For the DIY multimedia stoner crowd, train cab videos pair incredibly well with music (this deep house mix set to a ride from Brussels to Amsterdam is particularly good), but the beauty of the medium is that you can do whatever you want with it, just like with the human mind itself.
Lucjan Igras and his truck, which he calls the Black Pearl, are the latest subjects of "Welcome to My Cab," a Web video series produced by Volvo Trucks intended to showcase the comfort and utility of its truck interiors.
He is recommending that the Taxi and Limousine Commission mandate that all livery cabs have partitions, as all medallion cabs do now, or video cameras.
An interactive education center shows how steam engines work, and visitors can operate the controls of a freight locomotive in a cab simulator as a video screen displays a local run.
In fact, CEO Travis Kalanick was charged with breaking local transportation laws, which could potentially result in a fine or prison sentence, and Seoul has threatened to ban the company, though it is still operating in the city and popular with riders who have trouble hailing a cab during peak hours (video link).
Soon, people were making videos of cab rides, homeless people and fish swimming in an aquarium.
The videos are scheduled to run for two weeks on the screens in New York City taxi cabs that are operated by Taxi TV.
Brydon's heartbreaking, semi-delusional monologues created dramatic tension even while the cab was parked; the DIY video diary conceit helped explain away any technical shortcomings; and the prosaic backdrop echoed Keith's own emptied life.
Her performances of "Age" on the cult video site Black Cab Sessions and "No Room for Doubt" on La Blogothèque created an online buzz, but it was a recent appearance on BBC's Later With Jools Holland that officially announced her arrival.
You see, what began with a Dublin cab driver posting a YouTube video of someone ditching on paying his cab fare became a landmark ruling in Europe earlier this May that gives individuals the right to erase what they don't like displayed about themselves publicly online.
