Is the Las Vegas Sphere Worth It?
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- Опубліковано 19 гру 2023
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Incredible that Eddy was crazy enough to go to every single Vegas Sphere in the country
And Canada
The only Vegas sphere on earth!
Fingers crossed that the Vegas Sphere doesn't abruptly die a month after this video drops...
@@reazorbackty49fingers crossed it does
@@pogolaughcongrats on discovering the entire point of the joke, your Nobel prize should be coming in the mail shortly.
I am so excited for The Sphere 50 years in the future when the panels aren't getting replaced in a reasonable enough time, and it's a horrible, broken monstrosity.
As much als i'd like to see that, this would not happen in Vegas.
As soon as the sphere dosent make enough money over a year it will be demolished because the land is too valuable. There will be some other dystopian feverdream there though
This is also how I feel about my regular human body
The sphere’s outside display isn’t actually made up of panels, instead it’s a bunch of LEDs which will make the replacement cost much cheaper because you just have to replace the broken “pixels” instead of a whole section. Idk about the inside though
@@ebiooo The inside should be similar. That’s essentially what most big screens at venues like this are like, they’re made of multiple panels that can be swapped out if one has issues.
50? I give it 5.
No way that glitchy ass video is actually one of the clips they put on the sphere. That could genuinely kill someone oh my god. I guess no one with epilepsy is allowed to live in Vegas now
Holy shit i didn't even think about that. Im pretty sure there are laws in place that makes it so you can't have strobe effects in large advetisements, billbords and so on?
>implying the rest of Las Vegas isn't basically a giant strobe light
@@mystriddleryIt's... Not? Like it's just not? Are you good?
@@raimarulightning I am good, why do you ask? And yes, las vegas has a lot of strobing lights in their signs for casinos/hotels/etc, shouldve been covered in the 'welcome to earth' portion of your packet.
@@mystriddlery ignoring the brainless implication that the city of las vegas consists entirely of casinos, are you really going to sit here and pretend that you think a massive stadium sized extremely bright spherical screen that can be seen from miles away is the same thing as a sign with flashing lights on a building?
It reminds me of that Black Mirror episode where the characters are surrounded by screens in their bedrooms and if they look away there's a blaring alarm telling them they need to look back up at the screens
Good news, there are already TVs that you can get for free, but they force you to watch ads, and Roku recently got a patent on inserting ads over external HDMI input on their TVs when they detect no motion when displaying content you own from an external device. Isn't it a glorious time to be alive??
That’s a great episode.
As a nevada resident I'd like to point out the fact the same county in Vegas declared a financial emergency stating they couldn't house all of the kids in the city without homes to the point they had to rely on hotel rooms in casinos the exact same week this massive eyesore was unveiled. It was the most dystopian news day for me.
god this is so horrifying…
B.S.
@@carlgemlich1657 thank you for your wonderful insight carl
HEY! THINK ON THE BOTTOM LINE OF THOSE POOR MILLIONARE SHARE HOLDERS!!1!
CANT SOMEONE THINK ONT HE HUMBLE %1-4% OF THE POPULATION?!?
Each time i read stuff like this i cant help but think why people even live there? Like i dont mean the US in general (im EU) i mean just big cities like those, why even live on a place like that?
@@toobig7150 I guess because sometimes people don't have the choice because there they find work but not anywhere else
Cyberpunk 2077 being advertised on a giant advertising sphere that can be seen for miles is one of the most cyberpunk things I've ever seen
author: i created the Torture Nexus as a warning for the future in my book, Don't Create the Torture Nexus
tech company: we've brought you the Torture Nexus, from beloved best-seller Don't Create the Torture Nexus!
many such cases
@@sydssolanumsamsyslike squid game (as shown at 20:40)
Also, not to be the most annoying person to have ever walked the earth, but *Torment Nexus
@@idkhowbutimgay Torture Nexus rolls off the tongue much smoother
@@sydssolanumsamsys Ah yes, a giant ball is the equivalent of torture
What do you think cyberpunk is about?
The artificial canal opera singer thing looked so awkward for the couple. You’re essentially being paddled down a swimming pool that runs through a mall while a loud guy sings and everyone stares at you.
It's like a bootleg version of the real Venice, it's very strange.
I was there about 13 years ago - it is indeed very strange - it's like you're living in a cheap simulation of the real thing. It's like the apple vision pro, but in real life
With the LED ceiling, so uniquely american in how obnoxiously taste deficient this shit is
Yeah they probably paid like 500 dollars for that “experience” lol
Imagine being the guy that has to go to work everyday and sing on a gondola in a swimming pool. 😂
The idea of grandparents sending their young grandchildren videos of uncanney-valley-terminator wishing them good sleep is deeply funny to me.
"we were so blinded, that we didn't want to see any light but our own" said by a big giant sphere of lights. I absolutely love the irony and am saddened by it.
During my time on this earth, I've learned that big companies either have no understanding of irony or ignore it on purpose.
I actually wonder if Darren Aronofsky intentionally put that in. Seems plausible
i wonder if that was done on purpose. knowing the director it def could be, it’s like he’s criticising the sphere but the people who built it can’t see it bc.. they don’t wanna see any light but their own.. haha.. get it…
@@steponkusceponas4085 The theory that they "ignore it on purpose" is true. The only way to get people lower their standards is to pretend something better is impossible.
