2012 End of the World Time Capsule
Another year gone by! Another apocalyptic event, which means our last chance to actually do a list before we succumb to the Mayan calendar~~~ The YAM Magazine team got together to pick items that they would like to preserve for future generations, which got people’s panties up in a bunch because they just couldn’t pick, so since this might be the last December of your life and Humanity’s last days of existence~
Here are our results:
Writers
- Terry Pratchett
- Shirley Jackson
- Ernest Hemingway
- J. K. Rowling
- Patti Larsen
- Joseph Campbell
- Steven Moffat
- Ken Follett
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Haruki Murakami
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Roald Dahl
Graphic Novels/Comic Books
- Kieron Gillen’s Journey Into Mystery
- Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall
- Craig Thompson’s Blankets
- Watchmen
- Sin City
- Dragon Ball
- Dragon Ball Z
- Y: The Last Man
- Batman – Year One
- Bride of Deimos
- Craig Thompson’s Habibi
awesome that you made playlists too!
@chrryblssmninja, I think sometimes we all underestimate the time it takes to setup seemingly simple posts like this one hahaha. I haven’t pulled an all-nighter in years. I love how the list of actors ended up half women and half men… in contrast to all men in the directors section. haha
@amy, Here’s a list of female directors in film and tv, but it’s hard to recognize most of the names. From the few I recognize and seen, I loved Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides, but I wanted to punch her face after Marie Antoinette. I’ve seen 4/5 of Hardwicke’s films (yet to see The Nativity Story), but she also did shit like Twilight and Red Riding Hood.
In a few years, I guess people such as Kathryn Bigelow, Lisa Cholodenko and Lena Dunham (:S) could increase their name value. Bigelow spent many years in the business, but only became a big name after The Hurt Locker. Cholodenko worked on some stuff and got noticeable with The Kids Are All Right. Lena Dunham’s gotten big with Girls on HBO, but she’s someone who had it easy in the business because of her parents.
@Rodrigo, I know Alice Guy-Blache and Lois Weber were pioneers in early movies, and Agnes Varda has been making interesting movies since the French New Wave. Germaine Dulac was with the Surrealists and early avant-garde film, I think. I was thinking about putting Ida Lupino for my actress pick since I’d also defend her directorial work, but I ended up with Buster for the comedy. I hope Bigelow continues to have a great career! I noticed the list didn’t have Margot Benacerraf, who made the influential ’50’s documentary “Araya.” Glad to see two of the Makhmalbafs on the list, though; they’re a prolific filmmaking family from Iran and the kids started directing verrrry young, but I don’t see their mom Marzieh. Then there’s the controversial Leni Riefenstahl and her major influence on everything after “Triumph of the Will.” Other names often mentioned in film circles for their directorial work, although I haven’t seen work from all of them: Chantal Akerman, Andrea Arnold, Antonia Bird (Ravenous), Catherine Breillat, Jane Campion, Niki Caro (Whale Rider), Gurinder Chadha, Isabel Coixet, Julie Dash, Claire Denis, Nora Ephron, Maya Deren, Mira Nair, Patty Jenkins, Amy Heckerling (Clueless!), Julie Gavras, Ann Hui, Deepa Mehta, Sally Potter, Kelly Reichardt, Valeria Sarmiento, Lone Scherfig, Floria Sigismondi (music videos!), Julie Taymor, Lina Wertmuller, Agnieska Holland, and many actresses. Oh, and another documentary name not on the list – Trinh Minh-Ha. Also Penelope Spheeris (Wayne’s World) and Mary Harron (American Psycho). Alright now I will stop. Female representation really brings out my rambling.
One Movie – Gone With the Wind
One Movie Director – Akira Kurosawa
One Actor/Actress (film or tv) – Mel Gibson
One Album – Santana’s Abraxas
One Song – Michael Jackson’s We Are the World
One Music Video/One Short Film – Wang Feng – Cun Zai 存在
One Singer – Carole King
One Music Group – The Beatles
One Film Score/Instrumental/Composer – Beethoven
One TV Show – The Three Stooges
One Episode of a TV Show – NCSI – Kill Ari
One TV Theme Song/Title Sequence – The Addams Family
One Book – One Years of Solitude
One Writer – Neruda
One Comic Book/Graphic Novel – Any Batman comic
One Video Game – Super Mario Bros