With New Year’s Day on a Sunday this year, Metro has decided to run 24-hour service on all five rail lines and the Orange Line busway beginning on Saturday night — New Year’s Eve — until the close of service on Monday night, Jan. 2. Free rides on all Metro [continue reading]
photo by Clare Griffiths, via Flickr creative commons Regent Street in London this holiday season. Very nice. The photo was taken with a Nikon D90. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it to Metro’s Flickr group, email it to sourcemetro@gmail.com or Tweet it to @metrolosangeles with an #artoftransit hashtag. Many of [continue reading]
Photo by Friend of Expo Line, via submission Nice shot of an Expo Line train crossing Adams Boulevard. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it to Metro’s Flickr group, email it to sourcemetro@gmail.com or Tweet it to @metrolosangeles with an #artoftransit hashtag. Many of the photos we’ve featured can be seen [continue reading]
photo by Tomfalcon, via Flickr creative commons I have no idea where this was taken — I found it on Flickr while surfing through dozens of boring and bad photos of buses that users had posted. The photo, titled “Bus No 3” was taken with the iPhone’s Instagram app. To [continue reading]
Sick of traffic? Done with smog? Well, you’re not the only one. This past Saturday, GOOD Attacks! took place right in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, and this intrepid Metro-ette was there right in the middle of the action. The gathering is the first in a series of events [continue reading]
photo by Martin Fisch, via Flickr creative commons Nice bit of night photography in this scene of pedestrians in Dresden, Germany, taken in 2008 with a Fujifilm FinePix F30. The shutter was kept open for a full second to help capture the detail and the movement of the vehicle. To [continue reading]
photo by Takato Marui, via Flickr creative commons As the owner of two dogs and a bicycle, I do not advise trying this or anywhere. The photo was taken in Osaka, Japan, in 2007. That’s one confident pooch. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it to Metro’s [continue reading]
I love Surfas. I love the cheeses and the rolling pins and the gadgets I’ll never use but think I need. I love the imprints of cooking utensils on the floor of the concrete entranceway and the endless metal shelves of pans and imported honeys and chocolates and couscous. Surfas [continue reading]
photo by Chris Goldberg, via Flickr creative commons Proof that a good eye, a point-and-shoot camera (a Canon PowerShot SD 780 IS) and being in the right place at the right time can go a long way. The photo was taken in 2009 at the New York subway’s 46th Street/Bliss [continue reading]
Drawing by Lise Petrauskas, via Flickr creative commons We usually post photos in our daily “art of transit.” But I’m more than happy to post drawings and paintings when they’re good and I can find them. This one was done on Adobe Ideas for Illustration. Even if you can’t draw [continue reading]
