Archiculture


Raw Blog Clip - Gordon - I Love… from arbucke industries on Vimeo.
This is an unedited completely raw clip of footage from production. All audio balancing, color correcting and video mastering will occur at the final cut. This is here to give you a feel for our footage, begin to know the students, understand their projects and get a glimpse of the film’s story. Please give it a play and let us know what you think. We love feedback!


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This is an unedited completely raw clip of footage from production. All audio balancing, color correcting and video mastering will occur at the final cut. This is here to give you a feel for our footage, begin to know the students, understand their projects and get a glimpse of the film’s story. Please give it a play and let us know what you think. We love feedback!


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This is an unedited completely raw clip of footage from production. All audio balancing, color correcting and video mastering will occur at the final cut. This is here to give you a feel for our footage, begin to know the students, understand their projects and get a glimpse of the film’s story. Please give it a play and let us know what you think. We love feedback!


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Raw Blog Clip - Mike, Dionysious and Matt - Bodega Run from ian harris on Vimeo.


This is an unedited completely raw clip of footage from production. All audio balancing, color correcting and video mastering will occur at the final cut. This is here to give you a feel for our footage, begin to know the students, understand their projects and get a glimpse of the film’s story. Please give it a play and let us know what you think. We love feedback!


Raw Blog Clip - Alanna - Late Night Walkie Talkies from ian harris on Vimeo.


This is an unedited completely raw clip of footage from production. All audio balancing, color correcting and video mastering will occur at the final cut. This is here to give you a feel for our footage, begin to know the students, understand their projects and get a glimpse of the film’s story. Please give it a play and let us know what you think. We love feedback!

Yesterday, December 7th marked the one year anniversary when David and I finally drove our big white rental minivan up to the steps of Pratt’s Architecture School and began to unload our equipment into the chair’s office after crossing 4,000 miles of the country. When the car finally stopped in front of the building, two cold guys stepped out to be greeted by a man saying “you must be the filmmakers from California.” We were startled from his response and quickly figured out he had been notified by a friend of his and recent attendee of our SF Going Away Party about our pending arrival. Due to our frigid reaction to the below freezing temperatures, lack of proper clothing and California license plate the man knew we were the ones. That was the moment we met Pratt professor and Architect Newspaper co-founder/editor Bill Menking. That was one year since production began and our New York lives started. You can jump back to that time to read some stories here.

Yesterday also marked the celebration of David’s Birthday. Many of our new New York friends and some old hometown friends found their way out to the East Village for a daunting pub crawl. We had to wait last year to David’s birthday to leave San Francisco in order to get the cheaper rental fees for turning 25. Amazing how quickly a year has passed but still more astonishing is how much has been accomplished.

- Sam (aka Archiculture Publicist) and David at the surprise bar

Needless to say another year has gone by in the making of Archiculture raising the grand total to 3. We can’t wait to share the studio story and our footage.

Some of you long time followers, mainly our close friends and family members, remember the 24/7 webcam we had broadcasting live feed from our production office at Pratt during filming last spring. Originally a fun way to keep our friends aware that we were still alive, we attempted to turn it into a funding/donation means for people to have us paint their writings on our floor. It never really took off but heer are some of the highlighted recordings from production below. We have discuss evolving the webcam from flycam to editcam but this has not been approved from the archiculture board of advisors. We shall see where and how the webcam is used in the future, but for now we still have it lying around the desk unplugged.

Good Luck Grads

Pacman

Hello Alex and Carlos

Hello GLS

Castles in the Air Poem

Happy 60th Dede

- photo courtesy of Rubenow’s Blog

It is 4:12AM as I begin to write this post. In an attempt to keep this filmmaking process transparent to anyone who stumbles upon this blog and to somehow energize myself to create some sort of schedule of required writing, I am urged to sit and ramble.

Not sure if this is what folks aka doctors consider insomnia but tonight is one of those nights, which come about monthly, where I can not sleep. I laid down and things just did not stop popping into my head. Here is the stream of consciousness - fix mouse or find out why it does not work, network new laptop and old imac to old computer as server, email Ryan about access for freelance website, clean intranet calendars, post new member to website, schedule PR meeting next Tuesday, where is our handicam we sent out a month ago, which still lens would work best for low light portraiture, write a blog about meeting Nathaniel Kahn, buy multi-card reader, did we get the Brunner Grant and when will we find out, gifts for christmas, I need to get rest for tomorrow, how do we embed video into our blogs, why don’t the comments always show, buy vitamins, go to grocery, shit I’ve been lying here for 2 hours… so I open my eyes, realizing I am completely awake, get up and start knocking them out one by one. While I wrote that I multi-tasked and fixed the mouse for now. Sensitivity was up turned up to high and was causing my mouse to jump around the screen.

Seems like I need to tune down and unplug a bit from technology and balance the pace I’ve set for myself. From friends of mine who have had bouts of insomnia, I’ve have heard you are supposed to slowly prepare your body for rest. Turn down lights, get away from the computer and lay down in preparation for sleep. Not even reading a book in bed to calm the mind is permitted. Tonight I got done writing emails and turned around to go to bed.

I used to find it hard to fall asleep but that was all before I began Architecture School. From that point forward I could fall asleep almost on command. My body was always in need. A couch, chair, floor, lecture hall seat, you name it and I could sleep. No amount ever felt like it was enough. Even if I slept 10 hours, I needed more. I felt as if no matter what the “number” of hours my body was resting it was making up for weeks, months, years of lack of sleep. My greatest goal upon graduation was sleep. It even got so bad by second year that I became nocturnal in fear of not waking up, requiring others to physically wake me instead of sleeping in through class. Normal, mortal alarms were useless. I went as far as having a credit card in hand while a Deaf alarm clock, which had a paddle to shake the bed, strobe light the room and scream louder than a fire alarm, was ready to be shipped to my college apartment. Maybe those years of sleep deprivation have worn me in my older age or completely damaged my sleep rhythm for life. Who knows but I know that tomorrow will not bring the same youthful spring which I had in my studio days.

As I leave you to check off a few of the task I listed above, I know I have crossed the threshold of pulling an all-nighter. One thing is certain, which I have gained from my days in the studio, I have the hardest time falling asleep sometimes but waking up is always impossible. So I must stay awake now. I won’t wake up for work.

…or this could all be from the 2 large cups of coffee I had tonight at 7PM, but that was 8 hours ago!