Why Beautiful Things Make us Happy - Beauty Explained
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ต.ค. 2018
- It’s hard to define what makes something beautiful, but we seem to know beauty when we see it. Why is that and how does beauty affect our subconscious?
This video was a collaboration with the creative agency Sagmeister & Walsh as a contribution to their upcoming Beauty exhibition at the MAK Vienna from October 23rd onwards. If you want to learn more about the impact of beauty and see tons of gorgeous installations and multi-media objects, go check it out on www.mak.at/en_sagmeister_walsh
The Beauty exhibition will also be shown in the Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt from May 11th till September 15th.
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Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell so cool
when you realize another comment has more likes and comments than kurzgesagt himself.................
@@aetherial_melodies lmao
Men!!! you guys way so great in providing information and way bringing advertising about brands in collaborate with authors. you guys like being ultimate!!! Keep provide good information and about future 😎😄☺
Can we get a part 2 on music? It has an arguably greater effect on the human psyche than the visible and is linked to things you wouldn't expect, like frequencies at which plants grow best being found in...
_classical music?_ no joke lol
Wonderful video as always!
And a comprehensive look at why *my school is a form of 2nd Amendment violation*
*Sees round stone*
Brain: take it
Me: Why
Brain: You gotta
hahahahahaha
So fucking true
I MUST
you guys ever watched the movie Amelie? Its a french movie and it's basically about little quirks and small acts of kindness
But if you're surrounded by round stones all the time, you will instead take the only jagged stone you have ever seen. Because what your brain really wants is something "special", something novel, this stone isn't like the others so it is important.
“beauty can have an impact on our mood”
me looking around my room: _oh_
lol
Lol
Me too 🤣🤣
Well, shit.
Hahahahahaha
I'm an artist, and my best friend is a nurse who works with geriatric patients. I've often told her I sometimes wish my life's work served humanity as directly as hers does. When i heard the bit about how art in hospital wards makes the patients feel a little better, it reminded me that we are both serving humanity in two, very complementary, ways. Thank you for making this wonderful video.
That's a beautiful way to see life, like casting two different colored light to the world and making it much more beautiful.
Time to decorate the hospital haha
as an engineer I am very very very aware of the importance of aesthetics in my work. I would say, now that you've acquired this information it is your duty to try to work to get those hospital wards more beautiful. The results of those studies, if you read them, were not small. They were immensely significant. Statues, wall art, natural beauty such as flowers etc and even the colors of walls all are known to reduce pain and hospital stays somehow aiding in our psychological wellness and in healing speed.
I hope you can use this to start a movement, no movement is small. A hurricane often begins with a gentle breeze.
@@Ikxi great idea tho
@MARES OF TRACE - The emergency department of Cape Cod Hospital has many beautiful, large oceanscapes by a single great artist. They are all appear to be originals (not those glicees). and the placement isn't random, but well thought-out and consistent. They did an excellent job utilizing artworks.
[I haven't been to other areas of the hospital, so cannot comment further.]
"Beauty is nothing tangible, it only exists in our heads as a pleasant feeling." - This is the best definition of beauty I have ever known
Me amount of stuff that, objetively does not exist, but it does as a human construct of our brain and our society building it into a concept with name and definition, such as colors (wich aren't much as light waves) or experiences.
It's more of a descriptor than a definition.
Not true. Beauty is more than just a feeling in our heads. It's a call to what we are inside. An infinite being with embedded completeness (in Christ Jesus). That completeness (or the observation of the reality of the completeness) is what pirsig in zen and the art of motorcycle (a book) calls quality. I call it spirit.
Beauty is just deeper than you think. Yes it is also a feeling in your head but its more than that.
@@obafemisoyoye7470 Christians are so cringe
Couldn't have said it better myself!
Talking about beauty, can we just take a moment to to appreciate the beauty of kurzgesagts art style?
👍
YEAH BOIII
His first video has animation of two bears doing doggystyle in it when he talked about reproduction.
