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Cycling Through Water in Bokrijk

In Belgium’s lake district, De Wijers, a cycling path has been cut through a lake, providing surreal views.

Comments Off on Cycling Through Water in Bokrijk  tweet • Sep 4 2020


Unarmed news

ABC 7 NY Eyewitness News did a segment on Raafi Rivero’s Unarmed project. Articles about Unarmed have appeared in Yahoo Sports, and Design Observer.

Comments Off on Unarmed news  tweet • Jul 13 2020


llo-news-telly

Legacy Lives On won a gold Telly award in the documentary category.

Comments Off on llo-news-telly  tweet • Jul 13 2020


Unarmed Installation

Color Machine co-founder Raafi Rivero’s UNARMED project debuted on Flatbush Avenue in the wake of fallout over the George Floyd killing in Minnesota. The Unarmed project, a critique of racist police violence through design, has been a side project of Rivero’s since 2013. UPDATE: Unarmed was recently featured on ABC 7 Eyewitness News

Comments Off on Unarmed Installation  tweet • Jun 17 2020


Curving light

Hector Esrawe‘s parabolas made of brass.

Comments Off on Curving light  tweet • May 21 2020


Pittori di Cinema

Pittori di Cinema is a book on the lost art of hand-painted Italian movie posters. Great website, too.

Comments Off on Pittori di Cinema  tweet • Apr 21 2020


How Nutcrackers Became New York’s Best Hustle

A fun article on one of our favorite NYC drinks, the Nutcracker.

Comments Off on How Nutcrackers Became New York’s Best Hustle  tweet • IFTTT Pinboard • Jan 29 2020


The Case for Chaos (revisited) | canalside view

The Case for Chaos – An argument for creativity.

Comments Off on The Case for Chaos (revisited) | canalside view  tweet • advertising cmm creativity IFTTT Pinboard • Jan 29 2020


Zach Wolfe — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

Here’s a great interview with Zach Wolfe, a photographer known for his iconic images of the southern rap music scene.

Comments Off on Zach Wolfe — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER  tweet • IFTTT Pinboard • Jan 29 2020


Legacy Festivals

Legacy Lives On, the feature documentary we produced for Prudential and TVOne, screened at four film festivals including ABFF in Miami and the Milwaukee Film Festival.

Comments Off on Legacy Festivals  tweet • Jan 19 2020


Recon Festival

The short film Re/Connections, which we produced as the official launch film for the Kinefinity Mavo LF cinema camera, premiered in August at the BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia.

Comments Off on Recon Festival  tweet • Aug 27 2019


Legacy NJPAC

Prudential hosted a special screening of Legacy Lives On, the hourlong documentary that we produced for UrbanOne, at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. There were even branded popcorn buckets.

Comments Off on Legacy NJPAC  tweet • Jul 19 2019


TCM Pru

The Color Machine was hired by UrbanOne to create the hourlong documentary Legacy Lives On. The film follows three Millennial women from different financial strata as they navigate new challenges. Legacy Lives On will air on June 19th on TVOne.

Comments Off on TCM Pru  tweet • Apr 13 2019


Bradford Young on Lenses

Bradford Young, an old friend of The Color Machine, on how he chooses lenses.

Comments Off on Bradford Young on Lenses  tweet • IFTTT Pinboard • Feb 20 2019


TCM Re/Connections

The Color Machine was selected to create a narrative film to launch the Kinefinity Mavo LF cinema camera.

Comments Off on TCM Re/Connections  tweet • Jan 13 2019


Pedestrian Bridge Lifts Visitors with a Pair of Giant Weathered Hands

Beautiful. In Vietnam. More about it here.

Comments Off on Pedestrian Bridge Lifts Visitors with a Pair of Giant Weathered Hands  tweet • architecture cmm IFTTT Pinboard • Jul 29 2018


Color Problems

images taken from Color Problems: A Republished Tome Reveals the Color Wisdom and Poetics of 19th-Century Artist Emily Noyes Vanderpoel

Comments Off on Color Problems  tweet • Jul 24 2018


72 Hours Distro

Color Machine co-founder Raafi Rivero’s first feature film, 72 Hours: a Brooklyn Love Story? hit the airwaves recently, and the web. The film is now streaming on Amazon, iTunes, and OnDemand. More info at abrooklynlovestory.com.

Comments Off on 72 Hours Distro  tweet • Jun 6 2018


TOI Parents

The Color Machine made two videos for The Opportunity Institute highlighting parents of young children for the Talking is Teaching initiative. The project highlights the bonds that speech can weave between parents and young children.

