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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
Humans of New York
The Humans of New York Project is an admirable effort to create a photographic census of New York City. The project, brainchild of photographer Brandon Stanton, hopes to collect 10,000 street portraits and to plot them geographically on an interactive … Continue reading
Solving Travel Mysteries
Crime novelist Marcus Sakey will write and host a new Travel Channel television series called Hidden City Sakey describes of the show: “It’s sort of Anthony Bourdain‘s No Reservations meets Castle.” Throughout the twelve-episode series, Sakey will travel to Anchorage, Atlanta, … Continue reading
Oxford Inklings
Recently, while doing some research on an early edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s lesser known books I ran across a brief article about the author’s life in Oxford and his social network there. The venerable university city of Oxford … Continue reading
How to Get a Passport …today !
Have you ever had one of those travel anxiety dreams where you are about to leave on a trip abroad and you discover that your passport is missing ? Well today, National Passport Day, is the one day each year … Continue reading
Crete via the Scheimpflug Principle
This clever tilt-shift video was filmed by Joerg Daiber at locations around the amazing isle of Crete.
The East is Red (and funny too)
Dutch architecture group MVRDV has won the design competition to build the outrageous new home for Hangzhou, China’s much anticipated comic and animation museum. Composed of eight whimsical giant speech bubbles the museum will be an exciting venue uniting the … Continue reading
Driving Jersey (New not Isle)
“Driving Jersey represents the most misunderstood and misrepresented place and people in all of America.” This terrific series of mini-documentaries features profiles and interviews by fimmakers Steve Rogers and Ryan Batt as they travel Jersey’s highways and backroads capturing … Continue reading
Green (and metaphorical too)
Columbian artist Miler Lagos works in many mediums, including video, collage, sculpture and installation. His work, which often incorporates repurposed reading materials, is often a metaphorical take on the precarious balance between human culture and the forces of nature. Miler’s … Continue reading
