I think we’re building up to a hank song parody of smash mouth that goes... “Hey now The sharpest tool in the shed Get your game on I need to get away from this place”
It's giving me some enjoyment but also some annoyance because it brings bits of choreography from years ago that I can only sort of remember with it as it's going through my head for a few hours.
Potential future videos that fit the new theme: - "Only shooting stars..." (on the asteroid that just passed us this week, clearly a Hank video) - "what a concept" (John doing an anthropocene reviewed except on vlogbrothers) - "Get paid" (on work-from home jobs and how they might change the future of the economy) - "taking the back streets" (thoughts from a neighborhood walk?) - "They don't stop coming" (John vs the bugs in his garden) - "Your head gets dumb" (so many possibilities I can't even)
I've been painting landscapes kind of frenetically to deal with my quarantine blues, and watching you all get to paint the ball made me want to put one of my landscapes on it, and then have it be covered up by the next people to come so that it's forever in the middle of this ever-expanding ball of paint, perfectly preserved but entirely inaccessible.
"He gave the best speech on it than anybody I ever seen or heard, you know as far as talking about it" I mean I already know why I love John Green but this just reminds me that I'm right.
Hank, my boyfriend and I are freaking out because you just recorded bits of your drive that are roads we drive on everyday day, back and forth to each others houses, stoplights and road sides and horses I know like the back of my hand. What a small world after all!!
"...we could all probably use a little change..." I know we're entering Week 3 of All-Star Video Titles and should be acclimated already, but the lyrics snuck into the narration/script are what are really getting me.
That's my name in the clip of people's signatures! I went there because of the book "All the Bright Places" in 2019 with 2 of my closest friends at the time as a road trip. That day holds such a special place in my heart as a time where 3 people got to drive in the middle of Indiana for an hour to see this wonder and meet the lovely couple that runs it.
In middle school my best friend and I tried to create that world's largest ball of chewed gum. We worked on it for months by saving all our chewed gum and carting it back and forth to whomever happened to be in possession of the ball. Suffice it to say that our mothers are patient people and that it was a terrible, terrible idea.
But did you break the world record? I don’t think many people have tried to make the world largest ball of paint, so you may have broken the record of you kept at it long enough.
1:52 - If you notice the ball has nearly reached the ground. I've seen this before on Jacob The Carpetbagger's channel and the owner mentioned then that they were looking for sponsorship to allow (edit for spelllllllllling) raising the roof so that the ball doesn't touch the ground. Maybe that could be John's next birthday present? For anyone reading this and would like to see Jacob's video, here is the link: th-cam.com/video/U_6bd7CJ7wQ/w-d-xo.html
@@Azzarinne Unfortunately spoilt by 1 - me blabbing out the idea so John can read the comment and 2 - me editing my comment after seeing the spelling mistake, which removes the fact the vlogbrothers liked the comment. Damn my poor spelling...
Since John's video on April 11, 2017 in which the picture of the ball of paint marked 25,054 layers, another 1,827 (including Hank's) layers have been added over the past 3 years.
I got so excited that Hank was coming to Darwin MN to see the largest ball of twine because apparently rural Michigan looks exactly like rural MN and all famously large balls must exist in the middle of nowhere.
I really admire you and John for the creative, original content you both continue to put out after being on TH-cam for years. Today I was going down the rabbit hole of old TH-camrs and I got to thinking how admirable it is that you and John still both run successful channels and businesses based on an ever-evolving platform. Not to mention that you also have happy families at home and didn't monetize your children/families on the internet. That doesn't happen on accident. DFTBA You're doing great! I hope John gets to visit the paint ball soon.
Thank you for this. Johns earlier video on the worlds largest ball of paint is my favorite of all time, and is one I return to when ever I’m feeling sad and uncertain about myself. It’s amazing to think how connected we all are, one big ongoing story
Feels like thoughts from places and it almost feels normal to feel that slight “everything means nothing and nothing means everything” existential dread after watching one such video, but like in a good, comforting way
These roadside attractions are the most American thing. It’s no 1500 year old pile of rocks or traditional cuisine or a monument to a war long past, no it’s a giant ball of paint started some 50 years back that people are willing to drive for for hours. And that is it’s own form of beautiful.
