Phantasmagoria

Phantasmagoria

I’m a fan of Little Prince like planets. Or maybe more relevant to today, the Mario galaxy planets. And I really LOVE this Mika video, which is probably where a good chunk of the inspiration comes from. Although the Mika video is way cooler and full of fun stuff:
I also happened to have some green [...]

Woolgathering

Woolgathering

I decided it would be fun to build a small set because I’ve never done it before. I’ve always dreamed about building one so I thought now would be a pretty good time to indulge my idle fantasy of creating a hilly seuss like world. I also loved the idea of making some wooly letters. [...]

Sesquipedalian

Sesquipedalian

This is a great word. But when would it ever really be useful? The only thing I could think of was a killer Scrabble game. And you’d have to be a total nerd to whip this insanely high scoring word out. Makes sense that Book is the smart one. Toaster is the angry one. Tissue [...]

Vicissitude

Vicissitude

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 [...]

Bouleversement

Bouleversement

I thought it would be fun to see some letters beating the crap out of other letters. So here’s King Louis XVI getting his ass whuped by the lower case French peasants. Fun fact: the background is a wrinkly wet paper towel from the DK bathroom (not used, of course). The music is by the [...]

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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.

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