What is your Visual Equivalent of the Shipping Report?

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As discussed/referenced/alluded to in "This is a Low" by Blur.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 18:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh I know! It's the shipping FORECAST.

felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 18:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

A few months ago the BBC showed a gardening programme on Sunday mornings. 30 minutes of the most languid, quiet, gentle camera work ever seen on television. No music, mostly, just the camera gliding serenely over flowers and lilly ponds, bees buzzing hither, breeze breathing into the mic, the colours! I thought it must be the most wonderfully calming thing I'd ever seen. It was. Like a dream.

DavidM (DavidM), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 19:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

Rex Hunt's fishing adventures
Bush Tucker man
anything with fish
fast moving clouds
the wind blowing through leafy trees

chris (chris), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 20:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

not actually dull and, maybe, similar to chris' fishes. I like to look at: ducks' legs and feet paddling through water. it's easy to forget they have them. until you look.

hm. many, many things happen in the films of jacques tati.

RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 20:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

ooh yes, upstairs the duck looks serene and calm, while, just under the water his little webbed feet splash like billy-ho through the weedy water.

chris (chris), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 20:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Remaining unsettled as a series of deep depressions continue to dominate the eastern Atlantic and UK waters for most of the period

W e d n e s d a y

Tyne: Southsouthwest to South force 5 occasionally force 6
Dogger: Southsouthwest to South force 5 or 6 later force 4 or 5
German Bight: Southsouthwest to South force 6 later force 4
Humber: Southsouthwest to South force 5 or 6 later force 5
Thames: Southsouthwest to South force 5 or 6 later force 5

T h u r s d a y

Tyne: Southsouthwest to South force 5 later South to Southeast force 6 to gale force 8
Dogger: Southsouthwest to South force 4 or 5 later South to Southeast force 7 or gale force 8
German Bight: Southsouthwest to South force 4 later South to Southeast force 6 or 7
Humber: Southsouthwest to South force 5 later South to Southsoutheast force 7 or gale force 8
Thames: Southsouthwest to South force 5 increasing South to Southsoutheast force 7 or gale force 8, later South

F r i d a y

Tyne: South to Southeast force 6 to gale force 8 increasing force 7 or gale force 8 then veering Southwest, later easing force 6
Dogger: South to Southeast force 7 to gale force 8 veering Southwest, later easing force 6
German Bight: South to Southeast force 7 veering Southwest, later easing force 6
Humber: South to Southsoutheast force 7 or gale force 8 veering Southwest, later easing force 6
Thames: South force 7 or gale force 8 veering Southwest, later easing force 5 or 6

S a t u r d a y

Southwest to South, and increasing again force 6 to gale force 8 generally

mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 20:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

many, many things happen in the films of jacques tati.

yes, soothingly trivial things.
Oh, let's see, mark s has posted somet

(. . . zzzzzz)

felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 21:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

also: ceilings and especially ceiling fans

Josh (Josh), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 12:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Shipping forecast referenced/sampled also in:

Thomas Dolby, "Windpower"

Mekons, "Shanty"

In fact, those two sources are the only reason I know what it is.

Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 13:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

i love watching the washing machine going. that and trees. mmm, smoothing.

angela (angela), Thursday, 29 August 2002 08:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://mysite.freeserve.com/lostsurfsongs/pictures/ahaha.gif

Alan (Alan), Thursday, 29 August 2002 09:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

AAARRRRRRRRrhahahahahaaa *rolls on floor larffing at Alangs pitcher* arrrhhahaha cooo heee hee titter titter chortle chortle ect ect pure GENIUS!

Sarah (starry), Thursday, 29 August 2002 09:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

(Graham's automagic picture thing will have a lot to answer for.)

Alan (Alan), Thursday, 29 August 2002 09:16 (twenty-one years ago) link


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