“Now is the time to stop being a loser.” — Randi Jammer
It’s the summer of 1985 and all 13-year-old Radford Miracle cares about is junk food and jams, slurpees and LPs. But on a family vacation to Ocean City, Maryland, Rad’s world gets turned upside down in a fight for ping pong supremacy.
Like Tom Tykwer’s multifarious opening to Run Lola Run , the title sequence runs a gamut of styles, combining hand-drawn type and animation, multiples, and collage which allow it to harken back to the low tech of the ’80s. Paired with The Fat Boys’ rousing 1984 battle rap “Stick ’Em,” it lends the film’s opening an ebullience and lighthearted bravado. In this way, Michael Tully’s indie coming-of-age comedy – starring John Hannah, Judah Friedlander, Amy Sedaris, and Susan Sarandon as a table tennis Mr. Miyagi – gets an apt introduction brimming with energy and nostalgia.
A discussion with Designer TEDDY BLANKS of CHIPS.
Give us a little background on yourself and CHIPS.
CHIPS was founded in Brooklyn in 2009 by Adam Squires, Dan Shields, and myself. We make websites, books, album covers, posters. Our first title sequence was for Lena Dunham’s Tiny Furniture , for which I also composed the score. From there, that side of the business took off.
What was the first meeting about this title sequence like?
Since the director, Michael Tully, lives in Austin, we never actually met in person! We had been friendly and met several times when he lived in…
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