Monumentality
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- Опубліковано 13 сер 2021
- WARNING FLASHING LIGHTS AROUND 5 MINUTES
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www.nationalgeographic.com/hi...
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www.brown.edu/academics/archa...
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paradoxoff.com/uncategorized/e...
www.theguardian.com/cities/20...
slate.com/culture/2010/01/wha...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...
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Music in order of Appearance:
Home - Finally Landing
Torsion - Blues Patrol
Nero’s Day at Disneyland - Eulogy for Nick Galvas
Kevin MacLeod - Heavy Heart
Gavriel - Thangs
Moonlight In Vermont (Soft Jazz Version)
Super Smash Bros Melee - Jungles Japes
Kevin MacLeod - Crinoline Dreams
Red Haze - Ozymandias
Boards of Canada - Transmisiones Ferox
Dead Melodies - Haunted by Whispers
Kevin MacLeod - Style Funk
Haircuts for Men - Jerking off to heavens gate
Autechre - Notwotwo
S H O P P I N G M A L L 1998 Michellini
Converted Missile Train - Goldeneye
Kevin MacLeod - Morgana Rides
Boards of Canada - Aquarius
Boards of Canada - B12 Side B Audiotrack
Kevin MacLeod - Bossa Antigua
Oneohtrix Point Never - Behind the Bank
PilotRedSun - Deady Mission
Oneohtrix Sleep Mix
Yume Nikki Fangame sleep mix - bgm044
b o d y l I n e - sheltered
Sci-fi City Music Ambience
PilotRedSun - Deadly Mission
Star Wars City Ambience
Star Wars Battlefront OST - Jakku Loading Loop B
Halo Ambient Music Mix
Von Hohenhelm - Silicon Soul - 3000 Years (Special thanks check out their channel: / @hohenheimstudios )
Boards of Canada - 5978 Retic Remix
Aphex Twin - Weathered Stone
Aphex Twin - Blue Calx
Boards of Canada - Roygbiv (COVER by Pece) - Розваги
Edit: Got rid of the rant. It was pointless.
Here are the metric conversions:
1 in = 2.54 cm
1 foot = 0.305 meter
1 mile = 1.61 km
what are these ancient texts
ppl should stfu about measurements and just enjoy the rest of this amazing video
@@kindlytv1097 This is honest to goodness the pettiest comment I have ever seen. And this is coming from someone who dislikes mister metokur. When did he ever say this? How long ago was it, under what context? And why do you feel the need to bring it up under such a vastly different subject?
@@kindlytv1097 Have you considered it has been five years and people’s opinions change? Solar has changed a lot in the time he has been on UA-cam, personality and content wise, from what I’ve noticed. I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to assume his stances on other content creators and humor of that nature have changed.
what a way to expand the reach of your content
This is the first one million special that I ever saw where the creator makes justice to the size of the achievement
Pse man
RATIOOOO
same
@@MC3DGoldSeto L
Team trees beat it for me, but it’s def the second. Though ‘makes justice’ might be the wrong word, since it’s pretty subjective to whichever creator in question
from deviant art ranter, to a sophisticated art historian. that's character development right there.
edit: this is a war zone, my god.
True dat
i kinda miss his old stuff but yeah
True glow-up.
God he was so toxic and defiant back then, thank god he grew up...
@@pastorofmuppets9346 His old videos were immature bc all he did was make fun of random people's bad fetish art. I prefer these videos, you can tell he puts a lot of effort into them.
39:39 When I clog the toilet with my monumental shit burger
I give you my reddit gold, stranger.
This joke was so monumental that solar sands literally hearted it holy shit
- Rich in content, justified long duration.
- Top notch editing.
- Brings up many different topics but ties them up under one theme.
- No dragging out, despite the duration.
- Kept my attention through the whole video.
- No pretending and over-dramatization, despite the thought-provoking topics.
- Shout outs to other interesting youtubers.
- High rewatch value.