Comments Off on TOI Parents  tweet • Jun 6 2017


TCM abroad

The Color Machine recently traveled to London, Barcelona, and Mumbai to create short profile pieces about leading urbanists Joan Clos and PK Das for the first international Jane Jacobs Medal, presented by The Rockefeller Foundation. The awards ceremony was held during the week of the UN Habitat III conference in Quito, Ecuador, where the films […]

Comments Off on TCM abroad  tweet • Jan 12 2017


In Chrome

The web’s greatest collection of chrome car logos is at Chromeography. Feast your eyes.

Comments Off on In Chrome  tweet • Nov 20 2015


MAS promo news

The Color Machine’s collaboration with The Municipal Art Society of New York continues with a film we created that showcases the variety of neighborhoods in the city and MAS’ work in many contexts.

Comments Off on MAS promo news  tweet • Nov 10 2015


Colorblind Man Sees Purple for the First Time

A company called EnChroma makes glasses that somehow brings color to the colorblind. Watch and smile.

Comments Off on Colorblind Man Sees Purple for the First Time  tweet • Jul 17 2015


Hearing Colors

In this short documentary, a colorblind man with a color “microphone” roams the city. Sci-fi meets magic.

  tweet • Jun 25 2015


S4B News

Our Skype for Business commercial just debuted. It is embedded in every install of the software.

  tweet • Apr 1 2015


Sasquatch news

Here are a couple pieces from our epic trip to the Sasquatch Festival at The Gorge in eastern Washington.

  tweet • Nov 2 2014


TCM at Sasquatch

The Color Machine covered this year’s Sasquatch Festival like an alpaca blanket. We’re in the midst of creating a series of videos that capture the sheer scope of the festival and the many forms of connectivity present with our partner Skype. These stills bubbled up to the camera while that was happening. photos by Raafi […]

  tweet • music • May 30 2014


RBD news

We created a 7-minute documentary and seven mini-films as part of Rebuild By Design, an architectural competition created by President Obama’s task force in response to Hurricane Sandy.

  tweet • Apr 10 2014


Ones to Watch, it begins

Continuing our relationship with Skype, we’ve started producing a web series about musicians on the brink of wider acclaim as part of the Ones To Watch tour. Stay tuned.

  tweet • Apr 10 2014


Rebuilders

We recently completed short documentary about Rebuild By Design, an architecture competition created in response to Hurricane Sandy. Ten architectural teams were chosen to create proposals to respond to rising sea levels in vulnerable areas in the Sandy region. RBD was spurred by the President’s Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, and developed in concert with […]

  tweet • Apr 9 2014


Color Industries

A pair of water towers reminiscent of the Brooklyn Industries logo sit outside our office window. On good evenings in the winter the colors curve around them nicely.

  tweet • Jan 19 2014


State of Play

Instagram user my_shadowplay has staked a claim to minimalism. We all benefit.

  tweet • Oct 29 2013


Warm Believe

While we’re doing warm colors, In Focus has a great series of shots from this year’s Burning Man.

  tweet • Sep 6 2013


Pool of bloody

  tweet • Aug 27 2013


Track jacket

  tweet • Aug 27 2013


Shanghai, 2000

by Andreas Gursky, an artist known for his large canvas-like photos. “My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire – perhaps illusory – to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.” – Andreas Gursky

  tweet • Aug 26 2013


Gold Lips

  tweet • Aug 21 2013


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  tweet • Aug 19 2013


MAS is live

Our short film commissioned by the Municipal Art Society is available online after premiering at Grand Central Terminal. A “love letter” to the city.

  tweet • Aug 1 2013


Jasmine Takanikos + Benjo’s

Jasmine Takanikos + Benjo’s – Cool Hunting.

  tweet • Jul 18 2013


Skype

We just shot stills for Skype. It was a worldwide campaign called Friends & Family. Look out for it online.

  tweet • Jul 18 2013


Process pic

Notes from a client phone call, post-it-ed to a BluDot catalog. A ballet of the sidewalk.

  tweet • Jul 12 2013


Fashion in four colors

Starshift: A Ride With Hilary Rhoda on Nowness.com

  tweet • May 15 2013


Orange Over Hudson

Seen on the western edge of Manhattan: free-runners at play.

  tweet • Mar 28 2013


Black with Flash

When ads are removed from the wals on subway platforms, the spaces left behind look like this.

  tweet • Mar 28 2013


haw-news

Jordan Alport recently directed a suite of commercials for online dating startup HowAboutWe. The spots currently air nationally.

  tweet • Dec 12 2012


Styles P

Raafi Rivero’s music video for Styles P (E-One) “Araab Styles” is currently airing on MTV Jams.

  tweet • Dec 12 2012


Imani Winds

Raafi Rivero just booked a music video for the grammy-nominated woodwind quintet Imani Winds with label E One Entertainment.

  tweet • Aug 25 2012


Tan and Brown

Breakfast is usually bland — fuel. But some days an almond croissant whispers from inside the glass counter, “pick me.” And, well, what can you say to that.

  tweet • Mar 28 2012


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