High on London
12 hours of footage sped up and tilt-shifted by filmmakers Matt Gosden and Rob Rackstraw.
Here’s the first video I’ve taken since arriving in Damascus, recorded from the terrace of our house in Muhajirin, an area built on the side of a mountain on the northern edge of the city.
The call to prayer or adhan (pronounced ah-than, with the “th” as in “than”, not “think”) happens five times a day, starting each morning at about 4:40 AM. That early morning one is a real surprise, and for the first three weeks it woke me up almost every time. Gradually I became accustomed to it and these days, usually, I sleep right through without earplugs or anything.
It’s really amazing, though, how the entire city rumbles and waves with all the calls happening simultaneously. You can kind of get a sense of it in this video.
A bunch of short videos of our hike in Petra all the way up a mountain path to the monastery at the top. I don’t know why I starting narrating National Geographic style. Sorry about that.
Inside Assad’s Syria: A documentary
Journalist Sue Lloyd-Roberts enters Damascus, Syria, posing undercover as a tourist to record documentary footage and perform interviews with Syrian activists. There are three categories of activists: the protesters or “front line”, the protest coordinators, and the advocates who promote what the protesters are doing. It’s a good summary narrative for anyone who is curious about what’s been happening in Syria but hasn’t had the time or will to follow events closely. (Seeing all the footage of the capital makes me sad… I miss it.)
From the archives: Video I made of our SCRUM board in the lead-up to launching the new Travelfusion last year!
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