All of our films and confessionals are also up on our website architorturefilm.com Meanwhile we are pushing to change to a film maker account with myspace, currently this option does not exist.
After listening through a bunch of the mixes on Designer Mixtapes, we have decided to make our own mix. A little different from what Mixtapes has constructed, we would like to post our top 10 "Architectural" songs... Our songs are everything from specific lines on architecture, as in The Hexx by Pavement, to figurative lyrics such as Squares by The Beta Band. OK so here they are:
So there they are. Let us know what you think via our myspace comments or on our new forum thread. We want to hear your "architecture" favorites.
07.28.2007
Due to the number of messages we have received from you all asking to list all 10 on the shirt, we have decided to offer a free shirt to the first person who can name all 10. Just post your answer on our comments. The first one to get all 10 will have one shipped to your door for free!
A collage of modern architects who have played a significant role in shaping the built environment. This graphic represents a celebration of 10 iconic architects.
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Printed on a 100% cotton organic pre-shrunk Tshirt, using a high-end water based printing technique that produces an embedded effect.
sustainable
This Tshirt is made of 100% organic cotton and assembled in the United States. It was printed and picked up locally to reduce the amount of pesticides and carbon emitted thoughout the process.
07.22.2007 Lets gets Fancy!
We have recently reorganized and added some new content to the site. We would like to invite you to check out the new buttons for info, merchandise and sponsors on the website. Briefly the info page provides the mission of the film, a synopsis of the story, where the concept originated and some of our initiatives/goals for the project. The merchandise page is an area were we can display some of the products for sale. Tshirts are available now, with more to come online in the near future. The sponsors page is the area were we accept and give support to the individuals and groups which are helping make this project a reality.
Look around and let us know what you think.
07.15.07 Architorture Goes International
Due to our rather large percentage of international viewers to the website, we have installed translation flags. For now they are only available on our home page but will be located upon all pages with areas of translatable text in the near future. We hope you enjoy the new language possibilities and can now share the project with a larger range of your global friends.
Along these same lines, we would like to post up some of the recent blogging about the project.
Thanks to all for the interest and comments. It helps us stay energized when we see the architectural community react to the project.
07.01.07 New Confessional
This confessionals offers a glipse into another realm of architecture by meeting Jennifer Brooke, both a professor at the California College of Arts and practitioner through her design firm, Landscape Office. In this interview the dynamics of the architectural studio setting are discussed along with descriptions of the thesis process based upon her extensive professorial and academic experience.
Enjoy and let us know what you think.
06.16.07 L.A. Trip
Our trip to LA has turned into a very intense injection of resolve for the project. The meeting with Carole Dean was a phenomenal asset to the current evolution our film and will prove to be invaluable as we move towards the shoot.
We also just finished shooting with our friends at Empty Kingdom Media
, for a short film we are submitting to the ThinkSync Film Competition . "The premise behind the competition being to highlight and encourage the use of independent music within film and the resulting event an exciting, innovative fusion of independent music and film." Basically they provide 30+ songs to choose from for the shorts to utilize in their three to ten minute story submissions.
We are extremely excited with how our shots turned out and thrilled to see how the final cut turns out once we edit over the next two weeks. It due on June 30th, so keep a look out for it on our films page.
06.12.07 on our way to LA .....
We are driving down to LA tonight for a meeting with the amazingly talented and experienced Carole Dean tomorrow. "As president and CEO of From the Heart Productions , Carole (has) created the Roy W. Dean Grant Foundation in honor of her late father. To date Carole’s grant and mentorship programs have provided filmmakers with millions of dollars in goods and services and have played an instrumental role in establishing the careers of some of the industry’s most promising filmmakers."
Our purpose for meeting Carole is two fold, one is to get someone with such a depth of film experience to discuss the current and future development of our project, and secondly to discuss our submission to her LA Film grant which is due June 30th. We are extremely excited for this chance to evolve our project's funding strategies with someone of such achievements.
We will post comments and some new exciting footage shortly after we return.
05.29.07 Fiscal Sponsorship!
Another massive bit of news for the project, the film has been accepted by FILM ARTS!
and is now fiscally sponsored!
This is big because we can now start to seek funds besides our own incomes to support this thing. Little paypal-esque shopping carts will soon pop up all over the site so you can donate at any moment. But joking aside, this is an extremely crucial step in the evolution of this project with our continued association and collaboration with such a respected foundation.
So check out the links and look forward to more posts regarding our new found friends in Film Arts.
05.14.07 We have confessionals up!
The confessionals were created to give others the chance to explain what Architecture is about. Specifically, what the educational process is or was like and what their professional experience has been. We want to give others the arena to be heard and to explain this world. As for now we will continue to interview those we meet and post up rough clips on our website. We hope to open this area of our site in the future, similar to our forum, to post your own clips. Check them out and let us know what you think.
Bridgett Shank's interview captures a grad student on her journey from home to studio while discussing the origin of her interest for architecture, previous professional experience and her pending review the following day.
There are some great stories posted on various subjects such as our school selection, stories from studio and general architectural blurbs. Get on and post! Anything and everything is welcome. Get the word out.
www.architorturefilm.com
Give the website a look to see the beginnings of the featured ..ary film.
02.28.07 For now check out our first short film: Released
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Released dramatically utilizes a balloon as the representation for the daily carbon dioxide emissions the average consumer uses per day. Following an individual through their normal daily routine the film attempts to effectively capture how common decisions and actions have a global impact. As the film progresses the ‘emissions balloon’ expands, a direct relationship to the amount of carbon the character emits based on her decisions throughout the day. In the end the film closes by showing the scope of this growing ecological problem when the focus is taken away from one person and expanded to the surrounding world community. By this effective visual imagery Released forces it’s viewers to think about the dangerous consequences of ignoring feasible sustainable solutions.
So that is the completed version of our submitted short film for the competition. We have some difficult news regarding the contest, but at least we are done... for now, and can finally get some rest. Please let us know what you think of our first film and our birth into this new medium. We are quite proud of the creation so far but are already looking towards our next short cuLtivAted . Please post away, we need your criticism and reactions for energy.
More shorts will be following as we gain momentum toward the feature ..ary, Architorture.
02.20 News
Our short film entitled Released, for the Convenient Truth Short Film Contest, is well under way. We have edited and shot all but one scene. The only details which we can post now is that it involves balloons.
01.31 News
In progress is a short film on carbon footprints for the Convenient Truth Contest. By the time this short is submitted it will have been conceived, shot, and edited in one months time. Check back with us at the beginning of March to see its debut and if we meet the tight deadline.
We are actively seeking grant money to help assist with the pre-production phase of Architorture.
The team has recently expanded to include the musical talent of Mike Perry as well as technical writing support from Eric Krantz, Jacob Richardson and Linda Oeding.
Piel.Skin is an experimental web book aimed at architecture students. The book literally surfs on several projects, jumping from exceptional exteriors in Asia to intelligently optimized facades in Europe. The book allows playing a virtual tour dedicated to google-earth travellers: By means of clicking on the coordinates of each project begins a journey where you can jump directly to each site and visualize the project within its environment.
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