@@lamontcranston3177yeah after watching that horrible Squid game game show Netflix put out recently. It cemented that sentiment in me. Also that media executives have 0 media literacy abilities.
eddy is definitely in his “gets lost in some capitalist monstrosity” era. he’s stared in the soul of the rainforest cafe, jimmy buffet, and now the vegas sphere
To be fair a weird restaurant is nothing compared to a giant lightbulb billboard
Idk I feel like even the ghost kitchen video falls in this category
@@linamina3600It sure does, and that video was yet another example of how "money is the root of all ills" when ur dealing with unscrupulous dishonorable crooks and greedy fucks. Like, if you or I ever decided to advertise our restaurant on a food delivery app, we would take some pictures, put our prices up there, and hope for some orders to start coming in. It's a useful app for everyone. What would never occur to us, however, is to create 15 different shell companies with different names all selling the same burger in order to clog up the page with our offerings. Like, my mind wouldn't even let me sleep at night if I pulled some cockroach move like that.
Next stop: NEOM
eddy = Ted kaczynski but good?
i was recently on a flight to SF, and i was taken by surprised when i was able to spot the sphere from hundreds of miles away in an airplane with not the best visibility. i am sincerely so sorry for everybody in Vegas who have to deal with it daily, bcs i could figure that the sphere is an eyesore and incredibly annoying to deal with, but it never really hits how dystopian an idea it is until you experience the sphere yourself
Reminds me of how in Cyberpunk 2077 the main setting Night City has an area dedicated to holographic ads going up into the air non-stop. This is of course on top of every building, street, and road being covered with advertisements as well. Not to mention how in that universe ads have barely any regulations due to corporations owning well... everything, so it's just an overwhelming amount hedonism and consumption.
I hate the outside visuals so much. If it was just a big spherical venue like the one in Burbank, that would be really sick and interesting. The outside is the biggest dystopian ick. The light pollution, the adds, the fact that it obstructs so much of the skyline with adds that constantly change is all so icky
agreed, we couldve done so much more with that money too
It’s wild to me that they mentioned climate change in their ads considering the amount of CO2 this thing emits and the amount of money they spent on it
literally
We should build mini-spheres around nuclear plants
These rich greenwashing creeps always do this, this was basically the entire COP this time around hosted by UAE.
It's never about actually reducing impact, it's about convincing people that they are. It's worked since the 70s
Also the insane amount of light pollution that comes from having a giant sphere.
What makes the Sphere feel more dystopian is where it's located. I live in Vegas, which I know a lot of people in the comments are saying but hear me out. When we say Vegas, we mean everywhere around it. Henderson, Summerlin, North Las Vegas, Boulder City, etc. It's a place of millions of people of mostly middle to low class status who deal with terrible inflation in their groceries and gas, constant construction getting in the way of daily travel, a poor functioning school district with a current teacher strike (though apparently they've reached an agreement?), and to top it all off, we have a terrible homelessness and crime problem that is not getting any better dispite awareness and action from multiple organizations. What makes it frustrating to locals is that it has nothing to do with Clark Country (the district Vegas is located in) being underfunded. They have money. The world sees this in the billion dollar epileptic nightmare, and we locals see this in things like our housing problem, where they are constantly building expensive fancy houses yet not doing anything about unaffordable existing homes. Or in our school district where the superintendent keeps getting his salary raised while we are facing a teacher shortage and violence in our classrooms. Yes, I'm aware that the state and local government is not paying for the whole project, but they still decided they'd focus on it before dealling with our other issues. The point is that this project is a dystopia, as also made clear by Eddy's video, because it puts the entertainment of the wealthy, most of whom don't even live in the state, before the welfare of struggling locals.
Anyways, great video! Love seeing my home talked about more :)
Dont worry if you just pull yourself up by your bootstraps you will be a billionaire like Elon Musk!!! Didnt you know that capitalism pulls people out of poverty???
Dude your groceries and gas are the same price as the places around you and less than LA... wtf are you talking about?
@@thomgizziz What does that have to do with ANYTHING? That it's bad somewhere else means it can't be bad there, even when things are actively getting worse?
And the commenter is specifically talking about the part of the population in the LOWER income brackets.
@@thomgizziz so if prices keep going up, Vegas is fine as long as it's cheaper than LA? ok.
@@thomgizzizwhataboutism is a fallacious argument. Should we ignore the struggle of homeless people in the US just because people in impoverished nations have it worse? Obviously not. Be more nuanced.
I really like the way this channel does ads, even though I despise ads. The time at the bottom is very nice and I'm much more tolerant of the interruption knowing it's justifying two unwanted U2 tickets.
2:44 The sheer irony of a Cyberpunk ad being played on the sphere
shit looks like its straight from the game
exactly, cyberpunk warns us of the dangers of corporate domination resulting from monopoly capitalism, yet they (the company behind cyberpunk, not the devs) dont see the irony in promoting it on the las vegas sphere…
as someone who was born and raised here, there are so many aspects to this. when people think “Vegas” they only think of the strip and the entertainment/gambling scene. what they don’t know about is the severely underfunded schools and crippling gentrification of the northern suburbs. nevada is ranked in the bottom five states in education, not even mentioning the increasingly apparent acts of gun violence. and no one does anything. so yes, the sphere is dystopian and the strip is a big billboard, but the cost of that isn’t just paid by the companies buying ads. the community suffers the most. this city feels like a city trying to be a city. people in power don’t care about locals and i wish there was more light brought to this. this video was awesome eddy thank you
Well, I mean the whole point of building a city in the middle of a desert was to be a tourist destination, mostly to avoid the laws that most other places had. It would be more shocking if it didn't turn out dystopian.
