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San Diego traffic, organized by color, is surprisingly hypnotic

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Filmmaker Cy Kuckenbaker is back to delight our eyeballs with a meticulously edited 4-minute video of traffic footage shot from San Diego’s Washington Street bridge – which doesn’t sound something you’d want to spend four minutes watching, but then maybe you don’t know who Kuckenbaker is, or the time-(col)lapse wizardry he’s capable of.

https://gizmodo.com/five-hours-of-planes-landing-at-san-diego-international-5965233

Writes Kuckenbaker:

The source footage for this video is a 4-minute shot from the Washington Street bridge above State Route 163 in San Diego captured at 2:39pm Oct 1, 2013. My aim is to reveal the color palette and color preferences of contemporary San Diego drivers in addition to traffic patterns and volumes. There are no CG elements, these are all real cars that have been removed from one sample and reorganized.

Here is the source video from which the above edit is compiled:

You’ll find more details on Kuckenbaker’s methodology on his website.

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