Kinetic typography test 1

Here's a quick small test run from the interview in which I animated typography using After Effects.

An interview with Sally Mann was the final choice. I chose to use the bit from 24 to 49 seconds.

Interview with Intellect's Graphic Designer Gabriel Solomons

Vanishing Point by Bonsajo

Vanishing Point from Bonsajo on Vimeo.

Trentemoller - Miss you

Such a beautiful tune, remembered this while researching the inspired brief. Although there's no typography in the video the patterns and shapes appear and move around with the melody, watching this full screen in the dark is a very surreal experience.

Inspired

Because I cannot sleep - Jelalludin Rumi

Because I cannot sleep I make music at night. I am troubled by the one whose face has the color of spring flowers. I have neither sleep nor patience, neither a good reputation nor disgrace. A thousand robes of wisdom are gone. All my good manners have moved a thousand miles away. The heart and the mind are left angry with each other. The stars and the moon are envious of each other. Because of this alienation the physical universe is getting tighter and tighter. The moon says, "How long will I remain suspended without a sun?" Without Love's jewel inside of me, let the bazaar of my existence be destroyed stone by stone. O Love, You who have been called by a thousand names, You who know how to pour the wine into the chalice of the body, You who give culture to a thousand cultures, You who are faceless but have a thousand faces, O Love, You who shape the faces of Turks, Europeans, and Zanzibaris, give me a glass from Your bottle, or a handful of being from Your Branch. Remove the cork once more. Then we'll see a thousand chiefs prostrate themselves, and a circle of ecstatic troubadours will play. Then the addict will be freed of craving. and will be resurrected, and stand in awe till Judgement Day. Jelalludin Rumi, the 13th century mystic poet, was truly on of the most passionate and profound poets in history. I chose one of his poems because I believe they elegantly and consistently touch our inner being and inspire us to go beyond our limitations towards the divine.