From a photograph I took back in the day.  Wish the weather was always this nice in San Francisco.

A shoot I recently did for singer Andres Quintero.  We recorded at The Honablue Institute with Robert Honablue.

Fast Company just published a video I worked on with Matthew Furman.  The video is a profile piece for their annual 100 Most Creative People In Business segment.  We did a semgent on Yael Cohen who founded an oganization called Fuck Cancer.  She created the organization after her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer.  Check it out if you get a chance.  There are some other interesting characters who made the list.

History
The first Polaroid camera was invented in 1946 by physicist Edwin Land, however, the camera was not made available to the public until November of 1948.  Polaroid pretty much went uncontested in the "instant picture" market until Kodak took a stab at the competition.  This proved to be a losing battle for Kodak as Polaroid took them to court in 1980 for patent infringement.  After an extensive amount of legal distraction, Polaroid won the case in 1985 and remained a dominant force in the market.  Finally, in 2001 the glory days were over for Polaroid as they filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.  Despite remaining hopeful that people would still desire physical photographs in a digital age, Polaroid was eventually forced to deal with reality and allegedly stopped production of the once popular "instant film" back in 2008.  However, this wasn't the end of Polaroid, just the instant camera.  In 2010 Polaroid appointed Lady Gaga as their creative director.

My mother recently came to visit last week during here annual spring break pilgrimage from working for the public schools. She has been her at least a half dozen times and has done all the touristy things so I've finally backed off my traditional rapid-fire marathon tours in which we usually walk 6+ miles daily. Luckily this city is constantly changing and evolving, especially with the wealth of new public spaces opening under Bloomberg's administration.

So of course we found ourselves deep downtown, a place I rarely go, and remembered hearing all the buzz and about the crazy multi-hour lines from this past fall when the memorial opened. I quickly popped onto the 9/11 Memorial website, thanks to the signs everywhere, to find that we could "reserve" a spot in less than an hour. So I clicked away and we found ourselves whipping through a sea of crowd stanchions with tickets in hand toward the new plaza. Now, I have to admit that I wasn't quite sure what parts were opened or exactly what we were going to see but was astonished to find ourselves standing in a massive plaza at the base of the new World Trade tower.

The most dramatic aspect of the plaza are the two recessed water fountains made in the footprints of the previous towers. Walking up to one of these is a very powerful experience due to their shear size and auditory overload with all that water sinking into the two tiered void. It's been over ten years since their collapse and having not really known New York prior to their fall, it felt quite intense to know I was standing at the base of such structures which I watched on a TV in Ohio. It must be a phenomenal experience for those who knew the space prior and to all those who knew those effected.

These photos, or any photos for that matter, just do not do it justice. So if you find yourself entertaining a guest any time soon, I highly recommend using it as an excuse to get your butt down to the Memorial and checking it out. In my opinion, these pools are up there with Lin's Vietnam Memorial for their quality of remembrance through landscape design. As for the buildings, the verdicts is still definitely out.

I am currently working on an edit for a short video we are doing for the new Peopling of America exhibit at the Ellis Island National Monument.  The exhibit opened in October of 2011 and was designed by ESI Design.  I had never visited Ellis Island prior to this project, so I can't speak for the previous exhibit, but I can say that the "Peopling" exhibit is worth the visit.  The exhibit does a great job of presenting the history of those arriving/leaving America both before and after Ellis Island.  One of the great things about the "Peopling" exhibit is that it shifts the focus of the museum to a more comprehensive history of immigration to America, instead of just focusing on the 1892 to 1924 era.  The infographics on display are informative at a micro and macro level, you get a feeling of both global and local immigration patterns.  The exhibit is open from 9:00am to 5:00pm daily, so go learn something.  

Stay tuned for the video. 

We wrapped up the bulk of production for Girls' Show.  We will be posting more photos and information about this project over the next few weeks.  In the meantime, here is a shot by our good friend Suzi Brenner.

Get ready world, this town is getting ready to come out on the biggest stages.

Original article on Architizer.

Here are a few beautiful videos made from insane amounts of data streaming.

Thanks for the tip Jesse via Fathom.info