I agree with Brian over there, I'm actually more suprised ppl actually live there in communities that arent involved with jobs at the strip. I had already figured the violence was just already part of the package, just from what media has portrayed it as thru the years
@@mirnasimmi4901if there are jobs and people work there, you will always have a permanent population. The people who moved there just to work will soon become people with children, those children become normal members of the population, rinse and repeat. Being a primarily tourist destination isn’t an excuse to sidestep your citizens
I drove across the US and Canada over three weeks and stopped in Vegas for two nights. Driving through Nevada the locals that I saw depressed me. Everyone just looked unhealthy, smoked, drank, and gambled.
they ARE bringing light to this!
I love that the first idea that multiple grandparents have when they see an AI robot is "I bet this thing is great at wishing my grandkids goodnight".
the robot attendant looked absolutely dead inside during that exchange, I bet that request comes in constantly every night
"SLEEP LITTLE DUMPLING. I HAVE REPLACED YOUR MOTHER."
😂😂😂😂@@moyo6606
It's honestly kinda sweet 😂
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This was great! You should do smaller cheaper video essay exposing the "Monet/Van Gogh Immersive Experience" $50 to walk through a few rooms with pixelated projected images.
With car advertisements filling the artworks… so tacky
That editing to Moonlight Sonata at the end was en pointe. I didn't notice the first time I watched this, but the music starts way earlier than I thought. That must have taken some work.
i am cosmically terrified of the sphere. it evokes a fear in me that i assume can only compare to people gazing upon eldritch beasts and losing their minds
Exactly, that's a good description. For something that is the cutting-edge technology right now, the Sphere ironically evokes a weirdly primal fear in you, like it shouldn't exist in 2023.
This is exactly it, thank you for putting it into words. This thing terrifies me and I might just avoid Vegas forever honestly
@@fringeflix this. and my fear of late stage capitalism.
@@sigasaurusrex actually it’s mostly the second one for me
@@harrylane4 FACTS
The fact that we've gone from people feeling uncertain about creating radio advertisements because people couldn't just turn a page if they didn't like what they saw, to a multi-billion dollar eyesore that literally forces people to witness ads in less than two human lifetimes is.... terrifying.
Nobody is “forcing” you to look at it, k?
@@powder-blueunless you’re someone who lives or works in Vegas and you have to live nearby/drive by it every day? Like at that point what else do you do to avoid it except gouge your eyes out oedipus style.
I don’t really think it’s ridiculous to not want ads shoved in our faces all day and from every angle when the average American sees thousands a day already. Even the gas station ads piss me off. I’m already paying you for my gas. Let me fuel my car in peace. 💀
@@powder-blue idk if you know this but people live in Las Vegas. and idk if you know this. but you see the buildings where you live.
Comment doesn’t make sense when billboards and electronic/led billboards have existed for decades displaying ads
I celebrated when he mentioned the orb has allegedly lost millions of dollars. It's spiteful, but I hope that it tanks hard. People shouldn't have to put up with ads bigger than the coliseum assailing them every single day.
Dude that montage at the end had the exact same vibe for me as "That Funny Feeling" by Bo Burnham. I had chills. Great video man!
I know this is late, but Eddy's description of the Sphere at the end of the video, reminded so much of the Spiral from Junji Ito's Uzumaki.
Emphasizing the sphere's demand for attention being necessary for its survival really makes it feel more and more like some Eldritch beast. Something which must live in the collective consciousness to live at all. Big corporations don't even make an effort to pretend that their ideal vision of humanity's future isn't a horrifying dystopian one.
I was thinking the entire ending part how easy a comparison to Nope would be
That's very well said lol. Write a book
More wants more. This year they need to make 200 mil, next year 400 or its a fail. Oh you didnt grow 50% well screw you. Nothing is ok just churning around yes. Crazy bad light polotion...I bet the indoor screens aint even oled with at least 60 fps footage...
the sphere is a tulpa
@@SheepasaurusRex and/or an egregore
edit 5 seconds later: egregores dont have physical form nevermind
I saw a comment talking about how most Vegas residents won’t really see the sphere and I think the most dystopian part is that it’s true for richer residents living in Summerlin, Henderson and our other big suburbs but our poorest neighborhoods in East Las Vegas, paradise, and spring mountain have constant uninterrupted views of the sphere while at home, work and going just about anywhere. For the wealthy it is a fun addition to the tourist attraction and for the rest of us we look at it while driving over unpaved roads and going to some of the worst schools in the country.
That's just Vegas, as someone who has lived there their entire life. Locals try to avoid the strip and tourists lol.
Huh, I live in the wealthiest part of Henderson, and it is so cool to look at.
@akivaweil5066 I don't live in the US at all and I find it fascinating how you fully missed what your own (almost) neighbor was talking about. Just ignored the whole thing.
That’s because they wanted to flex how rich they are. “So cool to look at”, speak for yourself you bum.
@@akivaweil5066Congratulations, you just proved this comment right.
As someone from Canada who's lived almost exclusively in smaller towns and was wowed by a skyscraper, this feels terrifying and wickedly dystopian
The montage at the video’s end of overhyped for-profit mass media (celebrity news, youtubers, movies, tv shows) as a comment on how the entertainment sector and its’ benefactors operate was beautiful. I didn’t need the existential crisis but I’ll take it.
There should be a 2nd sphere there and a huge tower in the middle. Would perfectly symbolize Las Vegas
The sphere as it is now should already be considered as the 8th wonder of the world, but that might be even better.
If some advanced alien species manage to see this using their giant telescope, they will immediately understand how superior we are to everything else in the universe!
There is the reverse of this kinda. There is a mini sphere inside a tower. Resorts World has a sphere by one of the entrances.
