What is your Visual Equivalent of the Shipping Report?

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I like to look at dull things:

things made out of round fieldstones
baseball on television
cricket
movies where nothing happens, like the films of Jacques Tati
extremely detailed Dutch still lifes

mmmmm . . . nice and dull

What relaxes you when you look at it?

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

cricket is a very involving game! But I get what you mean about it being relaxing, I'm going to the last test match against India, it'll be Tendaulker's (sp) 100th test match. The game better not finish early coz I'm going on the 4th day.

Clouds floating across the sky
Rain on a window pane
Ants
Dust particles on sunny days

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Not dull per se, but watching the NASA channel on my local cable system = perfectly entrancing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)

oh yeah! I get that with the shopping channel! serious!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

ahhhh, cricket and NASA . . . nice and pastoral . . .

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 17:47 (twenty-three years ago)

the tops of trees and the sky and the horizon, especially nearby parts of it. I can't really say I consider them dull, though. I think they're beautiful.

― Josh (Josh), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 18:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh! I just meant that dull things are relaxing for me. I was just wondering what relaxes everyone else.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 18:05 (twenty-three years ago)

oh well carry on then

― Josh (Josh), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 18:29 (twenty-three years ago)

you're not talking about 'The Shipping News', are you?

― Dave M. (rotten03), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 18:44 (twenty-three years ago)

whatever the transfixy droney female voice is that tells about what ships are coming in and out that my friend likes to listen to from the BBC Radio webstream after a late night out. I knew I shouldn't have tried to reference it. :(

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 18:51 (twenty-three years ago)

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

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

Oh I know! It's the shipping FORECAST.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 18:57 (twenty-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

also: ceilings and especially ceiling fans

― Josh (Josh), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 12:59 (twenty-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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

― angela (angela), Thursday, 29 August 2002 08:57 (twenty-three years ago)

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

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 29 August 2002 09:10 (twenty-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 29 August 2002 09:16 (twenty-three years ago)

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