I would really like to get together with a bunch of people and form a digital media co-operative. By that, I mean a group that collaborates on new media projects and tutors each other. I figure it would be the best way to learn all these cool applications. It's much too expensive to take tutored courses and it's too laborious to figure it out from books. Training DVD's are a good halfway point but it would be so much more inspiring to work with others to figure out how to use programs like Photoshop, Flash, Premiere, After Effects, Maya, Lightwave, Bryce, Stop Motion Pro etc.