Launching Flowers Into Outer Space

When it comes to flower arrangements, Japanese artist Makoto Azuma is quite literally pushing the boundaries out of this world. It all started 20 years ago, when the one-time rock musician took a part-time job at a flower shop. There he began to appreciate the power and beauty of plants. The experience made him think: “if flowers symbolize Earthly beauty, how can I push nature’s boundaries? How can I transport beauty to where it doesn’t currently exist?” His answer: bring flowers to outer space. Now, as part of an ongoing experimental artistic series, Azuma and a crew of florists, balloon experts and cameramen are launching carefully selected flower arrangements into the atmosphere.
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[@JPQFilms]

That looks like a pretty dope album cover

[@lauraahanj856]

JPQ Stevens

[@tipsycat27]

A lot of people complaining, yet not a lot of logic. Consider for a moment the absolute insane amount of outrageously unnecessary 'aesthetic' garbage that costs 50x this much, that everyone's okay with. Private yachts, mansions, diamond jewellery, pretty much the whole of Dubai.... One guy wants to create some truly unique artwork and suddenly it's 'too much'.

[@blisterrbub1714]

PREACH

[@krsipykreme]

Tipsylou I

[@DrVe-oh5ql]

Ignore the ignorances

[@AliZaidi]

no one applauds those "dubai dumbasses" either....

[@diamondfailer11]

Seal Fantamide j

[@caseyeveritt7109]

"Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was 'Oh no, not again.'" - Douglas Adams

[@jafethernandez8820]

needs more thumbs up

[@lucasgivens3750]

Casey Everitt Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.

[@MagicalManatee]

some see beauty. some see art. i see a cactus making atmospheric reentry.

[@HistoricaHungarica]

InterContinental Flower Bouquet when?

[@elizabethchung5285]

This comments section is absurd! This guy goes out of his way to make unique, beautiful art (that, mind you, doesn't create /any/ space debris because the balloons pop eventually and the whole thing falls back to the ground), and it's a waste of money, but then the high art world spends millions on contemporary masterpieces and "oh well that's fine". Art is art and sometimes it's expensive to make and buy. Deal with it.

[@naylamondragon]

His "let's go!" was just so cute oml

[@LukaOfACertainGame]

This project is seriously out of this world.

[@nettea5549]

I think what he's doing is beautiful and his passion is undeniable. It's also amazing that so many people are willing to help him bring his project to fruition. You know, it's his life, his money and he can do whatever he wants to as long as it's not hurting anyone or anything.

[@0777sadie]

Why Lovelock? I used to live near there and there's Nothing around except gold mines.... Curious.

[@omarpixel9176]

0777sadie Probably because there's nothing around?

[@x3z8]

0777sadie When sending things into the air and then having them fall, having nothing around for them to hit is the point.

[@PantsB4Squares]

It took a few people to carry that frame. Imagine that falling to earth, would smash through someone's house. Hence why they are in the middle of nowhere. You wouldnt shoot targets with a firearm in the direction of neighbors homes. You go to a safe area

[@mspark400smith2]

Plus they need to retrieve them and this terrain makes it far easier and safer, ask the military or nasa.

[@Goofybespitenothavinganyfish]

Sadie0777 great place to put a rocket I guess or weather balloon

[@justinreynolds6161]

Thank you Makoto Azuma for this beauty, I highly appreciate the time money and effort you and all of your associates put in to making this truly beautiful

[@rayana9446]

Wow this is amazing Flowers where so happy when they took a photo at the space I saw that! 🙈 Who agrees?

[@mushroomhead4782]

Can people just stop criticising this guy, just let him be happy of what he achieved ( not trying to offend anyone)

[@fungoidal]

We don't even know if Aliens exist and we're already tryna smash.

[@stevocanuck]

space is incredible.

[@tyranadoinfernorino8014]

This reminds me of a book called the little prince and the rose in the jar!!

[@genroynoisis6980]

That's one small boat for a plant... One giant ship for plant-kind!

[@bluzshadez]

Wow! That is so beautiful! Flowers floating from the sky and in space.

[@Ballhandler459]

I effing love this channel so much

[@aldrinacosta4666]

Sorry for the ignorance, but i thought it will burn if it pass a certain layer in the sky.

[@AngryMonk60]

Things only burn in the atmosphere when they travel at a huge speed. From heat from friction with air I think.

[@meyou5465]

Only from coming in, as friction from the air creates heat and the re-entry gravity causes this.

[@01Phenom]

thats entering earth lol

[@meyou5465]

LagiNaLangAko23 Those are some of the fastest speeds humanely achieved , but yes

[@GrannyBender]

Maybe, but a balloon is really slow and light compared to a rocket, and a rocket go to space, or at least, send something into space, Here, the flowers are still really close to the earth and far from space.

[@Bingojingo646]

Next time an astronaut has an anniversary he could be sent a bunch of flowers 😆😋

[@sofiaglove]

Thats beautiful....

[@sietohojoin]

Beautiful 💓🌸🌹🌷💐🍀🌿🌺🌼🌻

[@complexobjects]

When your medium is flowers, putting your work into space is the only logical next step.

