omg he sounds so much less excited in this video then on the one that brought me here

@HaloGod1844

8 жыл бұрын

Except this isn't either one of them...

@KhoiPham-hs7hi

8 жыл бұрын

Hank or John aren't related to this guy...

@adammoefoe

8 жыл бұрын

nice b8 m8 @JordiSax

@agent-sz2qj

8 жыл бұрын

are you serious? there are actually 2 persons in this channel, are they twins?

@TheRojam12

7 жыл бұрын

wtf are you talking about

The lens on my right eye was damaged and I see everything with a blue tint with that eye now. It's kind of annoying sometimes.

@chimkenfoot

9 жыл бұрын

For sure

@vn3138

5 жыл бұрын

I have this black floater on my RIGHTeye that sometimes tricks me thinking a bug is following me. It's terrible in white rooms.

@myMotoring

3 жыл бұрын

how do you focus without lens

@myMotoring

3 жыл бұрын

@Rhebucks Full swing why?

@ethanoux10

3 жыл бұрын

@@myMotoring he's joking

i was born with cataracts, and had my lenses removed when i was a baby. i was never able to get artificial ones put in, so i've lived my whole life seeing like monet's lens-less eye (and some heavy prescription glasses). i'm curious about how normal people see the world compared to me. i have taken colour recognition tests and scored VERY high in accuracy, so i know i see more colours than others do. it's really cool to know that even though my vision kinda sucks even with glasses, i get to see a more vibrant world. i'm an artist, too! and maybe this is why my favourite colours are purple and blue.

@JoeBuk724

Жыл бұрын

Wow I can't believe no one has commented. That's amazing. Yeah i could only imagine wondering what other's can't see that you can. I find all this super interesting. Makes me want to experience it. So do you have to take special care of your eyes? Like watching what drops you use or getting in pools?

@tinycatfriend

Жыл бұрын

@@JoeBuk724 haha thanks! and nope, eyes carry on just fine without lenses. everything is just extremely blurry, but my prescription resolves that! i'm still visually impaired, though. i have an increased risk of glaucoma and retinal detachment as far as i know, so i make sure i get my eyes checked every year, instead of the recommended 2 years. i'm one of the last of my kind, as not long after i was born we figured out how to make implanting lenses viable in babies! the structures the lens is sewn to wasn't preserved for me though, so i'm one of the youngest people around to have this problem. pretty neat!

@JoeBuk724

Жыл бұрын

@@tinycatfriend Thanks for sharing! Wow that is interesting. I have to wear glasses and contacts too. Oh are contacts an option for you? Not too many people get to say they are "the last of their kind" lol. Oh I see, they removed it all so you can't get them now any way. Well that's good you can make do with glasses I recently had trouble with ghosting while reading text (particularly on a screen like a phone). So i can somewhat understand trying to explain to others what you (and only you lol) see.

@tinycatfriend

Жыл бұрын

@@JoeBuk724 i could use contacts, i just can't stand having to put them in. and considering how easy they are to lose, i wouldn't want to risk that when they're required for my everyday life. getting contacts (or glasses) replaced would take weeks or months because my prescription is so rare that not a lot of labs make it. i have every pair of glasses i've ever owned for this reason! haha yeah i'd love to explain how i see but alas, it's all i know~

@JoeBuk724

Жыл бұрын

@@tinycatfriend lol It took me a couple hours to get them in the first time, I just wasn't touching my eye enough. I still have them but quit wearing them for the most part, glasses are easier lol. But i do hate how skin flakes and stuff is always getting on them. And they stick to the lens, you can't just blow them off. Oh my, yes i didn't think of how long it must take to get special made stuff. Prob a good idea to keep the old ones around. My last ones got stepped on like Ralphie lol so I don't have those ones.

birds can also see ultra violett and the arrangement of light sensory cells in their eyes have a higher density, which makes them able to see better and they see colors stronger then we do. Having eyes like a bird would be truly amazing.

