As you may know, Transportation Alternatives put on a red carpet premiere Tuesday night for the "Biking Rules" PSA competition at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The contest pitted video entries against each other in two main categories: "Why Biking Rules" and "Street Code." Videos in the Street Code category encourage people to use lights, [...]
Today brings a double-barreled whammy of great Streetfilms news to report.
First in Seattle, bike-riding campaigner Mike McGinn has pulled off a big upset to become the new Mayor-elect. Though he brings a pro-transit, more livable city message into office, we are particularly proud that on the front page of his campaign website he featured our [...]
It's been a long time coming, but Streetfilms finally has a new look that we hope will help visitors find more of their favorite films (check out fun rotating categories like, "Ciclovia Explosion!") and ultimately watch more movies and spread the love amongst your fellow advocates.
The first change you'll probably notice: our home page now [...]
Hey Streetfilms Fans! After Brian Leher became a victim of bicycle theft earlier this week, he invited Hal Ruzel into the studio for some lessons in bike locking. You may remember Hal from such Streetfilms as Hal Grades Your Bike Locking 3: The Final Warning and Hal (and Kerri) Grade Your Bike Locking.
Brian mentions some [...]
We are proud to report that the official number of plays of all Streetfilms has now reached 2 million! That's it, end of news item.
Just a few quick items...
1 - April brings us another record breaking month. Nearly 50K visitors to the site. Hooray!
2 - We also shattered our number for unique visitors checking out Streetfilms for ze month.
3 - Thanks to two extremely well performing Streetfilms posting simultaneously, Thursday, April 30th was the most traffic we have ever had [...]
Just catching up here with a few news items. Firstly, we won our Category against 16 other competitors in Treehugger's First Annual "Best of Green" awards. Our nomination: Best Green Advocacy. Thanks for everyone who voted for us!
As you begin to watch our newest posts, you'll see we are using new spanky animated supers. We [...]
Published a little over two years ago, our Streefilm The Case for Physically Separated bike lanes has become our first with 100,000 plays. The film basically got birthed one day when our Executive Director Mark Gorton was out with me shooting on the streets near our West Village Office and he said he wanted to [...]
Wow! We are honored. Treehugger daily blogs dozens of green-goings-on throughout the U.S. and the world everyday (so many some say it is hard to read them all!) We get regularly featured with some of our films and we are very thankful. But even more exciting is the fact that Streetfilms, [...]
As Livable Streets nationwide starts to gather momentum and seeking out how safer and saner streets can look, the numbers of people visiting Streetfilms continues to grow. This lovely month of March saw over 45,000 people visit (with 21,000 of those visitors unique, also a record!) But as usual with us, that only [...]
Whenever we can we like to toot our own horn. Imagine how good it felt to receive the following e-mail. (Still waiting confirmation on whether the sender doesn't mind his name and deets being used, so for now we removed some of the facts or personal info.)
Hi, my name is XXXX and I [...]
Just slapping ourselves on the backs again. The count at the number of Streetfilms plays now stands right around 1.5 million! Great numbers. And we have lots of videos in the works that feature cities as diverse as: São Paolo, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, and Curitiba. Stay tuned!
We have more and more people in their own communities out shooting their own "streetfilms" style shorts (notice the lowercase use there.) And whether it be a public screening or via e-mail, we frequently get asked advice on best techniques to use, what our story selection process is and what makes our films so effective. [...]
Streetfilms and the Livable Streets Initiative joined Manhattan Community Boards 2 and 4 and NYU's Office of Government and Community Affairs on Tuesday evening to present, A Streetfilms Festival: Selected Shorts on Community-Building Streets. Gracefully MC'ed by Shirley Secunda of Manhattan Community Board 2, the program placed emphasis on how individuals and communities can engage [...]
Yo, check it out! As of Monday, Streetfilms is chillin' in Brooklyn's D.U.M.B.O. at the Green Desk building at 155 Water Street. For the interim we have re-located there (along with our sister site Streetsblog, the Livable Streets Education group, and Gotham Schools blog) as we wait for newer and more expansive offices [...]
Manhattan Community Boards 2 & 4 and NYU's Department of Government and Community Affairs, are sponsoring a "Streetfilms Festival: Selected Shorts on Community-Building Streets," on Tuesday February 3 at NYU's Casa Italiana. DOT commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan will be introducing the films and other special guests will speak on a panel following. Click the [...]
Just a reminder, if you are on Facebook then you should join our Streetfilms page. We are nearing the 300 mark and unlike a lot of pages that are created and you join and then nothing beneficial ever happens, we actually send out a weekly notice and give exclusive notice on some postings. We [...]
If you are a Philadelphia resident, don't miss this chance to get to see over an hour of Streetfilms on the big screen!
We'll be showing an hour of Streetfilms, concluding with a final flurry of all of the bike-share films we have put together for the site at the Academy for Natural Sciences. The [...]
The Museum of the City of New York debuted it’s exhibit, “Growing and Greening New York: PlaNYC and the Future of the City” last night, on an unusually balmy December evening.
The exhibit guides visitors through a 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekday, using elements of everyday life to help people explore, imagine and realize a [...]