When I was a child, I bought a movie poster at a yard sale; it was for an old monster movie that I used to watch as a kid. Later I went off to college and packed up all my stuff, including the movie poster and stored it with my folks.

Later when I got my own place I found the movie poster and framed it so I could hang it up in my home. Over the years I decorated my home with all sorts of posters for movies that I liked.

When I got married my wife convinced me to look into the value of my collection and see if any of them were worth money. Too my surprise the movie poster I bought as a child was worth over three hundred thousand dollars.

When my wife was trying to talk me into finding out the value of my collection she had ulterior motives. She thought that they would be something that proved to be a waste of money and she would be able to convince me to redecorate the home in another motif. Boy was she wrong!

Now that she sees the value of collecting movie posters she has completely changed her tune. She actively buys me a new movie poster each month and we have redecorated the home. She just did not expect to redecorate in a completely movie based theme. I think that she has become more of a movie poster collector than I ever dreamt of being.

In a few months we are planning to sell some of our movie posters and go on a trip around the world. All of it would not have been made possible if I had not gone to that yard sale many years ago and bought that first movie poster. It just goes to show you that some people start collections without ever even trying.

Happy New Year to everybody. 2008 has flown by so quick and I imagine that 09 will to. I wish everybody a great year and I hope that 09 will be a prosperous year for everyone and some good will come out of it!!!! Typically I have had to work on New Years Day but I get extra pay so it is all good.

I am looking forward to the New Year and the suprises that it will bring, one of the first things I am looking forward to is seeing the finalists for the PSDTUTS.com competition to design a Movie Poster. The competition has now finished (I presume) and hopefully they will announce the winners/finalists soon. I have devoted and put a LOT of time and effort into this project so hopefully some good will come of it but from looking at the other entries it will certainly be a close one!!! If you havent seen I have uploaded another couple of designs so go check em out and if you have a Flickr account then please leave some feedback or something…

I should be putting my first proper ‘art/design inspiration’ post up sometime this week so keep your eyes peeled for that. Plus I am still deciding whether to create a wallpaper for people to download in the spirit of the New Year so drop a comment or opinion on whether I shoul or shouldn’t.

Anyway I think that is all that I have to say so everybody have a very HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

A new contest on PSDTUTS.com has been posted so i thought I would let people know who havent been on the site before. It looks a great chance for everybody to have a go along with some great prizes involved. It is to create a sci-fi movie poster called (fictional) ‘New Dawn’ with the tagline ‘Extinction is not an option’.
Here is a link to the competition with more details and info on entering.

http://psdtuts.com/articles/contests/psdtuts-new-dawn-movie-poster-design-contest/

Thanks everybody!!

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