Last weekend, I’ve visited the earthTV camera here in Munich. It’s located on top of the Olympic Tower and has a great view over the whole city of Munich. I’ve been up there on Sunday (the day of the heavy storm in Germany) and I honestly was afraid of being blown away. I think I’ve never been outdoors in a storm like this. However, I worked up all my courage and climbed the steps to the platform below the earthTV camera. And there I saw the camera, moving and recording as if there was no storm… Here’s the picture I have taken:

Have a look at the picture »»

Tags: camera, camera location, earthTV, Germany, Munich

This is a screenshot of Lugano, Ticino (Switzerland) a few days ago. I really love this view! The snow-capped mountains, the deep blue lake and the blue sky look just great. Here you can find recent impressions from Lugano, but I’m afraid it’s quite foggy today.

Tags: camera location, Lugano, Switzerland, Ticino

You might have expected it: of course we do not just dump all of our daily video clips, but we’re watching most of them ourselves and put the best of them in our archive. To keep track of the tens of thousands of clips collected during the past years we use categories, comments and so on. So this week, we saw 2 clips with the moon nicely visible. We knew we also had several moon clips in our archive, so it was about time for a special.

To add a little edge to the video compilation, we recorded a soundtrack right in our office to match the moon mood. Get ready for a surprise! Ah-ooo!

Oh, and the last location in the video, which is New York,  will offer a stunning image as well. You won’t believe it’s the moon!

Tags: archive, earthTV, moon, New York, Special, video

Last November I visited the Portugese Island Madeira, a place of “eternal spring”. What impressed me even more than the delicious sweet Madeira wine and ‘Espada’ (sword fish baked with banana.. mmm…) was the sunrise I witnessed from the balcony of my hotel on the day of my departure. And all of a sudden I started daydreaming about how fantastic it’d be to have an earthTV camera on that same place where I then stood, a cup of coffee in my left hand and a SONY camcoder in my right, mesmerized by a wonderful spectacle that presented itself to my senses… Enjoy!! :)

P.S. By the way, the sound track  is the great opening piece from the symphonic poem “Also sprach Zaratustra” by the Bavarian composer Richard Strauss.

Watch the video »»

Tags: Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, sunrise

Last weekend we went to Warsaw with a couple of earthTV girls to follow the invitation of our dear colleague and come to her wedding.

We arrived in Warsaw on Friday and already spotted the Palace of Culture which we see pictures of taken by our earthTV camera every day, so we decided to walk there through Warsaw’s beautiful Old Town and illuminated streets after a lovely dinner and look for the cam on top of the Intercontinental Hotel. Can you spot it in the picture? ;-)

Try to spot the camera »»

Tags: camera, earthTV, hotel, Warsaw

Another milestone in the category “big – bigger – biggest – a lot more big than biggest – yes, it can get bigger still – biggest of the biggest …” has been reached with the opening of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. The 828 metres have been built in a little more than 5 years – not too bad if you compare it with the 600 years it took to build the Cologne Cathedral or the St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague.

Wikipedia has a long list of records the new Burj sets – to name a few:

Read on »»

Tags: biggest, Burj, chalifa, Dubai, fastest elevator, Khalifa, skyscraper, tower, UAE, United Arab Emirates

At earthTV the days between Christmas and New Year are a little strange always. Two third of the company is away for Christmas holidays, a few guys use the ‘in-between days’ for tidying their desks, preparing for the year to come and save their leave days for later – and the program department is always very busy preparing all the earthTV shows for the holidays, doing ‘power planning’.

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Tags: earthTV, holiday, new year, new year's eve, program

There is lots of water currently in Singita, Kruger Park, South Africa.

Singita Flood

Watch more here. Thanks Norbert and Andriy!

Tags: Flood, Game Reserve, river, Singita, south africa, water, wildlife

Hi there,
after our representatives have failed in Copenhagen, I just want to post a quick statement. I think climate change is entertaining and still people don’t believe that it is life-threatening…

Read on: What connects weather and video views? »»

Tags: climate change, copenhagen, Düsseldorf, earthTV.com, manila, venice

poor doggy…. and thanks for this Kirsten!!!

Tags: agony, animal, Celebration Video, christmas, dog, greeting card, sad, street lamp, tears, x-mas

I was attending the Asian Television Forum last week. A few things about Singapore:

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Tags: business trip, people, Singapore

Just imagine: you’re celebrated all around the world – from London to Paris, from New York to Dubai and Udaipur. Posters with your name, your name’s written on skyscrapers and with fireworks – wouldn’t that be nice?

