travel

When it comes to airline travel, there’s probably no more of a divisive issue than traveling with young kids. Single adults and business travelers hate being around messy, unruly kids. The parents of said kids are just trying to hold on and make it through as best they can. It’s a situation where no one [...]

I don’t think I’ll ever tire of city tilt-shift videos. And … Sadly, I know I’ve featured more tilt-shift videos, but it seems I’ve only tagged two videos as such. I’m very depressed about this realization. [both via devour]

This is why GQ’s recent list of America’s best beer cities can’t be taken seriously. Remy Scalza visits one neighborhood in Portland, Ore., one!, and makes it seem better than anywhere else in America. Now, take that experience and multiply it by about 30 neighbors and you still aren’t even close to experiencing Beervana. Just [...]

Mark Vanhoenacker, a pilot, on how airline baggage tags are a masterpiece of information design: “Let’s look first at how an ABT is made. In the interconnected, automated, all-weather world of modern aviation, tags must be resistant to cold, heat, sunlight, ice, oil, and especially moisture. Tags also can’t tear—and crucially, if they’re nicked, they [...]

Gary Dzen, who runs the Boston Globe‘s 99 Bottles beer blog, travels to Waterbury, VT, who many consider New England’s best beer town. It doesn’t take long to feel comfortable in Waterbury. At Prohibition Pig, local pickled vegetables and a pulled pork sandwich make for a satisfying lunch. The bar is the only place besides [...]

In Focus features the 11 winners of the 2012 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest. “These eleven images were chosen from more than 12,000 entries submitted by 6,615 photographers from 152 countries,” Alan Taylor writes. The winning photos came from four categories: Travel Portraits, Outdoor Scenes, Sense of Place, and Spontaneous Moments. The one above, taken [...]

EuroLapse

by James Furbush on July 3, 2012 · 0 comments

Here’s three summer months traveling across Europe, as captured by photographer David Smith, boiled down into five glorious minutes. In case you’re wondering: here is a list of cities visited in chronological order, the song is “Journey’s End” by Blackmill, and everything was shot with a Nikon D7000. [via dailywhat]

Kevin Kelly, author of What Technology Wants and one of the c0-founders of Wired, recently spent two months in Asia and took a one-second video clip each day. He says, “On a few days, I just had to an extra second… This is all the video I took.” A person can convey quite a bit of depth [...]

I’m in San Francisco this week as part of my work for TechTarget. I’ll be covering the Citrix Synergy show, which is probably more interesting to me than it is to all of you. Seriously, I’ve tried telling family and friends about virtualization and cloud technologies and generally I can see their eyelids slowly gloss [...]

Oslo Airport

by James Furbush on May 4, 2012 · 0 comments

It’s expanding! I don’t know anything about Oslo, Norway’s airport to make a judgement about it’s planned expansion to be Europe’s best airport by 2017, but I don’t know that I like the whimsical promotional video from Passion Pictures quite a bit.