2dots Best of 2011

December 27, 2011

2dots Best of 2011

As the year is almost over i recalled back to choose the best movies, music,comics,design, illustrations and so on as well as cool stuff i posted on 2dots, just like i did last year.
I am not a critic,these are my personal picks that i found appealing and great one way or the other. Overall i am just a fan that appreciate and love great stuff.

Best of 2011- Movies

Overall Best Movie - Drive

All though i am confident enough to pick Drive as the best movie of 2011, The Devil's Double will be hard to ignore, Dominic Cooper's excellent performance makes it worthy to be second favorite.

Hannah and Friends with benefits also land on top of my favorites this year. Other great movies i liked are Margin Call, Thor,Captain America, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2, Fast Five, Transformers Dark of the Moon, The Debt, Sucker Punch, Super 8, Limitless, Attack of the Block, Immortals and The Lincoln Lawyer.

Best of 2011-TV Show

Overall Best TV Show - Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones easily is the best tv show of 2011 and has the potential to be my best tv show of all time.BoardWalk Empire Season 2 was great and shocking this year as well as The Walking Dead season 2 was also intriguing this year. Nikita is currently still going strong and looking forward to see how the season will end. Other strong contenders are AMC's Hell on Wheels and HBO's The Borgias.

Best of 2011 - Music

Overall Best - Cole World : The Sideline Story

Each music has its own genre, feeling and vibe to it,makes it hard to pick the very best. So i judged by my most played on my ipod and Cole World : The Sideline Story won.

Other good albums i like this year include The Weeknd's Thursday & Echoes of Silence, Common's The Believer The Dreamer.

Best of 2011 - Urban Sports Documentary

Overall Best - Concrete Circus

Mike Christie, the director of Jump London(the best parkour documentary of all time) does it again with his Concrete Circus documentary highlighting urban sports athletes with film-makers in a non stop hard knocking journey. I saw a private screening of Concrete Circus courtesy Mike Christie and i cant say much about it because is not released in the US yet and will be available via itunes in January. All i can say is Concrete Circus is wonderful and will highly recommend to watch when is released next year. Click here to watch the trailer for Concrete Circus.Other great urban sports documentaries : LongBoard Girls Crew's Endless Roads, Sebastien Montaz Rosset's Skyliners Paris as well as Guiilhem Machenaud's Oxelo Skateboard in India.

Best of 2011 - Short Film(Live Action)

Overall best - A Sure Moment & Portal : No Escape

I picked A Sure Moment and Portal : No Escape mainly because both films are ground breaking films in terms of their strong story and cinematic elements wise. I also enjoyed Mobius and Tea Master. As well as both Kid Cudi's Rager short film and Maniac short film.

Best of 2011 - Short Film (Anime)

Overall Best - ROSA

Jesus Orellana's self made ROSA short film caught a lot of attention this year and is now being picked by FOX studios into a full feature film. Visually it was amazing and i loved the action choreography.

I also loved The Archiver by ArtFx studio, Drive tribute by Tom Haugomat & Bruno Mangyoku as well as

R0:0K by Ziid.

Best of 2011 - Design

Overall Best - Balloon Lamp

Japanese studio h220430 fascinated me with one of the coolest designs i have a ever seen, Balloon Lamp. Other great designs are Wha Cabinet by Tembolat Gugkaev,Anemona lamp by Igor Pinigin,Papergeometrix Chair by Maria Yasko.

Best of 2011 - Watch