Matthew Buchanan
@mrb
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Ten years ago today, I created my
@letterboxd
account, about four months ahead of our beta launch. Then (ish) and now comparison…
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It’s been almost exactly ten years since we started working on
@letterboxd
, which makes this recognition all the sweeter.
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I updated Apple’s SF UI Tracking Chart to add character spacing values for use in
@sketchapp
—
http://t.co/jXkaGVSz4c
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Comparing the times of the World Cup final with
@letterboxd
server activity paints a pretty accurate narrative of how the game played out. ⚽️ (It’s typically a much smoother curve.)
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Never been happier to remove a film from a list!
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Two of our small team are celebrating ten years with us this week. This floors me every day I get to come to work with them, and I’m completely unable to countenance acts like this one:
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Two detailed iOS 7 critiques worth your time—
http://t.co/rUsmeDyyp2
and
http://t.co/KHpcX43KiD
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Adobe demos plenoptic lens that captures infinite depth of field in a single image, so focus can be set in post:
http://youtu.be/jS7usnHmNZ0
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Kind of floored at Jeremy Saulnier’s generosity in answering our members’ questions to the tune of 10,000 words.
Our epic Q&A with Green Room and Blue Ruin director
@saulnier_jeremy
is live! Almost 10,000 words of awesome.
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New browser-based design and prototyping tool with branching and rewindable history—
http://t.co/ZR0vzvRRZq
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Nice,
@iconfactory
Hallowe’enified its client list. Cool Twitter bat.
http://t.co/2JsPeGsPDN
http://t.co/38y3h3KK4j
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2020 offers a glimmer of hope!
Watching
@theThunderRoad
in the tiny basement theatre of a Sydney hotel with
@captn
remains one of my fondest filmgoing experiences of the past decade. Thanks Jim.
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The Söhne Collection is (rightly) getting all the plaudits today, but don’t forget that Geograph’s period of exclusivity to National Geographic has ended, and it’s for sale now too. 🗺
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Didn’t think they had another season of The Grand Tour in them.
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Gravity behind the scenes: Cuarón thought the first 6 mins would look better rotated 90º. 3 months to re-render and add new camera rotation.
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@jacobtender
@letterboxd
Thank you. Every part of that page has changed in some way since then, I think. But it’s testament to the core approach being a solid one. 🧡
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Long read on the psychometric testing practices that powered the Trump and Brexit marketing campaigns—
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If you think they’re rebooting Spider-Man on a fast schedule, check out how quickly they did Room.
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Can someone do a Kickstarter for the bold weight of Maison Neue for the new site.
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Luma.io seems worth it for the video stabilisation alone—
http://t.co/LPJZj236zi
Free, too. /via
@twocolddogs
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Vimeo is launching a paid-for, no-middle-man, feature-length movie service early next year…
http://t.co/ZOME4aXQ
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Concise, useful summary of HTML5 video's misgivings by the creator of JW Player:
http://drp.ly/15sndA
And JW for HTML5:
http://drp.ly/15so8a
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Possibly useful tip when keying all those passwords into your new Apple TV: the play/pause button changes case.
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Least, a simple tool for converting plain CSS code to LESS or SASS —
http://t.co/01ApNXzf
/by
@tokiwoki
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Impossible to say no when Cameron asks. Gonna be fun.
Talking to
@mrb
tomorrow about life and Letterboxd.
DM me if you've got anything I should ask him.
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Pretty happy with the poster mashup we did for this—
Get our Black Friday special before it changes back. $5 off Pro, $10 off Patron!
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2014 marks twenty years since I made my first site for the (then) Steinlager All Blacks national rugby team. Pretty sure it was responsive.
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If you’re a designer at Webstock, go talk to the team at
@we_are_atomic
. They’re building the future of prototyping.
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This took such a small amount of effort to add and still resonates a couple of years on.
Just wanted to give a quick shoutout to
@letterboxd
. I was updating my profile and noticed they have a drop down so you can pick your proper pronouns and I think that is so awesome.
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We just published the Letterboxd 2015 wrap-up. Spoiler: Max went mad.
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Time to start adding * { text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; } to every CSS file?
http://drp.ly/1hcc2H
/via
@darren
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Lorde covered James Blake’s ‘Retrograde’ for a crowd of 10k to make up for them both missing the Laneway festival.
