Tall, dramatic, Lithuanian, and utterly hilarious, Mrs. McGann was everybody’s favorite teacher. She made a regular practice of assigning impossibly difficult assignments for the first week of school to weed out those unable or unwilling to work at a rigorous college level. We knew the twelfth grade AP English curriculum, but never could predict how she would deliver each lesson. From choreographed classroom sword fights to riddle-writing, Mrs. McGann kept us on our toes. We adored her.

Finally done with the most recent assignment for Anand Rao’s visual rhetoric class. We were asked to create a 30-second political ad focusing on a specific issue, and my group chose Sarah Palin’s stance on polar bears. (She wants to keep polar bears off the endangered species list–and remove them from the threatened species list–to facilitate oil drilling in Alaska. In addition to the more formal legislation she’s tried to pass, you can see her very own opinion piece in the New York Times here.)
So we made a fake Sarah …

A ‘whose fault is it’ mashup for Anand Rao‘s visual rhetoric class.

Back to my old habits of trading sleep for video editing. Mashup of “Risky Business” and “The Little Mermaid”.