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...shifted since holiday season 1999, you could do worse than pay a visit to Bluelight.com based in San Francisco. Incongruities abound. Here we are at a converted warehouse (major points for geek chic), but it's in the heart of Fisherman's Wharf, Middle America's greatest open-air tourist trap, miles from the hipster hangouts. Inside are all the signs of an unstuffy start-up--pets roaming the halls, people with green hair. Yet what gets them really jazzed is flipping the switch that signals a virtual blue-light special...
...city of Quito, she was not disappointed. After three intensive weeks of private classes and living with a family, she went off better prepared for her explorations. Says Amundson: "Going to school and getting quarters with local people is a great way to enjoy a country without being a 'tourist...
...rich resource has risen to a public drama. But Hillary's embrace of her husband down the stretch may put her in the record books: the first First Lady to abdicate the White House to win a Senate seat from a state she had previously only visited as a tourist. Meanwhile, Gore, who won't share a stage with Clinton, finds himself in a dead heat for an office he should take in a walk. The couples were together for the first time since the Democratic Convention, attending the funeral of Governor Mel Carnahan. There were the obligatory air kisses...
...Italian footage offers the view of a tourist meandering through a foreign landscape, happening upon scenes and subjects. Agnes shot pure observational footage in Italy, never developing any particular characters or a specific narrative, but focusing on the spontaneity of situations. In one scene she shoots an intimate moment between a boy and a girl by the sea in Naples, and in another she captures a church procession. It seems a daunting task to take your camera out and film strangers, but Agnes says that "what lent itself to this idea is that I'm a tourist...
...Through the exploration of Hong Kong and Italy, the viewer gets a sense of the filmmaker's personal nature, rather than stock footage of a particular place or tourist location. It is this personal vein that is most evocative and interesting in Agnes's work, exploring places she has never been or revisiting ones from her past, in order to offer us something exciting about ourselves and the way we can look at the world through the newness of experience. Although Agnes's video is still in the post-production stages, one awaits the opportunity of not only seeing foreign...