We recently sent in an application to be included in the newly established Baltimore Slideluck Potshow. It seemed like a pretty neat event – slideshows by various creatives rotating while everyone enjoys a potluck dinner. Apparently this has been done in other cities, but this was Baltimore’s debut.
Our first submission was literally just a slideshow. We thought that if we were accepted, we would be able to narrate in person. It turns out that that is not the way it works. Slideshows were to be accompanied by music or some sort of soundtrack. Since we were planning on reading one of our books, we couldn’t just send a clip of some music and say “press stop when the slides are done”. So this, of course, led to a series of all-nighters where I tried to remember how to use iMovie (btw, has anyone on the planet figured out what they did to iMovie HD to turn it into the completely worthless “upgrade” iMovie ’08? Other than take out all of the useful things that it does and make it totally inscrutable? Sheesh, I say. SHEESH!). Someday, I will have an intern do this.
Once I figured out iMovie, it seemed the slideshow ought to have a little more pizazz, a little something about us for the uninitiated. So we recorded a little intro, I drew some pictures, and the ordeal went on for several more sleepless nights.
In the end, though, we have a nice slideshow. Too bad we didn’t get selected for the event. But that’s okay. Now I know where the “import” button is in iMovie, and we have a little promotional piece to share with, well, whoever wants to have a look.
BTW – I hate the sound of my voice. But because I like you guys and trust you won’t write a bunch of comments like, “Robbi, you sound like you have peas in your nose,” and “Robbi, did you just have oral surgery?” and “Robbi, those braces you wore for all those years didn’t fix a thing,” I am posting it anyway.
That. Was. Awesome.
It was like Reading Rainbow – but an episode where LeVar Burton was off making a Star Trek movie or something and Shel Silverstein was doing a special celebrity hosted episode(with peas up his nose).
Fantastic!
I love this!!
What a FANTASTIC production to breifly explain what you all do…I will watch it again and again, somehow figuring out how to transport the read-aloud to my children’s bedrooms so they can be read blissfully to sleep each night. Robbie, love your voice, you should be a reader for reading rainbow…is that still on?
Love this! I had read the book, but hearing it from the both of you brought a whole new layer to it. (You are the victims. after all.)
Can’t believe you didn’t get selected. Their loss.
I love this!
Je vous donne trois et une demi de quatre rires de Gérard Depardieu.
Hey, thanks everyone! And only one of you mentioned the peas up my nose! Though I guess getting a Gérard Depardieu rating is pretty much like saying you sound like you have peas up your nose…