Created: 8 September 2015
Originally titled: A Space Fantasy
I am a habitual font-er. I binge-download fonts by the dozens. So of course, I have to have somewhere to try them out.
So I have this huge Word file on my desktop with pages and pages of different test fonts. I’ve had the doc file since June 2015 at least.
And one day I was staring at the phrase “A Stanley Kubrick Production” written in all these hundreds of fonts, and I wondered what Stanley Kubrick would think. Then I wondered if Stanley Kubrick ever had to do something similar in order to pick which font he actually ended up using in 2001: A Space Odyssey (Gill Sans MT). And it all seemed so narcissistic to me that I just started laughing.
And then this video was made. I was as simple as copy-pasting fonts from my Word doc into Vegas, and then timing them to the music.
I still think it’s hilarious.