posted by Charles H. Russo on Jul 29
If you’re already annoyed at some of your iPhone’s quirks, and wish to make a statement by destroying it, go ahead. For the rest of us that just want to watch someone else destroy one, check out Will it Blend? I’m not 100% sure of the reasoning that goes into what takes place on the video, but it’s interesting to say the least. Actually it’s probably a little irrational, considering that the iPhone costs more than $500-which makes it extremely humorous.
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posted by Charles H. Russo on Jul 29
Editor’s Note: The 52nd Venice Biennale runs June 10 - November 21, 2007
Venice hosts the 52nd Biennale in 2007
Venice brings to mind a glorious past of glamorous parties in Palazzo lining the Grand Canal: champagne flowing, voices chattering, rich fabrics rustling.
This year, I was lucky enough to be in Venice during the opening of the 52nd Venice Biennale. There were parties, there was champagne (fabrics, sadly, do not rustle much these days). I was privy to the glamour of it all from a lumbering vaparetto on the Grand Canal. But even getting a glimpse of people mingling on the rooftop of the Peggy Guggenheim Gallery, gossiping in the party-dressed Rialto Market and networking at the Palazzo Giustinian Lolin made me feel I was in Venice at a special time.
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posted by Charles H. Russo on Jul 29
I’ve been wondering when someone would jump on the opportunity to gather travel videos with quality production and put them in one place. I just got wind of a site called Geobeats that looks promising.
They are producing these in house, from international contributors, and from people in the travel industry. That last one will tell you that you’re not too likely to see stump-armed beggars in New Delhi or dumpster-diving street kids in Manila - only the pretty face the place puts out in its PR materials. More like the fluffy side of the Travel Channel than the BBC.
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posted by Charles H. Russo on Jul 28
Koh Phi Phi is one of the nicest places I came across traveling, I arrived a few weeks after the tsunami and to be honest the people of Koh Phi Phi had done a fantastic job of clearing up the debris. It was quite heart breaking as people were still diving around the shores looking for bodies and cleaning up the debris which was scattered out to sea.
Even though the island was now clean and safe there was very few tourists here, I would have said that there was about 50 of us. Which for an island which has around 2000 rooms was of great concerns for the locals. It was heartbreaking to be watching CNN and BBC news on the island which was reasonably immaculate considering what had recently happened, yet rather than the news channels broadcast how well the locals and tourists had cleaned up and got pretty much all of the coastal towns, villages and islands up and running again. The news channels were still telling people to stay away and were showing video clips from weeks previous. No wonder people didn
posted by Charles H. Russo on Jan 5
July 20, 2007South America > Uruguay > Montevideo
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posted by Charles H. Russo on Jan 5
July 20, 2007South America > Uruguay > Montevideo
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posted by Charles H. Russo on Jan 5
July 20, 2007South America > Uruguay > Montevideo
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posted by Charles H. Russo on Jan 5
July 20, 2007South America > Uruguay > Montevideo
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posted by Charles H. Russo on Jan 5
July 20, 2007South America > Uruguay > Montevideo
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posted by Charles H. Russo on Jan 1
Why travel? Some people do it for business, love, money, pleasure.
Why stay home? Others prefer to dream of distant places which never make it into their reality.
Then there are artists. People who continually explore the horizons of the globe and their own imaginations. The current Den Haag Sculpture exhibition