San Francisco to Paris in 2 Minutes
Amazing timelapse video created by photographer Nate Bolt of the 5,576 mile, 11-hour flight from San Francisco to Paris all in just two minutes. Bolt a special time-lapse camera to snap 2,459 photos and relying on the good will of fellow passengers who heard an SLR camera ‘click’ every few seconds. SF to Paris in [...]
AA Gill on The Arctic Circle
Cold. We spend our lives getting out of it, away from it; our whole human history has been spent avoiding it, wrapping up against it, fighting and escaping it. Cold shoulders, cold stares; vengeance is cold, corpses are cold. Who wants to be cold? Hot is good: hot bodies, hot dinners, hot sex and holidays. [...]
Rod Liddle on Dubai
Construction halted, westerners jailed for adultery – but prostitutes do well Andrew Blair says he will pick me up from outside my sleaze-bucket of a hotel, give it 20 minutes or so, got some work to finish off. He has a job again, contracts apparently “coming out of his ears”, which is good, because until [...]
