This is one of the pieces that was done in 2011 and is currently still on the roof.

Rooftop Legends

This video shows the anual event that goes on, on the roof of New Design High School. Graffiti artist from all around come together and put their pieces on the roof.

Rockaway Needs Us

Rockaway Needs Us from everyone and company on Vimeo.

Rockaway Needs Us  is a short film by Everyone and Company. The short film shows the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy which occurred October 29, 2012. It shows the damage that the hurricane did to Rockaway, Queens. The hurricane did a lot of damage, especially to these people because they live on/by the beach. A lot of people were left homeless. The hurricane tore down homes, cars, and left a lot of people in need for desperate help. Some houses were damaged so bad that all that was left was a wall with a frame.
Hurricane Sandy didn't have this same affect on many other place, like Manhattan and Brooklyn and a lot of other places. I was in Manhattan while the hurricane was happening and from by house i was able to see the east river water rising and coming towards my building. We were forced to evacuate and lost all power and water for about a week. As a teenager being with out electricity was like the end of the world for me, as it was for many other people. But after seeing this amazing video and how it captures the hurt in people's eye's and the damage that the hurricane did, my prospective changed completely. I was thankful and felt blessed that i was where i was. I was thankful that the worst thing that happened to me was loosing power for a week because other had it so much worse. These people are left with nothing at all, nothing but their family and friends.

NYC Dark

NYC Dark from Already Alive on Vimeo.

As I Am

As I Am from alan spearman on Vimeo.

Friends for Life

At 76, Warren DeWitt was single and living alone. 90-year-old Arden Peters was caring for his Alzheimer-stricken wife. In Friends for Life, an unlikely commitment between these two gentlemen eases the burden of old age for both of them. See the project at http://mediastorm.com/publication/friends-for-life

Friends for Life is a film by Julie Winokur and Ed Kashi. This film tells the story of 79-year-old Warren Dewitt and 90-year-old Arden Peters. Warren and Arden always eat breakfast in Wal-Mart but they have never spoken before since Arden always went with his wife Mrs. Peters. Arden eventually stopped going to eat breakfast with Mrs. Peters because she was sick in bed with alzheimer's disease and parkinson's disease. Arden and Warren began having breakfast together and soon enough became best friends. Warren would go over to Arden's house everyday to help him out with his wife and around the house since it was too much work for him. When Arden's wife died, Warren moved in with Arden and took care of his best friend until his day came. After Arden's death of a heart failure Warren lived alone in the Peters farm.

I think this was an amazing film and one of the best I've watched. It reminds me so much of my best friend and I. Making a film on a friendship isn't a common topic for films and the way that this film captured this topic was done was amazing. The photographs were astonishing. Through those images you see the love these two men had for each other and how well they balance each other out by taking care of each other. Seeing the way they laughed and hugged shows that no matter how old they are there friendship is young, just like their heart.  

Love in the First Person

At twenty, photojournalist Matt Eich has maturity dropped in his lap: his world-class career takes off, just as his girlfriend becomes pregnant. Together they document their budding lives, as they grapple with some very grown-up choices. See the project at http://mediastorm.com/publication/love-in-the-first-person

Love in the First Person is a photographed film by Matt Eich and his wife Melissa Eich. Matt Eich is a twenty years old college student who won the photographer of the year contest. By Matt winning the contest, he got the opportunity to travel around the globe with his camera. This was a dream come true for Matt until he finds out that his girlfriend Melissa is pregnant. Matt and Melissa end up getting married and moving to Portland, Oregon. Matt had a great chance to do what he has always dreamed of doing, traveling the world with his camera. But he says that, "it's something that he's willing to trade in for a steady family life and be opportunity to be a good dad."

I think this is a great film because the filmmakers themselves were telling their own story. They showed us their worries but they also showed us how there love is so strong they will do anything to get through this. Matt both tells and shows us how much he was to be an amazing father and husband by giving up one of his dreams. This film shows how love can overcome anything. 

Amar

Amar is an "observational documentary" filmed by Andrew Hinton. Hinton follows Amar, a fourteen year old Indian boy who provides for him family. The film shows a day in Amar's daily life. Amar wakes up at 3:58 am to go do his first job as a paper boy. After Amar finishes delivering papers he heads to his second job selling remote controls. By the time it's 2 o'clock Amar goes home to get ready to go to school. After school Amar goes back to his job selling remotes. When Amar gets home everyone is already asleep. The film ends with Amar sitting at home, doing his homework with a lightbulb. 

In the film you can see how dedicated Amar is to help out his family and get his education. Most kids have great opportunity's to do so. And they don't take advantage of it because things usually get handed to them easily. They don't realize the struggle kids like Amar go through everyday hoping to get half of what they have.

The film is important because it shows that no mater what situation you are in when you really want something you strive for it. That's exactly what Amar is doing. When i saw this video it changed my prospective of things. It made me think of how I should defiantly take advantage of how easy i can get an education and be whatever it is that I want to be. 

Ninth Floor

In an apartment above Fifth Avenue, some thirty young people live in a vortex of drug addiction and despair. In The Ninth Floor, Jessica Dimmock enters this world, exploring, in human terms, what has been lost and what may be recovered. See the project at http://mediastorm.com/publication/the-ninth-floor

I recently watched a video on MediaStorm called The Ninth Floor.  It is a photographed film by Jessica Dimmock.  Dimmock photographed a group of young adults that lived on the ninth floor of a building on fifth avenue that were drug addicts.  Drug addiction is something very common especially in a place like New York City.  People start doing drugs at a very young age usually as soon as they hit high school, sometimes even earlier. As the world gets more modern it gets easier for younger kids to get drugs. As they get older they don't know how to control themselves and they get addicted to the drugs.
 
Jessica Dimmock photographed the life of the three main people living in the apartment on the ninth floor named Joe, Jessie, Dionn and Rachel. The apartment was rented by an artist in New York named Joe Smith.  Joe began subletting his apartment to other people. Soon enough people stopped paying rent therefore the lights stopped working and the water stopped running.  Joe Smith just asked his "roommates" to pay him in drugs and beer.  Jessie was hospitalized a couple of times. After she was hospitalized she went to upstate to live with her mother to try and get clean. She says the reason why she and others get addicted is because the first time is such a good time, you feel like you have no worries in the world, no fears, it just feels like you're on a cloud.  Jessie says,  "And then that's why they say you're chasing the first hit, cause then you're just doing it to try and get that same feeling you got at the begininning, but you never really get that."  Dionn and Rachel then had a baby. Rachel still did drugs while she was pregnant so they kept the baby in the hospital for a while. After the baby was born Dionn wanted nothing but the best for her.   "I was 120 milligrams of methadone when she was conceived, by the time she was born i was on 50, and now i'm completely off." Joe Smith was hospitalized many times and no one really knew what happend to him.

 I think this is a great film because of how raw it is. Instead of telling you about these people's lives it takes us inside of it. It makes you feel like you're in the room with them experiencing it all because it doesn't hold anything back. You don't see a lot of films like this, where a photographer takes you inside the lives of different people with different stories and different experiences. These people have different stories to tell, but they all seem to connect, they all go back to the same place, the ninth floor.