explain xkcd » Rock Climbing http://www.explainxkcd.com Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:05:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Climbing http://www.explainxkcd.com/2009/10/28/climbing/ http://www.explainxkcd.com/2009/10/28/climbing/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:31:55 +0000 Jeff http://www.explainxkcd.com/?p=211

Image text: Where did you even get this wall? Return it there and stand it back up right now.

This comic is about taking a sideways photos of yourself crawling along the ground so it looks like you are climbing a vertical face rock wall.  This is a classic camera trick used in movies and television.

The first frame is from overhead of the "climber" and the rest are from the side.

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