If You Could Afford Anything What You Would Buy? A Collector's Dream Library
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- Опубликовано: 21 фев 2022
- Give this video time and you will see some amazing things and hear the stories behind them. The speaker is Jay Walker one of America's great inventors with more than 700 patents to his name. I have worked for him on occasion & he offered to give my sons and wife a personal tour of just a few of his amazing things. Aside from his genius at inventing things Jay is a wonderful storyteller. He calls his library The Library Of Human Imagination and that title and what it means to him has allowed him to assemble amazing individual items. Ancient manuscripts. Dinosaur eggs and skeletons. Rocks from Mars. Books that make no sense and books that are absolutely classics. A huge collection of books on medicine. Hand made illustrated books. Among the earliest Bibles. A Gutenberg printed book. A device that decoded the axis messages in World War II. On and on and on. I took my GoPro and started recording Jay as he walked my boys around the five story library showing individual items and telling the story behind each one. For sure this is one of the greatest private libraries in the world and it keeps on growing monthly as Jay and a group of specialists search for things that might fit Jay's definition of human imagination as it has been demonstrated time and again through eons.
Looks like a room in a Tomb Raider game.
This guy is a great teacher, his place reminds me of Sir John Soane’s Museum which I visited many years ago.
Ultimate analogue 3D library and museum of imagination hatching seeds that spark into flame for the children ,without a doubt absolutely incredible
This would be the library of my dreams. I always imagined a real library in this configuration.
How many years did Jay spend assembling this collection?
Really nice! Thanks for the tour!
Probably grew up in wealth so he had most his life.
@@mageds2684 His collection is nice, but not much of a fan of this man as he is a patent troll, also called a non-producer.
I wonder wheret your observation of this guy comes from? Shush.
@@luciehanson6250 wikipedia/
@@pavelow235 I read about this guy. Seems he likes to sue a lot.
The kids faces and their focus, says it all about how wonderful and interesting this tour was for them. Sparking kids imagination, leads to them being wise and creative.
I loved watching this video. Peace and love David!
What an exciting concept for a library. This is unique and brilliant, I can see the interest and enthusiasm of the children for the stories associated with these objects. The man who has compiled this collection is fascinating, and he is a great storyteller. Thank you David for showing us this.🖤🇨🇦
What an awesome man! And he's got such a wonderful library. Thank you David for taking us along!
WOW!!! I feel like a kid and I'd love to go!! Fascinating stuff 😊
Learning should be education at the same time fun. I love how Jay Walker crafted his Library around Imagination not just for young kids but for kids of all ages.
This is one of the best things I have found on RUclips. As a collector, I would love to spend days perusing this place. It's like the "house on a rock" in Wisconsin, only more intellectual. Totally cool!
Ecclesiastes 2:26. Wonderful. Thank you for sharing.
The youngsters are lucky to have such a wonderful tour. Thank you.
Wow
I love that he “collects” bits of history. I collected stuff from mid century America. I loved that period. My apartment was decorated in mid century furniture. Though my bedroom was deco period. Vanity with the big round mirror, my living room had a ‘50’s sectional sofa with double tiered mahogany end tables that resembled the star trek enterprise space ship with fiberglass lamp shades. I had a Formica kitchen table with chrome and vinyl chairs. I figured I’d save pieces from that era, not to mention furniture isn’t made like it use to be. I basically found the pieces on Craigslist for free or on “big garbage night” people liquidate estates and I’d “save” the perfectly fine pieces from ending up at the dump. The sectional sofa I found on the curb with the plastic covers still on it so the fabric was in pristine condition. The non fabric pieces I’d clean even if they looked to be in fine condition for cleanliness reasons. I also collected Pyrex kitchen patterns. I look on eBay and now I see what people pay for some of the things I collected. Holy crap
🎯 he's a walking book himself 🎯 love the boys reaction to this brilliant storyteller 💕
I so wish to spend days in that library. Those boys will never forget this and I would bet everything I have that some thing they experienced that day will send them on their lives trajectory into areas they may never have thought of. Lucky lovely children.
Thanks for highlighting this collector. The quality of this video is awsome!
What a great and interesting storyteller Jay is! And he must have great cleaning staff, that library looks like a nightmare to keep dust free!😂
Wow, happy to see someone collecting such artifacts.
This was a beautifull video of a fascinatingly unique collection. Despite giving up my collections due to terrible situations and people I've not really given up anything even those destroyed I can see filed away neatly labeled in my mind. ❤ Thanks Mr Hoffman
Well, it'a a library, but it's also a museum. Amazing place.
That was great! Nice people. The signed postcard as a ticket was a very sweet gesture.
The kids are already super smart. I love it. I really enjoyed this video. ☺
Thank you Jannette.
