This past winter a handful of RISD students from the Film/Animation/Video and Architecture Departments independently wrote, produced, and directed a music video here in Providence.  
Last spring Film/Animation/Video undergrads Samuel Lee andJulian Marshall and Architecture graduate student Thomas Jonakbegan working on the initial concepts of the video.  In between their formal class schedules, they worked on writing and story boarding the shoot.  Julian Marshall, taking the lead as director, created ablue/green screen technique to be used during the choirs to convey a sense of depth and time.  Overlaying multiple images using blue/green screens as well as live action movement through the shot allows a viewer to understand both current and past events and where they overlap in the video’s time-line.

This video had the help of many dedicated RISD students during and after shooting.  Take a minute to watch the video and follow the link below.  Thank you for your help and for supporting your fellow RISD students. 

Director: Julian Marshall; Undergraduate Film/Animation/Video
Producer: Samuel Lee; Undergraduate Film/Animation/Video
Director of Photography: David Vollrath
1st AC: Cory Zapatka; Undergraduate Film/Animation/Video
Grip:  Andreas Nicholas; Undergraduate Film/Animation/Video
Music: Thomas Jonak; Masters Architecture
Actor: Ai Ito; Masters Architecture
Actor: Jill Wiedenmayer; Undergraduate Architecture
Calvin Dunwoody; Undergraduate Architecture
Alexander O. Epstein; Undergraduate Sculpture

http://www.julianmarshallcinema.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Thomas-Jonak/5976098769#!/pages/Thomas-Jonak/5976098769

group* is a collaboration between three graduate students at the Rhode Island School of Design, operating a design-research studio 

check out what they’re doing here.

Prof. Enrique Martinez opens his blog to submissions / collaborators:

“Form is now accepting submissions. This blog wants to be a participatory forum about the topic of form in art, architecture, design and everyday life and I look forward to including in it your images and thoughts.

Interested? Send me just one image (jpeg, 1MB max.) and a small text (250 words max.) of anything human-made that you consider formally extraordinary, explaining your reasons or making a statement about it. It could be your work or the work of others; contemporary, futuristic or part of the past; high or low, simple or complex; buildings, spaces, objects, experiments, everyday things, artworks, designs…just one image and a small text, so that we keep it brief for many people to participate.

Send your material to form@muchieast.com with your name, contact information and a few words about who you are, what you do and why are you interested in form.”

Also see his blog about OBJECTS.

Click above for more images of the Engineers without Borders project.

Something from Jason Atkins (M.Arch 2009):

Hey all,
I’m working on an Engineers without Borders project to construct rainwater harvesting tanks for Kerala, India. We are now one of ten finalists for Mountain Dew’s Energize Your Community competition. By becoming a top 5 finalist we will recieve a $10,000 grant to construct mock-ups here and in India.

To help reach this goal we need lots of votes. So… if you would be so willing, you can vote at ENERGIZEYOURCOMMUNITY.COM

Click on “project gallery”, then under phase 1 go to “finalists” and vote for our project “Rainwater for Humanity”. The few minutes it takes to register and vote could mean clean water for people of Kuttanad, Kerala, India. The competition is in the final week so please try to vote every day.

Thanks so much!
Jason Atkins

For more info on the project check out http://rainwater.betterxdesign.org

On Tuesday, February 10, 8 PM in Barus & Holley 190 (Corner of Hope & George), join Brown University’s Engineers Without Borders to help with rainwater harvesting in India

The Brown University - Engineers without Borders has just initiated a project to provide 700,000 with clean drinking water by capturing rainfall in Kerala, India.  The project will directly address a need in the community and will work directly with local community members and organizations in order to design an appropriate rainwater harvesting system and train a local group in their construction.   The project team is in need of practical, technically-minded designers comfortable in an interdisciplinary environment that would like to gain experience independently initiating and carrying out a humanitarian project in Kerala, India.  The project team will travel to Kerala in August 2009 in order to implement the systems. 
For more information contact Peter Boyer (Peter_Boyer@brown.edu).

If you have to miss the meeting, learn more at Respond|Design’s meeting on Tuesday, Feb 17 @ 7PM in the RISD Store lounge.

