Indian Summer

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

Monkeyin' Around

We are super excited about putting this video together for CLR Design.  Here are a few snapshots from production in Philadelphia.  Looking forward to Dallas and Denver.  We shot mostly on the 5d and Af100.

Polaroid and Instagram

I was recently thinking about Facebooks acquisition of Instagram and how in some ways Instagram is the modern version of the infamous Polaroid "Instant Camera".  Both products were created with the purpose of instantly sharing photographs with friends and family.  One of these two products no longer exists and I couldn't help but wonder what happened.  I use to love Polaroids and recently bought one at a local thrift store in Bushwick (featured in photograph).  I though I would share my findings with the rest of the world.

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.

Peopling of America

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. 

Welcome

We would like to welcome everyone to our new site as well as our new blog.  For those of you who followed our archiculture blog, we will be shifting over to this platform.  This time around we hope to post more Arbuckle generated content, including graphics, tutorials and information.  We encourage you to read, post and share this blog with the rest of the world.  

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