The idea of people doing whatever needs to be done in order to make money and provide for their families is a common trope in novels, television and movies. Usually, though, this takes the form of someone entering into prostitution, selling drugs or doing something else that’s illegal/unethica...

So, I didn't win or get into the top ten finalists for the Really Arty Flight of the Conchords poster contest but at least I took part, had a laugh, and really enjoyed the other entries.  I'm always surprised by the choices judges make.  Art contests are so subjective.  It really come...

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The 3 posters released for Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards do an excellent job of conveying exactly how wicked brutal and bloody this movie is. The broken helmet and the bloody bat just scream severe head trauma. The bloody knife through the nazi armband is a nice touch. The filthy hand holding th...

I’m posting this on the 5th of March 2009. I’m doing it for posterity’s sake so I can look back and remark just how shit the UK’s infrastructure is. Some people in the country are lucky enough to have nice fast connections. It seems that wherever I tend to choose to live, the...

The problem with “unfilmmable” pieces of literature is that they usually wind up getting filmed anyway. Everyone, as late as 1999, said the Lord of the Rings trilogy was unfilmmable because of the fantastic characters that inhabited the story and, indeed, the scope of the story itself. E...

There are some fantastic movies coming up in 2009, and while you never know how a movie will fare until you actually see it, I’ve picked out 16 movies that I think will knock us out with their awesomeness. See if you agree, and add your own in the comments! 1. Watchmen (March 6). “Who wa...

If you feel like your favorite artists have sold out, there are still a select few within the music world who continue to craft an incendiary message. They are known as poster artists, and they are as punk as ever. Died Young, Stayed Pretty , a new film by Eileen Yaghoobian, is a fascinating glance ...

Another in a series of poster posts. One day the blog will return to a post-poster posting state, but for now… I try hard to not slip too much personal info from the present tense into my postings here, primarily because I tend to link movies with my past, as part of a continuum of ideas and exper...

MoMA, which allegedly stands for "Museum of Modern Art," has fired a guy for wantonly associating the MoMA name with art, of the modern variety. MOMA hired an advertising guy named Doug Jaeger to design the museum's subway ads. He, in turn, got ad remix vandalartist of the moment Poster Boy to come ...