Lijiang, China as it used to be
One of the world’s most exquisite towns, now lost, captured on video the very year I first saw it
Homs, Syria after five years of war
Drone video footage shows there’s no life left in Syria’s third largest city
The long, strange journey of checked luggage
Finally, the answer to how many chances are there along the way to steal my valuables
Syrian-American composer who plays for peace
A symphony for Syria reminds me of Sarajevo and the hope that cosmopolitan tolerance will survive
Activists in Raqqa exposing the Islamic State
We owe a great debt to the people documenting the devastation around them
Flying things as you have never seen them before
Tracing the patterns of birds and bugs results in something very cool and almost abstract
Every flight in 24 hours
This video reveals flights, yes, but also population densities, wealth, and history
Prayer of Fear by Mosireen
The media collective Mosireen perfectly captures the current moment in Egypt
Shooting an elephant at MoMA
Douglas Gordon’s “Play Dead; Real Time” is terrific, even the way MoMA has installed it
My Bhutan video for Hermès
Moments from my journey for Hermès to the best-preserved corner of the Himalayas
Video drones over Taksim Square in Istanbul
When the police control the streets, video drones can see what they are up to
The Yugoslav war reappears in Syria
War never ends: it breeds skills that just get applied to perpetrating bad deeds later on
What an Omar Suleiman girl group would sound like
Mubarak’s Angel of Darkness would have yelped and wailed just like this
Christian Marclay’s The Clock and the essence of film
The most powerful exploration since Sergei Eisenstein of the way in which edits create meaning
Syria, citizen journalism and the New York Times
The paper of record embraces citizen journalism at last
Bruce Lee: Real? Fake? Whatever: I believe
Bruce Lee plays ping pong and lights matches with uncanny accuracy
What that Venus transit thing looked like
It won’t happen again for 105 years but, honestly, it is better on video
A few moments in the life of Hugo Chávez
A Venezuelan revolutionary to some, a dictator to others, but always colorful
Kony2012, the final indignity
What if you throw a party for one hundred million people and no one comes?
One hundred million acts of vanity
For #kony2012, Joseph Kony is just a MacGuffin; the real action is about us
Caught in the middle of a firefight in Syria
A terrifyingly close view of what it means to fight an irregular war in the middle of a city