Totality

[@rujandoru2033]

a vihart video… i was so young the last time i was here i will watch with my whole heart, eyes, ears, and mind

[@serraramayfield9230]

@@HBMmasterMisali, didn't expect you here! I assume you'll watch the eclipse today?

[@HBMmaster]

@@serraramayfield9230 I happen to live exactly in the path of totality so I don't even need to go anywhere to see it teehee

[@Donut-Eater]

​@@HBMmaster woah I follow both your Tumblr accounts and am subscribed to you on here. Have a good day

[@rujandoru2033]

@@HBMmaster yeah. i was so interested when i was a kid and then all of a sudden I just stopped watching its strange how we just drop things

[@Londrino]

This is the appropriate way to experience life.

[@no1legobatmanfan]

We truly live a special existence. The moon and sun being the same size from the perspective of earth, allowing for the moon to perfectly cover the sun, is truly stunning.

[@angeldude101]

Even if the moon was _bigger_ or closer, the effect wouldn't be the same as it would cover up the unholy aura revealed only because the sun and moon have the _exact_ same apparent size. Also consider that the moon is drifting away from us and will eventually look smaller than it does. And that it once looked larger than it does. The fact that we love in the small sliver of time where the distances between the Earth, Moon, and Sun are perfectly aligned to experience this phenomenon is, in my eyes, the most magical part of it all.

[@charliezard64]

Praise God

[@adora_was_taken]

@@charliezard64 i'm not religious at all but if anything would convince me there's a god it would be an eclipse

[@AKcess_Dnied]

I think it's pretty phenomenal that while the earth was still molten another planet hit us, and part of that planet is us and part of the planet is the moon.

[@mika6580]

Damn I remember back in 2018 I used to watch your videos religiously and then I enrolled into a maths degree inspired by you. Now I have my degree and will soon be doing masters in maths. The nostalgia is epic when watching the videos 🥺😭

[@quantumgaming9180]

What do you plan to do your masters into?

[@Plokmin]

@@quantumgaming9180 maths /s

[@sweepminer]

​@@Plokmin nobody tell him

[@SWAG-BOl]

@@Plokminbritish english

[@kathybramley5609]

I'm old enough and in my head with a bunch of memories now and lots of the time anyway. Nostalgia comments seem overdone, here and on semi retired Minecraft/gaming channels. It's people turning up at a festival or a spectacle: in real life I don't judge those people, technically I'm often one of them and can be united in the same vibe. But my experience seems to be different. Or at least some normally unique ambivert mix containing poetic reflections and joy and connection.

[@jointhefist1016]

My grandma told my mom a story of her experienced a total eclipse as a child. She was young back in Europe, she was in the middle of a farm field with a few cows, alone. Suddenly everything went black in the middle of the day as it became total. She thought the world was ending, and so did everybody else around

[@TimJSwan]

That's awesome.

[@HxTurtle]

I'm slightly questioning this story. you know, they got papers back then?! and while they didn't have no internet, they were still communicative enough to spread such events into every single corner. Sunday mass used to be the place to exchange such news. no, I'm from Europe and old enough to have talked with people born in the nineteenth century. and no, being able to precisely predict future eclipses a hundred years ago had already been a thing!

[@jointhefist1016]

@@HxTurtle I don’t know, maybe they were just more isolated on the farm? Little education given. Not really near a big city And it was around the 50’s, and Poland was under Soviet Control. Wasn’t very good good then maybe? I don’t know all the factors of why

[@janseta5162]

@@HxTurtle Today I heard people asking at my collage why a bunch of people were gathered with weird glasses - plenty of people just don't hear about it.

[@HxTurtle]

@@janseta5162 fascinating! okay, thank you for telling. I mean, on the other hand, people back then had way less distraction; and thus, were probably better connected with the real world as a result. sure, less people could accurately explain what's really happening, but that something interesting-which many attributed with religious properties-is bound to happen should've spread. it's easier today to stay isolated despite being surrounded by people. everyone's only looking into their phones anymore. the majority still gets relevant news out of it; but I see how some are able to miss it. I also think, in the eighties-but that's just a feeling-when educational TV hit a peak, more people knew about our solar system than it's the case today. you get a few with very extensive knowledge; but you get more that know almost nothing. (point at Venus and ask people what it is; then wonder whether the result might've been different forty years ago; I tend to believe so.)

