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Luxury Ocean Front Condos With Breathtaking Watermark Views

Dear Edwina,

 LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling didn't become a multi-millionaire by foolishly PAYING $19 for his iStockPhoto purchases. After all, the watermarked versions work just fine, and they're free!

Get Your Schmooze On

LeBook has asked us to spread the word that they are putting together an event on January 31 at Siren Studios presenting several hundred portfolios and reels, and inviting 1000+ creative types from the studios, networks and design agencies.

Blah, blah, blah. Seriously. All we want to know is: will there be free food?

Update To Site Governance And Poo Flinging Policy

Henceforth, whenever some poncy upstart whines to us about how our little monkey blog is undermining the high standards of the entertainment marketing profession we will post this Key Art Award winning poster of a stuffed bear whacking off.

It's Why They Call It EW

Rather than gild the lily, we’ve copy and pasted the following verbatim from EW’s site:

New 'Movie 43' poster as saucy as the celeb-filled movie -- EXCLUSIVE

What’s curvaceous and a bit naughty, with a greenish palor? This exclusive poster, below, for the upcoming mega celebrity-filled ensemble comedy Movie 43!

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Touted as “The biggest cast every assembled, for the most outrageous comedy ever made,” the poster boasts a bada-boom outline of a greenish woman’s body with the movie’s title as the, er, crotch clincher. Helmed by several directors, including Peter Farrelly (There’s Something About Mary, Dumb and Dumber),  the film stars a serious litany of A-list names, including — take a long breath - Halle Berry, Naomi Watts, Kate Winslet, Elizabeth Banks, Kate Bosworth, Gerard Butler, Kieran Culkin, Josh Duhamel, Anna Faris, Chris Pratt, Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Hugh Jackman, Johnny Knoxville, Chloe Moretz, Justin Long, Leslie Bibb, Liev Schreiber, Seann William Scott, Emma Stone, Jason Sudeikis, and Uma Thurman.

“Never before have such huge actors pushed the envelope so much,” Farrelly told EW last month, giving us the lowdown on scenes ranging from Winslet on a crazy blind date with Jackman to a potty-mouthed Watts and her real-life love Schreiber playing parents home-schooling their son by totally demeaning him. The movie’s set for release in theaters Jan. 25, 2013.

Head Shots

Dear Edwina, How's this for placement?

The Nearly 40-Year-Old Joke

Dear Edwina, here is an "oh so current" funny sent in by moi:

Note to the Marvin Hamlisch estate: MonKeyArtAwards is not responsible for misspellings on reader-submitted art.

Put A Lid On It

One of our readers asked us to pay particular attention to the comments section in this Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood item regarding Warner’s 90 Year Anniversary logo.

Joe Kimberling 1966-2012

We recently heard the sad news that Joe Kimberling, one of our Fearless Freelancers, passed away earlier this year.

Los Angeles Magazine, where Joe was the Art Director from 2000 - 2009, posted a slide show of his work here. 

A Reader Posits: Movies That People Would Rather See

Dear Edwina, Please don't give me credit for this, it makes me look like I'm not busy…

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No Matter How Thin You Slice It, It's Still Baloney

Thomas Kinkade: "Photoshopper of Light"

In artist Ron Lemen’s sublime Godzilla vs. Kincade, Godzilla is clearly a visual metaphor for Amy Pinto-Walsh, Kinkade’s live-in girlfriend and personal assistant.

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Apparently the death of the famous “Painter of Light” (after a valium and alcohol overdose) has pitted Kinkade’s wife, family and close friends against Pinto-Walsh in a fight over his legacy and public image.

A restraining order alleges that Pinto-Walsh was privy to information about how Kinkade created his paintings, including "the use of computer technology" in painting.

"If these trade secrets were disclosed, the Kinkade businesses would suffer irreparable harm," said the attorney for Kinkade’s family. 

No mention was made of Kinkade’s penchant for marking his territory by urination, which hopefully will remain enshrined in his golden oeuvre.

There Is Nothing More Powerful Than An Interactive Data Visualization Whose Time Has Come.

A Software Engineer by the name of Vijay Pandurangan created an interactive infographic showing how colors have evolved in movie poster from 1914 to today.

Click on the large color graph on his site, if you then click on any of the years, it will take you to a pie chart showing the breakdown of movie titles/colors. The pie chart has a slider at the top that you can then drag to go from 1914 to 2012.

 

How he did it:

"I downloaded ~ 35k thumbnailed-size images...from a site that has a lot of movie posters online. I then grouped the movie posters by the year in which the movie they promoted was released. For each year, I counted the total number of pixels for each colour in the year. After normalizing and converting to HSL coordinates, I generated the visualizations."

Why he did it:

Who the f*ck knows.

A Reader Reminds Us:

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We’re All Winners Here... Except For You Losers

Worth 1000 has posted the entries in their latest movie poster parody contest.

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