18 ms·

Swedish slow TV: The great moose migration [video]

264 points by MasterYoda 4y ago

i_like_waiting 4y ago
There was czech version 10+ years ago, kind of and it got hacked, people were calling back to TV to ask if it was real https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDHkOd9hBJE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDHkOd9hBJE
vinni2 4y ago
For those who don’t know slow tv was popularized by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) with train journeys and ship routes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_television https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_television
- andrelaszlo 4y ago
  But perfected in Sweden with The Great Moose Migration! </silly Scandinavian rivalry>
  - WJW 4y ago
    So the genre started in the UK with Yule log burning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule_log https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule_log), then was popularised in Norway and perfected in Sweden. Might we expect the slow eastward migration to continue and for Finland to come up with the next masterpiece? The Finns are already somewhat notorious for going long stretches of time without speaking, after all. (Big hugs to all nations involved of course)
    - mcv 4y ago
      Didn't Germany already do this ages ago? At night, they would broadcast various train trips[0]. I even recall there was a bit of a scandal when they cut out part of the trip through a tunnel, because the screen would be all black for too long. [0] Just from a single camera at the front of the train, no further editing. I haven't seen the Norwegian and Swedish Slow TV yet, but I get the impression they use multiple cameras. The German version was super simple, but very relaxing in its simplicity.
      - bipson 4y ago
        Agreed. The wikipedia link above has 2009 as the earliest date. In Austria you would find random scenic train rides on TV whenever you would switch on the TV in the middle of the night at least from 2002 onward, if not earlier... And I don't think this started in Austria.
      - nibix 4y ago
        Yes, the train rides were in the night programme of ARD during the 90s [1]. Meanwhile, the other public German TV channel ZDF did the contrast program with a different mode of transportation: They had dash cam views of car rides [2]. [1] https://youtu.be/7ycjaWRnETU https://youtu.be/7ycjaWRnETU [2] https://youtu.be/2jI-Sn_X7x4?t=213 https://youtu.be/2jI-Sn_X7x4?t=213
    - ui4jd73bdj 4y ago
      We have slow TV for hawk nesting and seal sunbathing in Finland. Unfortunately the seals sunbathing location was figured out one year and they had to stop broadcasting it.
      - op00to 4y ago
        Heh. Did humans do their own sunbathing for the camera?
    - alophawen 4y ago
      Check out finnish outdoor survival on youtube
      - mackatsol 4y ago
        Link please?
        tilt_error 4y ago
        https://youtu.be/Gzc2nAhY8OI https://youtu.be/Gzc2nAhY8OI
    - apeescape 4y ago
      Not live TV per se, but a WWF web stream following ringed seals is hugely popular in Finland. The OG version is called Norppalive (https://wwf.fi/en/wildlive/saimaa-ringed-seal/ https://wwf.fi/en/wildlive/saimaa-ringed-seal/), and it followed Saimaa ringed seals. This year's edition follows Baltic ringed seals (https://wwf.fi/en/wildlive/baltic-ringed-seal/ https://wwf.fi/en/wildlive/baltic-ringed-seal/). There may be hours of nothing happening at all, it's great.
    - reaperducer 4y ago
      the genre started in the UK with Yule log burning When did the UK start broadcasting yule logs? In the United States it goes back to at least the mid 1960's, and possibly before. Stations in most large cities still air the show, though shorter now (1-3 hours) than before.
  - mongol 4y ago
    Actually, I think Norway has the edge here. The fjord scenery can't be beaten. (And I am Swedish)
- Jaruzel 4y ago
