this is a collab for everyone. you don't need to be able to draw well or animate to take part!

there are 20 photographs of a blooming lily taken from sfbakstad's lily timelapse. i want us to collaboratively make an animation of the lily where each frame is illustrated differently. 

here's how you can get involved:

• download one (or more) of the 20 lily photos.


• make a drawing of it. (if possible, try to stick to the colours in the picture.)


• upload it to hitRECord and add it to the collaboration!


• don't forget to write which numbered photo you've done.

ideas for making copies:

• hold a thin piece of paper up to your computer screen & use a pencil to lightly trace the outline of the lily, then colour it in with coloured pencils, collage, paint etc. take a photo of it or, even better, scan it into your computer.


• open the jpeg in photoshop or illustrator and draw over it/colour it in there.

you don't have to be an expert at drawing to take part. it doesn't matter if the lines are a bit wobbly or your shading crooked. think of it like the next step up from wirrow's template game - http://www.hitrecord.org/records/83199

most of all, just have fun with it!

Let's make a short film showing a series of telephone calls between friends that ends up a bit like a game of "Telephone" (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers.)

So, the first person phones the second person to share a piece of news, the second person phones the third, the third phones the fourth etc, and the story gets exaggerated and mixed-up as it goes along until the message is completely ridiculous and unrecognisable from the first person's message.

Inspired by Matt's Tiny Story about the history of the telephone: http://www.hitrecord.org/records/123201/forum - I thought it would be neat to have a little spin off to to the tiny stories project. The idea is to write a fake factual sounding history/description/definition for a place/animal/object/etc. (See the featured RECord below for an example,) It doesn't have to be limited to text RECords: film yourself in a mockumentary talking about the overly elaborate made up origins of the foxtrot, make vintage adverts advertising the first whipped cream made with real whips, or old fashioned newsreels telling how the city of Manchester was founded by a guy distinctly fond of the hair on his pecs! (The only thing to watch out for would be copyrighted trademarks - try to stick to more common every day generic items like rocking chairs or hats or somesuch.)

Major Thom, Burning dan & I were having a discussion about how cool the collective nouns for animals are: http://didyouknow.org/animals/animalnames And we thought it might be fun to make a collaboration on these to see what happened. Can you draw a shrewdness of apes? Or a leap of leopards? A knot of toads? Or, even better, make up your own! Like a bouquet of parrots! Or a spangle of goats! A muffle of kittens! A bedlam of stoats! Why not take it a step further and make collective nouns for people too! What does a stuffy of bankers look like? Or a moustache of gentlemen? Why not make a fancy rhyming poem out of them! Or film yourself being a monster of morons! Or sing like a mingle of minstrels about a frump of spinsters?

Do you remember those children's books you had when you were little, where each page was in three segments and you could mix & match the pages to mix up the characters' heads, bodies and legs? So there was, say, a policeman's head, a chicken's body, and a ballerina's legs? Then you would turn only one of the flaps over and, say, change the legs to dinosaur legs? Hours of fun! Well, I want us to make a digital version. My inspiration was iPatterns & iPrayers: http://www.hitrecord.org/records/15411 Imagine what it would look like if each section had something random and different every 20seconds or so. * Here's what I need people to add to the collaboration! • I need funny, interesting heads, bodies & legs videos! (Each video needs to have the person roughly staying in the same place, but they need to be jazzed up - wear silly costumes, dance on the spot, stick your tongue out, wiggle, wave, etc. Make each video unique. Head videos could always speak too. Try to film on a plain background, a white blank wall should do.) • Then, someone could write a silly piece of music, maybe circus-like to go over the top. • What if someone else could design the book itself in the frames? So, rather than having iphone screens, we could have an animated book where the pages turn over to reveal the next funny body section. Let's make this awesome! Anyone can join in! Just RECord your head, body or legs doing something a bit different. :)