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San Francisco to Paris in 2 Minutes

editor — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:53:32 +0000

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 Two Minutes from Beep Show on Vimeo.

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AA Gill on The Arctic Circle

editor — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:05:42 +0000

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. Hot or cold is no sort of choice, except for some, the contrary, chilly few for whom the very, very cold has a clear and harsh allure. The cold places of the world have a siren call; they give us goose pimples, those frozen lands, the keening of the north wind. And they’re going.

By popular demand, the heat is winning. The cold retreats, melts before our eyes. We need to feel it while stocks last.

So when someone asked, did I want to go to the Arctic, I said yes, absolutely yes, before they could add — “camping”

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Rod Liddle on Dubai

editor — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:57:17 +0000

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 recently he had earned a certain notoriety for not having a job and, more to the point, for the manner in which he went about finding a new one. He drove around Dubai, back in January this year, from the plug-ugly creek to the plug-ugly marina, in his white Porsche, with a sign in the back window saying he wanted a job; vroom vroom he went, gizza job. Scratch scratch scratch went the keys and coins along the side of his car whenever it was parked up.

Such conspicuous flaunting of vulgar affluence seems to me entirely appropriate for this foul city — especially when combined with an admission of desperation and hopelessness, that scrawled sign and telephone number in his rear window. Fur coat and no knickers, etc.

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