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..>>Not Just for the Birds: Oktoberfest Courting Rituals
Posted on September 24, 2007 - Filed Under California, Culture, Video | Leave a Comment
If you think the mating rituals of birds are weird, you should check out Tyrolean folk dancing. We stayed away from the real Oktoberfest this year, opting for a far more civilized celebration in Northern California. More on (and high-quality Flash Video) on The Connected Traveler.
Not Just for the Birds: Oktoberfest Courting Rituals […]
Read More..>>Taipei 101:Our Future is…
Posted on September 10, 2007 - Filed Under Taiwan, Video | Leave a Comment
Forget Mad Max, forget Bladerunner, forget The Matrix and all of the rest of those visions of a future of bombed out cities, leather-clad mutants and cyborgs on Harleys. I am looking at the REAL future, a tall, marble-floored tower of soft-spoken beings offering precious gifts of Gucci and Tiffany and YSL, every overpriced […]
Read More..>>NanoBeat: What Would Kerouac Think?
Posted on June 19, 2007 - Filed Under California, Culture, Tech & Science, Video, Misc. | Leave a Comment
When I was much younger than now, my image of a beatnik was the bongo-playing Maynard G. Krebs, a 1950s TV sitcom character who went apoplectic at the mere utterance of the word “work.” To my parents, beatniks were lazy, laughable bums who didn’t understand that life was all about battling crabgrass […]
Read More..>>Where’s The Kibbles: Why We Rate Cat Food Over Air Travel
Posted on May 24, 2007 - Filed Under Airlines, News, Video | Leave a Comment
Cats, as you are well aware, know more than we do. I asked both of our cats, Max and Moritz, about that and they responded with their inscrutable “I don’t suffer fools” look. Every time I travel, Max plants himself inside of my open suitcase marking my black sweaters with tufts of fuzz while Moritz […]
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