I legitimately felt sad and started crying while watching this video. I felt so bad such an amazing artist lost his talent from losing the ability to see proper colors. I really want to be an artist but I have no talent whatsoever. I admire any artist that can put their imagination to life and create a whole new world for us to see and believe.

@tabletoss4466

8 ай бұрын

Talent or no talent, you can still be an artist. That is if you choose to.

Can we just pause a minute and discuss that GIGANTIC LITE BRITE?

@besmart

10 жыл бұрын

How much fun was that? Picture how much fun you think it was, and multiply that times 1,000.

@dominic508

10 жыл бұрын

It's Okay To Be Smart [Jealousy intensifies]

@pinkajou656

3 жыл бұрын

@@besmart sigh... I’m so jealous

Wow, how incredibly interesting. PBS is getting some dollars tonight.

@besmart

10 жыл бұрын

Awesome! No lie, our PBS KZreads are supported by viewers like you (I've always wanted to say that)

@xXBlueSheepXx

10 жыл бұрын

It's Okay To Be Smart Thank you.

@angellovegud93

8 жыл бұрын

+It's Okay To Be Smart LOL

This channel is quickly becoming one of my favorites... I'm loving this c':

I'm just curious as to why more people didn't remove the lenses in their eyes since then?

@besmart

10 жыл бұрын

There are other ways to repair cataracts these days, but lens removal was actually a fairly common surgery, and one that's been done since the time of the Romans. The difficult part is creating corrective lenses to still focus light on the retina.

@evanvandenberg2260

10 жыл бұрын

Also, and I might be wrong about this, it might have something to do with shorter wavelength light(like ultraviolet) cause increased damage to cells, and thus would cause loss of vision long before your life would be over. I think allot of animals with short lives do not have the ultra violet lenses(birds and insects), wheres we and other long life mammals have them. I might be wrong though.

@Jake-oz5mg

8 жыл бұрын

I think you're right, I may have read something on it, not sure though.

@Raison_d-etre

8 жыл бұрын

Before they were discontinued my contact lenses provided 90% UV protection.

@Siberius-

7 жыл бұрын

I wonder if there's somewhere to see people's accounts on what it's like to see like that...

I love art,I love science, and when a video have both,I explode! 😆😆😆 nice video

@hie5forlifeyt112

5 жыл бұрын

Like you did in Hiroshima and Nagasaki I presume.

@guigoinz112

4 жыл бұрын

Hie5ForLifeYT Wow, that’s is just so fucked up :d

@aaronpescasio

4 жыл бұрын

@@hie5forlifeyt112 that's too far

Well that's settled in going to cut my lenses out

@leonid1995

8 жыл бұрын

Sure, have fun. What's the worst that can happen? ☺

@dfreltzya541

6 жыл бұрын

That would explain the lack of reply.

@lunarmist8330

6 жыл бұрын

Nathan Lamberth at least have it removed by a professional.

@rckli

6 жыл бұрын

Black or fuzzy? Monet could still see out of his eye, just that there was no lens to focus the images. It explains his paintings a lot. Correct me if I'm wrong, pls

@speckytwat

5 жыл бұрын

coming from a person with no lenses, you dont want do do that lol

that's the strangest story I've heard in a while.

I once saw an exhibit of Monet's work in Seattle, but I had not idea just how amazing they were until now.

At my state museum, (NCMA) we have a painting by CLAUDE MONET!!! (I discovered that today at the mueseum)

@barretthoven

8 жыл бұрын

Museum

Thanks so much for this amazing perspective all due to his eyes.

I am colorblind, and an artist. It can be very difficult. My paintings look strange, I see them as beautiful, and others do too, but it makes me sad that I will never be able to show other people what I see. Or maybe more that since what I see is so different, other people don't appreciate it. I want to make art for other people to enjoy, but I can't.

@Lowraith

9 жыл бұрын

Actually, I think it's more likely that your art would give those of us without color blindness a better understanding of what you do actually see. If you mix up two hues due to seeing them as equal, we may end up getting very interesting pictures with blues in place of some greens, or blacks in place of some reds, etc. I've actually long been curious how paintings by color blind artists would look. Do you have a site featuring any of your work?

