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Not a bad screening to have on the resume. And here’s a pic of Raafi Rivero on a panel at the Academy Museum for another part of the same series. Honoree Haile Gerima invited Raafi, former colleague Daniel E. Williams, and Oscar Nominees Ava DuVernay and Bradford Young (a multi-time collaborator here at The Color […]
Well, it doesn’t get much bigger than this. Color Machine founder Raafi Rivero’s feature film 72 Hours: a Brooklyn Love Story? was screened at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. Full details here.
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Unarmed was an Editor’s pick of the New York Times. The article, was featured in a full-page spread that covered the Sports section.
A short documentary directed by Raafi Rivero about his Unarmed project will air as part of the YouTube Originals special Black Renaissance, which will be hosted by Barack and Michelle Obama.
In Belgium’s lake district, De Wijers, a cycling path has been cut through a lake, providing surreal views.
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.
Legacy Lives On won a gold Telly award in the documentary category.
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
Hector Esrawe‘s parabolas made of brass.
Pittori di Cinema is a book on the lost art of hand-painted Italian movie posters. Great website, too.
A fun article on one of our favorite NYC drinks, the Nutcracker.
The Case for Chaos – An argument for creativity.
Here’s a great interview with Zach Wolfe, a photographer known for his iconic images of the southern rap music scene.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bradford Young, an old friend of The Color Machine, on how he chooses lenses.
The Color Machine was selected to create a narrative film to launch the Kinefinity Mavo LF cinema camera.
Beautiful. In Vietnam. More about it here.
images taken from Color Problems: A Republished Tome Reveals the Color Wisdom and Poetics of 19th-Century Artist Emily Noyes Vanderpoel
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.
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.
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 […]
The web’s greatest collection of chrome car logos is at Chromeography. Feast your eyes.
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.
A company called EnChroma makes glasses that somehow brings color to the colorblind. Watch and smile.
In this short documentary, a colorblind man with a color “microphone” roams the city. Sci-fi meets magic.
Our Skype for Business commercial just debuted. It is embedded in every install of the software.
Here are a couple pieces from our epic trip to the Sasquatch Festival at The Gorge in eastern Washington.
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 […]
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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.
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.
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 […]
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.
While we’re doing warm colors, In Focus has a great series of shots from this year’s Burning Man.
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
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Our short film commissioned by the Municipal Art Society is available online after premiering at Grand Central Terminal. A “love letter” to the city.
We just shot stills for Skype. It was a worldwide campaign called Friends & Family. Look out for it online.
Notes from a client phone call, post-it-ed to a BluDot catalog. A ballet of the sidewalk.
When ads are removed from the wals on subway platforms, the spaces left behind look like this.