This goes down as one of the best youtube videos I've ever seen, these million Subs are well deserved!
⭐Same although I can say the same thing for almost every other video on this channel, some of the best content on the whole platform in my opinion, that never ending monumental platform⭐
Yet still uses miles and feet, as if they're meaningful in any way. Just fucking move into the 16th century already.
-Mentions Bionicle
I can't believe "Take a journey with me through the unfathomable" and "There's Grubhub LORE?" are phrases said by the same person
Sometimes, the wisest say the stupidest and funniest shit
When did he say that because I’m almost done with the video and I didn’t hear it yet?
@@blugastidiofable9517 completely different video, give me a minute and ill come back with a link and timestamp :p
Edit: ua-cam.com/video/lFb7BOI_QFc/v-deo.html
@@devonstaggs9470 ommmmm 🔥m 🔥🔥mmmm 🔥🔥m 🔥mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 🔥🔥mm 🎉🎉🎉🎉mmmmmmmm 🎉🎉m 🎉m 🎉mmmm 🔥mm 🔥m 🔥m 🔥mm 🔥m 🔥🔥mm 👌👌👌👌m 👌mmmm 👌m 👌👌m 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉m 🎉🎉🎉🎉m 🎉🎉🔥🔥mmmm 🔥mmmmmm 🔥mmmm 🔥m 🔥mm 🔥mmmmmmm 🔥👌m 👌mmm 👌👌mmmmmmm 👌mmmmmmmmmm 🐔m 🐔🐔mm 🐔m 🐔🐔mmmmmmmm 🐔🐔🐔m 🐔mmmmmm 🐔m 🐔🐔🐔mmmmmm 🐔🐔🐔mmm 🐔mmmmm 🐔mmmmmmm 🐔mmm 🐔mmmmmmmmmm 🐔mmmmmmmmmmmm 🐔mmmmmmm 🐔mmmmm 🔥mm 🔥mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 👌👌👌👌mmmmץץ 🔥🔥ץmmmmm
@@devonstaggs9470 You’re so sick for this that was perfect 😂
This entire video could have been the greatest set up to a Your Mom joke ever
OH NOOOOOO! The missed opportunity.
Damn, i'd edit the video and reupload if it were me.
thank god i didn’t read the comments while watching
incase your reading while watching STOP
You are the yin to Vsauce's yang. If the two of you collaborated I don't think the world would be ready for it.
Apples and oranges really, solar sands is an art channel and vsauce is a science channel. This video was sort of vsauce-like, but it was the first of its kind from this channel, and its like 4 times as long as a vsauce video. Vsauce is sort of the father of this beautiful genre of video, which solar sands and emplemon are both kind of trying to do now. Even tho solar sands started as a deviantart review channel and emplemon started as a ytp channel
Ch3ck out Library of the untold if youre looking for wholistic perspective of reality
@@d00d22 idk about trying, they are frankly past that and well into succeeding (especially emplemon) and thats even assuming you can call the stuff these fellas are making v-sauce like in the first place.
*Introduction*
1:07 1 Million
1:55 Biggest 2:27 Powers of 10
3:37 Scales with Rules 5:15
*Extraordinary*
5:48 Stonehenge
6:42 Moai Figures 🗿
7:19 Pyramids of Giza
8:22 Tall Buildings
9:57 Frank Lloyd Wright
11:10 Mega Tokyo Pyramid and super absurd idealistic Super Buildings
*Enduring*
14:34
15:27 Permanence
16:45 Sign of Advancement
17:14 Spiritual Greatness
17:36 Unity of People, Shared Purpose
18:09 Majesty
19:11 Peak
_Awe_
20:07 Hugh Farris, illumination
21:22 Megalophobia
22:10 Man’s Appreciation
25:08 A Mile Is Long to man
*Art*
30:22 Large Paintings 🖼
31:32 History, Grand Visions
*Grand*
32:46 _John Martin_
34:28 _New German Empire_
*Height*
35:47 Napoleon Complex
36:37 Taller People
37:59 Too Tall
38:28 Height = Important
39:45 Land Monument Art
_Channel Shoutout_
44:58
*Earth Work*
46:45
50:45 Transmission Tower
51:40 Illusion 52:43 “you think you know.”
thank you so much for this!
