Luxembourg teaser

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Mike

I had a great time in Luxembourg this weekend and met some fantastic people. I’m hoping I made a few real friends as I know I want to work with some of them too.

You can get a little tired of the echo chamber here in London so it was great to relax with a few like-minded folk who come at things with a slightly different outlook and European direction. Seesmic and Twitter are great for breaking down barriers and connecting people, but my own inability to learn another language (I figure I need to finish butchering this one before I move on to a new one) means I navigate towards English speakers first. Thankfully every person in Europe is way smarter than me and forgives me my ignorance. This means I already have a nice little European social group to turn to online.

However, nothing beats sitting down in a hotel that was once a fortress to chew the fat (and Toblerone) together.

I was incredibly impressed with everything I saw in Luxembourg, but what stirred me the most were the people. I travel a fair bit, but it takes more than history and postcard pretty scenery to get me fired up about a place. I was bored to tears in the jungles of Mexico because the pyramids are just mausoleums. Impressive, yes, but it’s not like the ancient Mayans have contributed much lately (unless you count the Mel Gibson movie with the face chewing) and a hundred years from now someone taking the same trip as me will see pretty much the same thing. Mexico City, however, rocked

Jess drags me to a lot of OLD places that are quite happy to look backwards for the next century and concentrate on diverging tourists from their cash by wearing silly costumes and treating their whole nation as a museum. Dead places, dead ideas.

Everyone I met in Luxembourg was well aware of the perceived shortcomings of such a small country, but crucially they were all committed to moving forward and changing those perceptions by being as progressive as possible. The people won me over first and then it was easy to sit back and enjoy the view.

Anyway, I’m going to break my posts about the trip up with my usual stuff here and also try and keep things short and snappy. Just sorting out all the video I shot will take a week plus I’m learning how to handle a new camera and a new editing suite at the same time. But more on that later too…

Right now here’s some footage as a teaser that I almost deleted and then shoved into iMovie 08 as a quick refresher:

Comments

  • Phil Campbell on January 29th, 2008

    great vid. your a videoblogger now. wootage!

  • Mike on January 29th, 2008

    Cheers, Phil. Long way to go yet. Part of me just wants to hire a cameraman, but I guess that would be wrong. It is fun though. I can see why you real vloggers get such a kick out of it.

    But that was just me on a plane. Wait for the much prettier bloggers and the museum of Motorhead and Black Flag…

  • adam on January 29th, 2008

    Fuck me, I thought you were going to crash land in a field for a minute there…lovely looking footage for Flash(?) Bet the raw looks great.

  • Sandrine on January 29th, 2008

    Cool video ! You’ve already done a much better job to what I could have done;) And I totally agree with your friend Phil, you’re a great videoblogger, can’t wait to see the remaining…

  • Luca on January 29th, 2008

    I had great time too :)
    Keep in touch

  • Nicholas Butler on January 29th, 2008

    What me , Jealous ? Utterly. Great video blog, you should do more the crowd keeps asking for them.

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  • Robert Croma on January 29th, 2008

    *clap clap clap…etc* Brilliantly done, Mike! More, please…

  • Benjamin Partridge on January 29th, 2008

    That’s an awesome Ozzy track

  • rashbre on January 30th, 2008

    looks as if Luxembourg was fun. I worked there for a while and it is, as you say, small, but has great linkies to everywhere else. Saying Hi cos we met during the Camel and Artichoke thing yesterday. I may even be in your Vidcam footage.

    rashbre

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