Sep
25
2007
Sunrise Earth

[sunrise]I randomly stumbled upon Sunrise Earth the other morning and actually started Tivo-ing it, not so much to save for later, but just to have it automatically turn on every day… Sunrise Earth is a show consisting of nothing but 60 minutes sunrises from gorgeous places around the world. Tranquil, peaceful, beautiful.

I’ve only watched brief snippets of it, but I had it on this morning while the baby was wandering around the living room getting into his usual trouble, and it dawned on me that since the show was on basic cable, it must contain commercials. I thought about how unfortunate this was - to break up such a pure, unadulterated experience of natural beauty for crass commercialism. But now I was intrigued… I had to hang out to see what would happen. Did The Discovery Channel have some trick up their sleeve to handle this gracefully, via some sort of more subdued ad unit? Then, as if to confirm my worst fears, it struck…

HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!

HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!

HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!

I’m glad I left advertising.

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2 Responses to “Sunrise Earth”

  • I bet a year from now we’ll go into John’s room in the morning and hear “Hed on… appwy diweckly to da fawhed” coming softly from the crib…

    Wifey 9/27/07 @ 12:38 am

  • Hey Jeff, that’s a nice pic you’ve got there. Can you please direct me to its source as I’d like to use it myself. Thanks.

    Honey 1/21/08 @ 4:58 pm

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