I was just thinking the same! It’s incredible
Yes im the one who made it from 969 to 970
I like to think of a caveman just saying “Idk man, I kinda just like this thing”
idk man i think its pretty neat
Unga bunga goo a booga*
I TOOK A SHIT, AND ITS FUCKING BEAUTIFUL MAN!!! LIKE LOOK AT THIS SHIT, THIS LITTERAL SHIT, ITS SO PERFECTLY SHITTY THAT I CAN SEE MY OWN LIFE STORY INISDE THIS SHIT, IM GONNA TAKE THIS SHIT WITH ME EVERY WERE I GO SO I CAN GAZE APON THIS SHIT SO I CAN ALWAYS BE HAPPY WHEREVER I GO.......... I just love shit.
And from there comes egotistical situations
"Idk man your rock kinda be lookin ugly. Look at mine, it's like teardrop"
Centuries of competitions later and we found ourselves here, anxious about what other people will think about our visual representation. As a result, it has become a trend to ignore our ancestral trait of judging and ignore other's opinions.
@@mr.cathacker you prob have no idea what I'm talking about but I read that in Mexican Dream's voice
This is part of why I recommend getting LED lights for your bedroom.
Setting the color to your favorite color has a noticeable effect on your mood, and setting it to a really warm color like amber before bed reduces blue light exposure and helps you fall asleep faster.
Thanks for the tip!
it also has a constant energy cost
AND not having to get up and turn lights off is awesome! I change my the color of my lights so often😂 especially the one in the living room! I make sure I match them to the movie I’m watching
Yes..?
But what if my favorite color is any shade of blue at all
"Beauty exists in our head as a pleasant feeling." My favorite line in the video.
Me: * sees a cool painting * Looks cool.
Brain: SURVIVAL
IM A SURVIVOR IM NOT GON GIVE UP
SURVIVAL
So uh that's suppose to be funny or what😂
I Like TH-cam. What do you mean?
RULES OF NATURE
My high school pottery teacher put it roughly like this: "You need most classes to live life, you need art to make life worth living"
beautiful
Facts
I agree
Love it...!!!!
sounds like your teacher basically just misquoted the deads poet society
This actually made me realize why my mental health increased so rapidly when I gave up trying to meet the "modern" aesthetic
and went and let loose my own desires for beauty
My mood increased tenfold
How does one’s mental health increase?
@@immortalsun
I'm just gonna let you think about that
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Nice profile pic
YES, i hate the “all white walls next to all white floors with a single potted plant” asthetic SO MUCH
That's why I love nature most.
Some people may find nature boring but I, myself love and adore it so much. I felt like we're connected somehow in an unexplainable way. Like it's the most precious thing that I've seen in my entire life.
Well you're not wrong, we are literally connected to nature. Every living thing shares at least a tiny amount of DNA with each other.
Yes. I agree with this. 1000%
people around me don’t understand the pain I’m feeling with living in a concrete box, with so little sunlight if I’m lucky that day… 24/7 I long to sit in a vast area and watch the grass shining in the sun, butterflies, birds and tall trees. It’s like there’s a space I’ve been before and I have to go back there but I don’t know where it is.
Friend: Dude, why am I not pretty?
Me: Well aCtUaLLy, it starts with the beginning of human civilization-
haha
*animal life
ackchyually*
You are mistaken. It goes back farther than human civilization. It goes back even farther than humans themselves.
That’s what I usually talk to my friend lol
What's this? A Kurzgesagt video that didn't trigger an existential crisis? Good Lord!
Boring, grey monoliths remain cheaper to construct; and thus, we'll inevitably be engulfed by them regardless of our personal well-being.
@@zoomer2965 ah, there it is....
It does if you are ugly...
@@joeynathan6073 you must be so fun to hang out with
@@demetraeconomou6096 as fun as I am handsome!
