MetaFilter posts tagged with tourist

Photos from North Korea.

chunking express — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:58:23 -0800

Photos from North Korea. Photographs from a 2 week long trip to North Korea by photographer Eric Lafforgue.

It's a small town after all.

miss lynnster — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:04:28 -0800

Charles Phoenix's Disneyland Tour of Downtown Los Angeles... featuring Adventure land, Frontier land, Fantasy land, and Tomo rrow land. Feel like taking your own walking tour of Downtown? Here you go. But hey, why not stop and gorge yourself on a giant pancake breakfast at The Pantry first, just because? Open 24 hours a day, it hasn't closed since 1924 so the doors don't even have locks. Just like Disneyland!

Nothing To See Here

chrismear — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:36:23 -0800

Nothing To See Here A guide to "some of the world's lesser-signposted places to go - attractions that may not be all that attractive; coastal towns they forgot to close down; high streets that haven't been homogenised; oddities and one-offs."

Souvenir Overlays

Bugbread — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 05:47:05 -0800

Michael Hughes takes cheap souvenirs, and then takes photographs with them superimposed over the real thing. A Flickr photo set.
via Wired's Table of Malcontents

Welcome back NFT

KevinSkomsvold — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:39:13 -0800

NFT (not for tourists) has relaunched their web site. Their city guide books are excellent and they offer free city guides in PDF format (editorializing inside).

Life Goes On

Doohickie — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:24:02 -0800

Life Goes On: Just as curbing rampant capitalism in post-9/11 America is letting the terrorists win, I guess canceling vacations to Indonesia would be to let the tsunami win... [via Geisha asobi blog]

1001 Things To Hate About The Convention

fungible — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 07:12:43 -0800

1001 Things To Hate About The Convention. Funny, and exhaustive, stuff from New York Press.

How to Walk of Japan

plep — Thu, 29 May 2003 23:52:27 -0800

How to Walk of Japan. Strange tourist attractions - some NSFW.

Project: Shutterbug

staggernation — Thu, 02 Jan 2003 07:06:11 -0800

Project: Shutterbug. Taking pictures of tourists taking pictures. It's a small collection right now, but maybe you can help it grow. From the Hungover Gourmet.