Thanks dude
Holy shet
Lol, just to hear him go from philosopher, to art historian, to ranting on about your disliking of star wars plot holes makes this video deserving of at least 10 million views.
The Leonardo Da Vinci of our time
Bruh, this video doesnt even have 10 million views; im shaking and crying
Also find time to complain about women prefering tall men, he is a real chad
true
I put off this video for nearly a year and now that i’m watching it, I regret that.
I love how this feels like 10 separate videos in one. All centering around the broad theme of big things. It’s so bizarre and sometimes jarring, but I love each section.
I love that you love jake
Would you say that it's... monumental?
A video about monumentalism has to be monumental in some ways ;^)
if the flag is intentional, nice pfp
space serbia?
This is probably one of the greatest videos on this platform imo
I know. It feels like a Jacob Geller video at points.
Watch some of Super Eyepatch Wolf's
I learned because of John Green that there's a term for the mix of fear, awe, amazement and smallness you feel when you witness something very large. It's called "Mysterium Tremendum," and I felt a strong sense of it when I first visited Chicago. I was in Millennium Park when I looked up at one of the skyscrapers and it felt like the breath was just drawn out of me. The only way I could describe it was, "Things aren't meant to be that big" lmao.
"sometimes, evil is glorious" what a fucking raw line
Meh. Pretentious sht.
@@sssinfullyyours It's cool though..
@@sssinfullyyours what does pretentious mean?
@@damienoloughlin6068 When it comes to things like this video, it means an excessive or over-exaggerated claim. Although I believe yeah it is somewhat pretentious, its a pretty great quote.
@@Z01nkScoobs thankyou for the explanation. I can now agree with you 😂
Dang, really hitting me in the Vsauce nostalgia and existential feels. This is a well-made video.
Especially him starting off the video with a big number. Definitely vsauce inspired
i think solar sands is better than vsauce, sure michael makes really interesting videos but not to this scale
@@hatemykids1933 A lot of transitions with one common word linking to separate concepts (What is the biggest work of art?), very Vsauce inspired
I don't know, all these vsauce inspired channels have gotten to the point that they don't even reassemble vsauce even if it still f e e l s like it.
@@_DF_ what
The writing is top-notch. "It isn't just big things in a vacuum that interest people" he says, while there are planets on screen. That's already a like from me.
This channel is like Vsause but in a longer format. I'm in love.
It's been a wild ride seeing the transition from showcasing odd art while creating some art here and there to making entire 80-minute videos which can be considered art in themselves. Congrats on 1 mil, you earned it
REATIOOO
@@MC3DGoldSeto useless reply to a very heartfelt and genuine comment.
It all started from a minute long mspaint robot voice of undertale in a nutshell, to critiquing weird art of characters from deviantart to this
@@marcelburdon9795 what does his comment even mean. you sound like you know
@@kirtil5177 "ratio", a Twitter meme where a reply tries to get more likes than the original comment by just saying "ratio".
"The City" is just a Tony Hawk's mausoleum
RATIIIO
Dick Gumshoe pfp epic
@@MC3DGoldSeto commence the chirping of the crickets
@@MC3DGoldSeto this aint twitter bud
Or a level in a DOOM mod
don’t mind this just gonna make some time stamps for myself n my mom
19:37 - the radiant city
21:12 - that’s a cool wording
31:43 - Étienne-Louis Boullée
32:58 - John Martin
38:46 - Statue of Unity
40:05 - Christo and Jeanne-Claude
46:48 - city
I just realized (9 months after my intial view) that Gurren Lagann is the PERFECT example of Monumentality. The mind-boggling size of mechs that only keep getting bigger and bigger until they basically surpass the size of the universe. Its really hard to comprehend the more you think about it. I know this is old but I hope you check Gurren Lagann out if you ever read this lol.
