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The Best Of The Best Of 2010 Lists & Links



As the year comes to an end, many networks, sites, critics and journalists write up the 'year in review.' Some tell the story with statistics, others with images and others with lists. Here is a compilation of links to those from various reputable publications and sites listing "The Best of 2010" in categories such as social media trends, tweets and statuses, world news stories, the year in pictures, art, advertising, business, fashion, gadgets, movies, sports, tv, and books. All in one convenient place.

SOCIAL MEDIA:

• Twitter 2010 Year In Review


• YouTube 2010 Year in Review (top videos in numerous categories).


• Memology: Facebook's Top Status Trends of 2010.

• Biggest Social Media Fails (Huffington Post)

• Top 10 Companies On Twitter (Ad Age)

NEWS STORIES

• CBS Top World News of 2010

• ABC News - Best of 2010

• NBC's Sizzling Celebrity Scandals of 2010

• Yahoo: Year In Review - The standout news, pop-culture trends, and search obsessions.

• 2010 Year In Review - The Guardian

• Famous Deaths of 2010

• Best of Fashion

MOVIES & FILMS:


• MSN's Top Movies of 2010

• Best feature films of 2010 according to Roger Ebert

• Newsweek's Best 2010 Movies by David Ansen

• 10 Best Movies of 2010, Lisa Schwarzbaum picks for EW

• 10 Best Movies of 2010, Owen Gleiberman's picks for EW

• Richard Roepers' top 10 films of 2010

• Moviefone's top 50 films of 2010

• John Waters and Mark Webber pick their 10 favorite films of 2010 for ArtForum

• Top 10 grossing films from Hollywood Reporter


TELEVISION & ADVERTISING:

• Most watched single telecast and regularly scheduled programs of 2010 according to the Nielson Ratings

• TV Squad's top ten TV Commercials of 2010

• The U.K’s 10 Most-liked TV Ads of 2010

• Ad Age's Book Of Tens
(ten top ad stories, ten best ad songs, ten most viral, etc)

• Creativity's Award Report 2010 (winning companies, creatives and ad campaigns)

• Warming Glow's top 10 tv shows of 2010

ART & PHOTOGRAPHY:

• Art: The Year In Review by Kenneth Baker for the SF Chronicle

• Huffington Post: The Best and Worst moments in Art

• Blake Gopnik's Best Art of 2010 for The Washington Post

• Laura Cumming's Best of Art for The Observer


• The Year In Pictures from the NY Times (97 amazing images)


• The Year In Pictures from The Independent

BOOKS:

• NPR's Best Books of 2010

• New York Times 10 Best Books of 2010

• O's Best Books of 2010

BUSINESS:

• Huffington Posts covers the AP's Top 10 Business Year in Review

• Bloomberg Businessweek year in review

SPORTS:

• Fox Sports year in review - Best and worst of the sporting world

• The Final Score's top 10 Sports Stories of 2010

• The Onion - Sports Year In Review 2010

• Top 10 Sports Stories of 2010 according to Los Angeles' Daily News

POPULAR WEBSITES & SOME OF THEIR "BEST OF" LISTS

• Time Magazine's best blogs of 2010


• NOTCOT's top 100 design posts of the year

• NotCouture's top 100 fashion posts of the year


• Treehugger's most popular and memorable stories of 2010


• Refinery 29 - Fashion 2010: The Year In Review

• Tech Crunch - Top 40 iPhone apps of 2010 by Alex Ahlund

• GameSpy 2010 Year In Review of Gaming

• 200 Best Gadgets of 2010 according to Walyou


• Year In Review - The Best Of The Web

• Best Internet Memes (according to People magazine)


Year In Review - VIDEOS:

Jib Jab's 2010 Year In Review:


Brian Williams tribute to those we lost in 2010:



Adweek's media Year In Review 2010:


Google 2010 Zeitgeist:

The 100 Hour / 38 Day Skull Drawing.





Illustrator Jacob Dahlstrup took 38 days and 100 hours to complete this pencil drawing of a skull made up of detailed floral and plant life.




video:


Pencil on paper. duration: 38 days/100 hours.
175cm x 150cm
High Quality Poster B1 format 200 grms (100x70cm)
kr 40.00
buy it here (paypal only)

http://www.jacobdahlstrup.com

Discarded Christmas Trees Become Stools In The Christmas Project




The Christmas Tree Project, London

In London alone, it is estimated that most of the 976,000 Christmas trees in the capital will be simply thrown away.



The Christmas Tree project, a continuation of Fabien Cappello's 2009 RCA graduation work, will see Christmas trees from across London being collected and reincarnated into stools.



Making the perfect Christmas gift, the gallery is inviting people to arrange an early January collection of their tree and place their order for a pretty handcrafted Christmas Tree Stool by rising designer Fabien Cappello.


images and info courtesy of Fabien Capello and the Libby Sellers Gallery

A percentage of profit from the Christmas Tree Project will be donated to the Woodland Trust.

The Libby Sellers Gallery is taking orders until January 6th
Please email or call for collection details
+44 (0) 7774 113 813
gallery@libbysellers.com

2010 National Gingerbread Competition Winners In Each Category.



above: The Grand Prize winning entry in the National Gingerbread Competition featured Christmas-themed Russian Nesting Dolls by Heather Lewis.

Many gingerbread competitions feature some very amateur creations - unimpressive gumdrop laden homes with leaning chimneys, doghouses and lighthouses with lame landscaping and the like. But not the National Gingerbread Competition, which celebrated its 18th annual competition this year at the Grove Park Inn.


The impressive event garnered entries from 20 states and is not limited to "houses" but instead any gingerbread creation that falls within their guidelines. The competition is broken down into Adult, Teen, Youth and Child categories, all of which had several drool-worthy entries. These aren't for Gingerbread House kit-types, we're talking some serious gingerbread baking enthusiasts and fondant masters. Take a look at the winners in each category as well as the top ten adult entries.

ADULT CATEGORY

ADULT, Grand Prize Winner - Heather Lewis of Austell, Georgia (image at the beginning of the post)

ADULT, 1st Place Winner - Angel Adkins of Kodak, Tennessee:

ADULT, 2nd Place Winner -Barbara Evans of Edelstein, Illinois:

ADULT, 3rd Place Winner - Linda Carney of Asheville, North Carolina:

ADULT, TOP TEN - Ashley Howard of Winter Springs, Florida:

ADULT, TOP TEN - Tracy Navin of Franklin, Tennessee:

ADULT, TOP TEN - Suzanne Kanaly of Liberty Township, Ohio:

ADULT, TOP TEN - Ann Bailey of Cary, North Carolina:

ADULT, TOP TEN - Cathy Christiansen of Gainesville, Virginia:

ADULT, TOP TEN - Michael Billella of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma:


TEEN CATEGORY


TEEN, 1ST PLACE WINNER - Skyla Delerme of Asheville, North Carolina:

Teen 2nd Place - Carly Owens of Swannanoa, North Carolina:

Teen 3rd Place - Laura Malanowski of Newton, North Carolina:


YOUTH CATEGORY

YOUTH, 1ST PLACE WINNER - Lydia Gentry of Hendersonville, North Carolina:

Youth 2nd Place - Gabriella Arthur of Easley, South Carolina:

Youth 3rd Place - Emily Spafford of Maryville, Tennesee:


CHILD CATEGORY

CHILD, 1ST PLACE WINNER - Christian Ray of Charlotte, North Carolina

Child 2nd Place - Shan Patel of Asheville, North Carolina:

Child 3rd Place - Grace Lebo of Nashville, Tennessee:

above photos courtesy of Wright Creative

Each year there are several Gingerbread House competitions that take place in various countries and cities. One of the more popular, but not quite as professional, is the one sponsored by This Old House. 2010 was their third annual competition and you can view those 84 entries here

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