Making questionable art with an inflatable tube guy

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[@simonegiertz]

We’re auctioning off all four paintings starting at $5 because my storage won’t let me keep them. Painting No. 1: www.ebay.com/itm/255019516167 Painting No. 2: www.ebay.com/itm/255019516652 Painting No. 3: www.ebay.com/itm/255019517705 Painting No. 4: www.ebay.com/itm/255019517931

[@Leaveyouinstitches]

Thank you so much for this video. I watched it right away with my 3 year old daughter that loves red dancing guys!

[@glenng1555]

The links all go to an error page...

[@windsunh2o]

@@glenng1555 Try again now.

[@SunnyB_adventures]

Are you only shipping to the USA?

[@SirRolf]

OMG! I have always wanted unique original art! I hope I can win one! Sky dancer art by Simone…By Simone…De Simone…hey, that's my surname! haha. ;)

[@berndbeispielmensch]

Wobbly guy painted himself more than the canvases. He is himself a piece of art.

[@Qwakkeddup]

You took the words right out of my brain.

[@curtisbme]

Yup - was going to say the canvas is the surface that received the least amount of artwork.

[@alxzander9160]

Based on the thumbnail I thought he was going to be the art

[@DavidLindes]

There ought to be a fifth auction link. 😂

[@busraterzi8189]

He tries paints on himself before the canvas to see how they work. What a true artist he is.

[@physicsgirl]

Paint me like one of your inflatable French girls. 👩‍🎨 Wait that’s a different industry…

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Like the video said, NOT a blowup doll.

[@DavidLindes]

Suddenly I’m thinking of that Police song... Be my girl, Sally. 😮

[@andie_pants]

Let your freak flag fly. :-P

[@z0mb1e564]

"Americans" 😂

[@kattloxo8089]

oh wow youre here too? now im just swooning.

[@ukaszbylica3261]

I've never heard of this artist before. They appear to have suddenly blown up

[@KazSivz]

Nice.

[@IreneBrownMeow]

Nice

[@juluke8385]

Not an artist but is an tsitra and astro

[@Eclispestar]

And comment sections for the win

[@Average_Mortal]

HA!

[@somuchluv89]

What a conversation piece though. Someone walks in your house, sees the painting, looks at you like WTF, you say 'ah, yes. that was painted by a whacky inflatable tube man.' You then are silent for dramatic effect. Wild conversation ensues. I love it.

[@jenc9532]

I love his use of negative space it’s a real inspiration and it shows such a depth of knowledge of late deconstructionist styles he really is a savant

[@JRNimmo]

@Rock girl Don't forget Simone's time it's valuable on it's own.

[@dwtalley]

Burp.

[@Janiire.]

The fact that the guy has more paint on itself than the canvas makes this video even funnier Edit: thanks for all the likes 🥺

[@sealpiercing8476]

Shoulda put the canvas around the doll's waist like a skirt :P

[@senorbaconhawk11]

There’s probably more paint on Simone than on some of those canvases

[@c8h885]

The guy is the art

[@Krmpfpks]

You should see kids paint 🤣

[@NikNak]

And yet, he still paints better than me. ....but I've got more paint on me than he does

[@nero1747]

4:20 she looks like a proud mom looking at her child doing absolute garbage, but he's trying and he's doing something so it's cute and worth being proud of

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

It belongs on the refrigerator.

[@OlaftheGreat]

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Amen my celestial penguin brother

[@docferringer]

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Hmm, followup robot of a refrigerator art critic? Only art that the refrigerator likes will stick to it.

[@nero1747]

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 the exact same vibe

[@nero1747]

@@docferringer this is either an SCP or the plot of probably the best novel of all times

[@gio31415]

"We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents" -Guy, Inflatable

[@DyslexicMitochondria]

Hes got bob ross' soul

[@Rubrickety]

I successfully predicted that a Bob Ross reference would be the top comment. Go me!

