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Hot, Tired Airline Patrons Sing R. Kelly's 'I Believe I Can Fly' In Protest To Long Wait Times
Jun 11th, 2013 at 12:30PM:
In a now viral video, passengers on an Allegiant Air flight from Phoenix to Las Vegas this past Sunday took matters into their own hands after allegedly being delayed on and off the tarmac for several hours – often with no air conditioning in the hot Nevada weather. Their solution to the high temperatures and tempers? Playing and singing along with R. Kelly's hit song, "I Believe I Can ...
Video: A Time-Lapse Tour Of Shanghai
Jun 9th, 2013 at 4:00PM:
Rob Whitworth's time-lapses are always a cut above. His unique tracking and morphing shots draw you into a city's routine and accurately sketch its character. His panning and zooming give the sensation of flying around a city and dropping in on its denizens for a look around at ground level before taking to the air again.
He's applied his time-lapse talent to other Asian cities before, ...
Four Down Two Across: Arrival In Alaska
Jun 6th, 2013 at 2:00PM:
A wonderful, if long, start to Robert's and my trip to Alaska – up at 5:30 a.m. in New York City, to bed at midnight in Juneau, which is itself four hours behind New York. A busy day, too.
Tim and Phil of the Juneau Table Tennis Club met us at the airport. The drive to our hotel downtown was spectacular, even with overcast skies. Snowcapped mountains rise straight up from the edge of ...
Video: Spinning Gold In Istanbul's Grand Bazaar
May 29th, 2013 at 1:00PM:
Earlier this year in Istanbul, I was lucky enough to stumble upon a man who spins gold thread at the Grand Bazaar. His noisy workshop is tucked into a courtyard off one of the bazaar's main "streets," past a few jewelry kiosks and before a reasonably clean but squat-style toilet. Huge fan belts crisscross the room and antique machines creak and spin spools of thread in metallic and bright ...
Amazing Time-Lapse Video Of Vivid Sydney Light Show
May 24th, 2013 at 4:00PM:
"TIMELAPSE - Vivid Sydney 2013 Launch" from Vivid Sydney on Vimeo.
The video above captures an incredible light show happening at the Sydney Opera House as part of the fifth annual Vivid Sydney festival.
The largest light, music and ideas festival in the Southern Hemisphere, Vivid Sydney features lighting installations around the harbour foreshore, live music performances at Sydney Opera ...
How to Be Swedish: This Video Will (Sort Of) Tell You
May 21st, 2013 at 2:00PM: cacophonyx, Flickr
Nothing like stereotypes to really give you the feel of a country. It seems that a lot of people have a soft spot for anything that gives us an insider look - whether true or not - at Scandinavia. Why Scandinavian, and in particular Swedish culture, is of such interest is a bit beyond me, but there's certainly an obsession with that country in the north that brought us ...VIDEO: What People In Jerusalem Wish For
May 8th, 2013 at 4:00PM:
When the news talks about the people of Jerusalem, it's usually to highlight their differences. While those certainly exist, there's more to it than that. People all have their own opinions and priorities and the folks living in Jerusalem are no exception. In this video, a group of Jerusalem residents are asked all the same question: if you had one wish, what would you wish for?
Their answers ...
Video: Two Months Aboard An Antarctic Ice Breaker
May 8th, 2013 at 8:00AM: You wouldn't think that watching a massive ice breaker slice through the ice in the Ross Sea off the coast of Antarctica would be all that interesting. But the video below condenses two months of time spent aboard just such a vessel into a five-minute clip that is simply mesmerizing to watch.
Shot aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer, the video captures the stark beauty of the Southern Ocean and the ...
Video Of The Day: Finding Fortaleza
May 6th, 2013 at 5:00PM:
Rio de Janeiro-based production company MOOV maintains Fortaleza is "one of the most beautiful cities in Brazil," and in the video above we get to see it through their eyes - or, rather, their camera lenses. Located in Northeastern Brazil, Fortaleza is the state capital of Ceará, a city where nearly 2.3 million people reside. On the tourism front, the city is a major destination for ...
Video Of The Day: Coconut A Million Ways
May 1st, 2013 at 6:00PM:
"Coconut: Nose to Tail" from The Perennial Plate on Vimeo.
The Perennial Plate folks are always impressing me. This video examines the role the coconut plays in the life and culture of the people of Sri Lanka. After spending the day with a family of eight on a coconut farm just outside of Negombo, an intimate understanding of the coconut and its uses was relayed. It's for drinking, eating, ...