  Not 100% live (most of the time), but definitely a good candidate for Slow TV is RailCowGirl: https://www.youtube.com/c/RailCowGirl https://www.youtube.com/c/RailCowGirl Especially good if you love trains, and amazing scenery.
- dmurray 4y ago
  They're also the only national broadcaster I know of that devotes time to classical chess matches which typically last 4+ hours with one piece being moved ever few minutes. It helps that the world champion and best chess player is Norwegian, but slow TV may have made them more receptive.
  - karencarits 4y ago
    And people love it. Last year at Boxing Day, 300 000-500 000 viewers in average, close to a million viewers overall [1] - that's ~20% of the population. And the popularity has been high for at least five years now, as it has started to become more of a tradition Freely available for those interested: https://tv.nrk.no/serie/sjakk https://tv.nrk.no/serie/sjakk [1] https://kampanje.com/medier/2021/12/kvelden-for-kvelden-mistet-nesten-140.000-seere/ https://kampanje.com/medier/2021/12/kvelden-for-kvelden-mist...
- 2143 4y ago
  I've heard about this before. And I'm puzzled. Are the Scandinavians so bored that they find the dashcam of a train amusing? When people are given good social security, food, healthcare, education and everything else, do they start to find life boring? Update: I don't mean any offense to Scandinavians or anybody else. Update 2: I'm not American, so please don't use the comment section to crap on Americans with the assumption that I'll be offended (and also think about what that reveals about you). This is hilarious. Update 3: I now realise it's just one person who's doing all the aforementioned crapping (at the time of this update). Maybe that person is having a bad day.
  - Sharlin 4y ago
    Train dashcam videos are an absolutely awesome way to chill and relax, it's almost meditative. Great way to spend a break at work, for example, and probably much better for one's mental health than almost all the crap that's on normal TV.
  - arghwhat 4y ago
    This has nothing to do with Scandinavians, it's just a form of entertainment you apparently do not seem to enjoy. There's plenty of this stuff. Go on Twitch and you'll find people playing very uneventful video games for hours, and people will hang around to watch it. There has even been sessions of watching grass grow or paint dry, and people watched it.
  - linguistics__ 4y ago
    That's an odd take. A lot of people just like having the TV or radio on in the background and this is a cheap and relaxing kind of content to fill that niche.
    - 2143 4y ago
      Hmm. I see. Actually, I never put on TV in the background. Either there's something I want to watch or there isn't, in which case I turn off the TV. I sometimes keep music on in the background. But this is only if I actually feel like listening to music. For instance, I can drive for hours with no music on (and no, my car exhaust note isn't very exciting).
- fatih-erikli 4y ago
  I love watching trains
- amelius 4y ago
  So, basically moving wallpaper.
Hikikomori 4y ago
https://www.twitch.tv/svt_slow https://www.twitch.tv/svt_slow
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]
- rejectfinite 4y ago
  Nice, has more English information. Also, twitch chat!
jollybean 4y ago
Seems a bit more like 'still' than 'slow'. Slow is just enough energy for something to be happening: a video from a train is 'slow'. Videos of nature, that's almost 'still' or almost, it's actually kind of a different experience.
- wingerlang 4y ago
  Something is happening though, the moose are migrating.
  - Aachen 4y ago
    Yeah, tomorrow, maybe... I hadn't seen this kind of content before and was waiting for a while til I figured to skip forward and, by the 24th hour, the counter (which I figured must mean moose but it doesn't say) was still at zero zero zero. I can see the appeal but the title is a bit unfortunate if you aren't already familiar with it.
timonoko 4y ago