[@R.Daneel]

"and if someone doesn't figure out what that damn rattling noise is, I'm going to go all Happy-Little-Cloud upside their head!" -Guy, Feeling Deflated

[@kattloxo8089]

that'll just be our little secret.

[@joemorris6465]

His flailing reflects his tortured soul and passionate longing to express his desires on the canvas

[@VK6NK]

The blow-up guy leaning on Simone's shoulder while she puts more paint on his brush is one of the most adorable things I've seen on the Internet.

[@andyw3851]

4:47

[@virgilfulton4426]

When your Artist in Residence desperately clings and hugs the easel, they're done. That's their way to say, "hey, I'm done here; let me get back to interpretive dance, where I excel.

[@slugdangler]

Whoever came up with the "ad progress ring" thing just won the internet for today.

[@KrunkSplein]

It's a little jarring that this video is 15% ad, but TBH there wasn't much more content possible here without far more effort than it would be worth. Still, more Simone is always good!

[@iwinrar5207]

Some channels have diffrent forms of it. It's great. All channels should adopt it lol

[@emmabennett3985]

I’m pretty sure Simone came up with hers

[@armata6530]

The amount of joy on your face when you and the other inflatable are dancing is priceless

[@jacklewis1]

If you could but see mine at that moment.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

The inflatable tube guy looks happy too.

[@hadinossanosam4459]

what do you mean "the *other* inflatable"? xD

[@mirandafuller9325]

The look of pure joy on her face when she waves around in that costume

[@dreaoconnor644]

I’m going to tell Mr. Tube man what my father told me after my very first art lesson… ‘you have more paint on yourself than on the canvas but you looked like you were enjoying yourself and that’s the main thing!’ 🤣💜😂

[@Twargan]

Simone, you said "inflatable guy" the preferred term is; "WACKY WAVING INFLATABLE ARM FLAILING TUBE MAN!"

[@PWN_Nation]

thank you!

[@davidsmith3953]

Very underrated comment

[@phuzz00]

I thought that *was* their name.

[@taffiadon]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIiyk6FmnrSAec0

[@RedmarKerkhof]

WACKY WAVING INFLATABLE ARM FLAILING TUBE MAN!

[@elijahh2220]

Hearing Simone get words wrong and go "Americans..." seems so odd since her accent is SO PERFECT lmao

[@alexanderherzog3064]

@@C4pt41nN3m0 she's from Sweden. She also speaks Mandarin and Spanish iirc

[@martinpeartree]

@@alexanderherzog3064 and french... pourquoi pas

[@euroschlucker]

I think it's more about her probably getting some weird looks when asking for a blow-up doll in a store bc they thought she was talking about one of these inflatable sex dolls. Just an uneducated guess though

[@fsodn]

@@euroschlucker As far as why she knew to isolate "blow-up doll" as different, but she seemed exasperated about it: my guess is someone on her production team told her "actually, the word 'blow-up doll' means X" which I'm sure was a hilarious conversation and ended up with that "Americans" bit in the script.

[@bibhabaree]

I love how she has like tired mom trying to make her kid an artist vibes and the inflatable guy is the child who doesn’t know how to do shit

[@karysmuh]

And she's got this slight mania in her eyes, trying to convince herself that his tantrum is a symptom of repressed creative energy.

[@bibhabaree]

@@karysmuh couldn’t have said it better myself

[@fouzanium]

The inflatable guy took "self-portrait" too literally and painted on itself instead

[@argyem6688]

Me, on seeing title of new video: "Simone, you genius!" Also me, after watching the video: "OK, maybe not this time." Also me, after looking at current bids for paintings on eBay and cost of wacky inflatable arm-waving tube men: "Yup, genius."

[@josh34578]

Eventually a pattern on the canvas emerges and you realize it's a map. Time to grab a shovel!

[@SheriSoltes]

And hit inflatable guy over the head with it.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Turns out, inflatable tube guy IS a prophet!

