The story at the end was really impressive. I like how everything kinda works whichever way it is read, and that the story actually makes sense like that. I can just imagine creating something like that must be just like a puzzle, because every new element you want to add to the story has to work both ways.
Fun Fact: John Langdon and Dan Brown (the author of the famous book The Da Vinci Code) are close friends. John Langdon served as an inspiration for the main character, Robert Langdon in Dan Brown’s book series: Inferno, Origin, The Lost Symbol, Angels & Demons, and of course the Da Vinci Code. Tom Hanks played Robert Langdon in three movies based on those books: Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and Inferno. And by the way, John Langdon’s ambigrams can found in Angels & Demons, both the book and the movie, which you can see in the beginning of this video. 🤓
He also created the illuminati brands for angels and demons, illuminati, fire, water, air, earth and the words fire, water, air, earth together, fantastic.
imagine no internet back then, just letters and no high speed communications like today, with just your thoughts, imagination and creativity. in that context, i am impressed by whoever did this ... :D
Have you heard about any book which can give you different story when you read it from backward? Here is a book Sri Raghava Yadhaveeyam. This book is written in such a way that you will enjoy the story of Rama when you read it in forward way while you will enjoy the story of Krishna when you read it from backward. Forward:- वन्देऽहं देवं तं श्रीतं रन्तारं कालं भासा यः । रामो रामाधीराप्यागो लीलामारायोध्ये वासे ॥ (Translation:- I pay my obeisance to Lord Shri Rama, who with his heart pining for Sita, travelled across the Sahyadri Hills and returned to Ayodhya after killing Ravana and sported with his consort, Sita, in Ayodhya for a long time.) Backward:- सेवाध्येयो रामालाली गोप्याराधी मारामोरा । यस्साभालंकारं तारं तं श्रीतं वन्देहं देवं ॥ (Translation:- I bow to Lord Shri Krishna, whose chest is the sporting resort of Shri Lakshmi; who is fit to be contemplated through penance and sacrifice, who fondles Rukmani and his other consorts and who is worshipped by the gopis, and who is decked with jewels radiating splendour.)
One of my favorites was the logo for the band, Angel. I saw their logo in 1975 and was inspired to spend many hours trying to create my own... with limited success. I was similarly inspired by MC Escher and managed to create a sort of logo from my initials that would tile a plane...
Yes hello I'm a premium member and he mentions in his show (and even in previous dong videos, fyi) that he's still committed to both channels as well as his show. He even says that he prefers Vsauce to Mind Field because he can make the video how he wants it to be. In short, he's still going to upload free content, managing a show plus doing videos for two channels is a lot of work, especially with the content he creates, and you should cut the man some slack and quit bitching. He doesn't *owe* you Vsauce videos. You should just be grateful he's even still on TH-cam, because that can change at any moment if he decides he's done.
Also noteworthy is Mozart's "Tablemusic for two". When you turn the sheet music of the first violin upside down you get the sheet music of the second violin!
John Lane donned words splayed out to hide my kale curiosity. Box those up for me I am big on ram art! Peter knew old “Tops,” the tour R.V., saw this, too. Scott & Kim, in versions, were quite clever. On the upside, Dawn wore old hats while Gust Oliver’s beak was a puzzle in the end.
I got into ambigrams from reading angels and demons. I was particularly fascinated by the diamond ambigram that comprised the four elements(if you search angels and demons ambigrams you'll find it). I wanted to see if I could do it myself. My first and last name both have 6 letters, and I can write them in an Ambigram. But instead of doing one at the time, I joined the first letter of my first name with the last 2 of my surname, and did the same with the last 2 letters of my first name with the first letter of my surname.
Incredible content as always, Michael! I was privileged enough to have Scott Kim deliver a lecture in our art and game design class at Burlingame High School. Mr. Kim lives in Burlingame, and perhaps his children attended the school as well. Regardless, his work is fascinating, and his ideas really opened up the world of visual design for me.
You know what this reminds me of? There was this one book I learned in art class way in... first grade I think? It was used to teach us how to use negative space. The gist of the book was that some kids took a field trip to some big city, and the whole book was in black and white. The twist was that the shapes and stuff formed in the story normally was in black with empty space being white, but, once you get to the end of the book, you could flip over the book and then read the story from the last page to the front, with the black space being empty and the white space being the story bit.
man i thought Michael was being really clever and facing the books towards the camera so the audience could read them at the end... but then i remembered, very cool stuff!
Langdon has also worked with Dan Brown for his novels, Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, Inferno and Origin. Brown named the protagonist of these novels, Robert Langdon, as a tribute to Mr. Langdon.
