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 [...]
Streetfilms, in collaboration with Streets Education, is first-day-of-school excited to announce the release of Moving Beyond the Automobile’s companion curriculum. Geared toward high school and college students, but easily adaptable for other audiences, the curriculum uses concepts from our Moving Beyond the Automobile (MBA) series, like transit oriented development, bus rapid transit and bicycling to [...]
Every so often, we'll strive to use this space to highlight some works out there we think are deserving of your attention. To be honest, being in this field and doing as much work as we do, sometimes it can be tough to find endorse-able work. But lately there has been a crop of shorts [...]
Since I've been producing Streetfilms (at last count 196) rarely do I come across work in our field that I find monumentally enlightening, savvy, or high-caliber. But the latest blog post from David Hembrow's "A View from the Cycle Path..." contains an embedded video produced by Mark Wagenbuur that left me in awe. The video [...]
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