Well I learned how low my quarantine bar is for crying.... The fact that the owner of the ball was so proud and moved by John's experience of the ball, to randomly bring him up to the visitors - I just know that says something beautiful about humanity.
This is the best type of Vlogbrothers video. You both consistently make videos that have such meaning and quiet importance. This could have been from 2009 and it wouldn’t matter. I’m so glad you’re still making such quality content. Thank you so much.
I've always felt like a sort of background character in other people's lives. But hearing about this ball of paint and the stories you and John tell about it, makes me feel like everything is connected and maybe we're all small parts of each other's stories but we all play an equally important role in everyone's lives around us that make us all these incredible individuals. :)
My closest experience to this was stopping by the Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, TX while on a road trip from LA to New Orleans. It’s a row of Cadillacs halfway dig into the ground in a cow pasture. Visitors are encouraged to bring spray paint to decorate them. We visited in January, it was so cold and windy that we shivering. Us and a few other brave roadtrippers stuck it out. We left our mark with teal spray paint hearts and swirls. It’s not a memory I’ll soon forget.
This past summer my dad asked where we should go for summer vacation, and I actually suggested the biggest ball of paint. To my surprise, he said yes, and so my family drove 23 hours to get there. There’s something wonderful about going to such lengths for something so obscure. One of the best trips ever. I got very excited when I saw this title.
I did this the first time I went to visit my brother when he moved to Indianapolis two years ago. My mom and I drove out and had some of the best soft serve in my life on the drive in this tiny town we stopped at to let my dog pee. I loved every moment of it. We painted layer 26,143 in green! Thank you for sharing this with us. It brought me a lot of joy.
A few days ago a friend of mine sent me a picture of us from junior year winter formal. I had never seen this picture before and had this beautiful moment of realization that we're all /truly/ inside of other people's stories in ways that we aren't even aware of. I'm glad to hear this realization is universal.
“The World’s Largest Ball of Paint” could totally be a great picture book that revolves around that ball of paint and everyone that comes inside to paint it over the years.
I can’t ever go there because I’m pretty sure I would cry while painting the ball. I’m a big cryer and so the thought of seeing this ball of paint that has been painted thousands of times by random people who just love it because it is odd and connects people... yeah that would make me cry.
That is a fricking awesome video. I am going through one of the hardest things I’ve ever been through and that video made me happy for 5 minutes. Thank you Hank.
I was at your last tour stop in Indy, and hearing John talk about the WLBoP made me want to plan a trip, too. And, as you said, the world very suddenly "got all hinkey," so that trip didn't get to happen. Thanks for letting me live vicariously through you :)
Me & my husband are grateful you took us along Hank, the state of emergency has gone on so long. Nice bonus that the road trip was in another country. Thanks duder.
I just finished reading All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven. And in the book the main characters wander to the greatest places in Indiana ( according to them) and one of their wanders was the largest ball of paint. So thank you hank for letting me glimpse a part of a book that I will most likely never see physically in my life but through literary arts has broken my heart in half nearly forty five times.
Man I needed something like this. Thank you Hank. I'm going to be thinking of the quote for a while "feeling like you were headed from no where to no where"
I had legit never heard of all star before... but these video titles convinced me to finally look it up, and wow... I love it! I'm now doubly excited for every next video, because I want to know the next title will be :v
That old guy reminded me of this guy who painted a ton of novelty toilet seats and kept them all in his garage in San Antonio and you could go look at them, just someone who’s committed their life more or less to doing something odd and sharing it with people, I love that
I'm pretty sure I've driven along half of those roads on my way to or from college which is a little north of Muncie and never even known I was that close to the world's largest ball of paint.
I don’t know why, but today hit harder than any previous day since all of this started happening. This video made things better for a while. Thank you for sharing it!
I went to the University of Guelph, which has a tradition of painting a cannon cemented in the ground. It is painted almost daily by anyone willing to guard it overnight and has been since the 1950s. An art student in 2011 was allowed to chip the paint off as a project and it was amazing to see the cross section from sixty years of paint and the details of the metal buried long ago under the layers of paint.
god, this video gave me big old school vlogbrothers feels and the feel can be described as: i need to go on a long road trip in the middle of nowhere as soon as fucking possible
It is indeed a good time for a video about places. I think I might revisit my roadtrip photo albums, too. Heck, maybe we'll go out for a drive in the good weather soon, making sure to keep the car at least 6 ft. apart from all other cars (and people).
