From Ellen DeGeneres’ Oscars selfie to the anticipated release of “Gone Girl” to Kim Kardashian’s now infamous Paper magazine photo shoot, 2014 proved to be one of the most memorable years in entertainment. Accordingly, Beutler Ink compiled the most impactful moments to create an image based off Wes Anderson’s “Grand Budapest Hotel” movie poster, creatively depicting the past year in news, media and popular culture. The artwork highlights more serious events as well, including the Ebola outbreak, protests for Michael Brown and Eric Garner and the information hack at Sony Pictures, among others. Below, a complete list of references, according to Beutler Ink: “Guardians of the Galaxy” “The LEGO Movie” “Gone Girl” “The Grand Budapest Hotel” “Boyhood”…
From Ellen DeGeneres’ Oscars selfie to the anticipated release of “Gone Girl” to Kim Kardashian’s now infamous Paper magazine photo shoot, 2014 proved to be one of the most memorable years in entertainment.
Accordingly, Beutler Ink compiled the most impactful moments to create an image based off Wes Anderson’s “Grand Budapest Hotel” movie poster, creatively depicting the past year in news, media and popular culture. The artwork highlights more serious events as well, including the Ebola outbreak, protests for Michael Brown and Eric Garner and the information hack at Sony Pictures, among others.
Below, a complete list of references, according to Beutler Ink:
“Guardians of the Galaxy”
“The LEGO Movie”
“Gone Girl”
“The Grand Budapest Hotel”
“Boyhood”
“The Fault in Our Stars”
“Interstellar”
“Godzilla”
“South Park” mocks Lorde
Ellen’s Oscar selfie
Lupita Nyong’o wins Oscar
Taylor Swift has first platinum album of the year
Iggy Azalea and Charli XCX – “Fancy”
Pharrell Williams
New U2 album goes to 500 million iTunes accounts
Meghan Trainor – “All About That Bass”
Sam Smith
Nicki Minaj – “Anaconda”
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke releases $6 album on BitTorrent
Health Goth style
Basic Bitch style
Normcore style
“The Simpsons” turns 25
“True Detective”
“The Walking Dead”
“How I Met Your Mother” series finale
“Pretty Little Liars” 100th episode
“True Blood” series finale
“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”
“Last Week Tonight With John Oliver”
Laverne Cox
“Game of Thrones” Season 4
“Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey” with Neil Degrasse Tyson
“Gilmore Girls” released on Netflix
Germany wins World Cup
Seahawks win the Super Bowl
LeBron James goes home to Cleveland
Spurs win the NBA championship
Winter Olympics in Sochi
Derek Jeter retires
Steve Ballmer becomes owner of the Los Angeles Clippers franchise
Roger Goodell is criticized; Bill Simmons is censored
Madison Bumgarner leads the San Francisco Giants to World Series victory
LA Kings win the Stanley Cup
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
Kim Kardashian’s Paper Magazine cover
Jaden and Willow Smith transcend reality
Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin “consciously uncouple”
Hacked celebrity nudes leak on Reddit
Ariana Grande
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie wed in secret ceremony
Jay Z is involved in elevator altercation with Solange
George Clooney marries Amal Alamuddin
Scottish independence referendum
Two Supreme Court rulings bolster marriage equality
GOP owns the midterms
Nik Wallenda’s blindfold tightrope walk
Polar vortex
MH370 goes missing
ISIS / ISIL
Ebola outbreak
Ferguson and Eric Garner protests
Bring Back Our Girls
Hong Kong protests
Putin ferments unrest in Crimea
iPhone 6
#GamerGate
Emojis are everywhere
Verizon vs. FCC
Uber vs. Lyft
Google glass
Apple Watch
Newsweek’s “The Face Behind Bitcoin” story
HBO Go slated to be released to the masses
Alex from Target
Apparently Kid
Slender Man
“Too Many Cooks”
“Big Hero 6”
The “Broad City” girls
“The Interview” film is pulled from theaters
Sarah Koenig from “Serial” Podcast
RIP Robin Williams
RIP Maya Angelou
RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
RIP Joan Rivers
RIP Shirley Temple
RIP Harold Ramis
RIP Casey Kasem
RIP James Garner
RIP Flappy Bird
Bonus: Bill Beutler, founder of Beutler Ink
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