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Craziest ive ever done. >> its a simple boy-meets-girl story told in a really unusual way. >> this is sort of like when you have some magical fantasy of a photograph coming to life. and its people playing with their cameras. so the story line is also about the sort of medium theyre using with all those little photos flickering and changing. >> this is a great example of stop-motion photography. the filmmaker created a bank of frames and hes actually moving from one frame to the next. >> most sto...

Start in an unusual way. >> it did. i have been an artist my whole life but i was pastoring a church and trying to incorporate art work in the church and i was running out of the ideas and my wife sent me to the hard ware store to get mulch and one of the bags ripped open and spilled on the floor. i got home with the mulch and sand and. >> rest is history. >> i have been to the store a lot of times and never got anything brilliant like i found myself. i have seen you doing things and choking bac...

Tools, and a lot of it is kind of an optical illusion. >> within about an hour and a half, jason finishes his painting, and since posting, jasons rendition of the mona lisa has gone viral with more than 11 million hits. jason says he hopes to continue to use the internet as a medium to showcase his work. >> the internet expands peoples horizons, and it opens up the world to their self-expression. their arts probably getting seen more on youtube even if its not making millions. its getting thousa...

And in instances where there are those concerns, even children who are very, very young age, six weeks, those individuals can receive tamiflu so theres still an opportunity to treat them as well. >> megyn: is there any controversy with the flu shot? because, you know, a lot of people believe anecdotally that the flu shot gives you the flu or makes you sick. in fact, its interesting to me since i got that flu shot on the air on monday so many people come up to me and said, how are you feeling? i ...

Lobby? >> reporter: congress will spend the next two months fighting about the death ceiling and cuts. rob and sunny, back to you. >> thank you. a couple of months may be optimistic. there is no guarantee whatsoever what congress is going to do. but it is an interesting moment that the nra is being brought to the table. that should be an encouraging sign that -- around that table theres going to be a nice balance of opinion. >> right. different voices. its interesting, the nra claims $4.4 millio...

>> when will you find the courage to stand up to the gun lobby? >> reporter: congress will spend the next two months fighting about the death ceiling and cuts. rob and sunny, back to you. >> thank you. a couple of months may be optimistic. there is no guarantee whatsoever what congress is going to do. but it is an interesting moment that the nra is being brought to the table. that should be an encouraging sign that -- around that table theres going to be a nice balance of opinion. >> right. diff...

Eight years later nixon became the first politician to be victimized by the new medium. his shaky debate performance opposite kennedy, at least appearancewise, led to nixons defeat in 1960. two years later he lost again. beaten padly lybadly in a case governor of california. looked like nixons political career was over. in what he called his final press conference nixon blamed the media for his loss and laid the ground work for decades of distrust between conservatives and the press. >> you will...

Rather than like human beings. thats what i think is happening. and after all, this young man is not seeing this happen in the flesh. hes watching it through the same medium that brings him computer games. hes being recorded while this is going on. we are removing our young people from reality, from their feelings, from their capacity to be empathetic and heroic and courageous and will pay the price for it later on. this is a snapshot of the world were creating. >> megyn: speaking of snapshots, ...

That really doesnt exist today, where the suspension of disbelief existed around videos. you automatically suppose that everything you saw on the internet was real. and that window allowed for this opportunity to do this kind of -- to use viral video as the perfect medium to put together this stunt, if you will. >> youre competing with a guy that put a cat down his pants or something. you have to be genuinely entertaining because the next video below you will be funny or cute or outrageous. youd...

Doing anything illegal, the production was not without risk. >> we start the shoot and we pull out a 747 and it was just like that holy [ bleep ] moment, is this really happening? and all of a sudden helicopters start flying about. police showed up. there was no shortage of creative tension that night. >> if we had somehow put this video out there and someone had panicked and stopped a presidential flight from happening, we might have been in trouble. luckily, that didnt happen. >> they manage t...