I finally got around to watching King Corn, a doc film by Aaron Woolf, Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney about how corn is in all of our food and that we're mostly made of corn and this is bad for our health. After watching that film, I really didn't want to ever drink soda again because its all corn syrup and sorta gross. Not that I didn't know that before, I have been aware that its in a lot of processed foods and I don't really drink soda anyhow, but it really makes you conscientious of what crap you put in your body. I guess that's why we buy mostly organic meats and dairy products. I watched the movie to take a break from editing my project.... I really think the film is starting to come together after all that grief and stress. I was originally upset I had nothing to show Prof Thakur, and I was not able to work on any of my film at all last Tuesday in class because I couldn't digitize any of my tapes (it was some weird setting on my camera). Just as well, as I ended up not using it and used stuff I shot a few months ago and some new stuff today. Anyway, back to the film... I liked how they used the stop motion animations to describe certain concepts... it made it a bit more fun. Those guys have a great sense of humor, and the scenes were really beautifully shot. I also enjoyed watching the deleted scenes, especially ones that were funny and acted out w/ costumes, as they were cute and clever but a bit too much like watching a kiddie science or history lesson. It was definitely more adult and serious to leave them out. Perhaps they put them in the 1/2 hour version for schools if that cut exists??