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I love timelapse videos of scramble intersections (like this one of Tokyo’s famous Shibuya crossing). Here’s another one below that was shot by Sam Javanrouh of Toronto’s first scamble intersection at the corner of Yonge and Dundas. A writer at the Canadian Globe and Mail describes: “The launch of Toronto’s new “scramble” intersection - which stops motorized traffic and allows pedestrians to cross in all directions, even diagonally - felt a bit like a street party yesterday as thousands enjoyed a certain frisson from cutting across the middle of Yonge and Dundas Streets while cars had to wait.”

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Welcome! Here’s to the launch of our new site, PicoCool, dedicated to bringing you tiny and obscure content from the world of peer media, social networks and subcultures. Cool content from real people.

PicoCool is the first site to focus on the content being created by people on social networks and through peer media.  It’s not about who’s popular or who has the most points, it’s about the things we create, the ideas we have, and the creative or daily minutiae that makes us human. 

We cover underground trends, subcultures, art, human experiences, products, innovations, philosophies, digital living, the obscure and the tiny.  Somewhere in the undiscovered and the mundane lives real brilliance. PicoCool is about uncovering these microscopic moments when things first begin.

PicoCool is currently edited by Emily Chang (see about page). Soon, we’ll feature a team of worldwide editors and submissions by the PicoCool community of your peers. 

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