@thingamabitch

9 жыл бұрын

Lowraith Two of my art teachers were colorblind. :0 One of them worked almost exclusively in red and blue and he made these beautiful "fire wheel" paintings and earthworks models. A few of his paintings looked like this- www.kookseye.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Saint-Pirans-Fire.jpg He also does abstract, large scale paintings in collaboration with his wife. I have no idea what my current teacher's artwork is like, he hasn't shown us. What colors can you see with accuracy?

@Lowraith

9 жыл бұрын

awkwardCrabwalk I can see all colors with above average accuracy. Which is one of the reasons colorblindness fascinates me. I can't even imagine what the world looks like from that perspective. Art produced by someone with colorblindness would be a peek into another perspective altogether, and might possibly reveal some part of the workings of the brain and how perception functions.

@thingamabitch

9 жыл бұрын

Lowraith I was talking to the other person, and I gave you a link to my color blind drawing teacher's artwork. Ha, I have better than average color perception, too. I took a test once, I think I got a 98% accuracy.

@nasa9509

8 жыл бұрын

they have corrective lenses for colorblind people

Correct me if im wrong, but something tells me getting your lens removed isnt exactly healthy. how did he die?

@Speed001

6 жыл бұрын

Oh, so he died from common sense. Alas, another tragic story.

@hrckhm

6 жыл бұрын

Speed you deserve a pat on the back

@MyUnquenchableThirst

4 жыл бұрын

you wasted your time asking a question in the comments instead of typing it into google.

@josephspencer139

3 жыл бұрын

Monet died of lung cancer on 5 December 1926 at the age of 86

your videos are always good...but they've absolutely rocked in the last couple months! keep 'em coming!

@besmart

10 жыл бұрын

Thank you! We have set a high bar, but that just makes me try harder

Just amazing info trough all the episodes

"and thats when he became a bee." did he like jazz?

This was amazing! Great video!!

This series has really changed over 8 years and Joe has become "jazzier".😉

really interesting information, Love Monet's work

Man that was a tragic artist. Not only did he go through so much suffering and disappointment, he never got to know how unique and pretty the stuff became today.

2:32 Half a bee, philosophically must, ipso facto, half not be.

@CineSoar

7 жыл бұрын

But half the bee has got to be. Vis-à-vis, its entity.

@sdfkjgh

6 жыл бұрын

But can a bee be said to be, or not to be, an entire bee, when half the bee is not a bee, due to some ancient injury?

@sdfkjgh

6 жыл бұрын

Singing

@flowerbin2425

5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha!

@kathyt555

4 жыл бұрын

Eric, the ‘alf bee!

Oliver Sacks wrote about one of his patients, who was a painter, that acquired achromotopsia. After he obtained achromotopsia and trying to paint with color, he switched to what he still had: black, white and grey. The paintings were vastly different.

3:20 his violets ultra

Wow, absolutely fascinating!

As an art student and science lover, I'm glad to be here. c:

We are Monet of Borg. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own.

These videos are always so well donw. can't wait for the next one!

@besmart

10 жыл бұрын

Thank you! We put a new one out every Monday

I got my cataract out a few weeks ago and I agree being able to see ultraviolet light is glorious and beautiful. I need to test it more but right off the bat I can definitely understand what is being described here

wow thats crazy you guys posted a video about people who can see ultra violet light ....i was just talking about that a couple of days ago ....my left eye can see ultraviolet

Wow this is amazing! Thank you soo much!

That is one of your best episodes!

That's excellent. Great Job !

How do I cut my lens out, and how long wil it take me to fuck up my eyes to blindness?

super awesome episode!!!

When I was 6yo, the lens in my left eye was knocked out by a blow to the eye. Other than not being able to see clearly though my left eye, I didn't notice much until I was in high school. My friends and I would go to the local mall and one of our favorite stores was Spencer Gifts (the chain). Anyway, in the back of the store was a whole host of 'black-light' posters with a couple of black light fixtures. I found that if I closed my left eye (bad eye), and looked at the lights, they were that blue-purple and didn't seem to radiated any light at all (what I gather others see). However, if I closed my right eye (good eye) I and looked at the lights, their light was like a fluorescent tube.