Can absolutely vouch for this. My city is absolutely gorgeous, and I think it really boosts my mood. One time I redecorated my bedroom to look more unique to my tastes, and I suddenly found myself in a better mood than before. This exact principle is why I want to study interior design, I think the way it changes our mood is just so interesting.
Just for reference, which city is that! Shall add it to my list of places to visit.
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seeings a beautiful art piece makes my entire day.
To me, rain makes me happy. Not just because of the sounds, sights and smell, but because of the fact that even with all that rain pouring in front of my eyes, it isn't even a fraction of how much is truly pouring. In a weird way, that comforts me.
❤
*looks at mirror
*face is not symmetrical
Me : I can never mate with this face.
You can't mate with a face
🙃
@@goodusername6173 nice
U literally cant go fuck yourself 😔
Eh, IIRC all faces have some small asymmetries to them, so no worries
This is why my Sims are unhappy if I don't "nicely" decorate their surroundings
alxsaerin 😂
Legendary comment
snake7779 first thought that came to mind tbh lmao
@@selena311lol I like the way you are thinking.
*places armor everywhere*
Sims:Nicely decorated
why the renascence was so much better is because of how DAMN PRETTY all the stuff was
It's amazing to think that beauty is actually functional
Kurzgesagt makes me happy. Kurzgesagt is beautiful.
And ugly people cause health problems, they should come with a warning label.. Like cigarettes! :P
But you fuck 'em anyways just like cigaret- wait a second. What are we talking about?
fffffff
uck this new art style
@@1ake1 i like the new art style they could go low on background music
@@1ake1 i only miss the old birds and ducks
Fun fact. After watching this, my family and I decided to paint the front of our house facing the street with more pretty colours and some patterns and we all agreed we much prefer it this way. I know this may sound small, but it makes things different, and much nicer for us
:)
This does not sound small in anyway, actually you did an impressive thing for a family😊
That sounds amazing
That's beautiful ♥️
This is probably the most educational and life changing video I’ve watched all year. It’s motivated me to keep my home clean and do some redecorating.
Honestly just being around someone beautiful can make you feel so good too!
Why Kurzgesagt Animations Make us Happy - Beauty Explained
it has to do with round edges and not having many sharp corners. i learned that by watching my lilo and stitch dvd as a kid so many times that i watched the "how its made" thing and found that out
yes
Bing Bong So smooth
The art is so simple but beautiful
This is so nice :)
"You might not have noticed it, but your brain did"
- Plinkett
A Riter "Research shows that every day ends with a _Tums festival_ "
Is this replacing ‘Best Of The Worst’?
"Beauty meets an inherent need for meaningful information." 💟 finally, I know why
This honestly is one of my favourite videos you guys have made. I've quite recently finally connected the dots. The circumstances on my life have been very good. I won't go too much into detail but in general I have everything I need. And a lot of things I want. But I still feel really depressed for some reason. I will be soon moving out of my apartment and one idea where I would move would be my summer cottage, I had other options but they were much more expensive so I rather did not take them. So I went there for a week to prepare for me to move in and testing how feasible is living there. I enjoyed the time there, I was much less comfortable there yeah since it lacks most modern comforts. But I was happy there. Once I returned to my dull concrete box of a apartment I immediately felt my mood drop. It was like a train hit me. A few days later i thought about it and realised most likely it's the environment that's causing this. At that moment I realized, no matter how much modern comforts I have no matter how much material belongings I have, no matter how much money I have I will never have a happy life if I live in a ugly environment.
"Studies show that seeing beautiful things makes you happier"
Got it, no mirrors, get rid of all mirrors in my house
That was cute :P
"Beauty is nothing tangible, it only exists in our heads as a pleasant feeling". As long as you feel confortable with youself, you can consider yourself a beautiful person.
Ana Lucía Basaldúa But it still exists
Just what I was thinking
😂 I’m sure u look good
* sees shiny stone *
Brain: eat.
