This film produced by Skyward Film is an intriguing look at some of the iconic places in the Providence metropolitan area, with an special emphasis on the downtown area.
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Rhode Island Geography Education Alliance
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News, resources and professional development for the Rhode Island Geography Education Alliance http://rigea.org
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Seth Dixon
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Aerial video footage of Rhode Island in the US. Part of the Skyworks HD aerials video collection. SkyWorks films all over the world, including Wales, South Africa and Qatar...but I'm partial to their work right here in in the Ocean State. 
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How do you move a historic victorian mansion? Very carefully. In this case, it's the Peter Green House at Brown University, Providence RI.
Seth Dixon's insight:
Many cities wrestle with two important, but opposing mandates: modernize the infrastructure to improve the city and maintain the history of the neighborhood to preserve a sense of place. Most often these are not reconcilable, but with a whole lot of money, this is are very creative way to do both.
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"This song is a celebration of the beauty of the smallest state, by Timmy May, sung by David Kearsley."
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The Providence Journal featured this video recently. As stated in the article, "PVD Aerial Productions is a local production company that uses drones - better known in the industry as 'quad-copters' - to film and shoot land and cityscapes in Providence and surrounding towns. PVD Aerial's use of piloted quad-copters creates amazing footage for the viewer and captures what the average photographer cannot; shots at eye-level with structural bridges, looking down at the Battleship Cove, and even soaring above the Rhode Island Statehouse create an immersive viewing experience."
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Mark Colozzi of Ocean State Follies translates Rhode Islandese. I recorded most of Charlie Hall's Ocean State Follies performance at Rhode Island College (Oc...
This provides a humorous look at a regionally distinct accent and way of speaking from the city I live in, Cranston, RI. This might be tough to follow for some non-Rhode Islanders since many local places, stores and institutions referenced as deeply local.
(As a side note, this version was performed on my college campus and I'm actually in the background of the video since I was running the book sale as a fundraiser for the Shinn Study Abroad Committee. At the 2:30 mark, I'm the guy in the green shirt behind the Cranston sign)
Elizabeth Bitgood's curator insight,
January 29, 2014 3:34 PM
This funny video highlights how phonetically different words are in different dialects. This is focused on the sound of the Rhode Island accent and it was interesting to see how the words were spelled when written phonetically. |
