Frans Lanting: A lyrical view of life on Earth

[wasimsworld]

16:28 Best bit of music.

[Jaruba16]

lol at 17:11 when that frekan car busted my concentration!! :P

[HoundmanV]

would have liked seeing the Dino's included.

[n00b9000]

@HoundmanV He did, but you can't exactly expect him to have photographs of living dinosaurs. (Other than their ancestors which he does include)

[Islandbratha]

He should have just said, I am an alien!

[floydandselina]

Besides the crappy comments..beware. This is not an idealistic movement. BMW and Nobel sponsored, always behind closed doors..Its just another bilderberg meeting, under a pretty blanket of ecology. The Rainbow Gathering is also a setup by the Green Bilderberg. Yes. Rockefeller and Monsanto are indeed very green. Don't believe the hype. This is about sharade, distraction, ego and a disguised meet between powerful and influencial people to make undemocratic decisions for all of us. Nazis galore!

[gbittner]

thanks Fans!

[vortical911]

It must have been a fascinating experience to see the presentation first-hand with all the high-resolution images.

[lukoshey79]

lovely film, pity about the one liners after one liners after.... could have been more lyrical. maybe it was that trip he took to the land down under with their upward inflexions at the end of every sentence...

[DavidMTRutten]

Being Dutch, I cannot stand a Dutch accent!

Great imagery though, Frans is one of the best.

[werecow2003]

I have the same problem. And his intonation is weird. }|:op

I've heard far worse Dutch accents, though. And it's a very nice slide show.

[abiddle726]

this is amazing. makes one stand in awe

[turo9992000]

I like his voice, it's very calming

[locodeschamps]

gorgeous images but he's annoying it sounds like his asking a constant question....

[gabriekirkley]

This is the only TED talk I've had to stop in the middle to check comments and wonder if anyone else is hearing what I am hearing...worse than scratching nails on a chalkboard. PLEASE STOP TALKING and give your speech to someone else!!!

[stevenbunyan]

Beautiful imagery.. but OH MY GOD!! i felt like peeling my skin off listening to Frans tone of voice. Nothing lyrical about his narration. sorry Frans..great photographer but need classes in speech.

[stevebremner]

Best ever TED talk.

[adam230yt]

Stromaolites are old? Before the sky turned blue? I make statements that sound like questions?

[plasticfantastic777]

Absolutely. What's he like at breakfast? "I would like some toast?" "Can I have a boiled egg?". or in the boudouir: "Yes...yes...right there?", "oh baby you've got what it takes?"

[david3newman]

"Can I have a boiled egg?" is a question. lol

[qwertybaa]

These photos could be put side by side with the greatest works of "religious art". Truly extraordinary. It should be the introduction to the teaching of evolution in schools. First make students amazied, than explain the hole process.

[BCphotoadventures]

Exquisite and, indeed, lyrical. Beautifully presented! Frans Lanting has long been one of my favorite photographers.

[beeteebam]

much better than a theory of a jealous higher being .. and lol his question manner of speaking doesnt make me mad but it does crack me up after people pointed it out to me = )

[vortical911]

I thought about it as I heard him speak. And it took me a moment, but the way he spoke really did reaffirm the entire theme of the presentation. It was his inquisitive manner of speaking that reminded me that we human beings are the ones doing this investigation of ourselves, the Earth, and the Cosmos. In other words, the way he spoke reaffirmed who we are. (aka, who *i* am)

[dukenukem001]

bloody hell, could the biology world use that curled up stalk any more, its on the front of campbell and reece and every other dam book, it made me sad to see it here

[underpantsjihad]

the photagraphy is mind-blowing, but the narration makes me mad. I was saying in my head the whole time "don't say the next part like its a question" but he did anyway

[kubikmaster]

ROFL, I am gonna teach this way from now on, in this way students will never catch me saying something stupid ^_~

[smadalesna1]

Evolution is something we can see all in real time. Like the natural selection of antibiotic resistant bacteria in our hospitals/feedlots etc.

[evilmuffingoat]

amazing. nothing more tragically beautiful that that. human existence. poetic and mind blowing

[kubikmaster]

wrong, nothing more tragic than choosing a photographer to give a talk =0

[Islandbratha]

So true

[lrs40708]

Lanting presents a humbling description of the vast and violent evolution of the earth in which sufficient amounts of oxygen for our evolution have been able to accumulate.

[drmarthacastro]

What a wonderful video. Thank you so much for teaching through this wonderful path of evolution. Amazing!

[canadianlattitude]

That was awesome.

[carcajou316]

This guys voice is a little weird and boring... maybe if he could have someone speak out about the video and put more character into it like on the National Geographic Vids.

[abe3443]

I think his voice is the most interesting part. His tone never resolves, just as the earth and its history never resolves. How fitting.

[cooler393]

That was just wonderful.

[ceezsb]

Why does he end all his sentences on a high note. That was incredibly anoying.

[mf103]

Yes! Great video, but that is one of the most annoying habits a person can have. It sounds either like he is asking a series of badly-phrased questions, or he's on the verge of singing.

[gizurix]

Frans is from the Netherlands, give him a break.

[ceezsb]

Im dutch too, and I dont do that ^^. Amazing video though

[drmarthacastro]

Is his wonderful voice all you could focus on instead of the great scientific data?

Sad, very sad.

[areyouemo]

fantastic photography!

[An9ila]

We need to send these out more to the Evangical Allience. :)

[huyenbo]

this video made me fall asleep

[drmarthacastro]

How sad. It was beautiful science