I thought you were going for a Lord of the Rings reference, with the two towers and the eye of Sauron, but no it was a dick joke.
as long as it's positioned so that the Strip is the taint lol
A medium-sized, slightly disappointing tower would honestly be more realistic.
I can already imagine the epic territorial battles that will be held for control of the broken sphere in the apocalyptic future.
Your comment gave me big Horizon: Zero Dawn vibes 👍
@@FranFroo yup 100%
Ngl this would be an awesome set piece in a game
Thundersphere
"This is MY god, not yours!"
24:07 the blade runner 2045 reference actually goes hard
I saw your Apple eye goggle pro video before this and I'm happy to hear you mention this concept in both, "will it make an increasing profit every quarter?"
Even more than most C-suites, Boards of Directors have a fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders to increase the stock price, which requires a constant increase in profit. To expect them to do anything else, like be fair and just to employees and the community, is folly. Wake up!
Keep spreading the message, Eddy. sub
If all of Eddy’s subscribers chipped in $1,350 we could construct our own $2.3 Billion sphere 💡
jesus this really puts into perspective how much money was lit on fire
@emmach8920 when you think about how much money they get from marketing and selling ads for the sphere it seems like it paid itself back
I'll actually be collecting the donations
@@djm8814 call it "the open hand foundation" or something
@@judttThe company is 750 million in debt. They lost 100 million in the first quarter.
As someone who lives in Las Vegas, I feel the need to inform you that we are also the home of the Death Ray (The Vdara), which is a building that is curved in such a way that the reflection of the sun beams into the pool area of another nearby building and has hospitalized multiple people. :) This is not the first time the architect has done this and there are multiple death rays in the world.
Welcome to Las Vegas.
Why tf would u live in Vegas that's party city not living city
reminds me of the gherkin i think it was in London that melted cars or something parked on the street due to the sun reflection
@@peepeetrain8755 it was the "walkie-talkie" skyscraper! Not sure why all our london buildings have such stupid names
@@scubajoe3321 If you look at a map, you'll see that the "party city" is actually a tiny part of Las Vegas
Not to mention the giant solar farms that instantly vaporize entire flocks of birds.
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Thanks. Great video. You answered all my questions and more. Don't ever stop giving that great detail.
I can’t imagine how much light pollution the sphere gives off
well it is las Vegas, the city of light pollution
@@littelcreatchure506okay but it's the brightest thing during the night in LAS VEGAS
in the grand scheme of things it probably doesnt make light pollution much worse
@@samkadel8185good point it must be BLINDING. I live in nyc so I’m already used to tons of lights and noise but nowhere near Vegas level, I think if I got woken up by that enormous sphere blinking at me at ass o’clock in the morning I would become murderous
@@kaykeunilit's not
I feel like not nearly enough people talk about light pollution, either. There was a time in 1994 in LA where an earthquake resulted in a huge blackout, so all the lights went out. Residents were so shocked by the "strange sky" (the milky way) they saw during the blackout that a nearby observatory kept on getting calls the week after.
Light pollution not only affects the beautiful night sky, but also insects, turtles, birds, fish, reptiles, and other wildlife species, with their behaviours, foraging areas, and breeding cycles, and / or migration routes being disrupted to concerning degrees. I've never seen the night sky in it's pure form, and if the chance passes with the accelerating rate light pollution is going in.. I don't even know. I just wish the 1% fucked off to the next galaxy over or something lmao
Edit: why r mfs getting so angry that I wanna see stars in a suburban area 😭😭
True
Las Vegas is already one of the most light polluted cities in the US, luckily, just drive out an hour to the desert, and boom, the night sky. They're also dark-parks available that don't allow any lighted buildings.Been wanting to check that out
@@ellispiper6313 God i wished i lived in a country with a big ass desert lmfao
Definitely true! I doubt many people think much about light and sound pollution very often because so many of us surround ourselves with a bunch of lights/sounds that most people don't even question it (which is unfortunate).
Most people don't even know light can affect our health as well (like how blue light from phones/computers/etc can mess with people's ability to naturally create melatonin/get themselves to sleep, and it's unfortunately common for a lot of people to not get good quality amounts of sleep). :(
That’s just what you’re going to have more or less with any city. It’s a necessity to keep places where so many people live and travel well-lit.
That end compilation and the editing of this video is pure gold!
Brilliant. Informative, well researched, superbly edited, sensationally spoken, and unmistakably funny, as usual. Thank you Eddy.
Eddy is just finding more and more bizarre reasons to travel and I’m all here for it
Tax write off too since he made a video about it lol
he should go on jet lag
@@ottersaurusthat would be sick
As a Vegas local, the sphere is nice to look at, but they keep trying to block our view, charge astronomical parking prices and overall discourage “regular” people from attending a show there. So overall it’s a billion dollar eyesore. Not to mention, running an ad on there costs $500k.
@@Therealbigmonster we absolutely do care. It’s the government and the casino holders that make these decisions and use our money.
Block your view how? Like the external part? I'm genuinely curious as to what you mean.
@ItBePatYo I would assume they mean that fences, walls and other structures are put up so that the only way "regular" people can see it is by paying. As in they are making it as hard as possible for people to see/ take photos of it or whatever without paying for it
I'm really unsure about the longevity of the marketing of this thing. Right now any half-creative ad shown on it instantly goes viral on the internet but there will be a point where your sphere ad purchase won't go beyond reaching the people that actually can see it in person
@@Dschonathan that’s what I said. It only goes so far. Especially with the QR codes. Nobody really cares if you run an add on the sphere. They just want to see pretty colors light up on a big ball
The end to this video was glorious, I always appreciate your work, Eddie!