Me: but it’s a ro-
Brain: *E A T .*
And thus, Jellybeans we’re created
"When you Brian is dumb"
@@jilloliver6685
When you're small brain
@@burntchickennugget8142 i like turtles
@@Reignor99 i like trrrrrrdls
“Beauty isn’t tangible, it only exists in our heads as a feeling” ah. Breaking down the illusions of our confusing physical plane. It’s wild how often I see traces of philosophy in science, and science in philosophy. The harmony between the two brings me an unexplainable joy
I think this is also why so many cultures adore gemstones so much. It's intrinsic rarity value and the random but beautiful patterns of the gemstone's different hues and veins that run across it triggers something in our brain to keep it entertained for awhile.
*Press F* to pay respects to those missing birds
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No intro, no birds... you guys good?
I knew something was missing!
hey this guy plays gd :)
yeah the ducks were at the backstage contemplating paintings and the intro wasnt really with the subject this was more ethical/esthetical than astronomic (also it was really sciency,obviously).
If you look closely the bottle at the start of the video is shaped like a bird
Dalbert Wu you already know chief
This channel is a masterpiece
Very correct
i hope this video inspires more people to make art & others to stop being rude when someone wants to pursue art. it IS useful, a world without art is literally depressing according to *science* ❤️
Kurzgesagt’s animation style is one of the most beautiful things that I experience daily
Perfectly balanced.. as all things should be..
*I watch Kurzgesagt videos only because*
*🍇Purple is my favourate color and seeing it makes me happy🤓*
@COLBY MOODY me too (0o0)
So basically the less mirrors around me, the better I feel.
IKR it’s so beautiful 🥰
finally a Kurzgesagt video that doesn't give me an existential anxiety attack
Interestingly enough, their existential videos have relieved me of my existential dread.
But there’s no ducks!
Yes...
the world is an ugly place
Beauty makes us happy to die for it. To protect it. To take care of it. To create it. ✨️
that visual of the random shapes turning into a stovetop espresso maker was so cool. i love their art style in these videos so much
Wow, the first video that didn't give me an existential crisis
@@Kaytwyold ok, what does my profile picture have anything to do with this?
The optimistic nihilism video was good as well.
Kayque Rodrigues Esteves I agree with you about how warframe is better but shut the hell up he's just tryna watch a educational video
Optimistic nihilism boiii
you must not be ugly then lol
I love the new style and the fact that this video didn't make me feel terrified of existence.
A minute without an existential crisis is a minute wasted. We need existentialism in a way that nothing will ever need us.
Yes, I come to this channel to suffer not to have fun?? Excuse me?
Unsubscribed.
(Obviously joking)
(or am I?)
(do I even exist? )
AI and global warming is killing us anyways so who cares.
* stress and existential agony is finally restored *
You're welcome
Think this style isn't here to stay since it was specifically made for a group. I do like it a fair bit though.
WHAT ABOUT THE BIRDS?!
The subjective aspect of beauty is in meaning. If you can relate to something that makes it subjectively beautiful. And then there's more intersubjective stuff like symmetry and such. But both modes are needed for genuine beauty.
Falling in love is a combination of both. Listening to music that is well arranged while also relating with the lyrics on a deeply emotional level is also a moment of beauty.
That is also a combination of both modes.
When Kurzgesgat makes a whole video telling people why people like their channel.
Because they *are* beautiful
+Shivam Bansal The Same Rule of Beauty Applies To Everything. Edit: It's Just Like What Bill Gates Quoted:"..A Win-Win Situation." Everyone Gets A Taste of Beauty 🙏
2.7k people are something else.
No wonder I’m so concerned with aesthetics, it’s a survival mechanism.
Yess
YAS
I feel deeply annoyed when something is not asymmetrical, turns out it's not a very practical survival instinct to have in our modern time
Exactly lol
That’s a part of it but I think beauty is beyond scientific explanation, things can be beautiful in a very unexplainable manner, for example one may consider looks (not faces but expressions) to be beautiful, beauty comes from a realm outside our own and we get only an infinitely small glimpse of what true beauty it.
