I know I speak for all of us when we thank you for hitRECord.org

Happy Birthday! First of all, I love this idea. We could really get a lot of RECorders involved...like we're all in the same pub together having a pint. <3

Hats off to ManWithHat (wait, no pun intended) for his rendition of Words We're Wailing.  It sounds exactly like what you're wanting, so I added my track to his version and added a few more "pub-like" sound effects in there too.

I think it might really be awesome if someone was good at sound effects and could add some more to it, like people laughing, beer bottles opening, bar stools scooting across the floor, maybe a door opening/closing...?
This was a lot of fun <3

(and I've never recorded a remark before with a RECording added to it, so I messed it up and the resources aren't there! So, this is the re-RECording of it with the resources)

My thoughts on the new and spectacular (Not So) Tiny Story collab...was thinking Greek mythology, but I would really LOVE to see The Wizard of Oz brought to life again by hitRECorders. <3

RegularJoe’s regularity video on irregularity (http://hitrecord.org/records/370030) has inspired me to start a collaboration. A collaboration I should have started long ago.  This collaboration is a memoriam of sorts for all those beautiful souls that are no longer with us in body, but live gloriously in our hearts. 

I want to tell their stories.  A tiny story of their not-so-tiny lives.  I’m looking for those souls from you. Anyone you want to honor that is no longer with us.  A photo of them and a little something that made them who they were.  For example, what they did for a living or a character trait that was special, anything at all. I’m thinking of a collage of sorts with their photos and images that tell who they were in a few seconds.  Maybe some live videos of them in there as well.  We’ll need photo editors…movie editors…musicians for a soundtrack...we’ll need you.  Contribute photos, videos, images, info, music,  ideas…anything and everything that we can use to honor these people and celebrate their lives.

Let’s share those who are dear to us with each other so that a little piece of their tiny stories can live on in all of us. <3

Watching some of our beautiful creations at hitRECord at the Movies <3

04.23.2011 8PM show

RegularJoe performing "I Don't Want To Live On The Moon" at hitRECord at the Movies.

Dan, I'm pretty sure this was for you. <3

What a BEAUTIFUL amazing little theatre - they are so few these days, it's up to us to keep them alive. <3

watching some tiny stories and waiting for the show to begin <3

and we're ready to go <3

I played a little with the lighted sign in the Vista Theatre <3

It was just beautiful, Joe. <3

It's like a giant smile in sign form. <3

Yes, that was cheesy, but I happen to love cheese. =)

A remix of swaylooza's child-like Joe pic at hitRECord at the Movies <3

I love it when I don't make a whole lot of sense.

Point? I had a GREAT TIME and I love you all. <3

just playing with alisonrose's great photo of joe <3

remix of baggel's AMAZING photo <3

Played with sallyxoh's Snaps for Joe photo <3

Introducing the Shadow Beings. <3

Joe chats with Vista Threatre's Boss Man <3 Thanks for the great show!

I wanted to make a signed version of "hit RECord" for the new Intro video.  I don't have a program that can crop video, so if anyone can center it for me, that'd be great. =)

I'm a sign language interpreter and would love to make an interpreted or closed-caption copy of the new Intro video once it is completed for the website for all the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing RECorders out there. I would also be glad to do that for anyone's video/audio RECords. <3

and a big HAPPY 6TH BIRTHDAY, HITRECORD!!

~Stevie

This is just a little snippet of a song I've started to write. It's not much yet, but it's something.

I started writing it while thinking about how much we take for granted and how short life is...we should live it all we can while we've got it.

Enjoy,

Stevie <3

I wanted to add a little more depth and texture to my first attempt at this picture, so I hand-drew in some more lines and shadow with pencil and ink.

This a stencilized version of alisonrose's picture of Joe singing 'I Don't Want To Live on the Moon' from the hitRECord at the movies 4/23 8pm show. I just really like it. <3

~Stevie

This a stencilized version of alisonrose's picture of Joe singing 'I Don't Want To Live on the Moon' from the hitRECord at the movies 4/23 8pm show. I just really like it. <3

Stevie

An illustration of MattConley's 'As It Were: A Tiny Story' with colormetwice's Shadows in Love as the "might be" <3

Drawn by me in pencil =)

My attempt at Frame 2, using steverolston's 'Vinyl Joe' for inspiration. I thought his expression was perfect for this frame. <3

--Stevie

This is how I imagined this story...a happy couple starting their story and it abruptly ending before it really begins...