-"AND-as always thanks for watching-" No Michael, Thank you! Your videos and content have immensely changed how I/We view this world, thank you for this perennial yet intermittent erudite content. "Without knowledge is without light-" And you've certainly perorated the final enlightenment.
When I was a kid, I read _Angels & Demons_ , and it kept making a big deal out of ambigrams and how they were supposed to be impossible. Obviously that wasn't true, since someone had made some for the book, including one of the book's title itself. I thought, "Well, maybe they're at least really difficult." So, to see for myself, I decided to try making an ambigram of my own name. It took me a day or two, but I finally managed it. I was inordinately proud of myself. I'm not sure where my ambigram is now. Might be in one of my scrapbooks, since this was during a rare visit to see my aunt. I should look for it.
My favourite ambigram can be read as both "wave" and "particle"
Where is it?
@@blauesserpiroyal2887 You can't know for certain until you look at it.
@David Ivy took ya long enough
Wat?Who?How?Where?When?Why?
Light.
I love the energy Michael gives to videos like these. He's like an excited little kid! And I love ambigrams too.
He’s like a serial killer too
yeah, i watch DONG
D:reviewing
O:toys
N:with
G:Michael
Y O U O B V I O U S L Y D O N T K N O W H O W A C R O N Y M
Say_Hello_Aidan r/whooosh
Say_Hello_Aidan r/whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh
Yeah, I watch Vsauce
V: Please
S: Post
A: Something
U: We
C: Need
E: You
: Michael
Say_Hello_Aidan r/whoooosh over your head
“Hey my channel is Vsauce and this other one is Vsauce2” *long pause*
lmao Michael I love u
best part LMAO
I don't get it):
@@zejdland his third channel is called vsauce 3 (i dont think its tottaly ,,his thrird channel'' cuz he doesnt appear there)
@@zejdland 5:02
@@theternal you have a murderer on your profile picture btw
0:07 That's some great kerning you've got there.
Real smooth.
KEMING
keming
Don’t you mean ‘reals mooth’
m i c h a l e l ' s world o fart
The people who makes those books are artistic geniuses.
I just love Michael's World of Art! It's one of my favorite history museums to visit from time to time.
*Michaels World o fArt!
The story at the end was really impressive. I like how everything kinda works whichever way it is read, and that the story actually makes sense like that. I can just imagine creating something like that must be just like a puzzle, because every new element you want to add to the story has to work both ways.
Finally a book for australians
WE ARE NOT UPSIDE DOWN!
QuantumMechGuy
...
we all know
but here’s something you don’t
r/woosh
Ziey r/noose
Hey Ziey it's not an r/swooosh if it's also a joke ya know?
Don’t take away my pleasure of r/swoooshing dooterscoots
5:12 Micheal: **mocking the book’s name**
_two seconds later_
Micheal: My life is a lie
Or he took a shot at Vsause 2 and 3
Michael*
@@eyelandssthat is literally what op said…
@@ShadNex It's misspelt
Fun Fact: John Langdon and Dan Brown (the author of the famous book The Da Vinci Code) are close friends. John Langdon served as an inspiration for the main character, Robert Langdon in Dan Brown’s book series: Inferno, Origin, The Lost Symbol, Angels & Demons, and of course the Da Vinci Code. Tom Hanks played Robert Langdon in three movies based on those books: Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and Inferno.
And by the way, John Langdon’s ambigrams can found in Angels & Demons, both the book and the movie, which you can see in the beginning of this video. 🤓
I thought that was from Angels and Demons and it seemed to good to be coincidence.
I knew Langdon sounded familiar.
I was about to write that
Ibraheem Talha that's explains the name similarities.
He also created the illuminati brands for angels and demons, illuminati, fire, water, air, earth and the words fire, water, air, earth together, fantastic.
Man, i can't see that lady, i just see a farmer upside down
Same.
Dumitru Ene it works better when actually turn it upside down. If you're on mobile try locking your screen orientation and flipping your device.
Yeah that one was particularly dodgy
people, it was 1905 ! ... its pure genius someone created and published such kind of creative art even back then
imagine no internet back then, just letters and no high speed communications like today, with just your thoughts, imagination and creativity. in that context, i am impressed by whoever did this ... :D
That upside down story is pure genius great video.
Have you heard about any book which can give you different story when you read it from backward? Here is a book Sri Raghava Yadhaveeyam.
This book is written in such a way that you will enjoy the story of Rama when you read it in forward way while you will enjoy the story of Krishna when you read it from backward.