My mom traveled a little before she died and after it was like she finally saw the beauty in the world and started to appreciate it. It just breaks my heart that it was Death that made her finally see it, but if that’s what has to happen to her or any of you understand it is your loss, not ours.
I like how the animators changed the art style and made this one extra pretty
*Kurzgesagt uploads: best day of the month*
5 of y favorite channels uploaded today.
ASAPscience(which dropped in quality), IOTBS, Reactions(a chemistry channel), deep look, and kurzgesagt
Beautiful
The beauty
*Nah mate. Beauty is subjective concept.*
@@davidgumazon wooshhh
Kurzgesagt: Three ways to destroy the universe, existential crisis playlists
Also Kurzgesagt: Why beauty makes us happy 💖
🥰✨🌸💛
@@toenails5811 These emojis are so beautiful🥺💕
LMAOO
lmfao
I watched this video for an assignment in my English class, and I found the message given about beauty and the different concepts that each person has quite interesting and cute.
We've been saying this for a long time, that man needs a component outside of himself to maintain a sense of the transcendental. Great video
I'm noticing a slightly different art style and finer details. Super pleasant and beautiful to look at- oh... Was it on purpose?
Did the ducks evolve to humans?
Seriously, it looks beautiful.
ENDESGA i think so. Partly to take a break from the old style and to fully embrace beauty by mimicking it
Taking a break from NYKRA? :D
Yea it looks way better
they learnt it from skillshare
Makes sense, for years I worked as a butcher. The work was pretty easy but I was slowly becoming more and more depressed. Then I went back to school for horticulture and landed a job running a greenhouse for a local wholesale floral distribution center. The work is A LOT harder but I noticed I wasn't as depressed anymore. Probably because I was surrounded by beautiful flowers and ornamental trees. Which getting huge discounts on for being a worker... I'd then bring home loads of them a Fiddle Fig tree here... an orchid there... etc etc now my house is full of precious little flora that every time I look at I smile.
Sounds great, glad you found a new path! I hope I'll be able experience the same feeling of harmony in the future.
That made me smile. Thank you.
Make sense.
that's something I've always talked about with my mom. I could work in a flower shop any time in my life, as I really feel the environment in great in these places. Usually I also see that most people working in those shops are calmer and more educated with customers than you'd find, for example in a clothing shop.
Sounds awesome. I’m so happy for you!
Большое спасибо за такое прекрасное видео! Познавательно и интересно.
the beauty of this animation makes me feel delighted
I love this visual style but bring back the ducks!
Need the birds. I plan on donating, and I heard I'd get my own bird if I did. I want to see it die by horrific ways in your videos........ Uh... I mean, I want to see the birdy in your videos...
they use the ducks if they want to animate something violent. :)
I like ducks. Ducks cool. Kurzgesagt bring them back!
The ducks are there if you listen closely 7:25
Yeah i thought so too but in this case its a collab, so birds might be less professional ig, hopefully on non colab ones they bring it back haha
Your videos are beautiful
_I strongly agree_
I totally agree
and there existential videos scare me to death.... so their videos contradict their own point here
You are*
you didnt even watch it yet
As an artist I really appreciate this
I love the smart usage of harmonics in the soundtrack, as people also find them balanced and pleasant to listen)
Going out to buy a plant.
Yea i was thinking the same.
Same.
yeah just bought a new cactus holy shit so fabulous
I had the same thought!
Only if it is a special plant 😉
my god the music greatly enhanced this video
100% agreed
And you can even listen to their music in spotify
Check out the music composed for their moon colonies video. 'Beautiful'!
*PING PING PING*
would you say it made the video more beautiful?
It’s amazing how you guys make a video about beauty so beautiful… This animations is so basic and flat, but it somehow was the prettiest I’ve ever seen on TH-cam. Keep it up you guys!