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Here’s one for your Instapaper — Chris Nolan reveals a few Inception secrets to Wired:
http://j.mp/fqS9f2
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I wrote about
@commercialtype
’s Sanomat Sans for
@typographica
‘s monumental Favorite Typefaces of 2015 roundup—
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Just in time for ‘Gone Girl’ tonight,
@tonyszhou
’s latest is on David Fincher’s camera and editing choices. Gold.
http://t.co/j69gMFrRbp
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Five perfect films:
Alien (1979)
Badlands (1973)
Dial M For Murder (1954)
Love Serenade (1996)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Next up:
@willw
@lolamachine
@slim
@danslevin
@ssarahthomsonn
Five perfect films... (instinctive, subjective, not overthinking it.... here goes nothing/everything):
The Castle
Rear Window
Do The Right Thing
Sleepless in Seattle
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Your turn:
@davidlfear
@Timpson
@CharlotteRyanNZ
@avon
@mrb
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All files in your
@dropbox
can now be shared, not just those in the Public folder:
http://bit.ly/coA6Iv
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Very proud of the last two episodes of the
@letterboxd
podcast, covering Black life on film and Studio Ghibli’s move to digital, respectively.
🎙
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A small change that means a whole lot. Love the responses we’re getting to our support of non-binary pronouns—
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This was a really fun chat, recorded in Brooklyn last month. Thanks Maykel.
I fucking love
@letterboxd
and am excited to have talked with
@mrb
about his career and how he got to the point of building it. 🎬
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Very happy to be able to contribute to
@typographica
’s Favorite Typefaces of 2014. I picked
@HoeflerCo
’s Quarto—
http://t.co/zBLtRXyf90
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The Butterfly Effect, 2004
The people that led to Erica and I being together
- Herman J. Mankiewicz (gonna tag
@BenMank77
) for writing Mank
- Orson Welles
-
@mrb
for making Letterboxd
-
@SeanFennessey
&
@akdobbins
At
@TheBigPic
for recommending Letterboxd
- David and Jack Fincher
-
@netflix
-
@chrisrock
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Here's 2 themes I made for
@tumblr
's premium themes, launching this week:
http://solaristheme.tumblr.com
http://nationalparktheme.tumblr.com
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Hunting for the favourite button after watching, belatedly,
@h_fj
’s Pivot talk. Fonts *for* the web, not on the web.
http://t.co/e9EoAXBf
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“When the two types of apostrophes were converted to the dots and dashes used in Morse code, they spelled out the words ‘Red Handed’.”
😝
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@isaacfeldberg
@letterboxd
A little, yes. The Prestige still his best for me, followed by Interstellar.
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Good luck at the
@bestawards
tonight New Zealand. Everyone at
@brooklynbeta
says hi and you’re awesome.
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Nice visualisation of 1,000 films made since 2008, incl. % of budget recovered. Boyhood is up and to the right.
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Just received a Happy New Year email from our payroll company. I hope they’re better at money.
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17yo girl wins hackathon with an app to sync tweets to delayed playback and block mentions of what you’re watching—
http://t.co/ai7rDpC38p
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If you’re a fan of the Cure’s 1989 album Disintegration, they’re streaming tonight’s performance (full album + rarities) from the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall. I saw it a couple of nights ago and it’s still as great as ever. Starts in about 5 hours. 💄
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In other news that I’m not joking about, it’s minus eleventy hundred degrees in the ocean. Truly.
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Can’t wait for the young Luke movie where he whines a lot and shops for power converters.
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This week’s essay by
@fchimero
on the value of design is a must read:
http://bit.ly/c2TDqB
Don’t stay away too long.
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Fury Road has actual trucks in an actual desert actually crashing into each other hard. IRL. I figured that was a lost art.
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Played some film-related favourites with
@avon
and Kim Hill this morning, thanks to
@nzff
—
http://t.co/Nnq2F7Fier
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@jezburrows
Well, provided you can sustain it for the first ‘n’ years while you build a community. That’s a very careful juggling act!
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A look at the process behind Air New Zealand’s new logotype by
@klimtypefoundry
—
http://t.co/joWVaC8D
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Grinned the whole way through this and *loved*
@clevack
’s new film. See it if you too like movies.
thank you
@letterboxd
for the incredibly fun opportunity to talk about my top 4 favorite movies -with
@slim
and
@gemmaischoice
, my new best friends i hope. an “i like movies” chat happens at the 30-min mark 📹📹📹📹📹📹📹📹📹📹📹
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For those who've asked, my slides from last night's talk on web type:
http://slidesha.re/dhU0cK
Thanks to all those who came along.
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Design file says July last year so about time to put this new theme live—
http://t.co/B4eSb4oDvb
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By popular demand,
@visualsupplyco
has released its set of film looks as Aperture presets…
http://t.co/rlk1w4ep
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