I was actually animating Star Destroyers whilst watching this. It came as quite a surprise when he started mentioning how cool all the little windows are, since I was adding all the individual specks of light at the time.
Blimey mate
Hey you animating Star Wars again? Yass! Btw, do you have any Star Wars wallpapers besides Tie Fighter Short Film poster? Cuz its on my desktop for such a long time.
Ayyy otakingits here
Yo, you're the guy who made that TIE fighter animation, right? That's so sick that you're doing Star Wars again.
is that very complicated to open a linux software?
"Big things interest me."
- Solar Sands
ThTs what she said
Someone tell Cooksie we need that clip!
mmmm sexy...
@@pisscvre69 1:53
Me to 😏
words cannot explain how much I love that intro sequence
The fact, that Solar Sands started from stupid browsing deviantart videos to THIS is... I don't even know, how to describe it! That huge improvement is absolutely astounding!
After the Minecraft painting video, Solar Sands completely rebranded himself. He became an incredible art historian and critic.
RATIIIOOO
@@MC3DGoldSeto cringe.
@@MC3DGoldSeto 😐
I don't see him as a critic
This video started out as a normal solar sands video but quickly turned into a highly sophisticated documentary that's worthy of being on paid streaming services
What better way to do a video on monumentality than by making said video in the context of its own channel, monumental? Even his more bigger project videos like thalassophobia don't reach near the same extent this video is
and a star wars rant at one point
100%. I watch a lot of documentaries on many subjects and I'm incredibly impressed by the scope of this film and the depth of exploration of the subject matter. Great editing, narration, and description of concepts. Seriously, you should enter this in a film festival of some kind. Oh, and by the way, mind blown by the profundity. Thank you for doing this. Looking forward to more.
Well, it became big, and then it became a monument, and then it just kept growing
But it sadly ends on a speculation towards a future still dominated by colonialism
i don't think i have ever been sold on a manga faster than when you started describing blame. one of my favourite podcasts revolves around a colossal city and exploring its depths, so to find something similar, but with visuals... ideal
What’s the podcast?
Yo dude you gotta drop the podcast
BLAME! Confirmed wicked sick, the design is really neat and is just so moody that the staggering scale of things just gets to you every time z
What's the podcast, it's important
@@bodkie @georgerendell7292 @selfawaretrashcan4594 sorry guys its in russian. its called внутренние тени if you know russian by any chance
I'm so happy you've mentioned BLAME! It was constantly on the back of my mind throughout this video being my favourite piece of sci-fi ever created, partially thanks to it's incomprehensible scale
This is genuinly one of the best one million sub specials I have ever seen.
so true
The track at the beginning started it off strong
Facts
The
I want to see more on this level, so do you have an example?
I've been subscribed to your channel for you a while now, and seeing you grow from deviant art reviewer, to art analyser, and now this. This video is your skyscraper. Your pyramid. Everything you've been building up to, and oh my god was it a fun journey. And like you said, there's a 0% chance that this will remain your biggest skyscraper. You're my favourite UA-camr and I look forward to seeing what else you build.
RATIOOOOO
@@MC3DGoldSeto can you not
@@MC3DGoldSeto L
@@MC3DGoldSeto that was... really cringe.
When you mentioned that, in Blame, there was a room that was roughly the diameter of Jupiter, I audibly went "What!?," and rewound the video so that I could make sure I heard it right. That sinking feeling in the depths of my heart, just realizing that this is just *one room* of this thing...that is more terrifying than any monster ever could be.
Hearing you talk about the beautiful scale and "pictures don't do it justice" reminded me of the first time I went scuba diving in the ocean, in my case as part of the Great Barrier Reef. It just... Keeps going, in all directions, and you can swim in all directions to look at it. And you can pick any point and swim up to it and see countless life existing. My brain still struggles to make sense of it all. Each tiny sliver of it contains beauty, and there is so so much of it. I will never forget it, and I only saw a tiny fraction of it. I will never know it.