Words cannot describe the amazingness of the soundtrack combined with Steve's lovely voice. Absolutely epic
I live in a desert region, when it rains the smell and the noise of the rain make me happy, while other people don't like the rain, in my region we almost contemplate it
I heard rain is supposed to sound like your mother's heart beating when you were in the womb. It makes some people feel calm and protected.
i live in a place with close to 250cm of rain - i still die for it because it rains for like 4-5 months of the year and it's so hot otherwise (also it makes everything look nicer aha)
I live in a rainy region of my country, it rains several times, as it is a big city, the sky is very cloudy, there are days when I can barely see the sun
In some parts of Africa, people pray for rain.
@@adity.atiwari yeah it makes everything look soo much better. It's like a natural filter for contrast and saturation.
This entirely explains why I adore flowers.
They are absolutely nothing more than beauty for us to witness and enjoy growing on this earth *for free*
The way their colors/shapes tantalize our eyes, the way their smells make us feel happy and relaxed, their abundance in fields all in uniform. Truly, they are fruits of the earth. Seriously I'll never get over how something so natural and innocent can come at no cost.
Very deep...
I don't like the smell, but otherwise, ya, I think you're right
i don't even feel that much of an affinity with flowers personally but this description really made me smile. i love learning about how simple things can make people so happy :-)
@thepopushi the flowering plant plants are angry and now want to sue you for "sexaulizing" them
I don't really care about flowers
Beauty is the clean pleasing shapes, the smooth animation, the healing voice, the optimistic message-your videos
totally agree
So happy I stumbled upon this excellent analysis. One of the things I have always wondered is exactly this. I specifically ask myself why certain districts in a city elevate your mood and some do the opposite. Why in so many movies and stories do we see youth who hate their hometown and would leave it behind at the first opportunity? I have entertained such questions with a pragmatic ambition: would it not be so beneficial to whole societies if we learned how to intervene and change the "beauty" factor? Wouldn't you like to have cities and rural areas where most places are beautiful? And the ripple effect of having more and more content and happy citizens is all positive as well.
It pains me to see what the potentials for us, as a civilization, are and what world we live in. What we could *be* is worlds farther from what the reality is in Kharkiv and Mariupol and Kiev and Yemen and Kabul ...
So seeing beautiful things makes you happy.
No wonder I cry everytime i look in the mirror
same
your username makes me nut out of my left nostril
this made me laugh too hard
sad but tru
Aww don't say tha😁
these guys animation makes even the most bland and boring things look beautiful
Why do you find this bland and boring?
Just do :)
@@jamjam8438 huh?
Cool beans
@@jamjam8438 He meant by the buildings, those concrete ones. They look pretty because of their animation style
you said people sacrificed beauty for efficiency, but then your conlcusion was: beauty makes us more efficient.
i like it
Why can't I like a video multiple times :/ - so beautifully presented, drawn and told. Thank you!
"Can I eat this" is still the most important question in my daily life.
Facts though. That caveman brain in me is still going strong
Don't eat white cap mushrooms and you're good to go.
@@javierpacheco8234 Yes but is this fuzzy stuff good to eat?
XD MAN i thought that was funny too
@@bucketboi1724 would you eat a furry?
It’s funny how I thought the thumbnail was pretty and it’s the only reason I clicked on the video
You have spoken the words of my mind hahaha
SAME
2 days ago YT instantly recommended me this video when it's released but I just shrugged and said "eh I'll watch it later". I guess I'm scared of beautiful things :D
Sammeme
I have been searching for an explanation of beauty so long. Thank you!
it seems something is "beautiful" because it is made up of repeating, compound patterns. these are beautiful or pleasent to our senses because they are easier to process, remember, and working with in our thoughts.
me, trying to convince my principal to allow students to decorate the school:
Me, trying to convince my principal and parents to allow students and me to decorate the school and our house in russian, using a video on english from channel with an german name. Hello from the MotherLand Russia.
