As a landmark US election approaches, Jane Fonda, Theaster Gates and Chris Wallace offer their thoughts on where the country should go next. Change elsewhere comes in the form of city farms, the latest design finds and an art fair redux. Plus: we survey North Rhine-Westphalia, a region on the up.
Monthly Archives: November 2020
Infographic: ‘Differences Between COVID-19, The Flu And Allergies (2020)
Morning News Podcast: Trump-Biden Campaigns, Rapid Covid-19 Testing
President Trump and Joe Biden target battleground states, schools weigh plans for rapid COVID-19 tests, and 6 ways small businesses can boost holiday sales in 2020 amid the pandemic.
New Aerial Travel Videos: ‘Bergamo Orobie Forests’, Val Seriana, Italy (2020)
Filmed and Edited by: Luciano Bosticco
The video was shot with the intention of highlighting the natural beauties of the upper Val Seriana, in the Bergamo Orobie. The shots, carried out in the summer and autumn, aim to analyze the mountain environment from the high peaks to the valley floor, characterized by extensive woodland coverage. It is precisely on the forest heritage that the greatest attention has been paid to the sequence of images, passing from wide panoramic views to some details of the undergrowth up to peculiar alpine floral manifestations.
The Bergamo Orobie Mountains Park is a protected area that has been designated a “Mountain Park forest.” It includes the southern side of the Orobie chain of Alps, the provincial territory of Bergamo, and covers an area of 63 thousand hectares. Its territory is marked by the rivers Brembo, Serio and Dezzo that run through the Brembana, Seriana and Scalve valleys, and several other tributaries that through side valleys.
Music: Scott Buckley – Discovery (CC-BY)
Travel Video: ‘Abandoned Olympic Ruins In Sarajevo’, Bosnia And Herzegovina
Filmed and Edited by: Joerg Daiber
The Winter Olympics in 1984 were held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina). It was the first Winter Olympic Games held in a socialist state.
During the Siege of Sarajevo (1992 – 1996), the longest siege of a capital city in modern warfare, fighters on both sides took to the mountains surrounding the city, using the Olympic structures as battlements and storage for their fighting and weapons. The bobsled track became an artillery stronghold for Bosnian-Serbs—some defensive holes, drilled by troops, can still be seen in the track’s concrete walls. The ski jumps—also sites of heavy fighting—remain unused. Only recently this area has been cleared off from land mines.
Tilt–shift photography is a creative and unique type of photography in which the camera is manipulated so that a life-sized location or subject looks like a miniature-scale model.
World News Podcast: Joe Biden, Green Innovation & Mexico’s Coca-Cola Habit
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, why it has to be Joe, green innovation (14:35) and the fight against Mexico’s Coca-Cola habit (20:10). Zanny Minton Beddoes hosts.
New Aerial Travel Videos: ‘The Joys Of Autumn On Ullswater Lake’, England
Filmed & edited by Eden Valley Drones UK
I hope you enjoy the Autumn colours on Ullswater, filmed near Pooley Bridge.
Ullswater is the second largest lake in the English Lake District, being about 9 miles long and 0.75 miles wide, with a maximum depth a little more than 60 metres.
SUNDAY PODCAST: NEWS FROM ZURICH, LONDON & TOKYO (MONOCLE 24)
The weekend’s top news under scrutiny by Monocle’s editor in chief Tyler Brûlé, Rob Cox and Benno Zogg, with commentary from our editors in London and Tokyo. Plus: Christoph Amend of ‘ZEITmagazin’.
SCENIC OUTDOORS: BEST OF ‘LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZINE’ (NOV 2020)
Top Aerial Travel Videos: ‘Lugu Lake’ In Yunnan, China With Original Music Score By Jing Zhang (2020)
Aerial Photography & Editing by Jing Zhang
Lugu Lake (Yunnan, China). This is my first aerial photography and my first time scoring for my own scenery short. I finally achieved what I wanted to do for a long time. I hope that I can capture more different sceneries on this planet in this way.
Lugu Lake is located in the northwest of the Yunnan plateau, with the middle of the lake forming the border between the Ninglang County of Yunnan Province and the Yanyuan County of Sichuan Province.
Jing Zhang (张璟) is a composer from China. She composes, orchestrates, conducts and produces music for film, television, video game, trailer, commercial, animation and other types of visual media. She is a self-taught pianist.
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