[@TheActionLab]

What a beautiful video. After seeing my own total solar eclipse I can honestly say that out of all the videos I’ve seen trying to describe what it’s like, this one is the best. Thanks for reminding me what it felt like.

[@Neris-of-the-other]

This video is an actual work of art

[@CadeVoidlighter]

I dunno I think it was more like 20

[@calyfanpulp3248]

art art art art art

[@planetsec9]

They sent a poet

[@DoctorX17]

To be fair, I think all of her videos are works of art, but this one went extra hard

[@wftoney1]

Beautiful. Thank you. I will be watching with my small boy’s imagination and open soul . I am 74.

[@E_FoxSnowspirit]

Wonderful

[@fosskytheanswerer]

❤

[@mandala314]

Wonderful! ❤

[@KestrelHarper]

I'm watching this sitting in a little nowhere town in rural Arkansas, having picked out a secluded spot on the back roads where I won't be in anybody's way, surrounded by farm fields. In 2017 I planned more and I still got overtaken by clouds. This year I feel like I planned less but everything is coming together for a beautiful, solitary, transformative experience. The sky has just whispers of cirrus. Happy viewing everybody.

[@roberthunter5059]

Also in AR, and we got 4:14 of totality. It was a spectacular sight.

[@crescent_sun482]

arkansan here! I know looking at even totality is dangerous because of the corona, but... i did anyway! And jeez, I do not regret it.

[@ollie2111]

Thats so wonderful, thank you for sharing. Here (SoCal, partial eclipse) many local libraries and science museums were having official eclipse watching parties and I went to one of them and they provided glasses for it and I sat/layed on a big space of pavement and watched the 2 hours of the eclipse, I felt like it was a very meditative moment for me. I think thats wonderful what your experience sounded like too.

[@gastonmarian7261]

​@@crescent_sun482 looking at the eclipse is fine during totality

[@cognitionignition]

Even if Luna is sometimes an eldritch horror now, I am glad that your experience of it resulted in this lovely essay. Thank you for sharing this. "It is a corpse, a dead thing, the dusty remains of Old Theia, horrifically attached to its sister planet by a withering gravitational umbelical cord." It's not what I expected to have running through my mind as I watch the unlight creep across the continent today, but I'll smile whenever it pops up in my network of mental associations. I've never regretted subscribing to this channel; never finished a video thinking that I might have done something better with the minutes spent here. You're a good human; I'm glad to share time and a planet, and the occasional moonshadow-show, with you somewhere on it.

[@geeksdo1tbetter]

❤

[@malteplath]

What a fitting Hommage to this Moondark Serenade!

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

It's like a brand-new astronomical mythology. I love it.

[@FuriosasWarRig]

Umbilical *

[@Darkstar159]

The paper folding over itself was ingenious!

[@pvic6959]

tbh, as far as I'm concerned, Vi IS a genius

[@JarOfGibbons]

it's actually a veiled allusion to the previous video about folded circle snacks, I'm sure of it 😉

[@spiderstheythem]

