Best of 2012

December 27, 2012

Best of 2012

2012 is almost over and it has been a great year.
Discovered,featured and also interviewed outstanding individuals from all of the world.
One big thing i am really proud of this year is Creativity Decoded project.

I have received great contributions from incredible creative individuals from all of the world. BIG Thank You to all the creative individuals featured both on 2dots and Creativity Decoded as well as all creatives doing what they love and inspiring others.
Here are my top picks of the things i liked this year
as well as some great stuff i featured on 2dots.

Cheers!

Aaron

Film

Overall Best
Skyfall & Beasts of the southern Wild

Overall Runner ups
Argo
Zero Dark Thirty
Django Unchained

Best Performance
Richard Gere in Arbitrage
Quvenzhané Wallis in Beasts of the southern Wild

Best Comedy
Hit and Run
Masquerades

Great Cinematography
Restless City, Dark Knight Rises,Beasts of the Southern Wild,
The Life of Pi, Middle of Nowhere, Skyfall, Cloud Atlas

Best Action/Sci Fi
Avengers,Deadfall,Haywire,Expatriate, 6 Bullets,
Safe, Contraband,Safe House,Judge Dredd,Total Recall,Dark Knight Rises,
The Man With the Iron Fists

Best International films
Ties That Bind, The Raid, Cleanskin,The Assassins,Wuxia,Tai Chi zero,Blood Letter,
The Bullet Vanishes, Fast Girls, The Silent War,Sleepless Night, Somewhere in Africa

Music

Overall Best

Miguel-Kaleidoscope Dream

Selah Sue - Selah Sue

Overall runner up

Frank Ocean - Channel Orange

Best Hiphop

Nas - Life is Good

Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid M.a.a.d city

Best Alternative

Labrinth - Electronic Earth

Best Pop/Rnb/SoftRock/Alternative

Bruno Mars - Unorthodox Jukebox

Best Hiplife/afro pop
EL - Something Different

Best Hiplife Artists
Sarkodie
Okyeame Kwame

Best Soul
Emeli Sande - Our Version of Events
Nneka - Soul is Heavy

Other Good Albums
The Game -Jesus Piece
Solange - True (EP)
Maroon 5- Overexposed
K'naan - Country, God or the Girl
R.Kelly - Write Me Back
T.I. - Trouble Man (Heavy is the head)
Alicia Keys - Girl On Fire

TV

Overall Best
The Walking Dead Season 3

Top Picks
Game Of Thrones season 2
True Blood season 5
Boardwalk Empire season 3

Best Performance
Danai Gurira in The Walking Dead season 3

Short Film

Overall best
Dig

Live-Action top picks
Precipice
The Sphere
Joy Ride

Animation short film top picks
Ruin
Origami

Creative Film Top Picks:
Andreas Scheffer's poetry of piano
Patrick Peris - Confrontation
Ithaca Audio - The Mixtape
The Camera Collection by Antonio Vcentini , Billy Brown and Ben Hantoot
SoundWorks Collection series

Urban Sports

Top Picks
Charles Lanceplaine - Ordos
LongBoard Girls Crew - Endless Roads Series
Neon - Macro Skateboarding Video
Kilian Martin & Brett Novak - Altered Route

Books

Top Picks
Brooklyn Makers Book by Jennifer Causey
The James Bond Archives by Taschen
Pharrell - Places and spaces i've been
Muhammad Ali x Greatest Of All Time book
FilmCraft x Cinematography
Bicycle Portraits by Nic Grobler and Stan Engelbrecht

Apps

Top Picks
Pulse
Pocket
Pinterest
Google Currents

Illustration

Top Picks(no specific order)
1. LineDenCity by IC4 Design
2. Illustrations by Thomas Pitilli
3. Illustrations by Pascal Campion
4. Illustrations by Bianca Green
5. illustrations by H.
6.Illustrations by Kilian Eng

Graphic Design/Typography

Top Picks
1.Geometry series by Tilman Zitzmann
2. Head Lines series by Leandro Senna
3. Evolve Poster by Eunice Yip
4. Creative work by Sean McCabe
5. Visual Text Project by Yogesh Mankame
6. Daily Drawings by Jay Roeder

Design

Top Picks(no specific order)
1. Nissyoku by Péter Toronyi
2. TarGetBooks by Mebrure Oral
3. Nánd by Guðrún Theodóra Alfreðsdóttir
4. Snappi wall hanger by Pana Objects
5. Paper Lamp by Milk Design
6. Librilounge / Zerofirst gallery by Todd Bracher

Furniture

Top Picks (no specific order)
1. Dog House Sofa by Seungji Mun
2. Bench Chair by Thomas Schnur
3. ArmChair by Svyatoslav Boyarincev
4. The Slim Chair by Christophe de Sousa
5. Tambour Table by Michael Bambino
6. Cut Chair by Peter Bristol

Photography (Top Picks)

1. Photography by François Angers
2. Photography by Myles Kwesi Hutchful
3. Ballet photography by Ronnie Bohm
4. Photography by Rog Walker

Photography Journal Top Picks

1. Alexandria, Egypt by Michel Assaad
2. Weather Photography by Christophe Jacrot
3. Photography Journal by Tiffany Phan
4. World Chess photography by Meredith Andrews

Comics (Top Picks)

Morning Glories by Nick Spencer & Joe Eisma & Rodin Esquejo
Fatale by Ed Brubaker & Sean Philips
Jennifer Blood by Garth Ennis
DC's Batwing series
Robert Kirkman's Thief of Thieves
Ed Brubaker's Winter Soldier
The Massive by Brian Wood
Rachel Rising by Terry Moore
Conan by Brian Wood

Best Gadget