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Last weekend’s open thread asked you to post a link to an article you read. This weekend I want you to post a link to a video about some kind of sustainable transportation that you watched. I’ll go first. Here’s a vigorous and dramatic view of New York City streets, traffic, and buildings, from a very low-to-the-ground point of view, shot all from cameras mounted on bicycles. I really like the first minute, where the camera is (in what seems like slow motion, but isn’t) wrapping around objects and people.
It’s not a transportation video exactly but Beastie Boys ‘Open Letter to NYC’ is multimodal! I counted skateboards, bikes, ferries, roads, bridges, L trains, subways, buses, walking and some kind of stop action slide that is awfully cool. It also mentions about ton of exact lines by name. If you’ve ever lived in NYC it’s a pretty amazing lyrical and visual tour of a great city.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iul3ujcBGwU
I’ve spent about 7 days of my life in NYC. That’s it. 2 of those mostly alone, 2 with friends, and 3 with family. It’s wild.