so much eclipse media is written in the pop-scientific voice. it is rationalized and detached from the sensory, from the emotional, from the mystic. that scientific voice has its place but, storytelling is important too. poetry is important. and you have used those arts wonderfully, to capture the feeling of this for people like me, who cannot see a total eclipse. i've often felt that good poetry and storytelling can more accurately preserve the feeling of moments then photography can. i'm autistic, and struggle with chronic pain and fatigue. both of those things make travel really hard for me, and on top of that, me and my partner just could not justify spending thousands of dollars traveling across the continent to book a hotel in either (1) one of the states with good chances for clear skies (most of which seem dangerous for trans people right now) or (2) risk it with the more northerly states and have a significant chance of getting clouded out, making all the stress and fatigue and pain and expense of travel feel somewhat wasted. and so i've kinda accepted the fact that i'm probably never going to see a total eclipse, and it can be sorta... demoralizing, in this Endless Hype Cycle of media, to accept that. it feels like everybody wants to sell you on Experiences, on spending money to travel vast distances to see the Big Deal Ultra Rare Celestial Event That Might Only Happen Once or Twice in Your Life. but as i've spent more time in this world though, i've come to appreciate the mundane and ubiquitous just as much as, or perhaps more than, the rare and spectacular. i have been reduced to laying in the grass staring up at a sunset in awe of intense colors and shapes i cannot even name. i have taught myself botany and every new plant i meet is like a little miracle who captures my imagination. ephemeral and local experiences like eating bigleaf maple flowers or visiting certain parks at certain times of year, these things that are free and here now, if only one pays attention to them, simple things like being woken up by robins before the sunrises, they define me and ground me and root me in a place and time. i am in love with the whole world. when i was very young i had a science book that referenced the total eclipse of 2017 in the future, an event that was almost 10 years away for me at the time. i deeply wanted to witness it. i was Going to see it, i decided. in the meantime, i saw partial eclipses in i think 2012 or 2014. I adored them but it seemed like nobody around me really *cared* about the partial eclipse. i was the only one in my large family who bothered even going into the backyard to see it. i was fascinated by the leaves projecting pinhole camera eclipses onto the walls, the strange colour of the daylight. in august 2017 i was in college, and had to work to cover rent. my work had scheduled a mandatory training meeting the day of the eclipse. so this thing i had wanted to see for nearly a decade was taken from me. my family got to go travel to see the total eclipse and had a great time but i was stuck in a classroom being taught about using zoom to do online tutoring sessions with students (a skill i never even used). i was heartbroken. kinda mad. but at least they let us go outside for a short period of time during the partial eclipse. i loved looking at those feathery crescents from the leaves, the wind and trees whispering secrets about the eclipse the eye could not see. in 2023 we didn't manage to travel to the zone of annularity. but once again, the much more common and accessible partial eclipse was there to comfort me. and i was not disappointed. even though the sun was only reduced to a thick crescent, it was a sublime experience to explore my neighborhood as it went through the altered state of being eclipsed. the peculiarity of the feathery eclipse-shadows and the color of the sunlight, the way the birds became frantic, the strange sense of seeing the normally invisible moon made manifest in the sky, the sense of togetherness with my friends, talking to our fellow neighborhood people. it was a day on which we *went out to play*. if i had traveled to the zone of annularity i would have been in an unfamiliar and stressful place. routine and comfort and familiarity are so important for me as an autistic, a sense of place is so important to me. if i had been in another state i would have missed how my Place experienced a partial eclipse. i think i'm a "partial eclipse person". having seen four of them, they've always kind of been there for me. a lesson in subtleties, in meeting your circumstances where they're at. like we mentioned, the political situation and finances and my personal health has made traveling to see this total eclipse not really an option. and unfortunately it's very rainy today so we probably won't get to see the partial eclipse either. but that's okay. because you released this wonderful work of storytelling, and that's practically as good. these days, we appreciate good storytelling just as much as we appreciate being in the story for ourselves. thank you thank you.

[@Vihart]

This is a good and beautiful comment, thank you for taking the time to write so thoughtfully. I wasn't quite sure who I was making this video for when I made it, and I'm glad to find out it was for you.

[@zachariasbjorngren1552]

I read all of that, and I’m glad that I did

[@emilyrln]

Small miracles are still miracles ✨

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

[@qtpaulie]

@@Vihart you're a beautiful person vihart. thank you for all you do

[@ryanhastings6465]

This does a good job of capturing it. I saw the totality today. I figured it would be cool...I've seen a handful of partials and I absolutely love the eerie, dim quality the light takes on. But the totality? Wow. I was not expecting the raw flood of primal awe at the spectacle. I was a tornado chaser in my past, and this experience beats all of the tornaodes I ever saw in terms of how incredible it felt. I see why people travel thousands of miles for that experience. I see why entire mythologies are inspired by it. Edit: Also, my nephew kept asking if it was a black hole!

[@sammy3212321]

Moon Spoon left me feeling so deeply aching for what's to come! And now my yearning has been sated

[@lukeothedukeo]

The path of totality goes right through my home today, and I'm living halfway around the world where nothing will seem remotely out of the ordinary. The sun has risen and will soon set without fanfare. I teared up a little at this video. Missing my home, missing being with my family in the driveway trying to catch a glimpse of something from the edges of the outer path in 2017, but mostly just taking in the quiet awe of your story set against so many lovely attempts to capture through art something you know is inimitable. One human to another, thank you for this.

[@adi_ve1]

wow, exactly the same. i am in university an 18 hour flight away from my home where the total eclipse passed right through. i was heartbroken to not have seen it, but it’s so beautiful to see the person who inspired me as a young child to continue on to study math and music now make a video sharing the parts which studying eclipses will never teach me.

