But a few years ago Apple kicked it up a notch with iPhoto. We've been able to make pretty decent slideshows on a computer for a very long time. It looked as good as anything today to the audience, but it was a ton of work and it could not really be shared unless I lugged around a bunch of equipment with my teacher's help. The resolution of the images was fantastic. The music was synchronized with the transitions on a single screen. This was in the days before the "digital age" (I think the math teacher had an Apple II, the latest technology at the time) so I put my slides and music together with two 35mm slide projectors and used fades to give a "cross dissolve" transition between the two. The slideshow was a visual affirmation of all the natural beauty around us juxtaposed with the manmade destruction and the hypocrisy of it (us) all (ah, to be seventeen again.). The second part featured images of the great beauty around us there on the Oregon coast set to the hopeful ballad entitled "Let Them See the Light" by Earth Wind & Fire. This was put to the song "Can't Stand to See the Slaughter (but still I eat the meat)" by Tower of Power. The first part showed images of pollution and manmade catastrophes, including images of war. When I was in high school, I made a very cool 6-7 minute slideshow on environmental pollution for my class project in biology.
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