Speaker.
Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Author of ‘The Cloudspotter's Guide’
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Gavin Pretor-Pinney founded the Cloud Appreciation Society in 2004 to fight 'blue-sky thinking'.
He feels that clouds are one of the most beautiful and varied of nature's displays, and that it is high time that we in Britain stopped complaining about them so much. The society now numbers well over 13,000 members, who are based in 64 countries around the world.
Initially, 26 publishers turned down Gavin's book, The Cloudspotter’s Guide. When it eventually came out in 2006, it immediately became an international bestseller, and was published in fifteen different translations.
Gavin also co-founded The Idler, a magazine dedicated to the pursuit of an idle life.
What I'm talking about:
Cloudspotting For Beginners
I will give an introduction to cloudspotting. I will teach you to identify some of the basic cloud types, as well as encourage you to lie back, let your imagination drift, and notice that one over there looks like a goldfish.
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Websites
- The Cloud Appreciation Society
- A site dedicated to appreciating clouds
- Metcheck
- A company supplying meteorological, hydrological and marine instruments
- The Idler
- Idler is a bi-annual, book-shaped magazine that campaigns against the work ethic. This is the online version
- Earth As Art
- View our planet through the beautiful images taken by the Landsat-7 satellite
- Caught by the River
- In an age of blackberrys, mobiles, and time is money, fishing is an increasingly eccentric sport
Books
- The Cloudspotter’s Guide
- Author:
Description: This book helps us enjoy and understand the beauty of clouds
ISBN: 034089590X - A Pig with Six Legs, and Other Clouds
- Author:
Description: A small picture book of clouds
ISBN: 0340952423 - The Invention of Clouds
- Author:
Description: Telling the story of Luke Howard’s life and how he named the clouds for the love of it
ISBN: 1033039195X - The Book of Clouds
- Author:
Description: Reintroduces us to the Earth’s great skyscape
ISBN: 1402728131 - Song of the Sky
- Author:
Description: Published in 1954, this book is about the ‘Ocean of Air’, aviation and navigation
ISBN: N/A
Enjoyed this immensely, but now can't stop looking up towards the skies which is a little dangerous when on my pushbike.
As someone who has her head constantly in the clouds, I loved this Lecture!.
Really looking forward to watching this video.