[@CybershamanX]

Thank you for this wonderfully human story. Something about the one tent and car really got to me. Thank you so much for sharing. I'm disabled and suffer from extreme chronic pain, so I wasn't able to travel the last bit from SE Michigan to Ohio to see totality. I'd been looking forward to it for years, after being in the 1979 Oregon eclipse as a kid. But, sadly, it was not meant to be. I got to see as much as I could after my nurse helped me to get outside in my wheelchair and for that, I'm thankful. I gave away my extra glasses to people passing by who exhibited varying levels of apathy, and each person went from "whatever" to "omg, it's so beautiful". So in a way, I'm glad I got to help a handful of people experience something special. I was the one tent helping others pitch there's, if only for a moment. Take care, and thanks again. 😎🤘☮️

[@chaeburger]

In 2017, I was at my in-laws house in the path of totality. It was an impossibility clear day. We'd traveled over three hours to be there. There were people loaded up in boats on the lake behind their house. We could hear them laugh. Burgers had been grilled. We all stood, glasses on, on my in-laws' impossibly pale concrete patio. As the moon moved, the small spread out crowd got louder and louder. We were cheering up until totality. All of us gasped and were rendered silent as the sun disappeared. It was so dark and quiet. Even the birds stopped singing. It was unreal. It was uncanny. It was otherworldly. I can't imagine what it would have been like for folks who could not predict and plan. I understand why so many people throughout history have worshiped the sun. And now I sit in my home without glasses. Away from the path of totality. It's raining.

[@eyflfla]

I was in the path, took the day off, and it's very overcast. Was kind of neat, but that was all.

[@kevin3434343434]

Something about this, the poetic attachment to the sun, had me in tears. Thank you.

[@clorofolle]

Science is love and wonder for the world and trying to understand it better. Poetry is trying to put that love and wonder in words. This stays my favorite channel ever. It's wonderful, and I love it.

[@midknight1339]

This might be my favorite video of yours yet. I genuinely do not know how you manage to so consistently turn the traditionally cold, logical, and hyper-analytical sciences into some of the best art I've ever seen. Thank you for still making these videos :)

[@lejb8962]

Hello Vi, longtime fan here. I'm left stunned by your perfect words for the totality of 2017. For the split second that I saw the full eclipse through the clouds, it really did seem like a New Thing, something greater than the sum of its parts. Thanks for your recent videos about the enchantment of the world. I'm one of those troglodytes who never bought into reductionistic materialism, and it's good to see other people who study the world start quietly rebelling against the notion that the world is soulless.

[@silaspoulson9935]

Reminds me of line from Terry Pratchett's Hogfather I read recently about failing to believe would mean a big ball of gas would rise rather than the sun

[@nox6438]

You were the first person that inspired me to love math in the 5th grade. Now I've graduated college. You changed my life

[@AnirudhAjith]

I used to watch ViHart 13 years ago when I was still in middle school. I'm so glad she's still making videos. This one was beautiful.

[@kenshinjenna]

Thank you for being our solar eclipse. You've gone on with your life, committed to nothing more than the annual "π sucks, τ rules" video, and every once in a while you pop in to let us know what impacts you, make art about the math, science, physics of it all, then move on to the rest of your life. I love your vids, and as long as you seem to like making them, I will look forward to them.

[@geneyounkin6789]

Your experience of the 2017 eclipse is similar to my own. “I know what an eclipse looks like. Yeah, I’ll go see it. Totality can be seen not far from my home and I’ve got friends there.” I was also unprepared for the impact that would have on me. There’s some music I can point to that can describe my reaction but I have yet to read the words that can nor can I come up with them myself.

[@sehornesminn501]

what's the music tough?

[@geneyounkin6789]

@@sehornesminn501 The first minute of Pink Floyd’s “Empty Spaces” with totality happening at around 49 seconds in.

[@pahtar7189]

Eloquently said, Vi. It's not an easy thing to be poetic and artful about an astronomical event and not fall into the pit of religious imagery. I'm glad you did such a good job at it.

[@abbrah90]

im crying watching this video. thank you for explaining things in words i understand but could never form myself. this is beautiful

[@Nepeta-Leijon]

i lost a noticeable amount of eyesight to the eclipse in 2017, so i wont be looking at this one, but youre so completely right that once you look at totality, you just can't look away. it's crazy

[@sotragespacefullgacha1430]

Did you look at it without glasses ??

[@marioisawesome8991]

@@sotragespacefullgacha1430some eclipse glasses are total garbage tbf

[@Nepeta-Leijon]

@@sotragespacefullgacha1430 i looked at totality without glasses yeah. i didnt know that totality can damage your eyes.

