Today I began a new era of employment with IMDb.com, billed as “Earth’s Biggest Movie Database”.
My job is to redesign it — it’s millions of pages, with no real style guide, and I’m excited to be working there. It’s a small, 120-person company wrapped up in a large, 10,000 person company (Amazon). Friends and strangers alike who are passionate about the site say the same thing, “We love it and use it all the time — don’t fuck it up too much.” So there.
The first day began at 8am with a conference call to the office here in Seattle, with a bridge set up to connect offices in Bristol, UK and Berlin, Germany. My introductory email was all about top ten lists (films, TV), and that seems to change monthly. The top three films don’t, though: 1) Being There, 2) Love and Death, and 3) Dr. Strangelove.