My favourite is "Watch ice melting on Lake Inari". 1st of June is usually the kayak launching day, but this year it may be 1st of July. I blame Greta. We need more Global Warming. https://www.windy.com/-Webcams/Finland/Mainland-Finland/Inari/Tie-Nitsij%C3%A4rvi-Inariin/webcams/1508249476?69.283,26.392,8 https://www.windy.com/-Webcams/Finland/Mainland-Finland/Inar...
astrolx 4y ago
I alternate between this and this "Blue tit nest cam" from Germany. Very relaxing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d88nua75yJA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d88nua75yJA
- ollifi 4y ago
  Careful there. Nest cams can turn ugly all of a sudden.
  - eurasiantiger 4y ago
    Speaking from experience?
    - pbhjpbhj 4y ago
      There have been a few incidents on UK's BBC Springwatch where they've been watching birds that have been eaten/killed. Parental/sibling killing of chicks is pretty common.
nagonago 4y ago
Quite nice to have this up on a second monitor while working on something that doesn't need two monitors.
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]
ccozan 4y ago
I can also recommend https://afar.tv https://afar.tv
janandonly 4y ago
The link title is wrong. It is not Live TV.
- OscarDC 4y ago
  One of the program is: https://www.svtplay.se/video/34674843/den-stora-algvandringen/den-stora-algvandringen-sasong-4-25-apr-00-00?id=KDMggrR https://www.svtplay.se/video/34674843/den-stora-algvandringe...
- ryder666 4y ago
  Live is today in https://www.svtplay.se/video/34674843/den-stora-algvandringen/den-stora-algvandringen-sasong-4-25-apr-00-00 https://www.svtplay.se/video/34674843/den-stora-algvandringe... or https://www.twitch.tv/svt_slow https://www.twitch.tv/svt_slow
ecmascript 4y ago
Det är bra grabbar, fortsätt upvotea så tar vi över den här plattformen med svenska fanan högt i vinden
- testmasterflex 4y ago
  Amerikanarna har ingen chans / The Americans haven’t got a clue ;)
  - ecmascript 4y ago
    Jänkarna vet inte vilka de kommer att möta, när de snart vaknar så ska de möta kungens vrede Pic related: https://imgs.search.brave.com/_-PBhLuSzgNHIjPEvJqWdDdQHIE6d3edcTdfs1sJW4g/rs:fit:1100:820:1/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWdz/LmFmdG9uYmxhZGV0/LWNkbi5zZS92Mi9p/bWFnZXMvOGI5YTdl/NWMtNzFhOS00YmRj/LWI4MGItNGFmYTNm/NDQ0ZDdmP2ZpdD1j/cm9wJmg9ODIwJnc9/MTEwMCZzPWI0OTEy/NjljOGFmYjk2OTdm/YjczZmIyNzM2ZGJl/MGRmOTZjYjVjYjE https://imgs.search.brave.com/_-PBhLuSzgNHIjPEvJqWdDdQHIE6d3...
- kwhitefoot 4y ago
- DoreenMichele 4y ago
  I don't know. I think there are probably more Dutch here than Swedes. (Not based on a rigorous scientific survey. May not be accurate.)
  - ecmascript 4y ago
    Since there is at least 2.5 times more people that speak Dutch I have no doubt that it is probably the case.
- mongol 4y ago
  Go back to Reddit please
- tveyben 4y ago
  Så er der måske brug for lidt moralsk støtte fra en skandinavisk nabo ;-)
tuukkah 4y ago
The counter "000 över älven" means so far none have crossed the river. Should I hold my breath?
- sandos 4y ago
  They will be broadcasting for two weeks, so maybe not hold your breath....
- FartyMcFarter 4y ago
  Not unless you can hold your breath for a long long long time.
sandworm101 4y ago
Is this a covert op? Are we suposed to be looking for russian agents sneeking across the border? Drug smugglers? Slow tv? We might look at a trail camera for weeks without seeing anything. I dont understand.
- rejectfinite 4y ago
  Its relaxing background TV... And we do see nature and the moose!
zogomoox 4y ago
A Møøse once bit my sister ... No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies
- diego_moita 4y ago
  You know... it's kinda ironic when the humour of a British troupe that was so radically innovative is quoted over and over again to the point that most people recognize it. Is like reheating a souffle, every time you do it, the taste gets more stale. I was so fortunate to see that movie in a movie theatre when it came out, without knowing what to expect... And I miss that surprise so much...
dreen 4y ago
