree) Auction. The Otherwise Literary Award encourages the exploration & expansion of gender, and holds a 90-minute fundraising auction at WisCon each year -- usually on Saturday night, and earlier than the Vid Party. I'm the auctioneer.

We're seeking donations of objects to be auctioned -- handcrafts, books, memorabilia, games, and art, especially with scifi/fantasy or feminist elements, are welcome. And I would personally love to get some donations this year of types I haven't usually seen, such as DVDs or CDs of feminist media, or tea.

But I request two things of this community specifically:

• If any vidders would like to contribute art commissions, we could do what other fanvidding auctions do, e.g., the winning bidder gets to suggest what they like and you make a custom vid for them (you can specify constraints like fandoms, genres, length, deadline, etc.). If you're interested in doing this, leave a comment below by May 15th.
  
• If any of you own physical media you despise, I could potentially raise money by promising to destroy it, live, onstage. In 2016 the audience paid me something like USD$130 to take a hammer and smash a "Pilates for Weight Loss" DVD. If you're interested in doing this, please leave a comment below by May 15th (although I will update this instruction once we have the auction donation online form going for this year).
  

(Now that the auction is only 90 minutes, I'm not going to try to show vids during it, despite me considering that in 2018.)

Thanks!

Comments

Vid auction offer

[thuviaptarth]

Hi, Sumana. I'd like to offer a vid commission.

Here's the profile I'd use if it were an online auction -- please feel free to condense/revise for the spoken auction context.

Hello! I am offering one custom-made fan vid. I can vid your idea in as much detail as you want to give me (whether it's just fandom + song or whether you have detailed specific requests for certain clips or scenes); for some fandoms (starred below), I can suggest a song + concept if you don't have one in mind. I'd prefer you to offer suggestions, if possible, so that there's an alternative if I can't make a vid work for some reason.

You can find my vids on AO3 if you'd like to get an idea of the kinds of things I make. I love character studies and explorations of a source's themes or wider universe; I am probably not your best choice for comedy, heavy effects work, multi-fandom vids, or vids for non-visual sources.

DELIVERY: By Wiscon 45.

MUSIC: I like lots of different types of music, so don't feel constrained to only the types of songs I've vidded before.

FANDOMS: I'm willing to take a stab at vidding most movies (please check first if you're thinking of a horror movie or something violent), or TV series that aren't too long (but please check first if it isn't listed below).

Some TV shows/other things I've been into recently:

Dickinson
Harlots
Killing Eve
Watchmen (2019)*
琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire*
陈情令 | The Untamed*
庆余年 | Joy of Life
天盛长歌 | Rise of Phoenixes*
신입사관 구해령 | Rookie Historian Goo Hae-Ryung

Some old faves I'd still be happy to vid:

Angel*
Buffy the Vampire Slayer*
Jane the Virgin
Jesus Christ Superstar Live (2018)*
Marvel Cinematic Universe*
Orphan Black*
Penny Dreadful*
Russian Doll
Underground*
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles*
The X Files (cut off at Season 7)*

Re: Vid auction offer

[brainwane]

OMG YES

This makes me so happy

Your vid "Hey Ho" was the reason I got into MCU fandom at all

Thank you

Aaaaaaaaa

(will be further in touch soon!)

Re: Vid auction offer

[thuviaptarth]

aw, thanks! That's very nice to hear.