Forward:-
वन्देऽहं देवं तं श्रीतं रन्तारं कालं भासा यः ।
रामो रामाधीराप्यागो लीलामारायोध्ये वासे ॥
(Translation:- I pay my obeisance to Lord Shri Rama, who with his heart pining for Sita, travelled across the Sahyadri Hills and returned to Ayodhya after killing Ravana and sported with his consort, Sita, in Ayodhya for a long time.)
Backward:-
सेवाध्येयो रामालाली गोप्याराधी मारामोरा ।
यस्साभालंकारं तारं तं श्रीतं वन्देहं देवं ॥
(Translation:- I bow to Lord Shri Krishna, whose chest is the sporting resort of Shri Lakshmi; who is fit to be contemplated through penance and sacrifice, who fondles Rukmani and his other consorts and who is worshipped by the gopis, and who is decked with jewels radiating splendour.)
Nice 👌
That's interesting
Dan Brown's main character in his novels is called Robert Langdon. Well done Dan, well done
2:18 As you can see, he wrote the word
Me: LEARN!!
Michael:
teach
Me: Tears!
Michael: Teach, learn
My brain: ?????????
I see yanny
Yuvekta Raka Yudishtira Um, actually, it’s ‘green needle’.
Doesn't look like anything to me.
AwesomeMiningWizard
Looks like laurel to me.
Words, man. It's like, *w o a h*
hmm yes interesting. They are so wordy in their meaning.It's like covfefe,man
I SWEAR YOU ARE ME
whoa*
*Ч e o м*
That's, just, like your opinion man.
I love this art, I learnt to do my name. Used it in on business card. No one got it.
I love you
I can see how it can be done haha
Here's an Ambigram for you
I
Here’s one:
SWIMS
@@elemenopi9239 smiws
NOW NO SWIMS ON MON
Edvinas Sungur
You don’t get it
Ha ha
8:50 That 2nd panel upside down made me smile when you flipped it. That is really interesting and baffling as to how someone can come up with these.
‘Imagine if my second channel was called Vsauce 2’ ... oh😂😂😂
michael's toys cured my depression
Slad Michael's toys cured my mesothelioma
michel's toys cured my cure
It cured my Communism.
I can't see Luvkins like anything other than an upside down guy.
I'm sure in 1904 it looked great. I can *sort of* see it in certain panels, but it's too gimmicky.
L looks like Γ (greek letter gamma)
Muffaroo and Luvkins are one of the earliest cartoon-style characters to exist.
I can't see the old man at all. Just the lady!
2:19 , i read tears... amazing
Vsauce: “...That says ‘minimum’ not matter where you look at it.”
Me: *Looks at it from the side*
5:02 Lol, that self-stab.
Gustave's Verbeek work is incredible! That was really cool to see.
I've seen that fifth panel of Lovekins and Muffaroo so many times, but never knew of what it was a part.
One of my favorites was the logo for the band, Angel. I saw their logo in 1975 and was inspired to spend many hours trying to create my own... with limited success. I was similarly inspired by MC Escher and managed to create a sort of logo from my initials that would tile a plane...
One of the princess bride's DVD box arts also read as the princess bride upside-down.
0:00 - 0:05 Woah, i thought i was a baby and you were gonna pick me up
Woke.
His hands where huge
babyhood flashbacks
I almost said "daddy"
Software Man whoa*
I love story time with Michael! ♥
*_If VSauce Is So Good How Come They Haven't Made VSauce 17 Alexa Send Tweet_*
The fact that I’m really tired makes this way better
How
Oh my god, the first time I even saw an ambigram, I fell in love with it.
Reminds me of the story of Wind and Mr. Ug.
oledakaajel yes! when he mentioned story I immediately thought of them
I know that video, but I didn't think of it while watching this one.
oledakaajel +
I haven't seen that video in so long. Thanks for reminding me about it!
vihart - The Wind and Mr. Ug
th-cam.com/video/4mdEsouIXGM/w-d-xo.html
Yay Michael’s Dong!!
Aubree Swart sounds weird
ImZelo Precisely
i love Micheal's Dong
Aubree Swart I can barely contain my excitement to enjoy Michael’s Dong! I just love watching Michael’s great Dong!
Yay! I love his DONG
"... says momentum equals mass times velocity," *stares in your soul* "which it does."
I first learned about these things yrs. ago and I am intrigued by them. They are some fascinating works of art
Michael is never making free Vsause videos again, is he?
