In the past two weeks I’ve uploaded 2 videos (and one audio post) that I cut together from my time in Madagascar. Both are meant to bring the sights and sounds of the location together through the use of ambient music and quick cuts. Enjoy!
Videos from Madagascar
Published January 13, 2010 Video 3 CommentsTags: Antananarivo, antsirabe, fianarantsoa, Gadling, ilakaka, Madagascar, Stephen Greenwood, Video
Sapphire of Ilakaka
Published December 27, 2009 Gadling Leave a CommentTags: ilakaka, Madagascar, sapphire, violence, wild west
In-depth look at Madagascar’s largest source of Sapphire, the town of Ilakaka.
Road to Tulear
Published December 22, 2009 Gadling Leave a CommentTags: Antananarivo, Isalo National Park, Madagascar, Malagasy, Mountain, National Park, Photo, Photography, Ranohira, Road Trip, Toliara, Tulear
The newest post in the East of Africa series went up today. I’m pretty happy with these photos from our 2-day road trip through Madagascar…check them out below.
Entire East of Africa Series so far.
East of Africa
Published November 30, 2009 Gadling 1 CommentTags: Antananarivo, East of Africa, Gadling, Madagascar, Stephen Greenwood
My latest feature series on Gadling started today…I’ll be covering my travels in and around Madagascar – from Antananarivo to Tulear. I’ll be hitting politics & poverty, sapphire & solar panels…culture and language…with a mix of photos, video and audio clips.
Enjoy. “East of Africa” @ Gadling
Stay Golden
Published November 20, 2009 Video Leave a CommentTags: FLL, Fort Lauderdale, Gadling, LAX, Richard Branson, SFO, Stay Golden, Virgin America
This week I was invited by Virgin America to cover the launch of two new lines from California to Florida (SFO – FLL & LAX – FLL), where we had the chance to interview CEO David Cush and Richard Branson himself. Check out the full write-up and video below on Gadling.
Voyager
Published November 10, 2009 Contemplation , Quotation 1 CommentTags: Carl Sagan, Earth, Exploration, Future, Humanity, Space, Universe
I’ve been getting into reading a little bit about Carl Sagan recently, just out of coincidence (and reading alot of digg.com). He died in 1996, but today would have been his 75th birthday – and so there’s been a ripple of news stories with his quotes floating around in the last few days.
One of them that I came across touches on musings about what the Voyager satellites were loaded with before they were sent out on their long and perhaps never-ending mission, and it’s quite an amazing thought really… what should we send out to sum up humanity – to sum up Planet Earth…what would you send out if you could launch a time capsule into space?
Check out what we sent:
”Accordingly, as each Voyager left Earth for the planets and the stars, it carried with it a golden phonograph record encased in a golden, mirrored jacket containing, among other things; greetings in 59 human languages and one whale language; a 12-minute sound essay including a kiss, a baby’s cry, and an EEG record of the meditations of a young woman in love; 116 encoded pictures, on our science, our civilization, and ourselves; and 90 minutes of the Earth’s greatest hits-Eastern and Western, classical and folk, including a Navajo night chant, a Japanese shakuhachi piece, a Pygmy girl’s initiation song, a Peruvian wedding song, a 3,000-year-old composition for the ch’in called “Flowing Streams,” Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Stravinsky, Louis Armstrong, Blind Willie Johnson, and Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode.”"
Pretty cool, no? And funny that music is such a big influence in representing who we are…
Read more [here]
Kowloon Walled City
Published November 9, 2009 Dim Sum Dialogues Leave a CommentTags: Dim Sum Dialogues, History, Hong Kong, Kowloon, Kowloon Walled City, Triads
Forgot to post this when it went up last week! It’s been a busy few weeks, but lots more content will be coming soon.
End of Thailand Series
Published October 3, 2009 Dim Sum Dialogues Leave a CommentTags: Audio, Bangkok, Dim Sum Dialogues, Gadling, Sounds, Stephen Greenwood, Temple, Thailand, Tuk Tuk
Typhoon Nangka
Published September 28, 2009 Video Leave a CommentTags: Harbor, HD, Hong Kong, Timelapse, Typhoon, Video, Youtube
A week ago, I was on a plane from Beijing to Hong Kong, after having taken the train from Hong Kong to Beijing for the weekend. As I was on that flight, I was making a mental list of all the things I had to do during my last 36 hours in Hong Kong, and then roughly 36 hours later, I was on a plane back to California.
And that is where I write this to you now – after a day at the beach, and a weekend spent with family & friends. It’s hard to think that six months passed while I was in Hong Kong, but I think I’ll always look back on it as a fantastic period of personal growth and introspection. And I owe alot of that to Joe, who not only made it possible, but challenged me and pushed me to become a better person.
– Video after the break –
