THERE'S A NEW VERSION 4 (http://www.hitrecord.org/records/64370).

There's one more version :-) Sorry for giving the impression to spam here on hitRECord, but dear Tori made a very good point about coloring the "rec" in "hitRECord", so to be consistent with the original design of the logo. And as I'm anyway too excited to go to bed now (just to be clear, it's 11 pm over here), I gave it a try. So, enjoy the hitRECorder's-suggestion-cut :-) and if you have any further suggestions, don't hesitate to tell me or do it yourself :-)

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...]

This is the version of the New Time Collaboratorium that screened at SXSW 2010. This was such a fast and ambitious project and there were so many pieces from the contributions I wanted to fit in but ran out of time! But not to fret The New Time has expressed that they would love to keep this collaboration going.

This video of course is missing the live accompaniment of the band, so melodically it's not super compelling by itself.

So let's keep evolving this and we can finally turn this into the full on collaboration that it has been aching to become! Thanks to everyone who pitched in.

HitRECord's animated short about the Prop 8 trial, transparency, media, freedom and the future. Made collaboratively during the Sundance Film Festival.

Complete listing of resources coming as soon as I get home from Utah.

Hello! Ara again. Same video. No music. As requested by Lula. (Sorry about the background noise. Also, sorry about my voice. :P I couldn't do anything about that anymore)

Now with sound! I doubt you guys will want to use it, but I had made this and thought, "Why not? Just submit it."

*Edit* I have since created a version with the SXSW logo:http://hitrecord.org/records/62074 So ignore some of my following comments.

This version has some sound effects, but it is still lacking a few things (frog tongue, sizzling bomb fuse, sound for disappearing letters, maybe a more convincing explosion layered on top of mine, whatever). Obviously it's missing the SXSW 2010 logo, so if anyone feels like using this one, they need to add that somehow, along with whatever else. I hope some of you like this, regardless of whether or not it becomes useful.

*Video specs: 1080p, 24fps, H264 Quicktime*

Rian Johnson recently wrote and directed THE BROTHERS BLOOM; his first one was BRICK. And now, he makes his first foray into hitRECord collaboration with a poem he has written entitled The Man in the Herringbone Hat.

He's thinking maybe we do it first as sort of an audio-play like the old radio days. Who wants to do a reading of it? I will soon. But we'd really like a variety of voices. Especially an old man's voice. Anybody got a grandpa with a flair for a turn of phrase?

First attempt for those SXSW one minute short intersticials + bumper.

Personettes and Peoplethings – I present to you the SXSW 2010 version of ‘Morgan and Destiny’s Eleventeeth Date – The Zeppelin Zoo’.

Our man Morgan and his lovebuddy Destiny, along with Mssr. Foodpenguin and that dastardly dip-stick Lionel premiered to two jam-packed houses in Austin. The screenings were met with the lovely love of excited SXSW humanians.

Thanks to everyone who collaborated on Morgan and all of our other RECords in Austin. Its a time I won’t soon forget! :o)

<3
J

It started as a couple conversations with the inimitable Sean Lennon, and look how far it's come! This is the version of Nebulullaby that screened at Sundance 2010. (Leaving UT today, we'll be updating with cited Resources and a new higher quality file with the proper aspect ratio soon )