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Film Title Sequences

February 12th 2021 I’ve had a feeling for some time that my essay was too descriptive. I was consistently making efforts to make it as critical as possible but I knew it still wasn’t what it is supposed to be. So today I spent some time re-working what I already had to make it, hopefully, more critical.  Looking back at my essay structure and from doing in depth research the last round, I realised I can’t really talk about how graphic designers work on film sets as that’s something that only happens now. If it happened way before that, I have no idea as no information seems to pop up. On the bright side, I found something else I can most definitely talk about. Saul Bass. I finally managed to write my topic on designers in film. Saul Bass, godfather of film title sequences, of course was covered. I vaguely remember watching Psycho with my sisters and cousins when I was too young to understand anything going on.  I compared Psycho to Se7en, another iconic thriller movie with a great titl
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Psychedelic Music

January 30th 2021 Surprisingly, I am kind of in the zone to write today. It helps that at the end of the day I plan to watch a movie .^. What? I’m allowed a little reward and break okay. Stop judging me. Well, I just learnt that 90s rave and 80s acid house is a thing. or is it 'was'? I never know. English is hard. Is 80s acid house sort of inspired by 60s psychedelia? Based off designs, it looks it, but I can’t find anything solid yet and as I’m not covering the 80s, it’s irrelevant to this essay and therefore, I will not look into it as I don’t exactly have the most time to go off right now. It would make sense if it were though as the 80s summer is considered as/called 'second summer of love" and as I have learnt, the 60s summer was the Summer of Love. Moby Grape Dance Concert at Avalon Ballroom by Victor Moscoso (1967);  Heaven On Earth:  Club Flyer for Heaven by Dave Little (1988) “Can You Feel It” flier for Rave At The Cave (approx. 1988);  Can You FEEL It? Acid H
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Birth of Psychedelia

January 15th 2021  Dear Blog, it’s been a while. How are you? Oh, you're upset I haven’t done this in a while? Better late than never though, right? The psychedelic culture is associated to the 60s, for good reason, it was really just a decade of it being used and seen everywhere. I am learning about the Summer of Love and how there is more to the psychedelic culture than just the music and shirts. It was about activism and, well, the drugs of course. The 50s was mostly recovery from WW2 and so the 60s was the love of their liberation and to spread the peace. Though WW2 was way over, there was the Vietnam war and the cold war with the Soviet Union that was going on and it makes sense that these people just wanted to spend their time getting high and spread love. Honestly though, what better way to do it than through music, right? It speaks to all people, you don’t really need to be proficient in the language but you can always appreciate the good music.  The 60s really had a guy ad
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Meaning of Pop Culture and Graphic Design

January 3rd 2021 I wrote my intro some time ago, but that is as far as I’ve gotten with my essay. So, today I want to at least get my whole intro and explanations done... Everything that comes before the body content. Seems kind of dumb that I am trying to find a proper way to define popular culture. My teachers used to always say "answer exams, essays, questions, etc. as if the person reading is totally dumb" but I think even people with below average IQ still know what popular culture is. But okay, lets do this. Suddenly looking for definitions of pop culture does not seem so dumb anymore. Pop culture is more than just pop culture as we know it. When anyone says pop culture, they only think of pop culture now (music, movies, trends, etc) and maybe, for anyone art inclined, pop art, specifically Andy Warhol, of course but I have just found out pop culture is more than just that. Folk culture is.. was?.. considered as pop culture. According to Raymond Williams, a Welsh Marxis
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Essay Structure

December 11th 2020 By now, I had to work on an essay structure. But before I did anything, I had to figure out how to do an essay structure and so our best friend— Google— came in. I used this as a guide in how to make an essay structure even though I was still kind of lost on what exactly needed to go into it.   Putting that aside in the meantime, I decided to look into my content and/or topic. I stumbled upon many sources on graphic design and pop culture, one that stood out to me the most was Steven Heller's book Pop: How graphic design shapes popular culture. Although this was not really what I needed as I was going into more of corporate culture, I found this book really interesting and spent a good amount of time going through it. I thought of incorporating pop culture into my essay as well and as far as I managed to get with that in terms of my essay structure is shown below. After hours of searching, I realised I could not seem to find what I needed for my corporate culture
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The Essay Choice

November 28th 2020 I decided prior to this that my essay question would be "What role does graphic design play in changing culture?". It was really through process of elimination I guess, I narrowed it down to 2/3 questions. The more I thought of it, I did not want to do something too political (The women in design question) as I felt that would be a little too difficult and political for me to tackle, especially since I wrote about propaganda posters last sem. So i settled with this question as I felt it could be truly interesting and something with alot of resources for me to find. I did some research on graphic design and culture, which of course led me to a widespan of different things as culture can be anything. So, I quickly realised it did not specify what culture I was to talk about, which made things all the more interesting to me. For a bit I thought of talking about culture as in culture of a country/races and such but as I searched for that I stumbled upon ‘Look a
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