For this week’s activity asset profile video, I returned to the archives from the 2018 PeopleForBikes Big Jump Project Study Tour to produce this little video montage of previously never-released b-roll footage with natural sounds. I hope you enjoy it.
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Credits: Video and audio production by John Simmerman
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Hi Everyone! My name is John Simmerman, and I’m a health promotion and public health professional with over 30 years of experience. Over the years, my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization in how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility.
Since 2010, I’ve been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be while striving to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a “Culture of Activity” for “All Ages & Abilities.”
The Active Towns Channel features my original video content and reflections, including a selection of podcast episodes and short films profiling the positive and inspiring efforts happening around the world as I am able to experience and document them.
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Creative Commons License: Attributions, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives, 2024
11 Comments
No phat-bikes. Those were the days…
Multiple camera shots include crimes being committed on bicycles… The only way a mobile phone is allowed to be used on a bicycle is with a device on your steering wheel, holding it in hand is punishable with a 95 euro fine.
Hi John, thank you for showing this footage. you are literaly show the roads i used on an almost daily bases on my commute to school and work. so many (happy) memories. a great way to start my day. you made my day mate
Wow people look so relaxed and at ease as they cycle through the city, I live in Greater Manchester, Britain I am always nervous when I go on British roads it’s the polar opposite of Amsterdam. Car drivers have a real hatred of cyclist’s, it’s not a good atmosphere.
Too narrow bike lanes and cycle paths, there should be more one way streets to make room for more bicycle space.
I like the view at 10:20 to 10:30 of the little one in the children’s seat up front with mom signaling that the bicycle is going straight on instead of going to the right. Mom is relying on the little one to signal (He could also have pointed at something but that would be a coincidence at that moment). A Dutch proverb is very fitting here: Jong geleerd is oud gedaan. Translated in English (maybe? I’m not sure): learned young is done old. Meaning something like, never learn young enough so you never forget, because it’s important in life.
A perfect backdrop of sights and sounds for a Sunday afternoon.
Walking, cycling, public transport and cars. Great cities provide all options.
I hear a lot of motor scooter engines.
This shot always makes me think of the speedboat chase on the canals of Amsterdam in the movie Amsterdamned: https://youtu.be/bAl1ZHB3Wb0?si=Bn8yUlS8vXtpX1xT?t=182
Good pics of Amsterdam.