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New Name, New Look, Same Great Taste

As anyone reading this will have noticed by now, the blog formerly known as The Nick Schager Film Project has been transformed into Lessons of Darkness. The reasons for the switch are quite simple: After 3 1/2 years of mounting unhappiness with the site’s former, unimaginative name (which I came up with while killing time during a Columbia J-School class), I’ve finally had enough. Thus, the new site – whose moniker comes from Werner Herzog’s masterful 1992 documentary – is born.

A few minor things have been tweaked, but as you’ll see, this change is primarily cosmetic rather than content-related. Remaining unaltered are all permalinks, as well as the blog’s primary function: to serve as a clearing house for my professional work, as well as a place where I can rant and rave about whatever topics (cinematic or otherwise) I choose. I’d appreciate it if those kind enough to link to my site will change their link names accordingly.

Let me know what you think. Unless, of course, you hate the new look. In which case, don’t.

nschager

7 responses to “New Name, New Look, Same Great Taste”

  3. Hey, cool! To be honest I like the look of the NSFP better, but I definitely prefer the style of the new site.

  4. J – I’m not sure I understand. You mean, you prefer the color scheme of the old site, but the design of this one?

  5. I like the frame you chose.
    The pure, white laundry (and crucifix poles!) on a lovely spring day, juxtaposed with the scariest sight since the first time I saw Tapper shirtless.
    Anyhow, if I were to offer two design suggestions, they would be to add some left- and right-padding to the beige boxes, so that the text isn’t flush against the margin, and to up the font size a little bit. Maybe to 12px instead of 10. I’m gettin’ old, ya know?

  6. Oh definitely the color scheme of the new one – the olive/black fits very well with the picture, though the red/beige of the sidebar seems held over from the previous version, and kind of reminds me of an image that won’t load, if that makes any sense. Then again, I could just be more a line person than box, when it comes to sidebars.