[@xxnathan18xx1]

This video just proved the earth is not flat

[@yitzchallevi8208]

very cool! thank you!

[@seasong7655]

This is amazing

[@Punith2827]

I love your Channel for some unknown .. no matter what !!♥️

[@mindrules1566]

I wish those flowers remains glowing in outer space 😆

[@meyou5465]

You guys deserve more subs

[@nguiklian]

I super love this

[@okacheolokpo8525]

That is honestly amazing!

[@garryj6197]

Wow you cut the best part: the flowers crashing back to earth

[@ianchristophersaga2189]

Awesome

[@ariezon]

OMG they did it!

[@Baconstrips3000]

Now that's cool....

[@thinepedestrian1987]

I liked it.

[@emilyshmelimy]

So is there some kind of tracking device on that thing? How will they find it when it comes back down to earth?

[@sambrown1742]

I bet he just woke up and said "I'm gonna launch some flours into space"

[@ydd1176]

I don't care about y'all, this is cool!

[@EClaire.1073]

"Oh no, not again..."

[@DronieUp]

Did they get their Fuji camera back?

[@parkchimmin7913]

Imagine being an astronaut and as you're looking outside of your window, you see this.

[@cheese_stick4342]

That's was so sweet of them to give aliens some flowers they're definitely not going to destroy are planet now

[@sydneycrystal243]

you know those festivals with the floating lanterns(?)? imagine that but with flowers

[@itsdatboi461]

How did they retrieve the camera

[@zafranariffin8069]

I always wondered how their videos are like behind the scenes

[@asamihara5093]

すごい！

[@madelineyoung4058]

Nice 👍

[@dioricergy6931]

I'm curious what flat-earthers feel to see those footages

[@zandrewmorano10]

Now we have "Stray Bullets" and "Stray Flowers"

[@mrlmrl8191]

ดอกไม้สวยจังค่ะ

[@imburs]

An astronaut goes to space and sees flowers... And thinks *Boi what is happening now*

[@Cessdoeschaos]

Imagine some astronaut seeing them and going like: Austronaut 1: James... are you seeing this?! Austronaut 2: I am Louis! SOMEBODY CALL MARTHA! *Whole crew looks out the space craft looking at the flowers* James:*jokingly* I guess somebody remembered your birthday louis. Louis: *getting all teary* or martha's wedding anniversary.... Astronauts:.... Astronaut 5: Those are Poppies... my little girl used to love them... I bet she asked someone from nasa to send them so her old man could see them *crying* Martha: OH LOOK! LOOK! ANOTHER ONE! I BET THIS ONES FOR YOU TINA!

[@m.n7693]

Nice

[@daveotuwa5596]

I live in NV! I can't see any flowers from where I am.

[@ashoozq]

So quick question for more knowledge in this... how come those flowers didn’t fall apart while traveling through the atmosphere... 🤔

[@cpp12anm]

Elon Musk invaded mars : who in heaven planting flower here.

[@HollyVanHart]

😍 Thanks, I'll be checking out your other videos too! ✌ 😍 ✌

[@ElsieMontanoAisha]

great

[@icytrash]

so useless yet so beautiful

[@ry8729]

Like our wives and girlfriends... :(

[@amaryllisbrooke8098]

+Paper Please repent

[@v7ran]

R Y ah yes, causal sexism good

[@joshffa3855]

I know I’m an idiot for thinking this but I thought the flower crashed into the International space station at 0:29

[@joshyantony1932]

The flowers sould be released from there, so that they would have fallen onto the unsuspecting pedestrians. That would have made their day and some use of those flowers (assuming the terminal velocity would be low enough not to kill them). They would be like : "aliens sent me this?? Specially for me??" *tears up*

[@silkthyme]

he should launch them in the path of the ISS so that astronauts can see them

[@williamstewart7399]

Christina Huang uh

[@Krawurxus]

The ISS is moving at around 5 miles a second at an altitude of 200-270 miles. so it's way higher up than this balloon has any chance of reaching, and even if it could they'd zip past it at over 17,000 miles per hour. But it is a beautiful piece of non-permanent art.

[@lienfung2740]

So... What happened to the flower 🌸 🌺 🌹 after or when it fell down?

[@dyman5601]

*Aliens*-Aww, thanks Earthlings

[@flamminia]

A gift to the gods

[@danastriciptaningrum5101]

This kinda got me thinking.... If, by chance, the flowers got to space (like, out of atmosphere) will it wilt? Or will it just stays like the way it is? Or maybe it will just dry up?

[@nedisahonkey]

Danastri Ciptaningrum I imagine it'd be like freezing them with liquid nitrogen but all the water would probably sublimate out so it would look wilted as well.

[@dvorak2676]

Flowers, in memory of the flat-earthers

[@rrvillareal2011]

how come it didnt burn upon re entry?

[@donot2575]

somebody needs to tell him that aliens are myths (until now) & they won't see his flowers out there.

