!!!Miami, Florida

by Sergey Semenov,
member of the [AirPano Team|Geography/About/Consortium/AirPano,_Team] that is a member of the [global-geography Consortium|Geography/About/Consortium]. \\

11 July 2011

with kind permission of [AirPano|http://www.AirPano.com]

We start this virtual tour description in a not quite predictable
manner. The song Miami by Will Smith colorfully illustrates this city's
atmosphere. And then, when the song is read, you will be able to read
the story about the shooting in Miami by Sergey Semenov.

Will Smith — Miami

Verse 1: WillSmith

Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah\\
Miami, uh, uh\\
Southbeach, bringin the heat, uh\\
Haha, can y'all feel that\\
Can y'all feel that\\
Jig it out, uh\\
Here I am in the place where I come let go\\
Miami the base and the sunset glow\\
Everyday like a mardi gras, everybody party all day\\
No work all play, okay\\
So we sip a little something, lay to rest the spill\\
Me an Charlie at the bar runnin up a high bill\\
Nothin less than ill, when we dress to kill\\
Everytime the ladies pass, they be like (Hi Will)\\
Can y'all feel me, all ages and races\\
Real sweet faces\\
Every different nation, Spanish, Hatian, Indian, Jamaican\\
Black, White, Cuban, and Asian\\
I only came for two days of playing\\
But everytime I come I always wind up stayin\\
This the type of town I could spend a few days in\\
Miami the city that keeps the roof blazin

Chorus:

Party in the city where the heat is on\\
All night, on the beach till the break of dawn\\
Welcome to Miami\\
Buenvenidos a Miami\\
Bouncin in the club where the heat is on\\
All night, on the beach till the break of dawn\\
I'm goin to Miami\\
Welcome to Miami

Verse 2: Will Smith

Yo I heard the rainstorms ain't nothin to mess with\\
But I can't feel a drip on the strip, it's a trip\\
Ladies half-dressed, fully equipped\\
And they be screamin out, (Will we loved your last hit)\\
So I'm thinkin I'ma scoot me somethin hot\\
In this south-sea merengue melting pot\\
Hottest club in the city, and it's right on the beach\\
Temperature get to ya, it's about to reach\\
Five-hundred degrees\\
In the carribean seas, with the hot mommies\\
Screamin (Aii poppy)\\
Everytime I come to town, they be spottin me\\
In the drop Bentley, ain't no stoppin me\\
So, cash in your door\\
We flow to this fashion show\\
Pound for pound anywhere you go\\
Yo, ain't no city in the world like this\\
An if you ask how I know I gots ta plead the fifth

Chorus

Verse 3: Will Smith

Don't get me wrong, Chi-town got it goin on\\
An New York is the city that we know don't sleep\\
An we all know that L.A. and Philly stay jiggy\\
But on the sneak, Miami bringin heat for real\\
Y'all don't understand\\
I never seen so many Dominican women with cinnimon tans\\
Mierda, this is the plan\\
Take a walk on the beach, draw a heart in the sand\\
Gimmie your hand\\
Damn, you look sexy\\
Let's go to my yacht, in the West Keys\\
Ride my jetskis, loungin in the palm trees\\
Cause you gotta have cheese for the summerhouse piece on SouthBeach\\
Water so clear, you can see to the bottom\\
Hundred-thousand dollar cars, e'ybody got em\\
Ain't no surprise in the club to see Sly, Stallone\\
Miami, my second home

Chorus to fade

(*) Mardi Gras is French for «Fat Tuesday», it is the last and culminating day before Ash Wednesday and beginning of the catholic Lent. Mardi gras refers to events of the Carnival celebrations in most Europe countries(France, Czech Republic, Belgium etc), in the USA and other countries.
In the USA the most pompous and mass celebrations take place in New Orleans now.

(**) Meringue is a kind of Latin-American dance (like Rumba, for example)

And here it is the story by Sergey Semenov

Several times I have been on business to Miami, Florida, USA. And, of
course, I was charged with shooting a virtual tour over this beautiful
city. But, in fact, it was not easy at all. And the reason was...