I can’t believe you went from someone who scrolls through weird deviant stuff to making very thoughtful and intelligent videos on different art phenomenons, I’ve been watching your channel since the deviant art days (for some reason I kept subscribing and unsubscribing????) and your channels really one of my favorites, congrats on 1 million, it’s totally deserved!!!
lowkey reminds of illuminaughty’s channel growth, like they went from making reddit videos to making well researching and well thought out videos about history, shady companies, and much more.
@@daybreak4993 Heard there was some controversy around her.
@@thefordlord9893 yea, had to do something with mycaw
Check out Vsauce's old vids lol
This video is a masterpiece of art , the best 1 mil celebrate video ever made , change my mind
this video feels like watching the thoughts of a really clever ADHD historian on coke
What do you know about anything you said in this comment?
@@georgeptolemy7260 ?
Try watching exburb1a, everything he does feels like this
@@fulana_de_tal oh ive been subbed to him for ages.
@@imenhashim6943 great
At 5:25 with the strange flashing light sequence, the exact moment it started, my lightbulb started to flicker. You scared me so bad!
8:51 As a Canadian, you can't begin to measure my disappointment of you not including the CN tower. My disappointment was infact of such grandeur, you could call it a testament to Monumentality.
10% Human Engineering
10% Art
10% Star Wars
*70% BIONICLE LORE*
I'm going to watch the rest of this video after work today and you better be telling the truth...
And 15% concentrated power of will
@@JustSnowglow More like 1% Bionicle Lore.
while somewhat forgettable game, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel had incredible looking skyboxes, i actually felt like an ant while looking out to the massive spaceship structures surrounding the playable area.
True. It's not that easy to make a sky box that actually feels monumental and far away
I’m the 69th like.
Half life 2
dude...i literally thought of that while watching the video
@@Barakon and thats impressive too
Blink and you’ll miss it: 11:39 - turning the train “up” because it’s going to be vertical cracked me up more than it should have
I can’t describe my feelings watching this video. The almost one and a half hours literally felt like 10 minutes because it was informative, fascinating, mind blowing and unbelievably well structured. Without a doubt one of the best UA-cam videos I’ve ever watched. Keep up the amazing work!!
Incredible job. Instead of making a self-congratulatory piece of fluff as many UA-camrs do when passing an important milestone, you took it as a challenge to make your greatest video yet.
dude this is the best thing i watched this year soo far
The way you just segway into different but related topics is just so vsauce-esque 👌🏼
reason I instantly subbed. good vids for my adhd mind.
*segue
@@porple4430 terima kasih cikgu
Vsauce was the cause of my youtube addiction, I still get goosebumps when I watch some of his videos. Solar sands is the same. The quality is hard to compare to anything else.
I teared up at the end... so beautiful
I was never afraid of large, but now I think I have more respect for it
Especially the sheer scale of monumentality of dyson spheres
Same
56:56 "I dream about experiences I know I'll never have." With this subject matter in particular, that hit home real hard.
This is definitely a monumental occasion
This is definitely a monumental occasion
LIVE STREAM IS STARTING
Yeah
True
Or in other words, this really be a bruh moment
The reason why I just LOVE Solar’s videos is that he knows exactly how to put into words what I can only vaguely conceptualize in my head.. Congrats for 1M!
Right? I show his video on liminality whenever I want to explain it because he does a much better job than I ever could.
quite possibly my favorite video on UA-cam. I've watched it at least 5 or 6 times and it's just so dense that I feel like I'm watching it for the first time, every time. And though dense it may be, it's presented in such a way as to never be boring.
High quality work, Solar Sands.
this is legitimately one of the best if not the best informative essay video i have ever seen on youtube. made like a documentary but branching off into many different fields, only held together by the concept "monumentality". incredible
The intro of monumentality really scares me. It looks like it has no ending and keeps increasing in size. Nice job, Solar Sands!