This man is SO good at talking to kids! He's like Mr. Rogers. If only every kid could have the chance to come here on a field trip at some point!
Fantastic video..walking through the imagination of humans with the kids, priceless 9n so many levels! Your friend is a great storyteller too!
good manners, respect, attention appreciation good job boys
This place looks magical! I loved it, and it looked like such fun! These sorts of places are my favorite kinds of museums, right next to living history museums - oh, and that one time at the Udvar-Hazy Center when my husband and I had an older guide show us EVERYTHING for almost two hours. We ended up hanging out with a mechanic who was rebuilding a rotary airplane engine in a hangar. I can listen all day to people who love what they do. And Jay seems to love what he does.
First things first, Great family David. Next great job filming , was like i was there. Had fun thank you....
He's a wonderful teacher. That's hard to find. Great with kids.
Wow. Just breath taking. I would just ....maybe faint if I had an opportunity to see that. Amazing. Thanks for sharing this.
I’m an artist. And this library is like a dream I wish I can visit. Wow
Wow! This was truly fascinating. My eyes were wide open trying to take it all in. I'm really glad people like Jay exist to collect and know the stories behind things like these. To simply collect because you can is one thing but to know the stories behind them, that's the real value for each of those things. Thank you so much for sharing this with us.
This is on my bucket list of places to visit. Absolutely beautiful and wonderful. Thank you for this video.
A brilliant man with a gift for storytelling. I love the choice to use glass panels instead of obstructive spokes or solid panels throughout the building. In the 70's I did stained glass and also did art treatments with etching on glass as we see here. It brings back memories. I could truly spend two days in the museum and feel I rushed through it. Fantastic!
David thanks for this delightful film. So enjoyable!
What a brilliant place, you've got some friends
Wow … thank you David for such a wonderful film of your adorable boys. They were both so fascinated in everything they were shown … showing genuine interest and interacting so nicely. They are very clever chaps indeed. Jay is fabulous at explaining all aspects of every different exhibit … truly gifted, their attention never wavered for a second. What an amazing place this is … a kind of Willy Wonker dream, truly magical. I’m sure they will remember this incredibly interesting place for many many years … if not forever ☺️💕👍🏻🇬🇧
This was so interesting and enjoyable!Your sons are so well mannered and Observant!And your wife a lovely lady!
I want to move into this incredible space, so I can learn about something new every day that stimulates my mind ... and I also found it to be stunningly beautiful!😽
That is a awesome museum. Thanks for sharing ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Always fascinating! Thank you, Mr. Hoffman. 👍
What a great storyteller. 💕
Jay Walker's collection is fantastic !
I can't even imagine the time and effort he has invested assembling these treasures.
Please thank him for me and ask him if I could sleep over for a few months.
What a wonderful library! You have been so blessed in your life David, to have met such interesting people. How you have enriched your family’s lives. I love your films. Thank you
Thank you.
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker this video is so fascinating, library of my dream... will you visit your friend one more time? There are many cool things left unshown, and maybe he bought some new ones..
I’m a mother of two sons, and all I could think about is how they both wanted to just explore on their own.
Incredible. Just amazing. Sent video to my son. He's going to love this thanks for sharing
Thank you Nat for your comment. I hope that your son enjoys it. If your resources allow, I would sure appreciate your using the THANKS button under any of my videos including the one you have commented on. It is something new that RUclips is beta testing and would mean a great deal for my continuing efforts.
David Hoffman filmmaker
Incredible! Thank you David!
This was really good to watch. I felt like I have been on a tour of the Library of human imagination. Very interesting books and items. Entertaining and interesting.
Very cool, Thanks for sharing
This video was so incredible such greatness in one room! It had me teary at the very end overwhelmed by the feeling of love & friendship
Thank you Danielle for your comment. If your resources allow, I would sure appreciate your using the THANKS button under any of my videos including the one you have commented on. It is something new that RUclips is beta testing and would mean a great deal for my continuing efforts.
David Hoffman filmmaker
Wow wow wow 💖
Wow! Thanks for sharing this. ❤️
I could take an hour commenting on all the cool & interesting stuff in the video. This is a remarkable living document. It illustrates the imagination of people long ago & how many things came to be reality .
An amazing dude
I'd put this in your top 10 , Dave. Thanks for this⚡⭐
Awesome vid, huh, Wind!
It’s 2:30 am can’t get back to sleep, thanks for the great tour Mr. Hoffman
incredible. could live there rest of my life.
Wow! This is one of the most cool museums I've ever seen.
That was fun
What an amazing library! I would love to wander through with your friend and I'm sure you could spend a month there and not even scratch the surface.
Just incredible. Your boys had eyes like organ stops the whole time and I’d be the same.
thank you for sharing this, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.
