This week on the Gondola Project forum, in response to last week’s post about the future of aerial transit, there was a video response with the Jetson’s theme song displaying the idea of personalized flying mobiles. This got me thinking about both science fiction and outer space (since everything in that show appears to be...
It’s cheap. It’s German. It’s only €50,000. And it’s on eBay.
Thanks for Sean for sending along the following link. And note that while the videographer’s clear intention is to show how dangerous our intersections are, not a single person was injured during this piece. Enjoy: 3-Way Street from ronconcocacola on Vimeo.
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been trying to get a handle on our traffic here, where it’s been coming from and what people have been looking for. For that, I’ve obviously been using Google Analytics. Now there’s no question that Google’s presence and ubiquity have allowed sites like The Gondola Project to flourish...
According to a team of architecture students from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo an LA without cars would look very, very different (no kidding). It might even involve a few urban gondolas (at the 5:20 through till the 7:20 mark): Downtown Los Angeles from tam thien tran on Vimeo.
Thanks so much to Benjamin for letting me post this image. You can check out his flickr page here or some of his other work at www.levarwest.fr.
When you first drive through Mount Victoria Tunnel in Wellington, New Zealand it’s impossible to miss the fact that a whole lot of people are honking their horns for absolutely no apparent reason. But there is, in fact, a very good reason for this display that’s led to the Mount Vic becoming known locally as...
Is it art? Possibly. Depending on how you define it. If you want it to be art, then sure, call it art. Is it activism? In someone’s mind, it probably is. However, what the statement being made is anyone’s guess. Is it vandalism? Highly unlikely. But no doubt a group of people exist who’d like...
If only we had these guys to sell gondolas: Read the interview behind the video here.