Fishing under ice

January 2, 2012 1:53 PM

Fishing under ice (single link Vimeo post)
posted by tykky (16 comments total)

Pretty cool...took me a second to figure out what was going on.
posted by jimmythefish at 2:06 PM on January 2

Very nice - likewise took me a minute to work out what was happening.
posted by jontyjago at 2:26 PM on January 2

Now that I've seen this done I'm surprised I'd never seen this done before.
posted by Anything at 2:39 PM on January 2

By the way, is there any way to adjust the quality on Vimeo down even further from my present "not HD" setting? I spend most of my time on a computer that can't play video like this smoothly.
posted by Anything at 2:45 PM on January 2 [1 favorite]

Neat indeed. Wonder if they will be able to recover their wheelbarrow come summertime ...
posted by woodblock100 at 3:18 PM on January 2

Well, they could just swim down and hook a line onto it (and that fake balloon) right now.

Under-ice hockey is getting pretty popular.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 4:05 PM on January 2

There was a science fiction story about a civilization that lived like this on the underside of ice (on Europa maybe?). Very "allegory of the cave" like, anyone remember it?
posted by 445supermag at 4:18 PM on January 2

By the way, is there any way to adjust the quality on Vimeo down even further from my present "not HD" setting? I spend most of my time on a computer that can't play video like this smoothly.

Hit pause and let it buffer/load completely, and then it will usually play smoother.

You can also manually download most flash videos with a FireFox plugin called DownloadHelper, and then you can play those files in VLC. Also, you can usually just drag/drop these files into a blank browser window for less cluttered and smoother playback on older machines so the FLV (flash video) or mp4 file plays in your native Flash client and browser - instead of inside Vimeo's or YouTube's custom flash players/wrappers.

Rendering video smoothly in browsers is a pain in the ass.
posted by loquacious at 4:29 PM on January 2 [3 favorites]

Neat. However I now have a new phobia. Um, thanks?
posted by arha at 5:51 PM on January 2

Not enough fish.
posted by alloneword at 7:35 PM on January 2 [5 favorites]

Not in general a big Chrome fan, but Vimeo has an html5 player that is Chrome-only and is much smoother I think.
posted by drjimmy11 at 9:40 PM on January 2

Sponge Bob physics?
posted by ouke at 1:31 AM on January 3

Now we just have to wait a while to see the Norwegians top this one.
posted by Twang at 2:45 AM on January 3

Not to be confused with proper ice fishing...
posted by falcon at 8:31 AM on January 3

Youtube version for folks like me, from a helpful double post :)
posted by Anything at 1:34 PM on January 3

This is why fish think we're total idiots.
posted by orme at 1:40 PM on January 3