Based on some sound advice from author and screenwriter John August, Ryan Rivard developed this straightforward little infographic to help struggling writers complete that book or screenplay scene. (see below)
If you’d like to learn more, you can check-out author John August’s original blog post on “How to write a scene” for a detailed explanation. August is best known for penning Big Fish, Go and the Corpse Bride.
It’s just that easy.
World Press Award-winng British photographer Geoff Tompkinson is lucky enough to reside for part of each year along the shore of Austria’s “perfect mountain lake” Hallstatt. If you’ve been fortunate enough to visit this UNESCO World Heritage site, or if you have seen one of the many,many travel shows or videos on Hallstatt, then you will not want to miss Tompkinson’s stunning video called “The Lake”.
Surprisingly, the poetic video is not focused on the quaint town—but is about the gorgeous lake.
The entrancing music for the video is by French composer Vincent Jacq.
If you’ve purchased a travel guidebook during the last forty years, chances are that you bought a title from the venerable Lonely Planet series. Many dedicated Lonely Planet users are not aware, however, that the LP founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler sold the entire enterprise to the BBC more than two years ago.
Now, it appears that the BBC is on the verge of selling off the iconic LP line for up to $100 million. The reported buyer is not a publishing company, but is instead a reclusive American billionaire named Brad Kelley. The former tobacco tycoon is one of the largest landowners in the U.S., with nearly two million acres in the South and Southwest. Kelley’s only apparent travel connection is part-ownership of Outwild TV, a website that focuses on adventure travel videos.
Would you still purchase LP travel guidebooks if the deal goes through ?
Whether you call it the lavatory, WC, bathroom, servicio or toilet, you probably would never consider having a meal there. Well, London’s new Attendant Cafe may help transcend any aversion to eating in a public restroom.
Openned on February 18th, the cafe is situated in a former public lavatory in the heart of Fitzrovia (27a Foley St.) just a short walk from the Goodge Street tube station. The unique eatery has chosen to play up its original role by leaving all of the old toilet fixtures in place and adding countertops around them.
If you need to bolster your courage before venturing downstairs to the cafe, stop in at the crown & sceptre pub above for a pint of Cornish Coaster ale.
It turns out that travel may be the perfect way to put a dent in that out of control Starbucks habit. According to this Wall Street Journal infographic (see below), that grande latte you can’t live with out will set you back almost a sawbuck in Oslo, Norway.
But even that $9.83 drink pales in comparison to the world’s most expensive Starbucks drink. Called the Quadrigininoctuple Frap, the $47.30 concoction contains 48 shots of espresso, mocha, caramel, chips, fruit, vanilla beans, soy milk and protein powder. See the video on its creation below.
After a ten-year, nearly €400 million renovation, Amsterdam‘s fantastic Rijksmuseum finally reopens next month on April 13th. For visitors who have been disappoint (some of us multiple times) by the glacially slow refurbishment, it comes not a moment too soon. With almost two kilometers of galleries covering more than 800 years of the Netherland’s rich art and history, the palatial, red-brick museum is the crown jewel of Amsterdam’s Museumplein district.
The brand-new dual atria alone covers 25,000 square feet. Along with dramatic changes to most of the museum’s 80 galleries, the fabled library is finally being opened to the general visiting public. So, no more begging and wheedling just to get a peek at the fabulous painted ceiling, mosaics, cast-iron staircases and the six kilometers of bookshelves. I don’t think that I was the only one who pestered his way into the library, was I?
But most return visitors will make a beeline for the Galley of Honor and the Golden Age galleries for the sublime paintings by Vermeer, Hals, Steen and of course Rembrandt . A special room at the heart of the museum is dedicated to Rembrandt’s famed Nightwatch, the apotheosis of the Dutch Golden Age of art.
The “new” Rijksmuseum even has its first rebranding in over three decades. The new look is down to designer Irma Boom, who has tackled everything from signage to the souvenir pens and mugs.
This wonderful short video, titled “Drift”, is the work of Philadelphia-based cinematographer and documentary filmmaker Tim Sessler. The film is the result of a boring trip by air from San Francisco to Philadelphia. The match-up of Sessler’s black and white, tilt-shift video and music by Sigur Ros frontman Jonsi Birgisson is haunting. The song is called “Indian Summer” from the Jonsi and Alex album “Riceboy Sleeps”.
If you have ever tried to negotiate the frustrating trip from Manhattan to John F. Kennedy International Airport via public transportation, this enormous public works project currently under construction in New York City will interest you. When it’s completed in about five years, the $8.4 billion transit project will extend train service from the historic Grand Central Terminal to the Borough of Queens and to JFK significantly simplifying and shortening travel.
New York’s MTA recently released some amazing photos of the construction project by Patrick Cashin.
“fast-paced 1958 thriller”
What if some of the world’s best-selling record albums had been books instead ? Well, British designer and art director Christophe Gowans has that covered in his brilliant series entitled “The Record Books”. Here are a few choice examples, but be sure to check-out his website for many more .
“A rags to glory biography…”
“The story of a wayward and feckless cowhand…”
“The story of two catholic sisters…”
“War Comic”
“Japanese pre-school boardbook…”
“children’s reference book concerning all things equine…”
“Gruesome whodunnit by a prolific author…”
Over the past year or so, airlines such as KLM and British Airways have mined social media sites to find information about travelers and then surprise unsuspecting folks with rewards and gifts at the airport. Now, the cosmetics brand Nivea seems to have crossed the line with this gimmick that shakes up unsuspecting air travelers. What do you think?
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