This shot was a bitch to get right... think i got there in the end :)

Found an amazing geometric illustration by Elerin and became a little obsessed with colouring it in. :) Thanks again to belcath1981 for sharing her photoshop tips!

Joe mentioned kind of vaguely on Vickie's footage that he wanted a more edited-together video for this song, so voila! This is very much a first draft to me, so comments, criticisms, and suggestions are very much appreciated.

i really love the way this was written so here is my drawing for sea legs - (a short) poem by blbest

Almost a year to the day, here is V2.0 of Everything is on Fire, using the Robo_J REmix.

My Dad taught me this chord when I was really little and he called it the John Lennon Chord. 

After uploading, I realised that the background was a huge pixelly mess! So I redid it and tidied up the frame. 

This is a piece I put together in early-September of 2009.
It was made for fun at a office space/makeshift-RECording studio I was hanging out at. It's been resting peacefully in the catacombs of my "archive" USB and I thought it would be comfy here too :)

Arranging, Programming & RECording ~ meeee
The saxophone is played by my friend Michael Baker. His solo is made of different fragments of him warming up, which I RECorded, cup up, mixed up, and put together.

I figure if you want to use this for anything, go right ahead.

Happy REmixing

<3

RJ

All my ums collected from a raw 4 minute 'practice' of what I wanted to say for some Shadow Being suggestions video I have somewhere on HitRECord.

Comb my hair? Fix it and make it pretty? Hah! It's my own neglected garden and I love it the way it is.

Here's another voiceover for the pile.

This is the first of a series of drawings I am creating.

About 8 months ago when I joined HitRECord, from browsing and getting to know the site I became fascinated with two things:

1. The people I now refer to as "prominent members" of the HitRECord community

and

2. The idea of remixing lots of different things to make one big thing.

So after I finished my exams earlier this summer, I decided to get to work on a series of drawings that would merge the two, whilst also adding a character to it.

This is the first, inspired by our ... leader?... boss?  : S I'm not sure how to put it... Oh well, Mr Joseph Gordon-Levitt!

Morgan MM's adventures were the very reason why i wanted to join HitRECord so I thought what better way to articulate that through remixing his 'tosh into this drawing - this was originally done buy hand but I Photoshop-ped in a watch I found.

I spent hours browsing through old records, therefore some of them ended up inspiring me even more.

Bailey

p.s. I love this one so much I've put it up for sale on my redbubble, and if you want to see which drawing is next I've posted the "making of" pictures on my tumblr  : )

Ooh and I can't draw arms  : S

My babies saw eaneikciv's awesome video this morning and couldn't stop singing the song all day. So, right before bed, I managed to get this snippet. Maybe it will do for something. I know, I know - they should be holding balloons. I'm sure I could get them to do a second take if anyone is interested.

My mind is a vortex of visual and audio, tidy chaos.  Alas, 'tis a wonderful thing to have an outlet for my overly creative mind.  Thank You! 

Stormy Hill Poem

I climbed up this rainy hill to put my shaky hand upon this tree.

I had felt loss of life and hoped that it would transfer a feeling of life through me.

I didn't quite make it. I was too drained.  It was too far...

... but when my soul was ready to look up, I saw my first shooting star.

Acrylic paint on canvas. 

Somewhere above the sand

Somewhere above the sea

Somewhere beyond the land

Somewhere beyond the trees

Somewhere beyond the sky

Somewhere beyond the stars

Somewhere beyond my hand

Somewhere beyond your heart

I'm obsessed with this gorgeous piece of music,

I couldn't resist singing something over it <3

I don't know what it is about me and birds.

Piano music I composed to underscore Day Glo's "Strawberry Bootlaces". 

Just a simple remix for Metaphorest's Marvellous Marv...as requested by Susan9087.

This is the second in the set of drawings I have done.

This one - and I hope it's obvious : S - is based on Ms Lexy Hulme aka Lula aka Paintyhands.

