You don't go searching for them...THEY come searching for YOU!
CNN has this video where a reporter gets 'upclose and personal' with the Asian Carp that are invading our waters!!
Showing posts with label Nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nature. Show all posts
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Fishing ... The Hard Way!!
You don't go searching for them...THEY come searching for YOU!
CNN has this video where a reporter gets 'upclose and personal' with the Asian Carp that are invading our waters!!
Monday, March 26, 2007
Did You Watch...
..."Planet Earth" on The Discovery Channel last night, like I suggested? The first three sections of the mini-series were on and every one of them was beautiful and mesmerizing.
This is a video of the preview for the series, but focus on the 00:42 mark. A shark leaps out of the water to get a seal. In the program, they spend much more time showing this phenomenon and my jaw was on the ground the entire time.
If you missed it, check your listings for when it will repeat, and also tune in next Sunday for the next few sections!
If you saw it last night, what did you think?
This is a video of the preview for the series, but focus on the 00:42 mark. A shark leaps out of the water to get a seal. In the program, they spend much more time showing this phenomenon and my jaw was on the ground the entire time.
If you missed it, check your listings for when it will repeat, and also tune in next Sunday for the next few sections!
If you saw it last night, what did you think?
Friday, March 23, 2007
Have Lunch With Indy...
That's right. You can sit across a cobb salad from Indiana Jones, Jack Ryan, Han Solo - Harrison Ford!The E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation, a charity that Ford serves on the Board of Directors for, is auctioning off lunch for two with their famous board member.
The minimum starting bid, on eBay, is $2,500.
According to their webapge; "the foundation's mission is to preserve biological diversity in the living environment by inventing and implementing business and educational strategies in the service of conservation."
Also, if you have at least $12,500 buring a hole in your very deep pokets, The E.O. Wilson Foundation is also auctioning off the ability to name a new species of Orchid!
Jeff Corwin vs The Elephant
The Elephant won.
Jeff Corwin, television conservationist, had himself a close encounter. During a piece on Anderson Cooper's CNN show, Corwin and Cooper were standing in water with an Asian elephant when it took hold of Corwin's arm and flung him around a little. The video shows how quickly it happened.
Corwin wasn't seriously injured and even wrote about the experience on Cooper's blog.
Jeff Corwin, television conservationist, had himself a close encounter. During a piece on Anderson Cooper's CNN show, Corwin and Cooper were standing in water with an Asian elephant when it took hold of Corwin's arm and flung him around a little. The video shows how quickly it happened.
Corwin wasn't seriously injured and even wrote about the experience on Cooper's blog.
Set Your DVRs...
This Sunday, the Discover Channel will roll out the first of 11 episodes of its new mini-series entitled "Planet Earth".
This past weekend, as I was preparing for my fantasy baseball auction, I had the "Dirty Jobs" marathon on my TV and it seemed that every commercial break featured clips from "Planet Earth" and I was in awe of every single one of them.
The New York Times had an article earlier this week about the program. According to the Post; "Viewed in standard analog, each of the 11 hour long episodes — “Pole to Pole,” “Mountains,” “Deep Ocean,” “Deserts,” “Ice Worlds,” “Shallow Seas,” “Great Plains,” “Jungles,” “Fresh Water,” “Forests” and “Caves” — make previous conservation films look pedestrian."
"“Until we started ‘Planet Earth’ the only aerials you could film in nature documentaries were wide angles because if you flew close enough to get a tighter shot you’d frighten the animals,” Mr. Fothergill [producer]said. Among the various photography systems employed by his vagabonding camera crew — 70 men and women who traveled to more than 200 locations on five continents — during their five years traveling the globe, the Cineflex heligimble was by far the most revolutionary. The gyroscopic stabilizing mechanism, once reserved for Hollywood studios, can support a lens four times more powerful than any previously used in nature photography. As far as animals on the ground are concerned” the helicopter “is just a distant buzz, an annoying mosquito in the sky,” he said."
One descriptive moment in the Times article stated; "On the plains of Botswana a crew drove around in open-top Land Rovers with special infrared lenses to film a pride of 30 lions on the prowl for elephants. 'This whole pride, 30-strong, jumps on the back of the elephant and kills it.'" I think this mini-series will really bring things to the general public that we haven't seen before, in a way we've never experienced before.
The Discovery Channel site has some great clips from the show to entice you to watch. They also have a great game, along the lines of Oregon Trail, that you can play and watch some other exclusive video clips.
The mini-series, with a "sweeping cinematic score" and narrated by Sigourney Weaver, is on Discovery Channel starting this Sunday. Three episodes will be shown this Sunday; "Pole to Pole" at 8pm, "Mountains" at 9pm and "Deep Ocean" at 10pm.
This past weekend, as I was preparing for my fantasy baseball auction, I had the "Dirty Jobs" marathon on my TV and it seemed that every commercial break featured clips from "Planet Earth" and I was in awe of every single one of them.
The New York Times had an article earlier this week about the program. According to the Post; "Viewed in standard analog, each of the 11 hour long episodes — “Pole to Pole,” “Mountains,” “Deep Ocean,” “Deserts,” “Ice Worlds,” “Shallow Seas,” “Great Plains,” “Jungles,” “Fresh Water,” “Forests” and “Caves” — make previous conservation films look pedestrian."
"“Until we started ‘Planet Earth’ the only aerials you could film in nature documentaries were wide angles because if you flew close enough to get a tighter shot you’d frighten the animals,” Mr. Fothergill [producer]said. Among the various photography systems employed by his vagabonding camera crew — 70 men and women who traveled to more than 200 locations on five continents — during their five years traveling the globe, the Cineflex heligimble was by far the most revolutionary. The gyroscopic stabilizing mechanism, once reserved for Hollywood studios, can support a lens four times more powerful than any previously used in nature photography. As far as animals on the ground are concerned” the helicopter “is just a distant buzz, an annoying mosquito in the sky,” he said."
One descriptive moment in the Times article stated; "On the plains of Botswana a crew drove around in open-top Land Rovers with special infrared lenses to film a pride of 30 lions on the prowl for elephants. 'This whole pride, 30-strong, jumps on the back of the elephant and kills it.'" I think this mini-series will really bring things to the general public that we haven't seen before, in a way we've never experienced before.
The Discovery Channel site has some great clips from the show to entice you to watch. They also have a great game, along the lines of Oregon Trail, that you can play and watch some other exclusive video clips.
The mini-series, with a "sweeping cinematic score" and narrated by Sigourney Weaver, is on Discovery Channel starting this Sunday. Three episodes will be shown this Sunday; "Pole to Pole" at 8pm, "Mountains" at 9pm and "Deep Ocean" at 10pm.
Do you plan to watch? Once you do, please return here and let us know what you thought!
Thursday, March 8, 2007
So Cute...
Bored at work? Two Cents reader, Kathy S, and I used to love to watch the baby panda at the National Zoo in DC on the Panda Cam. It's still active and a fun way to lose yourself for a few minutes. There are other cams on the site too like Elephants, Tigers, Amazon Rain Forest and more. Enjoy!
What was your favorite animal growing up as a kid? Do you still like to go to zoos?
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