HUMAN PLANET (only one creature has carved a life for itself in every habitat on earth-- that creature is us)

loving the shit out of this miniseries

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/human-planet/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HiUMlOz4UQ

just as beautiful as PLANET EARTH, and imo maybe even more fascinating (no challop)

i guess it already aired on BBC and about 4 episodes have aired on Discoverey in the US

yeah i've been watching on discovery, the one with the hawks hunting the foxes was soooo rad. always look forward to the bits at the end about how they get the shots they do.

EAGLES iirc

always look forward to the bits at the end about how they get the shots they do.

did you see the forest one where the producer was all "ok cool i'll go topless w/ yall in your dope treehouse"

???

haha no!!! gotta catch up on the last couple week

Is this available places that is not discovery?

thepiratebay.org

Figured. Everything just needs to be in iTunes.

also it looks like you can already order the dvds?

Yeah, the DVDs came out this week.

Figured. Everything just needs to be in iTunes.

― Jeff, Thursday, 28 April 2011 22:30 (18 minutes ago) Bookmark

it is! http://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/human-planet/id428243117

woah thats awesome

$3 per episode is totally worth it imo

does it follow the same formula as Planet Earth, i.e. is it Humans Eating?

ordered the blurays from the bbc, have been available in the uk for a while imho

a lot of it has to do with how humans get food, yes.

but the one i just watched on rain forest people had a segment on dudes who use elephants instead of bulldozers for logging and a segment on this remote tribe in Papua thats just about how they build their houses in treetops 70 feet in the air. there's the occasional mating ritual too.

Oh, with that dude who climbs a giant tree without any protection and grabs an occupied beehive with his bare hands? Awesome.

(that is not one of the mating rituals afaik)

he says he does it cause his wife loves honey, which i liked.

into this

everytime i watch one of these tho it just reminds how rad the time-life nature library books from the 60s are

Ok, finally started watching. I'm finding a lot of things problematic here. Won't list them out yet, will wait to see if it can redeem itself.

Agreed. We started watching the first episode hoping for Animal Planet redux but the whole thing felt really exploitive and uncomfortable without really addressing any of the things that made us uncomfortable. During the whale hunting thing I felt uncomfortable watching humans kill a whale and I felt uncomfortable watching the humans as the subject of a documentary simultaneously.

Animal Planet = Planet Earth obv sorries

I mean clearly the show is intended to be a window into a variety of cultures that are thoroughly alien to the Disovery viewer, that's kind of the point--I don't think Mordy is wrong, there's a kind of exploitation of the native at play here, and yet it's a kind of exploitation in the service of a deeper cultural appreciation, and so its not entirely objectionable to me.

i love it when docs make me uncomfortable. mordy did you miss the part about the whale not being endangered or is it something deeper?

ps- humans are my favorite animal

i did miss that. i kept listening hoping they'd say it wasn't endangered but i must've either turned it off first or gotten distracted. that does make me feel better.

I'm talking about the dudes in Indonesia who fed their whole village on one sperm whale, not the Inuit guys hunting narwhal, which they made sure to point out is now heavily regulated

o_O at "SKY BURIAL"

They should have showed his handywork.

fingers crossed for unrated dvd, bro

nah yeaaaah i have always enjoyed reading abt sky burials and shit and was totally relieved they didn't show/play audio of the fun part

LIVING BRIDGES in the rivers ep!!!!! so awesome

cities episode was kind of a bummer but they had to do it and obv it had to come last

Watching the blurays now, awesome - don't think it's exploitative at all, people get to tell their stories, they're not put on display in a "look at the monkey jump" kinda way, it's all just "look at how we live, what incredible things we can do, how proud we are of our culture, let us show you guys with your cameras and western bellies"

What does freak me out a little is hearing someone other than David Attenborough say words like Atacama. Hope he doesn't say Sunderbans in one of the remaining episodes.

Yeah, it didn't even occur to me to feel uncomfortable for one second watching Human Planet. Nobody is patronised, everyone is given dignity. Phenomenal series, only the cities episode was less than amazing.

Not sure I agree, but still going to wait till I finish. Just watched jungles.

Just watched mountains - during the making of bit, the cameraman is on screen carrying his camera that's labeled "720 progressive". How exactly do they film 1080i material with such a camera?

720p can be converted to 1080i fairly easily.

Oh, ok, hadn't actually looked that up yet, but you're right.

Only cities and the bonus features to go, but I feel confident enough to conclude that, based on this series at least, the standard footwear for humans is the flip-flop.