I gave her the character of a joker because I kept finding pictures of her (and others) with paint on their noses which I thought was quite funny, and it made me think of clowns in the circus so this is very circus themed. I love this one and a lot of records have inspired me here  ; )

Bailey

p.s. here is the drawing done in stages

my parents recently re-decorated their room, and unearthed a shocking amount of art my sister and I made from the ages of 3-8... this is one of the earlier ones that I still think is pretty damn awesome :D

we were supposed to be inking our footprints... but that was too unseemly for me, apparently, so out of my entire kindergarten class, I was the only one to do hands, hah. 

might upload some of my drawings, if I work up the courage

I can upload the stems of this if anyone would like...I just really fell in love with Ozie's Strawberry Laces music ^__^

<3

I remixed some of Mirtle's 'sea' records together...

1. From the BUS 3 (vigitter)

2. Lil Sumthin (KamPAIGN)

3. Swallowed (mattsoar)

4. Shadow cat (Anatole baptiste)

5. Alphabet (deeasherself)

6. Morgan Raps (Marke)

7. Disney Olympics (lovesick instrumental) (theboxsets)

8. OPENING TITLES - Man in the Herringbone Hat (12:42)

9. The Actress and The Sorrow Bird (Piano Remix) (spiritmath)

Insecure, young Dawn folded her arms and pouted, "You only like me for my looks!" "That's not true," said her undead date. "I like you for your brains, too!"

----

For FrankyFray's tiny story. Sorry it's crooked.

My attempt to illustrate Metaphorest's tiny story "Zebra Crossing".

This image is pretty much what I saw in my mind as soon as I read the story, though the zebra in my mind looks a bit different to this... I fail at drawing a lot of things and animal is very high up on that list D:

TMD #1

random remix...

a little illustration :)

100% Cloudhair.

0% Productivity.

Edited by Sherb.

Found this doodle in my computer. Thought it was ok so I tried to color it.

perhaps somebody could make up a story.

i wanted to make a flower using the circle and hearts.. kinda ended up with a flower/star cross over.. thought i'd share :)

My first attempt at performing 'Alphabet'. Let me know. ps Thanks to MattConley for pointing it out in the first place.

=Life:).

 Tears and laughter are ripples on the surface, the greater joys and sorrows, fears and dreams, live in the depths.

Most. Fun. Ever :)

"oh gosh... who will save us from the viddler?! wait-- what's that in the sky?"

he's the hero we deserve... :o

the... circus is coming to town

the circus is coming to town

the circus is coming to town, town, town

the circus is coming to town

there will be tightrope walking

trampolines

clowns and bears and fire rings

lions, tigers

cannons shooting

sparklers spinning

horns-a-hooting

elephants and cotton candy

crowds of people feeling dandy

the circus is coming to town

thanks so much to all the brilliant people who've uploaded textures. <3 you're awesome.

(especially belcath1981, who I seem to have raided for textures, sorry about the imminent spamming :D)

all resourced! also, this is apparently the wrong version, and I clicked off a few layers. woops. :') but oh well.

i filmed the creation of my breakfast the other day :) my first attempt at filming + editing. 

A reading of Two Swans, a poem by smweed

“The question mark grew tired of being so constantly uncertain. One day, he straightened himself out. From then on, he always made his point.”

This is the result of a collaboration between the wonderfully lovely Anicamay and (the usually uselessly lazy)  me :D. Well, Anica did most of the job (thank you so much my dear, it has been an exquisite pleasure  to work with someone as talented and supportive as you)! She formed the plasticine, made up a story to the tiny story, took the pics etc…I only contributed with some ideas, editing and, of course,  weird accent (it has come to my ears  that native English speakers regard accents as being “cute”, which instantly made me forget every phonetics class I ever took).  <(^_^<)

I missed hitrecord,I haven’t really been around lately…I’ve been through Hell (master thesis, graduation, career) and I’m in Heaven now (sun, pool, beach, clubs and even a little love-juuuust a little:). But I can’t wait to settle down and come back to you, miss you so much! \\(^0^)//

I hope you all will have a great, sunny-cool summer! Lots of hugs and even more kisses! <(^_^)>

P.S. I will add the resources as soon as possible, please bare with me and thank you so much for these wonderful songs!!!!!!

This is my new contribution to the Chibirecorders made by SandyNgu, I thinks this is fantastic, I hope you like it guys!

