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Tulipomania
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- Опубликовано: 19 апр 2011
- In which John takes you to Amsterdam to discuss the tulip mania that overtook the Netherlands in the 17th century, culminating with the famed flower bubble of 1636 and 1637, the original irrational exuberance. (Or was it irrational?)
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"Except for Henry, but he's portable."
"Don't worry, this is is not gonna hit me. So the price of tul..." would be pretty funny last words
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Sometimes I think I've watch every single vlog brothers video but then I find unwatched precious gems like this and I'm filled with such joy.
It took me about two weeks to watch all of the videos last December.
A commitment I won't regret.
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779 down, only 964 to go!
This has slight anthropocene reviewed vibes and I’m loving it
Homework break the idea that someone else is watching 8 year old vlogbrothers videos still warms my heart
Henry is portable and tulips make great poetry. Love it.
At the end of the Second World War in what we call the "Hunger Winter" tulip bulbs were eaten because there was barely any food
forget that. the viceroy could be traded for an ale house, or a windmill, or a carriage complete with two horses or even better yet 10 acres of land. I knw, crazy
I watched this video 12 years ago, around the time it came out, and I still think about tulipomania on a regular basis. I also bought that book by Katrina Vandenberg. I now teach kids about it in English class. Thanks, John!
why does john call his wife the yeti?
he is talking about his wife when he says the yet, doesn't he?
according to their website, “She is known as the Yeti because she does not appear in vlogbrothers videos. In John’s first video, he said that she’s similar to a Yeti in that she figures prominently in Nerdfighteria folklore but is rarely seen, a joke he later credited to The Yeti herself.”
All I have to say to this is, John, have you never been to Holland, Michigan during tulip time in early May?
You know, throughout the whole video I was like "gosh I'm so sure I've heard of this before!" and I thought and thought and then you read that poem and I was like "OH I KNOW! I know it from one of John's old live shows!". You have taught me so much, John.
I love tulips! My father is a florist and I work at his store, and we get the best tulips ever! Most vibrant colours and Parrot Tulips (crinkled edges) are the most gorgeous to me! I'm so glad that you made a video on flowers!
John stop pronouncing it VICE_A_ROY, it isn't Beefaroni.
That last quote tho.
John, you make being a writer look like the greatest thing in the world (and odds are it is). Love your insightful commentary and your way with words. Keep up the amazing work!
I just finished reading your lovely new novel, and now all of these videos make sense. Stay awesome, John.
John, I've never seen anyone be as interested in Holland's obsession with tulips in the 17th century as I am. I was totally infatuated with studying it, almost as infatuated as the Dutch were with the sick tulips. I even wrote a song or two about it. This video made me very happy.
I love the idea that Katrina Vandenberg's poem expresses! Yes, it would be wonderful to see such a lovely flower, but what really makes the flower so wonderful is that died. It is that fleeting quality of the flower- that it will only live for a brief moment in time and then die- that it is sick like all of us.... something so beautiful that only those who traded all of their lives away to know its beauty could appreciate it -speaks to the very core of what we are. Precious like moments in time.
I wish I could travel the world and have a voiceover by you explaining the history of each place I saw. That would be discovering each part of the world and going through time for me. I love what you do John, and i love that you sound so immersed in what you're telling us, so much that it feels like you're actually taking us there, to that time and place.
...And finally, I come to my first ever vlogbrothers video, after taking a pilgrimage and watching every single one from the beginning. It's a good feeling.
I love how this became a Thoughts From Places video at the very end.
This was the first vlogbrothers video I ever watched
Oh my goodness, the entire background of Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister makes so much more sense now! Thanks, John!
After I watched this video for the first time, I went to this beautiful park that had hundreds of tulips on display and told my boyfriend all about the Viceroy. A month later, I went to the Dublin Trinity College Library with my parents and there was a contemporary book on display opened to a page with a drawing of this flower. (It really was beautiful.) So I could tell them the whole story as well. John, thanks for making me smarter (and being able to show off to my family). :)
I always watch Hank's vlogbrothers videos and at the end i'm either thinking 'Lol!' Or 'Wow I never knew that!' And when I finish watching John's videos, half the time i sit for a minute and then once i am done absorbing whatever his last sentence was I just think 'wow'.
I love this. And I love how you're fine with talking to yourself in public while Hank opts to talk to himself on a pay phone to make it less awkward.
John. i read Will Grayson, Will Grayson this week, and tbf its literally changed my life, ive had many troubles with love and its just given me a different outlook on the whole concept! wow thank you so much for co writing it!
John, that was simply beautiful.
John, you have this marvelous ability to make me laugh and think so much in only 2 minutes 4 seconds. I really don't know what else to say besides....can't wait for your new book!
John, it's SO COOL to see you talking with the office I sometimes work in, at the background! Please telle me when there will be a nerd-fighter-event!
