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Cities. I am a city person - have always been. I am 28 years old, and I do not have a driver’s license because I have lived my whole adult life in cities. I am one of those. I rely on the pulse of the city to sustain me, to take me from the city centre to wherever I live. I rely on never living in the outbush of Australia, or in some American city where the bus leaves twice a day.

I love the architecture of a city. The social structures. How one new store here, a green area there, can change the dynamic of a whole street, or a whole area. I love how the city changes face - becomes something else at night. I love the fact that despite feeling that I know my city, I very often realize that - no - I do not know my city at all. There is always more to explore.

One of my favourite architecture books is “s,m,l,xl” by Rem Koolhaas and the other incredible minds at OMA. To me, this book is essential reading. [In my next life I will study architecture or city planning.]

In this life, however, I will try to figure out more about the architecture of information, and how the different services and agents of change affect each other.

One simple, almost banal observation is just the insane development we have had in the “vlogosphere” from 2004 till now. Back then having a successful videoblog could cause a huge economic burden to you. There was no Youtube back then, and no blip.tv. Today, you have those, and countless others, all wanting creative content, content that can - I guess - draw eyeballs to the site. Impressions.

This ecosystem of available destinations for our videos is really interesting. How will this develop?

I wish there were more “videoblogging think tanks”. But that’s another discussion.

I would Love to mix footage from Copenhagen with footage from your city. Please, if you have any footage from your city that involves travelling (bus, walking the streets, etc), let me know in the comments and we can together compare some of the aspects of these places.

Maybe we could play a game.

An architectural game in video.

Want to join?