4 posts tagged “harry potter”
I'm not going to lie to you, people, I am proud man.
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/07/spoilerscared_download_some_ha.html
New York Magazine. Well, their blog. Okay, right, well, their entertainment blog. Fine. Regardless of that to which it is apropos (to), I am still proud--for that post speaks of none other than Harry Potter Protect, written by yours truly.
To demonstrate the raw, eyeball-grabbing power behind a single anonymous mention by our-new-best-friends, I will share with you the visitor count to HPP that resulted from what could only be the first 16 seconds of my 15 minutes of fame.
50. Yep. Read it and weep.
This is a particularly momentous occasion for me, as HPP is perhaps the first time I (quickly) acted on what could have been a really awesome idea and didn't just sit, Diet Dr. Pepper in hand, thinking how someone else had probably already done it.
Of course, someone had done it...and a fair bit better, really. With a waaaaay cooler name.
Whatever, Nick, I don't see your link in the New York Magazine.
It's best to leave some posts up to the experts:
From Design Observer, Harry Potter and The Enchanted Letterforms.
There are several really beautiful observations in this Observer post:
It is The Daily Prophet which emerges in this film as a secondary character, performing interstitial cameos made all the more exhilarating because the camera sweeps in and out, ricocheting off the page, magnifying and dramatizing a typographic vocabulary that combines a slightly mottled, letterpress-like display face with great portions of illegible calligraphy.
And while it would take me a while to figure out why, this passage really does capture something true about the film:
...the newest Potter film is directed by David Yates, who brings a crisply modern editorial sensibility to the J.K. Rowling epic.
Keeping with the Harry Potter bits, favorite line from Deathly Hallows:
Ron to Hermione and then back again, later:
"Always the tone of surprise."
Did anyone notice that the 2nd shot in the new Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is exactly the same as the first shot in Kiki's Delivery Service?
Both have a pan over a knoll of long grass, interspersed with flowers and seeded things, with the sound of a weather report coming in over the radio. A wonderful homage.
(Full disclosure: I found the picture from HPOOTP under my pillow.)
