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By Kim Voynar Voynar@moviecitynews.com

Posted Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 - Comments Off on Reuse, Collaborate, RECord
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Reuse, Collaborate, RECord

Happy Tuesday. Here’s Morgan and Destiny’s Eleventeeth Date — The Zeppelin Zoo, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt (who, frankly, I would watch in just about anything) and Channing Tatum. The vid is from SXSW 2010.

Now probably, you are way hipper than I am and so you already knew about HitRECord, JGLs’ way cool collaborative art project, which you can check out over here. But if you haven’t heard of it, start by watching the video above. Trust me, it’s worth your time. There’s JGL in a fake mustache! And sepia tones blended with … oh, just go watch it. It’s creative. It’s cool. And it’s almost guaranteed to be better than doing whatever real work you’re supposed to be doing right now.

So the idea of HitRECord is that anyone, anywhere in the world, can upload digital bits and pieces — video, text, images, music, what have you (not naughty bits! get your mind out of the gutter!) — and then other people can use those bits and pieces in creating their own projects and upload those.

To get a better idea of what it’s about, here’s RegularJOE (that’s what the-actor-otherwise-known-as-JGL calls himself over here on HitRECord) in what he calls a “bare bones” video, explaining to newcomers what the site is about, and encouraging others to take his video and mix it up and add to it however they’d like.

Or, for you more visual types, here’s an effort called Brainstorm that explains it all in pictures …

… And if you want more? Head on over here, where RegularJOE has curated some HitRECord videos, many of which have screened at Sundance and SXSW, for your viewing pleasure. I have an interview request in to do a Spotlight on this site, so I’ll hopefully be telling you more about it in the near-ish future. In the meantime, if you make a video for HitRECord — or if you’ve already made one — drop a line in the comments to point us to your awesomeness, won’t you?

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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.

So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.

But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”

My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher

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~ David Simon