February 09, 2007
Mumbai Traffic
So I still feel like I haven't been able to really "capture" just how crazy India was, but I figured that a little video might help. I shot these two videos out of the window of our bus while we were driving around Mumbai Thursday morning. It certainly doesn't capture the traffic, since I only shot while we were moving, not sitting still in the endless, complicated, and loud gridlock that gripped us for much of our movements.
It does, I think, give some sense of the landscape we were driving through—the mix of new things, old things, slums, humanity, and businesses, as well as the overall run-down-ness of nearly everything.
Also apologies for the bounciness, but neither the quality of Mumbai's roads nor the poor suspension on our bus were conducive to production-level video.
Here are the videos:
