I'm not sure if y'all are aware but that spider sculpture in the very beginning is also in residence outside the National Gallery in Ottawa! Its name is Maman: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maman_(sculpture)
If you guys, for some odd reason, find yourself in the midwestern US, the Milwaukee zoo is something you'd enjoy. There's a huge focus on replicating natural environments and treating the animals with respect.
Why do i get images of Milwaukee being some kind of distopa covered in domes? " I hear the people from artic one rebelld, they sealed the dome" XD Though it does sound cool.
Ueno Park is nice. Last I was there it was the tail-end of Sakura season, was drinking with a bunch of friends I get to see very rarely. Planning on going back around then next year too, hopefully I can do it again.
The scene at 6:00, when you're talking about your skewer-food, has some dizzying color-shifts. Camera keeps trying to correct in different directions. Why does it not know what to do?
Yeah, it's weird. I have no idea why the camera kept correcting the colour like that. I assume it was something to do with the sunlight, the trees, and our skin.
Huh I am just watching these and just realized that I was on a study abroad trip in Japan while you were filming this. You're right it was hot as hell in Tokyo that day. I think I was passing through on my way to a university in Choshi on the 17th or so
Man, that boss is such BS. You have to attack each leg in sequence so that the body drops to the floor. Only then can you do damage to it. If you attack the legs out of order, it resets. So many bloodstains in that park.
loadingreadyrun LOL Sorry to hear that Graham. Well, now you know next time you use that ryokan to do so so you don't become annoyed in hindsight once more..
You should be. Particularly since it was only printed as advertising for when you, inevitably, do steal it. I'm always amused when people think they're being "rebels" by stealing the Gideon Bibles at hotels. They're there to be read, either at the room or after you take them. They'd much rather you take it than not, in fact.
It spoils my game of "find the Gideon bible when you arrive and hide it somewhere else" if anything. But it amused me that the only hotel on my trip that didn't have one was in San Francisco.
I hope you visited the Ueno homeless display? A vivid display of Japan's "other side" that the Japanese press completely fails to mention at any time, but with still typical Japanese values: there's showers available, and people still leave their shoes carefully arranged outside their tarp-quarters.
If I ever see something like that I'd probably take it and leave a tip and thank you note in its place. That way I get a cool cork thingy AND keep my clean conscience.
If Magic has a set, LRR has shown, especially within the last year or 2...they'll do a nicjnames TTC. Their typical answer is, we're going to do one, but not sure when it'll get done.
They have a similar tank at the San Diego Zoo, if you want somewhere a little closer (assuming you're in North America). Or at least they did the last time I was there a few years ago. The rest of the zoo is sweet too. It's a huge place, so I'd recommend allowing most of a day for the visit if you've never been. And it has lots of hills, some of them pretty steep, so comfortable walking shoes are a must.
Contemporary Art Museums are usually just an excuse to wander around going "How the fuck is this art?!". When I was in Berlin the Contemporary Art Museum had a person painting with his penis, one person video taping hundreds of hours of his life and playing them back all at once, and one exhibit which was giant fifty foot clowns lying down and staring at you, occasionally scratching themselves.
Well there's no accounting for taste I suppose. There's a lot of philosophy and argument behind what is and is not art but I honestly cannot think of a greater waste of time than that museum and art like it. It has made me angry for years. And the worst part is some people tell me that's the point! That that's what makes it art! Circular logic in the extreme! No! No! These people don't get to win just because I am baffled and betrayed that serious art-people are considering a fibreglass bear impaled on a metal spike rotating on the wall covered with paint splotches and beamed at with different coloured lights art! If that's your thing, that's fine, but it is as baffling and bewildering to me as if we all started calling clarinets taken apart and strewn across a field 'music'. Sorry, every time I try to rewrite this shorter and less rant-y I rant again. The museum was awful. If you're ever in Berlin go to the Berlinische Galerie and NOT the Museum of Contemporary Art. The Berlinische Galerie still has lots of modern art but is actually art and not a neon sign flashing Beer/Deer/Beer/Deer.