I used to constantly have a webcam on from moosegarden.com just to have banckground moose lounging around. Sadly cam is gone but I recommend visiting them if you get a chance.
chilblains 4y ago
Swiss train journeys are nice: https://www.rts.ch/play/tv/emission/slow-suisse?id=10943405 https://www.rts.ch/play/tv/emission/slow-suisse?id=10943405
- faebi 4y ago
  Maybe the Swiss are the pioneers of this format. Around 20 years ago, there used to be a multi-hour helicopter flyover of Switzerland broadcasted on National TV „SF1“ on certain mornings. Similar to this one: https://youtu.be/AX57EYPASDs https://youtu.be/AX57EYPASDs . It was always nice to wait until you see your home area. Of course, truly 24 hours or multi-day is on another level.
usrusr 4y ago
Is there a tech angle to this submission? I'm not complaining or asking for one, but sampling the stream I wondered if there might be one that I failed to see: most of the time a random wildlife webcam would show a scene too boring even for slow TV, but if you have hundreds of them, some will likely have something interesting going on. Continuously getting eyeballs on hundreds of streams to select one for the show would be incredibly expensive (the linked streams seem to be more condensed than a 24/7 selection?), but it would be the perfect ML playground: feedback is solved, viewer metrics has been an established field for half a century, wrong answers are zero cost and you could create something that simply did not exist before: real time wildlife where there's actually something to see. (or maybe almost realtime, because the human showrunner might decide to allow a few minutes of serenity from the ringbuffer before the action that triggered the detector walks into view, that would still be good enough for "today, at the current time of day")
- timoteostewart 4y ago
  This submission, at least for me, pulls the "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" lever. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- drakonka 4y ago
  I think having the view always be on something "interesting" would spoil what I personally find enjoyable about this stream. I've had this open in a little PIP window all day while I work. I enjoy the nature sounds and sometimes see a reindeer trot past or a bird, which is cool. And when a moose comes up it's all the more exciting, because it's a unique occurrence. Then you go to the chat and see other viewers excitedly post about how beautiful the moose is. I think if the stream showed something exciting all the time it would take something away from the flare of happiness when you see a moose or other interesting animal in-between the calming sounds of nature.
  - LeifCarrotson 4y ago
    I completely agree! It's like the difference between fishing in a stocked pond versus wading a trout stream, between taking a whole afternoon to cook a meal from scratch versus getting fast food, or between watching a classic play and watching a Michael Bay movie... Yes, technology gives us the ability to remove all downtime and have only action all the time. But I don't think I'd want to.
buzzdenver 4y ago
Is there a way to get rid of the right sidebar with the flying smileys, hearts and other reactions? Seems to defeat the purpose.
- uppe 4y ago
  Yes, it's a bit hidden. Hover over the video to reveal the settings icon (cogwheel). From there you can disable the chat sidebar.
  - buzzdenver 4y ago
    Thank you!
AtNightWeCode 4y ago
Trivia question. How many moose do you think get shot during hunting season in Sweden? It is about 100k.
- wingerlang 4y ago
  That's a lot, and apparently it only adds up to around 1% of all meat consumed in Sweden (2015). Neat little visualization https://www.svt.se/special/algjakten-i-siffror/ https://www.svt.se/special/algjakten-i-siffror/
robalni 4y ago
Here is some more information, including a map with the camera positions: https://kontakt.svt.se/guide/den-stora-algvandringen https://kontakt.svt.se/guide/den-stora-algvandringen

