Vampling

Video performance

This is also one of many terms being used to describe video-audio sampling whereby video is "played" along with its sound, as one would play an instrument. The practicians are thus called "vamplers" [ [http://www.vampler.net Vampler.net ] ] .

From the French newspaper "Liberation"

"Le “vampling” est une pratique consistant à réassembler des fragments vidéos avec le son qui leur est attaché, à la différence du Vj (vidéo-DJ) qui mixe des images sur de la musique pour l’accompagner visuellement." [ [http://www.ecrans.fr/Le-sample-du-vampler,2613.html Ecrans - Le bal des vamplers ] ]

Translation

"Vampling is a practice consisting in reassembling video fragments with the sound attached, differing itself from the vj (video dj) who mixes images to music to create visual accompaniment."

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Role-play

The word "vampling" is also used as a noun to describe an "infant vampire" [ [http://www.vampirerave.com/levels2.php VampireRave.com - The Vampire Rave Status System ] ] in role-playing game community.

Usages

"vamplings--born of the unions of mortals and vampires, which only happens when a spell is placed on the vampire that turns their sex chromosomes from being sterile to being fertile.
Vamplings are born with small fangs, but do not need to drink blood, though they have an attraction to it. They are mortal, though they live longer than normal people. They are born with tiny curved nails, like claws, their tears are faintly tinged with blood, but they are better able to pass for human than their vampire parents. They can walk in daylight, have nocturnal vision, better hearing, and can see in the infrared like cats. They tend to be better looking than normal humans, they have a bit of their vampire parents' glamour, or inhuman beauty. They are stronger and faster than normal humans with more acute senses. They are more apt in the uses of magic and the arts of war than normal humans. Their mental facilities are more efficient and they live longer than normals, but die eventually. They appear young up until a month before they die of old age, at which point they age amazingly fast". [ [http://www.geocities.com/dark_gesture/secret.html#vampires special ] ]

"I'm willing to risk losing my Vampling if it's for the Family." [ [http://www.pirate-vs-ninja.com/forum/viewtopic.php?start=90&t=1497 Pirate V.S. Ninja :: View topic - Don't Forget ] ]

"I later found out in my travels that the state of mind of your victim will enhance the blood mixture and make-up and at some times can make a good vampling euphoric.And a fresh young vampling I was. It hadn't hit me yet...even with the disgust of what I was doing as I sank my now elongated teeth into this poor wretched unsuspecting fool and began to feast upon her. The first draw was amazing...like no plant or absinthe I had ever imbibed in. My head swooned a bit and I had felt punch-drunk." [ [http://www.blogsofroleplay.com/Darkstar/archives/cat_birth_of_a_demon.html D'Sarian lore: Birth of a demon Archives ] ]

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