Well folks, what do toasters have to do with gardening? And what do toasters have to do with sharks? And where can you get a shark microphone? If you are wondering about any of these questions, I suggest you watch this short, shark-related piece. When I was visiting the Sanibel Sea School to film children at a shark camp for The Riddle Solvers shark episode, I conducted some behind-the-scenes interviews for fun, in the blazing hot Florida sun, and this is what happened. And I should mention that you’ll see some stunning HD footage of sharks, from the Save Our Seas Foundation’s amazing footage library.
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1 January 2010
Shark Dentists?
Laura and Robert Sams Acting as Shark Dentists
“Are you a shark? Are you worried about constantly losing your teeth and having to see a dentist? Well don’t be. You don’t need a dentist. You’re a shark!”
That is the opening line to a short sketch we are filming called “Your Teeth and You,” featuring a 1950’s dentist (my brother Rob) and a dental assistant (me), who teach sharks about the different kinds of teeth they have. The sketch is for our new episode of The Riddle Solvers, and we just finished filming it in a lovely dental office in Oregon, where we were fortunate enough to find people who would let us take over their surgical room for a day. We were also lucky to work with a great makeup artist who could give Robert a dashing mustache, and who could give me very styled hair (and darker than usual eyebrows).
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12 November 2009
Shark Riddles on the Oregon Coast
Robert Sams in his shark bed while hearing a shark lullaby
We are hard at work shooting our latest Riddle Solvers episode – The Shark Riddle – taking us on a quest to find a tooth from the greatest living fish, much bigger than the rest. As a backdrop for this story, we traveled to the beautiful and rugged Oregon coast and filmed in places with wicked names, like The Devil’s Punchbowl and Heceta Head, which I think translates to “even worse than The Devil’s Punchbowl.” As a general rule to filming along any coastline, the locations with the most terrifying names tend to be the most visually stunning.
Comments (0)27 October 2009
600 Rainbow Kids Send Message to the World
In a unique first for Cape Town, South Africa, Save our Seas Shark Centre and Consider Us, a UNEP Initiative joined hands with 600 Rainbow Kids to send a resounding message to the world on Camps Bay beach, Cape Town on the Global Day of Climate Action, Saturday 24 October 2009.
First creating a Consider Us logo, this transformed into a 350 logo within seconds. (more…)
Comments (1)20 October 2009
Uniting Forces on Global Day for Climate Action
Saturday 24 October 2009 is Global Day for Climate Action and the Save our Seas Shark Centre are joining hands with Consider Us, a UNEP initiative, to help promote the global call for action demonstrated by children worldwide. From 2pm to 5pm on Camps Bay Beach we will be encouraging 350 young South African’s, who will be attending the Camps Bay United Churches annual Springtide Youth Festival, to form a human 350 and a Consider Us emblem, which will be photographed from a helicopter. We will not be alone in our efforts to raise awareness since over four thousand connected events in more than 170 countries around the world are also planned. (more…)
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