Three sites, reviewed by the Metro, re-reviewed by me 24 hours later.
www.alternativemovieposters.com/
The Metro says: "A great movie should be accompanied by a great movie poster. Sometimes artists are inspired to create improved versions of them and this site showcases such efforts. It has had more than 400 worldwide submissions and has published a 60 page book featuring some of the artwork. Alternative movie posters featured on the site include Walt Disney's Dumbo, Full Metal Jacket and A Clockwork Orange."
John says: "Spot on The Metro. People are into redoing movie posters and I, for one, like them."
Official verdict: Arty farty, but in a good way. Win.
www.younow.com
The Metro says: "Despite the ease with which musicians can upload their tracks, competition from thousands of others means attracting the music industry's attention is harder than ever. younow.com focuses on letting artists find an audience and receive immediate feedback. Performances can be recorded live on the site and shared within seconds with an audience, who can like or dislike it and leave comments. A competition for cash and publicity prizes is open until Friday."
John says: "I can't see how this site gets the music industry's attention better than any other. People are online, streaming videos of themselves, in one minute chunks, singing or beat boxing or rapping or whatever, if you like it you can vote for them to get another minute of air time, if you don't like it you can vote for them to be booted once their minute is up. Also, the singer have profiles, where their videos are stored and you can interact with them."
Official verdict: Chatroulette with singing.
www.cartoons.ac.uk
The Metro says: "The British Cartoon Archive has dedicated itself to the history of the art form over the past 200 years - and in September 2001 it uploaded 35,000 newly digitised and catalogued images. Many appear online for the first time, including political cartoons from the past decade. It's also interesting to see items once banned for indecency that would barely raise an eyebrow today, such as saucy postcards confiscated under obscenity laws in the 1950s."
John says: "Ooh, sounds exciting. A web site chock full of comic strips. It's not. While I'm totally for the idea of digitising and cataloguing cartoon strips, this site is just so dull, it's like an extremely dusty old library run by a joyless old spinster."
Official verdict: Awesome content, poorly presented.
Overall verdict: Not a bad week this week. At least it wasn't the usual games, music, art set up that it normally is.
Oh wait, it's art, music, art.
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