Category Archives: Europe

A Sense of Place

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Penguin has created a very cool audio/visual tour of London locales that appear in Zadie Smith’s new novel NW. The “tour” covers four significant locations in the book, including Camden Lock. Users can launch location videos with layered audio readings … Continue reading →

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Street View Ghosts

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Media artist/provocateur Paolo Cirio has created a new take on street art using images of unsuspecting people captured by Google Street View. Cirio prints life-size pictures of the unidentified pedestrians and pastes the cut-outs on walls at the exact spots … Continue reading →

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Land of Fire and Ice

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

I’ve made two brief visits to Iceland and was awestruck by the stunning landscape. But nothing that I saw compares to the mind-blowing aerial photographs of Iceland by the Russian photographer Andre Emolaev. These bird’s-eye view images of the volcanic landscape offer … Continue reading →

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Just Like Driving

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Even if we have the opportunity (or chore) to travel by air on a regular basis, we rarely, if ever, get this vantage point on the trip. The video below was produced by SmartWings pilot Jakub Vlk to document a … Continue reading →

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Another Reason to Love Barcelona

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Tens of thousands of tourists and Barcelona residents were treated to a breathtaking multimedia spectacle at the iconic Sagrada Familia church on the nights of September 21,22 and 23.. Entitled Ode a la Vie, the installation was produced by Montreal’s … Continue reading →

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Tilt-a-whirl Tourism

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Freelance Berlin photographer Christian Ruhm’s series world dis_order offers a unique way of seeing some of Europe’s iconic tourist sites. From Berlin’s Reichstag to London’s House of Parliament, Ruhm’s multi-layered, multiple exposures add a sense of excitement and a pinch … Continue reading →

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Is It Overdue

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Italian-born, Berlin-based artist Frederico Pietrella uses diverse medium in his work, but lately he has added a unique tool—library date stamps. The time-intensive, large-scale images takes weeks to complete and are selling for up to €20,000. The DW video below offers … Continue reading →

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Making Public Transit Cool

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

There’s not much humor to be found in public transportation here in the U.S., but the Danish transit organization Midttrafik knows how to make public transit fun. Here are two versions of their recent, very amusing commercial aimed at making … Continue reading →

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Painting Europe

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

This Spring, Berlin-based Bruno Levy and Blake Shaw, better known as the performance art group Sweatshoppe, video-bombed five European cities. Utilizing a technique that they call “Video Painting” based on their own secret software blend, the duo temporarily covers urban … Continue reading →

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Ride the SkyCycle

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

London’s colorful and controversial mayor Boris Johnson has endorsed a new scheme to attack the city’s transport mess with sky high bike lanes connecting the City of London with east London. The proposed SkyCycle project won’t be free though, access … Continue reading →

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