[@celach]

Can we talk about how convincing her skydancer impression was at 2:17

[@SmallBlogV8]

I wanted that part of the video to be like 5 minutes longer it's so joyful

[@UserUnknown07]

I watched it like 20 times.. she's so happy and it's fun

[@diw9046]

When she said "Buy it", it sounded so cute and innocent that i just wanted to put in a $1000. Apparently so did the people on ebay

[@Awesomeo40k]

Wobble "Wob" Ross is the next great teacher of art

[@icebuildsrobots]

Does this imply that Bob Ross' name was Bobble?

[@Amin.Ashraf]

"just like power tool, it's up to you to learn how to use them". - Simon Giertz That's profound.

[@70RCH]

"buy it!" "Maybe I'll keep it" "I have too much of my shit art" ... Best sales pitch ever.

[@Saperlipouet]

The funniest thing is that it work, the price of the painting are going higher and higher

[@kevin_stars]

@@Saperlipouet how do you know?

[@Eric14492]

@@kevin_stars One of them is up to $760 already!!!!!!!

[@kevin_stars]

@@Eric14492 I just saw that. It's insane!

[@saffron6744]

i love how Simone looks like she's dealing with an unwieldy and unwilling toddler lmao 4:44

[@quantumsquid4314]

Haha thank you for this, I missed that part

[@maggpiprime954]

He seems more interested in painting himself... Maybe performance art is more his forte than visual art.

[@TheYakusoku]

This is just what happens when you give a little kid finger paints. "Very nice, sweetie, but maybe try to get more paint on the paper?"

[@helenamirian908]

*nods* It's more about the process than the product for him.

[@maggpiprime954]

@@helenamirian908 It's a whole body experience

[@AtomicShrimp]

Such an adorable idea! Could be that these inflatable tube dudes are the exact opposite of Bob Ross, however...

[@Average_Mortal]

Nice to see you here Mike. Love your channel too!

[@lavender0666]

The amount of finesse and grace displayed, such a masterful painting

[@knedy]

I like how Simone gets a bad idea and instead of fixing it she goes ahead and just does it regardless. It's as inspirational as it is irresponsible. Thank you, Simone.

[@yarn7130]

Whenever someone tells me, “whatever floats your boat”, I’m going to imagine the boats floating on the emocean.

[@RoughSmoothie]

I am going to instead say, "whatever inflates your tube guy"

[@shawnc292]

All sites or groups who tell you what they think about a source or story are just kicking the can of responsibility to them instead of the site. It quickly devolves into a "who watches the watchers" situation.

[@Cygnwolf]

"No good reason, [snort] Why not?" That's like one of the core philosophies of Simone's shop....

[@maddieg8339]

Please make a robot that presses the “I am not a robot” button on websites

[@Ponpontutuss]

That's already done kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKSpaJikhr5rq6s

[@gehrehmee]

"Now back to my REGULAR CONTENT!" Yep, pretty on brand.

[@acdchook]

I feel like with most of the paint ending up on the guy, you need to get an inflatable guy in white, then you could use the fabric of the guy to mount as the canvas.

[@thomasthemenace]

So... would that count as the painting painting itself or as skinning the painter?

[@rikkitje]

Dear Simone, thank you for always putting a smile on my face even when life is rough 🙂

[@JJamahJamerson]

Simone in that inflatable costume no joke is one of the most attractive things ever.

[@addledhead]

Hilarious idea! I wish it worked more like you first imagined it (or at least, more like I first imagined it when you described it). Suggestions! 1. Lighter paintbrush. I think what you would lose in boldness of lines you would gain in more active flailing 2. More turbulent environment. I really like the art studio idea, but skydancer dudes are in their element in open air, where the wind gusts and blows and causes more chaos in their dancing. I think this could be remedied by some off camera shop fans 3. Dual wielding. A brush in each hand might balance him more and also provide more paint flinging ability

[@katattack907]

Also positioning the inflatable dude in front of the easel so his hand is coming from the front, not the side!

