Remember the Nowhere Man from the Beatles’ classic animated movie
Yellow Submarine? He was the nerdy little fellow always going round
in circles, writing books, making music, taking pictures, directing plays,
and making movies, always so very busy. But he was also very sad because
no one could see his work; the Blue Meanies had taken art away from the
people. Nowhere Man just sat in his nowhere land, making nowhere plans for
nobody. But as John Lennon pointed out, “Isn’t he a bit like you and me?”
With this suite of software tools, the world is at your command. All your digital
assets — your photos, your songs, your videos, everything — are at your
fingertips. The iLife software brings together all your digital assets so that
you can use them for creative projects and manage them for the rest of your
real life.
A day in the iLife might include shooting photos and video clips and transferring
them from your digital camera or iPhone into your iPhoto library
to share with friends by e-mail. You might want to assemble a slideshow of
the photos in iPhoto and set it to music in the iTunes library you created in
GarageBand and post it on your new Web page designed with iWeb. You can
then bring video footage from your DV camcorder into iMovie and make a
music video with all these elements. Finally, you can use iDVD to assemble
the music video and the slideshow, along with eye-popping menus to navigate
them, and burn a disc that your friends can play on an everyday DVD
player. You can find all this and more in this book.
Now you’re getting somewhere, man.