RATIOO
@@MC3DGoldSeto what
@@MC3DGoldSeto good luck cause no one cares about ratio my dude
@@MC3DGoldSeto you’ve commented ratio 22 times on this channel, get a life
I don’t understand?
"a monument to everything" is such an awesome way to end this incredible video. sounds like the name of an achievement you get for beating a game on the hardest difficulty without dying
Halo's the master chief collection has something almost like that. It's got "A Monument to All Your Sins" which is acquired by beating Halo Reach on Legendary, solo.
@@vizzy61 i absolutely love the halo games but i would never be able to do that lol
When you place the millionth black in a Minecraft world
@@novadotjar4757 you can do it, reach is one of the easier games on legendary
@@sonder006 I think it's easier than Halo 2, but definitely harder than CE, 3, ODST, Infinite and 4.
"The Bigatron Skybuster" is such a perfect take-down of all these ridiculous conceptual proposals. I almost want to make a proposal video for it with some cheap CGI, engineering final project level graphics just to get it onto some stupid top ten lists and make people think it's a real thing.
The fact that he turned a million subscriber special into a sense of scale
Wait a minute, is this the SAME channel who posted that “Phineas and Verb” in a nutshell??? This is some gourmet character development right there….
And undertale in a nutshell xD
Happy that my score can play a little part in this wonderful piece. Seriously, great job.
Was that you who did the intro song?
Very fitting stuff. Great work
@@WobblesandBean No, the intro song is "Resonance" by Home
@@benjaminnewlon7865 no the intro is we’re finally landing by home
@@kertchoo6831 no, it's darude - sandstorm
He went full circle while talking about a sphere. Mad props! Instant Subscriber. Thank you!
Actual movie theater block buster tier video insanely good you really delivered
This is insanely good, your work inspires me - thanks for all of the incredible videos
@@ghdhfgh6125 we get a tiny boost in the comments, idk why
a crossover we didn't know we needed
"tiny"
Seeing your comment surpass mine in likes even though I made mine before yours, actually hurt me irl. I think i need to detox from youtube
@@cookiemons9097 you'll get good at commenting eventually, trust me -- i used to occasionaly get top comment on salc1 videos or others even before i had enough subs to be verified.
but yeah if it effects you that much I think a little break is healthy :)
The effort put into these videos leaves me speechless. This channel is important not only for me, but for the world. You inspire me to be a better creator.
Much love from Brazil!
Você por aqui Ludo?
Nossa não esperava ver você por aqui ludo, amo seu trabalho!
Yup
NOOO I DONT WANNA GO TO BRAZIL
cool to see you here ludoviajante (Sou um inscrito seu)
I'm a musician, and thusly don't know much of the technicality of physical art mediums. Its kinda weird I even gravitated to a (mostly) art history kind of channel.
But I do know one thing.
THIS is art. 👏🙌🖤
Comprehending incomprehensibility feels like understanding how things work in higher dimensions; you can grasp some of it for a while, but never all the way and it's easy to forget.
Photos of the cosmos never fail to fill me with awe. The fact that every one of them contains billions, if not trillions of stars, orbited by even more planets, each as complex and beautiful as Earth... it's something else. And we will never be able to reach them and experience their beauty first hand. Really makes you think how insignificant we really are.
Reminds me of Job 38. I'd post it but it's honestly so long.
and each one of those planets we won’t ever really know either, even something as small as an ant on this earth right now we may never truely know because of the atoms that make up it. and it may even go further, so we don’t even know how much we don’t know. wild, isn’t it
Solar Sands: Don't understand how big mile is
Me, non-american: Same
Apparently it was easier to go 5280 feet or 63360 inches.
I like to come back to this video every couple or so moths. Now that I’m sober, I no longer get scared or anxious about the big or small stuff. This video is true art
I love how in “The Expanse“ series humans make megastructures out of planets. Making a planet wide complex of rooms and halls under the surface of mars or Ganymede is quite fitting for this topic.
