The Metaphysical Mirror

[@barrycohen311]

Imagine for a second, if all social media was of this level quality, and as equally sublime and enlightening.

[@vsauce4678]

I don’t think you understand the average tik tok audience that is the masses

[@kozlorog]

Mine is. I discriminate between the sources I watch and don't. Why don't you?

[@mclare71]

Or simply free yourself from the shackles of social media’s sinister mediocrity. You’ll find peace. Trust me.

[@sushikorpse7979]

become hermit

[@barrycohen311]

@@sushikorpse7979 I pretty much have. I work from home, and only leave the house to grocery shop, or spend time in nature, doing photography, exercise and hiking. I hate 98.3 percent of humans. Misanthropy is the only answer.

[@deboozombie23]

[@jrmn2814]

omg the comments are on😭😭😭😭 i love this channel so much!!!!

[@binkyN1]

This video perfectly encapsulates my own feelings toward how the overabundance and immediacy of entertainment options has changed us. Thanks for the video and for opening up the comment section.

[@john80944]

Holy shit. I haven't come back to this channel for a long time. So now there is finally a comment section?

[@DonnaSnyder]

Thank you.

[@ReynaSingh]

These videos are well thought out and explained. Thank you

[@rexonator380]

I see you everywhere!

[@russelldeanna5210]

A brilliant quote: "Art belongs to a non socializable aspect of reality....applicable to all man but not collective." Really made me react - absolutely that's why art is so rarely discussed in public. You can only read about it or experience it alone. These two individuals are some of the brightest creators out there in the documentary world. And I love the comment about NFT's - they seek to divide us - yes, hell with NFTs and people buying digital art and owning it and showing off.

[@TheMixCurator]

I've seen the Garden of Earthly Delights in person. It's mesmerising. It's hard to fathom his fine detail. Only other I've seen paint so delicate is Dali

[@yam2259]

I seriously love this channel.

[@slax4884]

Same. I'm just happy channel criswell and his wife finally turned comments back on because there was no way to reply to show appreciation or offer thoughts

[@yam2259]

@@slax4884 exactly my thoughts! I really missed scrolling through comments. 🥹

[@d-erekweth6903]

wait we can comment on this one? well I just wanna say thank you guys for the videos and the education

[@Prankrishna_1234]

Perfect example of quality over quantity...

[@bballanalytics1552]

this is a million times better than going to the museum... my GAWD so much visual pleasure viewing

[@FoursWithin]

It's close and convenient for sure. However there is little comparison to viewing a painting in real life.

[@rika714]

imo you need as much Why if you're gonna make heads or tail as to How, and why How matters I love your stuff

[@FuturisticNostalgiaFilms]

the best channel on KZbin

[@zvonimirbrekalo1291]

Nothing makes me want to create more than watching your videos. Thank you!

[@elliotrussell577]

Arguably the best channel on all of KZbin - thank you!

[@MrMan-dd4hi]

How on earth were those portraits of Bosch and Bruegel animated?? They’re insanely beautiful already, but witnessing them in motion is not something I thought could ever truly see!

[@Hama54k1]

Check the works of Rino Stefano Tagliafierro, B E A U T Y and El Prado. They're on youtube.

[@monkew6123]

Sublime and beautiful

[@liltick102]

Favourite channel on YT by far.

[@AssasinZorro]

This is a very wholesome video of yours. I love how sympathetic it feels. How encouraging it is. How informative and how transformative. I wish this video was as popular as your most popular work, including the previous channel

[@mattwood1323]

Comments!? Finally!? Love your work. Have wanted to say so for so long. Thank you for opening the comments.

[@c_tang2459]

Marvelously made video, full of sparkling thoughts!

[@romerobjuancarlos]

One out a handful of places with videos that I genuinely look forward to. The work on the script is amazing and it definitely shows when it's read as the images play. Thank you, Mr. & Mrs. Bond.

[@Francisco-qs2lw]

Brilliant, very unusual on the internet.

[@HiMotionAndDesign]

Wow! Beautiful. Can't wait to see more of this series. Great visuals, and very instructive. The "how does it mean" distinction is genius. Haven't thought about it like that before.

[@johnmanole4779]

11:48

[@benjamincorteslyon6777]

Amazing... new learn from today. The real question is "How does it mean?"

[@avedic]

These videos are just BRILLIANT. Every time. I find myself discovering so much....both new ideas and new art. And the way it's all edited and put together is really quite novel and cool. What a great channel...

[@contro]

comments are finally back!

[@johnmanole4779]

11:34

[@raysoto]

Beautifully done. Truly inspiring. Wow…

[@Proctor_Conley]

Fine articulation & truly some important things to keep in mind.

[@aesthitii8491]

Finnallly there’s a unique feeling when i see a new video has been uploaded by this channel 🫶🏻

[@mc_nyc1479]

I love this channel. Thank you for your time and teachings.

[@jefffiore7869]

I hope this is a series!

[@diegofortes5]

wonderful.

[@epambos]

No matter how much I want to like these high quality videos, I keep getting a feeling when watching them that the script written is not meant to be narrated, something always feels off. Writing for the purposes of oral narration is of course a demanding form of art in itself. Moreover, this relentless almost hypnotic pace of the narration, does not help to distinguish between the nuanced variety of highly intellectual and demanding ideas expressed. I do appreciate what you are trying to do and only make the above remarks for the purpose of creating better content.