[@HalfBlindProductions]

It looked like that first balloon hit a celling but what am I actually seeing cause the sky of course isint domed

[@celi7195]

To everyone saying that this is wasteful and just creating more trash: While it is not explicitly stated in the video, the common practice when launching these high-altitude balloons is to also attach a GPS and a parachute, which will then allow you to collect the payloads later without damage. Thus, the impact on the environment should be minimal and limited to burst balloon fragments or flowers flying off the bouquet. How else do you think they would collect the footage of the space flowers?? Plus, they clearly attached a DSLR camera there so I'm sure they wouldn't just throw those away...

[@thefuture8654]

I wonder how they filmed this up in space

[@williamstewart7399]

@The Future, there is a camera rig attached to the system holding the bouquet. When the balloon pops and falls back to earth they would use a gps tracker to locate it and retrieve the footage.

[@KeymoEmbryoSagan]

well ain't that the most beautiful thing I ever done seen

[@ry8729]

You mean... "I ever seen done."

[@KeymoEmbryoSagan]

Stop assuming my pronouns , my gender, and my double-speak.

[@felox1715]

I see the Japanese culinary expert from BuzzFeed the first few minutes of the video

[@hyesooksong3956]

These flowers livin in 2017 meanwhile this littel flower in 50017

[@monaiannucci9434]

Flowers from orbit

[@bitbit2k550]

Why do I feel bad for these flowers

[@singlaki]

i am really curious about the amount of money he spent in flowers that day

[@woobiesftw]

If all these people are happy, and not earning any money doing this. There is no harm.

[@sailaab5662]

👍

[@alhamdanthebadass544]

Alien: I have a boyfriend 👽

[@TheFemSniper]

next up launching the ACTUAL MONA LISA INTO SPACE

[@rrrush]

*Balloon pops* MAJOR WERE GOING DOWN!!!!

[@sarahurrutia2904]

my life at the into

[@JMTM]

[@mtbboi9495]

Who else thought the red dot was something on your screen

[@monaiannucci9434]

White roses

[@danteinferno3297]

Anyone else notice the UFO's in the background below the flowers at 4:28

[@peacebewu]

"pointless" so is our existence But just curious, really how much did this project cost? Many people are complaining about waste. doesn't seem to be all that much expensive than a gaming pc/console

[@ghadawageh9720]

Thats why earth is beautful because it has blessings even if you could get a living in space you'd still not have them again. Yeah flowers are part of that, when you ruin your earth and all these news about the earth going to explode or fall apart so scientists are looking for a way to live in space but its getting worse the population and people's actions/behaviors towards the blessing on this planet aren't improving a bit which is causing more harm to it. PS. im sorry about my spelling i dont speak english fluently💗

[@samanthasalango3410]

Isn't the guy talking a japanese

[@Name-xs3bd]

This guy just created a stupid amount of deadly space debris.

[@elizabethchung5285]

The shit falls back down- it's balloon-lifted, not rocket powered. There's no space debris

[@hungtruong5523]

#bestthingerver

[@juicicle5171]

Nothing like some good old-fashioned lethal space junk.

[@Maxwaehrens]

Seeing how the ballons exploded and the whole thing started falling to the ground instead of staying in orbit I doubt it will actually create very much space debris.

[@erica22595]

Jusvin Tan come on, man. Don't you know your basic physics?

[@MX-ce1cz]

Okay, and what if they were to fall on the ground on somebody or their property?

[@natalie8212]

I was thinking the same thing. Plus they never spoke of it falling back to earth in any way, once its up there, it's in orbit, I guess depending on the elevation it reached. Don't know why that contraption had to be so massive.

[@Maxwaehrens]

+Maximus Truce at this heigh it will always fall to the ground, and they send this up above a large desert, so that's most likely where it will crash. +nkotb 82 to put this into perspective for you, the flowers and the rest of the construction never got into a true weightless orbit. It was only sent to 30,000 meters of height, the ISS orbits at around some 321,000 meters of height and when Felix Baumgartner made his free fall from space, it was at 39,000 meters of height where the gravity is only 1% less than at the surface of earth.

[@lwmarkgraal]

Kids in Africa could of gave those to their parents on mothers day. Yall thought i was going to say ate them lol

[@mohammadfaisal1939]

Fank Daggot not funny bro -_-

[@Fuuzi]

LwMark #FreeC5 don't judge a book by its cover

[@tamoo6028]

Cloud ..............

[@mikeyd946]

LwMark #FreeC5 or eat them

[@FT-ws2li]

Fank Daggot just rude.Very rude.

[@EdwardKennethSolomon]

this is one of those art projects that i dont understand. or maybe i do not need to understand. poor flowers.

[@v7ran]

Ah yes, because flowers have feelings and are totally sentient

[@kgabrillo]

:O *shooked* I eat meat so I could save these green things

[@HistoricaHungarica]

They are already dead. They have no roots. Mind. Blown.

[@megamegan944]

For BB-8 🌹🌷🌸🌺🌻💐💐

[@truthboom]

so how flower survive outer space?