video: vin sans romance

IMG_2300I’ll be the first to admit that I had a somewhat naive idea about how wine is produced in the 21st century. This being France, I assumed little old men in flat caps individually filled each bottle with a pipette out of oak casks – while precariously dangling a cigarette out of the corner of their mouth, natch. But oh, how times have changed: industrialization is everywhere. As I recently discovered at Domaine D’Astruc in Malras – and as these two video clips below make abundantly clear – it might completely shatter the romance of winemaking, but there’s something beautiful in the startling degree of efficiency achieved.

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video: zen & the art of oysters

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video: by the cool, blue triangular water

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tease: driving with the top down

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video: fast-track shopping


As if the daily grind of grocery shopping wasn’t enough, try having to navigate around the train schedule, too, like these shoppers at the Maeklong Railway Market outside of Bangkok.

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One of the chief attractions at Carnival is the music. Mostly it’s ear-splitting, bass-thumping soca cracking the air from flat bed trucks piled high with amplifiers. But every so often along comes a steel pan band, which miraculously manages to make a raft of cut down oil drums sound like an orchestra.

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here a tuk, there a tuk

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a precipitous change in the weather

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video: very, very early

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video: beach walk, in stereo

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video: ahhhh, sweet arrivals

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video: where am i going?

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video: almost a sunrise

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video: dodging bullets (and buicks) at the office

As you can see, there’s a perfectly good reason as to why I’m taking shelter in Mexico this weekend.

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video: first snow (new toy)

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