PS: All the new Chibis are include!! :o)

Video interp of jordyn.myah's lovely short prose piece.

I made this yesterday and it's all done and everything so I thought I should post it, even though my world has sort of imploded today with my mom's passing (thank you to everyone for your love/prayers on twitter/facebook/tumblr:), I thought since it's done and all I might as well put it up.

Day Glo, not sure if this is what you had in mind, but I thought I'd give it a shot. Though, really, all I did was play around with the contrast and saturation levels, so I'm sure someone who actually had some type of photo editing program could do a much better job.

My friend was over for a couple days and while hanging out she painted this just looking at my dog. It's exactly like him!!!! I tried to convince her to join, I think she's gonna. =D

I've been meaning to upload some preshow footage for ages now but I've been ridiculously busy in work. So here's a little remix of some of my footage and and preshow footage I found on the site! :D

I was commissioned to make this lantern for a show in the Edinburgh Fringe festival and couldn't resist the opportunity to create a stop motion based around the making of. This would not have been possible without my very good friend and constant crafting companion, Sarah (freetobe), who sacrificed an (admittedly wine-soaked) evening to help film. She also solved all the technical hitches that cropped up along the way as I tried to figure out what the hell I was doing. And a huge big thank you to missamerica for writing such a perfect little ditty for this.

It is my very first stop motion and it shows but the overall effect is one of which I'm very proud. Hope you enjoy!

Et voilà!!!!! so Metaphorest wrote those lovely words for horrorshock's drawing and I used them as lyrics for this song that I composed last night. Hope you enjoy it.

Again by heart.

Didn't get the blues for this until I saw Marielv's brilliant "Into Midnight", "Man With the Herringbone Hat", Boxcar Willie-esque video.   

Recorded a little song on the uke for Crane_crafter...and for your REmixing pleasure!!

<3

Another amazing drawing made by iambatgirl, and here it is with colors!

Into Midnight beautiful song by Sarah with lirics by smweed. The only thing I could think about when heard it first time is train obviously and traveller (starring The Man in the Herringbone Hat by JacksonBlack) heading somewhere. Thanks to everyone - we have such HUGE library of  footages here on HitRecord.

who wore a bird house on her head,

think she built it herself.

Her pockets were full of bird seed

and everyday the bird would come out

to feed in her lap.

A reading of librarygirl6's poem Laundromat.

Just a tree at the beach in a July afternoon!

Cliffs of Moher, Ireland - View is facing North where they reach a maximum height of 214 meters (702 ft).

from my great aunt's very old photo album (circa early 1900s). i've been slowly coloring this in, playing with different textures and color schemes, but thought maybe you all would like to play at it too, or maybe it could inspire a little story (love the expression on the boy's face...) i think a bunch of different versions would be grand!

I've been working on this for a couple days. Not sure if I'm 100% in love with it but I wanted to release it today since it's my 1 year hitRECordiversary! Just thought I would expand on this. Let me know if I've missed a resource. :o)

Our ancestors are present in us.

A hip-hop beat constructed out of samples from ruary's "Black Sponge." This is a base layer that can be extended with new sounds or arrangements or it can be added to as is.

I wasn't happy with my first version...of course I hadn't saved my layers...and I wasn't feeling like starting all over again...so I made another REmix in stead...

I love this song of Spaceship's so just added some harmonies. <3

just having a little fun with the RECollection cover design...

Here's a lyrical idea for your song Ryan... I don't have the best equip... but it's punk so... I guess it can be grungy

without the illustrated children's book effect -- i was going for a poppy vintage look.

Added strings and extended it a tiny bit. I hope it's not ruined.

maybe some of us just don't belong anywhere...

I know Joe wanted an animated film, but I wanted to see what I could do with this as well. I still think it could use some adjustments, but I like the idea of it starting small with something like catching fireflies to trying to contain the whole universe in a pickling jar and then coming back in again (I don't know, maybe I've been watching Powers of 10 too many times), but I think ozie's piano piece fits this idea perfectly. 

Let me know any comments/criticisms/suggestions you have. 

