Silent Movie - Spin

Words

• Turn
• Rotation
• Whirl
• Movement
• Skid
• Revolve
• Twist
• Gyration
• Revolution
• Motion
• Reel
• Bias
• Round
• Wheel
• Around
• Axis
• Swivel
• Pivot
• Angle
• Circle
• Position
• Kinetic
• Force

Meanings/interpretations

• Turn or cause to turn or whirl around quickly
• A rapid turning or whirling motion
• Revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
• Draw out (wool, cotton, or other material) and convert it into threads, either by hand or with machinery
• A form of propaganda, achieved through providing an interpretation of an event or campaign to persuade public opinion in favor or against a certain organization or public figure
• To provide an interpretation of
• To form (a web or cocoon, for example)
• Give a sensation of dizziness
• A fundamental property/characteristic of elementary particles
• To shape or manufacture by a twirling or rotating process
• A state of mental confusion
• A short drive in a vehicle
• Autorotation of an aerodynamically stalled aeroplane
• The process of forming metal over a mandrel while rotating on a lathe
• Lose control especially in a skid
• An uncontrolled fast revolving descent of an aircraft, resulting from a stall
• Revolving motion imparted to a ball in a game such as baseball, cricket, tennis, or billiards
• To fish with a light rod, lure, and line and a reel with a stationary spool.
• spin dry To rotate (clothes) in a washing machine in order to extract surplus water
• A sudden downward trend in prices, values, etc
• Stream in jets, of liquids
• Prolong or extend

Situations

• Tornado / twister
• Car drifting out of control
• Catherine wheel on bonfire night
• Dizziness
• A spider forming its web
• Spinning yarn
• Feeling dizzy
• Clothes spinning in a washing machine
• A ball spinning on a roulette wheel
• Walking through a revolving door
• Spinning clay on a potters wheel
• A wind turbine producing energy
• A coin spinning on a table
• A cars wheel beginning to move
• A childs spinning top
• Playing a vinyl record
• The earth spinning on its axis
• Spin the bottle
• A ballerina doing a pirouette
• Pin the tail on the donkey
• Confusion
• A gun cylinder
• Drawing patterns with a spirograph
• Drilling a hole

Objects/Images

The majority of these images came from the situations I envisioned based on the collection of meanings and interpretations - many were immediate responses whereas some were rather abstract.

Typefaces

To spin is a form of motion; 'turn or cause to turn or whirl around quickly'. My immediate response was to look at script fonts due to their calligraphic and stylistic characteristics; ascenders and descenders form swilling motions which connote the word 'spin'. Using pre-installed fonts and those font online (through fontsquirrel and myfonts), I sourced a collection of script-style fonts. I also looked at rounded and circular sans-serif fonts.