[@hiyapatel3096]

I can't be the only one who went on ebay just to check how high the prices were.

[@TathD]

Very high.

[@Rollermonkey1]

Over $700 right now on two of them. Yoiks.

[@sarahgracetv9016]

Um the lowest is 455

[@Misosoup99]

@@sarahgracetv9016 did it sell, the links dont work anymore

[@RebelHart9]

I think the proper name for our artist today is “wacky wavy inflatable arm flailing tube man” 😂

[@dexter323]

Exactly... honestly i was waiting for a joke from simone on that but eh noones perfect...

[@ellencameron3775]

HI I'M AL HARRINGTON, PRESIDENT AND CEO OF AL HARRINGTON'S WACKY WAVING INFLATABLE ARM FLAILING TUBE MEN EMPORIUM AND WAREHOUSE. THANKS TO A SHIPPING ERROR I'M CURRENTLY OVERSTOCKED ON WACKY WAVING INFLATABLE ARM FLAILING TUBE MEN, AND I'M PASSING THE SAVINGS ON TO YOUUUUU!

[@DanielGossage]

@@ellencameron3775 I really hope you did that from memory, but don't blame you if you had to look it up.

[@zaraak323i]

Wacky Wavy Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man is a work of art himself. He should be auctioned off.

[@metaldirtnskin]

Exit 9 in Weekapaug

[@yokoboo]

Just speaking from a painter's perspective, it might help to have more fans pointed at the sky dancer to introduce some more turbulent velocity into the air around him. Also priming the canvas with wet paint and even using a different color as the base and using oil paints to get more mixture/more time to work before drying might produce some fun effects. Also using mediums/thinning liquid to make the paint thinner for more splashy effects! I get that the video was probably filmed a while ago, but I can't help thinking of ways to expand on your skydancer's collection of paintings.

[@Downtheshed]

I love the use of Chiaroscuro to capture the inner essence of the dancing tube person.

[@jamesd.wheeler5664]

Kinda feel that the best painting in that bunch was the one he did on himself.

[@TheApple176]

In all seriousness there should definitely be prints of these made available.

[@simonegiertz]

I put them up for auction, starting at $5 😂 Painting No. 1: www.ebay.com/itm/255019516167 Painting No. 2: www.ebay.com/itm/255019516652 Painting No. 3: www.ebay.com/itm/255019517705 Painting No. 4: www.ebay.com/itm/255019517931

[@cjpopify]

@@simonegiertz I just bid on Emocean. Inflatable guy is a once in a generation kind of talant.

[@noahgeerdink5144]

@@simonegiertz hahah you’re kidding me, they’re all on an average of $75 now. Just an hour after upload. You have all right to get that for it tho :)

[@timwoodward8113]

Put the artist up for auction

[@MeesDeppe_Official]

@@noahgeerdink5144 update literally 15 minutes later, they’re on roughly 90 bucks now

[@dom-fell]

Simone Giertz: inventor, artist, visionary. truly the da Vinci of our time

[@nesthi]

If you look closely Simone is actually exploiting the inflatable guy's skills. She might have discovered his talent, but it is still the inflatable guy's vision.

[@anatine_banana_69]

The "of Vinci" of our time??

[@cycoholic]

The fact that she made a costume of an inflatable wailing arm tube man, is all Simone. 🤣👍😁😎

[@pauljs75]

Tube guy is surprisingly reserved in the application of paint. I thought he was going to put more of that Jackson Pollack energy onto the canvas.

[@gardengatesopen]

I think I'll name the yellow one: "The Struggle Is Real"

[@RickardLejonhjarta]

to be fair, this is Literally modern art

[@ellec7188]

For the wealthy

[@ANAKITINA]

Hampart!

[@stefan1024]

Then again, what isn't?

[@dancingowl5771]

Simone, every time I see you I cherish the pure joy you have in this little moments. Thank you for making my day brighter.

