Let's celebrate him, he's fucking awesome:
http://www.hitrecord.org/records/234697

Teafaerie (who shot this one, or did I?) and dan and I had quite a 1/1/09 in NYC.

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Have you ever accidentally found your name in fire?

I was messing around with dan's photos and suddenly saw this. It was really bizarre.

Sorry about the big 'D', dan.

To a fallen brother today as we drink to you, we remember the amazing person you are… May your spirit resonate within our lives always.


-In memoriam of Burning Dan-

Through smiles mixed with tears we commiserate
To share your beauty you did not hesitate
The love and beauty that you inspired
Of this labor you never tired
We commemorate the life you lived
Your untimely passing cuts like a shiv
The lives you touched, the world you knew
Will never be the same without you
We share the pain as a community
We love you more with each memory
We remember you as only we can
Our eternally enigmatic Burning Dan
Remembered with love and smiles through tears
You’ll live on in memory for many years
May your light never fade, your flame never burn out
The lives you’ve touched, that’s what it’s all about

Dans memoriam de brûler Dan Par les sourires mélangés avec les déchirures que nous compatissons pour partager
votre beauté vous n'avez pas hésité L'amour et La beauté que vous avez inspiré De ce travail vous n'avez
jamais fatigué Nous commémorons la vie vous avez vécu Vos coupures de passage prématurées comme un couteau brut Les
vies que vous avez touchée, le monde vous avez su que Will n'est jamais le même sans vous Nous partageons la
douleur comme une communauté Nous vous aimons plus avec chaque mémoire que Nous se souvenons de vous comme
seulement nous pouvons Notre Dan Ardent éternellement énigmatique
Souvenu d'avec l'amour et les sourires par déchire Vous vivra sur dans la mémoire pour beaucoup d'ans mai que
votre lumière ne palît jamais, votre flamme votre jamais brûlure hors Les vies que vous avez touchée, cela est
qu'il s'agit de

I am so happy to be a part of this community because I can keep challenging myself to push a little farther with each RECord. This is my first time doing something like this and I have never worked with layering this much material, but after ages I finally have an end product I like. Hope you enjoy it!

self portrait excercise to achieve beauty lighting with only one diffused beauty dish and a shit load of reflectors and bouncers. also an excercise in fashion to showcase that funky red button i made especially for hitrecord.

hitrecorder's creed:

"This is my recording hat. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My recording cap is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. My recording cap, without me, is useless. Without my recording cap, I am useless. I must wear my recording cap true. I must shoot straighter than my enemy who is trying to blind me. I must outshoot him before he outshoots me. I will..."

year: 2010

I begged for time to make a stop - to show you love which never-drops.

Regular Joe’s “Escargots” was a video that I was really looking forward to re-RECording. For me, the language barrier in the poem Joe adapted was a welcomed obstacle in trying to draw a theme from the piece. The French language forced me to focus on the video’s elements of style and performance to reach a conclusion about its meaning.

And to be honest, I found myself perplexed by the video. But it was really interesting to watch and attempt to dissect.

When I approached re-RECording “Escargot” I knew I was going to eliminate the narration and create an interpretation of Joe’s character and his adventures in Paris. To me, the character seemed like an outsider struggling to uncover some kind of meaning to life. I re-titled my video with the French phrase “Raison d'être” (translation: “Reason For Being”) in order to give my re-RECording a starting point to be re-intrepreted.

It was as if he was getting all dressed up to go searching for something outside his boxed in room, only to find himself running around in circles in eternal frustration and impatience.

I drew from those emotions in my interpretation and felt I had found the perfect companion piece in the “Ain’t Nothin” beat by phonontek (one of the best beats I have ever heard.) It is a somewhat grating loop, and I found that to match the tone of the character’s frustration and tension.

Without simply putting movement to a beat, I constructed a narrative that is up for interpretation. Though under a minute, I did try and orchestrate a three act story. We begin with the character getting ready and heading out into the city and when we leave him he does seem to have a better understanding of something.

What that is I cannot say. That’s for the audience to decide, or re-RECord.

song i RECorded, hmm, october 2006. Don't know why I've never put it up here before. there's tons of shit (songs especially) i should probably just start letting go of, releasing, that is, the RECords.

tonight I put it up because i read a poem phonontek wrote on tumblr. i don't think he's released that on hitRECord yet. well maybe perhaps he might. His poem is called "Here Again."
http://michaeleverett.tumblr.com/post/530146045/here-again

ha! now, in fact, he has Released this here poem as a RECord here. So I've cited it as a Resource, the link's down there.

Anyway, this is one I made called Sick Again. the lyrics go...


SICK AGAIN

sick again
medicine
tired liar
strong and scared
pair us up and dance despair
with lonely cares of might and may
and dream today away away
and say the sinners of their sin
i need some more medicine
i'm sick again
sick again
medicine
sick again
sick again