Mike is an Extra in John's story, Hank is an extra in the 3 other travelers' story but for one ball-painting moment, they had a beautiful crossover episode. Love the orbit analogy. If they keep adding paint, it won't be an analogy anymore, technically. I love that mini docs about nothing are never about nothing.
I'm about to get in my car to make the drive to see my parents for the first time since Christmas. My drive is going to look a lot like yours because I'm in the Midwest. This almost made me cry.
Hank can go through an ordinary situatiom and end up having a philosophical debate with his own thoughts and that's one reason why he is brilliant. Also, happy birthday Hank in advance.
oh my gosh, thank you so much for sharing!! this made my day!! have wanted to visit the ball of paint since reading All the Bright Places in 2015. i’m glad you got to go before things got hairy, and hopefully John will get to visit it in the future.
In my speech for my high school graduation, I was inspired by John’s paint ball video from a few years ago. Didn’t realize that it was part of a genre on the topic. Perhaps I too will make the wall someday :)
This reminds me of The Cannon at the University of Guelph. It's been painted over hundreds of times for different occasions, rivalries, and celebrations. A few years ago it was stripped completely as part of an art project, but I think it would be amazing to see a cross section, like the layers of a jaw breaker.
This video would have been wonderful at any time but while I'm cooped up at home during the pandemic it was particularly wonderful. I hope someday to visit the world's largest ball of paint and also become part of this story.
omg I LOVE the world largest ball of paint!! two years ago I planned an entire road trip from CT->MN just so I could go there!! lived up to all my expectations!!!
This is my hometown... I just feel the need to comment and say that when John or you come back, I would love to show him the other quirks of my hometown! Please!! Been watching your videos since 2013 and sometimes I re-watch them (like I am now) and I don't know if I've already commented this or not, but PLEASE, I can show you other fun quircky stuff that is "nowhere"
"Maybe the real main character is the paint." Beautiful. -John
I bet this sentence is gonna show up if there's ever an anthroposcene review episode on the ball of paint!
@@Veeeee. you mean there isn't one already? SMH. Get on it, John!
I think Hank became you at the end there.
@@fishhusks1139 That was exactly the vibe that I got from the whole video!
we have to give meaning to the paint that paints over the paint, so, once again, the human wins.
"you are headed from nowhere to nowhere"
*welcome to the midwest*
@@nezalok270 or an inescapable prison
midwhere
Gutshot, Tennessee
Or New Mexico, the unpopulated portions of which have the most nothing I’ve ever seen. No hills, no trees, no buildings...just nothing but grass.
No kidding! He said that, and I thought, "That looks like where I grew up!"
"Maybe the real main character was the paint"
-Hank Green, successful author
Maybe the real main character was the friends we made along the way
These are the kinds of ideas that make the big bucks. Not this one in particular. Just this kind of idea
Okay, but I think it could be a really beautiful short story of little scenes - just snapshots of people's lives as they paint this ball.
Hank "slice this man's ball in half" Green
this comment almost made me spit a mouth full of water onto my laptop!
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Hank "paints man's ball blue" Green
@@confusedwhale oh
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Did he just get existential over a giant painted baseball? Well, weirder things have happened on this channel.
Hundo P. You should check out 'the anthropocene reviewed' podcast. John gets existential on things from QWERTY to Hawaiian pizza.
I honestly would have been more surprised if he hadn't.
this exact thing has happened on this channel
Yep. What a concept.
Not to mention the whole interview with a walk path and the philosophical follow up 5 years later.
I absolutely love that he just brought John up unprompted, as if he always plugs John whenever people come by.
Did he at least know that you're brothers?
@@Azzarinne HE HAD NO IDEA!
vlogbrothers that’s fantastic. What did he say when you mentioned that you’re John’s brother?
I love that he had no idea and brought it up anyway! Listen to those universe vibes hummin'...