[@jeffwomack5821]

Gotta love the way you have fun even with the oops moments and when things don't work out you have fun with it. A young lady with enough confidence to be able to laugh and share. The world could use more people like you but unfortunately there is only one. Your parents must be exceptional.

[@NYA_Lady]

SIMONE!!!! WE NEED MORE SHITTY ROBOTS ! Functional ones are cool too. I just finished building a cat stand because i refused to pay outrageous prices for a half-ass stand that is more a tease than functional (aka keeping the cat away from the dogs). thank you for your content, I want more! Lol Hope all is well girl.

[@Natalie-101]

simone's brain is what all of our brains aspire to be Edit: Turns out I forgot about what actually happened to her brain, I meant her mind and thought processes and stuff, whoops!

[@pvic6959]

simone is who I want to be when i grow up. no matter that im a guy and already 24, shes my role model

[@bnjyable]

Incomplete?

[@starsgears9200]

Her mind, absolutely. Her soul, definitely. Her physical brain, I'm not sure she'd wish on any of us.

[@Natalie-101]

@@starsgears9200 oh right crap I forgot about that😂

[@DavidLindes]

@@pvic6959 relatable! (And I’m 47...)

[@evergrumpygeorge]

You missed that the fan guy panted himself - he was the art all along!

[@steveholland1163]

you should surround him with several easels at once may get more paint on the canvases

[@beanyolk]

that ad is actually good advice.. i've unlearned a lot of misinformation by continuing to look at other search results and even searching with different phrasing

[@pppppaaaaaccccchhh]

I do love the concept of having something fairly random-ish be so in charge in the art process; makes me want to try something similar!

[@JRowan180]

"In this fantastic performative art piece we see that it is ourselves, the artist, that is most truly impacted by the creations we make. It really speaks to how life is messy and the work we do is also messy and imperfect and has a significant impact on us. Alas we make it anyways and find joy and purpose in it, and with the help of others we can add new colors and make things we ourselves alone could not. In the end it is inescapable that we all die and lose the ability to create and enjoy art." - Now sell it to me for $50,000 at an auction so that I can auction it for $5,000,000 in ten years.

[@theleaningbuzzardofbuzz7319]

Underrated comment.

[@laurahueller4440]

i have so much respect for how your brain works- I WOULDNT BE ABLE TO EVEN IMAGINE IT

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Simone's brain is powered by an inflatable tube guy inside her head.

[@tree_carcass_mangler]

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 ...inside her head, perhaps in the space vacated by Brian?

[@kimberleysmith4456]

I can't wait to show my daughter this 😍 we drive by one each morning on the way to preschool and she has named him Scallywag and has said "he's my friend" 😂

[@m.maclellan7147]

"Scallywag" is adorable. I am seeing an eye patch & Pirate hat on the flailing tube guy !

[@hpdftba]

That reminds me of my goddaughter. The roomba is her friend 😂

[@stone5against1]

Love how you started with the same red as the guy, and as soon as you switched to green, we could see that more paint went onto him than the canvas

[@gothducks]

I gotta say you put some smiles on people who maybe didn't have the best day. How fun! Thank you!

[@karmakazi219]

This, but with a custom-designed inflatable artist who has much more airflow and who can hold more brushes.

[@robbiemer8178]

"The best art was on us all the time..." I think the wavy arm inflatable is ready to become the canvas and shed the chrysalis. Which then gets flattened out and framed. The other thing that occurred to me would be to NOT have the canvas on a stretcher but just suspended so that it is able to move with the painter. Thanks for sharing this with us, Simone!

[@somswelvaakniet]

YAY a NEW video!!! Simone, you’ve recently helped me through a tough time. Your videos are so happy and positive, thanks for sharing your amazing brain. Love x

[@chiim4846]

I hope u well.hang in there❤️

[@louis-philip]

New hip idea for inflatable tube guy 2.0: glow sticks or LEDs in hands for light painting in the dark with long exposure photography.

