Burn After Reading
Posted by derekbender | Filed under Random
One of my most anticipated films of the year is the Coen brother’s new film Burn After Reading. The Coens directed last year’s best picture No Country for Old Men, and they are responsible for The Big Lebowski, Blood Simple and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, some of my favorite films.
Here’s the synopsis:
This new dark-spy comedy stars Academy Award nominee John Malkovich as an ousted CIA official, whose memoir accidentally falls into the hands of two unwise gym employees (Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand) intent on exploiting their find. Also featuring George Clooney, Tilda Swinton and Richard Jenkins.
The (hilarious) red band trailer can be found here on Slashfilm.com. Can’t go wrong when you give John Malkovich a hatchet.
Apart from it being in the running to be one of the best films of the year, it also has a really well designed poster. Very spy-like with a flavor of communist Russia which makes sense with the espionage theme of the movie. Also some great custom typography.
Tags: burn after reading, coen brothers, film, movie, poster
Soul Searching Plus Weekend Update
Posted by derekbender | Filed under Announcements
Its been awhile since I’ve made an update to this blog, mostly due to my other little side project, Helpmepaymyloans.com. Writing 3 to 4 posts a week has really soaked up all my extra time. But recently I’ve had some time to think. I like writing for Helpmepaymyloans but I love design. So I’m cutting back my time on HMPML so as to put more time into other projects I’d like to take on. And of course NFi. *wink* I’ll still be doing HMPML but my writing time will be drastically scaled back.
So what’s been going on in the last month? Well, NFi is in full force; rebranding and redesigning the website from the ground up. Work is pouring in at a steady rate. Big stuff. Apart from NFi I have a few sites that I’m working on. I’ll have updates on those as soon as they start finishing up.
As for stuff I want to work on: this blog’s redesign is on the top of the list. I have a few mockups but its been such awhile that I want to revisit them and tweak them a bit before I start building it out. By the way, Wordpress 2.5 gets a thumbs up. Also look for updates to the portfolio. Lotsa new stuff to put up. And I’d like to redesign HMPML too.
Tags: helpmepaymyloans, portfolio, redesign, update
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