264 points by MasterYoda 4y ago

There was czech version 10+ years ago, kind of and it got hacked, people were calling back to TV to ask if it was real https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDHkOd9hBJE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDHkOd9hBJE

vinni2 4y ago

For those who don’t know slow tv was popularized by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) with train journeys and ship routes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_television https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_television

andrelaszlo 4y ago
But perfected in Sweden with The Great Moose Migration! </silly Scandinavian rivalry>
- WJW 4y ago
  So the genre started in the UK with Yule log burning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule_log https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule_log), then was popularised in Norway and perfected in Sweden. Might we expect the slow eastward migration to continue and for Finland to come up with the next masterpiece? The Finns are already somewhat notorious for going long stretches of time without speaking, after all. (Big hugs to all nations involved of course)
  - mcv 4y ago
    Didn't Germany already do this ages ago? At night, they would broadcast various train trips[0]. I even recall there was a bit of a scandal when they cut out part of the trip through a tunnel, because the screen would be all black for too long. [0] Just from a single camera at the front of the train, no further editing. I haven't seen the Norwegian and Swedish Slow TV yet, but I get the impression they use multiple cameras. The German version was super simple, but very relaxing in its simplicity.
    - bipson 4y ago
      Agreed. The wikipedia link above has 2009 as the earliest date. In Austria you would find random scenic train rides on TV whenever you would switch on the TV in the middle of the night at least from 2002 onward, if not earlier... And I don't think this started in Austria.
    - nibix 4y ago
      Yes, the train rides were in the night programme of ARD during the 90s [1]. Meanwhile, the other public German TV channel ZDF did the contrast program with a different mode of transportation: They had dash cam views of car rides [2]. [1] https://youtu.be/7ycjaWRnETU https://youtu.be/7ycjaWRnETU [2] https://youtu.be/2jI-Sn_X7x4?t=213 https://youtu.be/2jI-Sn_X7x4?t=213
  - ui4jd73bdj 4y ago
    We have slow TV for hawk nesting and seal sunbathing in Finland. Unfortunately the seals sunbathing location was figured out one year and they had to stop broadcasting it.
    - op00to 4y ago
      Heh. Did humans do their own sunbathing for the camera?
  - alophawen 4y ago
    Check out finnish outdoor survival on youtube
    - mackatsol 4y ago
      Link please?
      - tilt_error 4y ago
        https://youtu.be/Gzc2nAhY8OI https://youtu.be/Gzc2nAhY8OI
  - apeescape 4y ago
    Not live TV per se, but a WWF web stream following ringed seals is hugely popular in Finland. The OG version is called Norppalive (https://wwf.fi/en/wildlive/saimaa-ringed-seal/ https://wwf.fi/en/wildlive/saimaa-ringed-seal/), and it followed Saimaa ringed seals. This year's edition follows Baltic ringed seals (https://wwf.fi/en/wildlive/baltic-ringed-seal/ https://wwf.fi/en/wildlive/baltic-ringed-seal/). There may be hours of nothing happening at all, it's great.
  - reaperducer 4y ago
    the genre started in the UK with Yule log burning When did the UK start broadcasting yule logs? In the United States it goes back to at least the mid 1960's, and possibly before. Stations in most large cities still air the show, though shorter now (1-3 hours) than before.
- mongol 4y ago
  Actually, I think Norway has the edge here. The fjord scenery can't be beaten. (And I am Swedish)
Jaruzel 4y ago
Not 100% live (most of the time), but definitely a good candidate for Slow TV is RailCowGirl: https://www.youtube.com/c/RailCowGirl https://www.youtube.com/c/RailCowGirl Especially good if you love trains, and amazing scenery.
dmurray 4y ago
They're also the only national broadcaster I know of that devotes time to classical chess matches which typically last 4+ hours with one piece being moved ever few minutes. It helps that the world champion and best chess player is Norwegian, but slow TV may have made them more receptive.
- karencarits 4y ago
  And people love it. Last year at Boxing Day, 300 000-500 000 viewers in average, close to a million viewers overall [1] - that's ~20% of the population. And the popularity has been high for at least five years now, as it has started to become more of a tradition Freely available for those interested: https://tv.nrk.no/serie/sjakk https://tv.nrk.no/serie/sjakk [1] https://kampanje.com/medier/2021/12/kvelden-for-kvelden-mistet-nesten-140.000-seere/ https://kampanje.com/medier/2021/12/kvelden-for-kvelden-mist...
2143 4y ago
I've heard about this before. And I'm puzzled. Are the Scandinavians so bored that they find the dashcam of a train amusing? When people are given good social security, food, healthcare, education and everything else, do they start to find life boring? Update: I don't mean any offense to Scandinavians or anybody else. Update 2: I'm not American, so please don't use the comment section to crap on Americans with the assumption that I'll be offended (and also think about what that reveals about you). This is hilarious. Update 3: I now realise it's just one person who's doing all the aforementioned crapping (at the time of this update). Maybe that person is having a bad day.
- Sharlin 4y ago
  Train dashcam videos are an absolutely awesome way to chill and relax, it's almost meditative. Great way to spend a break at work, for example, and probably much better for one's mental health than almost all the crap that's on normal TV.
- arghwhat 4y ago
  This has nothing to do with Scandinavians, it's just a form of entertainment you apparently do not seem to enjoy. There's plenty of this stuff. Go on Twitch and you'll find people playing very uneventful video games for hours, and people will hang around to watch it. There has even been sessions of watching grass grow or paint dry, and people watched it.
- linguistics__ 4y ago
  That's an odd take. A lot of people just like having the TV or radio on in the background and this is a cheap and relaxing kind of content to fill that niche.
  - 2143 4y ago
    Hmm. I see. Actually, I never put on TV in the background. Either there's something I want to watch or there isn't, in which case I turn off the TV. I sometimes keep music on in the background. But this is only if I actually feel like listening to music. For instance, I can drive for hours with no music on (and no, my car exhaust note isn't very exciting).
fatih-erikli 4y ago
I love watching trains
amelius 4y ago
So, basically moving wallpaper.

