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Bored?Got hours and hours of nothing to do, and tons of hard drive space on your TiBook? Figured your uptime is too high and want to cause your pretty laptop undue stress? Digitize your music video collection (I use ReelEyes because that came with the analog capture card, using the H.263 codec, limiting the size. Premiere also works, but requires a lot more fiddling), the one you’ve obsessively videotaped since the eighties. Don’t forget some of those bikini-filled beer and Sheena Easton Jack LaLanne commercials you caught before the age of political correctness came down. And all those Apple Superbowl commercials. Remember to toss in the short station identifier commercials, and short Invader Zim, Sam and Max, Simpsons, and Tick quip clips. Maybe toss in some astute cultural references (“Define what ‘is’ is.”) Make sure that it’s all fair use, none of that peer-to-peer file-sharing stuff, no, because even though a 1976 law upholds your right to time shift and trade television shows, when big money media corps and cartels start throwing their money around, who’s your representative or senator gonna listen to, you or them? Hm? Where was I? Still with me? Download Cellulo or Archer or, if you’re an OS 9 kinda guy or gal, MPLAY Multimedia Player (no relation to mplayer). Toss the videos in, set to shuffle mode, repeat if you only have a few hours worth, and play, creating your own personal music video station, complete with commercials, annoying all your adjoining cubicles, and contributing to the moral decay of this here fine nation. Extra points if you still can dig up “Rock the Casbah” and “Born in the USA” before the war ends. Snob points if you can expound noisily on what Bruce really means. More extra points: use Cleaner to strip all the black bars from those pretentious letterboxed music videos you love so much and utilize the TiBook oblong goodness to its fullest extent. (Otherwise, you may get black bars all around your video, like an annoying black frame.) Does this use of time-shifted vid clips derive an original creative work? To paraphrase Tom Duff and eviscerating his statement of its original context, this constitutes an argument in the debate concerning fair use but whether for or against, I do not know.
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