Wait. Is that how you spell plagiarism?
Speaking of spelling, here are an excellent selection of videos doing something that I have an inordinate love affair with: Kinetic Typography.
It (re)started with this:
Obama '08 - Vote For Hope from MC Yogi on Vimeo.
Though strictly not kinetic typography, it employs a lot of elements from the medium (genre?) and has that lovely poppy stencil/graffiti typeface that I like so much. Plus, you know, it's about
It actually all started from this, which I've shown to many of you:
I still think this is the best typography video i've seen. Maybe i'm being unduly influenced by the sheer awesomeness of Samuel L. Jackson's voice, maybe it's the association with a damn fine movie, but this rulez. If I had to pin down any one factor that makes this awesome(r), it's the way the gunshot (and resulting blood spatter) was represented.
To continue with our silly narrative, it turns out that there were many more of these kinetic typography things. Many, many more. Not particularly wanting to go through so many (potentially mediocre) videos, I did what any sane person would so: use the wikipedia links, thus stumbling onto this page. Here are some of the better ones from that list:
Qurantino's films lend themselves very well to this moving text business:
Duck and Cover!
A little something different; a music video, with some really slick effects:
If you enjoy reading really fast, and wondering Who's on first:
Another music video of sorts, featuring Nostrand, from Ratatat (!). Done by Frenchies. Environmental Frenchies.
And finally, what typography is all about:
There's many, many more if you care to rummage around in the great pile of visual wonderfulness that is Youtube.
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