A glimpse into a bustling city....

Bring a geographical lens to bear on what life is like for people in cities around the world...

What is life like for a rickshaw owner in Bangalore....


FOR HIRE! – BANGALORE RICKSHAW from Xaver Xylophon on Vimeo.

A wonderful animation...
Plenty that you could do with this....
How would you use it ???

Green, yellow, black. They are the blood in the veins of Bangalore: the 450.000 rickshaws and their drivers. Knocked together from bits and pieces, decorated, ready for the junk heap or carefully maintained like antique cars, the vehicles are as charismatic as their owners, who brave the monstrous traffic of this metropolis daringly, sleepy, chattering or stoic, making sure the passanger's trip from A to B will be full of memorable experiences.

Based on days of riding around in rickshaws and drawings made locally, this animation captures the tough workaday life of a rickshaw driver, seen through the eyes of a European visitor.

Result of a one month trip to Bangalore, India as part of the project "The Law of the Market" at the University of Arts Berlin Weißensee, 2011

Thanks to Anne Greaves for the tipoff to this resource