Hi John, nice to see you're right here in Amsterdam. Enjoy your stay and if you ever need ideas on where to go next - I mean, 2 months is quite a while - you can always get some inspiration from my daily vlogs. Have a great Easter weekend! And remember, in The Netherlands, Monday is 2nd Easter Day so you may find some services and shops are on other schedules, still..
All I can think of is the flower plague in the Uglies series now. Between you and Scott Westerfeld I'll never get my mind to stop flower-making.
Amsterdam is such a nice place! I remembered when I went there I bought a couple of tulip bulbs and I thought I could grow one or two, but I failed. Tulips are so beautiful, I love them.
John- you're my hero for this and everything else you do.
love,
a complete stranger who wants to be you when she grows up
wow its soo beautiful there !!!! its like every frame was a chance for a beautiful peice of art to be born !!! I love how in jhons videos he always leaves you with something to think about its so author- esk and wonderful.
There is something so beautiful about the idea of an extinct flower, it beauty lost in eternity, captured only in drawings and Nerdfighter videos.
Oh goodness, that last little bit made me close my eyes and savor the poetry.
I live in Ottawa, and I AM SOO EXCITED FOR THE TULIP FESTIVAL! They're Dutch tulips, so it's as close to Amsterdam as I'm going to get in the near future.
favourite author in favourite city talking about favourite flowers
Ottawa, Canada has an annual tulip festival every year because we sheltered Dutch royalty during (one of) the World Wars and they supplied us the tulips to thank us for it (unsure if they still do). It is one of the prettiest things I've ever seen.
Its so cool that you just up and go to live in a far away place for 2 months . Have fun, do amazing things you haven't yet and make sure you record it .
this video really brightened my day, thanks John
I'm sorry that we won't get to see a tulip that beautiful, but there are so many other things in nature today that are just as lovely and we need to learn to appreciate them before they're gone, too.
John and Hank--I discovered this book as I was walking through the library at the college where I teach: "American Nerd: The Story of My People" by Benjamin Nugent. I haven't but started the first chapter. However, so far, so good. I feel like the author must be a nerdfighter!
Thank you! I remember when you talked about this on a live chat once and you read that poem, but I forgot to write down what it was called. I've been looking for it! Now I know! Thanks! I hope all goes well for you and yours in Amsterdam :)
What a lovely video :)
I recently went on holiday to Cornwall and while there visited the Eden project. They had a similar piece on tulips and many on display. They had the very same list for the comparitive price of the viceroy. I find it facinating to have also stumbled upon tulip-mania at almost the same time =)
I feel very sad that I'll never see the flower that had so many people trading their life's fortune to own... I was also very scared for you, John, when that trolley came so close to you. I know you said it wouldn't hit you, but that just made me watch it even more intensely.
I am so very excited for your book. Very, very excited.
Tulips are my favorite flower. And John Green is now officially my favorite person that I've never met. DFTBA.
My father and his entire side of the family is born/native to the Netherlands. Neither of my grandparents are living anymore, and I was never old enough when they were alive to ask them what the place they were born and raised was like. I've never met my Dad's aunts/uncles/cousins/etc... I've never known that foreign culture. I don't know who my great grand parents were. John Green, you are amazing, but this video hits close to home (literally) for me, and makes me cry. Blah.
You should come to Canada. Every Spring Ottawa has the Tulip Festival. Part of the Dutch royal family stayed in Canada during WWII, and when Princess Juliana gave birth to Princess Margriet the maternity ward was temporarily designated International soil so that she would inherit her mothers citizenship. As a thank you, they've sent thousands of tulips every year.
Vlogbrothers marathon after my surgery. I can't walk and in control of the internet.
Bring it on!!!
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I am so freaking excited for this book now.
up until a few minutes ago, I was pretty ok with the fact that I had never seen a tulip so lovely I would be willing to part with all of my possessions with the hope one sickly looking bulb would flower. Now I'm not so ok with that. Great video John.
I was there a few days ago! I enjoyed the fact that I could tell where you were. Also, those trams are DEADLY.
So we pretty much get thoughts from places videos for two months. BEST MONTHS EVER!
I think it should be mandatory that Henry be in all of your videos. Some nerdfighters are addicted to cuteness.
"That comment probably didn't make sense to the people standing behind me." I love that part.
I hope I will eventually see you there when I come to Amsterdam :D You really chose the best time of the year to come to the Netherlands since you have queen's day and liberation day in the upcoming weeks. Enjoy your stay, I'm already looking forward to the book.
This honestly makes me sad/homesick. I miss living in Amsterdam so much, and its so beautiful in the Spring!
