Student Uses Kinetic Typography to Illustrate Charles Bukowski’s ‘The Laughing Heart’ as Read by Tom Waits

Lou Daprile, a student at Seattle Central Creative Academy, has created a wonderful video that uses various styles of kinetic typography to visually illustrate the poem “The Laughing Heart,” written by Charles Bukowski, read by Tom Waits, and set to a soundtrack by Strangley.

The original reading.

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