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The annual birthday book briefing:
My favorite reads from this last long year.
In these times, I rejoice that so many good words
are in such good order. A gift!
Paper in hand, recommendations for you. A gift!

In no particular order:

Orbital - Samantha Harvey
When I Sing Mountains Dance - Irene Solà
A Natural History of Empty Lots - Christopher Brown
Ship Fever - Andrea Barrett
Babel - R.F. Kuang
Under the Eye of the Big Bird - Hiromi Kawakami
James - Percival Everett
The Mountain In the Sea - Ray Nayler
Weather - Jenny Offill
The Dept. of Speculation - Jenny Offill
Advice Not Given - Mark Epstein
Eurotrash - Christian Kracht
Less - Andrew Sean Greer
Hidden History of Old Atlanta - Mark Pifer
After the Quake - Haruki Murakami
Men Without Women - Haruki Murakami
Down and Out in the Year 2000 - Kim Stanley Robinson
Polostan - Neal Stephenson by @_danielschwartz

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a year ago

I got to teach a course this semester at Georgia Tech on documentary filmmaking and urbanism. We covered a lot of terrain and ended the term by making short films about how the 1996 Olympics transformed Atlanta.

What a pleasure to spend several months thinking about movies with twelve curious, creative, and kind students hailing from a variety of majors and graduate programs. We found common ground in the belief that if we want better cities, we have to tell better stories about them.

Pictured:
1. Class poster
2. Happy city
3. Bright minds in a dark room
4. Caged Olympic mascot
5. Heavily ornamented power outlet
6. “Whither next” by Mike Dobbins
7. Me at the games
8. Weekly raccoon meeting next to my parking spot on campus taken in Georgia Tech by @_danielschwartz

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a year ago

New directing work out…
New Daniel Platzman song drop…
New debut from my cat Saba….
(Link in bio)
Huge thanks to @danielplatzman who made an absolute bop of a song and entrusted us to tell a ridiculous story with it.

And what a team. A delight to write, direct, and edit this with @dustchambers
@tillt.creative are producing heroes of fortitude, integrity and fun. @wilhughes as DP helped sharpen and expand our vision. @emilycapers91 with bursting creative powers made incredible sets and props (a cardboard city overnight!), @luke__hyland is an ace AD that elevated everyone’s game, and of course the motion capture team of @actorcapture that steered our absurd animation dreams into reality.

Learned a lot making this. Excited for it to roar into the world. Meow.

Director/Editor: Daniel Schwartz & Dustin Chambers
Director of Photography: Wil Hughes
Production Company: TILLT Creative | tilltcreative.com
Producers: Carson Howell & Corey Tindall
Assistant Director: Luke Hyland
1st Camera Assistant: Matthews DiNelson
2nd AC/Media Manager: Nic Huey
Gaffer: Juan Cordero
Key Grip: Wes Jones
Audio Mixer: Richard Adams
Wardrobe & Props Stylist: Emily Capers
Wardrobe & Props Assist: Lauren Gabriel
HMU Stylist: Chelsea Augustine
Production Assistants: Aleah Clinton & Brandon Harris
Color: Company 3 - Justin White
Storyboard Artist: Daniel Schwartz
Marketing Manager: Alison Haseldon
BTS Photographer: Rose Bowman
Animal Talent: Saba

MOCAP
Company: Actor Capture | actorcapture.com
Motion Capture Supervisor: James Martin
Motion Capture Lead: Joel Mack
Shotlist Coordinator: Justin Hall
Virtual Production Operator: Aidan Dowell
Motion Capture Technician: Stephanie Yancoskie
Virtual Production Specialist: Max Thomas
Technical Artists: Spencer Greene & John Martin by @_danielschwartz

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2 years ago

Earlier this summer we worked with Atlanta-based visual storyteller Daniel Schwartz to create an introductory video about our approach to landscape architecture through our interdisciplinary studio practice. Lovely insight on the matter by our co-founding principal Carley Rickles.

Thank you @_danielschwartz for your thoughtful work, and to @naugle for contributing video from our collaboration at The Historic Bruce Street School.

