No more, no less.
A suggestion: turn down the piano score and listen to something long and rich—Built to Spill, Dungen, whatever you like.
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Barcelona in 1908 had more rapid transit options than Seattle in 2009.
Seattle in 1908 had more rapid transit options than Seattle in 2009.
This is incredible film, thank you.
very beautiful piece, its from the opening day of the citywide tram service. the old tracks are still on much of the route, and the city looks remarkably the same in many parts. I hope people will be that excited when the when the tiny light rail line opens in Seattle, or will they just use it to escape?
I love this! I was listening to Fleet Foxes by chance, which seemed to fit with the film perfectly.
I dreamt of Barcelona last night. Today, while on my work break (over an hour ago), I was searching for pictures of Barcelona street life, food, people and seaport. I found some beautiful pictures. I even did a sketch of a building with a restaurant, café and bar.
Thanks for posting this. It must be “anywhere but here” syndrome today due to the dreary weather.
(sorry if this is a duplicate post, I did not see my first one, so I revised it)
@fnarf
my exact first thought when I saw the video and post #1… 🙂
Barcelona 2009:
http://www.nwfilmforum.org/live/page/cal…
“Gaudi, watch out for that streetcar!”
Came here for the Gaudi/streetcar joke, left happy.
Goes well with the Decemberists.
So many bikes. This is what Seattle should look like.
Thank you for including Built to Spill. I love the 90s!
@8,9 – Yep, I can leave now too.
A civilization. Imagine such a thing now, here.
somewhere in that crowd was a young wee lad named francisco franco, waiting for the time where he would take over catalonia.
The kid that flipped up his jacket tails to show his backside was funny. Some things never change.
The thing that gets me is all the bicycles.
Granted, this is an event so more people are out and about on foot and bicycles than usual. Still, if we could create a contemporary city with this kind of transit system and street life while retaining the things that we do better now that would be something.
I also thought of Franco, and the Spanish Civil War to come, and how much more a tragedy that is when you see a scene like this from the generation preceding it. (Franco’s not from Barcelona, though, so he wouldn’t be in the crowd.)
no, he was not, but how he loathed them. im sure he was planning the PUN’s destruction from an earlier age.
I was hoping for some synchronized bicycling. What with some of them crisscrossing each other.
@1 – *rapid* transit options, did you say? Folks barely trotting were able to keep up with the train. It’s sweet and all, but hardly rapid.