Videos

Lo-ResTV: Holidays light up Philly

By: Charles Michael Fulton, 12/18/2008

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the City of Brotherly Love, where lights and holiday displays illuminate streets and squares throughout Center City and the neighborhoods. Check out our video essay of Philly's finest light displays and hear what Philadelphians love most about the holidays in their city: the lights, music, energy and festivity of people out on the streets. And, of course, the Mummers.

Philadelphia

Lo-ResTV: 100K House Update - 12.5.08

By: John Davidson, 12/11/2008

A little more than two months after they broke ground, Keystone Edge checked in with Chad Ludeman and Nic Darling of the 100K House project to get a look at the Commonwealth's first-ever LEED Platinum certified single-family homes. Both houses--the larger, $120,000 version and the smaller, $100,000 one--are coming along apace and, when completed, might just change the way houses are built.

Entrepreneurship , Sustainability

Philadelphia

Lo-ResTV: Waterfront Nature Trail Opens at Pennypack on the Delaware Park

By: John Davidson, 12/4/2008

Philadelphia and Commonwealth officials unveiled the first completed stage of a sweeping plan to transform industrial sites along Philadelphia's Delaware Riverfront late last month, cutting the ribbon on a wide, paved nature trail at Pennypack on the Delaware Park. It's the first stretch of a public trail and park system that will extend 11 miles between Pulaski Park in Port Richmond and the Glen Foerd Mansion in Torresdale.

Sustainability

Philadelphia

Lo-ResTV: The First Annual Three Rivers Film Symposium

By: Ben Hernstrom, 11/20/2008

Pittsburgh is buzzing with filmmakers and cinephiles this week for the 27th annual Three Rivers Film Festival, which this year included the first-ever Three Rivers Film Symposium. The topic of discussion: Short films. So we made one. About the symposium.

Entertainment Technology

Pittsburgh

Lo-ResTV: Andy Warhol Museum

By: Pop City, 11/13/2008

Pittsburgh's Andy Warhol Museum is more than a storehouse for art--it's a vibrant cultural center teeming with multi-media exhibitions, events and performances. Currently, it's host to 1958, an exhibit that helps commemorate the 250th anniversary of Pittsburgh by referencing the last time the city celebrated an important anniversary.

Pittsburgh

Lo-ResTV: Phillies World Series Celebration - Time Lapse at City Hall

By: Jamie Moffett, 11/6/2008

After the Phillies won the World Series last week, thousands of crazed Phillies fans poured into the streets and made their way down Broad Street toward City Hall. Philly filmmaker Jamie Moffett set up a camera at Broad and Pine, looking north toward City Hall, and captured the jubilant mayhem.

Philadelphia

Lo-ResTV: PodCamp Pittsburgh 3

By: Ben Hernstrom, 10/30/2008

Bloggers, vloggers, twitterers, podcasters and social media types of every stripe gathered for the third annual PodCamp Pittsburgh on Oct. 18 and 19 at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. The free "unconference" was geared toward new media creators and hosted a wide variety of lectures and discussions on everything from how to build a social media business plan to best video compression practices to finding podcast-safe music.

Entertainment Technology , Social Media

Pittsburgh

Lo-ResTV: Art Buggy Derby 3.0, "Buggy to the Bone"

By: Charles Michael Fulton, 10/23/2008

The third annual Art Buggy Derby, a combination of engineering and art and racing and weirdness, took over Philadelphia's Washington Square Park on October 19 with all manner of strange, art-making contraptions and costumed competitors. The idea behind the event is to build a foot-powered buggy that actually makes some kind of art as it's propelled along the course. It's the kind of thing you have to see to understand, so we made a video.

Philadelphia

Lo-ResTV: International Conference on Entertainment Computing at CMU

By: Ben Hernstrom, 10/16/2008

Top video game researchers and developers from across the globe--as well as R2D2 and other robots--gathered at CMU's Entertainment Technology Center last month for the International Conference on Entertainment Computing. The three-day conference also attracted leaders in cultural studies and the humanities, who joined discussions about the future of video games, speculating they will eventually become ubiquitous and widely accepted as educational, research and everyday tools of the future.

Entertainment Technology , Higher Education

Pittsburgh

Lo-ResTV: Philly Does PARK(ing) Day

By: John Davidson, 10/10/2008

If Center City Philadelphia seemed greener one Saturday last month, that's because it was. For the first time in Philly, some 30 groups participated in PARK(ing) Day, an international event that draws attention to open and green space issues by taking over metered parking spaces and turning them into mini parks, lounges, or anything but a parking place for a car.