Did it elicit an emotional reaction from you? Obviously, yes, if only "WTF". That, as I understand it, is the definition of "art": "emotion made real", or variations on that theme. Having had similar reactions to some forms of art in various museums, galleries, and other exhibitions, my personal hypothesis (not theory, heavens no!) is that there's been so much art, and humans have so few real emotions, that it's either "repeat yourselves" or "try to find new emotions to make real". That and it seems that the exposition on the signs explaining the art are actually the real art. But what do I know, I'm just a figment of everyone's imagination.
So, I am considering a career change (due to... work difficulties.) And I am considering becoming a long-haul trucker. And these videos have given me a desire to vlog such work and show off Stuff. Like, everything. Especially Nature, in all its vastness. Combined with my ramblings. :D
I have a friend in the trucking industry. He started out doing long-hauls but got fed up with his dispatchers to the point of arguing to have dedicated routes when his contract was up for renewal; he still gets screwed over by miscommunication between dispatcher and customer schedules but at least he knows which states he'll be in on a regular basis.
There is actually a very lucrative business in such things. I know that in Belgium and Germany video from cameras mounted on the fronts of trains is big business. So, if you plan on going through scenic routes, mount a good quality camera on your dash and just record. I mean that as in several hours of unedited footage from the train just driving along the track. So, who knows, it might take off if you did something like that..
Life jackets?! On a paddle boat?! On the lake of an urban park?! I think that's very much a North American thing. Here in Germany, I doubt that would fly either. Also I'd like to note that this series is one of the very few occasions that I watch a YT video and am genuinely happy about two people I don't personally know from the other side of the globe having a good time (as opposed to watching youtube videos to see people fail or rant and rave about things they don't like) :)
Lol, tbh all the safety things in the US are a thing because companies will usually try their darndest to get away with having unsafe equipment. Being legally forced to keep people safe is usually the only way to stop them from cutting corners like not properly repairing a boat etc etc. It's kinda funny how many safety features in the US/Canada are seen as a 'why are people stupid' thing rather then genuinely written in blood because of what companies are willing to do to save a buck.
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"Soft Canadian Bodies" is the name of my Barenaked Ladies cover band.
Storen. Also each video makes me want to travel some myself! You guys rock for doing this when you didn't have to.
I'm not sure if y'all are aware but that spider sculpture in the very beginning is also in residence outside the National Gallery in Ottawa! Its name is Maman: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maman_(sculpture)
I paused the video right away to write a similar comment! But I saw yours instead :)
Same!
That "No Smoking" cork is amazing. I need one.
If you guys, for some odd reason, find yourself in the midwestern US, the Milwaukee zoo is something you'd enjoy. There's a huge focus on replicating natural environments and treating the animals with respect.
I'm from Milwaukee and the Zoo and The Domes are highlights for Nature-based tourism in the city. Really, the park system in general is great.
+Exhausted Elox I'm glad they're finally re-opening all of the Domes.
Why do i get images of Milwaukee being some kind of distopa covered in domes? " I hear the people from artic one rebelld, they sealed the dome" XD Though it does sound cool.
+Felix Read Don't be silly.
We put those people in the sulphur mines.
Milwaukee burn. :(
Ueno Park is nice. Last I was there it was the tail-end of Sakura season, was drinking with a bunch of friends I get to see very rarely. Planning on going back around then next year too, hopefully I can do it again.
HA! I think that was my favorite open AND favorite close to this series so far.
If you guys are ever near St. Louis, I would highly recommend the zoo here. It's free to get in, and the animal enclosures are phenomenal.
Me and my wife always look forward to these videos!!!!!
The scene at 6:00, when you're talking about your skewer-food, has some dizzying color-shifts. Camera keeps trying to correct in different directions. Why does it not know what to do?
Yeah, it's weird. I have no idea why the camera kept correcting the colour like that. I assume it was something to do with the sunlight, the trees, and our skin.
Huh I am just watching these and just realized that I was on a study abroad trip in Japan while you were filming this. You're right it was hot as hell in Tokyo that day. I think I was passing through on my way to a university in Choshi on the 17th or so
Graham and Kathleen need to go on vacation more often, these are great.
