Posts with tag ”london”
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Movie locations around the world
This is the first part of my quest for finding movie locations around the world. Contents: Mission Impossible, Talented Mr Ripley, Lost in Translation, Fellowship of the Ring, Highlander, French Connection, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain, Die Another Day, Interview with the Vampire, The Beach, Rendition, La Dolce Vita, Moulin Rouge.
Music on the street
Walking down the street these days feels less like moving through a city and more like navigating a personal soundtrack convention. I see people with headphones everywhere and I often wonder what they listen to. People are plugged in like we’re all extra nodes in some great invisible jukebox.
Visual misconceptions in movies
Movies have always been exceptionally good at lying to us about the world. Watch enough of them and you could reasonably conclude that Paris exists entirely in golden afternoon light and New York is populated exclusively by attractive people with suspiciously large apartments.
Memories of Jubilee Gardens
Some cities have a place that keeps pulling me back. Not the famous landmark. Not the postcard view. Just a patch of ground that somehow connects.
Report from @media conference in London
The @media conference, officially renamed Web Directions, used to be one of the great pilgrimages for web developers. Once a year the tribe gathered in London, swapping arguments and war stories while the generals of the web standards movement confirmed their positions in the ongoing crusade.
Camden on fire
A newsflash caught my attention today, which is increasingly difficult in a world where everything is apparently breaking news. This one unfortunately deserved it: Camden was on fire.
Airports with delayed flights
Most travelers have at some point experienced that special kind of airport purgatory: staring at a departure board while the word DELAYED quietly destroys whatever hope you had left.
Realistic subway maps
Subway maps lie to you. Not maliciously, of course. They lie for your own good. They take the sprawling, chaotic underground plumbing of a city and turn it into something reassuring. Neat colored lines, evenly spaced stations and tidy little intersections.
London calling
For some reason, London has never really been one of my favorites. “Bad food, worse weather” as they once put it in the movie Snatch. A swirling mess of fog, fried carbs and five centuries of imperial guilt jammed into a modern-day Monopoly board.