This past winter a handful of RISD students from the Film/Animation/Video and Architecture Departments independently wrote, produced, and directed a music video here in Providence.  
Last spring Film/Animation/Video undergrads Samuel Lee andJulian Marshall and Architecture graduate student Thomas Jonakbegan working on the initial concepts of the video.  In between their formal class schedules, they worked on writing and story boarding the shoot.  Julian Marshall, taking the lead as director, created ablue/green screen technique to be used during the choirs to convey a sense of depth and time.  Overlaying multiple images using blue/green screens as well as live action movement through the shot allows a viewer to understand both current and past events and where they overlap in the video’s time-line.

This video had the help of many dedicated RISD students during and after shooting.  Take a minute to watch the video and follow the link below.  Thank you for your help and for supporting your fellow RISD students. 

Director: Julian Marshall; Undergraduate Film/Animation/Video
Producer: Samuel Lee; Undergraduate Film/Animation/Video
Director of Photography: David Vollrath
1st AC: Cory Zapatka; Undergraduate Film/Animation/Video
Grip:  Andreas Nicholas; Undergraduate Film/Animation/Video
Music: Thomas Jonak; Masters Architecture
Actor: Ai Ito; Masters Architecture
Actor: Jill Wiedenmayer; Undergraduate Architecture
Calvin Dunwoody; Undergraduate Architecture
Alexander O. Epstein; Undergraduate Sculpture

http://www.julianmarshallcinema.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Thomas-Jonak/5976098769#!/pages/Thomas-Jonak/5976098769

group* is a collaboration between three graduate students at the Rhode Island School of Design, operating a design-research studio 

check out what they’re doing here.

Prof. Enrique Martinez opens his blog to submissions / collaborators:

“Form is now accepting submissions. This blog wants to be a participatory forum about the topic of form in art, architecture, design and everyday life and I look forward to including in it your images and thoughts.

Interested? Send me just one image (jpeg, 1MB max.) and a small text (250 words max.) of anything human-made that you consider formally extraordinary, explaining your reasons or making a statement about it. It could be your work or the work of others; contemporary, futuristic or part of the past; high or low, simple or complex; buildings, spaces, objects, experiments, everyday things, artworks, designs…just one image and a small text, so that we keep it brief for many people to participate.

Send your material to form@muchieast.com with your name, contact information and a few words about who you are, what you do and why are you interested in form.”

Also see his blog about OBJECTS.

Click above for more images of the Engineers without Borders project.

Something from Jason Atkins (M.Arch 2009):

Hey all,
I’m working on an Engineers without Borders project to construct rainwater harvesting tanks for Kerala, India. We are now one of ten finalists for Mountain Dew’s Energize Your Community competition. By becoming a top 5 finalist we will recieve a $10,000 grant to construct mock-ups here and in India.

To help reach this goal we need lots of votes. So… if you would be so willing, you can vote at ENERGIZEYOURCOMMUNITY.COM

Click on “project gallery”, then under phase 1 go to “finalists” and vote for our project “Rainwater for Humanity”. The few minutes it takes to register and vote could mean clean water for people of Kuttanad, Kerala, India. The competition is in the final week so please try to vote every day.

Thanks so much!
Jason Atkins

For more info on the project check out http://rainwater.betterxdesign.org

On Tuesday, February 10, 8 PM in Barus & Holley 190 (Corner of Hope & George), join Brown University’s Engineers Without Borders to help with rainwater harvesting in India

The Brown University - Engineers without Borders has just initiated a project to provide 700,000 with clean drinking water by capturing rainfall in Kerala, India.  The project will directly address a need in the community and will work directly with local community members and organizations in order to design an appropriate rainwater harvesting system and train a local group in their construction.   The project team is in need of practical, technically-minded designers comfortable in an interdisciplinary environment that would like to gain experience independently initiating and carrying out a humanitarian project in Kerala, India.  The project team will travel to Kerala in August 2009 in order to implement the systems. 
For more information contact Peter Boyer (Peter_Boyer@brown.edu).

If you have to miss the meeting, learn more at Respond|Design’s meeting on Tuesday, Feb 17 @ 7PM in the RISD Store lounge.