Saturday, May 16, 2009

short time-lapse videos of downtown

Midan Tahrir ("plaza of editors," as in newspaper editors, I think) is the focus of 20th century Cairo. It's a giant traffic circle with, among other things, the Egyptian Museum, the Mugamma (like a national city hall), and two KFCs, and provides a strangely popular place for young couples to sit evenings holding hands, inhaling the exhaust, and watching the world spin around them. These are time-lapse, so no cacophony.

These are taken off to the side of the circle, in front of the Mugamma.




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