Showcase · Travel

A travel page that looks the same every day

This sample runs Earth Bucket List, a travel page built on real places and real footage from open archives. The goal is a steady run of carousels and countdown reels that look the same on day one and day one hundred, so the page reads as one publication rather than a pile of posts.

Real places, real footage, rendered into carousels and countdowns.

Showcase, travel. Earth Bucket List posts the world. Real places, real footage, rendered into carousels and countdowns that look the same on day 1 and day 100. Formats: Carousel, Top-5 Countdown.

Samples

The finished posts and reels.

  • Carousel cover for Earth Bucket List: 5 places before 30. Santorini, Greece, whitewashed villages on the rim of a sunken volcano.Sample

    Santorini, Greece

    Carousel · cover

  • Carousel card 2 of 5: Kyoto, Japan, the old capital and its temples, with the Yasaka Pagoda at dusk.Sample

    Kyoto, Japan

    Carousel card

  • Carousel card 3 of 5: Banff, Canada, Moraine Lake at sunrise in the country's oldest national park.Sample

    Banff, Canada

    Carousel card

  • Carousel card 4 of 5: Cappadocia, Turkey, sunrise balloons over the fairy chimneys.Sample

    Cappadocia, Turkey

    Carousel card

  • Carousel card 5 of 5: Bali, Indonesia, Tanah Lot, a Hindu sea temple on a tidal rock, with follow for more.Sample

    Bali, Indonesia

    Carousel card

  • Poster for Earth Bucket List: Santorini, Greece. Whitewashed villages on the rim of a sunken volcano.Sample

    Santorini poster

    Poster

  • Sample

    Top 5 sunsets on Earth

    Reel · press play

Formats

The formats behind them.

  • Image · renders today

    Carousel

    Three to five swipeable cards telling one set, with a hook on the cover and a counter on every card after it.

    See its zones

  • Reel · renders today

    Top-5 Countdown

    Five ranked clips, from number five to number one, with the list title on screen the whole reel.

    See its zones

Where the material came from

Every photo and clip in this sample is open material from Wikimedia Commons, released under CC0 or into the public domain. The places are real and so is the footage: nothing here was drawn by an image generator.

The destination photos:

  • Santorini, Greece: Anthony Delanoix, via Unsplash and Wikimedia Commons, CC0 [1]
  • Kyoto, Japan: Sorasak, via Unsplash and Wikimedia Commons, CC0 [2]
  • Banff, Canada: Garrett Parker, via Unsplash and Wikimedia Commons, CC0 [3]
  • Cappadocia, Turkey: Daniela Cuevas, via Unsplash and Wikimedia Commons, CC0 [4]
  • Tanah Lot, Bali: Krismartin, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain [5]

The sunset clips in the countdown reel:

  • Paris, France: Mythomen, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0 [6]
  • State of Mexico, Mexico: Vicky Ponce, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0 [7]
  • Libreville, Gabon: In Old News, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0 [8]
  • Alvord Desert, Oregon: the Bureau of Land Management, public domain [9]
  • Mojave Trails, California: the Bureau of Land Management, public domain [10]

The clips were filmed wide and are cropped to a tall reel by the format. Which platforms a page like this posts to, and how, is on the Pilot OS page.

Sources

  1. Santorini, Greece, by Anthony Delanoix (Unsplash), Wikimedia Commons, CC0Accessed
  2. Kyoto, Japan, by Sorasak (Unsplash), Wikimedia Commons, CC0Accessed
  3. Moraine Lake, Banff, by Garrett Parker (Unsplash), Wikimedia Commons, CC0Accessed
  4. Cappadocia, Turkey, by Daniela Cuevas (Unsplash), Wikimedia Commons, CC0Accessed
  5. Tanah Lot at sunset, by Krismartin, Wikimedia Commons, public domainAccessed
  6. Sunset on the Eiffel Tower in Paris, by Mythomen (Vimeo), Wikimedia Commons, CC0Accessed
  7. Golden sunset filmed in January, State of Mexico, by Vicky Ponce (Flickr), Wikimedia Commons, CC0Accessed
  8. Sunset timelapse on the beach in Libreville, Gabon, by In Old News (Flickr), Wikimedia Commons, CC0Accessed
  9. Alvord Desert, by the Bureau of Land Management, Oregon and Washington, Wikimedia Commons, public domainAccessed
  10. Mojave Desert sunset, by the Bureau of Land Management, California, Wikimedia Commons, public domainAccessed

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