Many Dutch people have told me they just call him "Wally." Some Italian people have said they don't call him "Ubaldo" either. I got those name variations from these: ew.com/article/1990/12/14/wheres-waldo/ waldo.fandom.com/wiki/International_variations I guess they must just be wrong? Whatever the case, there's plenty of other weird variations people have given me such as "Effy" in Israel.

@lautaroescarlon7501

2 жыл бұрын

In Argentina we do use the name Wally! Not sure what our Welsh district calls him though

@acgraphics1139

2 жыл бұрын

Uk call him Wally

@speccysquaregolike9629

2 жыл бұрын

We have "Where's Wally?" books in Australia, but it's the same character

@urphakeandgey6308

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of Dutch people speak English, so maybe many Dutch people were exposed to him by a British printing of the book or something? But maybe a less popular Dutch localisation attempted to re-brand? After all, there's little reading involved. I'm sure a Dutch person can get the idea and understand "Where's Wally?"

@imconfused6955

2 жыл бұрын

In the US we call him "Waldo"

waldo's been sporting the same drip since '87 and it hasnt failed him once

@Scotty1817

2 жыл бұрын

Was that the drip of ‘87!?

@shrekfrog

2 жыл бұрын

@@Scotty1817 😳😳😳

@michaelchristie8329

2 жыл бұрын

Drip so immaculate it became timeless

@Cardinalt

2 жыл бұрын

fashion icon.

@alexjonathanwhite606

2 жыл бұрын

Important to the lore

Finally someone brave enough to ask 'why's waldo?'

@nootjulli

2 жыл бұрын

they always ask “where’s Waldo?” but they never ask “how’s Waldo?”…

@corozan3080

2 жыл бұрын

@@nootjulli deep 😔

@isaacpianos5208

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately there's no way to keep this thread since everybody seems to know _who's waldo_

@bluberry3297

Жыл бұрын

hows waldo?

@Eltralor

Жыл бұрын

what’s waldo

Fun fact: Waldo is actually in every picture or media in the world, he’s just so hidden that you’ll spend forever searching for him

@tigerlover2853

Жыл бұрын

He’s living in our midst as well, posing as one of us… but it gets worse, he could be any one of us. He could be you, he could be me, he could even be…

@Tyeler80

Жыл бұрын

@@tigerlover2853 …..Even.. *gulp* me..?

@silvershift5505

Жыл бұрын

True

@tenimate666

Жыл бұрын

And I'm Waldo

@shroompunk285

Жыл бұрын

I’m not Waldo. I’m Walter

I gotta say - large crowd painting incorporates a level of creativity that's hard to find elsewhere in art. Technically you're making one illustration, but abstractly, these artists are really making HUNDREDS, maybe thousands, all around a central theme! There can be so many stories distinguishable from each other; a picture can be worth a thousand words, well here's a thousand pictures in one. How does one even keep track of that?

@militarydeviltube5014

Жыл бұрын

imagine the process of creating the compositions for these artworks in the first place!

@isaacpianos5208

Жыл бұрын

I always thought people liked Where's Wally as a meme lol Now that I think about it, the artists are insane

@KingOfElectricNinjas

Жыл бұрын

Does come up in the video that making a full one of those drawings is a process of months, and that's probably with help. But of course, once a picture's made, people can keep on looking at it. Great bang for your buck, really.

@StormWatcher313

Жыл бұрын

Ya never thought about it like that

@DrSpaceman69

9 ай бұрын

@@isaacpianos5208as a meme?

I really appreciate the use of the "Mr Incredible becoming uncanny" meme when talking about all of Waldo's different names

@DefiniteIyHuman

2 жыл бұрын

3:01

@user-yl9xg5rm1k

2 жыл бұрын

@@DefiniteIyHuman You deserve a hug you know that right

@ago4610

2 жыл бұрын

Ikr

@pakxenon

2 жыл бұрын

I was taken aback and laughed out loud the first time. So good.

@aHedgerowFrog

2 жыл бұрын

Thats crazy. I was looking but i wasnt seeing.

That Bosch turn was unexpected, but extremely cool! I've always loved his paintings, they are so active and alive

@deepfriedmochi

2 жыл бұрын

same, he's one of my favorite artists!

