EmmaMaree.com YA Writer, Tech Support Girl & Tea Addict

Jonathan Coulton and Fancy Moving Text

There's a relatively new trend in video that I think is really awesome. It's called kinetic typography (moving text, in other words). You've probably already seen it in a few things, like movie opening credits.

Two of my favorite recent examples have been in fan-made music videos for Jonathan Coulton songs. Jonathan writes a lot of geek-themed songs, most famously the Portal ending song 'Still Alive'.  Another song by him, 'Re: Your Brains', also plays in Left 4 Dead 2.

Below is a fan video for 'Still Alive':

And his song 'Shop-Vac':

(A 'Shop-Vac' is basically a Henry Hoover, as far as I can tell.)

If you're a fan of what you hear, here's a cute animated video for 'Code Monkey', a song about the lonely life of a techy monkey. A few years back, when I was still in secondary school and spending most of my evenings coding websites, I found and loved this song. Didn't pay much attention to the romance aspect, mind - I was probably too busy being in awe of people who not only also code things, but write songs about it!

And an audio-only video of Re: Your Brains, drawing some relatable lines between being an officer worker and being a zombie.