Archiculture

This is an unedited completely raw clip of footage from the production of the documentary film, Archiculture. 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!

THINGS WE LIKE:
Home Design Show
Where the Wild Things Are Trailer
Earth Hour
High Speed Rail

THINGS WE DON’T LIKE:
NYC MTA Transit Increases
WTC Conversation
AIG

This is an unedited completely raw clip of footage from the production of the documentary film, Archiculture. 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!

This is an unedited completely raw clip of footage from the production of the documentary film, Archiculture. 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!

Animated plea for urban renewal connected with 1950s efforts to “redevelop” American city centers. David found this doing some archive footage research. Amazing!

This is an unedited completely raw clip of footage from the production of the documentary film, Archiculture. 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!

This is an unedited completely raw clip of footage from the production of the documentary film, Archiculture. 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!

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!

The MTA has spent the past few months debating whether or not to raise the cost of public transportation, which could increase by as much as 23 percent this June.  It certainly does not help that the New York state government has declared a 50 billion dollar shortfall and attributes the fare increase to the slumping economy.  I don’t think I would have a problem with the increase if I knew the money was going to do more than merely maintain the already inadequate subway system.  It blows my mind that a transportation system that ranks 5th in the world in ridership is so far below the bar that its a joke.  Don’t get me wrong, I realize that I am criticizing one of best examples of public transportation in this country, (laugh here) and that the subway was far ahead of its time when it was built 100 years ago.  However, that was over a century and 3 recessions ago.

Lets take a moment to look past the abundance of delays, floods and fires that plague the MTA and just evaluate the riding experience.  If you haven’t already, I’d recommend taking a trip down to Washington DC and comparing their public transportation to that of New York City.  Imagine you are arriving both cities for the first time.  In New York, you exit the subway to a stained tiled wall that gives you no indication of place or direction.  Regardless of which direction you decide to walk, you enter and even more confusing space depleted of experience of place.  Perhaps the most enjoyable part of the experience was stopping one of the maybe-talented street musicians and asking where the hell to go.

Compare that to exiting the Metro DC, which welcomes you with a nicely lit domed wall/ceiling.  Upon walking up the stairs you enter a grand space that feels more like a plaza than an underground tunnel.  It’s as if Washington DC is reaching out and welcoming you to their city.  I think it is unfortunate that a destination city like that of New York fails to welcome their residents/visitors with anything other than shitty wall advertisements.