TBH, I also often bring up John unprompted, as many of my friends can attest.
Tbh this series of Smashmouth's allstar references is giving me a disproportionate amount of enjoyment
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I think we’re building up to a hank song parody of smash mouth that goes...
“Hey now
The sharpest tool in the shed
Get your game on
I need to get away from this place”
It's giving me some enjoyment but also some annoyance because it brings bits of choreography from years ago that I can only sort of remember with it as it's going through my head for a few hours.
All I can say about this series of references is "what a concept!"
@@marybach9925 th-cam.com/video/LQPybMCPNTA/w-d-xo.html
"No longer inside of my story, but inside of theirs"
Only a Green brother could make my eyes well with a video about a giant ball of paint
I think you mean eyes well as in well up with tears. If your eyes are swelling you should seek medical attention.
Lol of course that's what I meant. Ignore the typo, please.
Potential future videos that fit the new theme:
- "Only shooting stars..." (on the asteroid that just passed us this week, clearly a Hank video)
- "what a concept" (John doing an anthropocene reviewed except on vlogbrothers)
- "Get paid" (on work-from home jobs and how they might change the future of the economy)
- "taking the back streets" (thoughts from a neighborhood walk?)
- "They don't stop coming" (John vs the bugs in his garden)
- "Your head gets dumb" (so many possibilities I can't even)
i would fully support john doing anthropocene reviewed on vlogbrothers.
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I will be deeply saddened if they don’t do a “Never shine if you don’t glow” video about bioluminescence or some such thing ^_^
A creative nerdfighter created this list!
That's the way I like it and I never get bored.
I really want “get paid” now, as a recently unemployed person.
I've been painting landscapes kind of frenetically to deal with my quarantine blues, and watching you all get to paint the ball made me want to put one of my landscapes on it, and then have it be covered up by the next people to come so that it's forever in the middle of this ever-expanding ball of paint, perfectly preserved but entirely inaccessible.
Wow that's a weirdly beautiful thought
It's the opposite for me I've been painting less during lockdown
When we're all allowed to go places again... PLEASE DO IT!!!
@@saaargummm1868 I feel you, my friend. It's a lot harder to pull out my paints now than it was in March.
That's an amazing idea.
I fully believed him when he said it was closed. I just thought, WELL AIN’T THAT 2020 FOR YA?
Genuinely, my first thought was: It's a small roadside attraction. I bet he opens up for them... But you're right! It would have felt very 2020.
I was thinking "I know you saw it, Hank, it's in the thumbnail."
Nova N Hahah yea, you’d think I would have noticed that!
When quarantine lifts and things settle down we need more thoughts from places! These are my favorite videos
"He gave the best speech on it than anybody I ever seen or heard, you know as far as talking about it" I mean I already know why I love John Green but this just reminds me that I'm right.
I laughed so loud when he said that
Hank, my boyfriend and I are freaking out because you just recorded bits of your drive that are roads we drive on everyday day, back and forth to each others houses, stoplights and road sides and horses I know like the back of my hand. What a small world after all!!
"...we could all probably use a little change..."
I know we're entering Week 3 of All-Star Video Titles and should be acclimated already, but the lyrics snuck into the narration/script are what are really getting me.
Why did I just start to get teary-eyed over a ball of paint?
it's a a video by a Green brother. they can make everything beautiful and tear-jerking in the best way
This feels like a B plot from American Gods in the best way.
I was thinking the same thing! Roadside attractions always make me think about American Gods!
I littereally thinking this as well
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It makes me think of John Travolta and the journey he went on before moving on, a story about an archangel on Earth.
Ditto - had the exact same thought!
That's my name in the clip of people's signatures! I went there because of the book "All the Bright Places" in 2019 with 2 of my closest friends at the time as a road trip. That day holds such a special place in my heart as a time where 3 people got to drive in the middle of Indiana for an hour to see this wonder and meet the lovely couple that runs it.
The titles start comin' and they don't stop comin'.
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Hank used his microcosm voice for this.
Ha, I just commented the same thing. I love it :)
2:31 I thought for a moment, "Is that John Green?"
