The first entry for my new project, Type Tuesday, keeping it fairly simple. Some of my plans for the future designs are much, much different, so you’ll be seeing a wider variety of styles.
Film Friday is also making it’s return with Pulp Fiction, coming this week to a monitor near you.
-KD
My time lately has been stolen by my day job. Reading about the protests over the past few weeks have inspired me to finally take the reins and make something, which I’ll continue to do every few days. Any fans of my Film Friday pieces will be happy to know that it will be returning, though it will be mixed with other projects.
-Kevin
BONUS
A new wallpaper with a good sentiment to keep in mind for any situation. Make sure you click for the full version.
Quentin Tarantino’s first real film, and a fantastic one at that. I imagine most people know of the movie, and if you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it. It’s a heist film where we barely see the heist, mostly focusing on conversations and trust/mistrust.
Film friday is back as surreptitiously as it left. I’ll be jumping into the filmography of one of my favorite director’s of all time, Quentin Tarantino. This week’s poster is for his first film, an independent production, called My Best Friend’s Birthday. It took him and his friends four years to complete while they were still working at a video store. During the editing phase, 34 of the 70 minutes of footage were lost in a fire. Tarantino admits the film is poorly directed and I’d have to agree, but this was where he was just starting out. If you’re a Tarantino fan I’d still check it out, the writing isn’t bad and there are a few genuinely funny moments, not just “so bad it’s funny.”
So this movie is one of my favorite westerns. It sits on that list with the Clint Eastwood westerns and the Frisco Kid starring Han Solo and Willy Wonka.
Hailee Steinfeld, 14, stars as Mattie Ross, 14, but she kicks acting’s ass and keeps up with Matt Damon and Jeff Bridges every step of the way. This is her film debut, so hopefully her agent puts her in more high quality work for a little.
Why haven’t you seen this movie? Don’t like remakes? A big fan of the John Wayne version? Too bad, this movie is deep yet funny, and wonderfully scripted, acted, shot, and subtly scored.
-K.
Here are a few background wallpapers for you technophiles, above is for the desktop, obviously. And less obviously is below, for your mobile devices. The resolution is for the iPhone but it should be around the right size for you Androids out there (like me).
-K.
Film-maker Cameron McHarg got in contact with me after seeing my Film Friday series. He’s been working on an exciting script for a movie called Monroe Log and asked me to do a poster for it. The treatment I read for the movie was great and I can’t wait to see the movie one day, hopefully soon.
-Kevin
This film can be perplexing, but in that way it’s like life. How often do you really get any answers to the big questions? The ones that start with “Why…”
The movie is a short look into the unfortunate life of Larry Gopnick, a physics professor, and we watch as he tries to do what he thinks is best. Visually, the movie is beautiful, can’t recommend it enough for that. And once again the dialogue is fantastic, as with much of their work it’s deeply rooted in specific regional or cultural vernacular and accents, in this case a Jewish community in Minnesota in 1967. If you need your films to be wrapped in a neat package at the end then this is not your movie, this is as messy as reality.