[@HeartlessKairi42]

It appears he's more of a body painter than a brush-on-canvas artist lmao

[@thebusbums2825]

I believe the term is "whacky, wavy, inflatable, arm flailing, tube man"

[@danthiel8623]

Yes

[@OperationMindPhuk]

good i found it, had to pause the video.

[@pjay32]

Inflatable Bob Ross is a king

[@daskleinegluck4553]

At least he looks much more happy 😁.

[@DeadFishTheKing]

I almost feel that the painting he did on himself was the magnum opus! Perhaps the real art was the freind we made?

[@ssatva]

The wacky inflatable wavy-arm friend we made, even.

[@kairoskonquest1164]

@Simone Gertz Try making a rope basket conveyor belt thingy that is attached to the roof of your house and runs to your kitchen to make transporting heavy groceries to the fridge easier!

[@tjeffrey2900]

I think its skydancer, I believe it is wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man

[@wesleymays1931]

I knew eventually you'd make something with a Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tube Man

[@jameshughes3014]

this made me smile on a day when I didn't think I could.

[@agamvir5664]

Best shit I've seen, watch this get sold for like a few cool thousands like some sort of NFT

[@scottgriswold384]

They are better than an NFT.

[@greego5952]

I really like the yellow one, it's a field of yellow flowers with a kid running carefree.

[@philippnotaname7184]

„Painting with a blow up doll.“ - I think you already came up with part two of this project

[@fryle416]

I like to think the inflatable man was a rental and she returned him covered in paint 😂

[@sarahb2332]

I think my favourite part about this is the fact that the inflatable tube guy itself became an amazing looking painting :)

[@mellaberry6353]

I've never clicked on a video so fast

[@everettliu5157]

This is reminding me of that one video where a guy accidentally makes a knife wielding tentacle in a box

[@aerolycus]

Thank you Simone for being here for and with us in those still difficult times, making fun content, cheering us up and giving us a reason to do cool stuff "why not?!"

[@smithcon]

The best thing about these videos is the completely and uniquely hilarious and undefeatable combination of the Simone and the Giertz.

[@kencarlile1212]

Simone always makes me smile. Except when she makes me cry. This one was a smile. :)

[@cheeseboy8241]

thank you megacorp for sponsoring 3 minutes of this. please surveil me harder

[@kevin735]

I really appreciate them lecturing me on "disinformation". Very touching.

[@phoenixdk]

I'm keeping the food-in-storage metaphor, even more useful than a pneumatic painter!

[@AnakinSkyobiliviator]

Google talking against misinformation is among the more ironic thing out there, and water memory thing is actually pretty interesting. That said, aha! Nightmare Men!

[@jack.m017]

The inflatable guy impression was like a mirrored reflection

[@jotax94]

will i be as good as the old masters? -Inflatabe Guy: Yes

[@moosefarms]

"Put that on a t-shirt" Simone, what if you turn the art into T-shirts?

[@halyenwe]

Yes! The painting that goes for the most $$$ should be the t-shirt printed.

[@Mr.ThomasAnderson]

Simone is one of the funniest people... period. I crack up on a consistent basis from her earliest videos to these new ones. Comedy genius would be a double entendre

[@Juanpopspacks]

Actually a hilarious idea. Like who would’ve THUNK

[@bongwatershark]

A mark of a true artist is knowing when to stop. I would’ve just kept going and I think that’s my biggest flaw. Simone, however, stops this wacky waving inflatable tube man at just the right point in the artistic process, creating some true masterpieces. I’m really feeling painting number two. Thank you for reading.

[@NATUREFORTRESS]

This is what KZbin videos should be.

[@fableagain]

"Why not?" is a perfectly good reason

[@ally14xx]

I'd love to see what the art looks like with the canvas in different positions and at different angles!

[@gwenpaul7977]

Everything about this is wholesome, creative, and authentic. I like to belive this is the content for which KZbin was designed. Never. Ever. Stop