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Will Lewis @scartheatre

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Oh, Trendy Portland

Posted by scartheatre - February 15th, 2010


So I'm sitting here listening to some Beatlesesque song that I'm thinking about making an animation to, but I had been inspired by something that reminded me of a typography animation. And yes, I said "but." I thought that typography animations were cool when I first saw them, but enough is enough and I'm getting a little bored of them. And I really get this "indie, trendy asshole" vibe from them and I'm just not going to let it slide.

You see, Portland is just full of fuckers that don't eat meat and will participate in a protest over a damn sapling getting chooped down despite the fact that they'd drive on a sidewalk to veer around an old lady crossing the street due to their perpetually abrasive attitudes. Like, I was attempting to communicate with a woman who owns an organic foods store (like I thought she'd buy anything) and screenprint some t-shirts for her business, but she wouldn't shut the fuck up about how gay people were and stuff (without using the word "gay," of course). She was even mentioning this one law that does something like protect tyrannical tycoons from getting sued if they bend a bunch of people over and take 'em out back, but she'd end her statements about it with "I don't really know what it's all about, BUT IT'S BAD." So these are the kind of people that typography animations remind me of (for what reason, I'm still not entirely sure). Not necessarily ignorant (scratch those last three words) but abrasive types that attempt to force their green thumb up your ass like the dictator they're attempting to combat themselves.

Like, this guy:

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Yeah, he has a British accent, but he just sounds like your everyday "I'm right and you're just a fat American douchebag" Portland kid (even though I'm not fat you stupid asshole). And one thing that specifically bothers me about this one is that the "typography animation" genre doesn't even fit the animation. It must've been for an After Effects final or something, which is a shame that teachers are doing that to me because I don't think I'd be able to log into YouTube one day and handle seeing one as an ad or something. Speaking of YouTube, I just shoved a steel pole up my ass with that one, huh? Typography animations will be coming up in my "recommended videos" for weeks. Fuck.

And, I mean, not ALL typography animations are totally shitty in my opinion. I actually enjoy "I Met the Walrus," although it still did make me cringe when I saw them little images all walkin' around like the more refined cousins of typographical animation pieces that they are.

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So it's not all bad. But man, a majority of Portland kids are just the 'ol needle in my haystack. And I'll admit that I live in this damned hell hole of a metropolitan area, that I'm ranting because I'm somewhat abrasive as a result of being infected by the swell of faggots in the area, and that this animation I'm thinking of doing may resemble that of a typography animation, but I just want to put something on Newgrounds again because I love you all so much and want you to enjoy the shit that gets pumped through the wires of my computer and onto this treasure galaxy of a site.

Just don't EEEEVEN think about showing me "this really cool typography animation I saw the other day" because chances are, it was made by some kid in Portland that's tried to get me to sign a petition for legalizing marijuana. Actually, that kid was probably homeless.


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