{"id":625,"date":"2010-11-12T22:04:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T22:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/?p=625"},"modified":"2010-12-08T23:23:33","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T23:23:33","slug":"with-a-little-help-from-our-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/12\/with-a-little-help-from-our-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"With a little help from our friends&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/images\/youtube.jpg\" alt=\"youtube\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That means YOU!<\/p>\n<p>You should be well aware that we&#8217;ve been putting together videos for the entire &#8220;Uptime\/Downtime&#8221; album &#8211; the project is coming along quite nicely, thanks to the sterling efforts of the directors involved, but now it&#8217;s time for YOU to help us out!<\/p>\n<p>Yup, that&#8217;s right &#8211; There&#8217;s only one video left to make for &#8220;Uptime&#8221;, and that&#8217;s &#8220;Body Jump&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Now we thought it would be a rather splendid idea, rather than edit together existing footage, that we get YOU (yes, YOU) to send us stuff, which we&#8217;ll edit together into the final video, thus showing an excellent cross section of Kleptones fans from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>We thought we&#8217;d have two options:<\/p>\n<p>1 &#8211; As befits the subject matter of the song, we want you to send us video clips of yourself, or your friends, or your family, or your pets or whatever&#8230;) either JUMPING or DANCING. If you want to mouth some of the words of the tune too, that&#8217;s cool, but the action is the main thing &#8211; use your excellent imaginations&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>2 &#8211; If you can&#8217;t video, then we&#8217;d like you to take a picture of yourself (or your friends etc&#8230;) holding up a sign that says &#8220;Kleptones&#8221; &#8211; yes, you can add witty messages, just as long as they&#8217;re clearly visible &#8211; remember quite a lot of people will end up watching the video on a little YouTube size screen.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. Really simple, innit?<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t matter what you use &#8211; your phone is fine, better quality cameras are great if you have them. <\/p>\n<p>For uploading \/ sending, we&#8217;d recommend using a free no-registration service like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wetransfer.com\" target=\"_blank\">WeTransfer<\/a>, but whatever suits you best &#8211; If you want to upload it to Vimeo or Flickr first and send us the link, that&#8217;s fine too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Send anything and everything (including questions, if you have them!) to this address:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto: bodyjump@kleptones.com\">bodyjump@kleptones.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So please, please, help us out, return the favour for all the free tunes we&#8217;ve given you and make us a quick pic or vid &#8211; the more we get the better it will be and we will love you for it, what&#8217;s more you&#8217;ll be immortalised on the &#8220;Uptime\/Downtime&#8221; DVD (and maybe even end up as part of the live AV show)!!! <\/p>\n<p>(Also it will give us the confidence to launch another, considerably more insane project with you all next year&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/music\/ud\/The%20Kleptones%20-%20Uptime%20-%2014%20-%20Body%20Jump.mp3\">Remind yourself what &#8220;Body Jump&#8221; sounds like here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The deadline for submissions is <del>Monday 6th December<\/del> EXTENDED TO 10th January 2011 &#8211; Now there&#8217;s no excuse!<\/p>\n<p>PS Three new DJ dates: 01\/12 Dusseldorf, 11\/12 Brighton, 17\/12 Manchester :)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/pages\/live.html\">details on the site<\/a> &#8211; full info in the next post!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That means YOU! 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