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      CommentAuthorVe.
    • CommentTimeSep 12th 2008 edited
     
    I was in Corporate Graphics for 27 years! I know I am late to the *party* on this movie...but just watched HELVETICA! Loved it!

    Have you Designers watched this?:happy:
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      CommentAuthornicko
    • CommentTimeSep 12th 2008
     
    no

    ~feels awkward
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      CommentAuthorVe.
    • CommentTimeSep 12th 2008
     
    Oh geeze,nicko! Go rent this. It is VERY interesting. I thought so anyway...
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      CommentAuthormick
    • CommentTimeSep 12th 2008
     
    maybe you could append this to chris's thread on the little movie?

    rent it??? it was free when i watched.

    http://www.fazyluckers.com/discussion/156/helvetica-the-movie/#Item_0


    :)
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      CommentAuthorVe.
    • CommentTimeSep 12th 2008 edited
     
    that's a little YouTube piece. HELVETICA is a full length (or close) movie. 650 MB

    It's quite interesting...
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      CommentAuthorchris
    • CommentTimeSep 13th 2008
     
    ve. it's only 650mb is you illegally download it ;) :p
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      CommentAuthorchris
    • CommentTimeSep 13th 2008
     
    (i still haven't got round to watching it yet, either doh!)
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      CommentAuthormick
    • CommentTimeSep 13th 2008
     
    heh... veedot has an honest face; it must have been some nefarious friend who did it.


    eh.. vee... chris linked to a youtube clip and the page for the film. i watched it ... more than a year and a half ago, in my usual 10 to 15 minute slices. it was boring as hell. :D the bits about actual foundry work were not bad.

    what fascinated me was that a low budget indie film could take off like it did.

    maybe you .. . since you seem to have liked it.. could give a mini-review? i'm a terrible reference, since most films aren't designed to be watched herky-jerky (my way).
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      CommentAuthorbe-jot
    • CommentTimeSep 13th 2008
     
    while it lacks the usual suspense and mindblowing action sequences, it still is a great fucking piece of documentary - i've seen it last year and was amazed by the amount of helvetica around in the real world.
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      CommentAuthorpeak'
    • CommentTimeSep 13th 2008
     
    Yes, I thought it was good. Saw it at docfest last year, which is worth checking out if you don't know it.

    A few of my friends did take the piss out of me for going to see it
    "what you're going to see a film about a font!" followed by pointing and laughing!

    It's worth seeing.

    Wouldn't mind seeing it again, I can't remember the ending! :)
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      CommentAuthorVe.
    • CommentTimeSep 13th 2008
     
    I loved it too for the documentary it is.

    My thoughts while watching:
    a lot of NEW YORK is Helvetica!!! I'm finding this VERY VERY interesting...Oh the things we all take for granted! (like your thought be-jot)

    I LOVE the guy doing the article on Brian Ferry in ZAPF DINGBAT!!!!! as protest! hweheheheheheh


    All the older guys who were there for the beginning, and THEIR point of view...
    ...and the younger ,newer generation of Designers * Helvetica... says: Don't read it...it will bore the shit out of you...

    AND the younger Designers who are taking it and appreciating it but exploding it into something new and diff in their use...

    And then...love the guy who says: *A VERY thin line between SIMPLE and CLEAN and POWERFUL...and Simple and Clean and...BORING*
    hehehehehheeh


    I found it very interesting...and we do take for granted that it is very much the very subliminal fabric upon which we live and operate.


    :happy:
    chris said...ve. it's only 650mb is you illegally download it ;) :p


    :wink:@chris

    DL it yerself,silly, and watch. Good for GOOD DESIGNERS to see...
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      CommentAuthorchris
    • CommentTimeSep 13th 2008
     
    i already have it - where do you think the copy that you watched came from? :D
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      CommentAuthorVe.
    • CommentTimeSep 13th 2008
     
    tee-hee-hee:happy::happy::happy::happy::happy::happy::happy:
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      CommentAuthormick
    • CommentTimeSep 14th 2008
     
    see? i knew my take had to be off-kilter.

    ;) to me, it was like a bricklayer making a movie about how there were bricks everywhere. i didn't understand why my friend (he's a music producer who came back from SXSW with the film) liked it so much.


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