Permanent Tourist

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Posts from the category Video

  • A clip from the personal video essay by British filmmaker Andrew Kötting.

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  • Alphorn on the Bonistock

    A lone musician plays alphorn music on the Bonistock mountain peak, high above the lake and village at Melchsee Frutt in canton Obwalden.

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  • Timelapse – hike to Bachalp

    As if the photographic splendour of the mountain hike from the Firstbahn cablecar station above Grindelwald wasn’t enough, I used the rest breaks we took on our hike this last Sunday to shoot a handful of timelapse sequences.

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  • Fun with timelapse photography

    I’ve tinkered with timelapse photography at several points over the past few years, and have begun to refine my technique using a digital SLR over the past few weeks. This article explains how, with an example sequence of a cruise ship leaving Invergordon in Scotland.

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  • A photo and video from the Eiger Run sledge route, between the mountain-top hamlet of Kleine Scheidegg and tourist centre at Grindelwald.

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  • Takeoff from Edinburgh airport

    A five minute video shot out of the window of an easyJet flight leaving Edinburgh and banking west over the Firth of Forth in Scotland.

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  • Bern band Choo Choo celebrate 15 years of their record company this weekend with a gig at the Wasserwerk Club, and they select one of my photos to appear in national Swiss commuter paper 20 Minuten.

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  • Where some advertisers choose the “viral” route of making a low-budget film to publicize themselves or their causes via YouTube, others still spend the time and make an effort to integrate some very cool interactivity to ensure that their offering or message gains widespread recognition.

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  • Manuel Reinhard (also known through his personal website and Twitter stream as “sprain”) has recently launched a regular video podcast in review of the week’s happenings in the Swiss internet scene.

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  • Cablecar to Cassonsgrat

    A video of an eight minute trip from Naraus to Cassonsgrat by cablecar, high above the village of Flims Waldhaus, filmed with my iPhone.

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  • Timelapse Tram Ride

    A stop motion video of the tram journey between Zytglogge and Mattenhof areas of Bern in Switzerland.

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  • In which I explain why I chose to buy an iPhone and what advantages it has brought to me. Post includes photos, multimedia and a healthy dose of geekery (which I’ve made understandable for non-geeks!)

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  • Classical accordion

    A lone man sat on a little fold-away stool, out of the way of people hurrying past, and played classical music wonderfully on an unaccompanied accordion.

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  • Snow in Spiez

    At work, we needed to buy both a point-and-shoot video camera and a new stills camera, so, on my advice, we bought a new Nikon D90 which can fulfil both requirements.

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  • Genius advertising

    Watch this video and you’ll be glad you did. Watch it right to the end, when all will become clear.

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  • Where the Hell is Matt?

    Read the full story here.

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  • An Inconvenient Truth

    I’m not usually one for political speaking or speakers who hold forth on environmental issues. Quite often, I find the subject boring or repetitive, the speaker uninteresting or the presentation so uninspiring, that it makes my brain shut off altogether. This evening, however, an hour and a half of Swiss channel SF2‘s evening programming was…

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  • Fireplays

    Things are a little busy at the moment, so I’m much more able to consume than create. That said, this video-like time-lapse slide show of long exposures would definitely inspire me to take photos, if it weren’t for the fact that I feel uncomfortable around sparklers. Film: Fireplays from Jon Thomas on Vimeo.

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  • The Making of Funky Kitchen Club

    This is the short “making of” film which precedes the first Funky Kitchen Club show tomorrow evening. The “making of” film is due to be shown on ProSieben Switzerland in about 20 minutes, at 17.50 (CET). I’m featured (just visible, not interviewed) in this film at 2 minutes 22 seconds and 8 minutes 10 seconds…

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  • Everyday

    Everyday

    More information at The Washington Post.

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