Justice — DVNO
Today at Family Dollar Shannon and I played with a toy keyboard clearly made by non-English-speakers, with pre-programmed songs that included such classics as “Cut Wool” and “Read Hat,” and a rhythm bank option in the style of “New New.”
Oh and here’s the new Justice video, stolen straight from their MySpace page for extra awesome quality. Here’s a download link if you want it for yourself, too. [via Viewers Like You, with a demonstrative link to the motion logos that inspired it]
It’s kind of a marvel of graphic design, isn’t it? I wonder how many of those images are direct parodies. I only recognize a handful.
I looked around and found out that “DVNO” stands for “El Divino.” In <a href=‘http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/mashup/tracklistingarchive.shtml?20070608″>a June 2007 BBC interview they explain that “In every suburb of the world, in every city, there’s always a nightclub called El Divino (…) Clubs where you have to wear like a white shirt to get in” (skip to about 4:10 in this mp3):
Honestly I was kind of disappointed to learn that. Without knowing its origin, the series of letters “DVNO” evokes some very vague but compelling associations, probably not least of all because of my previously unconscious awareness of its similarity to the word “divine,” but also to Devo, you have to admit. Still I feel like there’s an appropriate aesthetic even to just their shape, and to the song’s kind of emphatic advocation of CAPITAL LETTERS.