It's Friday -- and the kick-off to a holiday weekend, no less -- so here's some Friday fun. It's especially appropriate for anyone who, like me, is absolutely dreading the Memorial Day weekend traffic in the parking lot known as Los Angeles. The concept: What does Los Angeles look like, without all the cars?
The video is short at only 81 seconds, but it's real. L.A.-based filmmaker Ross Ching put together the time-lapse scenes of actual, empty L.A. roads and highways. (And, frankly, 81 seconds without traffic in this city would be a miracle, let alone empty roads.) It's very cool, it's set to Radiohead, and it reminds you how beautiful a city Los Angeles really is, if you could just stop pounding your steering wheel and cursing the other million people on I-5 North. Enjoy.