[@peevester9987]

​@@Nepeta-LeijonIt can't - the moon provides the biggest and most opaque solar filter there is. If you looked at the sun even a few seconds before totality began, or after it ended, you can then easily damage your eyes. But during totality itself, it's perfectly safe, and in fact exactly that you're supposed to be doing. You wear glasses until everything goes black, and then put them back on when you see the "diamond ring" effect.

[@Nepeta-Leijon]

@@peevester9987 ok

[@4623620]

"The sun is not yellow, it's chicken", Bob Dylan in "Tombstone Blues". Long ago I witnessed a solar eclipse while sitting on the top of a hill., I saw a shadow rolling towards me from behind the horizon. The nature around me went to sleep, cows came to their stable, a flock of birds went to rest on electricity cables, total silence . . . Then, light reappeared, like a lamp turned on by a light-dimmer, an artificial morning arrived, everything woke up again (a little confused). It was as if Time had made a mistake by making it night in the middle of the day and had hurriedly tried to correct it's mistake. Very impressive, I'll remember these few minutes for the rest of my days.

[@ColeCaleshu]

Wow, I remember watching your videos back in 2014-- still amazing videos... how time flies. Thanks for all the great videos over the years!

[@solarmoth4628]

I’ve been watching you since the hexflexagon video. I still don’t understand any of the math bits but I like watching your doodles and listening to you talk.

[@Blue_LavaLamp]

Commenting 5 hours before i see my first eclipse- and ngl, this video made me tear up a bit. I dunno if it's the anticipation of actually seeing one or your words describing it, but thanks nonetheless for uploading!

[@pathologicaldoubt]

Nobody draws triangle people, stick figures and smiley faces better than Vi

[@KathySierraVideo]

And just like that, my disappointment from being in a location where the eclipse is just a tiny nibble has turned to gratitude that I’ll be spared the deep horror of witnessing totality. 😱🙏 (Though I HAVE seen a total eclipse, twice, and maybe 🤔 that explains some things) But any day in which a video from you appears IS a special day.

[@Schnabeltassentier]

Your uploads are always a treat, thank you so much! This one especially, as I'm in europe and have been teased with two fantastic american eclipses and no chance to see one myself. But this was by far the most emotionally genuine and relatable coverage of a solar eclipse and made me very excited for upcoming eclipses to which I might be able to travel to :)

[@itchy7879]

I will take this substitute eclipse illustrations bc even though I'm in the path of totality, it's VERY cloudy today. Happy Eclipse day!

[@josephatthecoop]

Wow. A supremely crafted narrative, up to and including the last sentence.

[@alvin_row]

I always love hearing your perspective on things. There really isn't anything like it on this platform.

[@MissionDGW]

Vihart returns! Hurrah! I'm so glad you have shared your personal experience in this way. I often think of it as the Earth holding a dramatic photoshoot for it's pet rock. 😋

[@LakeO]

As someone who has avidly watched your videos since I was a child in 2011, this upload was such a nice surprise birthday gift 🌘 Thanks for always sharing your thoughts with us, Vihart!

[@IagoCasabiellGonzalez]

Love this video. Such good writing. My experience of this April 8th, 2024 eclipse was weird, being in NW Spain, all the way over the Atlantic Ocean, during dusk. I don't know what I expected, but I certainly didn't want to miss it. It was a very weird feeling. We got 3% parcial at sundown. The clouds got weird shadows and the sky turned vanilla-brown instead of red and then dark grey brown to dark grey blue. We reached totality at the end of the Blue Hour. The weird shining in the west disappeared for a few moments, and it was a starry field in pitch black. And just after totality we got a bit of twilight and then true night.

[@Zack_Nope]

Thank you for doing the thing that you do

[@emilyrln]

This is the kind of story we need more of in the world, helping us appreciate the wonders of our existence and share that appreciation with others. It's only by connecting with each other and valuing each individual's human experience that we'll be able to improve our world for everyone.

