Filmed: Mon 02 November 2020 Today we will take a walk on London Oxford street to see the Christmas light displays. This day was the first night the Christmas lights had been turned on for 2020. Due to the effects of the Covid-19, there was no annual celebrity switch-on event but instead, the Christmas lights were lit earlier than usual.
ROUTE TIME STAMPS: 00:00 Oxford Street 07:17 Dering Street 08:24 New Bond Street 13:45 Oxford Street
Filmed and Edited by: Timo Oksanen
Shooting auroras above the majestic Mount Otertinden has been on my bucket list for years now, and on October 20th and 21st my dreams came true. Orionids meteor shower was peaking at that time, so there were quite a few shooting stars as well.
Music: Ian Post – Beyond
Christophe Schmidt, co-founder of A & S, and Anders Warming, Automotive designer, discuss the 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder, chassis 550-0050.
The 550 Spyder put Porsche firmly on the map as a serious competitor on the world’s racing tracks; indeed, the diminutive mid-engined roadster generated the nickname ‘Giant Killer’ for its ability to defeat much more powerful rivals. Introduced at the 1953 Paris Auto Show, the 550 and its second iteration, the 550A, remained in production through February of 1959, and a total of 130 chassis were constructed before the 718 RSK Spyders appeared. A large proportion of 550 production was destined for the United States.
Built on a frame of seamless mild steel tubing, the 550 utilised a front suspension of double trailing arms and transverse-leaf torsion bars. After the first few examples, the rear suspension was redesigned from leading control arms to trailing arms with swing axles and tubular transverse torsion bars. Porsche’s engineers had planned an all-new engine to power the Spyder at the gruelling Carrera Panamericana, but early testing determined that Dr Ernst Fuhrmann’s Type 547 advanced 1.5-litre air-cooled four- cylinder Boxer engine was not quite ready. Thus, the first few chassis were fitted with conventional pushrod Porsche engines. Soon, however, reliability was ensured and the new ‘Four-Cam’ would be installed in all the 550s, 550As, RSKs, 356 Carreras, and 904s that were to follow.
Venice, the capital of northern Italy’s Veneto region, is built on more than 100 small islands in a lagoon in the Adriatic Sea. It has no roads, just canals – including the Grand Canal thoroughfare – lined with Renaissance and Gothic palaces. The central square, Piazza San Marco, contains St. Mark’s Basilica, which is tiled with Byzantine mosaics, and the Campanile bell tower offering views of the city’s red roofs.
Lassen Volcanic National Park is one of California’s nine national parks and it is located in Northern California. The park is centered around Lassen Peak, a dormant volcano that erupted in the early 1900s. The park features hundreds of miles of hiking trails, stunning waterfalls and many geothermal features. Let me know what your favorite spot is in Lassen Volcanic National Park in the comments.
FILMED OCTOBER 2020 – First-person perspective London walk tour in Kensington’s mews and side streets, covering 3.5 miles (5.6 km), including Kynance Mews’ red ivy leaves, on a grey, autumn day post-lockdown.
Video timeline: ROUTE TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Gloucester Road 01:16 Cromwell Road 01:45 Gloucester Road 05:28 Kynance Mews 07:22 Launceston Place 08:19 Kynance Place 09:12 Gloucester Road 12:23 Canning Place 13:58 Canning Passage 15:20 Victoria Road 16:15 Cambridge Place 17:47 Albert Place 19:00 Victoria Road 24:33 Kynance Mews 25:49 Victoria Road 26:14 Eldon Road 28:14 Stanford Road 29:10 Cornwall Gardens 30:40 Cornwall Mews West 31:29 Cornwall Gardens Walk 33:08 Lexham Walk 33:39 Lexham Gardens 35:55 Marloes Road 37:01 Stratford Road 38:06 Radley Mews 39:29 Lexham Mews 41:19 Lexham Gardens 41:56 Earls Court Road 42:23 Logan Place 44:54 Cromwell Crescent 45:43 West Cromwell Road 46:32 Nevern Road 46:59 Longridge Road 48:15 Warwick Road 48:50 Philbeach Gardens 54:56 Warwick Road 55:10 Trebovir Road 58:36 Earls Court Road 1:01:12 Hogarth Road 1:02:11 Hogarth Place 1:02:48 Kenway Road 1:04:34 Redfield Lane 1:05:51 Wallgrave Road 1:07:05 Kenway Road 1:07:44 Hogarth Place 1:08:20 Hogarth Road 1:10:23 Knaresborough Place 1:11:25 Collingham Place 1:13:08 Collingham Road 1:13:54 Courtfield Gardens 1:15:33 Courtfield Road 1:16:58 Ashburn Gardens 1:18:32 Cromwell Road 1:20:41 Grenville Place 1:21:43 Emperor’s Gate 1:23:42 Grenville Place 1:25:00 Launceston Place 1:26:41 Kynance Mews 1:28:36 Gloucester Road
Explore historic buildings and hidden passageways in this exclusive walking tour of the streets and alleys of Charleston, South Carolina. This city is home to the most buildings in the National Historic Register, and it holds the title as the largest historic district in the country! Come along as tour guide Jim Gresham uncovers 350 years of beauty and rare history stored deep within this city’s roots.
Video timeline: 0:00 Introduction 0:35 Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon 1:00 Philadelphia Alley 1:50 McCrady’s Tavern 2:26 Chalmers Street 2:53 The Pink House 3:40 Elliott Street 4:21 Bedons Alley 4:55 Stolls Alley 5:30 Carriage stones 5:53 Longitude Lane 7:25 Conclusion
By planting fast-growing trees that nurture the soil and create a nutrient dense ground, local farmers are transforming exhausted lands into fertile and productive fields.
The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. We believe that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to make positive change.
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.
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)
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