Saturday was another spectacular debut for NYC's Summer Streets 2010. As usual, lots of antics, fun and modes of recreating, but the big story was the new trio of "dumpster pools" installed in the shadow of Grand Central on 40th street.
One of the most amazing aspects of Summer Streets is how many folks you will [...]
Streetfilms has been working for the past few months to make videos even easier to access and at a higher quality. We've done this by migrating Streetfilms' entire video library to host on Vimeo, the user generated video sharing website.
Streetfilms.org will still work and look the same, but by hosting vidoes on [...]
Streetfilms, Streets Education and some of our very fantastical friends, had a fun and furry-ious day on the streets of Park Slope yesterday as we began production on the upcoming Zozo video series. If you haven’t heard, Zozo is a large purple creature who likes green transportation and public spaces. Want to learn more about [...]
Bike! Bike! is an annual international conference organized by and for not-for-profit bike projects. It takes place in a different city each year. These conferences are a time for folks working on bike projects to come together and share ideas that will help them better serve their local communities. In between the annual meet-ups some [...]
Right now, OpenPlans (of which Streetfilms is a part of) is looking to hire a Director of Development for our entire organization. Click here to get more information.
In the near future, we are moving towards diversifying and expanding our funding sources - thus we need a smart, experienced and savvy person who is professional (but [...]
We get alot of letters, e-mail and feedback. Most of them heap praise upon us, and often include suggestions of ideas or places to visit. Some make us blush, some make us proud, and then there are some that are so amazingly original that we have to share.
Read these excerpts from fans Holly [...]
Do you or anyone you know get excited about transportation issues and key frames? Streetfilms and Streetsblog is looking for an experienced illustrator/animator to join our talented and good humored team of livable streets enthusiasts in our New York City office. Streetfilms produces videos that are short, enlightening, creative and entertaining and which make difficult [...]
Do you love the work Streetfilms has been doing? If so, we are asking fans and users of our movie materials for a little assistance.
As our mission continues, seeking out what is working best for livable cities, we are finding ourselves needing to raise some of our operating dollars so that we can continue to [...]
You are invited to the first you-gotta-be-there event of 2010. So don't be that I'm-so-sad-I-missed-it-person and plan to be there.
On Tuesday, January 19th we'll be hosting: “Streetfilms Spectacular 2010: A Celebration and Opportunity to Help Support the Future of Streetfilms” in the Penthouse at the Open Planning Project.
Come by and meet the team. See what [...]
For the end of this year, Streetfilms decided to do something fun: ask some of the most influential livable streets advocates, personalities, journalists and web folk which of the 90 films we produced this year impacted them most. Since we hit our millionth visitor this week and have recorded close to 2.5 million videos plays [...]
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