A stop-motion papermation-like film I made for wirrow's 'a new hevn' for the creation myth collab. I wanted it to be somehwat child-like since creation and birth and re-birth kept making me think of the growth of children and their tiny stories.

I would still like to add music to this. I know megancarnes is working on something and I hope others do too (like maybe amferarro's piece when it's finished?). *nudge nudge*

This is my first stop-motion film (so please, be kind) and my biggest hitRECord project to date (weeks of planning and filming...all worth it)

It's such a beautiful story and so many people have made amazing things with it...I am just beyond baffled by this community's brilliance.

I had a lot of fun making this - I hope you guys like it. =)

~Stevie <3

my take on this sexy tiny story ;)

I have done so much with wirrow’s tiny story 'a new hevn' that I have found that I have actually memorized it. Yeah, it’s that good. So, wirrow, this interpretation is for you. <3

I love this so much, so I added some harmony. I have lousy RECording software, so I apologize if it sounds a bit rough. I want to add some instruments too here in the next few days...and wouldn't it be AWESOME if @megan_carnes added some too (hint hint) <3

My Chaplinesque silent film style Fall Formal Intro video, with the intro script signed in American Sign Language(ASL). Thanks to the memory of Chaplin and The Golden Mustache, I had a blast making this. <3

(Audio: Sunshine Charlie, public domain: http://www.archive.org/details/JayWhiddenOrch-SunshineCharlie1931)

happy halloween <3

After some (ok a TON) of technical difficulties, my REmix is finally complete. A big thanks to Dave for playing what I heard in my head and letting me use his synthesizer. <3

And a big big thanks to Amy for writing something I have had so much fun playing with. I had to tweak the words a bit for timing purposes, but the REmixed lyrics are below:

You may not have heard

But you’ll never forget

The terrifying tale of

A murderous duet

Now, it may cause a fright

But you really should know

All about the pair of

Josephine and Joe

Not long ago

And right ‘round these parts

People turned up dead

Devoid of their hearts

Dozens of bodies

The killings gruesome

Maimed and mangled by 

A psychotic twosome

One night a drunk

Came stumbling home

He met with a lady 

Afraid and alone

Her name Josephine

A blonde all in stripes

When he went for the kiss

He lost his life

One evening a beggar

Crossed paths with a gent

Clad in a white suit

So he asked for a cent

The man, Joe, seemed kind

And he said he’d give aid

But instead of money

He gave him a blade

Now, there was a pastor

Respected and renowned

Who knew it was his job

To calm the people of the town

So he hid himself 

Concealed and unseen

To catch the killers

Joe and Josephine

Night after night 

The pastor would wait

Though he kept faithful watch

The deaths did not abate

He said once he saw

Josephine wipe Joe’s face

Though he tried to grab them

They escaped the place

The people got angry

Why didn’t it end?!

They needed someone

Who could really apprehend

A cunning young lass

Named Lillian Anne

Thought long and hard

And came up with a plan

She stalked the pastor

All through the night

It was ‘round 3 o’clock

When she was met with a fright

He entered the graveyard

Lillian feeling doom

She lost sight of him

As he went behind a tomb

Suddenly a hand 

Grabbed her ‘round the neck

She caught sight of a lady

In stripes white and black!

Lillian and the lady

They grappled and fought

But Lillian was stronger

Than anyone thought

She kicked her and punched her

And the striped lady fell

But when Lillian looked down

She let out a yell

The pastor’s face stared 

Right up back at her

A blonde wig askew,

lipstick all a blur

She glanced at the ground

And there in the mud

A bright white suit

Smattered dark with blood

She shrieked for the cops

And they came without fail

And arrested the killer

To spend life in jail

Josephine and Joe

and the Pastor were done

The duo and the trio

Were nothing but one

Inspired by all of the women who have ever fought for their independence from domestic violence.

Special thanks to megancarnes for always writing something I want to create something else to. <3

Read the tiny story that goes with this tiny film here:

http://hitrecord.org/records/624057

Still images from public domain:

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

http://www.archive.org/details/gov.fl.doh.fw.3

For help, call 718-439-1000 Center Against Domestic Violence