CHALLENGE 29 YEAR-END LIST
This is what fandom looked like: 2011


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CHALLENGE 26 SETTING: SCENERY AND PRODUCTION DESIGN
Texas Forever: Scenery and Production Design in Friday Night LightsTexas may not exactly be the greatest place in the world. The show certainly never glossed over the oppressive, obsessive, and hypocritical elements of the football-worshiping, God-fearing culture of the American South. Yet never ( Read more... )

CHALLENGE 25 YEAR-END LIST
10 Favorite Movies I First Saw in 2010

10 Favorite Movies
I First Saw in 2010
(none of which actually came out in 2010, bthew)


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CHALLENGE 22 ILLUSTRATE A SONG
Fandom: James Bond/Casino Royale
Wicked Game: A James/Vesper Picspam
Major spoilers for the end of Casino Royale ( Read more... )

CHALLENGE 19 SECOND CHANCE: CASTING
A New Harry Potter Franchise

I was inspired by others here to do my own Harry Potter recast, as I am a fan who has been consistently underwhelmed by the current film franchise. Most of my disappointment is thanks to the screenwriter Steve Kloves, but the casting has its share of issues too. Dan Radcliffe is a ( Read more... )

CHALLENGE 19 SECOND CHANCE: CASTING
Casting The Great Gatsby

It seems that everyone has their own personal favorite Great Gatsby cast, and I am passionately opinionated on the subject, so I figured I’d throw mine into the mix. For me, this is a quintessentially American novel; I can’t bear the thought of casting it with a bunch of Brits or ( Read more... )

CHALLENGE 19 SECOND CHANCE: COMPARE & CONTRAST
Supernatural is the new Buffy.
MAJOR, MAJOR, MAJOR SPOILERS FOR ALL OF BUFFY AND SUPERNATURAL. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED.

Everyone always compares Supernatural to The X-Files. Makes sense: the devoted duo, the paranormal investigations, the all-purpose Vancouver landscape, and, of course, shared writers and ( Read more... )

CHALLENGE 14 END OF THE DECADE
50 great movies of the '00s
in chronological/alphabetical order.

the decade of christopher nolan, foreign imports, superheroes
and other action/adventure franchises

REVERSAL FILM is a certain kind of film stock - used rarely - that really saturates colors (when used with color), deepens the blacks, and blows out the whites. it also has a grainy quality to it and can make for some pretty crazy-looking images... and i love it. and i want everyone to love it too, so i'm going to picspam for you a few awesome ( Read more... )

REVERSAL FILM is a certain kind of film stock - used rarely - that really saturates colors (when used with color), deepens the blacks, and blows out the whites. it also has a grainy quality to it and can make for some pretty crazy-looking images... and i love it. and i want everyone to love it too, so i'm going to picspam for you a few awesome ( Read more... )