Swamplot Archives by Tag: Videos

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Super Cheese: The Hot Hot Pies of Buffalo Speedway

Soon to be a rather graphic novel: Yehudi Mercado’s story of crime, lust, and pepperoni in Houston’s hot-Rocketing summer of ’94.

Ever order from Turbo Pizza on Buffalo Speedway? Gotta recommend the Meat Madness Big Freak.

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Friday, February 19, 2010

Second HPD HQ Drive-By: There’s a Cruiser in There Now

Video: Christian Sheridan, Brave/Architecture

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Monday, February 15, 2010

Land Art: All Your Favorite Local Petrochemical Plants

Ready, at last, for the small screen: This lingering aerial tour of Houston’s rich natural and nature-processing landscape, straight from last year’s Center for Land Use Interpretation exhibit on Texas Oil.

Put on your headphones, turn up the volume, and take it all in!

Our journey takes us east from the 610 Loop and ends at the liftoff point for the Fred Hartman Bridge at Highway 146. When they gonna come back and give us some Baytown?

Video: CLUI

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Thursday, February 11, 2010

You Are Weird Peculiar Odd: Mr. Boxhead Does Montrose

With cameo appearances at all your favorite ’trose haunts. And yes, somehow, this is a church video.

Video: Awakenings Movement

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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Dance of the Austin Garbage Trucks

You’ll have to wait until later in the year before you can see the complete movie, but filmmaker Andrew Garrison has just released these excerpts from his new feature, called “Trash Dance.” The film documents the creation of last September’s performance of The Trash Project, organized by choreographer Allison Orr of Forklift Danceworks and performed by the nimble artists of Austin’s Solid Waste Services Department. (For full effect, we recommend viewing the HD version.)

Video: Andrew Garrison

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Monday, January 11, 2010

The Very, Very Good Friends of Hermann Park

And now we return once again to Swamplot’s continuing series on love, lust, and Houston’s public spaces. The obelisk of her affection: Hermann Park’s Pioneer Memorial. Next up: A Miniature Choo-Choo Train Named Desire.

Note: Audio possibly NSFW.

Video: sergio

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Monday, January 4, 2010

Bolivar’s Travails: The Slide Show

And now our feature presentation: an artists’ video on the Bolivar Peninsula left behind by Hurricane Ike, with commentary from former residents.

Photos: Bert Long. Video: Kelly Klaasmeyer and Bert Long

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Monday, December 14, 2009

Ocean Tower Demo: How They’re Making More Sand on South Padre Island

You know you want to see it: Yesterday’s “controlled demolition” of the hobbled 31-story Ocean Tower condo at the northern end of South Padre Island. Controlled Demolition’s dynamite work took down the tallest reinforced-concrete structure ever to be imploded.

A few more videos below. South Padre sure knows how to party!

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On Top of Spaghetti: Video Preview of a New and Better Tangle at 290 and Beltway 8



Thanks to the
reader who passed along this flyover video showing what a fat, happy, and rebuilt Highway 290 will look like as it wraps its newly grown tentacles around Beltway 8. The video comes from TxDOT’s fancy new my290.com website, which attempts to bring to the planned multi-billion-dollar highway widening program the feel-good vibe of a community barnraising. When construction begins in 2011, will we be able to follow the construction workers as they tweet?

The site features current maps and details of the plans for US 290 and the Hempstead Tollway. Notes the reader: “Looks like the NW mall is history, well, at least most of the parking lot.” Here’s a view:

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Friday, December 4, 2009

The Valet Will Bring Your Car Around in a Moment

Video: James Blanton

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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

What You Missed Overnight at the Hotel ZaZa

Video: Helsinki Films

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Latest Entry in the International Houston Bicycle Video Competition

Video: Aubin Malassagne; music: Le Comte de Fourques

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Thursday, October 22, 2009

A Place for Houston, in the Greater Scheme of Things

O Houston: In the ephemeral hurly-burly of daily life it’s often too easy to forget just why we’re here.

Video: Sharad Patel

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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Four New Houston Metro Rail Routes, As Seen from Above

Found: extrapolated video footage of Houston’s soon-to-be light-rail routes, as viewed from . . . a crop duster. Hang time for the 4 routes shown: 8 minutes and 8 seconds. Your travel time and elevation may vary.

MIA: The University Line.

How old are these renderings, anyway?

Video: Gino Martin

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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Houston Bayou Ballet: Dance of the Upper Ship Channel

And now, a rare look at the Second Ward’s indigenous Ship Channel dance ceremony, performed along the gentle banks of Buffalo Bayou and celebrating the bountiful fall harvest of crushed concrete.

Video: Freneticore

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