Could someone in theory with todays technology replace their lense with an artificial one that allows the wavelenghs in?

@rckli

6 жыл бұрын

U.v. Rays are highly energetic and cause damage to cells. You'd give the back of your eye a suntan....i don't want to imagine that, but, an eye patch would protect ya....mangekyo sharingan

@RynaxAlien

5 жыл бұрын

Bk7 or fused silica lens can do it. Although modern should contain UV absorbants since it's harmful to eyes for long living species. Better idea is to modify camera to see ultraviolet.

@watsonwrote

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, there are people alive today who were given artificial lenses that don't block UV light after their cataract surgery. I believe most surgeries performed today give patients UV blocking lenses instead.

@Guru_1092

5 жыл бұрын

@@rckli Let's just replace the entire eyeball then! Cyborg eyes!

@rckli

5 жыл бұрын

Once we get the technology to properly map nerve endings and create a synthetic connection to a computer with them, full on cyborg eyes will be possible.

I remember sitting on the bus coming home as a kid. I would sometimes change which eye I was seeing in and the way his vision was makes sense. I could see more blue in one eye and red in the other. I had thought my eyes did this to get a balanced mix of color and get a proper "image" of what the world looks like.

Bloody fascinating.

I definitely want to do this when im older so that I could have a glimpse of what other creatures see

Imagine the night sky through his right eye

My humanities professor in college always told us that artists distort reality in order to reveal reality. Monet was truly an artist!

This is one of my favorite IOTBS'

Why is this one of my most nostalgic videos now?

I recently had cataracts surgery and the amount of colour that I can see now is incredible, I can’t believe how much colour is in the world! Before that, everything was dull and gloomy, it was horrible!

Dude being able to see a little bit of ultraviolet is insanity-inducing sometimes. I can see down to like 380nm from what I've noticed, and it's absolutely bizarre without my eyeglasses. I may be an artist, but you'll never catch me wearing contacts ever again after the first time I tried them... some colors are just WAY too vivid without something to filter ultraviolet.

Wait how did he know what color pigment he was using? Wouldnt his favorite blue be the same as a yellow.

@physics_hacker

5 жыл бұрын

They would look a bit different, yellow would be yellower and blue would be kinda white/greenish I'd think?

What do colors out of our visible spectrum look like? Invisible?

Ha! Just before you said "it was his right eye", I said "which one?" I swear it's true! Bonus

I can see ultraviolet, but only from very strong sources that are almost horizontal to my eye... a head CT provided the clearest I've ever seen it. and its very similar to the purple from a black light, but quite a bit deeper and with a lot of "fuzziness" that makes it seem almost dark.

I am definitely getting a lens removed.

@ashoif77

8 жыл бұрын

UV light damages cells

@GBart

8 жыл бұрын

Ashoi F worth it

@armandomanuli3604

7 жыл бұрын

you will go blind

"and that's when he became a bee" I'm glad to gregor samsa is not alone in his plight. XD

@besmart

10 жыл бұрын

Cataracts are the new existential angst.

(@3:42): It would be kool to see a composite image of these two pieces superimposed together to see what the resulting combined image would look like!!

Hey It´sOkayToBeSmart. Please do a video about; why animals have two eyes instead of one? By the way, love your videos

Can you please, please, make more videos articulating art and science??!!

I recently had cataract surgery. And while I can't see UV light because I have a fake lens in place of the original now.. I do notice a difference in hues from my left to my right eye. Probably because my 'good' eye has a few spots already, but I hadn't been aware I was seeing such dingy whites and because of my eyes. I thought that I was seeing them just fine and I guess my brain was supplying the rest from memory of when I was younger.

I have to imagine Monet's life experience was not unlike Beethoven's loss of hearing. Having attained the ability to make great things, they slowly became unable to appreciate the beauty of their creations. One has to wonder what Beethoven might have composed if he were given the proper use of one ear again toward the end.

