wow, without an indicator of scale, it looks enormous – like an island-sized predator.
carpentermansays
As a carpenter, I find this a particularly scary image. Saws are dangerous enough without being able to move by themselves.
tbtabbysays
@Jamie Parsons
The FRIG was THAT?!
chigau (違う)says
tbtabby
dunno
but pretty cool, neh?
probably
JPsays
@tbtabby and chigau:
It’s a fragment from a well-loved Soviet-era Russian cartoon called Голубой Щенок – Blue Puppy. The whole thing is awesome and worth watching, but I’m unable to find a subtitled version.
That particular character is called Рыба-Пила, which means “saw fish.” I didn’t realize they were actually real things.
rjw1says
Yes, they’re real, but rare, they inhabit rivers in Northern Australia and other tropical waters around the world.
M'thewsays
@JP:
While the animation studios in the communist Eastern European countries produced amazing stuff, I do wonder sometimes what the artists there were smoking, snorting, shooting or swallowing. It can’t have been all that home-brewn wodka, slivovitz and pálenka, can it? And was this considered fit for children to watch? Yes, I know Pingu is a children’s cartoon – sometimes it’s even a bit off the wall for me.
otramesays
That is a spectacular photo. Saw fish are so cool.
JPsays
While the animation studios in the communist Eastern European countries produced amazing stuff, I do wonder sometimes what the artists there were smoking, snorting, shooting or swallowing. It can’t have been all that home-brewn wodka, slivovitz and pálenka, can it?
It was pretty much just alcohol, nicotine and caffeine as far as I know – back then, you couldn’t get anything else. Even now, the drug laws in Eastern Europe – except the Czech Republic – are much harsher than in Western Europe and the Anglosphere.
I think part of the reason for the phenomenon is that there was really just so much artistic freedom within animation, relatively speaking. Since cartoons were basically just seen as entertainment for kids, the censorship was much lighter, so a lot of really talented (and weird) artists went into the genre so they could actually do something creative.
Ragutissays
For such an endangered critter, I’ve seen a surprising number of reports/videos/pics of people (inadvertently) catching them over the past couple of years. One, last year, not far from me here in the Tampa area. The FWC or MOTE should see if they could give dna sampling kits or tags to the folks that surf fish for sharks at night. They seem to be the ones hooking up with the bulk of them.
I’m just going to leave this here.
wow, without an indicator of scale, it looks enormous – like an island-sized predator.
As a carpenter, I find this a particularly scary image. Saws are dangerous enough without being able to move by themselves.
@Jamie Parsons
The FRIG was THAT?!
tbtabby
dunno
but pretty cool, neh?
probably
@tbtabby and chigau:
It’s a fragment from a well-loved Soviet-era Russian cartoon called Голубой Щенок – Blue Puppy. The whole thing is awesome and worth watching, but I’m unable to find a subtitled version.
That particular character is called Рыба-Пила, which means “saw fish.” I didn’t realize they were actually real things.
Yes, they’re real, but rare, they inhabit rivers in Northern Australia and other tropical waters around the world.
@JP:
While the animation studios in the communist Eastern European countries produced amazing stuff, I do wonder sometimes what the artists there were smoking, snorting, shooting or swallowing. It can’t have been all that home-brewn wodka, slivovitz and pálenka, can it? And was this considered fit for children to watch? Yes, I know Pingu is a children’s cartoon – sometimes it’s even a bit off the wall for me.
That is a spectacular photo. Saw fish are so cool.
It was pretty much just alcohol, nicotine and caffeine as far as I know – back then, you couldn’t get anything else. Even now, the drug laws in Eastern Europe – except the Czech Republic – are much harsher than in Western Europe and the Anglosphere.
I think part of the reason for the phenomenon is that there was really just so much artistic freedom within animation, relatively speaking. Since cartoons were basically just seen as entertainment for kids, the censorship was much lighter, so a lot of really talented (and weird) artists went into the genre so they could actually do something creative.
For such an endangered critter, I’ve seen a surprising number of reports/videos/pics of people (inadvertently) catching them over the past couple of years. One, last year, not far from me here in the Tampa area. The FWC or MOTE should see if they could give dna sampling kits or tags to the folks that surf fish for sharks at night. They seem to be the ones hooking up with the bulk of them.
That’s one o’ them Black & Decker sharks.
A week late, but just saw (ha!) this bit of news:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/virgin-birth-sawfish/