Sad man...
at least we have dong tho
Pick it’s sad, we have reached the end of an era
call me crazy but personally i think he will upload eventually. Maybe a year from now?
Yes hello I'm a premium member and he mentions in his show (and even in previous dong videos, fyi) that he's still committed to both channels as well as his show. He even says that he prefers Vsauce to Mind Field because he can make the video how he wants it to be.
In short, he's still going to upload free content, managing a show plus doing videos for two channels is a lot of work, especially with the content he creates, and you should cut the man some slack and quit bitching. He doesn't *owe* you Vsauce videos. You should just be grateful he's even still on TH-cam, because that can change at any moment if he decides he's done.
last time i was this early Micheal was a completely normal person
Mr Temporal I was never this early.
I'm pretty sure he's playing a character. But I love that character.
2:05
*W H I C H I T D O E S*
List of ambigrams:
SWIMS
passed
no u
pod
lol
MOW
ɥeah
suns
BOB
Racecar
@@ml7359 racecar is the same backwards but not upsidedown
yeah
It is the same both upside down and backwards @rnrsimon12
Also noteworthy is Mozart's "Tablemusic for two". When you turn the sheet music of the first violin upside down you get the sheet music of the second violin!
John Lane donned words splayed out to hide my kale curiosity. Box those up for me I am big on ram art! Peter knew old “Tops,” the tour R.V., saw this, too. Scott & Kim, in versions, were quite clever. On the upside, Dawn wore old hats while Gust Oliver’s beak was a puzzle in the end.
4:19 that one on the left looks sooo weird and trippy when you move it bc of the colours
Am I the only one who feels like he put the “Michael’s world of art” so that it also looks like “Micheal’s world o fart”
100% he did that on purpose haha
i feel like that too!
that was on purpose
@@yoro__33 I know... I wanted to see how many people noticed like I did...
I got into ambigrams from reading angels and demons. I was particularly fascinated by the diamond ambigram that comprised the four elements(if you search angels and demons ambigrams you'll find it). I wanted to see if I could do it myself. My first and last name both have 6 letters, and I can write them in an Ambigram. But instead of doing one at the time, I joined the first letter of my first name with the last 2 of my surname, and did the same with the last 2 letters of my first name with the first letter of my surname.
Michael.... You're awesome!! I want those ambigram art books badly...
this is the best series on youtube
John Langdon should make a ambigram that is "false" and "true" for those of us in school
Louis Foley i.imgur.com/q6l3z.png
falseanjf
trueaslet
there you are
3:51
Feels weird when he doesn't say Hey Vsauce Michael here.
˙ǝɹǝɥ ןǝɐɥɔıW ǝɔnɐSʌ 'ʎǝH
Alkyl Dimethyl Benzyl Ammonium Chloride almost disliked your comment because I was reading it upside down
MrXplosive 24 I don't blame, you, I often forget to turn my phone right side up from time to time
Alkyl Dimethyl Benzyl Ammonium Chloride haha I guess that's why when I check my photos I see people walking on the ceiling
SWIMS is an ambigram.
so is ‘despacito’
So is NOON
Incredible content as always, Michael! I was privileged enough to have Scott Kim deliver a lecture in our art and game design class at Burlingame High School. Mr. Kim lives in Burlingame, and perhaps his children attended the school as well. Regardless, his work is fascinating, and his ideas really opened up the world of visual design for me.
Really love ambigrams that also add a touch of flair with calligraphy (like the four element iron brands in the Da Vinci Code movie with Tom Hanks).
"so once you've got two characters that when upside down become the other, you could start having them go on adventures" oh ok
vsauce pls uplod on main chanel
Therealrobokaos yeah i know. It's a joke comment. Though, he really hasn't uploaded for a while now.
pobies its cause he has a Red series now. Vsauce has bexome a dead channel unfortunately.
Boogity Hoo Maybe after the youtube red show ends or takes a brake.
Maybe after they realize TH-cam Red shows rarely have any kind of pull to attract an audience.
Yeah, but they shouldn't take 8 months to make either.
7:05 MUSTACHIO
Interesting & Astonishing world of Ambigrams !
You know what this reminds me of? There was this one book I learned in art class way in... first grade I think? It was used to teach us how to use negative space. The gist of the book was that some kids took a field trip to some big city, and the whole book was in black and white. The twist was that the shapes and stuff formed in the story normally was in black with empty space being white, but, once you get to the end of the book, you could flip over the book and then read the story from the last page to the front, with the black space being empty and the white space being the story bit.
"some of what they drew has not aged well" beep beep do I detect some old fashioned racisms?
