"It's in our DNA, these chords" - RegularJOE

This phrase has been creeping around the back of my head for the last couple of days and this is the image it found. I tried to actually put the chords in the helix but I think I did it wrong. Maybe an idea for someone else to play with.

to where stars and horses are

Maybe someone can come up with a tiny story to go along with this!

This is the intro to the vinyl video I'm working on.

Check out the full version here http://hitrecord.org/records/479559

I actually have a request though. I want a bunch more videos of hitrecorders playing their records. You gotta show off your machine a little bit. Also I need a bunch more close up shots of records spinning on turntables. I wanna tighten up that intro a lot more with more videos. Also I think someone should take a crack at making a really cool title card that says "The Vinyl Initiative."

Watch this video for some requests and recommendations regarding the vinyl collab. http://hitrecord.org/records/472789

Anything helps. Just make sure you turn some lights on so your videos aren't so dark. :) Oh and export them into MP4's. Please. Please. Please.

Thank you. 

-RP

Calling all Vocal Artists, all Audio Mixers, all Video Editors!

You might know our record "and a new earth", it is definitely one of the most impactful short films to have come out of HITRECORD and we play it at all of our shows. And I was thinking that Sundance 2012 is a great reason for us to make another version of it!

I absolutely love the original, it's a beautiful piece both in style and in substance.  wirrow wrote the text and set it to a timelapse from the site while adding an instrumental track that he had made. The simplicity of it is what makes it so impactful. (here is the link to the original or you can check the resources below. http://hitrecord.org/records/141257)

But I've always wondered what it would be like if we took it to the next step because I feel this piece is really conducive to our mass collaborative creative process. 

So here's what to do: 

• Vocal Artists, Actors, Poets - record yourself reading the text of the original video.  You can read it however you like, but it may be that the more similar to the original the better.


• Audio Mixers - Mix together a large creative combination of these different recordings of everyone reading the text. 


• Video Editors - Let's start providing and editing visuals into a big montage that corresponds to the text. Remember, sometimes it's not the most literal 


• connection that is best, but maybe something less obvious that still provokes the same sentiment as the text. 

Once again, the original is so beautiful in it's simplicity that I believe this can be equally as strong in it's multiplicity.  And I wanna screen it at Sundance... so let's get to work. 

Thanks again, 

<3

J

Calling all Graphic Designers! All Typographers!

As you may or may not know, we are making a REPRISE of wirrow's 'and a new earth' for our show at Sundance this month.  

The original video has text recited by a computer and wirrow astutely added subtitles so viewers can read along with the computer's voice. 

My idea is, instead of giving our REPRISE a plain subtitle at the bottom, what if each line of the text has it's own typographical treatment that can pop on and off all over the screen! 

Here's what to do: 

• Select a line from the text and design titles for that line.  Be as creative as you want with whatever colors and fonts and maybe other little iconic graphics.


• Make it large enough so it can fill the screen if need be, the aspect ratio of the video is 16x9. 


• Make sure your text is on a transparent background so it can be superimposed over the video.

give me all the flickering lights!

tiny specs of fluttering rays

and city glitters shimmering

but only from far away.

i want them all it's an addiction

i want the christmas lights buried in snow

and the blips in science fiction

films from years ago. 

give me all the night sky's twinkling sprinkles

and the red pulsing eyes

on tvs that standby

fading, flirting in and out

like a game of cat and mouse.

bits of foil in the distance

blowing kisses from the sun to me and

showing no resistance to the photons

that consistently pass notes on

from one lover to the other

like cupids tiny brothers.

give me all the flickering lights.

light every candle and wave every phone

glinting and bleeping and

imprintining glowing circuses

that linger while I'm sleeping.

an orchestra of weeping light

swan singing like star crossed choirs

who play themselves to me

all night.