From helping those with disabilities explore to aiding folks in planning their next adventure, travel channels aren’t just for those who need a temporary break from their boring local scenery: They’re a great way to investigate the real world on the cheap.
into frame. You don’t see it so much as you lose all your attention to the eruption of noise. As abruptly as changing tracks on Spotify, the background din of shoppers negotiating with traders is replaced by screaming howls. Shopkeepers abandon their stalls. Everybody darts across the frame. Somebody chuckles. The cameraman, unseen and silent, holds his nerve and keeps moving.
One man grabs a plastic milk crate and tries to smash the rat, but we, the viewer, must be rooting for it hard enough that it escapes its death sentence and flees to safety. Pausing neither for the outbreak of chaos nor the peoples’ fading, nervous laughter as the episode ends as briskly as it began, the camera floats onward through the market and out onto the sidewalk. If your Spanish is good enough, you can pick up bits of background conversations. Two people walk past.
This video of Mexico City comes thanks to a relatively new group of YouTubers helping folks around the world experience many of our most astonishing cities as though they were casually walking through them. From helping those with disabilities explore to aiding folks like me in planning my travels, channels like these aren’t just for those who need a temporary break from their boring local scenery: They’re a great way to investigate the real world on the cheap.
Moving somewhere I’d never been sounded like fun, yet I still wanted some grasp of the city before I made the commitment.
I could find tons of forum posts, blog stories, and vlogs with annoyingly blabber-mouthed hosts, but those were always presented through somebody else’s filter. I wanted them out of the way. I wanted to be there without physically going there. Money was precious. YouTube was free., a YouTube series relatively new at the time. There were a few videos, long takes of nothing but walking through the city in one big cut. Some videos lasted 30 to 45 minutes. There was no narration, no plot.
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