Ending montage was the beginning of a really remarkable train of thought. A very intelligent use of medium. Derailed from a simple joke.
That ending was genuinely perfect. Well done Eddie. Beeno would be proud
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chef's kiss
*sphending
@@bigoof42 lmao 😂
wasn't expecting a corecore edit from an eddy burback video but im happy it was in there
The line "Even after Chrissy went to sleep i found myself fixated on the sphere" sounds like it's straight out of some lovecraftian horror...a sphere from space that showed up and the sheer size and absurdity of it draws people to it
iirc there is a sci-fi horror novel by Michael Crichton literally called 'Sphere'
Destiny in a nutshell
Literally junji ito level, Uzumaki level horror
It sounds like how an alien would lure in human victims
ew omg you’re right 😭
I really want to see feature length docs produced by you and your team, so entertaining and while the point remains frightening. thank you
When I was a kid about 15 years ago one of the museums in Sweden built a movie theatre like this one. It was a pretty amazing experience with surround video and audio, they also did 3D. They show films about nature and space. Entry of course is more than for the museum but still about $15... The technology museum created a 4D theatre around the same time with moving seats and smells. Sadly that one only lasted for ten years and closed down in 2016 because they couldn't maintain the technology. Cosmonova is going through a big refurb though right now. I should go back and check it out when they are done...
Also, the natural history museum that houses Cosmonova is at least as beautiful and draws as much attention without lighting up. It looks like a big castle on the outskirts of the city.
For the record, The Las Vegas Sphere, even with inflation cost more to construct than The Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, Future World, or The World Showcase in Walt Disney World. A stadium with a single resident venue cost more than an entire Disney theme park.
and its fucking U2 for some reason, literally flushing money
But it's also smaller☝️
This just isnt true
I love how your videos stray further and further from the traditional video essay into a sort of artistic short documentary-meets-drama format
I'd say eddy's made a full transition into Gonzo journalism now and he's great at it. I've loved watching the transformation and I love the way it's panned out 😊
More like middle-aged-20-something meets thing-he-can't-stop-thinking-about-for-no-discernible-reason
@@Jordan_Starrgonzo journalism is such a fun way to put it I like it
@@Jordan_Starr *Googles gonzo journalism* oh yeah, I agree that's a good way to describe it!
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Fun fact! There's this underground tunnel (I think it's a waterway, it's right beside a major hotel) that has so many homeless in there, that the residents in it have their own unofficially elected mayor, teachers, fire department, etc.
We all just live in one big fucking Night City.
@@blankthoughttvI’m going to guess a combination of extreme poverty (that’s a given), heat (making above-ground living dangerous), and pushback from the government/police (making above-ground living much more dangerous)
@@blankthoughttvI did some quick googling, apparently there are fewer people living in the tunnels than in previous years. Major events for the city like F1 and the Super Bowl are used as reasons/excuses to remove people from the tunnels. There’s a homelessness advocacy group called Shine A Light which has people who go into the tunnels and attempt to provide support in various ways. That would probably be an interesting thread to follow for research.
At a glance, it looks like there’s a lot of press about it going back over a decade. I didn’t check for studies or papers, but I’d imagine the topic is especially interesting through the lense of sociology (particularly regarding social work and urban sociology).
🤢 what a dump
Yeah, "Fun fact"...
I live in a dark sky city and the sphere honestly sounds like the most horrific dystopian bs I could imagine
I think eventually we’ll have “dark days.” Where cities will turn down their lighting. This affects all living things. It fucks with our sleep cycle, we can’t even see the actual sky. 💀
You should work on improving your imagination.
Flagstaff? there aren't many dark skies cities.
I'd bet quite a bit that that sphere is inevitably going to have a "stargazing experience".
Please pick up astronomy as a hobby, it’s great! There’s more use for constellations than astrology. I would rather live in a shed in the middle of the woods where I can see every single star in the sky than a city. Name one city that is an international dark sky community. Once you hit a critical mass of people there’s just no coming back with the light pollution they create.
Amazing video. The ending was especially moving, reaching the conclusion artfully.
This is my first time coming across your channel... Amazing video
The only impressive thing about the sphere to me is the amount of light pollution that thing has to be giving. The fact that you’re seeing ads on your way home has to be way less annoying than the blinding light that changes colour quickly, can’t imagine that’s very safe for people with epilepsy either…
And birds!
Yes I thought about that too, how sad that residents of Vegas will possibly never see the stars at night (not that they had a chance anyways) 😢
@@kepukepu3093most of us who have lived here for decades live around 30-40 mins from the strip so we still see the stars at night. Believe it or not but Vegas has a lot of rural ranch houses and areas.
Just wait until they build the Hard Rock guitar hotel in Vegas. The Hard Rock in south Florida has one already and the light pollution is crazy (the whole hotel is a light show and there is a light beam to the sky at night) on top of the fact that there is a giant ugly guitar hotel in the middle of the suburbs and it’s visible for miles.
Yeah, just look at how bright the room is at 19:18, and that's from more than a mile away.
As someone who worked on it, it is crazy that the lights are deliberately underpowered significantly or else the electric internals would melt in months.
Wow. Wish I were technical enough to think of a question to ask you. 🤔
What percentage of output are the lights at compared to their capacity? Do you know what their plan is when it comes to maintenence? Because lights are GONNA go out, and I am curious what they will do when one area of lights 2/3rds up goes out. Will they need a boom crane to fix it? Or is there some method of swapping parts out internally so no external work is necessary?