@drrocketman7794

2 жыл бұрын

It was news but not surprising when Hieronymus Bosch was brought into the equation

@lukehunt8757

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/X6Jt3MSJnavceqg.html If this hadn't popped up recently, I would've forgotten about Bosch.

@chainsrad6354

2 жыл бұрын

nah not unexpected at all

@FairyRat

2 жыл бұрын

I always found all of the hellish creatures mighty cute (if sometimes uncomfortably annerving), especially the bird ones.

Waldo has always scared me as a kid, he would always stare at me while i try to find him, I wouldn’t notice until I found him staring at me the whole time

@vaporwingfauxmcloud1190

Жыл бұрын

Have you seen SCP 4885? Look it up lmao

@knqpw

Жыл бұрын

waldo, come here this guy has something cool to show you (waldo stares at you waiting for you to do something)

@elplaceholder

11 ай бұрын

​@@vaporwingfauxmcloud1190 nope nope, bad idea 💀

@ynoodle7

10 ай бұрын

​@@elplaceholderwhat is it

@elplaceholder

10 ай бұрын

@@ynoodle7 a very disturbing monster ☠️

There's a book called 'A Street Through Time' that takes the same street by a river and each page is that place in a different time. Its made in a Waldo style, filled with characters, but its all for learning what life was life in different times. You see items come back up as archeologists discover buried shields, you see how the buildings grow and what happens to the local castle. Its a really good book, especially for parents and teachers trying to make history more accessible for kids.

@gabrielguido4056

Жыл бұрын

I love that book as well!

@HansKrab

Жыл бұрын

Bro I read this comment and realised I have this exact book!

@jpaulc441

11 ай бұрын

Wow I've never heard of that book but I had a look and now I want it. I've made a few pictures with "then and now" views but not to this detail. Thanks for the recommendation.

@mchjsosde

9 ай бұрын

I had one of these! I loved it as a kid

As a Dutch I've never heard him being called Govert, we call him Wally too Edit: gotta love the attention to Jeroen Bosch! Coming from his city, it is always a pleasure to see his work in the wild

@-Herrik-

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@superking208

2 жыл бұрын

The uncanny Mr Incredible meme lurking in the background really made that scene tho

@mlydian8840

2 жыл бұрын

Same, Govert was new for me

@doommagic

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair to him, when I looked into it, he's actually getting that information from sites like Entertainment Weekly, which you'd expect a reputable site like that to actually have their information correct. Though they also specifically say that he's called Govert in Holland rather than the Netherlands, so for all we know they just copied and pasted that information from another site that just said so. Sure, Wikipedia says he's called Wally in Dutch, but Wikipedia says a lot of things and you're not supposed to use it as a source.

@Arvidholders

2 жыл бұрын

@@doommagic I disagree, Wikipedia is a reliable source to use. Also in this case they have the most up to date information. They have moderators that fact check everything, you can always look at their list of sources and they have very strict rules for editing pages. If someone edits Wikipedia to troll, it's gone in 20 minutes.

12:24 This just unlocked a memory i had forgotten for so long, but i used to do the exact same thing as a kid, i remember i would draw my friends as stick figures and bring the drawings back to my school so my friends could stare at it trying to find their characters in the drawings. They were stick figures with a hat or they were holding something recognizable in a sea of stick figures fighting or just living in a weird hyper-detailed environment.

@ryanphillips4123

2 жыл бұрын

I bet they loved that! I still have a few drawing that a friend made for me. They always make me smile when I pull them out of my keepsake box

@TheBlueWizzrobe

2 жыл бұрын

That's so cool! You sound like someone everyone would love to be friends with, haha

@paulocezar8833

2 жыл бұрын

I made the same thing but with little aliens.I used to drew spaceships,mines and factories to compete with my friend,I still have all the drawings in a box.

@porc1429

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah me too. I used to draw a bunch of stick figures killing each other on my mom's paper work

@ot4kon

2 жыл бұрын

I did the same, but my drawings where about death traps with complex cartoonish mechanisms with like 20 steps of things moving or falling like domino pieces. I can't do it anymore. And my drawing were done with a pen. I remember adding steps to the trap without a clear goal where it would end, it was an ability lost in childhood.

3:07 I never heard anybody refer to Wally as Ubaldo, to be honest. Just Wally, rather than Waldo. also I remember staring for countless hours at children games when I found that in the art book. It looked so different from the usual medieval art we studied, and I was fashinated by the sheer ammount of detail and lack of focal point, everywhere you looked was the focal point.

