December 11th, 2008
Typography-based videos (wait, come back!)
That new Jay-Z song I mentioned earlier this week now has a video… in which a portrait of Jay-Z is slowly created out of the letters that make up the word Brooklyn.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QftcJtvLr8g]
In the realms of music videos that use typography, it is not as good as this fan effort for Ben Folds’ Zak and Sarah:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAVuK5efP4Q]
But it’s a vast improvement on Prince’s Alphabet Street which, because Prince is a supreme douchebag, you can’t watch online unless you go to this website. Here’s a screenshot, anyway.
