MetaFilter posts tagged with TaxiDriver

A priest, a dominatrix and a brain surgeon walk into a bar

hoyland — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 06:35:53 -0800

Fifteen people summarise their jobs

Nicholas fing Witchell is doing a special report from the gates of the palace later on in the fing afternoon.

unSane — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:06:06 -0800

A taxi driver reacts to the most important news of the day. [NSFW language]

One guy lives in Main Street, U.S.A.. One guy lives in Tomorrowland.

griphus — Thu, 10 May 2012 06:36:31 -0800

Walt Disney's Taxi Driver.

Human GPS

vidur — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:15:39 -0800

"Piloting London’s distinctive black cabs (taxis to everyone else) is no easy feat. To earn the privilege, drivers have to pass an intense intellectual ordeal, known charmingly as The Knowledge. Ever since 1865, they’ve had to memorise the location of every street within six miles of Charing Cross – all 25,000 of the capital’s arteries, veins and capillaries. They also need to know the locations of 20,000 landmarks – museums, police stations, theatres, clubs, and more – and 320 routes that connect everything up." Acquiring The Knowledge changes the brains of those who acquire it.

"I'm no pusher. I never have pushed [taxicab medallions]."

obscurator — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:33:47 -0800

Last month, The Atlantic reported that since 1980s, the price of a metallic NYC taxi license has grown four-times faster than the average home or a brick of gold, claiming it to be a wonderful "inflation hedge." This report proved prescient; on Friday two such medallions (which merely represent the taxi's license) just sold for $1 million apiece — a 42% increase just since August. Also on Friday, mere hours after reading the newsstand headlines, Midtown Manhattan resident Tom Poteat looked down to see a medallion, unattached to its taxi, lying on the sidewalk.

Zahida Kazmi, Taxi Driver

bardophile — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 02:43:44 -0800

For the past two decades, Zahida Kazmi has been driving a cab in Pakistan.

New York, You've Changed

monospace — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:32:31 -0800

A New York City film location scout (mentioned before, here and here) revisits the scenes of the movie Taxi Driver (1976) and compares them to what's there now. Previously, he covered the movie Ghost Busters (1984).

Mad Man with a Diary: Would-Be Assassin Arthur Bremer Released from Prison

jonp72 — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:52:15 -0800

Arthur Bremer was released from prison today, after serving a 35 years of a 53-year sentence for the attempted assassination of George Wallace. After Harper's Magazine published Arthur Bremer's diary in 1973, the manuscript inspired both the character of Travis Bickle in the film Taxi Driver and the Peter Gabriel song "Family Snapshot". After Bremer shot Wallace, Nixon obsessed about the shooting on his audio tapes and pestered FBI agent Mark Felt for information, which Felt a.k.a. "Deep Throat" leaked to cub reporter, Bob Woodward. Woodward's relationship with Felt would later crack the Watergate scandal wide open, but Nixon's plan to portray Bremer as a George McGovern supporter remains less well-known.