Shop Vac (kinetic typography animation)

[just2lazy2name]

i liked the faces on the shop vacs, very nice touch =)

[Danielwatson1993]

Why can't I like this more?

[Traslogan]

A very original Kinetic typography imo

[kazekagekid]

Still Alive was better.



[TheWarnerSister]

Curiously, the louder this song is, the more fun it is.

Also, this typoigraphy is fucking fantastic, and you deserve the highest of fives.

[MagicUniverseStudio]

Just amazing.

[metasim]

Brilliant video for a brilliant song.

[cadisaurusrex]

This should be the official music video. This is so great.

[SimuLord]

Coulton does a great call-out to the Spin Doctors' "What Time Is It" with that "An unidentified 49-year-old man went berserk" stock clip in the bridge.

[10centsapixel]

This is animated Pop Art set to music. LOVE !!!

[10centsapixel]

That is a great ad !!!

[JakeRonYT]

Make sure to watch this in 720p. The vid is good but it's mostly for the music which is SO much better on 720p it's hardly believable. I am not kidding.

[Commanderf6]

WOW!

[AshKetchupe]

Whats a shop vac?

[cyberdansken]

@AshKetchupe Industrial vacuum cleaner.

[setarah91]

I've watched this one year ago, and today again and still, this is my favorite motion typo ever.

[taburde]

Is it bad that the Typography during the guitar solo was my favorite part?

[Chuck57841]

What is with the darkish direction this goes in?

[4KidsRocks1]

his fake friends stopped calling because he spends all his time with the shop vac

[hunghillary]

i love how redundant he can be about starbucks... :D

[filipsn0lips]

Masterfully made, excellent work. And DAMN that song is catchy.

[setpunks13]

i love how the backgrounds change

[setpunks13]

just beautiful.

[PixterPro]

THIS IS SOOO AWESOME! how long did this take to make?

[Alokue]

Not that you need another "This is so fucking perfect I could die", but here it is anyway. ;D

[hectorbector11]

This song basically describes exactly what someone in a mid-life crisis feels. And this typography makes it perfect :)

[Ace4929]

also known as the OTHER first world problems song

[mijaresaldo]

WOW!!! Really good!! the song, animation!! everything's great!

[jiarongglow]

Red and white headlights!!!

[insanecaine]

WOW. Excellent!

[Lopiuo]

Sellout much?

[jetquiroz]

I'M SO CONFUSED WHERE CAN I BUY THIS SHOP-VAC THAT YOU SPEAK OF?!

[Dillonlikestv]

So "First World Problems"?

[doctordmh]

This is really well done - congrats!

[0788839390]

Best kintec typograpgy i've ever seen on UTube

[koffiewolf]

Faproom? ow wait bathroom

[sjl0523]

I'd love it if you could do 'Mandelbrot Set' by Coulton too.

[tcl1nk]

2:12 really does show the right notes to the guitar solo, in case you were wondering

[vegemitosis]

Must...buy...shop-vac

[teequlah]

fantastic.

[ptanamachi]

I LOVE this! Labor of love is right - but worth every minute. Thank you so much for sharing this.

[eatsleepbike]

Is this song about this guy putting his wiener in the shop vac down in his basement while his lady friend watches TV and cries cause he'd rather be with the vacuum then her?

That's what I got from it.

[TheEdibleDonut]

@eatsleepbike My dear friend, I don't know whether to pay you fifty bucks for making me spray orange juice all over my keyboard or slap you across the crotch for implying such a horrendous situation.

[eatsleepbike]

@TheEdibleDonut Why would he make a song about a vacuum that he wasn't gonna have sex with?

[eatsleepbike]

@TheEdibleDonut I'm down to give you my address if you wanna send that fifty bucks though.

[24willa]

catchy song!

[DemonRolo]

love the song and never wanted to look for a music video because i saw some other Jonathan Coulton music videos.

[TheBlak0utt]

wait...isn't this the dude that wrote 'still alive' from portal?

[OrganicKali]

Wow! I don't even care what the lyrics said; the visuals are PHENOMENAL!!! <3 it!

[tlchack5]

This is amazing. I have never seen a kinetic typography video as good as this. It is perfectly synced and when you did the guitar riff I almost died.

Favorite video on youtube to date.

[Asiridem]

If you think about it, this guy has used 2-4 hours on EACH second in this video. It's fucking brilliant.

[lonebannana]

So flippin' sweet....

[SeraphimKnight]

I have a shop-vac and it's true; it's fucking loud.

[epacsytic]

The american dream, in 3 and a half minutes

[GeorgeTheBrown]

Amazing video! wish it was on a better song though :(

[ultrayesumes]

Thumbs up if the star bucks part is your favorite part?

[nicktothej]

Amazing!

[culwin]

I was running the Shop Vac the entire time I played this video.

[xxMrFablexx]

Great video and song, but it's so depressing...

[Merlandese]

This is brilliant animation!