@@dannypestolesi712I wonder about that as well!
Ya I'm curious how they are at heat dispercement. Everybody thinks leds don't get hot but they do, usually they just have very good heat sinks. I'm also curious as to how it's set up, how many lights on one circuit and what voltage is driving them. I've worked on 277 volt lighting and you can pack a lot of lights on one circuit but this amount is just insane. The electrical system for the lighting alone (power and controls) must take up a whole room. For reference in most commercial buildings usually there is like one panel dedicated for lighting power and a control panel.
And what did you do on the Sphere specifically?
What a terrific filmmaker you are. The editing, music, writing, your witty delivery are heads above my Netflix . Thanks for the big laughs.
30:00 This montage edit at the end was phenomenal.
As someone who worked on the Strip for over a year while the Sphere was being built, I recall it looking like the Death Star because of all the scaffolding, and I think it looked cooler than the finished design. It was fun and also didn't blind me every time I drove past it at night on my way home from work.
I remember taking photos of it on my way to work but only when the f1 barricades were being put up cuz of how dystopian it looked to me
Man,, every single car in Vegas is just a person. Maybe like you, on their way home from work.
@miamiataco3143 I always try to imagine myself being the living person behind the wheel in the other cars I drive next to, like we're all connected together via this road yk we ended up here together
That would be such a maddening thing to drive by. I'd legit be unable to drive. I couldn't see or focus on the road. I wonder if accidents have gone up since this thing has been operational. Hasn't anyone sued yet? It's such an eyesore.
@WhiffleWaffles this is all I could think about during the whole video. It's way too distracting for the road right next to it, that it has to have caused some accidents
My parents, who live there, and I were discussing this. It wouldn't be a surprise if the company was hemoragging cash just to power the damn thing. That power could be better used for powering Archimedes II or a securitron army
Or maybe, using it to power the homes of poorer people. But that would be un-American I guess.
The power?……. Being used incorrectly in Vegas?…… how about you solve your water issue before you worry about what the power is going to
bro for a hot second there i thought i was just clueless about some major technological advancement but then i read securitron army and realized 😭😭
What in the god damn
Times like these almost make you wish for a nuclear winter, especially out in the Mojave
That ending was great. Love the commentary in your videos
Your comedic timing is awesome.
"When you're really far away, it looks fantastic. But as you get closer, you’re surprised to see that isn’t the case." And in this way, it's the perfect symbol of Las Vegas.
Meh, Vegas is fine. Vegas outside the strip and northeast is generally a decent place to live in
I am being completely honest when i say this, i went to this a few months ago and yes, very steep, insane prices on food/drink and during the show, an elderly woman in front of me was having like a pre seizure or something and people had to shake her out of it and also, when the show ended, a guy right in front of me fell head first two rows down and had to be pulled out. It was absolute chaos lmao
Jesus Christ. I had a good experience when I went a few weeks ago
Lmaoo
@chimppower2748 ...and you're huge part of the problem. Cool spend money on frivolous bs while millions of Americans are starving and homeless. Cool story bro. I'm glad "you had a good experience." SMH fml wtf
i suffer seizures (thankfully not triggered by flashing lights, but i had to educate myself on it just in case) and my IMMEDIATE thought was "holy shit, how many seizure-related car crashes is this thing going to cause"
i didnt even consider what goes on inside, that sounds like pandemonium 😭
@@Algrenion Yeah watching this video I noticed how some of the outside visuals had very quick flashing bright lights right next to a big road...
I don't get how this is legal
I cannot comprehend why there wouldn’t be amazing visuals for the entire concert????? Even an old 3D pipe screen saver would look dope
I really appreciate your mindful perspective
if you wrote a novel about something like this sphere, critics would be like this metaphor is too heavy handed. absolutely wild.
I wish a bunch of artists could get control of the sphere for some days and just do some persistent and cool artworks on it that could linger a bit
I cant wait for it to get hacked and show a giant wiener on it.
It would be awesome if they did something like r/place from Reddit.
When revenue eventually drops from all this mainstream stuff maybe they'll go slumming... It would be sweet to see.
Nah that wouldn’t make enough money.
As much as i hate to admit, you're right ,sadly they care abt the money more than the artistic vision they make it out to be@@DanAndHoe
Just subscribed to your channel today Eddie ty for the amazing thought and talent (: keep it up
I caught that Close Encounters reference at 09:27. You can't fool this GenX'er! ❤ The video!
i feel like eddy’s the only youtuber who truly understands how broke we are lol. the whole thing about how you’re sure someone who’s a U2 fan would love to have those tickets hit hard with me. not cause i like U2. but because if i DID i couldn’t even contemplate paying for something like this. it somehow costs me money even thinking about it
how broke we all are... idk why but that just resonates me so much. It's so simple. But so true
It was a setup for a joke.
@@OctagonCookiestell me Garfield are you /srs or /j!!!!!?!?!!
rich youtuber relating to his poor fans
@@scrunkus oh no Nermal ¿why are you /s ?!?!
omg this was insane, that edit at the wowza geez man
i love the montage at the end!!!!!
As someone from Vegas it's actually really funny to see the reactions people outside of my social "sphere" have to the sphere because we were all pretty aware of it since it had to be constructed, obviously, so we had so much time to prepare for it actually going live. I didn't realize how jarring it would be for everyone else because it really did feel like it just dropped from the sky if you weren't around that area to see it's construction.
A note about the construction: for a long period of time before they put the screens in the outside it looked like a huge golf ball and I would refer to it exclusively as the golf ball during this time
It just showed up out of nowhere.