Graham sticking the pointy end of the crabloaf stick towards his mouth made me go "Don't...no...don....nooo....oh you did it!" :p
" So we swore a lot"... Priceless.
Love the footage, I'm headed to that intersection at 1:56 right now!
It must have been really hot, nearly all the animals are panting! Love the videos of your trip, makes me really wanna visit Japan again.
Also, did you take that non-smoking sign?
I remember that giant spider sculpture from when I was doing high school art class if I remember it was called "mother" or something equally freudian.
Yes, the National Art Gallery in Ottawa has the same sculpture, it's called "Maman" which is mother (or more like mom) in French.
Love you all ❤️
The swan boats made me so happy! :3
Man, that boss is such BS. You have to attack each leg in sequence so that the body drops to the floor. Only then can you do damage to it. If you attack the legs out of order, it resets. So many bloodstains in that park.
Ueno Park is totally a day to itself. The Tokyo National Museum is also fantabulous.
If you guys come back to Tokyo we should hang!
LOL So did you end up permanently borrowing that No Smoking sign?
No, I'm now I'm *so annoyed* that I didn't!!
loadingreadyrun LOL Sorry to hear that Graham. Well, now you know next time you use that ryokan to do so so you don't become annoyed in hindsight once more..
You should be. Particularly since it was only printed as advertising for when you, inevitably, do steal it.
I'm always amused when people think they're being "rebels" by stealing the Gideon Bibles at hotels. They're there to be read, either at the room or after you take them. They'd much rather you take it than not, in fact.
It spoils my game of "find the Gideon bible when you arrive and hide it somewhere else" if anything.
But it amused me that the only hotel on my trip that didn't have one was in San Francisco.
Kathleen sees swan boat and think Sailor Moon. I would've too except I've played Fallout 4 and now Swan boat has a terrifying meaning for me!
5:20 I'm suspecting Kathleen is like "I want to take one of these home..."
I would have totally gone to the front desk and asked if I could buy the "No Smoking" sign.
I hope you visited the Ueno homeless display? A vivid display of Japan's "other side" that the Japanese press completely fails to mention at any time, but with still typical Japanese values: there's showers available, and people still leave their shoes carefully arranged outside their tarp-quarters.
I think I would like to believe that you did take that no smoking cork and fully expect it in a comadorehustle at some point
I didn't, and it wasn't until editing this that I really wish I had.
Noooooooooo, good reason to go back some time to see if they still have them though :)
If I ever see something like that I'd probably take it and leave a tip and thank you note in its place. That way I get a cool cork thingy AND keep my clean conscience.
Kathleen in the swan boat looked all "I'm on the french Riviera and Gorgeous."
I've been there to
I can't help myself. Hey, Mr. Mister!
Do we know when the soi nicknames are coming out? Also will there be one for ema?
If Magic has a set, LRR has shown, especially within the last year or 2...they'll do a nicjnames TTC. Their typical answer is, we're going to do one, but not sure when it'll get done.
Man that polar bear was awesome
They have a similar tank at the San Diego Zoo, if you want somewhere a little closer (assuming you're in North America). Or at least they did the last time I was there a few years ago.
The rest of the zoo is sweet too. It's a huge place, so I'd recommend allowing most of a day for the visit if you've never been. And it has lots of hills, some of them pretty steep, so comfortable walking shoes are a must.
Contemporary Art Museums are usually just an excuse to wander around going "How the fuck is this art?!". When I was in Berlin the Contemporary Art Museum had a person painting with his penis, one person video taping hundreds of hours of his life and playing them back all at once, and one exhibit which was giant fifty foot clowns lying down and staring at you, occasionally scratching themselves.
I mean, if that's the reaction it's getting from you, sounds like it's definitely art to me :)
Well there's no accounting for taste I suppose.
There's a lot of philosophy and argument behind what is and is not art but I honestly cannot think of a greater waste of time than that museum and art like it. It has made me angry for years.
And the worst part is some people tell me that's the point! That that's what makes it art! Circular logic in the extreme! No! No! These people don't get to win just because I am baffled and betrayed that serious art-people are considering a fibreglass bear impaled on a metal spike rotating on the wall covered with paint splotches and beamed at with different coloured lights art!
