Vantigo San Francisco

Changing the way people see the city with personalized tours in a refurbished '71 Volkswagen van

Erik and Amy Hormann felt that as a young, entrepreneurial couple, they needed some justification for buying a bright red 1971 Volkswagen Van—as if owning a bright red 1971 Volkswagen Van wasn’t justification alone. With so many on-the-go services on the rise in cities like San Francisco, the options and opportunities seemed endless. And it was with their love for their home city that Vantigo …

LungA Festival 2013

Creativity takes center stage at Iceland's fascinating festival

by Maj Hartov A celebration of art and creative practices, the LungA festival on the east coast of Iceland invites attendees to partake in a full week of activities during July each year. Set in a small town called Seydisfjördur, at the end of a long fjord between snow-capped mountains, the festival is in the middle of a spectacular surrounding landscape. The brutality of the …

WA State Fire Lookout Project

Photographer Kyle Johnson documents the few remaining Forest Service lookout posts in the Pacific Northwest's vast landscape

Few places garner the type of awe and admiration for the abundance of nature like the great Northwest. While its cities continue to produce an impressive crop of creativity, its wilderness remains in part uncharted but ever-enchanting. To keep the heavily wooded region alive and well, the US Forest Service began building wildfire lookout posts in the early 1930s and ’40s—the number grew to nearly …