So this is related to Caleb’s last few posts if you squint really hard and look over to the left. Because Caleb wrote about text, among other things, and he wrote about it over my head (but I’m thinking - Rachel and I will catch up!). And I’ve been watching these videos in spare moments since I saw them discussed recently on Presentation Zen — and I know a lot of you probably have presentations to think about, and Caleb’s got us thinking about literacies and text and communication and information. But mostly this is just me posting stuff I think is fun.

This is my favorite, probably because of my history geek tendencies -

Most of these, and I mean “most” by a LOT - are based on movie scenes. Which isn’t surprising because you’ve got your audio right there. So there are about a million to that one speech from Fight Club. This one from Pulp Fiction is linked on a lot of favorite lists, and it is pretty awesome.

They didn’t manage to find some scene from that movie without adult language in it - so obligatory warning…

This guy is unhappy with the people who use the movie dialogue. So he made one on copyright. I post this not because I like the message, but because the comments interested me…

There are also a bunch of them that fall into the music video category. Here I like the font -

Here I like the song and the intro -

There is not much out there in terms of other types of texts - which makes sense when you remember the audio piece - but I was still surprised at how little there was. This is one of the most interesting examples/ attempts, depicting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

Now, I need someone with Adobe After Effects or similar to try this out with the audio of a really kick-ass lecture. Anyone?