It is true that tourism in Kashmir, where visitors once flocked for its seductive landscapes, has vanished.
The area's varied and endlessly seductive landscapes recall Burgundy, Italy's lake country and the environs of Lake Geneva in Switzerland.
The sense of animation builds as people turn and point, urging us onwards, and eventually appearing outdoors into those seductive landscapes.
And when a romantic comedy has you idly reminiscing about Jack Klugman and Tony Randall -- when even Brazil's seductive landscapes and music can't hold your attention -- it's time to start eyeing the exits or longing for the intrusive trill of a cell phone.
Last Voyage will be available for purchase in the iTunes store tomorrow, but for now, dive inside its seductive minimal landscapes. .
Mosse's work has raised issues about the aestheticising of violence: the war-torn landscape looks seductive and beautiful.
Exploring a fresh idea, I found, could be as seductive as exploring a fresh landscape.
Envisioning a world where inequality and suffering melt away thanks to virtual reality and 80s pop culture, Ernst Klein's novel Ready Player One is a seductive prophecy for the media landscape of tomorrow and today.
But while landscapes can be seductive, and even comforting, it is easy to overlook the fact that they are not neutral territory.
Bram's taste isn't for the obvious, and the images he's curated rarely display traditionally seductive or eye-catching gimmickry; landscapes are drably colored, ordinary people are shown in unembellished states of ordinariness.
