As the sun sets on my time here, I’d like to thank all my Phoenix readers for your support, and I hope you’ll check in from time to time.
Category: Video
The Speed Camera Lottery [Weekend Watch]
Can we get more people to obey the speed limit by making it fun to do?
Jane Jacobs: The Little Woman That Could
An exploration of urbanist Jane Jacobs and her criticism of orthodox city planning based on her book, The Death and Life of American Cities”.
The Layers of History [Weekend Watch]
Here’s a video from day two of unwrapping Phoenix’s oldest warehouse.
Street Music [Weekend Watch]
This weekend’s video is a great reminder of the quirky, spontaneous fun that we can witness in urban areas.
Radiant City: Life in the Late Suburban Age
The award winning feature film about life in suburbia has recently been made available for free by the National Film Board of Canada.
Tragic Suburban Angst Power Pop [Weekend Watch]
A great music video for Jonathan Coulton’s Shop Vac. It exploring the settling down (and selling out) of a couple as they move to suburbia.
Visualizing Urban Wi-Fi [Weekend Watch]
The complex technologies the networked city relies upon to produce its effects remain distressingly opaque, even to those exposed to them on a daily basis. –Adam Greenfield (2009) httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxdjfOkPu-E From YouTube: This project explores the invisible terrain of WiFi networks in urban spaces by light painting signal strength in long-exposure photographs. A four-metre long measuring…
Graffiti in a New Light [Weekend Watch]
Regular readers know that I have a fascination with street art. I recently came across this video that takes graffiti to an entirely new level.
Mad Men are Mad for HSR [Weekend Watch]
Vincent Kartheiser and Rich Somme, actors from the hit TV show Mad Men, have made a video to sell Americans on the benefits of HSR.