@@eatatjoes6751 and soon it will be too late 😔
I learned about it a few years before construction was complete because I am into science and engineering content, and there were a lot of impressive engineering feats that went into the sphere. I thought it was pretty funny too how when the sphere was finished it blew up like no one knew it was coming. It goes to show that there are always things going on outside your realm of knowledge. I'm sure there will be a thing that comes out of no where for me too.
i moved here about 6 months before the sphere went live and i didn’t notice it until they turned it on so it really did feel like it fell out of the sky for me LMAO
@@andrewevenson2657wow do you know about every single thing that’s currently happening all at once? 🙀
The facial recognition thing is actually insane. The guy who owns this uses facial recognition to keep people he doesn’t like out of the venues he owns 😭😭 Im pretty sure I listened to a podcast about him once and he was just like a bad guy in general
HELP REALLY? dyk what podcast it. was- ?
I’m convinced this guy is a comic book villian
@@CoolBabyGamerisCoolisMySister it's called Owned. The first season is about James Dolan's horrible management of the New York Knicks and then building an authoritarian entertainment empire centered around Madison Square Gardens, Radio City, and now the Sphere
James Dolan? Yeah NYC has been dealing with that dickhead for years. On behalf of the city, I apologize for spreading his influence as far as Nevada.
the podcast is called reign of error
As a person with interest in editing and appropiation found footage cinema, this ending is fantastic
Update from London: after a tenacious campaign from locals and intervention from the mayor the plans for this were blocked. The central government tried to reopen planning permissions but then MSG had walked off in a huff. Good riddance! Vegas is probably the only place on earth one of these is vaguely tenable, the light pollution makes it a no go almost anywhere else. Their proposal was to build it next to the train station in Stratford, a heavily built up area. It would have been about 30m away from residential towers. When residents complained to local planners MSG insultingly offered to buy them blackout curtains...
Rare UK win I see
$300+ in "processing fees" is absolutely insane lmfao
Absolute criminal price point
Yeah. At that point you need to include the fees in the listed price
Saw Postcards from Earth a couple months back and I was kinda blown away by how much I enjoyed it. But you hit the nail on the head, the message of the movie was hilariously conflicting with its venue. I wondered if it was intentional on Aronofsky’s part. Undermine the entire concept.
wealthy people who can afford the sphere are the ones who need to hear that message the most, so it mqkes enough sense for me
@@cloudbrooks also tbf I doubt the people in charge of the sphere pay much attention or care, it's just "oh yeah, known director, make something pretty so that we can use this venue to make money" and they either don't even bother watching it or if they do they don't care as long as they get money
I was thinking the same thing Johnny analyze horseshow
@Wuffskers more likely it's "if we give off the appearance of looking like we care, that's just as good enough as caring for the average person... even though we clearly don't."
What is this? A crossover episode?
I'm so glad the algorithm finally decided to present your channel to me. Thanks!
Eddie's videos are always so good and fun to watch
Okay but older people asking the robots to wish their grandkids goodnight is actually pretty cute, as horrifying those robots are and the nightmares they would inflict be
The only robots that should say this are lilims from va11halla
A robot is enough to give kids nightmares??
@@coryjohnson2486 kids get nightmares from far less scary things than that abomination
@@coryjohnson2486 i was terrified of the movie Chicken Little as a kid lmao
@@_catboy_ okay but the sky falling scene and the panels in the sky, as a kid, WAS kinda freaky i cant lie
One thing that terrifies me is how some companies have been looking into air and space laws to fly drone advertisements in the sky
Advertisers don’t just want captive audiences, they want inescapable ones
advertising like this is pretty dystopian--indeed, for me, it immediately recalls images from the Blade Runner films--but i don't think it's *wrong* for vegas. vegas is, in many ways, about titillation and desire and extravagance. vegas would not be vegas, would not have its identity, without bright lights and flashing signs. the city's appeal is one of opulence and indulgence.
one of the reasons i love vermont so much is that there are no billboards on the highways; they are laws against them which seek to preserve the state's natural beauty. it makes the state that much more beautiful and makes me want to visit that much more frequently. but vegas would be boring if it was like vermont, and vermont would suck if it was like vegas.
If that happens I am going to get into drones specifically to knock adverts out of the sky
I have an eating disorder where i straight up forget to eat to the ads definitely help me out with that. maybe think about others for once. time for my hourly bite of pizza
In Futurama, there was an episode where Fry learned that people in the future get ads in their dreams. What was a joke about excessive advertising back in 1999 seems like a reality that advertisers would love to make happen today.
Hate to break it to yah , but something like that is inevitable when we’re in late stage capitalism . They WILL have adds projected from the sky .
I have been sent from Beeno and told to tell you this video is spherical...SPHEEEERICAL!!!!!
watching these travel videos is like reading the log of a lighthouse keeper and slowly watching as they go insane, which honestly is great
I have a planetarium about 30 minutes from where I live that while smaller has the same type of screen. They show mostly documentaries for around 25$ for adults which seems like a much better value to me. It has been around for quite a long time so this type of screen isn’t really anything new. I think the reason why the sphere is so expensive is probably because the power bill is enormous. Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if the sphere uses more power than North Korea does.
theyre also really great if youre on acid
Yes PLEASE go to a planetarium near you instead of flying over to Vegas to see this goddamn glowing ball 😂 I just went to Las Vegas for the first time in October to visit family friends of mine who moved to Vegas from NJ and have been there for the past 6 years.
