How? This story is PEAK! One of the best children’s stories of all time. Edward Gorey’s The Gashlycrumb Tinies is also a classic. Nothing like an alphabet story about kids dying in awful ways. He also illustrated content with adult themes and did not consider himself a children’s book author.

Trying to be original or meaningful is like trying to get into Narnia; it doesn't work. Messages should be sent via Western Union. It's amazing how many people are infuriated by art just being autotelic. Thank God for artists who just try to do a good job at creating pretty things to enhance people's lives and living spaces - exactly the way it's been done for centuries. And it's nice to see them making lots of money while they're at it. The most ardent detractors are invariably going to be unsuccessful 'artistes'.

I can see so many reasons why we can't find Aliens .

This will get Emplemon and Schaffrillas out of retirement

I'm feeling a bit yes to join this

The sincerity of adapting a non-movie to a movie is key. I think that’s a big reason why the Fallout show works: they respect the world and environs of the games.

Great video! Thank you thank you thank you.

The Sam Hyde clip at 0:14

DONT FORGET EVERYONE: YOU NEED TO HAVE SOMEONE GO “sous” IN EVERY YTP

I love how to the art sphere this is the pinnacle of bad art, but Picasso is a genius and a visionary, istg art intellectuals are pretentious

All valid points if you only look at big corporations. There are more good and artistically interesting movies made than ever before. You just need to find them. Yes disney and marvel are soulless content farms. Go watch something else. Literally there are more movies made than ever before. More creative ideas put out there than ever before. This is like complaining that there is no good songs anymopre but then you only listen top the radio on the same station that plays the top ten hits all day.

Thats exacly my problem. In my mind is just a dark foggy soggy blurr. I hatetd it when teachers said things like, just imagen it visually. I felt so dumb! Like why can everyone do it and i not? Thank you very much for this video!!! For me its more like i just know what it looks like. Like in terms or words, but niether written or spoken...

At the very least, Deadpool and Wolverine and Alien: Romulus were enjoyable and quite good (for recent movies, which doesn’t say much), but yeah, they still have the issue of relying too much on nostalgia and callbacks.

Growing up we lived in a new built neighbourhood on the edge of the city. To the west there was this city, to the east, nothing but great fields lined with forests, and some houses in the distance. In summer this gave a nice lush view, fields of flowers lined with green trees on the horizon, but it wasn’t until winter came that this vista showed its true beauty. Cold winter mornings, the ground and trees covered either in snow or frost, with a clear sky and the dawn just setting in, was the most magical moment of the day. That narrow purple-orange rim above the horizon, the deep blue above, endless white below. And then there was me, fresh out of bed walking the dog, feet freezing through my boots, hands in a fist inside my gloves, red ears and nose, just walking. That, to me, is winter. Not the grey, not the sun, not the romance of snow or the gloomy forests, but those 10 minutes before the dawn on a night so cold you’d be dead in an hour if it weren’t for clothing. We don’t get winters like that here anymore. Now it’s just rain. But I think fondly of those mornings, walking our black labrador, who seemed undisturbed by the cold, and who never left my side for even one second. If heaven turns out to be real and I get to go there, I wouldn’t mind if those winter morning walks are the subject of it. Yeah, I’d live for that. The eternal dawn.

Some people are just completely soulless for whatever reason. They can only perceive worth, both of themselves and everything around them, in money equivalent. Broken sword hollows have more humanity in them than these people.

It also contains the phrase 'this canvas is bullsh!t' 😁

No way bro put THAT in the ad 😂

Kincaid’s success is the same reason why the Hallmark channel is so successful and also so hated by the elitist, nihilistic crowd-the kind of art they produce is soothing comfort-food for the soul. The first time I saw a Kincaid, the first thing I saw/thought was “peace”-it could absolutely be God-inspired because God is all about peace.

My grandma had some of these in her home. I used to stare at them and imagine I was in them. Sometimes me and my sister would write different stories around the cottages in them. I get why some people don’t like them but I think they’re kind of cute and fun.

It's incredible how much Kinkade's paintings look like AI "art"

This book was one of my favoritea when I was younger. I love the book. I've always loved Shel silverstein.

First time I ever heard of him. Don’t have any of his paintings.

I guess this proves you can have tons of skill and still make shit art...

Hey Editor! I "Like" this...and I noticed some thing=gs. 2:20 Them "Gibbons" needz A POSTROPHE! 4:15 sprANG, not "sprung". 7:30 "innovative pronunciation of "nau-SHE-atingly" !? 14:30 "succinct" (suck-sinked) Lots of people get this wrong: www.google.com/search?q=pronounce+succinct&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS862US862&oq=pronounce+succinct+&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyCQgAEEUYORiABDIHCAEQABiABDIHCAIQABiABDIICAMQABgWGB4yCAgEEAAYFhgeMggIBRAAGBYYHjINCAYQABiGAxiABBiKBTINCAcQABiGAxiABBiKBTIKCAgQABiABBiiBNIBCDQwNzBqMGo3qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 15:30 in-con-grew-us should stress the second syllable, not the third. Gawdz, this are grammar school errorz. Love the topic and ideas... but.... You, sir, are doing to my deer ENGRISH what Kinkaid did to Art! Kay, luv ya, thanks, bai!

