Posts Tagged ‘2011 Roundup’
2011 ROUNDUP: Movie Posters
Movie Posters are not just advertisements. They unfailingly grab our attention, influence our expectations and nourish our unrelenting sense of intellectual curiosity. Most of them are not merely designed as effective marketing tools. Certainly, they always communicate a focused or specific concept, but they also boast many of the same qualities or characteristics that you would look for in any other traditional work of art – allure, harmony, poignancy, timelessness, technical accuracy. As you look at a particularly snappy movie poster, there will always be a 70 percent probability that you’ll be tempted to watch this or that movie. The reason is simple: they’re unarguably amazing. In the last two days we’ve taken a look at our favorite records and movies from 2011. Now it’s time for our independent (or unofficial) movie poster art roundup, a gallery of our picks for the best unofficial movie and tv show posters of 2011. Just for the record, we’ve decided to consider all those unofficial posters designed for movies hitting theaters within the year 2011. Click through the gallery to see the images and don’t forget to share your opinions with us. Read the rest of this entry »
2011 ROUNDUP: Cinema
It is always difficult to establish if a cinema year is generally best or worse of the preceding one, the cinema and the art in general are as the wine: it is necessary a little time to fully appreciate its qualities. And therefore it will seem entirely hazardous, but it doesn’t disturb us at all, if we expose us with to say that 2011 has not probably seen a superior middle quality than that of the 2010. We instead are sure that there have been, in this year that is about to end, some undisputed masterpieces, and never word more misused, in this moment, returns to its native meaning. Read the rest of this entry »
2011 ROUNDUP: Music
End of the year lists or roundups, it’s been said, are more fun for those who compile them, unless masochistic instincts actually make you enjoy all the criticism that those lists inevitably attract. Still, it’s a guilty pleasure, who doesn’t have one? It has also to be said that the more easily available music becomes (trust us, there are dozens of new records released every week), the harder making lists becomes, as there’ll always be that record which escaped you. Read the rest of this entry »
The Future Is Bright: THE FRESH & ONLYS 
Better Than Something: Interview with Ian Markiewicz and Alex Hammond 
Filming The Music: AG ROJAS 
Coyotes in My Backyard: TRAVIS MILLARD 
The Alchemy of Love and Fire: NEIL KRUG 
Drenched in The Rain of Dreams: Dimitri Drjuchin 
I CAN SEE FOR MILES: The Art of Jacob Escobedo 