Ok, so here's version 1 of the Live Acts Megamix. When doing what I do, I have to set parameters for myself, so I limited myself only to RECords from this contribution...I didn't add any beats or sounds at all to this. I was able to use some great clips, like of jordyn.myah shaking her bottle of vicadin. (LOL!) And I also got to use Joe saying "Haus of Glitch," which just made me feel like P.Diddy.

Does anyone actually read the descriptions of my drawings? Probably not. Since this is the case, I'd just like to say that cows live inside my eyeballs. It's about time I got that off my chest.

by SLEEVES

This is my first video EVER. I liked your story by the way.

: ) I hope you like it.

I just had to... I mean, how could I ever resist teaming up with Miss Metaphorest?! These tiny story things remind me of the little 'doodle one-line sentences' project I had going back in the day. :''')

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...]