[@rockestee]

Wow, i was just doodling pictures of the sun and moon, in my planner! Same thing, smilie faces and all- oh and vihart! Love your unique input and memory of 2017 here today!!! Thank you! 😎🌞🌙

[@bwezil]

I don’t know what it means that your description of the horror makes me viscerally want to behold it. I think it comes from wanted to be dwarfed by something you cannot possibly comprehend with your conscious mind, regardless of any knowledge you may have had prior on the concept. To witness something incomprehensible- to know the meaning of horrifically beautiful- is awe inspiring in a way that cannot be communicated. I’ve always wanted to see on, just for the sky darkening, in hopes I could witness it somewhere where the stars would be visible in the blackened sky despite it being daytime. I had no idea that there was /more/ to it, and now I want this experience for a different reason. Thank you for writing this poetry; you really do a great job conveying what you felt in a way that makes me feel it too, and that is incredible.

[@frailscruff]

I remember your Fibonacci video, younger me loved the video so much. I never will forget it, your voice is so calming even 13 years later :,D everything is just more interesting and fun to me when you describe it! /pos

[@reluctantlydancing]

Watched yesterday with a group of middle schoolers in cloudy Texas. The clouds broke up just as Totality began. Incredible.

[@anthonywestbrook2155]

Thank you. I'm crying tears of gratitude for our sun. I wasn't expecting that, but I'm glad for it. Maybe I needed something in opposition to the sun to appreciate it. Yay for numinous experiences for unreligious folk like me!

[@kjoy116]

Seeing the total eclipse for the first time in totality today and I can’t wait. This video makes me so excited to see the wonders of totality.

[@theredstoneax3405]

this is beautiful, thank you for making this video

[@tobyyasutake9094]

It's crazy to me that Vihart has to pretty much reach to divine and supernatural language to describe totality. I'm really sorry I'll be missing it, I couldn't make the trip. I've got to see it in 2045.

[@connrs]

My favourite video poet with a new poem thank you!

[@rebeccabernard3959]

Your videos always make me feel something about the world, the intricacies and odd things about everyone living and breathing in this world, so separated yet all connected. You stopped posting for years after I subscribed to you and i worried that i’d never experience that again but i’m glad that you’re back

[@bekkaanneee]

your poetry is always so… emotional and touches on something uniquely human, but also something that ties us to the universe so innately

[@VolumetricSBU]

It’s crazy how much I love your story telling. This one hit me different. I went ahead and made my way to see the eclipse this time around, and the story you described about seeing the solar eclipse with your own eyes is really true. It truly carries the weight that the word “celestial” provides. It’s more like what I imagined looking at the corona of a dark hole would look like, it really was beautiful. What an odd spectacle that photographs can’t visualize

[@peroxiden4867]

what crazy nostalgia you gave me! happy you were part of my childhood even in a small way 🖤 happy solar eclipse everyone!

[@pvic6959]

Vi, i dont even remember how long ive known your channel. It just be over 10 years by now. I ALWAYS have the same feeling with your videos. They feel cozy and safe. You have such a unique way of telling a story and I adore it. Thank you so much for your contribution to our lil planet

[@susanne5803]

I watched a total solar eclipse in August 1999 in Europe. It was breathtaking, spiritual, mystical, sciency, mind boggling and absolutely unforgettable. Which is why I watched all of them Thanks to NASA today😊. Thank you for deepening the experience!

[@newbeartrucks4422]

So very glad you are back!! I gave up hope a long time ago that you'd come back, but tonight, I was compelled by something to revisit one of my favorites. Thank you for sharing your beautiful music, art, and soul with us mere mortals. Truly.

[@TheCubicalGuy]

I'm so glad you upload regularly, you have such a unique perspective on things I literally do not see anywhere else, and it is refreshing.

[@sam_bamalam]

This is why I love your videos. You can take anything, any subject or story or iota, and create the most captivating and moving experiences. All with a notebook, some sharpies, and sometimes more craft materials. It's so raw and refined at the same time. It's so human and, dare I say, divine? Not divine as in some incomprehensible being, but an innate connection to others that is overlooked and taken for granted.

[@vincentbriggs1780]

ooohhh, I love the use of a dusty computer screen as Space!!

[@icarus313]

I love it when people describe their experience of something quantifiable in terms that are heavily laced with qualia and subjectivity. You described your feelings of the eclipse the way a novelist or a poet might. Thanks for yet another beautiful video, Vihart! I'm glad you're still sharing your thoughts on KZbin.

[@needleful]

What I remember most from seeing the eclipse was all the animals in the city going ballistic right as it got dark, which like you mentioned happened a lot more suddenly than you'd expect. All the dogs were barking, birds were flying around. And once the total eclipse passed, they all calmed down after a few seconds.

[@jellorelic]

What an amazingly poetic description of the event! Thanks for sharing Vi!

