i did not find what i was expecting to find when i went to http://www.project168.com/.

Check out this list, which is not even comprehensive as it doesn’t include this other National Album Month, or the Album a Day contests.

The Crap Art Manifesto seems to get to the heart of the matter regarding this type of production, which interestingly enough seems to be somewhat related to Charlie’s Process Music projects, in it’s use of limitations and focus on production rather than product.

Maybe this November we’ll all do it.

Cherry Blossom, we’re planning to lock picture 11 AM Sunday for a 7 PM Sunday deadline, and having it at the destination at 6:30 PM. You can throw things in at the last minute but it will be mad, even if temp music has been used. I would personally start generating music Friday night once you know the genre and keep passing it to your editor so he/she can lay it in during the whole process. I highly doubt you’ll have time for a dump to ProTools at 6 PM, lay in music, then dump it back to a WAV or OMF, marry it back to picture, export it to tape. Although if you’ve done most of the work to a temp cut earlier on, it might be doable. (Not to scare you or anything.) Anyway, love to hear how it goes.

Cramer, thanks for reminding me how much I’ve forgotten about DFW’s writing. Been too long since I’ve read any.

Unspeakable, no idea how Dam is getting over here or why those cities got picked out. Here’s a post from the promoter.

Some of the best scenes from TROLL 2 can be seen on YouTube, but there’s a lot of “clever” over-dubbed versions as well, and I really do recommend seeing it in full. You can NetFlix it, I believe, though obv. less instant gratification.

Won’t be in Houston when your Palestinian Hip-hoppers pass through. How is their tour being funded? Why only those 4 cities?

GArage band is pretty damn easy to use. I really should spend more time screwing around with it, but I also don’t have teh kind of keyboard that would make it much easier to use. Guess those are cheap enough…

There are indeed! I believe the Proletariat used to host some thing where they drew volunteers’ names out of a hat and then grouped them randomly into “bands”, and those bands had to write, rehearse, and perform a full set of original material a month later. Not as tight a time limit, but still, for those of us who’ve been in bands, you know it’s not always that easy, especially if you have other projects.

I like the idea myself. There’s a lot to be said for quality, but I think there’s also a lot to be said for flexibility, which is really what these speed things are all about.

*Naturally, off of those footnotes would be a whole other set of footnotes left in order to clarify the first set of footnotes which in your fevered, hyperliterary nightmare of a mind would beg to be summoned forth.**

**And just to be a total asshole, you would include a final set of footnotes that referred in some way to the previous set, which while satisfying some part of your demented idea of literature, would also create a meta-narrative so unbearably silly that your postmodern credentials would be sealed into eternity like a rusted bank vault.

You know, just sayin’.

Nice acting job, by the way. I love that the “kid” got a kick out of your movie. Though it matters more than a fraction less, so did I.

I’ve been noticing all these time-constrained creative “competitions,” most of which don’t really focus on the competition so much as in getting something done in a shorter than usual time. I have a friend who’s done the 48 hour filmmaking the last couple of years in england (actually i think one of them was a 24 hour one), another friend is doing script frenzy this month (write a 100 page script in 30 days). There is also the National Novel Writing Month in november (write a 50k word novel in 30 days). It’s an interesting trend focusing more on completion than quality, which can be great for those who have a hard time getting started on (and finishing) big projects like novels and movies.

I wonder if there are any equivalents for music? Record a song in 15 minutes, or a record in 24 hours…