The fact that you took an intermission to promote other channels is godlike. ALSO YOU MENTIONED MATA NUI OMG
but can he beat goku
It’s pretty well known.
I actually didn't know that Mata Nui was a massive being.
@@GSTACK57 What is? That Solar's a bonkles fan?
@@doozy5184 He's a giant robot with islands inside of him!
The most beautiful character development ever. I have so much nostalgia from Browsing DeviantArt, and I learned so much about art l. I really bonded with someone very important to me with the series, but now I know that the cringe culture of Solar's past is obsolete. Nevertheless, Solar Sands was the channel of my childhood. Being like 11 and sitting down and watching Browsing DeviantArt I'd what I looked forward every day coming home from school. I don't know if Solar knows how much he meant to me, but my admiration for him has only grown. Thank you Solar, for growing from a sardonic redditesque web critic, to one of the internet's smartest, most revered scholar. Thank you for being what I look forward to watching every month. I squee with joy when a blue dot appears next to your channel name. Thank you, Solar.
Old head
@@moosesues8887 ???
I think a lot of us can relate to this
I appreciate your pfp
@@bruhinator1805 old head
24:15 bro got that minecraft walk lmao
A monumental achievement from a young indie filmmaker. This video rivals any documentary I've ever seen, including those made by creators with far larger budgets, and decades more experience.
This itself could be considered a film/documentary level and considering the length and subject matter you didn't lose my focus for a single moment! This video was absolutely brilliant
I love how the scale naturally increased throughout the video from ants to large buildings to cities to spaceships to planets to megastuctures.
Dude the City art piece is so surreal. I feel like it’s rly trippy to walk thru it. The giant library’s are beautiful too lol
This has got to be my favorite video on youtube. I come back and watch it at least once a month. Such an entertaining project you've put together my man. Keep up the great work.
I love how half way through it just turns into a rant about the sequel trilogy
As an elevator mechanic these buildings sound terrible to build. Makes me thankful be work in DC and only have to do 12 or 13 floors . Walking those stairs with material and tools sounds like a nightmare.
such buildings usually have more than just one elevator, though.
if going such heights even faster, pressure difference becomes a problem aswell :(
At that point you'd have to take a helicopter up there
You mean walking the 780km high elevator in Blame?
Love the inclusion of The Angel of The North @30:20 one of my favourite sculptures from my home, North East of England. This video speaks to me in ways I do not fully understand, and taps into my love for architecture. Every now and again I pop back into this channel to find something remarkable. Props dude, keep being you.
Im at a loss for words for how great this masterpiece is.
The fact that this achievement of a video isn't getting millions of views gives me a monumental sadness. This is an amazing video, thank you for putting so much effort into this Solar Sands
Its half way
I think a video this long will definately take time to gain views, since not everyone has the time to sit down and watch a video the length of a movie. It's been on my watchlist since it came out, but I only just got around to watching it. I've no doubt it'll hit a million, but it'll take time, just like everything else.
This comment was posted just after it was posted bro. Obviously it's going to take time to reach a million. More than half way there now.
@@negative6442 yeah i think this is the kind of video that will sit around on youtube for a long time steadily gaining views, since it cant really get dated, like a vlog video might do
maybe in 10 years it will have 10 million
It's just super long it was a while before I had the commutteny to watch an hour long video
The first time monumentality hit me was when I was around 7. I read an illustrated book about giant, prehistoric sea-animals, and their sheer size alone shocked me so much that I had to close the book
Edit: I just realized this could be a great Yo mama joke
yo mama so fat that a megastructure was required to get her inside
the sheer size of yo mama
enough with yo mama, I also experience the same feeling as a kid, like seeing that big fucking underwater dinosaur is so goddamn cool
i'll be honest, i keep coming back to this video. it's such a good video explaining, defining, and bringing the scope of 1 million into reality. this video is an amazing exercise of scale. for having monumental numbers thrown around so carelessly now, and being desensitized to how imposing those numbers actually are (thanks to billionaires, trillions of dollars of debt, cookie clicker, etc), it's really hard to understand the reality of those numbers when you exist in the realm of "staying in your home and exploring the world through the internet."
the achievement of 1mil subs really is huge. i'm happy for you. and thank you for, well, probably your biggest, and your best video so far. this was an achievement by itself, honestly.