[TehPolecat]

Jonathan Coulton for president

[MNSDaz]

i don't know why, but the part from 2:31 - 2:43 makes me feel suddenly very sad.

[theoriginalhegs94]

At first I was gonna say "This song is the national anthem of Suburbia" but then I realized that I LIVE in Suburbia and this describes pretty much every day for me... God I need to move...

[AlejandroRoggio]

I don't get the lyrics at all. The animation is great, but the lyrics don't make any sense to me. Are they supposed to? I'd like to know. Thanks.

[JWPFoggers]

This is a really good song. iTunes?

[pliny112]

Jesus Bartholomew Christ, this is AMAAAAAZING!

[thehappysheep]

The best Typography video I have ever seen and an amazing video in it's own right. Superb Job!

[cutewilbunnies]

I love that 968-226-2255 spells out "you-can-call" XD

[RiverRockFilms]

@cutewilbunnies how?

[cutewilbunnies]

@RiverRockFilms If you look at the numbers on a phone keypad they have corresponding letters. you know how 2 is abc, 3 is def and so on and so forth.

[gphiproductions]

Very cool, creative and professional kinetic typography there!  Good job and thumbs up!

[BOLDAT]

Where can I find the lyrics?

[eragon12111]

WANT TO DO THIS!!!!!

[RElouhila]

This guy is a genius in making lyrics.

[zGumbii]

what a pro. i feel like a child. :/

[refreakasoid]

Thank was simply amazing in every way!

[reubenshephe25]

This video went viral on Kigali

[epiem]

This is by far the Best Typography Video I have ever seen!

Total Inspiration!

[LtZaidejas]

I'll just dislike this so the number can be divided by 10.

[Monkyupurbutt]

@LtZaidejas ...asshole much?

disliking someone's extremely hard work based on your stupid OCD-like impulse...just delete your account. Bastard.

[lisn92]

@Monkyupurbutt dont worry i disliked it so that it screwed up his OCD so if he wants it back, he will have to like it :D

[TheGrasshugger]

@lisn92

That doesn't improve anything idiot.

[lisn92]

@LtZaidejas not on my watch :D

[247FILMSMITH]

Amazing design, color, motion and creativity. Bravo!!!

[jocart]

AWESOME STUFF MAN!

[infernoriser123]

I... Il... I feel inferior.

[irah2100]

,,its really amazing....i dont have money to buy adobe after effects ,im still studying.

thumbs up.... 

[SeaBassIII]

This has dislikes? Who could dislike this? It's freaking wonderful. Great job.

[JHYW]

I've never managed to hear what the newsreader says in the bridge, so that's one thing I'm thanking you for. This video is utter brilliance, I've absolutely no idea how I'd go about making one of these, and now I know there's no point because it would never match up to this one. Very well done!

[CZdragos]

great clip! thumbs up. I've just started with my first movie on Angus - Big jet plane. Looking up to reach your level one day :)

Can you please check my clip and give me some feedback? Thank you

[MrKeshavnaidu]

incredible dude..

[SimuLord]

A for effort AND A for execution. Takes kinetic typography to its full potential.

[oM4Xz]

Render time 2Weeks , editing time 1 year ?! :D

[RqSxProductionZz]

am i dreaming?

[3upfront]

Wow! Really cool!  Kudos!!! I bet that took forever! Definitely worth it!!!

[jchkiddo]

What did you say? I can't hear you, it's really loud when the shop-vac is on

[prateek070782]

Awesome stuff man. How much time did you guys burn in conceptualizing and realizing this? i might be interested in getting some similar stuff done.

[romulusnr]

I never noticed before the changes made in the last chorus. Epic. :) nice job on the background audio, particularly the news announcer in the bridge, btw.

[NandeRonan]

clap clap clap



[bobolishas]

wow

[prestellad]

Did anybody read the stuff the newscaster is supposed to be saying? It's depressing.

[Kotorfan045]

This song sounds so sweet and cheery... and then you listen to the lyrics.

[bendaddy101]

I love it

[Rulerofwax24]

Holy balls, dude. I am trying to do my first typograhic animation, so I searched again for some ideas... and well, this is amazing, and I can not imagine the amount of work in this.

[seniaku]

Hater gonna hate xD

[speedymorales]

This is phenomenal. A few overview or tutorial videos on how you did some of the effects would be awesome and greatly appreciated.

[BlissfullWulf]

I was a little surprised seeing this on Starline's Tumblr, I had just linked this to some Minecraft friends the other day.

[bakamjakafoo]

My god, that was the best Typography ever.

[philipharperable]

Definitely the best Kinetic Typography video I've seen. And I've seen loads...

[GRRINSS]

Great Work! I don't understand a lot of typography, but love your video!

[MuchachoLocoPro]

I love kinetic typography!! and you just become my new god of kinetic typography.!!!

[hrolvnir]

what number is 1:38 ?

[tehiv]

@hrolvnir YOU-CAN-CALL

[hrolvnir]

@tehiv HA! cool.

[davidp158]

Jarrett - Your work continues to amaze and amuse me. The good stuff always lasts!

