Sri Lanka: As Green as it Gets
Posted on August 12, 2008 - Filed Under Sri Lanka, Sustainable Tourism | Leave a Comment
The video takes you from the sea at Negombo to Vil Ulyana , a stunning eco-friendly resort on the plain near the rock fortress Sigiria, with its lusty lady cave paintings, the ruins of the ancient kingdom of Polonnaruwa, the Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage, the Temple of the Tooth at Kandy, a look at ficus the […]
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Opera at the Ballpark: “Great Soprano Arrested for Possession of Thayer’s Slippery Elm?”
Posted on June 21, 2008 - Filed Under California, Entertainment | Leave a Comment
It is a night during which the moon rises within pie-in-your-face reach, wolves howl, Druids circle Stonehenge, a night when fans at AT&T Park in San Francisco stand to sing the Star Spangled Banner before the announcer yells: “Play Donizetti!”
Call us San Francisco “elitists” if you will, but where else will 20 thousand fans […]
An Interview with Arthur C. Clarke
Posted on March 19, 2008 - Filed Under Sri Lanka, Tech & Science, Sustainable Tourism, Video | Leave a Comment
I am headed to Sri Lanka next week and asked a mutual friend of mine and the late Arthur C. Clarke if it would be possible to see him. “I’ll try, but he is very weak”, was the reply. Clarke, of course, passed away yesterday. I spent a day in 1994 exploring the sandbox […]
Read More..>>The Danube in the Rain: Bureau of Forgotten Footage
Posted on March 3, 2008 - Filed Under Danube, Video | Leave a Comment
I was doing a search in our video footage files and came up a clip I shot several years ago and proceeded to forget. It was a rainy day aboard Peter Deilmann Cruises Mozart, a luxe riverboat the plies the Danube…which is really blue at times and quite beautiful. I fixed my camera on […]
Read More..>>Feed the Tiger: The Future of Las Vegas
Posted on January 21, 2008 - Filed Under Hotels & Resorts, Las Vegas, Travel Biz | Leave a Comment
Traffic at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas (c) Russell Johnson
Feed the Tiger: The Future of Las Vegas
When will it end? Why as our salaries shrink, our expectations dwindle, our house values plummet, our IRAs squeal like piggies being led to slaughter, does that supersize-me oasis of bare buns, aged […]
