Tag Archive for 'California'

Watch this: L.A. without the cars

What if tomorrow everyone’s car just disappeard? That was the question that Ross Ching asked himself. As an answer he came up with the following video in which he got rid of all the cars in L.A.. It’s the city of 12-lane-superhighways without the cars. Without the trucks. Without any motorized vehicle… Take a look.

(Click here to watch directly on vimeo and in HD!)

by Alex | May 27, 2010 | 0 Comments
Inspiration

15c Burger

Photo CC: BWChicago

English version coming soon

by Alex | May 17, 2010 | 0 Comments
Links and USA

Diorama USA

We’ve been mentioning it before, but haven’t shown anything from our little tilt shift miniature faking video shoot we did during our research trip last fall. At least so far! Finally found the time to continue working on it and it will go online before the end of the month. That’s a promise. And here’s a little tease. Enjoy!

by Admin | May 11, 2010 | 0 Comments
Images, Cinematography and Equipment

American Van

Joe Stevens documents surviving vans in the southwest and captures a bit of living space harking back to 70s America. A marvelous study in American design asthetics, color and its surrounding environment that also provides a little getaway into warmer realms, especially with current temperatures outside.

by Alex | January 28, 2010 | 0 Comments
Images, Links and USA

Los Angeles, Portrait of a City

Visual History at its best. A must-read: Los Angeles, Portrait of a City (Amazon Affiliate Link). Kevin Starr, Jim Heimann and David Ulin take more than 600 photographs on 570 pages to tell the history of greater Los Angeles. As can be expected from Taschen they did a marvelous job picking the pictures and putting them together. The whole book manages to convey (at least some of) the spirit of living in L.A. throughout the “ages” and to show even lesser-known aspects of the city as well as a couple of its rough edges. Flipping through it you’ll soon realize that there’s a lot more to the city of angels than what can be seen at the movies.

Head on over to Taschen where you can have a look inside the book. Or click here to order it through our Amazon affiliate link.

by Admin | January 11, 2010 | 0 Comments
Links, Research and USA

Timetravel to Los Angeles

Over at Skyscrapercity.com they have collected many many great pictures from the Los Angeles before time, at least before my time… from the fifties, fourties, thirties, twenties, heck, some of them are even older, yet. Great stuff indeed!