I just heard about three hot micro travel trends and thought I’d share with you how they might be interpreted through genre-coloured glasses. Flashpacking This is backpacking with an electronic twist. Flashpackers travel on the cheap with all the electronic gadgets they use in their daily lives and traditional vacations, such as digital cameras, iPods, [...]
Well, it seems that there is a lot of chatter about the Wizarding World of Harry Potter going on around the Internet. So you do don’t have to go searching, I thought I’d round up a few for you here. Video: Radcliffe: Harry Potter fans ‘live the movie’ at theme park Daniel Radcliffe & other [...]
Written on June 21, 2010 | Posted in
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Bubonicon 42 is a science fiction and fantasy convention taking place at The Albuquerque Grand (Sheraton) Airport Hotel in New Mexico from August 27-29, 2010. This year’s theme takes its inspiration from the talented and witty writer of the Hitchhiker’s Guide and Dirk Gently series of humorous genre fiction, Douglas Adams. Confirmed Guests Include: Ben [...]
Written on June 14, 2010 | Posted in
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The other day I started watching Madonna videos on YouTube and I noticed something: Many of them had a genre sensibility. I would embed them to share with you, but embedding has been disabled, so I’ll just send you off to YouTube to see for yourself. “Frozen” www.youtube.com/watch?v=evxEOXkxRIA The video for this song features Madonna [...]
Written on June 4, 2010 | Posted in
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As usual, the Hyaena gallery in Burbank, Calif., is displaying some interesting, somewhat disturbing, but always emotion-provoking work. This time, the dark, somewhat sexual, curvaceous art of Jay N. Davis, which reminds me of some of Salvador Dali’s work, is being presented. A veteran Disney artist for 12 years, Davis has also taught drawing at [...]
Written on June 3, 2010 | Posted in
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I subscribe to the RSS feed for Webdesigner Depot and today I received a post that featured “Spectacular Fountains from Around the World.” And what I noticed is that many of them just looked like something a genre traveler would enjoy. So, I’m sharing those with you today. Click on the images to see a [...]
Written on June 2, 2010 | Posted in
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Have you ever read a book that had an ending so satisfying that you just sat there and basked in it? Well, now that I’ve finished reading N.K. Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, I have. Jemisin’s debut novel is an epic fantasy set in a world that is both refreshingly new and comfortably familiar. Whether [...]
Written on May 24, 2010 | Posted in
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The third version of the “Revenge of the Mummy, The Ride” has now opened at Universal Studios Singapore. The first two versions can be found at the Hollywood and Orlando locations. According to the press release announcing the opening on April 28, “Feedback from Singapore’s ‘Revenge of the Mummy’ riders has quickly put this attraction [...]
Written on May 5, 2010 | Posted in
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HP Fan Trips is organizing one last Harry Potter Fan Trip this summer to celebrate the release of the final Harry Potter Film. “We’ve taken the best from each of the seven years of our top-rate HP Fan Trips and created this special itinerary to celebrate the release of the final film in the Harry [...]
Written on April 26, 2010 | Posted in
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Yesterday morning I recorded an interview with Pay Boyle, the host of “The KPAM 860 Travel Show with Pat Boyle” about The Genre Traveler. We talked about what is genre travel, what kinds of things the website covers and how costuming is an integral part of many a genre traveler’s experience. The show will air [...]
Written on April 22, 2010 | Posted in
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