I have a terrific Idea for a collaboration. Many of you know of the landmark court case going on RIGHT NOW challenging the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage.

As some of you know, there was a strong public outcry to televise the trial. Yesterday Judge Walker announced the amazing final results on public comments: 138,542 in favor of allowing it to be recorded for youtube, 32 opposed. Nevertheless, today the Supreme court voted 5-4 to block the tubing of the trial.

Some people don't want there to be moving visual images from this trial spread around.

The transcripts, however, are being microblogged by people with phones in the courtroom.

I say they need to be animated. Anybody? I'm just the ideas guy here... I think this is super timely and could go viral and be historically significant though, and make awesome both for the artists involved and for HitRECord.

Not putting up transcripts here, because they're not exactly my records, but they ARE matters of public record, touching, telling and relatively easy to find.

The transcripts are close to verbatim, but not exactly. I think we have a little wiggle room for editing for flow if we don't really change anything...