In middle school my best friend and I tried to create that world's largest ball of chewed gum. We worked on it for months by saving all our chewed gum and carting it back and forth to whomever happened to be in possession of the ball.
Suffice it to say that our mothers are patient people and that it was a terrible, terrible idea.
But did you break the world record? I don’t think many people have tried to make the world largest ball of paint, so you may have broken the record of you kept at it long enough.
1:52 - If you notice the ball has nearly reached the ground. I've seen this before on Jacob The Carpetbagger's channel and the owner mentioned then that they were looking for sponsorship to allow (edit for spelllllllllling) raising the roof so that the ball doesn't touch the ground. Maybe that could be John's next birthday present?
For anyone reading this and would like to see Jacob's video, here is the link:
th-cam.com/video/U_6bd7CJ7wQ/w-d-xo.html
That is such a good idea!! 😃
@@Azzarinne Unfortunately spoilt by
1 - me blabbing out the idea so John can read the comment and
2 - me editing my comment after seeing the spelling mistake, which removes the fact the vlogbrothers liked the comment. Damn my poor spelling...
This video feels like a classic vlogbrothers video. So beautiful and soothing 💙
"As we approached, I stopped believing it was going to exist!" I have never related so freaking much to a feeling in my life.
The ending sounded like a John video
Hank is getting all author-ly on us, I think.
Had the same thought !
Since John's video on April 11, 2017 in which the picture of the ball of paint marked 25,054 layers, another 1,827 (including Hank's) layers have been added over the past 3 years.
Always there, waiting for next time. That’s how I feel about all the things we’re missing out on now.
I got so excited that Hank was coming to Darwin MN to see the largest ball of twine because apparently rural Michigan looks exactly like rural MN and all famously large balls must exist in the middle of nowhere.
I really admire you and John for the creative, original content you both continue to put out after being on TH-cam for years. Today I was going down the rabbit hole of old TH-camrs and I got to thinking how admirable it is that you and John still both run successful channels and businesses based on an ever-evolving platform. Not to mention that you also have happy families at home and didn't monetize your children/families on the internet. That doesn't happen on accident. DFTBA You're doing great! I hope John gets to visit the paint ball soon.
Thank you for this. Johns earlier video on the worlds largest ball of paint is my favorite of all time, and is one I return to when ever I’m feeling sad and uncertain about myself. It’s amazing to think how connected we all are, one big ongoing story
Going outside...
What a concept!
You know, I could use a little change myself.
And we could all use a little change
My friend and I just drove 2 hours to this place and painted on layer 27,380!
Feels like thoughts from places and it almost feels normal to feel that slight “everything means nothing and nothing means everything” existential dread after watching one such video, but like in a good, comforting way
These roadside attractions are the most American thing. It’s no 1500 year old pile of rocks or traditional cuisine or a monument to a war long past, no it’s a giant ball of paint started some 50 years back that people are willing to drive for for hours. And that is it’s own form of beautiful.
That ball of paint is no doubt a place of power in the American Gods universe.
Well I learned how low my quarantine bar is for crying.... The fact that the owner of the ball was so proud and moved by John's experience of the ball, to randomly bring him up to the visitors - I just know that says something beautiful about humanity.
Oh my god, it has been so long since we last had a full-on thoughts from places video. I can't say how happy it makes me to see a new one!
Well this made me feel sonder
sonder (n) the realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own
This is the best type of Vlogbrothers video. You both consistently make videos that have such meaning and quiet importance. This could have been from 2009 and it wouldn’t matter. I’m so glad you’re still making such quality content. Thank you so much.
Thanks Hank. This was a very good experience to share. Peaceful even.
Over a month of total lock down in NZ and this video caused me to spontaneously cry at my breakfast table.
Hank, I haven’t gotten to leave my house since March 12th. I nearly cried over your ball-of-paint existentialism. Thank you.
I've always felt like a sort of background character in other people's lives. But hearing about this ball of paint and the stories you and John tell about it, makes me feel like everything is connected and maybe we're all small parts of each other's stories but we all play an equally important role in everyone's lives around us that make us all these incredible individuals. :)
My closest experience to this was stopping by the Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, TX while on a road trip from LA to New Orleans. It’s a row of Cadillacs halfway dig into the ground in a cow pasture. Visitors are encouraged to bring spray paint to decorate them. We visited in January, it was so cold and windy that we shivering. Us and a few other brave roadtrippers stuck it out. We left our mark with teal spray paint hearts and swirls. It’s not a memory I’ll soon forget.