Public domain footage used: 

Heavenly Bodies: http://www.archive.org/details/Heavenly1920

I cannot believe that I have been a HITRECORDER for 1 whole year! It feels like I just signed up actually! Well it has been an amazing ride and I cannot wait for whats to come! Thank you to everyone who has inspired me throughout this year! I have never felt such beautiful creative energy before in my life! HitRECord means so much to me and its an honor to share and create with all of you! Here's to many more years of creating and collaborating! 

This is an image REmix of some of my favorite RECords that I've created with the help of all of you! To think I had never even opened photoshop a year ago!!!

a REmix of mirtle's charming illustration with Laurie Kay's fabulous accompanying rhyme (and a few lovely patterns of course!) ♥

A drawing I did a while back which I added some colours and textures to - it's a little bit wonky :) The beautiful scene in the background is by mostlyharmless.

early evening needles, 1/2

So, I've been absent for a while!

This is the first couple of scenes of what will hopefully turn into a documentary (that I'm making with Megan Carnes) about the creative process with you guys!

What I need from you:

What we need is for you to replicate the 'idea' (which is the trash deco font at 96 size font http://cargocollective.com​/themadeshop/1120354/Trash​-Deco-Typeface) and then just colour it and/or draw on it however you want. Then pass the paper from left screen to right screen as if you're handing it off. just make sure you do it sorta slowly so people can see it :) In addition, you can start talking about the creative process for you in the same way. Lots of metaphors and stuff. And or.... you could do something like Arin did for us and film yourself finding the paper: http://hitrecord.org/recor​ds/462695

Here is the collab for it http://hitrecord.org/records/462849

TEMP MUSIC BY MAY AND JER!!!! <3

I put smweed's words to a tune. Sorry about the fuzziness.

this is from a series of little Victorian paintings i did last year that were going to be pendants but looked better together as a set. it's yours to re-mix <3

somebody requested that i upload this from my blog but i'm not sure of your username :)

Kaleidoscope ( 125 bpm triplet shuffle)

Dm       Am

i want to know

Dm     Am

what it's like

F           C

to live inside

F            C

a kaleidoscope

Gm               Eb

and watch the colors

Gm      Eb

melt, with you

Dm   Am

red to blue

Dm            Am

to green to yellow

F                   C

the colors mix and

F             C

match together

Gm                  Eb

while they make those

Gm        Eb

pretty patterns

(instrumental) x 2

Dm Am x2

F C x2

Gm Eb x2

Dm       Am

fragments of the

Dm   Am

sky ebb on

F             C

you and me and

F             C

we glow brightly

Gm        Eb

floating by on

Gm        Eb

colored clouds

Dm Am

stars fall

Dm Am

from the sky

F               C

so we lift up our

F                    C

hands to catch them

Gm             Eb

holding hands we'll

Bb                 F

both abandon distress

Gm                Eb

holding hands we'll

Bb        F

both fly away

(instrumental) x 4

Dm Am x2

F C x2

Gm Eb x2

Music and Lyrcs by Karma McCartney.

Lo-fi medley of snippets recorded on an out-of-tune piano with an old mp3 player

i found it in my mailbox on july, 30, 2011

i created my HR account on july, 31, 2010

many ideas, strong feelings, bright emotions, beautiful people, outstanding events...

just a one tiny year to remember.

love u guys.

Toss.

I finally finished coloring via's lovely old picture...It's not quite perfect but I'm pretty happy with the result...some of the details like the eyes, nails, hair and red shoes were kinda hard to color...so please don't look to closely...:-) I left the background b&w to keep the vintage look.

Colouring again...

The clown made a pass at the lady in the glass

He was rejected, now feels dejected.

She proffered no excuse , just gave him the boot...

Harsh!

for stevie :) and wirrow obviously. and everyone else.

I wanted to make a little showcase of what Hitrecord creates and what we are about. I rushed it a little and I'm not sure if I'm feeling the goofy voice I added to this. Maybe someone will find it entertaining, thats what I was going for lol. I'm going to create another one I think with a more regular tone and deff add somethings. And I'm missing a few resources but I will add them as I find them.

A day at the aquarium.