[@WitchOracle]

I just experienced this eclipse differently than how I had planned, in my home 100 miles from totality, recovering from an illness. Thank you for this piece of art about it.

[@NF30]

I saw totality this time! It was such a beautiful experience and I was so lucky to see it and get good pictures. Even more lucky to live right in the totality path!

[@motetotee]

Started watching your videos when I was in high school (2012) and always loved them. It’s crazy the amount of joy I get seeing one of your videos pop up in my sub box. I’m glad you posted

[@durdleduc8520]

it is absolutely amazing how everyone can see the same thing in the sky and draw such different experiences from it, think different things, feel different things. ive always valued the things you have to say because you turn poetry into a conversation. i saw the eclipse today and know only what i felt -- and now, a little bit of what you did, on a day and moment unique to a human but identical to a camera. so thank you.

[@gusamarante]

Never stop. The world needs this kind of point of view. Science and art

[@goyf9095]

Always a pleasure to notice an upload from this legendary channel

[@liamsanderson7099]

I never got the hype around eclipses, but this video connected with some unspoken feeling in me. Your perspective on things is always eye opening to hear, thank you

[@APaleDot]

Have you ever seen totality with your naked eye?

[@liamsanderson7099]

@@APaleDot I actually did go to a local park shortly after this and watch the eclipse. Had never seen anything like that :,)

[@frailscruff]

Your videos are like deep poetry to me. I cannot express how much I love these.

[@IstasPumaNevada]

That was wonderfully put, and I'm so glad you got to experience this. I did too, driving from Montana to Maine just to see it, on a hill at the intersection of two rural farmfield roads, with maybe 20 or 30 other enthusiasts who had also thought that would be a really good hill to watch it from. I tried my best in the lead-up to the eclipse to inform everyone and anyone I could who was going to see it that it was safe to look at totality without the glasses on, that you NEEDED to to actually see it, to prevent the missed opportunity that almost befell you. Thank you for adding another moving perspective to what was already an amazing eclipse experience.

[@VictorQuesada-bl1xk]

Thank you for all the work you have given us over the years, and for marking this time with another beautiful meditation on the nature of nature and math and mind.

[@charlizejoseph2125]

I got so excited when I saw this thumbnail pop un in my feed today!!! Vihart, seeing your videos in elementary school introduced me the amazing world of science that I still love dearly today. Now I’m a high school senior preparing for a bachelor’s in physics, but I still think about how much I was inspired by your channel as a kid. I love your videos and I come back to them every so often because they’re just that good. This video was amazingly poetic and beautiful retelling of the eclipse from your POV and I’m so excited to see more in the future🫶🏽🫶🏽

[@deltaray3]

Oh Vi, thank you for making this video. You described it in a way only you are capable of. So glad that you got to see it.

[@x522007]

Yayyyy notification Vi posts a video, and I drop everything to watch!

[@pattyfromtoledo]

Me, too! ❤

[@sadiqmohamed681]

What a lovely piece. This may be my favourite of all your videos. Since I live in the UK, I will have to watch this event on the NASA stream. Take care all, and use your Eclipse glasses.

[@davidtreadwell9142]

Thank you. What a wonderful, poetic transcription you’ve made of what I long to experience. You’ve done for the eclipse what you’ve done for π (and τ) and 12-tone music. Thank you.

[@plantpun]

Hi from the path of totality! Bloomington, IN has half a million friends craning their necks at the sky today, but it's still magical sharing this experience with a crowd

[@laurenbrawner1814]

As someone whose memory is terrible, I hope I never forget the way I felt before, during, and after the totality. I remember my anxiety growing as the world got darker. I remember the shadows looking weird. I remember getting colder and fear gripping my heart. I remember trying to act like I was okay when I know I wasn't okay. There are still lingering effects and it's hard for me to think back on it without crying, even watching this video brought me to tears. But I also remember the relief that I felt when the sun came back, when everything started to warm back up, and when the shadows started to look normal again. I really hope that a never forget it.

[@frogostar]

thank you vihart. you are so awesome. you have inspired me to learn and grow and be curious for the better part of 7 or 8 years now.

[@petermcyeeter]

"one tent, and one car in the parking lot." i got chills!! you have such a way with words ❤️

[@mbb011]

This was an amazing video. I creep in your channel every once in a while since I discovered your channel when I was a teen many years ago, and I loved finding a fresh 2w episode today. Thanks Vihart, this was deeper than I expected

[@gordonglenn2089]

Vi Hart, I love how you managed to share with us the awe you felt. And also, that you "stayed through the credits," as all serious viewers ought, but so few do.