√366IU
nice
I sense some people have gotten more insensitive. ....
Bunch of cucks.
haha probably. 😂
"Hey, my channel's called Vsauce, and this other one's called Vsauce2- *sudden realization*"
Micheal could you please do a video on the 4th dimention?
no
Riley Bagnall no
Che magia gli ambigrammi ❤
Da quando li ho scoperti non riesco a pensare ad altro!
There was something he doesn't know right at the beginning. Now he knows everything. Well done sir.
2:25 no one else saw “tears?”
Me
Me
I saw tearn
Oh my hpd i vant unsee it
in what world is that an s? I see tearh
No matter how long I stare I do NOT see the female character in The Upside-Down World book at all :(
focus on the mouth
I didn't but I luckily found it
i dont even understand WhERE ARE THE FEET?
@@symmetricksambigrams under the skirt (=
Yeah
here's an ambigram for ya:
sapnu puas
Pooie Lewie ha nice
it has to work both ways...
Koby Dunham shoosh
Lel
PornHub Premium?
Man, that Verbeek dude blew my mind!
man i thought Michael was being really clever and facing the books towards the camera so the audience could read them at the end... but then i remembered, very cool stuff!
Hey Vsauce, Dolan Dark here.
There's a starman waiting in the sky so it would seem ever Speedwagon watches Dong
wtf why are you everywhere
"My channel's called Vsauce, and this other one's called Vsauce2.."
He doesn't even realize that this channel will soon change from Dong to Ding.
Do
Inline
Now
Guys
Ambigram artists: “aye how much for a shoutout?”
Micheal “nah I gotchu fam”
Michael*
This reminded me of one off my favorite childhood books. Round Trip by Ann Jonas.
I love learning & laughing. This is my favorite place on the internet!
3:47
Me when I don't know the answer to a test
ＳＰＡＧＨＥＴＴＯ
theVHSvlog somebody touched it
Che magia gli ambigrammi ❤
Look at these zooms. I love them.
Langdon has also worked with Dan Brown for his novels, Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, Inferno and Origin. Brown named the protagonist of these novels, Robert Langdon, as a tribute to Mr. Langdon.
Wait, Dan Brown... John Langdon... Isn't the protagonist in Dan Brown's 'Da Vinci Code' series named Langdon..?
Pretty much all of his works, actually
I have a channel called vsauce and there’s another called vsauce 2 a- *visual discomfort at his realization.*
Sorry but I don't see the woman in that comic at all. It continues to just look like the man upside down to me.
1234 when you realize that in 2 more years we’ll actually be in the 20s
Talinus But I'm already in my 20s??!!
Looks like she’s falling on a pillow or something
it took so hard for me to see it by eventually i did lmao
Took me a while but it's easy to see once your brain gets it.
How have I not seen this one, this was super cool!
When the book with the comic strip was turned upside down , my head exploded!
sapnu puas
Matritf tutos This is why we can't have nice ambigrams.
5:07 Vsauce but out of context
7:00 I really struggle to see "the little lady". In fact I don't see her at all.
-"AND-as always thanks for watching-"
No Michael, Thank you! Your videos and content have immensely changed how I/We view this world, thank you for this perennial yet intermittent erudite content.
"Without knowledge is without light-"
And you've certainly perorated the final enlightenment.
I love Michael’s world ofarts
michael's world o' fart
Oh no
hehe
fart
Xd potatoes so random lmao rofl lol rawr
What's the outro song called?
take the audionetwork link in the description and type in "let me be the one" then click on the first that shows up
McHerwig 1337 thank you
let me be the one by pete masitti
0:00 - 0:05 those are some long arms
My favorite ambigram is nou it looks like no u and works so well.
michael: john langdon is so famous *ohmygos*
THAT MADE ME LAUGH SO MUCH IDEK WHYY
Oscillation Ambigrams are the kinds of things I did back when we had to write true or false on a question sheet
1:13
Omg I have to laugh 😂
0:50 almost like john lennon
The only technique to beat a "true" or "false" test!
When I was a kid, I read _Angels & Demons_ , and it kept making a big deal out of ambigrams and how they were supposed to be impossible. Obviously that wasn't true, since someone had made some for the book, including one of the book's title itself. I thought, "Well, maybe they're at least really difficult." So, to see for myself, I decided to try making an ambigram of my own name. It took me a day or two, but I finally managed it. I was inordinately proud of myself. I'm not sure where my ambigram is now. Might be in one of my scrapbooks, since this was during a rare visit to see my aunt. I should look for it.