0:31 My internet went out the excat second the Pause screen showed up. I thought that the loading icon was in your video and not youtube not loading, lol

A Buzz-Worthy Lesson in Art & Science!

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Why is your tone so somber? You sound almost uninterested, maybe depressed. Were you okay in January 2014?

@Sax4565

8 жыл бұрын

To me he sounds more like someone who usually speaks very fast trying to speak slower :D Perhaps he tried to bring in a somber mood because of the monet-art-theme, or he was what you said, who knows?

@TheXxxprotogirlxxx

8 жыл бұрын

+Sax4565 I actually liked how calm he is it relaxed me a lot

i just came here from "why animals dont wear glasses" video..and even though this is an older video, it look like this guy is much older and seasoned than his future counterpart...

How was he still able to see, wouldn't removing the lens have caused him to not be able to focus on things?

@Taniachi_Fractal

3 жыл бұрын

he still had another eye which seen clearly, but yellowish

Not all pigments reflect a lot of light. Some are transparent (like Monet's yellow lenses). The light you see has passed through the paint and reflected back off of whatever is underneath.

I saw this years ago. Back now because someone mentioned honeybees and UV light in the same sentence and I had to go figure out why my first thought was Monet.

2:00 there's one of them paintings in my dog's room that is almost entirely blue and it was painted by this guy

@joshpohlner8716

7 жыл бұрын

I've just found out that it's blue because it's faded

Are you based in Austin? The Thinkery is awesome!

Could you describe why Monet's perceiving reality and paint differs? Because logically if he perceives reality more yellow, then he will choose a color from the palette what he perceives more yello, but in reality it is exactly like the real word? :) So from this viewpoint the end result of his painting shouldnt reflect his problem perceiving colors... we should see the real colors on his painting... Am I wrong?

@besmart

10 жыл бұрын

It's not like every paint pigment gets equally shifted to the yellow, though. It's not like blue paint would all of a sudden look yellow, it's would probably just look muted and black, or yellow-black, whereas the yellows and greens would appear closer to their natural "selves". Combine that with the fact that Monet was acutely aware of color, and would have remembered that no matter what it looks like to his eye, leaves are green and he needs to add blue to yellow to make that color, whether or not it looks right to his eye, and he could have been making colors from memory and not quite getting them "right", to us at least..

@FineCutBodies

10 жыл бұрын

It's Okay To Be Smart Thanx, but the answer's firt half didn't describe the problem (as the color of nature and the color of the paint is shifted the same, so the painting should look like the same as nature)... The second part describes it, in the case: 1, he was painting it from memory, so didn't had reference while painting... 2, he knew it's not the natural color he is painting and he made an artistical choice to shift them to please his own eyes with memories based on his earlier (good eye) state... In both cases i feel it's more an artistical choice (If he had wanted to paint naturally, he could, but he enjoyed this new idea shifting the colors), not a disability.... What do you think?

@besmart

10 жыл бұрын

Fine Cut Bodies I don't think the color of the paint and the color of nature would shift the same. Pigments in paint aren't single-wavelength reflectors, and a color of paint doesn't reflect light the same as a color pigment in nature. Even blue paint is a spectrum of different wavelengths from blue to red, not just blue. So let's say that Monet applied a bunch of blue paint to a mix or directly to the canvas. If that blue paint was only 5% yellow, then he could add a huge amount of it and he would only experience a tiny boost in yellow, and he would think he was painting something that was actually yellow in the scene (which would be based on a completely different natural pigment), but you or I would see blue paint. Make sense? That JAMA paper linked in description might be a good place to read for more.

Perfect choice on the Goldberg variations as the background music.

@gnuling296

4 жыл бұрын

Nothing beats the Goldberg variations anyway!

There is no pigment called "French aquamarine." It's "French _ultra_ marine." Ultramarine pigment originally was made from the mineral lapis lazuli. _French_ ultramarine is the synthetic version. But Monet did not use it. He used cobalt blue. "The point is to know how to use the colors, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit. Anyway, I use flake white, cadmium yellow, vermilion, deep madder, cobalt blue, emerald green, and that's all." - Claude Monet By the way, emerald green was also used as rat poison.

