Nostalgia, Graveyards & an NYC Apartment
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- Опубликовано: 27 май 2024
- Why do we feel nostalgia?
0:00 Digging up a coffin
1:38 The Neistat Brothers' Respectability Tour
2:50 A new feeling for me
3:47 An idea on a Post-it note
5:28 The Fort
11:34 My son's obsession with cemeteries
14:15 The ultimate monument to nostalgia
16:41 The two purposes of nostalgia
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Nostalgia is the license to surrender to the meaningful experiences in our future - Van Neistat
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Van, how good are you at turning insight into a compelling story. You should be able to afford that 12x12 with your valuable philosophy - Gold!
Beautiful
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My husband showed me this video - NOT expecting me to weep uncontrollably. I grew up in a cabin in the woods with my grandma and it was pure magic. I always assumed I would have my family there someday. My mom offered it to me when we were just kids, and we would’ve had to pay $60k in taxes for it. At the time, we were just too terrified to make a purchase like that, so my wonderland went to auction. I still mourn that house years later. I’m expecting my first child and feel ALL of these things about not getting to show her my paradise. To top it all off, my grandmother and I used to explore historic cemeteries together. That was our thing from the time I was very little! So this whole video hit me so freaking hard!
Wow 😯 thank you for sharing this
That is quite a testimony.
I was born and live in Portugal in the countryside and I'm now trying to get back to where my roots are and try to give to my children part of what I had in my childhood.
I never thought that it would be so hard for someone like me to be able to acomplish this part of my dream...
never I would thought that someone in the other part of the Atlantic would have lived something similar...
Well, just thank you for sharing your story.
This man does nothing but make art! Inspires the hell out of me, I'm going straight to make a video today. Thanks for the inspiration my guy!
Love your videos Corey.
@@Mike-ox1hs thanks man! I appreciate the hell out of that!
Another black leather sofa video
@@ericm1014 the more the merrier!
@@mel5519 that is amazing
I thought that NYE footage was from like 1985..then realized that 2008 is starting to look and feel that long ago😢
The older you get the more nostalgic you feel about your past..
As a kid, my cousins and i would walk up the hill about 2 miles to the graveyard to "visit" grandpa. It was actually an excuse to get away from the parental units and eat junk and smoke cigarettes.
Im 61 now and i miss those moments. My cousins and snitched smokes. Nostalgia.
I'm proud of you for letting the apartment go. I sense a lot of angst in younger generations about the lack of space and opportunity being made for them. I think your apartment represents some of that. Hopefully some new bright eyed spirited person will realize some of their dreams in that space. I'm only slightly younger than you and I feel like boomers, Xers, and even millennials are being strangled by nostalgia and it manifests in this hoarding of space and resources that previous generations let fall to the young. Something I have also been guilty of.
Spot on mate!
Agreed, It's meant for people who need it to survive. It was the right thing to do.
such spot on words, thanks Brian !
The Boomers are most guilty of this. I swear they hate everybody that came after them.
Wow...when I got to the end I thought, "That wasn't 18 minutes!" Totally drawn in on this one Van. The last cemetery I visited was Arlington National Cemetery, about six years ago, to visit my Dad and Grandfather's graves. It's powerful for my own personal memories, experiences and love for my biggest heroes...but looking around, there is a shared experience with everyone else there. Everyone is there to pay respects and remember someone who hasn't just passed, but lived a life of service that walked the edge between life and death on behalf of others. I'm sad, grateful and proud all at the same time...a license to surrender to the meaningful experiences in our future...beautiful. Thank you.
Arlington National Cemetery is one of my favorite places in DC, so peaceful, symbolic, beautiful, and orderly. Having moved away 4 years ago, I still remember it fondly.
Respect to your family members' service!
The flat stones make mowing and maintenance easier. You'll pay more to be interned with a larger stone that requires greater maintenance. Or some allow/require DIY.
This has got to be one of the best videos from the spirited man!
The Fort looks identical to Casey's studio in its style and vibe. Love that this 15 year project influenced that studio. Awesome work Van. Please more stories from the New York days.
I loved this piece and this is so relatable. I can't shake that you've admitted to have an apartment in New York City that is subsidized by the gov or the city for poor people that was there unused so you could impress your kid. Man, this isn't right!
Yea exactly…the public was subsidizing a place that could have been rented to someone that needed it and then he knew he owed and instead of paying what he owed on a subsidized place (who knows what the real cost is) he rolls over on his obligations. Not a very moral way to live or something to be proud of.
Thank you Van. This has given me a great idea. My 16 yo son is terrified of driving and cemetery might be a calm place for him to practice. My father is buried in a very large cemetery and I have not been back to visit in almost 30 years. He died when I was not much older than my son is now.
Definitely! I learned how to drive a stick shift in The Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge Mass. Highly recommend.
Bad place to crash though.
@@Skatted I mean, there would not be a casualty tho.
@@ivan_valerian dead
Nostalgia is one hell of a drug.
I wish you can tell the more story of you and Casey in the future. People need inspiration.
