South Pacific: 1000 Islands, 1000 Challenges
The BBC’s South Pacific – 1000 Islands, 1000 Challenges By Neal Romanek (as printed in the July 2009 edition of TVBEurope) “South Pacific” (2009) is the latest attempt by the…
MESSENGER Sends Mercury Pics
The MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) Probe has conducted its first flyby of Mercury, the smallest, and innermost planet of the Solar System.MESSENGER will become the first…
Sounds Of Nature: Part II
THE SOUNDS OF NATURE, PART II: Sound Editing in Nature Docs: The Second Narrator by Neal Romanek (as printed in the October 2007 edition of TVBEurope) If the nature documentary…
Sounds Of Nature: Part I
THE SOUNDS OF NATURE, PART I: How BBC Natural History Producers Use Sound Design To Make The Real World Sound Real (as printed in the September 2007 edition of TVBEurope)…
Apex
APEX Sauropod raking and hoovering delectibles from the lakebed making waves Ceratops snipping sappy timbers like copper cables - the sound like a wrecked galleon's masts cracking, knees popping. Flatting…
Heathrow Animal Reception Centre (HARC): The UK’s Ambassador To The Ornamental Fish Trade
People all the time are saying to me: "Always you are writing about the arts and the creative lives of people and sometimes you write semi-amusing haiku about cats or…
CSI: Hell Creek
CSI: HELL CREEK Cracked bones – long shanks – emerge from rust-strapped earth like a revelation by Nemesis, recalling hasty-covered violence. Who witnessed the killer slamming home through the ribcage,…
Planet Earth: Old Planet, New Tech
"Old Planet, New Tech"by Neal Romanek(as printed in Videography, April 2007)When you watch BBC-produced "Planet Earth" - an 11-part wildlife series making its US premiere March 25 on Discovery -…
Ode To The Primordial Sea
Ode To The Primordial SeaThis sea at the shore of seas,Where other seas begin,Where is conceived the great Pangaea of seas. Panthalassa!that stretch three quarters of the way into the…
Feed The Shark
Quick! You have to Feed The Shark 5 things! What will you feed him??Me, I'm feeding The Shark:a sandwich (cheese & watercress)old tireshuman fleshall those magazines we have lying around…