Hikikomori 4y ago

https://www.twitch.tv/svt_slow https://www.twitch.tv/svt_slow

deleted 4y ago
[deleted]
rejectfinite 4y ago
Nice, has more English information. Also, twitch chat!

jollybean 4y ago

Seems a bit more like 'still' than 'slow'. Slow is just enough energy for something to be happening: a video from a train is 'slow'. Videos of nature, that's almost 'still' or almost, it's actually kind of a different experience.

wingerlang 4y ago
Something is happening though, the moose are migrating.
- Aachen 4y ago
  Yeah, tomorrow, maybe... I hadn't seen this kind of content before and was waiting for a while til I figured to skip forward and, by the 24th hour, the counter (which I figured must mean moose but it doesn't say) was still at zero zero zero. I can see the appeal but the title is a bit unfortunate if you aren't already familiar with it.

timonoko 4y ago

My favourite is "Watch ice melting on Lake Inari". 1st of June is usually the kayak launching day, but this year it may be 1st of July. I blame Greta. We need more Global Warming. https://www.windy.com/-Webcams/Finland/Mainland-Finland/Inari/Tie-Nitsij%C3%A4rvi-Inariin/webcams/1508249476?69.283,26.392,8 https://www.windy.com/-Webcams/Finland/Mainland-Finland/Inar...

astrolx 4y ago

I alternate between this and this "Blue tit nest cam" from Germany. Very relaxing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d88nua75yJA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d88nua75yJA

ollifi 4y ago
Careful there. Nest cams can turn ugly all of a sudden.
- eurasiantiger 4y ago
  Speaking from experience?
  - pbhjpbhj 4y ago
    There have been a few incidents on UK's BBC Springwatch where they've been watching birds that have been eaten/killed. Parental/sibling killing of chicks is pretty common.

nagonago 4y ago

Quite nice to have this up on a second monitor while working on something that doesn't need two monitors.

deleted 4y ago
[deleted]

ccozan 4y ago

I can also recommend https://afar.tv https://afar.tv

janandonly 4y ago

The link title is wrong. It is not Live TV.

OscarDC 4y ago
One of the program is: https://www.svtplay.se/video/34674843/den-stora-algvandringen/den-stora-algvandringen-sasong-4-25-apr-00-00?id=KDMggrR https://www.svtplay.se/video/34674843/den-stora-algvandringe...
ryder666 4y ago
Live is today in https://www.svtplay.se/video/34674843/den-stora-algvandringen/den-stora-algvandringen-sasong-4-25-apr-00-00 https://www.svtplay.se/video/34674843/den-stora-algvandringe... or https://www.twitch.tv/svt_slow https://www.twitch.tv/svt_slow

ecmascript 4y ago

Det är bra grabbar, fortsätt upvotea så tar vi över den här plattformen med svenska fanan högt i vinden

testmasterflex 4y ago
Amerikanarna har ingen chans / The Americans haven’t got a clue ;)
- ecmascript 4y ago
  Jänkarna vet inte vilka de kommer att möta, när de snart vaknar så ska de möta kungens vrede Pic related: https://imgs.search.brave.com/_-PBhLuSzgNHIjPEvJqWdDdQHIE6d3edcTdfs1sJW4g/rs:fit:1100:820:1/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWdz/LmFmdG9uYmxhZGV0/LWNkbi5zZS92Mi9p/bWFnZXMvOGI5YTdl/NWMtNzFhOS00YmRj/LWI4MGItNGFmYTNm/NDQ0ZDdmP2ZpdD1j/cm9wJmg9ODIwJnc9/MTEwMCZzPWI0OTEy/NjljOGFmYjk2OTdm/YjczZmIyNzM2ZGJl/MGRmOTZjYjVjYjE https://imgs.search.brave.com/_-PBhLuSzgNHIjPEvJqWdDdQHIE6d3...
kwhitefoot 4y ago
DoreenMichele 4y ago
I don't know. I think there are probably more Dutch here than Swedes. (Not based on a rigorous scientific survey. May not be accurate.)
- ecmascript 4y ago
  Since there is at least 2.5 times more people that speak Dutch I have no doubt that it is probably the case.
mongol 4y ago
Go back to Reddit please
tveyben 4y ago
Så er der måske brug for lidt moralsk støtte fra en skandinavisk nabo ;-)

tuukkah 4y ago

The counter "000 över älven" means so far none have crossed the river. Should I hold my breath?

