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1. Vidders are even more impressive to me now that I've spent well over fourteen hours making a 3'10 slide show set to music featuring Marlboro, Abercrombie & Fitch, Coca Cola, Al Franken, Tiffany's, Spam, McDonald's, Burger King, Sesame Street, Channel 13, FedEx, Snickers, Harrison Ford, Sting, and Akira Kurosawa. The result is lame but, I hope, entertaining on the first day of class, and anyway the students will probably feel compelled to laugh. Those of you who do this well, I bow in awe to you. At least I'll probably be a bit faster in the future, as I learned a lot about iMovie in the filmmaking process.

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