More upscaled, century-old footage! This time a little closer to home, featuring shots of SW Portland, the US Custom House building, and a sneaky shot of the second Oregon State Capitol in Salem. Related: my previous post on the Wuppertal Schwebebahn, featuring upscaled footage of the suspended railway in Wuppertal, Germany operating in 1902.
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Historical Context of Racist Planning in Portland
Buried in a Planning and Sustainability Commission meeting from September 2019 is this excellent presentation from BDS planning assistant Jena Hughes on the “Historical Context of Racist Planning in Portland”. (Hughes’ presentation begins around the 48:57 mark.) It’s a great primer on how we’ve historically used city planning mechanisms like zoning to continually prevent communities …
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Why American Public Transit Is So Bad
A really great primer from Vox on how American public transit got to be the way it is today, and how we can begin to change it. I also took screenshots of the maps mentioned that show bus routes that run “at least every 30 minutes, until midnight, 7 days a week”. Here’s Portland vs. …
The Map
New York City has a new “live” digital subway map, designed by Work & Co. The new map attempts to combine the style of the classic Vignelli map with the Tauranac/Hertz map that replaced it, becoming more geographically accurate as you zoom in; revealing the real-time location of trains, the actual location of lines in …
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis in January 2015, Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of filmed interviews in his apartment in New York City. For eighty hours, surrounded by family, friends, and notebooks from six decades of thinking and writing about the brain, he talked about his life and work, his abiding …
The Wuppertal Schwebebahn
Earlier this year, MoMA released film shot in 1902 from a suspended railway system in the German city of Wuppertal. The footage has since been color corrected and upscaled to 4K by YouTube user Denis Shiryaev, making it look like it was shot in present day. The Wuppertal Schwebebahn is the oldest electric elevated monorail …
It’s Rain in Games
My pal Jez Burrows put together a 30 minute long supercut of rain in videogames. Related: his previous effort to collect every time the McElroy Brothers say “boy” in the first 420 episodes of My Brother, My Brother, and Me.