Wow. That wold be nice for everyone. Schools are ugly and sad looking in my area. But tgat was when we were in.
@@MrLlama-bz2yh Really? In my country, it is common that every year, the graduating students paint a wall of their school. Doesn't matter which theme (need to get the ok from the director beforehand though), or what kind of graduation they have or if the wall is inside or outside the building. In my old school, they even painted on the floors of the school grounds and on pillars.
Only exception are, of course, the parts of a school building that are put under monument protection. For my old school, that was just the outer facade and inside the decorative parts and stucco work. No problem painting on the inside walls and even ceiling around them.
Daniel Espinoza i graduated lol
@@sucrose5798 keep going for it, interest from people outside of the school can help increase the chances of something happening
That flip of the painting in 3:56 was truly amazing.
@@vroushkys.2147Kurzgesagt is genius!
Even if I just spend the All day in boredom and endless obscurity, But when I just come to this channel I feel and see much Beauty and Aesthetics that really splendor me 💝💖💓💗💕💞❤️♥️
I can’t stop watching this video the music is so nice and the art is amazing
Finally, a light vid from you guys that doesnt give me an existential crisis
Consider the widely spread ugly modern architecture and the fact that it probably won't stop because of cost efficiency
good for u, Im ugly af boi
This gave an existential crisis about my ugly school and apartment tbh
"A lot of things can be beautiful" ,like your videos :)
Your spelling is so beautiful
or your name
Wow see u here is nice, u can talk about science someday bro i like ur videos! U are nice with animes and cartoons
I love your profile"
I remember being a naive high schooler watching- drawn to the title from an interest in flintknapping and a love for the channel. It’s weird to think that these videos are what I grew up on- I remember being blown away by the universe egg Philosophy video. So thank you for making me who I am
Wow... Kurzgesagt never failed to make me impressed and give knowledge we didn't realize... This video is beauty as well!
When you mentioned "eye tracking software shows people keep focusing on details and ornaments of architecture," I started to notice myself doing it; interesting.
Sidenote: It is mostly due to moving lines and dots appearing on the "pretty" building - at least in this particular case. Our eyes tend to be attracted by movement. It has an evolutionary basis as it helps to detect animals in the wilderness. My guess is that folks in Kurzgesagt used this phenomenon to let you experience their argument about beauty in just a few seconds. This feeling makes you remember their argument and video for longer. And it really is super clever when you think about it! ;)
Well, the amount of work needed for these videos amazes me every time I see them. Keep it up (but with birds, please)!
The eye tracking software was developped for marketing purposes. When you want to sell a product, the design will define if it is visible enough amongst others. You can rent a "fake market/lab research" where someone is asked to wear the eye-tracking device, and it will help to define if your product is visually catchy enough. If the person didnt look at your product at all you might consider redesigning it
Here‘s a potential video idea similar to this one: Why does music sound good? It would be interesting
music is beautiful too
Slood ъ , Despacito.
vSause has a video on that
It’s based on how much of the song we can predict; our brain rewards us for guessing the following sequence right, thus making us happy, leading to us liking the song.
well,you guys are really doing great jobs!This video is really helpful and meaningful!
This 3 year old video popped on my feed today, just when I needed it.
Why kurzgesagt makes us happy?!
Its a God of science channel
Because their videos are beautiful
Or are they making us anxious too often? ... :)
it gives us hope.
Because Kurzgesagt videos are beautiful.
I miss the mascot bird.
GIBE ME BIRDS BACK OR GIBE ME DEATH
I miss my wife since the day she died in a car crash, but hey, thats life. Badoom tssss.
You mean the duck
I miss him too buddy :(
I miss him too.
Wait why’d they take him out?
