Carmageddon: It’s a wonderful neologism that Los Angeles residents have coined to describe this weekend’s planned closure of the 405 Freeway, a road that carries more than 280,000 cars per day across L.A. The city plans to close a 10-mile section of Interstate 405, starting at 7 p.m. Friday and reopening at 6 a.m. Monday.
Although Carmageddon promises to be a kind of hell on earth for motorists who are trying to get somewhere in LA, this video from director Ross Ching paints a more serene picture of what the highways of Los Angeles will look like without cars.
Obviously, Ching didn’t block the highway or travel forward in time. Instead he employed all kind of CGI wizardry to nix the cars (you can read about the process on his website).
The result reminds us of Idiot With A Tripod, an homage to Dziga Vertovâs 1929 Man With a Movie Camera that filmmaker Jamie Stuart made during one of New York’s many blizzards this past winter. In this case, the homage is to apocalyptic movies like 28 Days Later.
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Although Carmageddon promises to be a kind of hell on earth for motorists who are trying to get somewhere in LA, this video from director Ross Ching paints a more serene picture of what the highways of Los Angeles will look like without cars.
Obviously, Ching didn’t block the highway or travel forward in time. Instead he employed all kind of CGI wizardry to nix the cars (you can read about the process on his website).
The result reminds us of Idiot With A Tripod, an homage to Dziga Vertovâs 1929 Man With a Movie Camera that filmmaker Jamie Stuart made during one of New York’s many blizzards this past winter. In this case, the homage is to apocalyptic movies like 28 Days Later.
[via Gizmodo]
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