2:00. First: happy summer day Second: autumn morning Third: hell

So could i remove one of my eyd lens and see uv rays? And would it be blury without ny lens

U just got a new subbed

I wonder if you could get a bionic lense that does not filter the UV light. But wouldn't the UV rays damage your eyes over time?

This video has given me new respect for honeybees

Very interesting video! But I'm a little sceptic about the "computer simulations" of what the world would have looked like to the aged Monet. We do not yet have comprehensive models of how exactly complex vision works- so how is it possible too simulate it satisfactorily?

@besmart

10 жыл бұрын

I linked to the JAMA research paper that did that in the description. Cataracts should be pretty easy to model, in terms of the blurriness and color shift. What is difficult to understand is how conscious Monet was of the change and whether he tried to correct it over time.

What's the dangers of taking the lens off? Cuz it sounds pretty damn cool

Plz make videos on medical biology

Anyone notice that the captions are a bit off? The timing is off

I heard about this one before but I really don't understand it. Wouldn't this affect also the color he chose to paint with? I mean, if he is seeing all yellowish, than the paint would look yellower for that eye as well. However, when he changed his eye, the landscape got bluer but than again so did the yellower paint would become blueish. Unless he is looking with one eye and painting with the other. This would really change things because he would be looking for a yellow paint using an eye that sees mostly blue! The end result would be that for the same eye, his landscape would be extremely different than his painting. Still, this would only account for the paintings after removing his lenses...

I'm curious how his vision would have looked with both eyes trying to look at the same thing. Would one eye's vision take dominance or would his brain try to stitch the two images with different colors together?

I wear those exact glasses

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@MrC0MPUT3R

8 жыл бұрын

+Gag Master lol

I honestly cant wait for scientists to allow humans to see more of the light spectrum.

Ok so just blue cone cells respond to ultraviolet light, does that mean if we would remove our lenses we would see it as regular blue? Or is that regular kind of blue actual mixed with other cone cells and Monet instead saw some kind of superblue? Cause if it's the second, I need to find a way to see this (that doesn't ruin my eye ideally).

we learned about Claude Monet in school and our teacher never said this.

Ah, it would be so awesome if we were able to immediately perceive all the wavelengths of electromagnetic-light (albeit rather confusing, probably?) but our poor brains would probably collapse

Just realized processor-wires are like 20-40 times smaller than the colours we see. :O

What would happen if I chose to remove my eyes lenses, would my depth perception mess up, would everything become blurry? I WANNA SEE MORE COLORSSS

This video inspired me to get the lender removed from one of my eyes so that I can see ultraviolet lol. I mean it'll be in a few years but still. I'm lowkey excited

@MedK001

3 жыл бұрын

It's been a few years now. I wonder if you still want to do that?

@helpme5785

3 жыл бұрын

@@MedK001 I honestly haven't thought about that in a long time. Perhaps just writing about my excitement helped me get it out of my system? Plus there's just been so much going on recently. I do still really want to see UV light, but I don't know if I'd still actively seek it out. I honestly don't know if I ever actually really planned on doing so to begin with. However I do wear glasses so if at any point I decide to get my vision fixed by getting knew lenses in my eyes, or if I happen to get cataracts like Claude Monet, it's definitely something I would like to do! Also edit to say your icon is very fitting lmao

Did not know that about Monet. PBS is putting out some great online stuff now! But "very unique?" I would not expect such a painful grammatical error from It's Okay to Be Smart.

@besmart

10 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it! Language evolves :) "Unique" has an accepted modern usage as "unusual" and doesn't just mean "singular"

What is the difference between seeing ultraviolet light and seeing in 4 primary colours (tetra chromacy ) ?

As his condition got worse,the paintings started to look apocalyptic with them dark reds and distortion.

1:36 yes thats how color works

Monet had a unique eye, but could he see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch?

43 Claude Monet's were too blinded by the enhanced white and accidentally missed the like button.

Did he destroy the paintings he painted with his new sight or the ones before?