Category Archives: The Videos

April 10, 2013 · 12:33 pm

A Snowy Night In Downtown Denver


A couple weeks ago I had the pleasure of returning home from Germany for about a week and a half.  Like most of my trips home, it was a brief little sojourn, but I did get the chance to do something I’ve been wanting to do for a while now: give Denver, Colorado the treatment I’ve given to Amsterdam, Bergheim, Cologne, the Rocky Mountains, Prague, Paris, Native American ruins in the New Mexico desert, and most recently, Bruges.

In other words, spend several hours drinking beers and taking pictures, and then spending several more hours sifting through the thousands of pictures and making a little movie out of them…

Fortunately enough,there was a steady snow falling on the evening I picked for my little photo shoot, and that turned Denver into a multitude of postcards.  So take a few minutes and have a look around my hometown, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed…

So that’s my little Denver video….  I hope you enjoyed it.

A little clerical note.  Hardocre followers of my blog know that I generally select a nice header image for each post, and further, that I didn’t do that this time.  Well, that’s because my generic header, the beautiful shot you see above, was taken about 2 years ago in downtown Denver.  Also, the background sunset you see is Denver.  I suppose it’s kind of telling that even after setting foot on 4 continents both permanent images up in here are from Denver, Colorado.  The more you know…

Anywho, come back soon for more Denver, Bruges, and witticisms.

Don’t be a stranger.

-B. Littleton

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March 6, 2013 · 11:18 am

In Bruges


So a couple of weeks ago my bad-ass of a mother flew from Denver to Frankfurt to come see me in Germany.  Further, knowing I could use a little break from Bergheim, she was even more of a bad-ass and looked into some cool shit we could do that wasn’t too far from the boring, sleepy little German town that I now call home.

I’ll admit, partially because I really enjoyed the movie that shares a title with this here post, we settled on Bruges, not quite a 3-hour drive away.  She found us a nice little apartment in the heart of the old town, and spent a couple of days strolling around the little Belgian city eating their waffles and drinking their beers and shit.

As said movie aptly describes it, Bruges is right out of a fairy tale.  It’s an incredibly scenic, romantic and beautiful little place.  After hours and hours of exploring and about 1800 pictures later, I was kind enough to make you this little video.  So, you can spend the next 5 minutes seeing just about all there is to see from this little town, and hear a pretty solid Cake song while you’re at it.  And you won’t even have to deal with any jet-lag.   Seems like a solid deal to me…

That’s all for now.  More from Bruges to follow, not mention some damn pretty pictures of Cologne, to toot my own horn just a bit.

Don’t be a stranger.

-B. Littleton

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May 7, 2012 · 10:41 am

A Desert Drive to Chaco Canyon


Enough with the foreplay.  Here’s a video of Chaco Canyon.

I’d been there once when I was a little kid, but I didn’t really remember it too well.  Upon going back, I found something just as awe-inspiring as walking the streets of Brussels, although in an entirely different way.  And it made it that much more amazing that I visited this place in the middle of nowhere, and I do mean nowhere, less than a month after standing on top of the Eiffel Tower.  It’s an interesting life I lead.

The place is awesome.  Here’s a link to their website, if you’re interested in reading about it a little bit.  It was built and occupied between roughly 800-1250 AD, and I guess it was quite the little cultural mecca for all the Native Americans in the area.  The scope of the place is astonishing.

Artist depiction of what the largest of the several pueblos in the canyon probably looked like.

And with an afternoon to kill in Grants, New Mexico, I hopped in my pickup, put the pedal to the floor….  I drove to the desert, fired my rifle in the sky and shouted ‘God, if I have to die, you will have to die.’  Ok, I didn’t do that.  That’s just an awesome line from Cowboy Dan by Modest Mouse, the song I used completely without permission in the video.  I suppose more accurately, I hopped in my rented Mazda 6, headed out to the desert, and took a whole crapload of pictures.  And then I made this.  Enjoy….

And with that, I’m of to beautiful Gonzales, Louisiana.

-B. Littleton

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