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Movie locations around the world part 4
This is part 4 of my quest for finding movie locations around the world. Contents: Star Wars Episode 2, The World Is Not Enough, Sound of Music, In Bruges, Love Actually, Lola Rennt, Stagecoach, Rebel Without a Cause, Star Trek 4, Cast Away, Sex & The City, Entrapment.
Movie locations around the world part 2
This is part 2 of my quest for finding movie locations around the world. Contents: Blade Runner, Star Wars Episode 4, Skyfall, The Living Daylights, The Third Man, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Voyager, Before Sunrise, Easy Rider, Russian House, North by Northwest, Escape from Alcatraz, Californication.
Halloween ten years later
Tonight, the annual Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village should have been snaking through the streets of lower Manhattan, a glorious procession of skeletons, drag queens, zombies, superheroes and people who spent an alarming amount of time with a hot glue gun. Instead, Hurricane Sandy had other plans.
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.
Review: Nasty Bits
Anthony Bourdain spent years sweating behind the stoves at Les Halles in New York before Kitchen Confidential kicked the kitchen door off its hinges in 2000. Suddenly chefs weren’t anonymous guys hiding behind swinging doors anymore.
Frozen in time
What would you do if hundreds of people around you simply froze in their steps? This inspiring idea was explored by Improve Elsewhere in Grand Central Station, one of the busiest places in New York.
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.
Blogosphere five years after 9/11
Five years ago, the world changed. So did the web. On September 11 2001, millions of people did what we had already learned to do whenever something terrible happened: we went online looking for answers.
Manhattan elsewhere
I have a weakness for Manhattan. I also have a weakness for maps. Put the two together and I’m pretty much defenseless.