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This is a short story of
maybe the quickest turnaround

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I've ever experienced, ever.

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Here you're seeing a
very fine image made

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by the researcher at Stanford.

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I'm not going to muck up
her name and I apologize.

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Please do see her credit.

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This is a solar
voltaic device that we

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decided to try to quickly
get attention for, which

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was very exciting research.

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So they sent me a
few of these cells.

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And I literally had
just a few hours

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to try to attempt
an MIT homepage.

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So I made an image
of just one device.

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I actually used a stereo
microscope to make the image.

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But I could absolutely
have done the same

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with a camera and a 105 lens.

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I just thought it
would be interesting

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for you to see
this little story,

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even though I did
not use a camera.

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And then I placed
it in Photoshop

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and just duplicated
a few of the layers,

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just to sort of get a feel
for what I might want to do.

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And I wound up developing an
image with layers of the cells

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and moved them around.

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I was in a mood for lavender.

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So, sure enough, the MIT
office did use it online.

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But eventually, I was
looking for the homepage

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and wanted to suggest
something solar-like.

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So I used a gradient
in the background.

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I really didn't like that.

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And then I remembered
from my thousands

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of slides of images
of the landscape,

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that I did, in fact, have a
sunset from California, that I

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took many years ago on film.

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And so I used that
for the background,

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overlaid the various
layers that I previously

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made of the solar cell,
cropped it a little bit.

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And eventually,
they did, in fact,

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use it for the MIT homepage.

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This took all of,
I'm not kidding,

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three hours from start
to finish, very unusual.

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See if you could do it.

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I challenge you.