As a side note (Jennifer here 👋), I’ll tell anyone who will listen that working in collaboration with a landscape architect has completely transformed the way I practice architecture, and I’m so grateful to Carley for that. Interdisciplinary is the way, y’all. by @_danielschwartz

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2 years ago

It’s my birthday, and all I really want is for the country to avoid electing a corrupt, fascistic, science-hating, ethno-nationalist. But today also means I list reading recommendations from my past orbit. It was a great year of page-turning, and there’s a bumper crop of truly excellent books here I’m happy to share. In no particular order:

An Immense World - Ed Yong
The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K Le Guin
Flight Path - Hannah Palmer
The Pool Is Closed - Hannah Palmer
Playground - Richard Powers
The Echo Maker - Richard Powers
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Eyes of the Void - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Lords of Uncreation - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Ruin - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Moonbound - Robin Sloan
The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson
Liberation Day - Georgie Saunders
Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
2034 - Eliot Ackerman & James Stravidis
2054 - Eliot Ackerman & James Stravidis
Turtle Island - Gary Snyder
Evolutions - Oren Harman
Ghosts of the Tsunami - Richard Lloyd Perry
The City & The City - China Miéville by @_danielschwartz

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2 years ago

by @_danielschwartz

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2 years ago

Half way between birthdays, taking counsel by @_danielschwartz

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2 years ago

Finally sharing the trailer for Where We Grow Older. It’s been on a festival/screening run since June, which I’ve done a shabby job of promoting. But I’m excited to be in Mendrisio tonight to give a presentation at the @usi_accademia with @boragio about it and the previous two films in the series that I made with the @canadiancentreforarchitecture. A big thank you to @bekalemoine for the invitation to think/talk publicly about the intersection of filmmaking and architecture.

The documentary was a long time in the making, and I’m still filled with gratitude for the collaborators and protagonists that made it all possible. To get to make a film is a stroke of good fortune, and a film that’s made with and about care, even more so.

Conceived by Giovanna Borasi (@boragio)
Directed by Daniel Schwartz
Cinematography by Jonas Spriestersbach
Edited by Erick Stoll and Daniel Schwartz
Sound by Daniel Schwartz
Music by David Drury (@dub.line)
Animation by Danny Wills and Daniel Schwartz (@dedubs)
Research by Hannah M. Strothmann
Associate Producer: Karine Charbonneau (@karichar)
Post-Production Supervisor: Victorine Yok-Thot Sentilhes (@yoktown_s)
Production Manager: Emmanuelle Carignan
Production Coordinators: Romane Jamet and Camille Guindon
Title Design: Christian Lange Studio / COCCU Studio (@langeliste)
Sound Designer and Mixer: Stéphane Carreau (@papaflavor)
Color: Béatrice Tremblay/Outpost MTL (@outpostmtl)
Barcelona Fixer/Translator: Anna Tetas Palau by @_danielschwartz

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3 years ago

Time for the annual birthday reading list. My ten favorite books from the last 365 days of reading-a-bit-before-bed, weekend-pre-nap-prose-sessions, and the rare enraptured-in-a-park-poetry-trysts. I recommend all of these if you too are looking for pleasure, solace, and adventure via words. Customized book reviews upon request.

In no particular order:
Sea of Tranquility - Emily St John Mandel
Kindred - Octavia Butler
Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Mating - Norman Rush
When We Cease To Understand the World- Benjamin Labatut
The High Sierra: A Love Story - Kim Stanley Robinson
The Carrying - Ada Limón
The Twilight World - Werner Herzog
Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
The Traveling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa taken in Atlanta, Georgia by @_danielschwartz

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3 years ago

verdant views taken in Greenpoint by @_danielschwartz

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3 years ago

Today is the world premiere of Where We Grow Older, the newest film I made with the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Screening as the opener of the @arquiteturasfilmfestival . It’s the third and final documentary in a series we began working on in 2019, and I’m feeling a lot of things as we come to the end of this endeavor.

Directing these pieces was some of the most challenging and fun work I’ve done, and I’m beyond grateful and humbled to have been invited on this journey with the @canadiancentreforarchitecture, led by Giovanna Borasi (@boragio). With its history as a museum, archive, and book publisher, the CCA is now also a place where films get produced and reach global audiences.

It’s particularly sweet to end the trilogy with Where We Grow Older, a movie that seeks to reframe conversations about how elderly people live in cities and ways that architects and planners can design better spaces for and with them. Like the series’ prior films about homelessness and solo living, this movie is also about loneliness and the transformation of family structures around the world. We are living through a historic moment when typical bonds of kinship are being disrupted in ways big and small, with profound implications for how we find safety and stability in our social lives and give/receive the most meaningful forms of care.

While these films are documents of this moment, they are also calls to rethink how architecture can address large issues and imagine a more humane and compassionate way of living together. I’m proud to have made them with such a wonderful group of people. I’ll be posting more about the film, where it will be screening, and all who helped bring it into existence. Tonight we celebrate. taken in Porto, Portugal by @_danielschwartz

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I 💚 Grant Park taken in Grant Park by @_danielschwartz

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