The best part about "year end lists" is that they are of no consequence. We all have our opinions about what moved us in 2011, what stood out, what was memorable, and as we have spent the past few weeks trying very hard to capture what 2011 meant to Juxtapoz, we decided to keep the conversation loose, to pick various moments that we as a staff remember best. We can't wait to hear what you loved about 2011 as well. Now, onto the list...

After a long drive in the wee hours of the morning, Juxtapoz arrived in the beautiful hill town of Grottaglie in Southern Italy to attend the opening of FAME Festival. With just a few hours to run around the town before sleep called, we saw work by Escif, Blu, Vhils, Lucy McLauchlan, Nespoon, Os Gemeos, Sam 3, Swoon, and others.

Last weekend, Juxtapoz celebrated the annual San Francisco Outside Lands Festival and curated the art portion of the event. Mike Shine, Monica Canilao, Skinner, Jeremy Fish, Tifffany Bozic, Mike Giant, and others all created work for the event, with Shine and Canilao building full, immersive installations and performance pieces. Colin M Day shares his photos with us.

January 2011 cover artist, Tiffany Bozic, created these great kite/flags featuring her work for the Juxtapoz art-curated portion of Outside Lands Festival going down in San Francisco this weekend. We just caught up with Tiffany in Golden Gate Park before her flags get put into some of the surrounding trees. Great work.

We spent the entire day yesterday at Outside Lands, watching all the artists come in and prepare their installations for the weekend music festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. We had one reporter embedded all day with Monica Canilao and her team as they began transforming the woods into a full interactive installation.

As we mentioned on the site, Juxtapoz has curated the art portion of San Francisco's annual Outside Lands this year, with artist like Mike Giant, Jeremy Fish, Monica Canilao, Mike Shine, Tiffany Bozic and others all contributed to the event's visual experience. We got a teaser shot of what Mike Giant worked out for the festival...

Pushead, who edited our October 2009 issue of Juxtapoz, will again be at San Diego Comic Con this week, with a special vinyl toy releases as well as books with the limited SKELETAL hardcover with giclee & silkscreened print, and SPARROW #15 with special limited SDCC 2011 bookplate, as well as limited giclee prints, and more.

Tonight (May 11), the 2011 Cannes Film Festival will one-up a red carpet Tom Cruise experience and open the festivities with a screening of a color-restored version of the groundbreaking 1902 Georges Méliès’ film, A Trip to the Moon. The film is widely considered to be the first science-fiction film.

Juxtapoz.com is currently in Los Angeles, and yesterday, we spent the day with James Jean, half of the time spent at Martha Otero Gallery as Jean and the Otero staff were putting the finishing touches on Rebus, Jean's new solo exhibition opening Saturday, March 12. And then the day ended on a roof with a hand-flute version of "Yellow." More after the jump . . .