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Everything Is on Fire- gotta love everything about this. the repetition, the colors, the simplicity, it all works so well.


Grey Graves- this guy's got an amazing voice, and the instrumentals are fantastic. This could go great in a tiny story or in some kind of collaboration. 


Even Shadows Hit RECord- this is really cute! I love the idea and I feel like these figures could have their own story if animated and put in a video. They are very original and I think there can be a lot done with them. 


Vibes and Feelings- Also everything about this one is amazing. I love the music and just the overall concept. 


Morgan M. Morgansen's Date- great stuff. The animations are fantastic and i love the narration voiceover. I love the feel of an old black and white short film, I think there could be a lot more like this in the future.


 


 

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This is the version of Morgan M. Morganson's Date with Destiny that screened at Sundance 2010. Throughout the festival, this is the one we'd show as our example. Whenever anybody asked, "what is hitRECord?" this was my answer: "Here, watch this short film we're making; you'll never believe who did it and how!"

Albert proposed an off-kilter writing exercise, and then Metaphorest's beautifully strange short story inspired it all. I read the story aloud, Jenyffer.Maria started drawing the characters, Tori animated Jen's drawings, Lula and I did a live-action rendition, Lawrie Brewster took the project to soaring heights with his gorgeous visuals, and along the way there was the help, encouragement and roughly 180 contributions from throughout our community. We brought it to Sundance, and Nathan coaxed the lush and vast music out of the newly coined hitRECorchestra. (Good_Girl_Indie has written out a fabulously detailed timeline documenting what happened and when along this RECord's progression.)

Not only did we close our (two) official hitRECord screening(s) in the New Frontier Microcinema with this piece, but the next day, Sundance added it as a short film to play before the award-winning feature HOMEWRECKER on a much bigger screen.

I actually watched the thing again just now. And I can whole-heartedly say that, besides the progressive methodology with which it was made, and besides the warm reception it received at Sundance, just purely as a little piece of art, as a short film, as a RECord -- I'm as proud of Morgan M. Morgansen's Date with Destiny as I am of any work I've ever done.

Thank you, everyone, for making it all happen!
and thanks again...
<3

[PS] [updating soon with higher-res file, proper aspect ratio (!) and there's still more resources left to cite, etc, etc, etc...]
2010-01-31 01:24:38 +0000
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wirrow first Released this song back in the springtime.  The first thing I did after the first time I heard it was email dan, saying "I found your new favorite song."  He and I share a love for the pleasantly repetitive.


Other musicians added to it, PixelPilgrim and ChenelyWelly added to wirrow's vocals from the female persuasion.  Nels Cline played hot guitar.  Jeff Peff added percussion and edited the whole thing together into its current form.


The hypno-face template is one of the cooler aesthetic feats our mass collaborative process has achieved so far: wirrow drawing the first face, then hundreds of hitRECorders coloring it into diversity.


And the work of a whole lot of video artists went into this montage I've cut.  Too many to name in this description, but I'll cite the resources below.  (I've listed some so far, but I'll have to dig around to find the rest)  The footage of dan spinning comes from Vanya, who is well intent on uploading the resource, I know because he's standing right next to me.

2010-12-30 05:30:47 -0600
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http://www.archive.org/details/drugs_are_like_that


http://www.archive.org/details/drugs_in_our_culture

2011-01-31 00:56:53 +0000
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I was inspired by Soupy's shadow shapes. To me, many of them looked like they were taking part in these activities. These are in no way reflecting the caste system! All arts are equal. :)

by Mallory
2011-01-31 22:31:08 +0100
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This is a song about burying the past. 


 


You are the ghost


Of everything you used to be


A mind made victim 


I killed off in my dreams 


Your blood is on my fingertips,


Your blood is on my hands


Oh, I hope some day you understand


 


You are the ghost 


Thats whispering from down the hall


It keeps me up at night


My God, I hear your calls


Your voice just beats my drums


Your voice is in my head


Oh, it sounds just like the living dead


 


You Know I am the one who buried 


You


Were the body I laid down 


In my memory 


 


You are the ghost 


That took shape of who I used to know


You call it heartless


But I'll just call it apropros


To strip you of your sheets


Exposing your chains


Oh, won't you let me by with ease


 


Dig it up, dig it up right now


Make a home in the cemetery 


I hope you're happy 


In these grey graves.


 


 Written/REcorded/Performedby Chase Horseman

2011-02-01 00:26:58 +0000
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