Game changer: scramble intersections
A scramble intersection stops all traffic. Pedestrians cross every which way. Tokyo has one. So does Toronto, at the corner of Yonge and Dundas streets.
Everything about this makes my head spin and drift inward in wonder: the compression of movement and mass through time lapse, the blink and it’s gone, the birds-eye view, the rethinking of the most ordinary of urban experiences: crossing the street.
It’s all metaphor and I don’t know what for. Yet. Earth? Information? Networks? Knowledge?
Thanks to Emily Chang at picocool for the link.
Scramble from Sam Javanrouh on Vimeo.
