Every year the Institute for Transportation & Development Policy (ITDP) picks one or two cities deserving of the Sustainable Transport Award. San Francisco and Medellín, Colombia, are this year’s winners. Streetfilms worked with ITDP to document these two cities and we'll be releasing videos on each this spring. But since I just returned from Medellín, [...]
Danielle Baskin from Belle Helmets painted these beautiful and whimsical custom helmets for the Streetfilms crew!
SF: Tell us about your Bus Chick column. CS: I’ve been writing about what I call “transit culture” for almost six years. There are lots of people writing—probably a lot better than I could—about transit policy and urban planning. I sometimes touch on those subjects, but I’m much more interested in what’s happening on the ground: [...]
This was a great year for us at Streetfilms. And to show our appreciation to our supporters we figured we'd go the extra mile and post some really fun, oddball, and poignant moments we came across while filming this year. Most of these clips are 30 seconds or less, take a gander and have fun [...]
I’m pleased to announce that thanks to an outpouring of support these past two weeks, Streetsblog and Streetfilms are more than halfway to our goal of raising $25,000 by the end of the year. If you haven’t given yet and you value the high-impact reporting and videos that we produce day in and day out, [...]
Thanks to the over 100 of you who turned out for our annual fundraiser "Streets of the Future" at Bicycle Habitat in Brooklyn back in November. We were able to raise thousands of dollars to help fund our continued work. We especially want to thank our sponsors: Velojoy.com, Cycles Gladiator, Brooklyn Brewery, Adam White and [...]
Dear Streetfilms fans, Thanks to your help, Streetfilms is helping affect dramatic change in cities. Whether you live in Chicago or Tokyo, Streetfilms’ mission is to bring the livable streets movement to you by making films that show the best in bicycling, transit, pedestrian infrastructure, and public spaces. And with your donation today, we can [...]
Streetfilms: As you have traveled the country for Alta and been a part of so much positive change for bicycling, have you seen Streetfilms' influence? Mia Birk: In the past year, I've visited more than 60 cities in 15 states and 3 Canadian Provinces, giving speeches and conducting trainings. At practically every one of [...]
Clarence Eckerson Jr. with Gil Penalosa, Executive Director of 8-80 Cities at Guadalajara's RecreActiva. (Photo Gil Penalosa) Despite being saddled with a bad back & hip issues, I was thrilled to be able to visit Guadalajara, Mexico last week. Thanks to the kindness of my hosts, Guadalajara 2020, I was able to see much of [...]
Streetfilms: The 78th Playstreet in Jackson Heights has been an enormous success the last few years. How have the Playstreet Streetfilms helped? Donovan Finn: I don’t think you can easily quantify how much mileage we’ve gotten out of those two videos. Locally, we’ve promoted them on our website and community listervs and bulletin boards to [...]
On September 19th, Loeb Fellow and Streetsblog founder Aaron Naparstek put together a "Streetfilms Movie Night" at Harvard that enticed 130 folks to come meet Streetfilms' Director Clarence Eckerson Jr. The hour long program featured a myriad of favorites from over the years including "Revisiting Donald Appleyard's Livable Streets" to "Cycling Copenhagen thru North American Eyes" to "Clarence the Traffic Calming Sasquatch".
A few weeks ago, Portland, Oregon's City Council voted 4-1 to fund the development of a public bike share system in the Rose City. Right before the vote, Dan Bower made a presentation about the proposed project to the City Council, during which he screened our recent video, Nice Ride MN: Minnesota's Bike Share Expands. We [...]
We've just teamed up with the amazing movers and shakers at ioby to help realize the potential of NYC streets as places for people and not cars. Ioby connects local resources with local environmental projects, so that donors can directly benefit from the initiatives they support. Is that a great idea, or what? We think [...]
As we enter the final week of our fundraising drive, we wanted to share some of the wonderful feedback we’ve been getting from our supporters. We hope you will join them by making a donation today, so that we may reach our $25,000 goal by June 30th. Every donation to Streetfilms makes a difference, and [...]
Streetfilms is very excited about launching Universal Subtitles, a web-based video subtitling tool. Universal Subtitles uses crowd sourcing to allow viewers to translate and subtitle videos in any language, as well as improve upon existing translations. Read more about it in a post by Streetfilms’ technical lead, Chris Abraham. It’s super easy to use, fits [...]
Over the last years, Streetfilms has become a resource for people all over the world who are interested in improving the street life of their cities. People have also started to translate the films and create new videos with subtitles for their native audience. Here's an example of a Streetfilms video translated for Streets of [...]
Dear Streetfilms Supporters, A couple of weeks ago we launched our campaign to raise $25,000 by June 30th, and we can’t stop the momentum now! A big thanks goes out to all of you who have already donated. For the last five years, Streetfilms and Streetsblog have been the world leaders in showing how proper [...]
The first few months of 2011 have kept us on our toes here in NYC. The frivolous lawsuits are flying, the tabloid columnists and TV journos are on a mission to thwart anything that makes life better for pedestrians,cyclists, or bus riders, and a few City Council members and the Public Advocate seem to think that preventing street [...]
The Moving Beyond the Automobile (MBA) series has been a smashing success with the Streetfilms audience - advocates, educators and policy makers alike! Since we premiered the first films just three months ago, they have already received more than 75,000 video plays, and we’ve heard from dozens of individuals and groups planning community screenings. Now [...]
Listen, I'm all for writing cyclists tickets for riding the wrong way and especially for sidewalk riding. But today's crazy news from the NY Post that a cyclist was improperly ticketed for having a bag draped over her handlebars makes even those of us who thought they had seen everything wonder. It's the latest in [...]
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