Blogging The Casbah: 2011-08-21

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Tel Aviv, as described by Jan Morris

Perhaps the best "travel writer" today is Jan Morris. She is an incredible story teller, and her eye for subtle drama is something that creeps up on you in a surprisingly powerful way. Her collective of shorts, The World, is a most incredible work of published goods.

And in The World, Morris writes about Tel Aviv, Israel. She writes that it is a city that looks familiar, like you might recognize someone you know there . . . but not! You're on the Eastern Mediterranean, not New York, Berlin, or Paris. She writes that Tel Aviv is a unique entity of its own, with a look of the West with a soul from the East, mixed and mashed with culture from Jews (from all over) and a Palestinian population that is a wholly different shade altogether.

I recommend buying The World, and taking a look at it . . . but I bring it up because this video (and things that look like it) always seem to remind me of how Morris writes about the Israeli cultural capital: Tel Aviv.

Israel. Part IV. Tel Aviv. Night from dmytriy_golumbevskiy on Vimeo.


Monday, August 22, 2011

Thoughts from Huntington Beach

Did a little Orange Country exploring last weekend, trying to get a handle on what the hell it is they do in that greater snake pit of Los Angels. And, well, here are a few clips from that:



Sunday, August 21, 2011

And we thought we knew Jerusalem . . .

Just wow. That's it. Check out this unreal Imax 3D clip. Simply beautiful. It really puts the "holy" back into the Holy Land . . . does it not?


Jerusalem | Filmed in Imax 3D from JerusalemGiantScreen on Vimeo.