the big fat world

The Blue Mosque, or Sultan Ahmed Mosque is perhaps the most famous landmark in Istanbul. It’s 400th birthday will occur in and around 2016. It’s called the Blue Mosque, not because its partial to melancholy but for the thousands of blue hand painted tiles adorning it’s walls. The Blue Mosque is an actual working mosque [...]

This is a very short video that I took out of my rental car in Cappadocia, Turkey. The landscape is 100% natural and very unusual which makes Cappadocia one of the most visited places in Turkey.   Watch more travel videos at tripfilms.com

This is my 1st attempt at making a movie using my new Flip camera, which by the way is an awesome piece of equipment. I hope to make many more as the software for creating movies has become so easy. The video is far from being perfect but is a nice glimpse of this Ecuador [...]

One of the most amazing things in HK is the skyline. You can see it from a number of spots, Victoria Peak and from the posh residential section of town up in the hills. You can also sit back and watch the jagged mountainous skyline go by on a ferry ride. Watch more Hong Kong [...]

Searching through the video vaults, I am choosing one of my many ‘driving Ireland’ videos. It was taken from my Nissan Micra rental. Takes place in County Kerry, southwestern Ireland, within the Ring of Kerry. Notice the lack of greenery and trees. Taken March 2009. Adjust your volume as the noise from the wind is [...]

Travel to Vietnam is not complete without crossing the street. Crossing the street in Saigon or Hanoi resembles a modern day Frogger. You hop from open area to open area on the road trying to make it across before you get squished. There are over a million motorbikes in Hanoi, and probably more in Saigon [...]