I LOVE this track by Malicore. ^__^

Nameless, oh nameless little wonder

You're walking all over my heart

Lovely, how lovely you are

My reason, my thinking, my dreaming's all falling apart

Won't you come on over here little darling,

Won't you pour your sweet nothings in my ear

You're shining like a penny and you're my lucky charm

Oh little darling won't you sidle over here

Sleepless, sleepless nights have been passing

As I fill my head with dreams of you

Wishing, and hoping, for something

A look in, I'm longing, oh darling won't you please

Won't you come on over here little darling,

Won't you pour your sweet nothings in my ear

You're shining like a penny and you're my lucky charm

Oh little darling won't you sidle over here

Won't you come on over here little darling,

Won't you pour your sweet nothings in my ear

You're shining like a penny and you're my lucky charm

Oh little darling won't you sidle over here 

House my grandpa was born in

I guess you could call it a self portrait.

Drinking song about multi-lingualism. Mispronunciations guaranteed. Grapefruit for all.

It would take far too long to describe the intricate details of how this song came to be. Simply know that it involved sketch comedy, international politics and the planet Jupiter.

"Je ne sais quoi" is French for "I don't know what"
"Jamba" is Swahili for the air in your gut
"Misdadig" is Dutch for one who's hung from a noose
And "grapefruit" is English for-
Un pamplemousse!
Deux pamplemousse!
Mon pamplemousse!
Votre pamplemousse!

"Gott in himmel" is German for of what I dream
"Christiano" is Italiano for "Goyim"
"Forno" is Portugese for where you put a goose
And don't forget, "Grapefruit" is just English for-
Un pamplemousse!
Deux pamplemousse!
Mon pamplemousse!
Votre pamplemousse!

Lo siento, pero no recuerdo mucho Espanol
Porque I learned it all ___ anos ago
Pero hay una cosa que you recuerdo muy bien
And that, of course, is how to say "This is my pen."
Eso es mi pluma!
Esto es tu pluma!
Alli esta muchas plumas,
Pero aqui esta mi pluma!

Un pamplemousse!
Deux pamplemousse!
Mon pamplemousse!
Votre pamplemousse! 

with little cut out and keep fishes

Just messing around :o)

finally got this done! thanks to bloemy for the collab and belcath for the continual inspiration...

If you were wondering...lacing up Army boots with pull-n-peel - not as easy as it looks!

Miss Lorna Mallora told the boy....that if he wishes hard enough...he could touch the sky...

she needs a story :)

Inner City & City Zoo!

http://retrophiliac.tumblr.com

http://www.facebook.com/retrophiliac

http://margypargie.deviantart.com/gallery

So here is a little tutorial I made for exporting video using Final Cut and imovie. I know I had a lot of trouble figuring this out when I first started editing so I thought I would share my knowledge. 

Also I think it would be nice if we all exported our videos into MP4's or at least a file type that can be played on both Mac and PC. Converting videos is kind of a pain.

Hope you can take something from this that will help you on your video editing and exporting journey.

Enjoy.

Lake Brunner, New Zealand

who needs skill when you have imagination?

1 Year On HitRECord today ^__^

So, I went back to the sight of one of my earliest RECords and did a bit of reminiscing.

You people mean the world to me. Thank you so much for this incredible 12 months. I cannot believe what a journey it has been. Who knows what dreams may come in the next 12. 

Love you all, forever endeavor <3

She loved a bird with a human heart, and nothing would ever tear them apart

I love this fantastic drawings that Mirtle is been made for us, Lorna Mallora is an amazing character and we can make amazing records based on Lorna and all her drawings! This is a REMIX that I did with the amazing Metaphorest text and the awesome belcath's background!

This song inspired me to see the world in a different way today.  It's beautiful!  Red Light... stop and ponder... Green light... keep on going. 

I drew myself (chibi version) wearing a cat costume, hopefully there is tiny story based on this picture :3

love this cute drawing! :) 

I'm not the world's fastest writer, and am already on a bit of a block, so I decided that the best way for me to update the Shadow Beings story I'm futzing about with is to alternate between chapters (yes, it's that kind of story >_o) and illustrations. :D

also, I'm leaving today for vacation, and am turning 20 on tuesday, so this is a little good-bye for the next 10 days, and a fake-birthday-thing. <3