This past summer my dad asked where we should go for summer vacation, and I actually suggested the biggest ball of paint. To my surprise, he said yes, and so my family drove 23 hours to get there. There’s something wonderful about going to such lengths for something so obscure. One of the best trips ever. I got very excited when I saw this title.
Michael: I really wish the other Green brother was here too
Hank: Who, Dave?
I did this the first time I went to visit my brother when he moved to Indianapolis two years ago. My mom and I drove out and had some of the best soft serve in my life on the drive in this tiny town we stopped at to let my dog pee. I loved every moment of it. We painted layer 26,143 in green! Thank you for sharing this with us. It brought me a lot of joy.
A few days ago a friend of mine sent me a picture of us from junior year winter formal. I had never seen this picture before and had this beautiful moment of realization that we're all /truly/ inside of other people's stories in ways that we aren't even aware of. I'm glad to hear this realization is universal.
“The World’s Largest Ball of Paint” could totally be a great picture book that revolves around that ball of paint and everyone that comes inside to paint it over the years.
Seems like “it’s a cool place.” (And they say it gets colder)
It's been awhile since a Thoughts From Places. Thank you Hank!
I can’t ever go there because I’m pretty sure I would cry while painting the ball. I’m a big cryer and so the thought of seeing this ball of paint that has been painted thousands of times by random people who just love it because it is odd and connects people... yeah that would make me cry.
That is a fricking awesome video. I am going through one of the hardest things I’ve ever been through and that video made me happy for 5 minutes. Thank you Hank.
Wonderful story!!
You both have such a way with words. You and John.
I was at your last tour stop in Indy, and hearing John talk about the WLBoP made me want to plan a trip, too. And, as you said, the world very suddenly "got all hinkey," so that trip didn't get to happen. Thanks for letting me live vicariously through you :)
Hank can turn anything into something beautiful and meaningful ❤️
The feeling you desccribe is called Sonder, llook it up
I feel like it's 2010 and I just watched an actual TH-cam video.
Right in the feels love u both
I never know which of your videos will make me cry, and I'm not sure why this one did. But it did. Keep being awesome my dudes.
Me & my husband are grateful you took us along Hank, the state of emergency has gone on so long. Nice bonus that the road trip was in another country. Thanks duder.
I just finished reading All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven. And in the book the main characters wander to the greatest places in Indiana ( according to them) and one of their wanders was the largest ball of paint. So thank you hank for letting me glimpse a part of a book that I will most likely never see physically in my life but through literary arts has broken my heart in half nearly forty five times.
Me, aware that this was filmed months ago: what...what do you mean other people showed up THAT'S SO DANGEROUS!
Wow this is definitely one of my favorite vlogbrothers videos ever now
Man I needed something like this. Thank you Hank. I'm going to be thinking of the quote for a while "feeling like you were headed from no where to no where"
I had legit never heard of all star before... but these video titles convinced me to finally look it up, and wow... I love it!
I'm now doubly excited for every next video, because I want to know the next title will be :v
That old guy reminded me of this guy who painted a ton of novelty toilet seats and kept them all in his garage in San Antonio and you could go look at them, just someone who’s committed their life more or less to doing something odd and sharing it with people, I love that
I'm pretty sure I've driven along half of those roads on my way to or from college which is a little north of Muncie and never even known I was that close to the world's largest ball of paint.
This video, much as the ball, is a brilliant piece of art!
"It's like standing on the edge of a cliff and wanting to step off".
Oh, good, it's not just me.
I think a lot of people feel that way, if not most
@@ghost.mp3 That is a perfect description for that sensation
I was once told that panicky feeling you may get near a cliff or something else high isn't about fear of falling it's about fear of jumping.
I needed you voice and to be taken away for a little. Thank you so much for all you make
I don’t know why, but today hit harder than any previous day since all of this started happening. This video made things better for a while. Thank you for sharing it!
