One Minute Glimpses of True City Life

Afbeelding 9
If you’re curious what happens when a regular family in Addis Abeba wakes up, or how people are night clubbing in Hong Kong between four and five in the night, then you might like the City One Minutes website. It features movies from all around the world, selected by city and by time, which means 24 movies of each city which all represent one hour of a regular day. Artists and others are (still) being asked to portrait their city’s real life for the purpose to show a glimpse of real metropolitan life. I was quite impressed by the quality of some of the movies and got almost addicted watching them during the last days. The snapshot above represents a humorous fragment of a press conference in Baghdad. Below is represented how family parties are boring in the rest of the world as well.

Afbeelding 5
City One Minutes is an initiative of a couple of Dutch television channels, amongst public broadcasting organisation VPRO, in collaboration with the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam and the One Minutes Foundation. Context is a multimedia event about the future of the contemporary city.

  • E-mail this story to a friend!
  • del.icio.us
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • FriendFeed
  • Digg
  • Google Bookmarks
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati
  • Netvibes
  • LinkedIn
  • Posterous
  • Tumblr
This entry was posted in International Practices and tagged , , , , , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

4 Trackbacks

  1. By Twitted by joopdeboer on Tuesday August 25, 2009 at 2:39 am

    [...] This post was Twitted by joopdeboer [...]

  2. By S H O O K M A G /////// » News » True City Life on Friday August 28, 2009 at 6:52 pm

    [...] via PopUpCity [...]

  3. By City Life, One Minute At A Time - PSFK on Monday August 31, 2009 at 7:15 pm

    [...] [via Pop Up Cities] [...]

  4. By Um minuto em alguma parte do mundo « Papa loves my design on Tuesday September 1, 2009 at 5:00 am

    [...] O Cityoneminutes faz parte de um projeto maior, chamado Theoneminutes, que aceita contribuições e diversos tipos de registro em vídeo. Para mais informações e contribuições, clique aqui. [...]

Post a Comment

Your email is never published nor shared. Required fields are marked *

*
*

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>