Very Poignant video! My late husband had to basically give up his 80’s V8 Vaga because of being behind on the rent as well 😔 it was simply something we had to let go 😔 he died never being able to finish a lot of projects so sad
I've always lived about 2 minutes walk away from a huge old Victorian cemetery (which I don't think is really a thing in America) which has an old church tower and hundreds of detailed headstones. As a child, it fascinated me to think that in some strange way I can have a form of interaction with these long dead people by reading their names and accolades. Maybe in a way that’s the nostalgia’s work.
"Nostalgia is the license to surrender to the meaningful experiences in our future" - this is exactly what I've been trying to do with my nostalgia; use it as a reminder to appreciate and fully experience the present. It's only in retrospect that we fully appreciate certain moments from our past, and to me that's what nostalgia is.
I have been watching the Ducktales reboot with my young children for the past weeks and I just know I will look back at this moment in time and be nostalgic.
Nostalgia always changes...and when we try to go back to visit it we see the reality of it. Even if there are still glimmers and sparkles of the past, our eyes don't live here anymore.
In your video, “Narcissism vs Universality” you shared a quote at the four minute mark. I feel like it sums up parenthood and the way it makes you embrace nostalgia/homesickness as a willing participant rather than one who suffers its impact.
Anytime you give fully of yourself there are elements of your old self that are dying, because a new self is in the process of emerging.
-Brother Cornell West
I heard once that nostalgia is our instinct to return to Eden, to return to paradise. It maps onto the famous line “there’s no place like home.” And the significance of Baum’s grave being under a tree is obvious.
18 minutes, Van. 18 concise, beautifully told minutes. Your story telling and imagery are the best I have ever seen. Your videos and life are so intriguing. Truly a spirited man
There is a small country cemetery outside of the town where I was born that has the graves of many that I have known throughout my life. Every time I look at a familiar name on a stone I am taken back to a day, a moment in time when I have interacted with these people. It gives me pause to determine what those moments meant to me and how they affected me in my life going forward. I believe we are the products of our own experiences with those who are no longer with us.
The other night, me and two close friends of mine went back to our high school we just graduated from to climb it. It was really cool seeing this place we knew for years in such a different angle. We attributed it to prisoners breaking out and sneaking on top of their jailhouse. After exploring a bit, one of my friends really wanted to climb the chimney. The chimney is maybe 50 meters high but looked like 100. He got a boosted to the raised ladder on the chimney from our other friend who is much taller than us. I decided to not go and instead film them from the roof. as my second friend followed up the ladder of the chimney, I knew that this was something special and started to debate what to do. My nostalgia had hit me, telling me this was one for the books. After my second friend got to the top, I quickly ran down to the base of the chimney and tried to jump for the ladder, but I couldn't reach it. I felt so cheated from this great experience right when I saw two tar buckets that were up there from a roofing job. I stacked them under the raised ladder and jumped up to it. I was able reach and climb up the ladder and join my friends on the top. It was incredible. We were on the highest point in the area which was already on a large hill, allowing us to see everything around us, most notably the glowing downtown skyline. Later on when we got down from the school, my friend said it was a life changing experience. If my nostalgia had not pushed me to climb that ladder, that beautiful moment I had with my friends from my teenage years, potentially one of the last memories with them for a while with us going to university, I would just have a video mocking me of what could have been. Van, thank you for helping me understand why I decided to climb the chimney.
Kansas Quarter with the little paper tornado. Nice touch.
11:12 and you had me in tears. Beautiful storytelling and I could see myself with my sons.
An old song or book feels like a time machine. Very powerful.
The tornado paper hot glued on the Kansas quarter. What a friggin spark brilliancy.
My grandparents are buried at Forest Lawn. A lot of nostalgia for my dad there in visiting.
I'm the same age as you Van and I always feel that the video essays you've done in this style are an expression of exactly how I feel as well. Even the 90's and early 00's B-Roll you use looks like my memories. Wonderfully done sir. I will watch this video multiple times in the coming months as I have so many others of yours. Thank you.
cool. teaching the kid the utility of grave robbing early! excellent!
I Van, Great film.
In Portuguese we have a word that is very dear to us, which I think describes this feeling. The word "SAUDADE"... describes more than a mere feeling for the past, but also a hope in the future to relive that moment, such as seeing again a dear relative that you have not seen for a long time, or a place. A bit like you say at the end "Nostalgia is the license to surrender to the meaningful experiences in our future", it's funny that you described a word, in a language you don't know without knowing it.
I discovered your channel recently, and I've been loving your style, the ideas and themes you put in your videos. Excellent work.
Thank you. I needed this.
Oh man this is exactly what i needed
This is one of my fav! Very well put together.
Amazing. Loved it.
As a current NYC resident, I resonate with a lot of your content. You nailed it with this one Van. Amazing.
Your videos always show up right when I need them.
Thank you for this one.
Beautiful episode!
Nostalgia is the refeeling of a feeling from a previous juncture as well as the pursuit of said feeling, nostalgia is mostly if not always a positive feeling
Phenomenal story brother. I remember getting near crippling nostalgia as a kid. X will cherish these times.
Another masterpiece!! Van, thank you so much for this videos!
