Response to Milton Glaser Movie

I had seen this movie about Milto Glaser before. As an introduction, the movie introduces Milton as a creator of the world wide known logo for I love New York. Milton enjoyed doing creative works. As a person he was a free spirited, culturally intelligent and lover of food. People described his intellience as being a very articulate person, knew what was going on around him in Politics and the cultures around him His voice, his work, he made his prescence known all around the world. As a designer, he was close to his employess. Inside his design studio, the office was small, but he sat near his employees, he did not belive in having a seperate office for himself.
       A few of his works like the Bob Dylan poster, the NY symbol, and the Push Pins done for ProBono, he wanted to send a message to people an he did so by having fun. He created sayings for these pins so people would realize the political messages being sent out. Milton Glaser also had a deep appreciation for African Art, as one could tell by his very decorative house he shares with his wife who designs childrens books. Milton has also been known to design interiors of restaurants and believes the design of the place really affects people. I believe Milton Glaser is the type of designer that will be know forever, his diversity in his works and his appreciation for the world around him is unmistakeable. His ambition to make work that will speak clearly to people and yet his nobleness will always be known

Jack Totty's Movie vs Monterrey Pop

Personally, I LOVED the movie Monterrey Pop. I'm the kind of person that is always into new music, and as crazy as this sounds I never heard of Janice Joplin or Otis Redding. I fell in love with the music. The energy. The whole era of the 60's, personally I think I was born in the wrong year. Compared to Jack Totty's movie, this was on the other side of the spectrum. The movie by Jack Totty was about the clean aesthetics of design, and how sometimes being too good of a design can lack in functionality. For starters, the movie was mostly in monotone grays, neutrals and very little color. The mood all together was uptight, robotic, mundane life. The people in this movie hardly laughed, did not have any feeling to the dialogue between each other. The houses that they showed were all full of modernist design, from the furniture to the entrance gate, water fountains in the shape of fish streaming water. People's styles were also completely opposite from the people in Monterrey Pop. The women all had some sort of slicked back hairstyle, and served mainly as housewives. The men wore short clean cuts. The introduction to the movie was also completely different. Jack Totty's titles were in some sort of serif type face, nicely presented.
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Let's get to Monterrey Pop.
It's the 1960's for starters, the era where the Hippies were born, flowers, nature, music, and drugs. To many it may sound way too stereotypical, but they were doing nothing wrong. In the introduction to this movie, there's crazy loud music, grainy unidentifiable photos with too much lights all over the screen, and hand written text to show the credits. The movie is about the music festival called Monterrey Pop, and it definitely steps far from the boundaries of normal television by showing Jimmy Hendrix do his wild performance where sexual and violent actions are presented. The focus of the movie is on the experiences people are having with emotions from music, living the experience of sleeping outside, being dirty, doing drugs and just living life day by day. No schedules, no rules. The style of people in this movie, were completely down to earth, the women wore eccentric dresses with a lot of color, make up seemed individual to each, affectionate with their partners. Men on the other hand, took the liberty to grow their hair out, wear funky glasses, things you would never see in Jack Tottys movie. The whole mood of this movie is just so different. There are no boundaries, no idealized way of being. To each it's own, and definitely worship the music. It was great.