Personal Videos of Your City - Page 2

SignalHillHiker · #21 Posted **Jun 21, 2014, 9:15 PM**

A brand new tour of Rabbittown and Kenmount Road, courtesy of jeddy1989 and I. Filmed yesterday.

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SignalHillHiker · #22 Posted **Jun 21, 2014, 10:00 PM**

And you can join me on my hike today. I only went 8 km but you'll see whales and the tail end of an iceberg foundering.

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giallo · #23 Posted **Jul 28, 2014, 3:53 AM**

There was a big storm in Shanghai last night. Here's a short video I shot at the tail-end of it.

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giallo · #24 Posted **Aug 1, 2014, 3:20 AM**

Some continuous footage of Nanjing Pedestrian Street I shot the other day. It's one of the busiest streets in Shanghai, and a major tourist destination/trap.

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SignalHillHiker · #25 Posted **Aug 3, 2014, 11:01 AM**

The thunderstorm one is my favourite yet.

It's so beautiful.

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So, last night I went to the village of Witless Bay for their annual Puffin Fest. It was awesome. I loved every second.

It's on the Irish Shore south of St. John's (it took me about an hour to get there because there's a bridge closed with a detour along the way). I went with the family of an ex I dated in high school. He wasn't able to be there (he's off at a work site), but his sisters and I are still good buddies.

It's a completely different world from the city, in a very enjoyable way. First of all, all of the middle-aged men and women in the village were babysitting, or serving as designated drivers - ferrying people to and from the field to their houses.

The accents are very Irish; the vulgarity and humour as strong as it gets in Newfoundland.

"Mom! Mom! Mom! Mom! Mom! MOM! MOMMY! MOMMY! MOMMA! MOMMA! MOM!"
- "If you don't shut the fuck up I'm going to throw meself off the Jesus wharf."

Everyone - and I mean everyone - was intimately familiar with Alberta. They were all reminiscing about the time 18 of them shared a house in Edmonton, and similar stories. They were all counting down the days until so-and-so gets home or goes back.

They all hate Fort Mac ("the hell of all hells"), and all try instead to get work in Edmonton. They can talk about neighbourhoods of Edmonton like it was just up the road.

The percentage of drop-dead gorgeous people was quite high as well. Don't get me wrong, there were plenty there as homely as me - but I spent half the night flirting. Very LGBT-friendly out there too, which was nice. There were at least three different gay couples dancing, holding hands, etc. It was just fantastic.

WARNING: Coarse language.

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giallo · #26 Posted **Aug 4, 2014, 3:31 AM**

Fun video with some very thick accents.

Favourite part - Trying to navigate the road with all the drunk people walking in the middle of it.

giallo · #27 Posted **Aug 6, 2014, 8:12 AM**

A very quiet Bund.

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giallo · #28 Posted **Aug 8, 2014, 9:08 AM**

I tried to make the perspective match up with my last video. There's a nighttime cityscape at the end.

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giallo · #29 Posted **Aug 8, 2014, 11:32 AM**

Decent lil' sunset I saw while in a taxi on the expressway.

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SignalHillHiker · #30 Posted **Aug 8, 2014, 10:19 PM**

I LOVE the last vid.

SignalHillHiker · #31 Posted **Aug 9, 2014, 10:08 AM**

The Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra at the grand opening of 351 Water Street. Hilarious, as always.

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SignalHillHiker · #32 Posted **Aug 9, 2014, 2:11 PM**

A compilation of some of the beautiful views from my hike the other day.

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FrAnKs · #33 Posted **Aug 9, 2014, 2:16 PM**

Awesome Ryan ! I LOVE the real sound

Btw, do you have a random hair in your lens ?

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Filmed by me yesterday.

A73 South

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A73 north

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Bcasey25raptor · #34 Posted **Aug 9, 2014, 9:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by giallo

Here's a cityscape video from my apartment. You can see parts of the Luwan, Jing An and Huangpu district in the video.

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The air looks so clean.

I have a question for you, We in north america are coinstantly bombarded by images of smog filled chinese cities like Beijing and shanghai. Is this common and truthful? Or is this another case of western media exaggerating everything?

giallo · #35 Posted **Aug 9, 2014, 11:11 PM**

It's a bit of both. Beijing and (to a lesser extent) Shanghai have some severely bad days of air pollution. Most of them happen in the winter when the coal factories are running at their highest capacity to heat homes in the northern/central part of the country. Summer is totally different. The air is a lot better with way more blue sky days.

Western media seems to only show pictures of Beijing or Shanghai that were taken in the winter months. It's pretty rare to read a story about China with a blue sky image of any Chinese city.

This is the most frequently discussed topic whenever I post pictures of a clear sky Shanghai. On Flickr, Facebook etc, I always get questions asking if I photoshopped the picture.

This photo, for instance, had people (none of which had ever been to China) convinced that I did some kind of photoshop wizardry to it.

pristine by matteroffact, on Flickr

kool maudit · #36 Posted **Aug 9, 2014, 11:14 PM**

these are great. loving this chance to take a look at shanghai.

SignalHillHiker · #37 Posted **Aug 12, 2014, 8:59 PM**

Le sigh... ;-)

This is the most prominent one in St. John's now that the huge one on top of the Southside Hills has blown down:

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And this is the most prominent one on me:

giallo · #38 Posted **Aug 13, 2014, 3:21 AM**

Beautiful-looking street. Are they going to replace the old flag?

giallo · #39 Posted **Aug 15, 2014, 3:32 AM**

This is from Summer 2012 (the Shanghai Tower is just a baby). It's from the rooftop of the yet-to-be-completed Shangri-La Hotel. An amazing view that isn't available to the public.

*Watch until the end to see what I was standing on while filming this*

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Metro-One · #40 Posted **Aug 17, 2014, 12:43 AM**

You have some rocking views in Shanghai!