Apple:

Apple plum, carpet steak, seed clam, colored wine, calm seen, cold cream, best shake, potato, potato and no no gold work with pet, a green seen is called bake and change sweet is bready, a little piece a little piece please. 

A little piece please. Cane again to the presupposed and ready eucalyptus tree, count out sherry and ripe plates and little corners of a kind of ham. This is use. 

Dirt and Not Copper:

Dirt and not copper makes a color darker. It makes the shape so heavy and makes no melody harder. 

It makes mercy and relaxation and even a strength to spread a table fuller. There are more places not empty. They see cover. 

My main focus is rhythm and the idea of pulling words out of her perpetual stream of consciousness. So I tried to convey that through animated type and transitions between phrases. In these videos, I wanted to make the text come together from the pool of thought in the background.

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For those who don’t know, we’re working with Gertrude Stein’s poetry in Type3 and Narrative in Sound & Motion.

Gertrude Stein’s poems are based on sounds and rhythms and tones, rather than meaning. The meaning is very loose, if existent at all. Reading her work, I find myself rocking back & forth and tapping my foot in a syncopated rhythm to the words. It’s literary jazz.

…And we’re doing jazz posters in Visual Language.

Coincidence? I think not.

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What’s more appropriate than a kinetic type video about language? Although this post is technically for Narrative in Sound & Motion, it makes sense to also tag it for Type3, because it’s about the appreciation of language and using the meaning of the text to influence the typography.

The most intriguing thing about this one is that I started to notice all the very deliberate curves and turns the blocks of type were making. Then, as I suspected, it zoomed out to show a word made of words. Hooray!

…And then I found this one. Also regarding the degradation of language. But done with a lot more expressive type. Varied typefaces, weights, and sizes make this one quite a bit more interesting than the other one.

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