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2nd Annual Art of the Year Contest

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 4:40 am
by aahnutz

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:32 am
by quiksilvr22
how do you get to the other pages?

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:39 am
by comical_imbalance
quiksilvr22 wrote:how do you get to the other pages?
By voting for a poster on the first page. Read the bit at the top.
After you vote for a print, it becomes the "carry-over champ" and is added to page 2...

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:42 am
by quiksilvr22
comical_imbalance wrote:
quiksilvr22 wrote:how do you get to the other pages?
By voting for a poster on the first page. Read the bit at the top.
After you vote for a print, it becomes the "carry-over champ" and is added to page 2...
thanks.

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:05 am
by evillittlegoat
So much good stuff. I carried the Ghost Ship for 10 pages or so but plumped for The Day Everything in the end. Looking forward to '08.

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:53 am
by Yamar
Malleus NIN/Tool led the way for a bit for me, then switch to the Ghost Ship, then to the Dutch Whale. But I was suprised by what I picked in the end - more that I thought about it and what my tastes have grown to, made more sense to me. It's also (in my opinion) one of if not the best fit for a band in my eyes for a gigposter this past year -- Mafia's SF Tool print.

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 12:41 pm
by jenga
Is your 1st choice the one you click on to go through the most pages or the one that is your 1st choice at the end of all the pages

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 12:42 pm
by electrachrome
jenga101 wrote:Is your 1st choice the one you click on to go through the most pages or the one that is your 1st choice at the end of all the pages
1st choice at the end of all the pages

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 12:43 pm
by Codeblue
jenga101 wrote:the one that is your 1st choice at the end of all the pages

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 12:54 pm
by ghettoblaster
That was fun. Lots of great stuff in '07 I missed.

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 2:54 pm
by sunsetbrew
Seems like a bigger variety of artists this year. It was hard to make a choice.

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 5:27 pm
by mistersmith
Nobody cares about my opinion, but...

I ended up with Horkey Boris. Something about that poster, it seems to just have turned gigposter-ing on its ass. You can barely even read the text, which oughta be pretty important, and nobody would have used those colors before - not for a heavy rock band. And it's 35" x 16"...tall. WTF. It broke every rule, but still works.

And it's fvcking beautiful.

I think there was better "art" - I think McCarthy did something special for printmaking in general with Everything/Nothing - but hey, Horkey/Boris just punched me in the gut. And that's how I hope everyone is voting.

Plus no matter how great some of that work is, it just doesn't do anything for me - I never liked Emek (to hippie-tech), Fairey, Banksy (neither of those guys does anything new or deep ~anymore), or Danger (always seems goth/emo to me), so that took out like 60% of the nominees right there :)

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 5:30 pm
by dougr
when does voting close? i wanna take my time, look at posters as i go, then there's good ol' procrastination too...

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:12 pm
by sunsetbrew
After a week. It should be the 15th in the we hours of the morning.

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:25 pm
by dougr
cool, thanks Thomas!