The video was amazing as always, I just wanted to point out that I love the narrator's voice. Even when the video is about awful things, somehow, his voice makes me think everything is going to be okay... Having said that, the video was amazing and I always questioned the utility of art and "making things pretty" as I have never really felt it was really useful. I loved the way they explained how important it is
Imagine figuring out how these things (I know it when I see it) work and making life just that much better 🥰
I must say, especially this time, the animations are very *beautiful*
No birds? No bueno.
Bill Wurtz is strong in this one
Excellent animations
omfg so many pussies and their "beautiful" -puns and cheesy jokes.
Are you all really that easy?
@@CottonInDerTube mimimi
The fact resonates with me, I feel tired/depressed after working in a bland environment for long time, I have to go out in nature for breaks even if it is just backyard, when I do so I feel a bliss as good as being high. The other way around I go work in Cafe, parks etc. Anyone else have similar needs?
I do! :) When I am searching for a new job, I always focus on the esthetics that goes with it - how the office and building looks like, would it be nice to commute in there, would my colleague have a pleasant nature etc. Being from Prague it keeps me wrk almost only in the city center as the suburbs are sad (full of bland blocks of flat, really depressing).
"I feel a bliss as good as being high" 🤣
This type of beauty is rarely seen in the modern world
The color palette in this video was beautiful. I do believe it greatly increased my enjoyment of it .
The beauty is really important to me so I usually make sure that my room is clean my smile is good my clothes look nice and that impacts my mood in a good way !
As a professional artist I've given this a fair amount of thought. Beauty is the process of creating a discernable pattern and then breaking that pattern but only far enough to create tension between opposites. The more you can break the pattern without actually breaking the overall pattern the better you are at it. In the end no matter what kind of art it is the final product has to interact with itself in such a way that nothing can be added or taken away without ruining the harmony inside the work. The harmony is the dynamic effect of opposites creating tensions in ways that go round and round. Music exists in time. Painting in a space. Literature in patterns of meaning. They all depend on composition. It has to do with how our brains work, probably because of the kind of patterns we find in nature which are similar to this in effect. I'm sure that wasn't very helpful, sorry I'm not a writer. I think it's a coincidental side effect of our massive ability for pattern recognition.
I thought that was very well-described. It works this way in dance, too. Dance forms tend to come from repetitive practical tasks (dances based around picking fruit, for example), but what makes it a dance rather than a task is the variation within that original theme that inspired it.
I think you have captured this -dare I say - beautifully. Without the break in the pattern, there is nothing to draw our attention but if there is no discernible pattern at all we are just left confused and frustrated.
I found your comment very helpful, thank you!
@@Jasper-nk5fo Beauty in words, beauty in music, and beauty in movement, all part of this comment thread, yet somehow completely absent from the video. No mention of beauty other than that experienced visually. @Hugo Maritz even used the musical/physical concept of harmony to describe the whole of a beautiful piece of art. It's hard to discuss beauty itself without leaving the visual realm, but Kurzgesagt did it in this video.
Beauty is somewhere right between chaos and order which is also where you find meaning. Goes right along with Jordan Petersons philosophy.
"your happiness depends on how beautiful you think the City you live in is"
Me, living in cologne, where 90% of the old and beautiful architecture got destroyed in second world war and was then replaced by shabby, ugly, cheap post war houses: Well that's unfortunate.
Well, to look at the bright side you don't live in Mannheim. ;)
Also, you could try living in the main train station which is beautiful.
Try living in Edmonton. We have no old architecture and a lot of houses look the same or very similar. I suppose we do have a fair bit of nature in the city, though.
you guys in Europe complaining about ugly architecture when I'm here in America. Appreciate that you at least have _something_
@@tylermech66 hahaha yeah that's actually true 😂 if I want to see beautiful architecture there is still something left, or I can go to another city that was less destroyed
@@tylermech66 I mean Boston and Philidelsphia can look quite nice, but you are right the further west you go the worse it looks. Hope you like concrete parking lots and decaying strip malls.
Wow, one of the best videos I have seen in a few months.
Actually, it was very informative.
Thanks about that.
This really lightened me up. You guys are awesome