Tag: Video!

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

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 [...]

Explore Siem Reap, Cambodia (Video)

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 [...]

The Gibbon Experience, in Pseudo-HD

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 [...]

Jaywalking in Tehran

Unfortunately we don’t have better footage than this. Trust us: traffic in Tehran is far more “inter­est­ing” than presen­ted here. It’s just really hard to get clips when it’s 35 degrees and you’re home­sick and hungry.

Second Home Hostel, Istanbul, Turkey

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 [...]