Seeing is believing. And that’s why when we saw this video about a cat warding off a bear from a pet friendly vacation rental, we couldn’t help but reflect on how your pets can be an asset on your vacation. Check out this video about a cat fiercely go after a bear. The bear is rummaging around for garbage. Is it a happy ending? Gotta see the video to find out.
You not only get to capture memories of your pet on your trip, but you can also see them in action, test their grit Continue Reading…
The Sundance Film Festival is abuzz with “The Runaways,” starring new breakout star Kristen Stewart, who plays a young Joan Jett, when she started her rock band at age 16, named you guessed it – The Runaways. The high octane coming of age drama portrays real life punk Joan Jett who runs away from home to start an all-girl rock band and snort cocaine with her friend portrayed by Dakota Fanning.
Kristen Stewart, Joan Jett, and Dakota Fanning at the movie premiere of the "Runaways" at Sundance; LA Times/Genaro Molina
In another family drama, “Welcome to the Rileys,” Stewart plays another runaway role, Mallory, a stripper-hooker with a porn star’s wardrobe. Both character’s shock quotient Continue Reading…
The big news coming out of the event is that Google launched an online rental service for 2010 Sundance movies. Google’s interest to to offer a paid service for $3.99 to watch the movies for up to 48 hours on YouTube, David Eun, Google’s vice president for content partnerships, said yesterday in an interview.
The uber popular video-sharing site YouTube is looking for additional ways to drive revenue. With movie studios paring back distribution into movie theaters, its harder for filmmakers to get distribution deals with theaters that carry their independent films. Of the 9000 movies that were submitted to Sundance last year, only 53 were distributed to movie theaters.
The Cove - a feature film at 2010 Sundance Film Festival available on YouTube
YouTube’s movie rental service will allow independent filmmakers to set the price, and to a certain degree, become the studio themselves, maintaining 100% of the rights and profits. Its a win-win for YouTube and the filmmakers. At the event, filmmakers indicated that this is a much better solution than ad-supported access to Sundance movies, which often don’t meet their monetization needs.
The Nights of Rodanthe is a huge deal simply because it brought the silver screen and worldwide exposure to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. And its the first big screen movie to be filmed in the Outer Banks since the sci fi thriller Brainstorm in 1983, starring Chris Walken and Natalie Wood. The Outer Banks Tourism Bureau and the Outer Banks vacation rental community hope the film increases awareness about the Outer Banks as a world acclaimed tourist hotspot. Not that it isn’t already, but Hollywood helps, right?
Richard Gere and Diane Lane starring in The Nights of Rodanthe, a movie set in Outer Banks, North Carolina
Debuting in 2008, the Nights of Rodanthe film features A-list actors Diane Lane and Richard Gere and A-list writer Nicholas Sparks, who also wrote the critically acclaimed Notebook. The movie is sort of like Under the Tuscan Sun meets Outer Banks: attractive middle aged adults with baggage in their homelife heading to a vacation hotspot discovering love. Ahhh!
Serendipity - House made famous by the movie "Nights in Rodanthe" (2008); Rodanthe, Outer Banks, North Carolina; photo courtesy of wikipedia
The movie takes place at the Serendipity, a now famous oceanfront vacation home in Rodanthe, which is a beautiful seaside village in the northern most part of the Hatteras Island, North Carolina. With Hollywood’s A-list in tow, one would think that the movie would have been a hit among the movie going public.
With the Sundance Film Festival kicking off January 21, 2010, its not too late to find some last minute deals on Park City condo rentals. This year features an exceptionally enthralling line up of short films. We’ve highlighted the top 10 must see films.
Paul Giamatti after the world premiere of the Illusionist with Jessica Biehl and Neil Burger in background; photocredit: Eugene
Brainchild of Robert Redford, the Sundance Film Festival was launched to discover filmmaking’s newest talent through the Festival’s program of short films, dramatic, and documentary. From January 21 – 31st, the Festival is non stop entertainment with live music performances, panel discussions with filmmakers and parties with celebrities. Each year the Sundance Film Festival selects 200 films for exhibition from more than 9,000 submissions. The Park City area swells to more than 50,000 people who attend screenings in Park City, Sundance, Ogden, and Salt Lake City, Utah.
