The Shimoda salmon festival that happened two thirds of a year ago.
I finally got around to editing a short movie from this brutal affair that I witnessed. Shimoda's big on salmon, so they have a big festival every year where you can be as cruel to fish as you've ever imagined, and also eat them and also bounce around in an inflatable duck that I call American Duck (who seems to appear at a lot of festivals around here).
Things to watch for:
-The Fish Pool Scramble- While I'm not sure if anyone actually calls it by that name, the scramble is where you can pay a few dollars to be one of the many people who wades in a pool and catches a live salmon with your bare hands. The salmon then dies of suffocation, or in rare cases bludgeoning, if rumors are to be believed.
-The 'Beat Your Fish with a Stick' Race- The four contestants stand next to a trough, each with one salmon inside. While you are supposed to nudge your fish with your stick, and have the fish swim to victory under its own power, those who really want to win usually wield their stick more like a golf club than a wand of gentle encouragement.
-The vegetarian holding up a fish that she recently murdered- No explanation necessary, Shimoda brings out the worst in us all.
Sincerely,
Matt
I finally got around to editing a short movie from this brutal affair that I witnessed. Shimoda's big on salmon, so they have a big festival every year where you can be as cruel to fish as you've ever imagined, and also eat them and also bounce around in an inflatable duck that I call American Duck (who seems to appear at a lot of festivals around here).
Things to watch for:
-The Fish Pool Scramble- While I'm not sure if anyone actually calls it by that name, the scramble is where you can pay a few dollars to be one of the many people who wades in a pool and catches a live salmon with your bare hands. The salmon then dies of suffocation, or in rare cases bludgeoning, if rumors are to be believed.
-The 'Beat Your Fish with a Stick' Race- The four contestants stand next to a trough, each with one salmon inside. While you are supposed to nudge your fish with your stick, and have the fish swim to victory under its own power, those who really want to win usually wield their stick more like a golf club than a wand of gentle encouragement.
-The vegetarian holding up a fish that she recently murdered- No explanation necessary, Shimoda brings out the worst in us all.
Sincerely,
Matt
posted by 13 hours away Matt at 12:06 AM
9 Comments:
I forgot to put what the songs were in the video. The first is a traditional old lady song by some old japanese ladies. The second is "I'm so Happy" by TRS-80, and the third is "Push It" by Static-X.
oh man, i LOLed so hard at this video
if you can keep up this level of quality, these will almost be worth the wait
Ignore that punk Mehan. Same quality, less wait please.
So, at the beginning, when there's some announcer kicking off the fish-catching in the shallow pond, why is it in English?
Here I am, thinking how hard it must be for you to live in a country where they all speak some crazy difficult language, and its all a sham! No more sympathy for you, buddy.
since matt will probably never reply to your comment, i'll pick up the slack. killing fish is surprisingly popular with folks from the american military base (who would've thunk it?), so they need to have an english announcer at the event to accomodate the base folks (who usually don't speak any japanese). anyhow, that's simon from my office in the video, who is an australian who worked for shimoda as a translator
Well, thanks Mehan for assuming that my website is yours. I'll reply to comments from my own family members from now on, thanks.
Also, I will do so in a much less boring manner.
ready and waiting for my very own, personalized, not-boring Matt-reply!
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sweet! now if only it came with an 8x10 glossy.
PPPPPPPPOOOOOOOOOOSTTT!!! Oh and I want one of those fish suits!!!!
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