Thursday, October 6, 2011

PE3_iMovie

Drum roll please.....

There you have it, I have successfully completed the Lynda.com iMovie '11 Essential Training course.  I learned a lot about iMovie, and decided to try out making a trailer.  It came together fairly easily, and I definitely enjoyed putting my new skills to work making a short trailer of my 3 boys playing sports.  Now that I am capable of using iMovie to create cool shows, I need to work on getting good video footage in the first place to put into a movie.  Not very easy to do from the sidelines with an iPhone, but here it is anyway and hope you enjoy.  


Aren't you tired just watching them play?  I love being a mom to 3 active boys and they are my reason for being the best mom and teacher I can be.  

In closing, I would like to end this post with a dedication to Steve Jobs.  Full Sail University has introduced me to Apple products, and the work of Steve Jobs.   I thoroughly enjoyed watching him present both product reveals and commencement speeches, and am amazed at his genius in relating to people.  In a commencement speech at Stanford in 2005, he said:

 No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.


Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Rest In Peace, Steve.  You have reminded me to stay hungry, stay foolish.

4 comments:

  1. I fully agree with you on how our time is limited. I will continue to follow this blog. Thanks for speaking-up !

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  2. Thanks for the comment, Marita. I am following your blog now too! I noticed that you graduated from Youngstown State (go Penguins!). I am originally from that area, Andover (in Ashtabula County). What a small world :)

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  3. Cynthia,
    I love what you wrote about Steve Jobs, and I borrowed his quote from your blog. I don't know what my world would be like without his influences on art. Everything with photography in a digital sense was built on his foundation. Nothing can touch Apple to me..... I love the merchandise this company creates, and I know you do too.
    Photographically,
    Tessa

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  4. Cynthia,
    Thanks very much for your comment about Steve Jobs. I heard a short excerpt of the speech that you quoted on NPR, and I've been hoping to have the chance to read more of it.
    I love your video--active boys is right!
    -Kim

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