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Learn about the symbols of Iranian “Persian” Carpets (Video)

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Iranian “Persian” Carpets from Chris Beauchamp on Vimeo.

In July 2010, Chris and I visited Iran for 3 weeks. While there, we met a man named Abed. I like to describe him as an “Iranian hippie”.

We spent four won­der­ful days with him in Esfahan, Iran. He shared his mind and style of life with us, taking us to the new, hip parts of town, as well the old his­tor­ical ones. Above all, he opened our eyes to the history, the unique story and the life behind each and every Iranian “Persian” Carpet. Each carpet has meaning unique to itself. The two broad cat­egor­ies of carpets are City Weave and Nomadic.

In this video, Abed teaches the sig­ni­fic­ance of common symbols found in carpets. The video fea­tures the two Nomadic carpets Chris and I bought to com­mem­or­ate our epic eight month journey and visit to Iran.

Music by Niyaz. Footage by Chris Beauchamp. Video pro­duc­tion and editing by Laura Beauchamp.

Please do not repro­duce without per­mis­sion. www.outtheresomewhere.ca

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Explore Siem Reap, Cambodia (Video)

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This is a mixture of video clips and pho­to­graphs taken during our trip to Siem Reap, Cambodia in August 2010. The cre­ation of the video and the footage was taken by Laura Beauchamp. The fea­tured pho­to­graphs were taken by Chris Beauchamp.

The video was made using iMovie. Laura was feeling cheesy when she made it so she used the “Photograph Album” video tem­plate. She also apo­lo­gizes for the glitches in the sound, she’s looking into a solu­tion.

Siem Reap, Cambodia from Chris Beauchamp on Vimeo.

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The Gibbon Experience, in Pseudo-HD

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Some of you may remem­ber the Gibbon Experience from pre­vi­ous posts on the blog.

The Gibbon Experience is a con­ser­va­tion project in north­west­ern Laos based on eco-tourism. Apparently the local people were hunting the gibbons to extinc­tion before a con­ser­va­tion group helped them to trans­form that life­style into sus­tain­able project.

Tourists who pay for a chance to visit the Bokeo Nature Preserve also get to sleep in tree houses con­nec­ted by a remark­able zip line network. We went for three days and had a fant­astic time.

The project is set up to employ as many locals as pos­sible so as to spread the rel­at­ive wealth. Although some of the trekking was a bit arduous in the humid jungle, the whole exper­i­ence was fant­astic. Check it out if you’re heading to Laos.

http://www.gibbonexperience.org/

The music in this is by Canadian singer-songwriter Dan Mangan.

http://www.danmanganmusic.com/

The video was edited together quickly using iMovie. Please excuse some of the poor quality shots. This thing was filmed with a small Canon point-and-shoot camera in the sweaty jungle. We were far more con­cerned with having a good time than getting award-winning cinematography.

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Second Home Hostel, Istanbul, Turkey

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As prom­ised, here is the video we created over the past few days for our pals at Second Home Hostel in Istanbul. It still amazes me that it can take over 30 hours of work to produce a video less than two minutes long. Hope you enjoy it. Attentive readers may recog­nize the beau­ti­ful female lead.

If you’re coming to Istanbul, you can find these guys at www.secondhomehostel.com or through common booking sites like Hostel World and Trip Advisor. We recom­mend it!

p.s. — This video is ded­ic­ated to Ben and Pen Clark. Thanks for hooking it up guys!

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