The first attempt was made in November of 2009. That time, I thought
that the weather was always fine in that paradisiacal corner of the
planet and November, according to the Internet forecasts, was nearly a
hot touristic season. But in reality everything was little different.

In general, Florida is famous for its hurricanes (and it's not strange
that the National Hurricane Center is situated exactly in Miami).
Fortunately, there was not any hurricane (or contrary — unfortunately —
because in that case it could have been a sphere with a hurricane) but
the strong wind was blowing and from time to time it was raining. It
took me 30 minutes to get from the city center to the closest heliport
and, as we usually charter helicopters with the doors off to shoot
spheres, I had to accept of being wet.

But the worst happened near the ocean: the wind became much stronger and
gustier than at heliport and the helicopter was in lack of power and
couldn't realize a full torsion round its axis simultaneously not moving
aside. But the most vexing was when we tried to realize the maneuver of
turning the tail to the wind direction: the helicopter was sharply
loosing height (the pilots often say that a helicopter "falls hard and
fast"). Therefore, I asked the pilot to hover in the most stable
position — against the wind — and began to shoot the hemispheres often
changing my location inside the helicopter from the right side to the
left one and vice versa. But, unfortunately, having returned to Moscow I
found out that it was really difficult to stitch the material shot.

However, a month later, on the New Year's Eve, I was going to leave for
Miami once again and reshoot all the spheres. Instead of celebrating I
chose to find time for the shooting. That trip had its zest too. A
manager, whom I talked with about the future flight, represented himself
as Chico but, as soon as he had known that I was from Russia, he
enthusiastically announced that his original first and last names were
Alesha Orlov. At the same time, he looked like a typical Latin-American
inhabitant of the USA and didn't speak Russian. Having seen my surprise
and doubts, he ran out to his car and took his documents. Yes, he was
absolutely right, there were stated: Nationality — Cuban, Names — Alesha
Orlov...

So, on the 3-d of January, when the weather was unusually cold for that
season in Florida — 10 degrees above zero (50 Fahrenheit), we took off
the helicopter doors and I, having put on my Moscow winter jacket, took
equipment and sat in the helicopter while the pilot was laughing and
joking at me. But he laughs best who laughs last! While we were flying I
heard the noise of the pilot's chattering teeth who had underestimated
the "unusual cold weather": as higher we were flying as colder it was.

That was the story of how this virtual tour had been shot. I can't stand
to tell you that the weather was so cold that day that it broke all the
records in the meteorological history of the region having dramatically
damaged citrus plantations and other plants all over Eastern coast.

My sufferings were not in vain and efforts led to success. Here it is
Miami, one of the best beach resorts in the USA, which counts a great
number of luxurious clubs and hotels made in Art Deco style, the highest
apartment buildings in the USA constructed with money of drag barons,
and many villas of famous people including Al Pacino, Anna Kurnikova,
Jennifer Lopez, Julio Iglesias, Lenny Kravitz, Shaquille O'Neal, Matt
Damon, Shakira, Silvester Stallone and Madonna!

The city itself, located on the Atlantic Ocean's coast, is the most
populous in Florida and the 42-nd in size in the USA. Its main territory
is either coastal or suburban and artificial barrier islands. The
oceanic warm current — Gulf Stream — flows only at a distance of 24
kilometers from Miami Coast and it makes the climate warm and mild.

The most part of population is the Spanish-speaking inhabitants, largely
the Cubans, escaped from Castro's regime to Florida which is the nearest
territory to Cuba. Nowadays, there is the whole district named Little
Cuba with its habits and laws and if anyone wishes to park a car for a
night, in the morning it could be found without wheels and audio system.
In fact, 82% of population belongs to the national minority and it makes
it the most multinational city in the world.

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[9 Panoramas of Miami|Geography/America/United_States/Pictures/Panoramas_of_Miami]








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