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 & Istanbul City Portrait
After I wrote the article about this very impressive lime lapse video from the streets of New York in 2008, I got a lot of submissions with links to other more or less great videos about urban impressions.
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Shapes & Colors - The Exeter Academy Library
The Phillips Exeter Academy Library at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire is among the renowned masterworks of architect Louis Kahn. It is a prime example for modern, characterized by decorative concrete architecture.
This short film by Alex Roman gives an impressive insight into the fantastic building. It tells the story of various shapes and colors, which interacts with each-other.
Via farbwolke (ger)
The Shopping Cart Film
Are you even noticed the many shopping carts cruising through the cities? Or do you ever wonder how abandoned shopping carts end up?
Jesse Rostens short film “Cart” deals with those questions around the useful and often used, but mostly unloved everyday objects. He evokes them to life and impressed with wonderful pictures and a beautiful soundtrack. Also reasons why the film won the Best of Festival Film Award at the Sundial Film Festival 2009.
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Street Photography: Mauerpark Flea Market
In my opinion there is hardly nothing better than to spend half a day at a flea market. I like the tiny alleys between the almost infinite number of stalls and wagons. I love it to search and find things of which I never knew that they exist, handmade shirts, old books or crazy furnishings.
But what i like most, is to watch and photograph other people which are extremely absorbed in the search after a bargain! Flea markets are an indispensable element of urban landscape!
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Urban Photo Contest
Update: Here are the winners of the Urban Photo Contest…
Today it’s the launch-day of this new, independent, street, design, urban art & photography blog. To have a great start, I came up with the plan to do this photo contest with lots of great prizes!
Urban Photo Contest - Huh?!? First of all I have to say that this is an international photo contest and I hope that a lot of people will join the competition. The thematic priority of urbanartcore.eu is roughly speaking everything which has to do with “urban”. Hence the contest rules are very easy:
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