Thank you for your comment. If your resources allow, I would sure appreciate your using the THANKS button under any of my videos including the one you have commented on. It is something new that RUclips is beta testing and would mean a great deal for my continuing efforts.
David Hoffman filmmaker
So amazingly wild, wanna live in that library in my hammock 🎵
For a minute, I thought he was going to tell the kids the real reason for single use syringes, lol.
He did!
Which is what?
@@rosaartemis hiv
This library would be on my bucket list if it only were possible to visit. What a wonderful place 😊👍
David watching this made me reminded me of the good ole days of my dad taking me to different museums and national parks. Amazing content as always and thank you for sharing this was incredible and I can already see those kids passing on knowledge when they become old crazies like us.
Cheers!
Crazy cool!
Jay is a gem. Oft times incredibly smart people are not great teachers. When you get one that is, you're for quite a ride! Brilliant video. Thank you.
This is incredible!!!!
loved this one !!!
what an experience! 😎 cool beans! 👍
"I don't happen to be a collector"
One good look around that library and I don't believe that at all 😆
What a wierd little museum, I love it! 🧡
Such a fascinating place! I'd like to have a similar display one day. Thank again, David, for a fantastic video. Always capturing my imagination.
i can only imagine the cost of this library, I am usually not a fan of the upper class, but this is the most amazing collection I have ever seen. The care and dedication shown in the knowledge and behavior of Mr. Walker are astounding. Thank you for sharing David, happy twosday!
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great share my man thank you
I think a lot of the adults commenting here about how fascinating it was for the children were secretly fascinated themselves. I'm not embarrassed to admit I learned a few things. And parts of it triggered my imagination. This was great!
Fascinating man. I’d love to see more of what he has.
Hey Mr. Hoffman! Wondering what amazing stuff we weren't able to see in those books and who knows what else he hasn't shown. I have to remember myself to put it into my bucket list of things I things I must see at least once in my life. As always, thanks for sharing this with us.
Amazing
This is what needs to replace the modern public school. It couldnt possibly be more expensive in the long run.
wow, great video😯👍
Fascinating
Big $ collection on some items
Great video. I could spend years in that room.
Wow I watched the whole thing , so fascinating , like the best museum in the world
Cool
you call yourself a WACO
youre not ,your self man success which like to leave a beautiful record to billions of homo sapiens
thank you for the fast and fascinating tour!
WOW. 😱
This man is serious.
Our library contains interesting books and any thing else I collected over the years that I felt was unique. I have a piece of the Berlin wall, a 1865 nickel and a petrified sharks tooth I found in nature and a piece of the Titanic for example.
These kids are like, “What’s a see dee?”
That star atlas 🤩🤩🤩
Thanks!
Peter. I so appreciate your support. Thank you.
David
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Happy to contribute when I can. You have something good going on.
What a remarkable library and interesting man! Thanks a lot for sharing the experience with us. Your sons were so lucky to have that opportunity.
Your children are adorable.
So cool. I had a dream and in it, I was in a special library that was on a ground floor & a museum was upstairs. I was shown a book that was like no other as it had clear pages sandwiching sets of gear workings...underneath were ancient written descriptions of these gears and what they were, and I was shown a machine that I just figured out as it was missing a crucial piece! This?? Is like the library that I dreamt about !, when this isn't unusual for me - solving problems in my dreams and having psychic experiences that are in the form of a dream that are a matter of consciousness & physics not magic...cool!
Except the stars DO have order so patterns. Related to biology and patternd in nsture. We call it the Dog Star for reasoning: in all myth there is truth as history is repeated as a story then a legend and finally as myth. So in all myth there is truth. + We create our own reality alone & together!
I'm honestly so fascinated, I was brought up with my dad who was a huge book collector. He also had many amazing stories to tell. I'd love to go for my 50th birthday which is next year. Especially would love to look at his old books, the bibles and hand painted astronomy book was amazing. I would really love to go + I would gift him some unique items too. Please tell me does he open to the public?
@Cranky Cockney - He probably has small tour groups ... he couldn’t have people just going through different areas without a guide!
Wrong. Edison's lightbulbs burned indefinitely.
There's one of his bulbs still burning non-stop for over 110 years, at Fire Station #6 Livermore, California.
The reason they didn't last long as a consumer product, is due to planned obsolescence. The bulb was later purposely made to last a short time, by reducing the thickness of the filament, so the manufactures could make money on the consumer's need to replace them often.
That dinosaur leg must’ve cost big$
Thank you so much for sharing this! I have reached out to you via email concerning an Ammorite for your own collection or possibly to pass the information on to Jay if he is interested in it for his collection.
Need an invite to sleepover for a couple thousand days !