How to Build a Better City
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Sparks: A Honda Celebration of Light Story
AdultsCitiesFilmEntertainment...A miniature story of three friends meeting up for a memorable night on the beach at the Honda Celebration of Light.
This Amazing Video Takes You Through The City Of Barcelona In 2 Minutes
AdultsCitiesCreativityFilm...YouTuber Robert Whitworth pulls off his incredible "Flow Motion" technique and spent 363 hours to create this 2-minute clip. It totally worths it.
Google Self-Driving Car on City Streets
AdultsCitiesSelf-Driving CarsTechnology...Jaywalking pedestrians. Cars lurching out of hidden driveways. Double-parked delivery trucks blocking your lane and your view. At a busy time of day, a typical city street can leave even experienced drivers sweaty-palmed and irritable. We all dream of a world in which city centers are freed of congestion from cars circling for parking and have fewer intersections made dangerous by distracted drivers. That's why over the last year we've shifted the focus of the Google self-driving car project onto mastering city street driving.
The Making of Unnumbered Sparks I Vancouver
AdultsArtCitiesTechnology...Learn about the making of Unnumbered Sparks, a monumental interactive sculpture in the sky created by artists Janet Echelman and Aaron Koblin for TED's 30th anniversary. Choreographed by visitors in real time through their mobile devices, at night, the sculpture becomes a crowd-controlled visual artwork on a giant, floating canvas powered by Google.
Fingerboarding in Taiwan
AdultsCitiesSportsEntertainmentFingerboarding Is Like X Games For Your Hands
Amazing Performance by man drumming on buckets
AdultsCitiesCreativityMusic...When you think of a street performer playing drums on a bucket, you'd expect to be dealing with some kind of charity case. Instead, this guy plays better on buckets that a lot of professional drummers play in bands! Watch the video to witness some mind blowing skill.
London New Year's Eve Fireworks 2014
AdultsCitiesSocietyFestivities...As Big Ben strikes midnight, full coverage from the Thames Embankment of one of the most spectacular firework displays to be seen anywhere in the world, choreographed to fit beautifully to specially edited music.
Hong Kong's bamboo scaffolding
AdultsCitiesConstructionLife...It takes strength, skill and, most importantly, intellect to erecting intricate webs of sky-high walls and platforms strong enough to hold a legion of construction workers.
Jeff Speck: The walkable city
AdultsCitiesSocietyEnvironment...How do we solve the problem of the suburbs? Urbanist Jeff Speck shows how we can free ourselves from dependence on the car -- which he calls "a gas-belching, time-wasting, life-threatening prosthetic device" -- by making our cities more walkable and more pleasant for more people.
European Landmarks At Night
AdultsCitiesTravelWorld...Nightvision is a celebration of the brilliance and diversity of architecture found across Europe. Over the course of three months I journeyed with a friend through 36 cities in 21 countries with the ambition of capturing some of the greatest European structures in a new and unique way. Comprised of thousands of carefully taken photographs, strung together and stabilized in post-production, Nightvision aims to inspire appreciation for these man-made landmarks.
There is a city
AdultsCitiesHistoryWorldOnce a year on august 1st, the people of Warsaw pay hommage to the fallen heroes that fought for freedom in 1944 during the Warsaw Uprising. The biggest rebellion against German Nazi occupation during WWII cost over 200 000 lives and destruction of the capital.
ULTIMATE URBAN PLAYGROUND; SAN FRANCISCO
AdultsCitiesSportsTransportation...Shot on the actual streets of San Francisco, California, GYM5 features a focus on fast, raw and precise driving action. Filmed over four days, director Ben Conrad and his team are back to work on their second Gymkhana production and delivered the entire city of San Francisco as Ken Block's personal gymkhana playground.