Hi Solar Sands, someone plagiarized your work in a video called "Megalophobia: Fear of the Huge" by a channel called Cresendex. Specifically, the segment on the manga "Blame" where he recites the exact same sentences as you do in this video word for word.
The utility is honestly something that really elevates some of these megastructures, because a kilometer long monolith is sorta cool but it really can't compare to those super refineries, where every centimeter has a meaning that was thought about and designed
congrats. professionalism is a rare thing in high level UA-cam, most people are famous on a wing, you sir, you stand out with sheer effort.
this comment has such dad vibes
@@mavymagdowney9798 I mean, yeah, I guess? I'm definitely not a dad but sure.
RATIIIO
I mean he did get famous from browsing deviantart...💀
@@MC3DGoldSeto ?
As of today, it's my fifth time watching this, and it's still one of the best videos on the platform. Seriously, everything about it is impressive.
54:02 I am so glad you touched on that. It's one of the things that makes me appreciate the franchise.
So cool that you've found something so fascinating that you can write an insightful script spanning nearly 90 minutes
Good choice using that bit of Bionicle lore, the first time I realised the whole Bionicle story had taken place inside a planet sized robot was amazing and is a testament to monumentality
bionicles were the best. did you by any chance read greg farshteys graphic novel series?
When your friends talked I was super caught off guard at how high their voiced were lol. Great video as always. Keep it up.
Probably the best video essay on UA-cam. If I could watch this for the first time again I would. Thank you very much for the experience
The video gave me an epiphany, decided I want to be an architect, I want to make my mark on this world not just in my name but in humanitys name, each building a monument of artistic design for the beautification of humanitys.
How did we go from _Browsing Deviantart_ to _Monumentality?!_ This is insane! Your essays really are works of art. They are _monumental._ Thank you for making these.
This man literally walks you through comprehending art I fucking love it
Every so often I sit down and rewatch this video and it never gets old. This is just well done on a level I can’t think of.
25:23 I love when Solarsands puts an image of a bayou. And you recognize your neighborhood/house in the top right. Nice to meet y’a neighbor
this video was absolutely fascinating and awe inspiring, great job! :)
THE funi ITMG????
wait, YOU just reached 1 mil too :DDD
Ay u guys got 1 mil at the same time nice
congrats on 1 mil too!
It is kinda hopium seeing Society should be dead by about 2040 though🤔
Mfw when no checkmark ;")
This is pretty much word-for-word what goes through my mind at 2 AM.
the section about atoms and the universe reminded me of a little game called Everything, where the core of the game is quite simple: you can become anything and everything in the game, scaling from the microscopic to the universal, and if you go far enough in either direction, you jump into abstract shapes until you come out having reach other end of the scale.
universes inside of atoms. which adds a whole new feeling to the sense of scale and monumentality
"City" just seems like a really big skate park
This is the third channel that makes me go: "Do I have an hour to spare? Yes, yes I do"
The two others are Ahoy and Lemmino
You should try out disrupt tv and barely sociable as well if you like those two
very true
Contrapoints and sarah z for me
I would adore to see solar sands just talk about legos. When he brought up lego atlantis in the thalassophobia video I was ecstatic! He brought up BIONICLE for a brief period!
Yes, i shall reply to this comment, to bring it higher in the comment chain.
Gonna put my spin on this copypasta though, so UA-cam doesn't just think it's spam.
This is up there with the best videos on UA-cam in my opinion. Up there with 'history of the entire world, i guess'.
I've come back to watch it, either in part or in full, three times since it first came out and expect to continue to for time to come.