![]() I was kind of just struggling with some different life issues, I was studying the Bible, looking for God and this font came to mind, this idea of, thinking about the biblical times and Egypt and the Middle East. It was one of the best things I’ve seen.”Ĭostello also talked about how he came to create the font, saying, “I designed the font when I was 23 years old. “I had a lot of people telling me, ‘Did you see this ‘Saturday Night Live’ thing?’ I took a look at it and me and my wife were like cracking up, I mean we couldn’t stop laughing. “I woke up this morning Sunday and my email was full,” he said. RELATED: Michael Che Calls Trump A ‘B***’ And A ‘Cheap Cracker’ On ‘SNL’ Over Puerto Rico ResponseĪppearing on CBSN, the creator of the font, Chris Costello, spoke about how he first saw the sketch. The short, which featured Gosling as a man obsessed to the point of madness by the fact that the highest grossing movie of all time used Papyrus for its title font, has racked up nearly 2 million views since it aired. Will SNL make a real world impact on the graphic design of Cameron's Avatar 2? We'll know if it ever comes out.The Ryan Gosling-hosted season premiere of “Saturday Night Live” on Global went viral over the weekend, with a hilarious digital short making fun of “Avatar” for using the Papyrus font in its logo, and now the creator of that font has responded. I just started scribbling this alphabet while I was at work and it kind of looked pretty cool." ![]() It was one of the best things I've seen."Ĭostello says he designed the font when he just was 23 years old. "I took a look at it and me and my wife were like cracking up, I mean we couldn't stop laughing. "I woke up this morning Sunday and my email was full," said font artist Chris Costello. The riff went over well - the video has already racked up 1.7 million views - but how does the creator of the Papyrus font feel? CBS actually tracked him down and asked. With news that Cameron's long-gestating Avatar sequels would finally begin shooting, you can see why Torres felt the need to vent his feelings ASAP (and with the help of a committed thespian like Gosling). The sketch comes from Julio Torres, who previously wrote last year's masterpiece "Wells for Boys," and as clearly not stopped thinking about Avatar. "Like a thoughtless child wandering in a garden, yanking leaves along the way." "He just highlighted Avarar, clicked the drop-down menu, and then he just randomly selected Papyrus," Gosling's character tells his therapist. And he can't shake the thin, scroll-like title treatment from his mind. ![]() In this guy's mind, there's no greater crime than typographical laziness. "Papyrus" starred host Ryan Gosling as an everyman stricken with a debilitating infatuation: he can't get over that the Avatar logo was just the word "Avatar" converted into the Microsoft-Word-issued Papyrus font. But clearly some people are thinking about it. The science-fiction epic Best Picture nominee and the highest grossing movie of all time, and yet between Marvel mega-franchises and the Netflix takeover, it's rarely brought up. ![]() Then there was the second-to-last sketch of the night, a pop culture fanaticism and obsession disorders that probably went over the head of anyone who hasn't thought about James Cameron's 2009 blockbuster, Avatar. Saturday Night Live's Season 43 premiere was filled with the staples: a Trump-skewering opening, a mock commercial, Keenan singing songs like a pro, and excuses for Kate McKinnon to act like a lunatic. ![]()
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