[marioornot]

you sir go work for tv please

[winfr34k]

which scenes did you do with the toon boom software?

[nogardderf]

=...?

[MrCraigjclark]

I'd love to see you make a video for "Alone at Home" (Jonathan Coulton's unofficial sequel to this song).

[hrolf555]

Pwned all before you!

[Gewalop]

Dude.. you owned everybody who has ever thought of doing Kinetic Typography vid from the dawn of time till the end of life on earth

[HarvardHeinous]

You are brilliant.

[skizzbot1]

This video is absolutely gorgeous. Completely does the song justice.

[d3ns06]

awesome!

[DieFlammenwerfer]

Thumbs up if you actually called, but they didn't hear you.

[Mattteus]

The shop vac is all :D and at the end it's -:D

[discover4ash]

Really great.... u r rocking n u r my guru

[LuigiHann]

This is fantastic. I've only seen a few of this sort of video, and none of them have impressed me like this one. Love the map view for the Starbucks bridge.

[HappyRadio3000]

My Video Production teach showed us this in class today and now i have it stuck in my head. Thanks alot, Mr. Pona! :I

[doglessliberal]

This has a similar concept as Justice's video for DVNO (they used TV-related logos)

[prestellad]

What are you?

[TheCaptainRaccoon]

I love this. so much.

[Monkyupurbutt]

omg. Dat guitar solo.

[tgseason12]

Jonathan Coulton is a pretty cool guy.

[juliekidd920]

this is so freaking awesome

[markryount]

Holy freaking crap! As a graphic artist, and someone who took an animation class in college, this simultaneously just blew my mind and made me feel like a complete failure. Thanks for joyously crushing me.

[Hitman47PL]

@markryount That's because college doesn't teach you any creativeness - you have to go out and learn that on your own time, which many people fail to do.

[rudal90]

song great, animation great, this is masterpiece

[shortforadrian]

If I was JoCo, I'd declare this to be the official music video. Or however that works.

[TheSevenCamels]

@shortforadrian I'd pay the maker royalties because I literally cannot listen to shop vac without this accompaniment, seriously

[AsSeenOnMyself]

This is the BEST typography I have ever seen! Good Work!!!!!!!!

[shyimpression]

Great Great GREAT!!!

for Skill, for Idea, for Time!!! :D

[ibob84]

Blew my mind

[prestellad]

That's not even typography, that's a new, better thing.

[serban0adrian]

AWESOME CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

[romyroloff]

damn, this is really good.

[krisnahari]

A W E S O M E

[LukyHRE]

You made me love the song.

[aomoustafa88]

you need to do some basic tutorials to help us out here! this is beyond amazing and actually kind of depressing!

[hazehere]

I've been doing a bit of creative typography stuff that I am pretty excited about. So I thought I'd YouTube to get some ideas. I saw this one and now I give up!!! You have set the typographic bar soooo high...it's amazing!!

[SalientK]

@hazehere Hey, don't limit yourself! There's always going to be someone better, but that doesn't mean it's futile to try. Creative pursuits are fulfilling in and of themselves! And who knows, maybe some day you'll be the one people admire! :P

[papercotton]

i love the animation :D

[ChayotAiKadesh]

47 people couldn't hear this because they had the shop vac on.

[wieneralex]

really great work! I love that "dog" with the waggely tail on the "g" :)

[garbleflank]

By far one of the best typographies on YouTube. Very very well done. Love, a fellow typographer.

[indu111]

The BEST typography ever !!! :) :)

[Antphoneigh]

Kinetic typography just grew up! Catchy song as well!

[Regnberg]

Why doesn't this have more views? It's absolutely incredible!

[db314159]

Wow, this is fantastic on so many levels.

[ghizmoit]

I watch it almost daily :)

Perfect video, you are a genius !!!!

[Galactia3000]

Does anyone else rewatch this all the time just because it needs moar views?

[hectorbector11]

If I had to pick the best video on YouTube, this would be it. I ripped it and put it permanently on my iPhone.

[sonuckles1]

This is hands-down the best kinetic typography video I've ever seen. Kudos to you, man.

[xCreativ]

This is amazing.

[epiem]

The attention to detail is amazing! Great job!!!

[DaftMau5Music]

Shouldnt it be , with the shop vac, you can call but i probly wont call back?

[EnfinityX]

@DaftMau5Music i think they refer to call as in like call to (shout to) someone downstairs. not call as in with a phone

[seklerek]

OMG, awesome typography! Good work!

[mariomguy]

The pacing of this video is legendary! It satires just about everything about modern life, and the variety of popular graphic design elements is absolutely stunning: instruction manuals, google maps, an iPhone, elongated street signs, many company logos, trademarks, and fonts, the octagonal sports jersey font, the US flag, music notations, digital clocks, and news tickers! Wow!

[DanHink4]

Congrats, you just set the new standard for typography.

[skottiethehottie]

Blown away.

[shidashinpan]

who said that the greatest video in the world can't be done by text alone