The 2010 Sundance Film Festival’s slate of short films is broken up into several sections: U.S. Dramatic, International Dramatic, Documentary, Animated, and New Frontier. In prior years the festival opened with one narrative film, however, Sundance 2010 will be switching it up premiering one short films program, one documentary and one narrative film all on opening night, Thursday, January 21: François Alaux and Hervé de Crécy (Logorama), Rory Kennedy (The Fence), Spike Jonze (I’m Here), Patrik Eklund (Seeds of the Fall), and Rory Kennedy (The Fence).
Egyptian theater - at the heart of the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah; photocredit atp tyresus
According to movie buff and Sundance insider Eric Davis, top picks for this year’s batch of shorts is Continue Reading…
Celebrating Christmas and holiday cheer around the world; photocredit: hikingartist.com
Joyous Christmas! Cheerful Hanukkah! Merry Kwanzaa! Mirthful Ramadan! Did I miss any? To you and your family – may you experience the wonders of the holidays with fond memories, family and friends and look forward to the best new year ever in 2010!
My favorite thing about Thanksgiving is the cranberry sauce. It goes so deliciously well with turkey. I feel a bit bad about turkeys being mass-slaughtered for our feasting pleasure. I thought these pics were pretty funny about turkeys outsmarting their owners to avoid becoming dinner. Who knows maybe someone will invent a turkey substitute? My mom is a determined vegetarian. Lucky for the turkeys, she’s enjoying tofurkey on Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, live, laugh, love, and most importantly, carpe diem!
Who said you couldn’t have a turkey and a vacation too? May we reflect on the past year for everything we have to be grateful for….like free range turkey. Surviving the worst recession since the Great Depression. Great ways to advertise your vacation rental – FREE on Viscape.Or how ’bout them travel deals? Travel has never been cheaper!
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Have you ever wondered how your reviews can help you on Craigslist? The popular postlets application is really great for marketing rentals, however, what do you do when you want to use reviews to help market your vacation rentals and build trust?
In this article, I will show you how to take your Craigslist posting from drab to fab in a matter of 5 minutes.
I’m going to take you through step-by-step instructions for how to give your vacation rental a make over on Craigslist. Using this application will you time and empower you with the html tools handy to create a professional and credible post that will win more business and drive more bookings.
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So, here is our starting point – the traditional Craigslist posting. Let’s take that Craigslist post from drab….
Marketing your vacation rental on Craigslist - the display looks drabby compared to Viscape.com
…to fab in 5 minutes or less using Viscape’s free postlets-like Craigslist app.
Marketing your listing on Craigslist so it professionally showcases your vacation rental - www.Viscape.com
This app will save you hours of time from having to copy text and retrieve photos from your hard drive. All of your property information is stored on the Viscape site, where travelers can comparison-shop for vacation rentals and plan their trip. This is a great way to leverage Craigslist’s traffic and build credibility for your listings to better convert lookers into bookers.
Did you ever see that movie, “Along Came Polly,” starring Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston, and the hilarious scantily clad Hank Azaria?
If you didn’t see it, this travel review on St. Barts reminds me of the movie.
The gist of the movie is that newlyweds, played by Ben Stiller and Debra Messing, go on their honeymoon to St. Barts. The bride (Debra Messing) is tempted by a scantily-clad, sculpted and buff man on the beach with a thick French accent played by Hank Azaria. The couple breaks up and Ben meets Polly, played by Jennifer Aniston. Check out this photo of Hank Azaria playing Claude.
Hank Azaria swimsuit shockers; On the set of "Along Came Polly" in St Barthelemy
That’s right. If you saw the movie, you would be shocked by Hank Azaria’s bathing suit buffness in playing the role of Claude.
You know those French. Modesty, beach and French are three words that just don’t go well together. There were some scenes where Claude saunters down the beach in his birthday suit!
In fact, Hank was recognized as a swimsuit shocker in various celebrity publications. It was soooo shocking, we even had to crop this photo!
So congratulations to Najaa Young for writing this fun, funny travel review of St. Barts!
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