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I recently bought Hand Job: A Catalog of Type and got really into drawing letters by hand. So I thought it would be fun to draw the same word over and over again. My right hand did not agree.

Each phase of the mutating letters were lovingly hand drawn over a hundred times. (I now know how to spell vicissitude very well). Then they were scanned in and put on top of the sticky notes in AE because I thought it would be faster. Probably would have been easier to just draw them directly onto a shit load of post it notes and shot it practically. Music by the constantly mutable Girl Talk

vi·cis·si·tude [vi-sis-i-tood, -tyood]
noun
1. a change or variation occurring in the course of something.
2. interchange or alternation, as of states or things.
3. vicissitudes, successive, alternating, or changing phases or conditions, as of life or fortune; ups and downs: They remained friends through the vicissitudes of 40 years.
4. regular change or succession of one state or thing to another.
5. change; mutation; mutability.