Comments for "A camera travels around a sushi bar conveyor belt" Video at VideoSift.com

By gorillaman

gorillaman (http://www.videosift.com/member/gorillaman) — Fri, 25 May 2007 11:27:00 -0700

There's another video like this one around somewhere, but this one's better. I really like it.

By Deano

Deano (http://www.videosift.com/member/Deano) — Fri, 25 May 2007 11:30:47 -0700

Ah good, i was fearing a dupe comment! (I did do a search for sushi)

By KnivesOut

KnivesOut (http://www.videosift.com/member/KnivesOut) — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:06:47 -0700

Videos like this make me feel better about the future of humanity.

By rembar

rembar (http://www.videosift.com/member/rembar) — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:46:44 -0700

Awesome! Kinda seems like the intro to a movie or something...

By dag

dag (http://dag.videosift.com) — Fri, 25 May 2007 23:41:24 -0700

Darn-it, just tried to submit. This is neat.

By ant

ant (http://www.videosift.com/member/ant) — Fri, 25 May 2007 23:56:03 -0700

Is it me or is LiveLeak won't let me fast forward?

By Deano

Deano (http://www.videosift.com/member/Deano) — Sat, 26 May 2007 05:51:16 -0700

Ant, it doesn't seem to visually buffer the data so I can't see how to move the slider forwards. Not only that but there's no indication of the clip length. I prefer YouTube.

By ellyza

ellyza (http://www.videosift.com/member/ellyza) — Sat, 26 May 2007 07:45:53 -0700

Look like fun ride.

By sbchapm

sbchapm (http://www.videosift.com/member/sbchapm) — Sat, 26 May 2007 13:17:07 -0700

I love this. It's mesmerizing to me; makes me happy to be alive. Thanks.

By deathcow

deathcow (http://www.videosift.com/member/deathcow) — Sat, 26 May 2007 23:18:47 -0700

This is oddly peaceful. So how does this work? They put a variety of sushi out, you take down what you want and then stack the empty plates and pay when finished?

By gluonium

gluonium (http://www.videosift.com/member/gluonium) — Sun, 27 May 2007 01:30:12 -0700

yeah there's something strangely soothing about this video.

By Payback

Payback (http://www.videosift.com/member/Payback) — Sun, 27 May 2007 01:38:19 -0700

strangely soothing, but mildly nauseating when you see the guy get caught finishing "digging for gold" around 1:15...

By kingsblood

kingsblood (http://www.videosift.com/member/kingsblood) — Sun, 27 May 2007 02:09:20 -0700

To deathcow: I think sushi bars work like buffets, you pay a set price and eat as much as you want. I could be wrong, though.

This video is almost therapuetic, even with the clanging of the plates and chatter of the folks.

By deathcow

deathcow (http://www.videosift.com/member/deathcow) — Sun, 27 May 2007 17:29:35 -0700

Why is this soothing?

By gluonium

gluonium (http://www.videosift.com/member/gluonium) — Mon, 28 May 2007 01:05:59 -0700

I can't really articulate it. Something sort of calming about watching the typically unremarked upon mundane activities of everyday life presented plainly and unembellished. I may have something to do with the very steady constant movement too.

By AnimalsForCrackers

AnimalsForCrackers (http://www.videosift.com/member/AnimalsForCrackers) — Mon, 28 May 2007 14:42:33 -0700

Some places have buffet-style conveyors where you pick what you want as it comes. Then there are others with the conveyor belt but each booth having an intercom where you order your meal and the chef sends it down the line. The food usually comes within what seems like seconds of ordering too. Or so I've been told...All very efficient/no nonsense.

By deathcow

deathcow (http://www.videosift.com/member/deathcow) — Mon, 28 May 2007 17:39:00 -0700

I've only seen one of these, at the University Village in Seattle... http://www.bluecsushi.com/

By cento

cento (http://www.videosift.com/member/cento) — Mon, 28 May 2007 18:34:38 -0700

Re: Sushi Boat type resteraunts - The way every sushi boat / conveyor resteraunt that I have been to (both in the States and in Japan), the standard is that various items are placed on various colors or designs of plates and placed on the boats / cpnveyor belts by the chefs. As items come around, you pick items you want off of the conveyor. You can also special order items from the sushi chefs behind the counter. When you are done, your plates are counted to figure out your total. Normally the plates are coded based on the color or design to indicate their price.

And that video does make me happy. It just seems sublimely honest. It's just people being people.

By deathcow

deathcow (http://www.videosift.com/member/deathcow) — Mon, 28 May 2007 18:37:42 -0700

Are you saying that the food is FLOATED in some of the resteraunts?

By dag

dag (http://dag.videosift.com) — Mon, 28 May 2007 18:48:18 -0700

In Australia they are often on a "sushi train" it's a scale model train that goes around a track pulling flatbed cars with the sushi plates on them. Like this.

I haven't seen the boat kind.

By cento

cento (http://www.videosift.com/member/cento) — Mon, 28 May 2007 18:53:18 -0700

Most of the ones I have been at are floated on little wooden boats. I have only seen a few that were purely mechanical conveyor belts. I'd never seen the sushi train idea - that's kind neat. But there are many dozens of different Sushi Boat-type resteraunts all around the great San Francisco area.

By spoco2

spoco2 (http://www.videosift.com/member/spoco2) — Tue, 29 May 2007 01:18:34 -0700

That was pretty awesome... I was hanging out for when it went 'behind the scenes' into the kitchen.

Very nice

By oblio70

oblio70 (http://www.videosift.com/member/oblio70) — Tue, 29 May 2007 03:34:56 -0700

This Sushiboat-thing is totally about the experience. This clip captures it's ephemerality quite well. A little restaurant in the mall in San Francisco's Japan Town, Isobune, "claims" to have invented it some 60 years ago (though coveyor-belt & train-type previously existed).

Can't quite put a finger to it, but it puts a smile on my face. Maybe it's the gentley wafting waves or the local-diner-like atmosphere. Anyways, I dig it, even though no water was employed in the making of this flick.

By JasonRShaver

JasonRShaver (http://www.videosift.com/member/JasonRShaver) — Tue, 29 May 2007 15:11:40 -0700

The plate prices can be seen on the wall at +1:20, just an FYI.

By InvaderSil

InvaderSil (http://www.videosift.com/member/InvaderSil) — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:37:49 -0700

Deathcow, I worked around the corner from a Blue C sushi place in the Fremont neighborhood. I never did go there. I suck.

By omnistegan

omnistegan (http://www.videosift.com/member/omnistegan) — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:42:33 -0700

I want to go back to Japan