Thanks to Andy Inhatko and Comicraft I got some new fonts to play with on New Year’s Day. I stayed up all night playing in Cinema 4D and came away with a little endtag for the site’s upcoming videos.
This suitably goofy font is Doohickey; along the way I picked up Spills, Battle Cry, & their signature Comicrazy font on their once-a-year $20 sale. Can’t beat ‘em for solid hand-lettered fonts, especially at that price.
2011 Year End Popcorn Jockey Report
2011 Box Office, you were a strange mistress. Or at least the most easily forgettable mistress on record. I mean, even Pixar made a completely forgettable film this year. I remember being excited this time last year, and now I barely remember what I was so excited for this summer.
So what went down in 2011?
Dreamworks actually made two movies better than Pixar. Marvel set up the Avengers home run next year with a double and a triple in one short summer session. Tucked away in another season of uninspired BigDumbLoud™ sequels, we had two directors wring something unexpected out of decades old, well-worn franchises. The guy who made museum movies with Ben Stiller stuffed Rocky Balboa into a Rock’Em Sock’Em Robot and somehow made the best “Boy And His Robot” movie since Iron Giant. And Baby Goose and the Sidewinder pulled the rug out from under every other movie this year.
A while back I summed up all of my movie visit tweets, and in the rear-view mirror of my couch and X-Box, I went back and adjusted some scores. You can check those out back here, while the back half of the year is marked below:
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