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"With more than 40,000 participants working together to create short films, music, art or stories, Joseph Gordon-Levitt's hitRECord offers a creative opportunity for fresh talent to team together and expose their art." --Time magazine
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Founded and directed by Golden Globe-nominated actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, hitRECord is an open collaborative production company where members can contribute their work in various forms including music, videos, text and drawings. Members are then encouraged to add, edit, remix and collaborate with each other. HitRECord currently has over 45,000 active members worldwide. Over 1,000 creative contributions are added daily and over 100 new artists join hitRECord each day. Joe regularly hosts hitRECord events throughout the country at venues ranging from the Sundance and SxSW film festivals to college campuses to grand cinemas to rock&roll bars to concert halls, with audiences ranging from 100 to 1,500 people. In December 2010, hitRECord self-published the first volume in the "Tiny Stories" series. The collaboration received over 2,300 contributions, from which Joe and the creative collective edited together 32 illustrated stories. This volume in the "Tiny Stories" series will contain all new material created through the same collaborative process on hitRECord.org as directed by RegularJOE. "The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories" is the first book in a current 3-book partnership between hitRECord and It Books.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Looking through this amazing little book was pure magic!Each illustration has its own individual artistic style and charming text.Well done to all the artists/writers and most thanks to Joseph Gordon-Levitt for making this superb experience happen!The universe is certainly made of tiny stories!
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Tiny Book of Joy
8 Dec 2011
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I stumbled across this little gem the other day while on Amazon. It was a bit of an impulse buy at first but has since turned into one of my favorite reads this month. "The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories" is a collaborative work of (very) short stories by members of the website Hitrecord ([...]) which is directed by actor and artist Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception, 50/50 etc). This highly enjoyable collection of stories and illustrations range from the fanciful to the profound. One page finds a curious King Midas another the "chance" encounter between Fate and Coincidence. My particular favorite begins "just before I died my life passed before my eyes..." (pg 24) which accompanies a stunning illustration of a person in shadow surrounded by lines, the placement of which suggest the inside of an eye. Each story is left up to the interpretation of the reader which gives this collection a quasi-creative-writing-workshop feel to it, making the English major in me smile and cringe at times.
Witticisms and cutesy images of eggs and oranges aside the endearing thread that binds this collection together is the obvious love and care of the writers and artists who contributed to this work. Each page is a testament to the purity of the creative process and that is something to be celebrated. Here is a work of art by mostly anonymous (and perhaps first time) artisans in an effort to spread the idea of collaborative creation, a refreshing concept that is perhaps somewhat foreign to the current climate of me me me but which reminds us of the enduring need (as writers, readers, and everyone in between) to tell stories. Simple stories of life.
~Highly recommended ~
Witticisms and cutesy images of eggs and oranges aside the endearing thread that binds this collection together is the obvious love and care of the writers and artists who contributed to this work. Each page is a testament to the purity of the creative process and that is something to be celebrated. Here is a work of art by mostly anonymous (and perhaps first time) artisans in an effort to spread the idea of collaborative creation, a refreshing concept that is perhaps somewhat foreign to the current climate of me me me but which reminds us of the enduring need (as writers, readers, and everyone in between) to tell stories. Simple stories of life.
~Highly recommended ~
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Wow!
10 Dec 2011
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
The best way to describe this "Tiny Book" is mind opening. With little stories that stretch your imagination in phenomenal ways with just a few words and art that adds a 1000 words to each story you would be crazy not to purchase this book! To see the masterpiece imaginative minds of many people mend together in such a way is truly inspiring. This book isn't just a bunch of small stories, it is a bunch of tiny stories that will take you to places your imagination and mind couldn't go without it, please do not miss out on this book!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Such a cute little book!
8 Dec 2011
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This tiny book is filled literally with a bunch of tiny stories, but they are just long enough to elicit feelings of happiness or sadness, or even a little chuckle. The illustrations accompany the short stories quite well. Definitely worth the purchase, even for just a collector. I'm excited to get Volume 2 now!
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