And the Oscar Goes To …

Last night, the 84th annual Academy Awards was a throwback to classic Hollywood. From tried and true host Billy Crystal to industry faves reminiscing about how they fell in love with movies, even the fashions seemed out of yesteryear. Not to mention Oscar wins for Meryl Streep and the first win for Christopher Plummer, 82, making him the oldest person to ever receive an Oscar. He is only two years younger than the Oscars, after all.

May we suggest a new category? The Oscar for best use of word trains in a book trailer goes to …


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y24JMa4F5kE

Word Trains Put Words in Motion

Here’s a new sort of train. Check out the “word trains” crossing the screen in this book trailer produced by Gary Wood for Tracks: A Novel in Stories.


Like a train, like the book, it starts slow and steady and builds until you can’t even read everything that crosses the screen. And that’s sort of the point. You almost have to watch it more than once to take it all in.


That’s easy to do since it clocks in at only a minute. So take a minute now and catch the word train!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y24JMa4F5kE