VIDEO: Nima Market In Accra, Ghana
Apr 26th, 2013 at 12:00PM:
Accra, the capital of Ghana, is an established point on the African tourism trail thanks to its good flight and cruise connections, its Anglophone accessibility, its beautiful beaches and the stability of the nation.
Less often seen, however, is Nima Market. Located in one of the poorest areas of the city and home to many migrants from rural Ghana and nearby countries coming to the big city ...
Man Builds, Rides Gigantic Bicycle: Dumbass Or Daredevil?
Apr 23rd, 2013 at 3:30PM:
The video above depicts a man riding a hand-built, 14.5-foot-tall bike that he built himself. The video, entitled "STOOPIDTALL," indicates that the man, identified only as Richie, intends to build an even taller model to break the record of the "World's Tallest Bike" and says he configured the monstrosity in under 12 hours.
What do you think? Is the guy a daredevil or just a dumbass who is ...
Shocking Video Of A Texas Bigfoot! (Or Maybe Not)
Apr 23rd, 2013 at 2:00PM:
There may be a Bigfoot crawling around the underbrush of Texas. According to the breathless narrator in this video, these two photos were taken by Lupe Mendoza, who spotted a strange creature when it spooked a herd of cattle. Apparently some gutted hogs were found nearby, so Bigfoot may have been feeding.
Actually it may be a Skunk Ape, the Deep South version of Bigfoot that prowls around ...Smithsonian Channel To Air Special King Richard III Discovery
Apr 17th, 2013 at 12:00PM:
The Smithsonian Channel will soon air a documentary about the remarkable discovery of the skeleton of King Richard III in a parking lot in Leicester, England.
"The King's Skeleton: Richard III Revealed" premieres Sunday, April 21 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The two-hour show was produced by the only team allowed access to the scientists, the excavation and the lab tests used to determine the ...
VIDEO: Jerusalem In 1896
Apr 16th, 2013 at 2:00PM:
Jerusalem is one of those cities that clings to you long after you leave it. The mix of faiths, the musky scents of the markets, the muezzin's call ... once you've been there you can't forget it.
It's prominent in the imaginations of many who haven't even been there, so it's no surprise it was one of the first travel destinations filmed in the first years of motion pictures. In 1896, a crew ...
Video Of The Day: 'Tune Up' With San Francisco's Pianobike
Apr 15th, 2013 at 6:00PM:
Earlier this month I posted a video about a street performer who travels around France showing off his affectionate house cats. Well, the weird and wacky antics of buskers are far from limited to just France, so today we're traveling to San Francisco where a man has turned his tricycle into a roving piano. Gary Skaggs says his girlfriend gave him a lot of flack while he was building the ...
YouTube Video Of Owl-Kicking Paraglider Prompts Investigation
Apr 10th, 2013 at 3:00PM:
You'd think someone whose sport of choice is flying through the air would have respect for birds, but one paramotorist is catching heat after a video of him chasing and kicking an owl mid-air was uploaded to YouTube.
The man in the video doggedly pursued a Barn Owl in flight for more than seven minutes, kicking it several times as it flew over the landscape near Utah Lake. He then proceeded ...
Paris Redux: Classic Parisian Neighborhoods As Seen Through Typography
Apr 10th, 2013 at 2:00PM:
Design geeks and French lovers beware: this video was made for you.
Using some of Paris' most iconic neighborhoods and coming up with simple visual representations of them, the video was made as a holiday greeting card by global design agency Havas Worldwide.
My favorite is Canal St Martin, an area most tourists recognize from the "Amélie" stone-skipping scene and nowadays with ...Video Of The Day: Quiet Time In France
Apr 8th, 2013 at 6:00PM:
The words "city" and "quiet" don't usually go hand in hand. Cities are, by their very nature, synonymous with hustle and bustle. But in the short film above, Andrew Julian challenges this notion. He offers a glimpse of Paris that shows the exact opposite of a metropolis – in fact, people rarely appear in the video, and when they do they're seen taking in their surroundings instead of ...
New Finnish Passport Is Also A Flip-Book
Mar 27th, 2013 at 4:00PM:
Your passport has many uses beyond getting you in and out of a country. It can serve as a travelogue of sorts, showing you where you've been and taking you back in time as you relive trips stamp by stamp. It can also be a form of identification, or a way to remember what you looked like five years earlier, when you had that flattering (or not so flattering) photo taken.
Now, if you live in ...