Read on: How this imagination becomes reality »»

Tags: Celebration Video, earthTV.com, Feature, video

Lyn, born in Malaysia

To be honest, I was far too young to remember anything at that time when it happened. I was barely 6 then, building castles out of mud in Kuala Lumpur and wouldn’t have known what Berlin is, why there was a wall in the first place, or if Europe even existed.

Read on: What Lyn thinks about the fall of the wall »»

Tags: Berlin, Berlin wall, Brandenburg Gate, fall of the wall

After I have wrecked all my colleague’s nerves now for days – we are VERY SOON seeing the result of all our research and preparations: LIVE from Berlin, LIVE from the Brandenburg Gate, LIVE from the huge Fest der Freiheit party!

I envy my colleague Iris and camera man Norbert who will create this evening’s live images and bring Berlin and the collapsing (domino) wall to the screen and to our homepage!

Fingers crossed! I’m sure it will be amazing! :-)

Tags: Berlin, Brandenburg Gate, domino, Fest der Freiheit, Germany, LIVE, wall

Iris, geboren in der BRD

Zum 20. Jahrestag des Mauerfalls, historisch und damit wichtig genug, haben wir uns etwas Besonderes einfallen lassen – und haben aus dem deutsch-deutschen und internationalen (!) Erfahrungsschatz der earthTV-MitarbeiterInnen geschöpft. Wenn nicht hier, wo sonst!? ;-)
Bei uns VEREINEN sich nicht nur die Geschlechter, sondern auch die Generationen aus den verschiedensten Nationen. Die Fragen, die wir uns zu diesem Ereignis gestellt haben, lauteten folgendermaßen:
Wo waren wir vor 20 Jahren, als die Mauer endlich fiel, was hat das für uns auch persönlich bedeutet, und wie stehen wir heute dazu?

Es war wundervoll, Eure Erlebnisse und Geschichten zu lesen, und wir freuen uns sehr, dass wir so viele Beiträge sammeln konnten!
Es ist beeindruckend, welche Reaktionen der Mauerfall in anderen Ländern hervorgerufen hat. Nicht nur Deutschland wächst seit diesem Tag (weiter) zusammen.
Und ich finde, dass diese Aktion auch noch etwas zeigt: earthTV verbindet.

Hier können alle Beiträge zum Thema „20 Jahre Mauerfall“ gelesen werden – weitere Kommentare/Gedanken/Geschichten erwünscht!

Weiterlesen »»

Tags: Berlin, Brandenburger Tor, earthTV, Erinnerungen, Gedanken, Livestream, Mauerfall

In every desperate bid to escape the homecoming of German winter – I have just spent a splendid week on vacation in Colakli, Turkey – a 30 minute drive from Antalya airport.

Read on: Colakli and the bad weather drama »»

Tags: Antalya, earthTV.com, holiday, weather

On Friday evening, I’ve been attending a really interesting lecture by Charlie Todd here in Munich. Even if you don’t know the name, you’ve most likely seen one of his videos. Charlie Todd is the founder of “Improv Everywhere”, a group that “causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places”, as they describe themselves. One of their most watched videos is the “Frozen Grand Central” video, a “freeze” flashmob.

Read on: What Charlie Todd talked about »»

Tags: Charlie Todd, Flashmob, Improv Everywhere, Munich, video

Monday evening there were a lot of people floating lit candles into Lake Pichola.

I have no clue what that was about since Diwali is over already – looking for enlightenment …  ;-)

Tags: candles, event, India, Lake Pichola, Rajasthan, Udaipur

I am not a digital native. When I grew up there were telephones WITH cords and letters (yes, that snail mail letters) but no such thing as Google and Facebook where you are tempted and used to leave and share all kinds of private data with people you scarcely know.

Read on: The opt out village »»

Tags: google, google village, letter, opt out, privacy, secure data, village

Its spring in South Africa and all the Jacaranda trees are in bloom! I watch the purple blossoms since quite some days now and can’t get enough – fantastic!  Thomas just made this great shot but you can see a daily update in our videos from Pretoria :-)

Have a look at the picture »»

Tags: bloom, blossom, Jacaranda, Pretoria, south africa, spring, tree