I’ve been living in New Orleans my entire life, so I really have not had much outsider’s perspective to allow me to truly appreciate my home. I thought it was just another…
Set-jetting
Set-jetting means visiting famous locations from movies and TV shows.
About an hour’s drive north of Los Angeles is the desert community known as Canyon Country. While its population of nearly 60,000 people wouldn’t normally be considered small, it is dwarfed by…
If you watched Blade Runner you’re going to remember the scenery: Los Angeles in the year 2019. It’s dark. It’s raining all the time. There’s this unglamorous building just across the street…
Solvang is a small city (population around 5,000) in Santa Barbara County in California. It was founded in 1911 by a group of Danes who traveled west to establish a Danish colony…
Beverly Hills 90210 was an American TV show that originally aired from October 1990 to May 2000 and was hugely popular – not only in the USA but also worldwide. The show…
It was more than 20 years ago when I first saw it – in our living room while watching a movie that will eventually become my favorite one. Fast forward to the…
Modern Family is a TV show that was covered in several blog posts on Brands&Films, but none of them had involved locations from the series. During my recent trip to Los Angeles…
During my recent trip to Los Angeles and San Francisco we’ve made a stop in several beautiful areas of Los Angeles. One of them is called Angelino Heights, a small quarter within…
On my recent trip to London I visited a place that I should have a long time ago. It’s located at 280 Westbourne Park Road in Notting Hill. The location I’m writing…
American TV show Girls, which ended its second season on March 17, 2013, takes place in New York, mostly on Manhattan and in Williamsburg. New York based public radio WNYC’s Culture Web…
* This is guest post written by Bailee Grissom New Orleans is an exciting city to live in. Not only are there ghosts, great food, and music on every corner, it’s recently…
Many Southern California natives consider the Highway 1 city of San Clemente the last great beach town. With its scenic views and quiet suburban housing tracts mixing with the tourist scene and…
New York based public radio WNYC’s Culture Web site has recently created a very interesting project. They wanted to do a map of all locations from AMC’s TV show Mad Men. The map…
The latest issue of Ekran, Slovenian monthly magazine for film and television, featured my story about set-jetting “Where lives … Lisbeth Salander?” In the article I’ve described this relatively new phenomenon and…
Phang Nga Bay, depending on the day you go, can be either an eerie otherworldly obstacle course of unforgiving rocks shooting dramatically out of choppy, swirling waves, or an awe-inspiring landscape of…