{"id":6899,"date":"2015-10-18T11:11:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T18:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6899"},"modified":"2015-10-22T11:55:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T18:55:10","slug":"movie-one-sheets-re-imagined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/18\/movie-one-sheets-re-imagined\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie One-sheets Re-imagined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2015\/10\/a-look-at-the-alternative-movie-poster-movement-thriving-on-social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\">from The Observer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>The Underground Movie Poster Scene Booming on Social Media<\/h1>\n<h2>Tired of the celebrity-centric posters that dominate the industry, artists are reimagining the medium<\/h2>\n<p>By\u00a0<span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" title=\"View All Posts by Alanna Martinez\" href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/author\/alanna-martinez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">Alanna Martinez<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/van-orton-design-robocop.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-563839\" title=\"The Underground Movie Poster Scene Booming on Social Media\" src=\"https:\/\/nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/van-orton-design-robocop.jpg\" alt=\"Robocop by Van Orton Design, to be featured in Alternative Movie Posters II: More Film Art From the Underground. (Photo: Van Orton Design)\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><em>Robocop<\/em>\u00a0by Van Orton Design, to be featured in\u00a0<em>Alternative Movie Posters II: More Film Art From the Underground<\/em>. (Photo: Van Orton Design)<\/p>\n<p>Gorgeous, eye-popping movie posters are still out there\u2014they just aren\u2019t being made in Hollywood anymore.<\/p>\n<p>A vast, growing network of artists designing some of the most innovative movie posters in decades\u2014completely independent from Hollywood studios.<\/p>\n<p>Author\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewchojnacki.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Chojnacki<\/a>\u00a0documented the artwork of the movement in his 2013 book\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schifferbooks.com\/alternative-movie-posters-film-art-from-the-underground-5410.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alternative Movie Posters: Film Art from the Underground<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>and a sequel book\u2014<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0764349864\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0764349864&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=matthewchocom-20&amp;linkId=T5AQROSIEE6XHWAK\" target=\"_blank\">Alternative Movie Posters II: More Film Art From the Underground<\/a>\u2014<\/em>is \u00a0published in November.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr. Chojnacki, who works in finance by day and is an author in his spare time (his first book,\u00a0<em>Put the Needle on the Record<\/em>, was about vinyl album art from the 1980s), the popularity of artist-designed posters grew\u00a0organically through social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great way [for artists] to get their art noticed,\u201d he\u00a0told the Observer.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2015\/10\/a-look-at-the-alternative-movie-poster-movement-thriving-on-social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Observer<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Observer The Underground Movie Poster Scene Booming on Social Media Tired of the celebrity-centric posters that dominate the industry, artists are reimagining the medium By\u00a0Alanna Martinez Robocop\u00a0by Van Orton Design, to be featured in\u00a0Alternative Movie Posters II: More Film Art From the Underground. (Photo: Van Orton Design) Gorgeous, eye-popping movie posters are still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}