[@__aysgl__]

so glad to see you are still here vi, you have expanded my perception of music and maths so much at the time and i am so grateful for it :,))

[@flamingpi2245]

I saw it today. You were right about the cold. The sun is the source of all warmth and light --- how fragile our planet is that it can become that cold within barely an hour of its diminishment. You were right about the sharpness. Everything was brighter and the shadows were deeper, it was like the light before the sunset. But the dimming was nothing like the sunset. Not warm toned, but a greying. Not like cloud cover, just a uniform darkness. There was a sunset all around me at totality. It wasn't black, but it was blue like twilight. It was a shining ring in the sky. It was beautiful, it was a goddess, it was an eye in the heavens, it was a diamond ring in the sky and then it returned. I will never forget today

[@noriaas]

Incredible. This is very different frop my experience with eclipses, i've felt a sense of calm and serenity like no other when i saw one for the first time. But the storytelling is so good, the feelings so real and the words so well chosen... So rarely have i felt the experience of someone to this degree purely through their words (and cookie crumbs) Vihart still showing everybody how things are done, even today

[@brittneyziegler5742]

I live in the path of totality for today’s and I watched from the parking lot. I knew most of what to expect- my science KZbin channels have been talking about it for two weeks after all. But it was so much more beautiful than they could ever describe. I hadn’t realized you can see the corona sans glasses. How delicate it is. Impossible to photograph. There was a tiny dot of red in the lower right of it. A tiny speck of color on a haloed void.

[@TheTerranInformed]

Thank you!! (watching this, whilst my family is driving through Quebec, to have the amazing opportunity to see a total solar eclipse)

[@tabularasa]

SUN IS SECRET CAT 😸 It was very satisfying to watch all these arty iterations of occlusion, well done ☀️🌚

[@sydneyshields111]

I used to watch your vids back in elementary school. Maybe ~10 years old. I never liked math but I loved watching them. Forgot about you for 10 years and just remembered how much joy these videos brought me after falling in love again with math through, programming. I feel refreshed.

[@b_devs]

What a beautiful work of art. Mesmerizing. Incredible. Apt and vulnerable. You capture so much imagination and fascination of this celestial event. Thank you so much for this creation. You are magic. I celebrate you!

[@aleksanderkulewski3978]

You once again mesmerised me just by saying what’s on your mind. Felt like poetry

[@neilgerace355]

I witnessed a total eclipse last year in Exmouth WA, the only place in Australia the path of totality crossed.

[@kdeayton]

It was my first :) felt a lot more positive about it than ViHart haha.

[@archangelofsorrow]

I remember the last one, with its chill and the totality. I had a class that day, and our whole school gathered on the field to watch. I never felt any fear or anything but a sense of wonder and a vague dissatisfaction that I couldn't just stay out there with the returning warmth. If I were to put it poetically, I would say it felt like witnessing the bittersweet reunion of Apollo and Artemis, a hug as Apollo, just for a moment, gave all his attention and warmth to sister he doesn't get to see near often enough. Today, I didn't have near the same experience. I had had class not 15 minutes before, a weed wacker was being used nearby, I didn't have glasses or gear, and I ended up probably nearly blinding myself trying to cheat using reflections. A nice lady gave me the sheets of paper she was using, and I got to its beauty again. It wasn't anywhere near the first experience, I got some sad news earlier that day, so the bittersweet and magnificent was simply somber and passing. It felt simultaneously exhilarating and like a heavy weight on my chest. I couldn't do much than smile like an idiot and move on. I wasn't excited about this one because I wasn't in totality, but as it happened, I realized the weight of this event. It doesn't really mean much in the end as most things don't, but it's a physical piece of evidence of the scale the universe works at. And that scale, despite making me feel small, also makes me feel important because without us to see these events, they would mean nothing.

[@GameyGaming]

This is what KZbin was made for. Thank you for sharing this.

[@alankott3129]

On this day when others can viscerally witness the effects of our tiny impudent moon, I am left standing amazed while Vi Hart waxes darkly philosophic.

[@magicalmond6979]

this is really special, and you are really special. I believe this is the second video I've seen of yours and i just feel so utterly moved. i think it's time to binge your creations eheh

[@jaredloveless]

To put to words something that is so difficult to put to words, a great effort that is appreciated.