Comments on: Portland’s Sunday Parkways

By: shannon

shannon — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:15:17 +0000

i wish we were closer..this looks like a really great event!!!

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:15:28 +0000

My wife and I participated in this. It was wonderful!

By: Angela

Angela — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:51:18 +0000

This is a great event!

By: Paul Tay

Paul Tay — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:30:31 +0000

Clarence, you NEED Aaron's tandem 'bent. It's the PERFECT shooting platform for low-speed work that's faster than a dolly. Imagine outfitting it with SteadiCam!

By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:36:49 +0000

I'm so glad that Coach Dan brought his magic wand. Our favorite Brooklynite might never have witnessed this otherwise!

Thanks Clarence. I trust you'll be on hand to document New York's upcoming parkways and help fuel what can only be a beneficial rivalry.

By: Joe Adamski

Joe Adamski — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:53:54 +0000

A great event,and a wonderful comnunity builder. Its a pleasure to watch so many people having a great time, focusing on fun, not consumption. It also shows how many people would be out there if they felt as safe on the streets as they did during Parkways.

Great video work. I very much enjoyed watching it, not only for the subject,but the quality of work!

By: Scott for npGREENWAY

Scott for npGREENWAY — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:18:33 +0000

Thanks Clarence! As I've come to expect from you--this is FANTASTIC work! You know your art form well.

I wish you could have been here last night when we watched it at home and my son said with gleeful discovery, "That's why that man with that big camera kept showing up in the same places as us! He made a video! There we are again!"

Looking forward to your Portland Bike Box video. My family and I still love the NYC bike box video. It's now a classic. --see ya on the streets!

By: Lois Moss

Lois Moss — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:30:17 +0000

Sunday Parkways was amazing, the people of Portland are incredible and Clarence is the best videographer on the planet. Streetfilms communicates the message better than any medium I've ever seen. Print articles are good, websites are better but nothing says it like Streetfilms! I'm sending it to everyone I know so that Walk+Roll Cleveland and Walk+Roll Lakewood can see the vision and be the vision.

By: Clarence Eckerson, Jr.

Clarence Eckerson, Jr. — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:23:19 +0000

Yeah, don't you just love Jonathan's impersonation of Gil? Best one I have heard, ever!!

By: Dan I

Dan I — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:15:47 +0000

Now I can't wait for our own NYC version - Summer Streets! Coming in August!

Grumpy car-addicts, be gone!

By: bikeportland

bikeportland — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:09:50 +0000

great video Clarence... it does as good of a job as possible to capture the magic of this historic event.

i miss sunday parkways already and it's only been a few days. I sincerely hope Portland finds a way to make this a regular occurrence.

hopefully, your video will help inspire our city (and others) to find the political will to do just that.

"Can you imagine!"

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:47:31 +0000

Nicely done! Thanks for putting this together!

By: Steve Hoyt-McBeth

Steve Hoyt-McBeth — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:38:37 +0000

Great job Clarence! We've still got smiles on our faces here at PDOT about the event.

By: Timo

Timo — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:18:31 +0000

Wow! As Gil Penalosa would say, "It's fantastic!"
Leave it to Streetfilms to 'veni, vidi, video'.
Love your work, and link to it shamelessly over at http://www.GettingAroundPortland.org .
Thanks, and good luck with Summer Streets in August!