USC Roski School of Art and Design: Instructor - Sherin Guirguis
Monday, September 14, 2009
Just got home from the Died Young Stayed Pretty screening. Filmmaker Eileen Yaghoobian was on hand to answer questions and gave away 5 signed poster. Congrats to Claudia from our class who scored one of them!!
So I posted earlier, but I don't think it went through. I went to the screening earlier tonight and I thought it was a lot of fun. It was really cool how Yaghoobian was able to show the designers in their "raw" element (she was able to do this because she actually spent time getting comfortable with the designers, actually living with them, which brought down any barriers and made them comfortable speaking their minds about art, poster making, cultural movements, and anything/everything else).
One point that was made in the movie by a designer was how saturated our culture is. We are constantly bombarded with images and messages and name brands, that if we took all of it in it would "drown us." I think this is a good point to make, and applying it to an artistic/design approach, it is important to draw upon influences around us in creating our own style, but this requires weeding through everything that we see and experience.
All in all, it was a slightly humorous, raw, real movie which gave a neat inside look into the unique lives of these poster designers who's lives really seem to revolve around their passion for designing indie posters.
I like most of the posters that Eileen was selling after the screening, especially the one that Sherin bought and showed us in class today :D
The movie is interesting and I like how the artists are presented in the movie. A lot of the interviews and shots are framed in a unconventional way which add personality to the artists themselves. There are also a lot of random(awkward) scenes that I like (e.g. the gorillas and the man trying to get the wallet out of his back pocket). but one quote that really draws my attention is when one artist comments that "other cultures establish themselves, while the rock poster culture exists by destroying the culture around it." I just thought this is a very intriguing idea that the movie could have talked more about.
So I posted earlier, but I don't think it went through. I went to the screening earlier tonight and I thought it was a lot of fun. It was really cool how Yaghoobian was able to show the designers in their "raw" element (she was able to do this because she actually spent time getting comfortable with the designers, actually living with them, which brought down any barriers and made them comfortable speaking their minds about art, poster making, cultural movements, and anything/everything else).
ReplyDeleteOne point that was made in the movie by a designer was how saturated our culture is. We are constantly bombarded with images and messages and name brands, that if we took all of it in it would "drown us." I think this is a good point to make, and applying it to an artistic/design approach, it is important to draw upon influences around us in creating our own style, but this requires weeding through everything that we see and experience.
All in all, it was a slightly humorous, raw, real movie which gave a neat inside look into the unique lives of these poster designers who's lives really seem to revolve around their passion for designing indie posters.
I like most of the posters that Eileen was selling after the screening, especially the one that Sherin bought and showed us in class today :D
ReplyDeleteThe movie is interesting and I like how the artists are presented in the movie. A lot of the interviews and shots are framed in a unconventional way which add personality to the artists themselves. There are also a lot of random(awkward) scenes that I like (e.g. the gorillas and the man trying to get the wallet out of his back pocket). but one quote that really draws my attention is when one artist comments that "other cultures establish themselves, while the rock poster culture exists by destroying the culture around it." I just thought this is a very intriguing idea that the movie could have talked more about.