I kinda want there to be a fantasy travelogue series hosted by Waldo/Wally. The POV keeps taking you to different corners of a scene, with Waldo explaining them and asking "Am I here?", and at the end you "find" him and he brings it home with the closing words face-to-face.

@francisisagoner

5 ай бұрын

There IS a Where's Wally animated show from like 20 years ago, and it's actually pretty good! You can find them on youtube!

Ah, the return of the one person who can convince me that art history is actually an interesting topic.

@AxxLAfriku

2 жыл бұрын

I like people with long brain. I have long amount of disl*kes btw. Why? Maybe people with short brain disl*ke because jealous of my long amount of subscr*bers. Please have long brain, dear py

@napstaperd8824

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed, it's quite fascinating to learn the thought process behind pictures that wouldn't take more than a minute to look at, but a life-time to produce

@SergioLeonardoCornejo

2 жыл бұрын

It is, with the right mentor.

@crooked9210

2 жыл бұрын

Same honestly. Never had much interest in art history but I love watching his videos on it. I feel like I've learned a good bit from them

@WouldntULikeToKnow.

2 жыл бұрын

I studied art history in university and I'm always glad to see someone come to appreciate it. Art is the language all humans speak.

This and ‘I spy’ were my two favourite picture books as a kid. I literally spent hours looking through all the pictures for every single detail

@i_hate_something8

2 жыл бұрын

I agree

@ThatSkiFreak

2 жыл бұрын

I spy was so damn good, you just reminded me how many of those books I had.

@boycemallas8190

2 жыл бұрын

There is a little documentary on the artist who makes those I Spy books, and I had no idea he does them practically. kzread.info/dash/bejne/pa5sztd-qtHekrA.html

@cubicinfinity2

2 жыл бұрын

I Spy also has a frequently recurring item: THE CAT

@Walkingmango

2 жыл бұрын

Those books were so surreal

Fun fact: Wlado's in Twenty One Pilot's music video of "Car Radio".

To this day, whenever I spot a person wearing the same/similar clothes as Waldo, I always scream "I spot Waldo!" in my head.

they always ask: "Where's Waldo?" but never: "Hows Waldo?" *sad waldo noises*

@Jeff-theBuilder

2 жыл бұрын

everywhere I go, I see you...

@pippi2285

2 жыл бұрын

His name is wally

@The_Grecian_Empire

2 жыл бұрын

@@pippi2285 for you it is because around the world it’s dif names

There's gotta be someone out there who flipped through a where's waldo book for their first time, and by pure luck and chance, on every single page their eyes just happened to land on the exact correct spot as the first place they checked, for every single page... eh?

@CrossoverGameReviews

2 жыл бұрын

Send this to the Numberphile gang. Maybe they can come up with some kind of probability on that.

@hopelessent.1700

2 жыл бұрын

I remember I looked relatively at a spot or two and got them only at those glances. Since then… where’s Waldo?

@lizardkingzach

Жыл бұрын

@@ryanpmcguire dang you went and straight up did the math haha, now just calculate the population that has access to the books and has likely looked at them. Then multiply that by the number of generations since the Waldo books came out, and see if we've had enough to hit that magic average number!

@aidancollins1591

Жыл бұрын

@@lizardkingzach I'm not a math person, but I can already tell that whatever number that he comes up with would be nowhere close to 10^40. For some perspective on how obscenely large it is, the number of stars in the known universe is 10^23, which is in the sextillion range. Logarithmic scales are exponential, so 10^24 is double the amount of 10^23, 10^40 is beyond comprehension.

@user-jw2it4qf2r

Жыл бұрын

I don't think there's even a chance of this happening, even with infinite viewers. Where a person looks first isn't just a matter of random chance, the pages have stuff all over them designed to catch your attention, a first time viewer will without a doubt be drawn to one of these objects rather than whatever random crevice Waldo got crammed into.

For those who are interested in the East Asian equivalent to crowd paintings, there is "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" by Zhang Zeduan, made during the Northern Song Dynasty. It is 5meters long by 25cm tall and depicts 814 humans in the midst of celebrating Qingming. It is deemed by many to be the "Mona Lisa" of painted artwork in China.

