Pike Place Market
Yesterday, I spent the entire morning doing something that only I would do. Well, except for Google.
I video recorded the entirety of Downtown Seattle, including Pioneer Square, Belltown, Denny Triangle, Pike/Pine, First Hill, The Waterfront, and the International District.
I started on Alaskan Way and worked my way back and forth, up and down the avenues with my camera rolling. When I was done, I then slalomed the individual streets to capture every major intersection in Seattle’s core.
Why?
Because I am Seattle Rex, and it needed to be done. At least it needed to be done to satisfy my own obsessive DIY ethos.
I thought about putting the journey into one long video, but even after editing out stoplights and slow traffic, I was still left with a whopping two hours of footage. Two long, nauseating, noise-filled, headache-inducing hours of footage. Clearly, something needed to be done.
The solution?
100 sped-up, wind-noise removed, bite-sized videos which, taken as a whole, represents the most complete video tour of Downtown Seattle (and adjacent neighborhoods) ever made by one human being.
This morning, I made 1st Avenue and Pike Place:
Download Video: MP4
It is what it is.
Sorry, I’m new to your blog. What are you on? Scooter or motorcycle? Something else entirely?
Yamaha Vino 125 Scooter. I’ve got pictures of it somewhere on the site.
me too I wonder car or bike, some area look too narrow for car
roller skates maybe?
Back in the day, I rollerbladed from Brooklyn, across the bridge, through Manhattan, and up to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. That was 12 years ago. I wouldn’t even entertain the thought of flying down 1st Ave and down the Pike bricks on rollerblades these days. My 10″ scooter wheels are as small as I will go, and they are plenty dodgy once I get over 40mph.
Hovercraft.
Land Speeder from Star Wars.
you still haven’t found the guy with the raw meat and the big sign offering kissing lessons, have you? I know it was not a figment of my drunken imagination, because Renee saw him too.