Nothing Andy Warhol did was original 😂 even Warhol said “art is business”

When you watch him paint he will paint the sun in the clouds then paint over it 😂 he did this several times and I always found it so funny

Every Xmas for years I bought my parents a Kincaid painting for their country farmhouse and after 13 years I stopped lol but their living room is soooo cozy

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY CARTOON FETISH THINGS ON DEVIANTART?!?!?

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who's tired of all the cameos. I just don't care anymore, I want good original content, not the same stuff over and over again. Can we not do new stuff anymore?

I haven't seen that Alien film, but I don't agree with the Ian Holm part of this video - if only because presumably he's playing an android, and androids would be mass produced (and thus a face would have been standardised). A bit like all Dr Noonian Soongs' androids looking like Data.

Shel deliberately screwed with his audience by omitting the last phrase. This is in harmony with the original question.

You don’t need the illustrations. The words are sufficient. The man becomes old and leaves into the void.

Kincaid’s art always brought me warm feelings but not enough to buy. So many amazing works of art available. I’m not wealthy but have bought many prints from art galleries for my home that moved me deeply. Kincaid’s art does not evoke that in me.

Would b able to understand this so much more by examining the relationship between shel & the woman to whom this was dedicated to (if possible)

on the insect world topic, grounded is a super great example of that. it literally shrinks you down into a whole other world in your backyard.

Holy crap the man’s on another level 🤯

Its not that deep bro

In Holland we had Anton Pieck.

I’ve always understood to moral of the story to be that the most valuable things in life are connections to and relationships with others. Children know this intrinsically but forget this throughout their adulthood. This boy realizes this in the end and returns to the tree just to spend time with it.

15:13 eyyy the najib scandal

Honestly, this video is such a letdown. You keep building a feeling and destroying it with pointless cut-ins. Firstly, you've shown us the dark, freezing forests of classical paintings and you've narrated them with a calm voice - just to put an ad without any warning. After that you've told us a story of a man voluntarly walking out into the cold unknown to raise his teams chances, without the knowledge of their close future - and without any time for contemplation you decided to jump to the texas snow? Such an american way of keeping decorum. What a shame!

For the first time in my 22 year old life, I have been experiencing snow and now you make a video about it, everything you say is exactly what I feel. I love the silence of snow. I wish i could keep my eyes open for more time while looking up.

So how about getting a model of a anime girl from some gooner game and adding every organ and muscle to bones and you're done

imagine getting triggered by the giving tree. poor souls

I just thought he was just MAKING an anime girl look terrifying, but then he made me requestion my life… 😭

If you’re going to hate Kinkade you better also hate Bob Ross. Kinkade paintings are very well done. They just aren’t that interesting. Haters are jealous.

Watching this in the future, I think I've learned as an introvert that location matters. Some locations, people will ease you out of your comfort zone with the promise of connection and actually deliver. And it's so... slow and gradual that such a welcoming community does this, that you don't realize that you're changing until you leave it all behind and realize that you can return to the way you used to be. I personally thrive when alone. But my experience in a small town in Texas showed me that I can not only socialize with complete strangers, but I was beginning to enjoy it. Living further north, people do not respond to "howdy" nor do they appreciate you just inserting yourself into their space to talk about something menial. I had to use dogs as my way to break ice, and it seemed like in the community I was in, the same happened for them. Sorry to word vomit on your own confession video, but it really striked something within myself. I think... in order to acheive things like love, you have to change your fundamental understanding of it. You can assume that "love " is something akin to how Hollywood portrays it or how the corporate sells it to you, or how people may write it in fiction. Or. You can experience love for yourself in your own way. It doesn't have to involve humans, and it doesn't have to involve living creatures. You can love your pets dearly, as they're always there and are incapable of judging you in a way that others would. That pet turtle to the side will always rely on you, and never seems to hate when you rant to it about how bad your day is. But you'll certainly know when they're gone - the loneliness. The emptiness. The same with a dog or cat - it's why so many "lonely" people *have* pets. And lastly, you can love hobbies. I think having a purpose or something to look forward to in a day really moves most people. If a form of art ends up boring you, even if you've pumped years of your life - even a decade - into it, you can still pick up another trade. Maybe that one is your true calling. I doubt you'll read this but... I really hope your life has changed for the better. I'm only just now discovering the wonderful videos you make - art in their own right! But I hope you're doing okay. Sincerely, some random person on the internet that was moved by your words.

Did this man really call a stick of rock a Japanese candy? It's a British staple.

I love your videos. :) It was a lot easier to have you explain a side I never considered. I know that a lot of people are getting laid off from animation jobs of all sorts in favor of AI animation now (see many companies using it on commercials), and then the job market is now flooded with hyper talented people looking for lower end jobs, as companies are not willing to pay living wages to artists while also requiring them to do more than their field requires. Looking up some of the job expectations on the market of companies hiring is a pretty disheartening activity. (Asking a lead character designer to also design logos and backgrounds...) And then you see musicians hiring "AI artists" who likely are taking on an entire team of people as a single person to produce work that is subpar in such a manner that even those who aren't in on The Know second glance. Seeing the takes presented here likely won't really budge my own opinion on the matter, but I do appreciate being more informed.

3:14 creature is acurate