To make my capture the fall video, I used my phone and shot the video in the woods as well as at E. Brooke Lee middle school and the birds are from the synagog on Kemp Mill road and Grays lane. To edit it I used Windows movie maker, and thanks to the many tutorials on Youtube posted by Microsoft the software was pretty easy to figure out. I used a dissolve affect for most of the shots and the reason that it only takes up the middle of the screen is because i didn't realize that holding the phone upright would make sideways images that i had to rotate, a lesson for future projects.

So this week's post could only be about one thing: the presidential election. The election had many interesting aspects to it. With Obama's victory, Obamacare will be here to stay, as well as more taxes on the wealthy, and the showdown between Obama and the House Republicans that has gone on for so long. The race probably came as shock to many people, such as Newt Gingrich who predicted Romney to have over 300 electoral votes, and George Will, who stupidly predicted Romney to win Minnesota. But out of this mess cam one man, Mr. Nate Silver, who correctly predicted all 50 states, Florida as by far the closest state, and Ohio as the tipping point state to put Obama over 270. He put the pundits who predicted an extremely close race in their place, and as he said in an appearance on the Colbert Report "When 23 state polls come out and 22 of them have Obama in the lead, its no longer just a coin flip." Nate proved that poll analysis and arithmetic can triumph over Gingrich's "years of experience. So my advice to those interested in having an idea about elections shut off the stupid pundits and look at real math at http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/