Rubén and Cristina took a long train ride — 7,500 kilometers from Beijing to Ulan Bator to Moscow — over a period of three weeks and this is the film they made, all shot with the Canon 7D and a single lens. It’s tilt-shifty, lush, and warm. Although the two spent about two-thirds of their [...]
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Mike Matas is not the Facebook friend who gets back from a vacation and posts 500 photos of his trip, expecting you to scroll through them all. No, he’ll give you 5,000 in a three-minute film clip. Matas, a user interface designer who’s partly responsible for the Nest Learning Thermostat and some of the apps [...]
For about 160 nights a year a perpetual lightning storm known as Relampago del Catatumbo ignites the heavens above where Lake Maracaibo meets the Catatumbo River in Venezuela, creating a display of nature unlike any other on earth — and December marks the end of its peak cycle, making now prime viewing time. The storms [...]
As we were coming in for a landing, barely 100 feet above the dirt runway, our pilot suddenly jerked the nose of the propeller plane skyward — an elephant was calmly sauntering across the dusty strip. It was my first indication that, while humans may oversee Kruger National Park, they are not necessarily in control. [...]
Under normal circumstances I wouldn’t accept a mozzarella stick from a Cuban street pimp, but honestly, I was starving. We had been waiting in line for over two hours at what we were told was one of the best restaurants in Havana when I strayed down the block in search of a public bathroom. Giving [...]
The sound of subway train wheels clacking over tracks, underground or elevated, is the gritty heartbeat of New York City. The unmistakable metal-on-metal rhythm has made its way into more than a handful of hip hop songs — it’s the first sound you hear on “The Genesis,” the opening track on Nas’ mega-classic 1993 Illmatic, [...]
Helmet nazis, don’t even bother watching. A couple of the boys from The Werehaus production company dropped the Marin Headland’s Hunt Hawk Hill just north of the city by the bay on BMX bikes, and while the descent was shot by a hood-mounted, car-based Canon 5D, it pretty beautifully captures the flow of a long, [...]
We arrived at City of Rocks National Reserve in a downpour at the end of 20 miles of dirt road, driving from Burley, Idaho. In the middle of the heavy rains, we were delayed on the drive by two cowboys leading several dozen head of cattle right down the road, the cows passing my dirty [...]
Marcelo closes one eye and turns his head like he’s trying to focus on the stern of his boat. Blue plastic twine ties together bottles about the deck and lies in piles in a produce crate. A primitive looking spear — 4-meter wooden handle with an oversized offset worm hook — and a small trawl [...]
World weary gonzo narrative is easy to attempt and almost impossible to pull off, but Nick Waggoner and crew at Sweetgrass have absolutely, positively crushed it in this short travelogue of aiming upriver through the jungle to ski the Peruvian Cordillera. With storytelling like this, the hell with skiing. Did I just say that? I [...]
A 10-year research project into the origins of Stonehenge has concluded that the famous array of stones was built as a monument to mark the growing unification of culture in Britain at the end of the Stone Age. The boulders may have symbolized the ancestors of different groups of earliest farming communities in Britain, with [...]
Last year, when we asked what the number one destination was on your life list, New Zealand came in a close second behind Patagonia. No surprise, really — both offer a stunning natural beauty and massive opportunity for adventure. And they both have the ragged wildness of maritime, mountainous landscapes, a brooding, ethereal sensibility that [...]
What it’s like being a subsistence hunter and artist in Nome, Alaska?
February 10 I know the shape of this coast, the rocky shore, dark waves rolling in thirty-four thousand feet below. The jet engines hum. A businessman raps on the lavatory door. A line of tile-roof houses appears, then, farther inland, factories and highways and the broad, unlit fields of Viré, Flares, and Nonancourt. The captain [...]
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