I first learned about tulipomania from reading The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan. It's a really interesting book about how a few distinct plants were able to change human culture, society, economy, etc, and how human nature changed the plants in return.
your amsterdam videos are always my favorite :)
i was trying to listen about the tulips but was quite distracted by the scenery
I love the people in the windows looking at u vlogging lmao
Good job posting a video from Amsterdam on 420. You just made my day.
I'm so glad that Henry is portable. I'd be worried if he wasn't. However, I still chuckled when John said it.
"except for Henry...but he's portable." i love it.
That quote at the end, soooo gorgeous.
And I love when you said Henry was portable, it made me laugh :)
I LOVE AMSTERDAM and I'm so happy your vlogs are going to be there for a while
I'm very Dutch on my dad's side, and the town where my grandparents live is basically only Dutch people, so every year in the Spring they have a "Tulip Time" festival and people dress up in traditional Dutch clothing and go around handing out Tulips.
That really must have been an insanely beautiful flower. Or maybe it just smelled good, but I can't even imagine giving up that much for a tulip! Regardless of how much I love the sound of the word "viceroy."
The poem at the end was beautiful.
Oh, the Venice Biennal! I went there with my mum's art class when I was ten. I got a stomach ache after ten minutes though, and we had to leave... Didn't get to see that much, but it seemed awesome.
Tulip/Pinkster fest in Albany NY, on mother's day every year. Beautiful blooms every year, without fail. Tulips are some of my favorite flowers out there (:
I just hope you know you are my first video on my new laptop :D
Thanks John!
I heard of tulip mania in Western Civ Class and was tickled by it. But what I like most about that time period for the Netherlands, if I remember correctly, is that it was around the time when tolerance, intelligence and art also flourished there. In the meantime, the rest of the world was in the usual political upheaval and war; Protestants and Catholics were at each other's throats especially. It was refreshing to hear of the one place where one could find peace and general good will.
Not going to lie.. I will miss your beautifully green office for two months
I saw Venice, I really want to see Amsterdam and more of northern Europe, as I'm in the south.
So happy for you and your family !
i just love how in depth you can be
It's actually impossible for me to platonically love John and Hank more.
I wish they were either a) my best friends or b) my teachers.
I am so jealous (in a good way)! I've wanted to go to Amsterdam since I read "Postcards from No-Man's-Land' by Aiden Chambers when I was 16.
So John, all your videos about the beauty and complexity and mystery and love of Amsterdam have just fueled the desire into a burning need. Thanks.
I live in Ottawa Canada and we have a tulip festival every year for the past 60 years or so. The first 100,000 bulbs came as a gift from the royal family in thanks for the protection the Canadians offered them during WW1. Well worth a trip to Ottawa in May.
I love being told about this kinda stuff...love you John!
Why do I feel like crying about a tulip? That was beautiful!!
Dude, how do you manage to talk to a camera like that by yourself in such public places? Seriously. Respect.
This is actually a pretty large part of Gregory Maguire's Tales of an Ugly Stepsister, which made this video even more fascinating!
Oh my god, I read the name of the video and I was like, thats the name of a book.
I read it last semester. Needless to say you made it a lot more interesting to listen to than it was to read it.
0:36, The look on the guy's face coming out of the pub.
Made me laugh.
I love the shot where the guy on the bike just speeds past you.
Canada (specifically Ottawa) gets tulips from Holland every year as thanks for sheltering Princess Juliana and her daughter during WWII. Every year they are put on display along the Rideau Canal during the Tulip festival. They're certainly a sight to see.
Just realised I was in Amsterdam at exactly the same time, and recognise all the places he went past, damn...
I first heard of Tulipomania from a Canadian comedy program called "History Bytes" wherein history is re-imagined as if television existed back then. I believe it was an "Antiques Roadshow" type show that people were having their bulbs appraised.
"I am sorry madame, but that is an onion"
You know what's amazing? That was bonus question on my biology test today, and I got it right. "What is a virus that is 'helpful' (hint: makes some flowers more appealing)?" and the answer was the mosaic virus (:
Welcome to Amsterdam, hope you have a great time here in this little city
The PBS documentary "The Botany of Desire", based on the book by Michael Pollan, tells John's tulip story with a bit more detail, and its also super interesting. It talks about 4 plants (apples, tulips, potato, and marijuana) that have "manipulated" humans for their well being instead of the other way around. Worth watching ^^
That makes sense. A lot of sense. I like it when I have a vague idea of how the authors created their characters. This could be why he chose it or as you said, maybe it was pure coincidence but I like your explanation.
One of the tulips that had this virus was called "Semper Augustus." It was also one of the most valuable. Could one argue that the beautiful and sickly boy is made valuable by his rarity as well? Since there is only one Augustus Waters that is.
I learned about the tulip mania from Vanderberg as well! :D
"Everyone has a reason to be here except for Henry, but you know, he's portable." XD!
Must find your new book when it comes out; my local libraries not being Nerdfighters be damned.