BS: Sunrise Earth

Subject: BS: Sunrise Earth
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Oct 07 - 09:34 AM

Anybody else been enjoying Animal Planet TV's Sunrise Earth program? No talking, all pix, from all around the world. Slow, lovely, often includes bodies of water as venue. Usually does NOT include human beans. Too bad it has commercials, but very nice for wake-up time.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Sunrise Earth
From: Wesley S
Date: 03 Oct 07 - 11:37 AM

When does it come on in your neck of the woods? It sounds a little like the segments they have before the commercials on the CBS Sunday Morning program. My son might enjoy this.

Subject: RE: BS: Sunrise Earth
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Oct 07 - 11:54 AM

Early in the morning. Yes it is like an extended version of the CBS you mention. In our area there's a 7AM hour and an 8AM hour on weekdays.

It's no substitute for REAL sunrise-- I spent more than a year in my yoot watching sunrises daily over Lake Michigan-- but it is reliably lovely where the real deal is often gray.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Sunrise Earth
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Oct 07 - 11:57 AM

SKIDROOLIE

~s~

Subject: RE: BS: Sunrise Earth
From: Wesley S
Date: 03 Oct 07 - 11:58 AM

I'll check it out tomorrow morning. Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Sunrise Earth
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Oct 07 - 12:06 PM

STILLS GALLERY

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Sunrise Earth
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Oct 07 - 01:16 PM

I watch Sunrise Earth in HD ch 225

It has given me excellent motives for paintings.
Often the one fleeting instant defines the entire 50 min program that thankfully has only the natural sounds of the location.

memorable

Chinese fisherman with cranes

Machu Pichu

Costa Rico

glacier falls

Redwoods

Iceland geyser

Subject: RE: BS: Sunrise Earth
From: Charley Noble
Date: 04 Oct 07 - 12:59 PM

Susan-

"human beans"?

I thought there was a law against such gene-splicing?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Sunrise Earth
From: Wesley S
Date: 04 Oct 07 - 01:15 PM

Some of my best friends are black beans.

My son seemed to enjoy the show this morning. At least he wasn't happy when I turned it off at breakfast time.

Subject: RE: BS: Sunrise Earth
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Oct 07 - 03:15 PM

:~) and :~)

I only caught a brief glacial view today.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Sunrise Earth
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Dec 07 - 09:07 AM

Arriving late to my wake-up chair, I almost missed this morning's blessing: Sunrise Earth looks to be a Florida canal-- shot from UNDERWATER. Shallow; aquas, golds, and greens through the lens, looking, at eye-level, at fish and manatees waking up for the busy day's feeding and cruising.... golden light playing on the bottom and surface. Like looking at a movie in letterbox style, but with golds where the black bands would be.

And I was reminded once again that although you may see a manatee when you look at me, what I really am is an otter. Oh I know, we'd all probably prefer to think of ourselves as dolphins-- they've had so much PR! Not me. Dolphins are just not playful enough-- I remember what my nature was before I got sick and put all this horrible wieght on, and I'm an otter.

I did get up in time for a few, more-gracious words with my patient and loving husband, before he headed off into his crazy day. The bedtime words had not been so warm....


These Sunrise colors are lovely on another gray, sunlight-lacking day here in the dark North. It's AquaJogging Class day, and the pool noodles I gave my class are in just these shades. I still savor the image from one winter day, last year, when I took a boxful of these noodles to provide some color in the drab pool area where I worked out last winter-- one day the sun streamed in through the tiny window at sunset, lighting the water's surface with the wavering reflection of these colors. (I call that image "Monet Today.") That pool proved to be problematic in so many ways, but the mind carries all the good parts away, afterwards, if you set that kind of image as your default page for the stored memories.

It reminded me also that despite the pain, challenge, and dysfunction the day will involve-- mine and that of the people I'll encounter in this Advent season-- it will be a day. Maybe not a "good" day, maybe not a "smart" day, but it will be a day. A good one.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Sunrise Earth
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Dec 07 - 09:16 AM

Susan I do hope you may one day see Sunrise earth in the commercial free High Def format. The illusion of being there is complete sans aroma.

There is a sunrise that is shot both underwater and above as you follow a school of fish up a Maine stream.

Keep up the conceptual art of Monet noodles and the like. Conceptual art is more for the artist than an unobservant observer but it colors more than you know.

Subject: RE: BS: Sunrise Earth
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Dec 07 - 05:22 PM

I don't watch TV much that time of day, and I don't know if they put it out here anyway. But I see there are lots of clips from it on YouTube. They look pretty good.