City culture, urban life, and street-level documentation. Cultural festivals, architecture timelapse, street interventions, and photography exploring how cities work. Understanding urban culture through direct observation and documentation.
Urbanism through street-level observation—documenting how cities actually work through photography, video, festivals, and cultural moments. Discover urban culture unfolding in public spaces, from carnival celebrations to architecture evolution captured in timelapse.
This collection captures city life in action, examining urban culture, street events, festivals, and the social dynamics that animate public space. Explore how gentrification changes neighborhoods, how communities gather and celebrate, and how cities continually transform through human interaction and intervention.
New York Typography
“New Type York” is a photoblog curated by New York based graphic designer James Patrick Gibson, who will periodically post shots of typographic details from the street s of New York City:
The premise is simple: A daily archive of images of typographic artifacts all around New York City. Signs, directions and building inscriptions are all fair game. The goal: Amass a typographic personality of New York, by cataloging all of its memorable and beautiful pieces of typography. (About New Type York)
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Release: Gaffa Urbanism Magazine
In October 2009 I informed you about the second edition, called “Gaffa-Urbanism”, of the urban magazine Spacemag by Hamburg based Spacedepartment. Now, the release date is fixed and I was able to cast an eye at the new edition!
As you can read in the title, the whole issue is about the new “Gaffa-Urbanism” movement. For that reason, pacemag #2 includes articles about Japanese tape artist Shuetsu Sato, who tapes redirecting hints at the subway-stations in Tokyo and about Australian tape artist BUFFdiss, who is a real globetrotter and tapes great artworks in the urban landscape.
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Beautiful Vancouver Time Lapse
After I watched this beautiful time lapse video, I agree to the people who said, that the Olympic Winter Games have chosen a nice city this year!
Although Vancouver is the third largest metropolitan area in Canada and the different views of the video are really nice, it’s not comparable with the time-lapse city portraits of other cities, like Tokyo & Yokohama, London or Hongkong.
Nevertheless I somehow like that time lapse. Perhaps it is because of the small streets…
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City Portrait: Paris Time-Lapse
After time-lapse portraits of Tokyo & Yokohama, New York & Istanbul or London, I will show you some beautiful impressions of Paris today!
Paris is one of the most romantic cities around the globe! Some days ago, I found a very nice time-lapse video collection which shows some of the most well-known places of the French capital.
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Post-War Modernity: Architecture Photography
Daniel Sebastian Schaub is a freelance artist and photographer, who is concerned with architecture of the post-war modernity. In the last years, he photographed hundreds of different buildings mainly in Hamburg and Berlin and creates in this way a fascinating documentation of post-war architecture!
The title of his work “Transformationsfelder” could be translated with “Transformation-Fields”. It tries to recognize the building’s character and focuses not only on single architectural components but on the whole building.
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Urban Hacks: The Urban Guide for Alternate Use
Scott Burnham, a creative director, writer and consultant who is specialized in design, urbanism and open source methodologies, has recently created his “Urban Guide for Alternate Use” for the upcoming, brand-new and Europe-wide “Exchange Radical Moments” live art festival.
It’s an open source city-specific field guide for alternate uses for existing urban infrastructure. As Burnham wrote on his website, he “wanted to create a platform for exchange of ideas for alternate urban solutions based on existing structures and systems.”
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Snow in Berlin - Urban Winter Impressions
As you may already know, I love urbanity! I love it to see and discover different city around the world. I love it to explore cities in different seasons.
For me, there’s almost nothing better than to get new and nice impressions - maybe from an other point of view - of urban scenes. Yes, you could say that I know my hometown Berlin, but I never saw nicer images of snow in Berlin.
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Live Underground - Urban Music
I love it to listen to the various sounds, songs and voices of the often talented musicians in the subway-stations or trains. In my opinion they are part of the urban culture as well as the subway graffities or the tags on the ticket automates!
Mike Kobal recently published his first subway music sample video, which shows really talented people from New York!
When I watched it the first time, I got very impressed and a bit jealous, because here in Berlin, I often see people playing a didgeridoo or a accordion, but I can’t remember ever having seen an entire band or a saxophonist…
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Urban Abstract
Urban Abstract is a very interesting journey across urban space. It’s an video artwork, which shows urban impressions in an very abstract way.
“Born in Tokyo during 2009 this piece was created by the art director Jopsu Ramu from Musuta Ltd. (a multidisciplinary design agency based in Helsinki & Tokyo) and Shun Kawakami (Artless Inc) an artist and designer from Tokyo.” (creativesideblog.com)
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Tokyo & Yokohama by Night
Wow, this is a impressing time-lapse film - Andreas Doppelmayr shows parts of the two Japanese metropolises Tokyo and Yokohama from fantastic perspectives!
“This video was filmed during a couple of nights in Tokyo and one evening in Yokohama. It begins with a few clips from/ of/ around the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, continues with a short clip from the Akihabara electronics district, then a few shots of some construction work near Shibuya, some clips from Ginza, a shot of Shibuya, a few clips near the Imperial Palace, some stuff in the metro, and finishes off with a clip of the Yokohama Bay Bridge and skyline.” (A. Doppelmayr)
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