And they literally had no clue this thing was being built. Every single day when they pass this AD BALL on the way home, they see pretty much every single image that Eddy featured here in this video. Including all of the stupid and extremely bright ads for pop culture stuff. It’s annoying and distracting and nobody in the family enjoys seeing it at all.
Hell they wanted to take me to see either the U2 concert or the nature documentary but then we saw the prices for the tickets and agreed that there’s no way I will ever visit an event held inside the sphere 😂 it’s just too much to deal with and honestly I feel so bad for them since the sphere wasn’t even there at all when they moved there and there were no announcements of it being built at all whatsoever!
There's one in STL as well as an IMAX in the same building, the St. Louis Science Center! It's fuckinG AWESOME
See now that would be an immersive gaming experience
@@n14d14 why does every single comment have to a reply "BUT ITS BETTER WHEN YOURE HIGH!" ffs man get a hobby
also the amount of light pollution this ONE structure creates makes a WHOLE WORLD WIDE SERIES of structures terrifying to me. there are so few untouched night skies left and we are barreling towards completely elimination/illumination
I mean, its in Vegas. If they all stick to major cities, I doubt it'll really change many skylines that aren't already choked to death by artificial light.
I mean, you are just adding one more bright light in a city full of them like Vegas, I don’t think this means anything regarding “elimination of untouched night skies” it’s not like they built it in the middle of the jungle or something, though I agree it’s an eyesore of light pollution, I just doubt anyone was going to the middle of Vegas to see the one star still visible past all the bright lights, and then the sphere blocked that star
Crying about light pollution in Vegas is wild.
yall are all so pessimistic and sad. just because its already bad doesnt mean we should be okay with it getting worse. just because its already bad doesnt mean we shouldnt do what we can to limit it. just because its already bad doesnt mean we should tolerate this big ugly affront to nature. have some pride.
@@ghoulfr13nd We aren't saying that though. We are saying that they probably won't make the light pollution worse if they are constructed in close proximity to other massive sources of light pollution.
final compilation is fantastic
The songs in the background are everything 😭😭 jortstorm for this video is amazing
advertising a super spooky monster is the *only* good use of the sphere. i can get behind this.
That stranger things promo was sick and it is the one good use of it
This honestly just seems dystopia
I'm also ok with anime ads. yeah, total weeb. regular ads are cringe tho
YWNBAW
@@Guevon_PajaroI hope it’ll get hacked and just show 24/7 hardcore hentai.
I have not finished the video yet! But I work at a Vegas history museum, and I get asked my opinion or thoughts about the sphere pretty often! Here’s what I have to say: the sphere makes sense for Vegas, from a historical standpoint. If you lay out all of history in Vegas, they’ve always been about big flashy lights. It’s an integral part of our city’s history and identity.
They should not have spent public money on the sphere- lets get that straight. But Vegas has always been about the next big flashy attention grabbing thing. Always has been. Always will be.
It’s just a matter of time before The Sphere is out, and something new and crazier comes along.
I’ve always referred to the Sphere as the super villain orb, because it’s not gonna be used for any good. But stuff like this is standard protocol for Vegas. Stuff meant to pick through your wallet and catch your attention before moving on to the next big bright thing. It’s just with technology now those crazy things are getting dystopian.
Public money?!! Wtf! Reminds me of billionaire sports team owners getting tax payer dollars for their overpriced colloseums!! 🤮✌️🇺🇸
Yeah, I dislike this thing and hate the man responsible for it (Jim Dolan, because I'm a Knicks fan), but it is pure , undiluted Vegas.
In any other city, this'd be highly objectionable, but this absolutely fits a city that just had a F1 race for no real reason beyond "money."
And I'm not shitting on Vegas, to be clear, but as you said, a lot of Vegas is shiny, flashing things meant to catch your eye and relieve you of the money in your pocket before you move on to the next shiny, flashing thing.
I think spending public money on the sphere is pretty valid. It's a huge tourism magnet right now and it will be for the next few years. Eddy here spent 2500$ in Vegas because of the sphere and he is far from the only one doing that. He also bought the cheap tickets, yet the venues were pretty well packed with people having paid much more. A lot of the people coming for the sphere will loose some money gambling. This thing is a tourism hit and I think the public money was a good investment and the tax revenue generated from tourism because of it will be plenty
It’s really weird, but maybe it should JUST stay in Vegas. It shouldn’t go to London or any other city in the world. It’s pretty disturbing, dystopian, and just downright annoying to see that on your commute or at home
@@bm373it's an investment. How do you still not understand this concept? The money isn't just 'gone', it's returned in the form of tax dollars by non-residents.
That final montage was a wonderful climax to the video
At 4:36 i was like "damn a nice kitchen, is he rich, does youtube pay of that well" xD
Shout out to Eddy for going to the Sphere and declaring it as a work expense. living the dream
the last minute has me in tears, it can be so easy to accept so much of what is happening around us and just go along but it really is so important to face it head on and not fall victim to it
Face it head on? Like som einevitable collision? I think what we need to do, is resist it. Push back.
"I got all excited to see a sphere, and nothing happened... I was blue-sphered." never been a fan or delved into Eddy's videos but I will be doing so today thanks exclusively to this joke
Thanks for the honest review
The last 90 seconds was some of the most well-created, heart wrenching content i've seen on youtube in a long time. another amazing project from eddy ninepins.
lmao I love the eddy ninepins callback 💀
seriously though, that little montage feels weirdly poetic in a sense. the world gets more dystopian every day :/
Really made me want to f off to a cottage on a remote island but ofc one shouldn't, who else is going to stop that madness from getting worse but us?
They should display it on The Sphere
It was fucking incredible
It like genuinely hurt a little