sandos 4y ago
They will be broadcasting for two weeks, so maybe not hold your breath....
FartyMcFarter 4y ago
Not unless you can hold your breath for a long long long time.

sandworm101 4y ago

Is this a covert op? Are we suposed to be looking for russian agents sneeking across the border? Drug smugglers? Slow tv? We might look at a trail camera for weeks without seeing anything. I dont understand.

rejectfinite 4y ago
Its relaxing background TV... And we do see nature and the moose!

zogomoox 4y ago

A Møøse once bit my sister ... No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies

diego_moita 4y ago
You know... it's kinda ironic when the humour of a British troupe that was so radically innovative is quoted over and over again to the point that most people recognize it. Is like reheating a souffle, every time you do it, the taste gets more stale. I was so fortunate to see that movie in a movie theatre when it came out, without knowing what to expect... And I miss that surprise so much...

dreen 4y ago

I used to constantly have a webcam on from moosegarden.com just to have banckground moose lounging around. Sadly cam is gone but I recommend visiting them if you get a chance.

chilblains 4y ago

Swiss train journeys are nice: https://www.rts.ch/play/tv/emission/slow-suisse?id=10943405 https://www.rts.ch/play/tv/emission/slow-suisse?id=10943405

faebi 4y ago
Maybe the Swiss are the pioneers of this format. Around 20 years ago, there used to be a multi-hour helicopter flyover of Switzerland broadcasted on National TV „SF1“ on certain mornings. Similar to this one: https://youtu.be/AX57EYPASDs https://youtu.be/AX57EYPASDs . It was always nice to wait until you see your home area. Of course, truly 24 hours or multi-day is on another level.

usrusr 4y ago

Is there a tech angle to this submission? I'm not complaining or asking for one, but sampling the stream I wondered if there might be one that I failed to see: most of the time a random wildlife webcam would show a scene too boring even for slow TV, but if you have hundreds of them, some will likely have something interesting going on. Continuously getting eyeballs on hundreds of streams to select one for the show would be incredibly expensive (the linked streams seem to be more condensed than a 24/7 selection?), but it would be the perfect ML playground: feedback is solved, viewer metrics has been an established field for half a century, wrong answers are zero cost and you could create something that simply did not exist before: real time wildlife where there's actually something to see. (or maybe almost realtime, because the human showrunner might decide to allow a few minutes of serenity from the ringbuffer before the action that triggered the detector walks into view, that would still be good enough for "today, at the current time of day")

timoteostewart 4y ago
This submission, at least for me, pulls the "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" lever. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
drakonka 4y ago
I think having the view always be on something "interesting" would spoil what I personally find enjoyable about this stream. I've had this open in a little PIP window all day while I work. I enjoy the nature sounds and sometimes see a reindeer trot past or a bird, which is cool. And when a moose comes up it's all the more exciting, because it's a unique occurrence. Then you go to the chat and see other viewers excitedly post about how beautiful the moose is. I think if the stream showed something exciting all the time it would take something away from the flare of happiness when you see a moose or other interesting animal in-between the calming sounds of nature.
- LeifCarrotson 4y ago
  I completely agree! It's like the difference between fishing in a stocked pond versus wading a trout stream, between taking a whole afternoon to cook a meal from scratch versus getting fast food, or between watching a classic play and watching a Michael Bay movie... Yes, technology gives us the ability to remove all downtime and have only action all the time. But I don't think I'd want to.

buzzdenver 4y ago

Is there a way to get rid of the right sidebar with the flying smileys, hearts and other reactions? Seems to defeat the purpose.

uppe 4y ago
Yes, it's a bit hidden. Hover over the video to reveal the settings icon (cogwheel). From there you can disable the chat sidebar.
- buzzdenver 4y ago
  Thank you!

AtNightWeCode 4y ago

Trivia question. How many moose do you think get shot during hunting season in Sweden? It is about 100k.

wingerlang 4y ago
That's a lot, and apparently it only adds up to around 1% of all meat consumed in Sweden (2015). Neat little visualization https://www.svt.se/special/algjakten-i-siffror/ https://www.svt.se/special/algjakten-i-siffror/

robalni 4y ago

Here is some more information, including a map with the camera positions: https://kontakt.svt.se/guide/den-stora-algvandringen https://kontakt.svt.se/guide/den-stora-algvandringen