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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 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


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


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


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


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


Myles

Last week, while The Color Machine welcomed folks for the Delve: Architecture + Art event, we were also seeing off one of our own, Myles Guiler. His work finally wrapped up, we can look back and say that Myles did an amazing job as our Research & Sales Coordinator (we actually knew that BEFORE he […]

  tweet • Dec 16 2014


DELVE: Architecture + Art

Please join us on Tuesday, December 9th at 7pm here at The Color Machine offices, where we’re excited to co-host Delve: Architecture + Art. If you don’t know DELVE, it’s the brainchild of Andrea Wenglowskyj and Sara Jones, a creative duo also known as Kind Aesthetic. They’re of that rare breed of artists who, in […]

  tweet • Dec 4 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


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


What Is a Photograph

The International Center of Photography has a new show up, “What Is a Photograph?” The New York Times has a quick look as well. Above, a great one by James Welling, “6236”.

  tweet • Jan 26 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


Do or Dye

The online retailer Zady has an interesting feature covering a bit of the history and environmental impact of clothing dyes. A little while back I found this great old book of wool swatches, “1983 Nippon Standard Colors, Vol. 6”

  tweet • Jan 13 2014


Texas

Got a new (old) lens. Went to Texas. Texas bars have a certain spirit. Texas skies have a certain light.

  tweet • Jan 9 2014


State of Play

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

  tweet • Oct 29 2013


Colorized History

Colorized Photos by Jordan Lloyd and Mads Madsen. Smart bits of color change perspective. Now you travel back in time.

  tweet • Oct 10 2013


Moonbeams and Unicorns. And Color!

Before there was email or a suggestion of the big disconnect, there was American artist, Lisa Frank. With her kaleidoscopic line of stationary and a multitude of school supplies, Lisa dazzled the imaginations of little girls (boys too, I’m sure) throughout the 1980s and pioneered a specific, fanciful trend, still worthy of applause. At the […]

  tweet • Sep 21 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


Interactive Interactions of Color

the app can be purchased here.

  tweet • Sep 4 2013


Thoughtful Minds

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most. – John Ruskin

  tweet • Aug 28 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


Benetton, United Colors Of

This is Cloe Norgaard. File under COLORFUL PEOPLE via benetton from their new Women & Men campaign. by the always rock and roll Mikael Jansson

  tweet • Jul 26 2013


[1109.5469] Darker than black: radiation-absorbing metamaterial

Yah, basically, it’s blacker than black. So black you can’t even see it to know it’s black. Or, as the researchers explain, “We show that corrugated surfaces of hyperbolic metamaterials scatter light preferentially inside the media, resulting in a very low reflectance and ultimate dark appearance in the spectral range of hyperbolic dispersion.” Got that? […]

  tweet • Jul 26 2013


Mercury, In 11 Colors

Wired Space Photo of the Day – Wired Science.

  tweet • Jul 20 2013


Prisms

Purple Orange Clear Sculpture – Phillip Low.

  tweet • Jul 18 2013


Jasmine Takanikos + Benjo’s

Jasmine Takanikos + Benjo’s – Cool Hunting.

  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


How Ink Is Made

There are a ton of short docs about manufacturing out there: booze, bikes, blades, beds. It’s one of the great forms to emerge from the late dawn of internet videos. All of them owe their inheritance to the films of Ray and Charles Eams, basically. There are so many truly great examples, that we don’t […]

  tweet • Apr 9 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


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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