Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

“You’ve got half an hour to get to heaven, before the devil knows you’re dead.” So begins the perfectly titled new film by legendary director Sidney Lumet. Told in fractured time, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead is a story of two monumentally broken brothers and a simple robbery gone very, very bad. Lumet fans—and Coen fans, for that matter—may find this initial setup a tad too familiar, but I assure you, this is nothing like Dog Day Afternoon or Fargo, though it certainly reaches the lofty heights of those crime classics.

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Happy Halloween

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Blame my web host. Blame me.

My web host moved my site to a new server last week (or at least that’s what they purported to do, now I’m not so sure), and in the process I lost some database tables.

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South by Sunday: High Class vs. Low Class Web Design

While it may not have been the most instructional, or even the most entertaining, the most thought-provoking panel I attended all weekend at SXSW was Chris Fahey’s HIgh Class and Low Class Web Design. On paper alone, I found the subject matter fascinating. In a world where everything around us is designed, we make judgments on quality. There’s “good design” and “bad design.” Maybe it’s not really that, but a case of designing for different tastes, classes, markets. What are we to make of all this? And can we apply what we’ve learned to things beyond web design?

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South By Sunday

Sunday at SXSW ’07 was an eventful one for a number of reasons: a good mix of panels, the Web Awards, Selection Sunday games & bracketology, and some nasty, nasty weather. Here’s my report.

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