Up to Speed

2012 - 2012

San Francisco: A City Shaped by Earthquakes

9th August 2012

Episode 1

Speed takes us on a tour of renowned objects in San Francisco – a city shaped by earthquakes that makes a point of attacking the status quo and appreciating the beauty in the unexpected.

Chicago: To Conjure a Lost Neighborhood

16th August 2012

Episode 2

Speed spends a day steeped in the history of working class Chicago – a city of blue collar labor constantly fighting back against the status quo of their corporate overlords.

Kansas & Missouri: In the Middle of the Middle of the Midwest

23rd August 2012

Episode 3

Speed explores the idea of borders and boundaries in Lawrence, Kansas – a city straddling the line between opposing sides during the American Civil War.

Virginia: The Many Flavors of Thomas Jefferson

30th August 2012

Episode 4

Speed sifts through the many flavors of Thomas Jefferson in Monticello and the University of Virginia – two historic landmarks representing the many sides of America’s most complicated founding father.

New York City: The Beauty of Randomness

5th September 2012

Episode 5

Speed wanders through the chaos of New York City – a metropolitan hub teeming with simultaneous bouts of randomness and synchronicity.

The Tour Guide Convention

13th September 2012

Episode 6

Speed goes on adventures with other tour guides across the country.

Top Cast

Timothy "Speed" Levitch

Director

Richard Linklater

Writer

Timothy "Speed" Levitch

Comedy Reality Documentary

Tour guide, historian and flaneur "Speed" Levitch travels the nation visiting those monuments that rarely make it into travel guides, from the shoe gardens of San Francisco to the luckiest subway grate in New York City.

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