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Movieline’s Interactive Drive Map: Explore Los Angeles With Director Nicolas Winding Refn

Few films in recent memory traverse the urban terrain of Los Angeles as memorably as Nicolas Winding Refn ‘s Drive , the stylish, sublime (and yes, ultra-violent) September 16 “fairytale” starring Ryan Gosling as a soft-spoken stunt man who gets mixed up with vicious gangsters in the city of angels. Using practical locations from downtown to the Valley, Refn paints a portrait of L.A. seldom seen in even the best L.A. stories — and with nary a glimpse of glitzy Hollywood in sight. Dive into Movieline’s interactive Drive map and explore the landscape of Refn’s Los Angeles, in the director’s own words.

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Movieline’s Interactive Drive Map: Explore Los Angeles With Director Nicolas Winding Refn

Allied Container Systems Builds Entire Cities From Shipping Containers

Images credit ACS TreeHugger has shown quite a few shipping container houses and even a few shipping container buildings , but never anything on the scale of the work of Allied Container Systems ; they build entire cities out of shipping containers. But they are not inhabited; they are giant sets, training facilities for Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) There are lots … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Allied Container Systems Builds Entire Cities From Shipping Containers