High Art

Although we’ve now been in Cyan’s new offices for a couple of months, the place is still, sadly, exceedingly barren. We have desks, chairs, and a conference table. And that’s it. No art on the walls, no extraneous seating, not even a table for our printer, which instead sits in the corner on the floor.

While we’ve grown increasingly accustomed to this minimalist chic, visitors persist in giving us a hard time about it. So, as of this week, we’ve started a half-assed decorating campaign – buying up reception seating and side tables, and strategizing about art options.

Unfortunately, the standard approach for production and distribution companies’ wall art is more self-aggrandizing than this site, and without any hint of tongue-in-cheek: framed movie posters from the company’s releases, organized in as looming an assortment of star power and combined theatrical gross as the company can muster.

Companies short on egotism, or at least short on films they can brag about, sometimes veer towards a more idealized approach, instead framing classic posters from film’s better eras.

We however, think it would be funnier to instead frame posters from really, really bad films: From Justin to Kelly, Glitter, Anaconda, 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain, Battlefield Earth.

Toss in SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2, for which I was for some time erroneously listed as Art Director on IMDB, and we’re pretty much good to go.

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