I went to the University of Guelph, which has a tradition of painting a cannon cemented in the ground. It is painted almost daily by anyone willing to guard it overnight and has been since the 1950s. An art student in 2011 was allowed to chip the paint off as a project and it was amazing to see the cross section from sixty years of paint and the details of the metal buried long ago under the layers of paint.
god, this video gave me big old school vlogbrothers feels and the feel can be described as: i need to go on a long road trip in the middle of nowhere as soon as fucking possible
It is indeed a good time for a video about places. I think I might revisit my roadtrip photo albums, too. Heck, maybe we'll go out for a drive in the good weather soon, making sure to keep the car at least 6 ft. apart from all other cars (and people).
Oh my days.
I just realised what you and John are doing. This is like peak dad humour. I love it.
That was an amazing story! I loved it, thank you.
Mike is an Extra in John's story, Hank is an extra in the 3 other travelers' story but for one ball-painting moment, they had a beautiful crossover episode.
Love the orbit analogy. If they keep adding paint, it won't be an analogy anymore, technically.
I love that mini docs about nothing are never about nothing.
I honestly look forward to videos just for their titles now. Please don't stop
I painted the 23000 and something layer of that ball of paint. I went because of the book All the Beautiful Places. I am glad you enjoyed it.
I did not ask to cry this morning, Hank Green.
🥺 Such a beautiful poetic, and moving story about a painted baseball. Seriously, either Ms. Quarantina is getting to me, or this was so beautiful
I'm about to get in my car to make the drive to see my parents for the first time since Christmas. My drive is going to look a lot like yours because I'm in the Midwest. This almost made me cry.
i have always wanted to go see this, Thank you for sharing!
Hank can go through an ordinary situatiom and end up having a philosophical debate with his own thoughts and that's one reason why he is brilliant. Also, happy birthday Hank in advance.
Unrelated but oh god it’s may
This is awesome! Thank you Hank! Also, I'm loving all the All Star references you two are fitting into your videos.
Having just finished a Truly Remarkable Thing, I have trust issues with large random pieces of art I didn't know about yesterday popping into my life.
Is this the second time in a week that listening to a Green brother talk about a ball of paint has made me cry?
The world may never know.
I don't know that I've ever needed a "thoughts from places" video more. Thanks Hank!
oh my gosh, thank you so much for sharing!! this made my day!! have wanted to visit the ball of paint since reading All the Bright Places in 2015. i’m glad you got to go before things got hairy, and hopefully John will get to visit it in the future.
In my speech for my high school graduation, I was inspired by John’s paint ball video from a few years ago. Didn’t realize that it was part of a genre on the topic. Perhaps I too will make the wall someday :)
This reminds me of The Cannon at the University of Guelph. It's been painted over hundreds of times for different occasions, rivalries, and celebrations. A few years ago it was stripped completely as part of an art project, but I think it would be amazing to see a cross section, like the layers of a jaw breaker.
OH MY GOD, I know this place, it's in Jennifer Niven's book All the Bright Places, it's in Indiana and IT'S REAL
I was looking for someone to reference this book and I was not disappointed
In these chaotic times, I am so grateful that we have something as peaceful as these videos to turn to
Videos like this are one of the primary reasons why I love you guys so much. Bravo sirs!
Layer #28676 was added yesterday by myself! Weighing in now at almost 1000 pounds.
Michael also asked me if I knew John Green unprompted 😊
This video would have been wonderful at any time but while I'm cooped up at home during the pandemic it was particularly wonderful. I hope someday to visit the world's largest ball of paint and also become part of this story.
This was really beautiful and made my day...also I’ve never craved something so badly as to cut the ball of paint in half
omg I LOVE the world largest ball of paint!! two years ago I planned an entire road trip from CT->MN just so I could go there!! lived up to all my expectations!!!
okay after watching this video im now realizing I probably heard about the ball from John first wow
This is my hometown... I just feel the need to comment and say that when John or you come back, I would love to show him the other quirks of my hometown! Please!! Been watching your videos since 2013 and sometimes I re-watch them (like I am now) and I don't know if I've already commented this or not, but PLEASE, I can show you other fun quircky stuff that is "nowhere"