Showing posts with label Television. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Television. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Sam and Max and Rapa Nui

E For All: Checking Up On Sam and Max
Wired Blogs - Oct 20, 2007
The second episode will take them to Easter Island to deal with talking stone heads. They're not going into the specific details of the plots insofar as ...

Sam and Max have a second season
Inquirer, UK - Oct 23, 2007
The second episode takes place on Easter Island, and is not formally named yet. Sam and Max are fulfilling an ancient prophecy, and in their words, " Uh-Oh, ...

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Mat Lauer/Rapa Nui

Users Follow This Guy Around the World
NBC Universal's "The Today Show" engages fans in an online game of hide-and-seek, letting users explore the exotic locals visited by the show's globe-trotting host, Matt Lauer.
iMedia Connection
May 08, 2007

Yet, Matt's Video Passport did capture my interest. I found the videos well-produced, entertaining, of a good length and informative (I had no idea an American 'rediscovered' Machu Picchu in 1911. I thought Easter Island was currently uninhabited.) The video resolution was also good, although if you watch enough YouTube, anything looks good by comparison.

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Sunday, May 13, 2007

Matt Lauer/Rapa Nui

Where In The World Is Matt Lauer?
WPXI.com, PA - Apr 25, 2007
This is the eighth week-long expedition for Lauer, whose past trips have taken him to such exotic locales as the remote Easter Island, the lights of ...


Where in the world is Enid, Okla.
Enid News & Eagle, OK - Apr 28, 2007
Previously his exhaustive travels have taken Lauer to some of the world’s far-flung wonders, like Mt. Everest, Peru’s Machu Picchu, Easter Island and ...

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Matt Lauer/Rapa Nui

Where on the Web Is Matt Lauer?
New York Times, NY - Apr 10, 2007
SINCE 1998, NBC has been sending a “Today” host to far-flung locales like Angkor Wat, Easter Island and Machu Picchu, all for a feature on the show called ...

Where on the Web Is Matt Lauer?
Tuscaloosa News (subscription), AL - Apr 11, 2007
SINCE 1998, NBC has been sending a “Today” host to far-flung locales like Angkor Wat, Easter Island and Machu Picchu, all for a feature on the show called ...

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

More mention of Matt Lauer on Rapa Nui

IT'S A SMALL 'WHERE IN THE WORLD' AFTER ALL
by Jaclyn Levin
AllDay
Posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 7:55 AM

“Where in the World is Matt Lauer?” It’s one of my favorite things to work on, as I have seen so many amazing things throughout the years: Easter Island, Shanghai, Machu Picchu, Marrakech, Botswana, the Taj Mahal, the Panama Canal, Moscow, Reykjavik – the list is almost endless.

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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Today Show manager discusses Rapa Nui trip

Where in the World is Mark Traub?
by Jaclyn Levin
allDay
Posted: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 6:39 PM

















Another place to return to is Easter Island, the most remote place on earth (that's me on Easter Island in the picture above). Where in the World had to be scheduled so as not to violate the strict international flight rule on the point of no return.

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Sunday, March 18, 2007

TV celebrity Matt Lauer visited Rapa Nui

Lauer event to aid cancer charities
PalmBeachDailyNews.com
Friday, March 16, 2007

The luncheon will have the theme, "Where In the World is Matt Lauer," the title of the Today show's trademark series that tracks Lauer's live broadcasts from remote locations. Last year, Lauer traveled to Easter Island; the Panama Canal; the ski slopes of Innsbruck, Austria; Shanghai and Dubrovnik, Croatia.

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Thursday, March 08, 2007

Author and TV host breathes pure air on Rapanui

True Stories
Bookslut
Mar 6, 2007
















From Italy, Bernstein goes on to Easter Island, where he finds himself breathing air purer than any he has ever known and thus wondering about the environmental state of the planet.

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Saturday, February 10, 2007

Architectural historian visits Rapa Nui for TV show

Around the World in 80 Treasures
Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank passes through a stream of cities to discover the greatest surviving treasures of our world.
Michael Idato, Reviewer
Sydney Morning Herald
February 10, 2007










For now, though, we're still very much in South America, in the spoilt-for-riches Peru, which seems to dominate this episode, and then off to Easter Island - come on Dan, those Moai statues get too much press - and then to Brazil and even Rio.


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Animated TV series has a moai as underwater home

Spongebob SquarePants
BuddyTV
February 9, 2007

The kooky show Spongebob SquarePants is about a sponge who lives in a pineapple. His wacky neighbors consist of
Squidward Tentacles who lives in an Easter Island head, and Patrick Star who lives under a rock.

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Sunday, January 28, 2007

"Monolithic" pop culture references #36

Ever searching for news about Rapa Nui, this blog's administrator comes across many references to Rapa Nui and its famous moai. Often, these references are quite comical and have nothing to do with the island or the culture of Rapa Nui. Other times, they appear to be speculative, based more on misconceptions than reality, or downright bizarre. Here are some of the more recent references:

Evolution News and Views:

Finally, as another way to see Sober’s error, think of things that we know are designed--the arrangement of stones at Stonehenge, say, or the statues at Easter Island. Now if you are like me, you have no idea who made these things or why. And yet we know they are designed. This clearly shows that design inferences can be independent of assumptions about designers’ identities, motives, and purposes.

BostonHerald.com:
And then there were all the jokes on TV Wednesday night, like Dennis Miller on Fox saying that now Kerry can go back to his old job as a statue on Easter Island.

SportsFan Magazine:
Actually, that might have been unfair since both players are significantly bigger than the goal line pylon and so they could indeed cover it if they could ever catch up to it; but they couldn't cover an Easter Island statue...

Thursday, January 18, 2007

TV show mixed Rapa Nui speculation with spirituality

Aurora-based network producing television, movies with a message
Herald News
January 18, 2007

TLN initially got involved in film production after the success of its "Encounters with the Unexplained" series, hosted by the late Jerry Orbach. The show, which aired on the PAX network, took an "Unsolved Mysteries" approach to topics like Bigfoot and Easter Island, and mixed in biblical stories and other spiritual tales.

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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Hurst TV to feature Rapa Nui

Hurst TV airs ‘Digging for the Truth’ marathon
Mercyhurst College
Released on Tuesday, January 16, 2007

... whether it’s trekking through Ethiopia in search of the lost Ark of the Covenant, tackling the mystery of Cleopatra’s death, searching for the hidden treasures of the Incas, or exploring Easter Island. “Digging for the Truth” is educational and fun for people of all ages.

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