[@magarnicle]

I love this channel, but I've thought exactly this for a while. These are college-level essays read out loud. That would be fine if the images illustrated the words more directly, but that isn't often the case. I find myself feeling like I'm missing something when looking at the images, trying to figure out how it is an example of the point being made, but often it isn't. And by the time I realise this I've lost the train of the narration. So maybe there should be more blank space to just listen to the words?

[@beverlykandraceffinger3764]

I find myself in agreement with your comment, and also with the reply posted in response to your words. This is my first experience with what appears to be an ongoing project related to art, this channel. And I very much appreciate the bravery of image selection--the juxtaposition of more contemporary works with emotional works from the earlier traditions in painting-- used by the creators. But somehow the narration does not at all seem to fit with the unfolding images, both in the monotone with which it is delivered and its tangential relevance to what unfolds on screen. A brave effort, but the work would likely improve with a more professional, better articulated narrator and script.

[@epambos]

@@beverlykandraceffinger3764 Sunless by Chris Marker may provide a perfect example of narration over images...

[@lenii2229]

thank you for your great content! I love your channel :)

[@NishioHD]

thank you

[@robdielemans9189]

Regarding Bosch's painting and the question what does it mean and then transmogrifying that to how does it mean. The remaining question has to be reiterated in a different form to: what does it mean to you.

[@SunsetBlvd515]

What is the animation at 1:37? There's actually many paintings and animations in here that are novel and not well known. A list would be very welcomed to further appreciate & follow the theme of the video.

[@eriklauritz]

I was about to ask the same. That animation is so well done.

[@SunsetBlvd515]

It's by Em Cooper. kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6axoaquqqZoepI

[@FoursWithin]

Many animations which are used without credit to the maker.

[@dulcemariabadillosanchez7194]

I loved this video

[@FoursWithin]

Unfortunately by appropriating someone else's work and not giving them credit

[@naolheinteressa7998]

what are the movies shown on chapter II?

[@blissnihilism]

would love a new episode of 'Camera Obscura'! good video as always

[@WhispersOfWind]

That slideshow at towards the end of the mov.. em video was and is truly amazing. Kind of wish I had those files in a folder so I could set them up as an alternating windows backgrounds. Interesting video, as a whole. I love art.

[@fenomozo9108]

Those animations tho

[@nicholashodge7361]

Holy shit your channel has grown! Congrats man, keep at it!

[@RemedyUnderTheSun]

How did you guys do that 3d effect with the paintings? I’ve never seen anything like it.

[@4l1zt3r]

Pretty sure it was animated w After Effects

[@joshmay2944]

They cut the painting into its different elements (foreground, characters, background, whatever elements they want to move independently) and then animate them each separately to give a sense of depth and movement.

[@BlueEyesSparrow]

They just tool it from someone else, Rino Stefano Tagliafierro. (kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYWqn5-fl5xkbJY). And didn't care to cite him...

[@FoursWithin]

​@@BlueEyesSparrow Yep. Weird and grotesque way of presenting someone's hard work as if it's their own. And instead of transparency just silent lies.

[@michelnormandin8068]

Mr & Mrs Bond, produce great content. But, they don't give any credit to composers and music performers which enhance their product. Nevertheless, they are ready to pull you in an ad about masterpiece sharing. Adios Mr & Mrs Bond.

[@jonnysimons8530]

Zdzisław Beksiński expressed more in one painting than picasso did in his whole career.

[@judsonvereen1014]

naw.

[@jonnysimons8530]

@@judsonvereen1014 but yeah tho

[@judsonvereen1014]

Too hyperbolic!

[@jonnysimons8530]

@@judsonvereen1014 That’s the point. I’m being hyperbolic for effect.

[@judsonvereen1014]

@@jonnysimons8530Hyperbole-- the refuge of the ill-informed.

[@omarsdroog]

I feel the animation, though well executed, tends to distract from the original art.

[@FoursWithin]

Regardless of your opinion on the animation or it's affect in the video, it's someone else's hard work, of which that person is NOT credited anywhere in their video.

[@Ph0bbe1]

Metaphysics! Mirrors! Production! I’m in…

[@abel3074]

𝐩яⓞ𝓂𝓞Ş𝐦 ❣️

[@Frankenstaein.]

Mrs. Bond's voice-over after a long time

[@h.hholmes.492]

❤

[@ateliedatorre]

beautiful animation

[@hamishdonnelly8653]

awesome video

[@hadd5106]

I want to watch these videos but the narration is impossible to listen to.

[@JCarrera_ll]

And I want to have comments on all these beautiful videos but the stupids like you appear 🤷‍♂️

[@binkyN1]

Why? I find it excellent.

[@saynotosu]

Art in context of old waspy historian with intense anti-NFT sentiment. "The same approach can be carried to the careful consideration of almost any art form.."(9:30) Art is abig word. Are we talking paintings? Could we consider performance? What about conceptual works spanned across the 20th century? These are arguably aesthetic by nature, no? genuine questions yooooo

[@sirron2929]

Pretty much exactly what I was thinking... the anti-NFT sentiment for "commoditization" reasons feels especially shallow considering the channel is sponsored by a startup offering fractional art ownership.

[@h.hholmes.492]

Beaut

[@trivu884]

I would die for you guys