Loved this video. Thank you for making this.
One of the best episodes. Thank you.
love every video and music in it Van!
❤️ stunning work, thanks Van
Very inspirational. Thank you, Van.
Love this. Thank you.
This is a great one, Van. Thank you.
Van, I don't know how to say this, but your videos speak to me in a way only art has spoken to me before. It's indescribable. Safe to say I'm hooked. Thank you for awakening a part of me that I didn't really know could blossom. Love.
This video is amazing. Great job!
Excellent film Van! This one really hit home for me. Awesome story telling as usual.
Thank you for sharing this story and for taking the time to host the live stream this morning. Have a great trip to NYC next week.
I’ve loved so many of your videos so far but this one hit me in a way the ones before haven’t. Keep it up.
thanks for this video!!!
So eloquently put 🙏
I become so emotional watching your art. Thank you
This may have easily been the best SM yet. Thank you, Van.
My eyes got full of tears... being a venezuelan migrant in switzerland everything makes me nostalgic, nothing here is like home
This is simply a masterpiece of a video. Well done.
I love this “little” channel. So good to watch. The pauses are perfect. Thank you.
Great video Van!!! Theses just keep getting better and better keep up the good work man! 👍
I'm always blown away by the beautiful video documentation you have of your life. It must multiply the nostalgia when you can literally watch these moments again! Thank you for sharing.
Hey Van! That one spoke to me, I'm approaching my 40's and discovering nostalgia, especially the time spent with my friends. Take care man.
You are so incredibly gifted at this. It's very inspiring.
Beautiful video Van, thank you
This was really beautiful, Van. And because of it, I just became a Patreon subscriber.
Brilliant surprise (from a previous video) with the author of The Wizard of Oz. Bravo, Van
Deeper you go 💜 Beautiful.
Maaan that was so unique and deep. I loved it!
Thank you for this one Van. You've really been hitting some high RPM's lately
one of your best videos yet Van, been thinking about your fort all morning.
I'm one of those oldies and this resonates with me. Thanks ❤️
Beautiful.
I went to a place I spent summers on summers as a kid, had not been for 20 years (not as an adult), got in a car (with wife of 6 years at the age of 38) drove there with visual memory of the journey, arrived with nostalgic feeling & to share the same experience as kid with my wife without thinking as an adult driving in a car. It is amazing how you to feel about a time & place from the past.
Incredible episode! Love it. The colors/light at the graveyard scenes were beautiful.
Omg. I had to stop to come comment when you pulled that coffin out. I’m so scared and can’t wait to see what comes out of it. My heart feels like it is in my throat. It is so cute that you’re making a video with your son.
Wow! Just wow! What a special story!
I grew up across from and next to a cemetery, we always felt the sacred nature of that space when we would walk through them. So much information to be gleaned from the simple information written on the graves, so much grief and love.
this video floored me. great story telling.
Van, that was beautiful. Thank you.
That, was friggin brilliant! Wow👌👏🏼🙌🏼
love your vlogs
unbelievably beautiful. the way you craft stories gets me every single time. made me cry with this one :') thank you for creating this
Van, thank you for letting us live vicariously through the beautiful moments you share with your son.
This is such a great video. Thank you ❤
Incredible episode. Just beautiful. Amazing work
Man, you really made me feel the loss of that moment that could now never be. Heavy.
Beautiful work. Unbelievable sometimes how fast life goes by. It’s good to remember
Yet another perfectly timed video, that put into words, what I experienced yesterday.
Thank you again Van🤜
Great video VanMan! Thank you.
I loved this episode. Thank you so much.
i think you did the right thing with the apartment. my parents sold their first apartment in Albuquerque and raised me in maryland, and looking back they also regret it. but last summer on a road trip I did from MD to california we made their old place a stop on our route. Even though it was owners by someone else and i couldn't go inside, seeing the place and their old neighborhood was still very impactful for me, imagining them in that environment , ect. The same will probably happen to your son one day
My son is about the same age as yours, and while all the playgrounds were closed due to covid... that same cemetery became our playground. It was the perfect. Not many people around, shady trees everywhere, hills to summit, monuments and castles to discover. Best of all, the mini backhoes used to dig graves would always just be left out in some random place unattended. So my son could see and touch and sit in the drivers seat of a real life construction vehicle! Pure joy. I was always surprised and amazed at how many incredible headstones we would stumble across. Walt Disney, Mary Pickford, Elizabeth Taylor, Nat King Cole, Micheal Jackson (even though his is hidden, there is a secret tribute area people a have made for him behind some bushes) and so many more. I would always end up on wikipedia learning about these men and women. Often times watching old films of the people we found later that day.
Thank you!
Probably my favourite short movie you've done so far. The story telling in this is just astounding.
That's such a great story Van. You had me glued and then when you and your kid found Baum's grave...perfect. 👌🏻
You are an incredibly gifted storyteller; cheers!
Wow man, muchas gracias, te amo Van y amo tu trabajo. Keep it up man! Gracias
I love a longer Van video … you inspire me to be a better creator Van … Thank You ❤️💯