Centripetal_ zoomscapes

 2A_eM collaborates with Situ Studio.

today's technology (the camera) allows one to experience architecture through a new medium (film) at new speeds beyond the human experience. we can replay, distort and adjust reality along new trajectories at various elevations and perspectives creating new opportunities for experiencing space, the city and the architecture surrounding us.

this is the result of an exercise in design fabrication. a prototype was constructed using CNC technology combined with reclaimed bicycle parts to produce a mechanism to rotate a camera about a Y-axis. the revolutions combined with a forward vector produces a loopty-loop or corkscrew condition.

occupying a subway, we shot these clips looking across and down the tracks out the side and front windows (respectively) of the J train. the result is a disorienting experience of the city.

here is a link to the vimeo album.  

a short edit is up for voting in the videotect architectural film competition,NOW!

buffalo: then and now

reminds me of detroit, or the american economy.
ugh. the ugly side of urban 'progress'

short article of buffalo then and now.  one hundred years pass, and a whole lot of mistakes to show for it.

Reassuring

News... Some good. Some bad. So, architecture is apparently the highest in unemployment for the newly graduated. That's great (pick up my sarcasm please). But, the bright side; our unemployment rate is still under the national average at 7.7%. Let's hope 2012 sees some turn around... For everyone. Seriously