If that's your thing, that's fine, but it is as baffling and bewildering to me as if we all started calling clarinets taken apart and strewn across a field 'music'.
Sorry, every time I try to rewrite this shorter and less rant-y I rant again. The museum was awful. If you're ever in Berlin go to the Berlinische Galerie and NOT the Museum of Contemporary Art. The Berlinische Galerie still has lots of modern art but is actually art and not a neon sign flashing Beer/Deer/Beer/Deer.
Did it elicit an emotional reaction from you? Obviously, yes, if only "WTF". That, as I understand it, is the definition of "art": "emotion made real", or variations on that theme.
Having had similar reactions to some forms of art in various museums, galleries, and other exhibitions, my personal hypothesis (not theory, heavens no!) is that there's been so much art, and humans have so few real emotions, that it's either "repeat yourselves" or "try to find new emotions to make real". That and it seems that the exposition on the signs explaining the art are actually the real art. But what do I know, I'm just a figment of everyone's imagination.
3:16 rip harambre
Hangarback Walker!
Might also be Ishkanah Declaration in Stone'd.
Did you guys stay to see the guys drumming? I think that would have been an amazing way to end the video?
Sadly, that footage was them having just wrapped up. They were playing while we were on the swan boats.
2:45 Bord?
"Now we're going to the zoo" I was expecting him to follow that up with "God's art."
Tell me that you are now a proud owner of a no smoking sign.
Inquiring minds need to know.
No bowl! Stick! Stick!
So, I am considering a career change (due to... work difficulties.) And I am considering becoming a long-haul trucker. And these videos have given me a desire to vlog such work and show off Stuff. Like, everything. Especially Nature, in all its vastness.
Combined with my ramblings. :D
+AislinnBMln Sounds like a fun vlog subject!
I have a friend in the trucking industry. He started out doing long-hauls but got fed up with his dispatchers to the point of arguing to have dedicated routes when his contract was up for renewal; he still gets screwed over by miscommunication between dispatcher and customer schedules but at least he knows which states he'll be in on a regular basis.
There is actually a very lucrative business in such things. I know that in Belgium and Germany video from cameras mounted on the fronts of trains is big business.
So, if you plan on going through scenic routes, mount a good quality camera on your dash and just record. I mean that as in several hours of unedited footage from the train just driving along the track. So, who knows, it might take off if you did something like that..
Jochem Sev I appreciate the advice, however, it won't be happening for some unfortunate reasons. But thank you anyway. :)
Kathleen looks even more attractive than usual in this video. Graham is a lucky man.
where do you guys get your music?
I would have personally asked if I could pay for a replacement just so I could have that sign. I smoke, but that wouldn't stop me from wanting it.
Life jackets?! On a paddle boat?! On the lake of an urban park?! I think that's very much a North American thing. Here in Germany, I doubt that would fly either.
Also I'd like to note that this series is one of the very few occasions that I watch a YT video and am genuinely happy about two people I don't personally know from the other side of the globe having a good time (as opposed to watching youtube videos to see people fail or rant and rave about things they don't like) :)
Lol, tbh all the safety things in the US are a thing because companies will usually try their darndest to get away with having unsafe equipment. Being legally forced to keep people safe is usually the only way to stop them from cutting corners like not properly repairing a boat etc etc. It's kinda funny how many safety features in the US/Canada are seen as a 'why are people stupid' thing rather then genuinely written in blood because of what companies are willing to do to save a buck.
Graham Stark - International 'No smoking' sign thief
Some things people know people are going to steal and just make it more fun for the people stealing them.
Swan Boat!!!!!!
So I assume you have a no smoking sign at home now :)
that's because it's wasabi mustard :P
You know they're canadian when they say 30º is baking heat
...30ºC is pretty hot, last we checked.
I just looked it up, 30C = 86F.
Allison T.
(that was kind of the joke)
only kakarosh.
Harambe
リアルたれパンダ、、・・・・＾＾；
Enzo would be ashamed.
Matrix
Soft Canadian bodies... That's what my girlfr- Er, nevermind