When I was in elementary school, I had a friend named Mike. He used to get notepads, like postits, and make little flip books. One in particular was a stick figure dog eating something, that thing traveling through its body, then being pooped out. Another thing he used to do was make these long scenes by taping a whole bunch of pieces of notebook paper together on the short edge, so it was one long piece. The scenes were always stick figures and buildings. Sometimes a city, sometimes a battle. It was a really weird thing to do. Neat, but weird. I sometimes wonder what ever happened to him.

@abraxasjinx5207

10 ай бұрын

I had a friend in middle school that did drawings he called "dead bunnies"- where it would be a chaotic scene of anthropomorphic rabbits in various themes and you had to look around for the dead ones.

I always liked looking at the background for funny jokes and situations instead of the main focus of the book which was finding Waldo

@jofipa9953

2 жыл бұрын

i remember as a child being "done" with a wheres waldo book and my mom telling me that finding waldo was only a part of it and that i should enjoy the entire picture. And that made any future waldo books i got much more enjoyable.

@lydia6477

2 жыл бұрын

i was really bad at finding him so I'd just give up and look for interesting scenarios and hope I see him eventually lol

@PlasmaMongoose

2 жыл бұрын

The picture is the journey with lots of interesting stops, while Wally is the destination.

ah yes, the only legend we hardly see in his own content, actually genius.

@poweroffriendship2.0

2 жыл бұрын

True

@munnymoore9518

2 жыл бұрын

cough cough Shanks from One Piece cough cough

@JuryDuty1000

Жыл бұрын

@@munnymoore9518 ok snoppy snoopingtom

Two other artists that paint in the “cram” art style that I enjoy are Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux and his son Paul Philippoteaux. Though they mostly painted historical battle scenes I highly enjoy the crowded environments they create. Henri Philippoteaux’s “Lamartine rejects the Red Flag before the Hôtel de Ville” is my computer background and my all time favorite art piece is Paul Philippoteaux’s “Gettysburg Cyclorama”. I wish that one day you can do a video on the Cyclorama, it has dozens of references and little details. Their is actually an entire book about it!

I love how you can really tell how much effort and research he put into this video.

"He who eats fire, craps sparks" Alright, I'm using this proverb from now on.

@ignoreallmycommentsandreplies

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@MrDj232

Жыл бұрын

Every time you eat spicy food?

@Eduardo1007

Жыл бұрын

Modern equivalent is the f around and find out graph 😂

WOW. I'm the creator/moderator of r/Wimmelbilder, and I'm happy to see my dream behind the subreddit finally becoming a reality. The term "wimmelbilder" slowly but surely entered the art vernacular, making it easier than ever to find more art like this, when only a few years ago it was scattered around obscure corners of the internet. Thank you for this video, Solar Sands. Love your channel (:

@amelialonelyfart8848

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for making that subreddit! I've been a huge fan of those kind of works ever since I was a kid but never knew there was a specifiic term for it. I would spend minutes starriing at them whenever I found a new one, thinking about it for days to come...I think i'm gonna have a lot of fun there

@xlicer

2 жыл бұрын

Been following the subreddit since 3 years from now (I think), and even contributed a bit from time to time. Thanks you for creating, is one of my favorite places in the site. One thing I wish if there was a more in-depth independent effort in archiving posts so they can be searched/view/and preserved easily, feel so many good underrated posts just get loss due to how Reddit work. But overall pretty happy on how the subreddit is.

@lasarousi

2 жыл бұрын

Did you come up with that meaning?

@Nurpus

2 жыл бұрын

@@lasarousi The term was already in use in Germany, Sweden, and a few other countries where that is the literal meaning in local languages - I just took it, and did my best to spread it to the English-speaking part of reddit.

@lasarousi

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nurpus well that's how language works, there's a reason English use rendezvous, barbarisms. But still, sounds like you popularized it, that's still a great feat.

Wally is a great guy but he is really shy

I feel like as a kid i didnt realise just how insane the artwork was that i was looking at i couldnt even imagine trying to draw something like that

I remember when one person borrowed a ‘Where’s Waldo’ book in their local library and found each Waldo in every page and covered them up, only to return it back to the library for any unfortunate kid to stumble upon

@christophercampbell6884

2 жыл бұрын

That should be a federal crime.

@catdust

2 жыл бұрын

@@christophercampbell6884 i think you mean "planetary"

@jasonthealmighty2051

2 жыл бұрын

What was your method of covering Waldo up?

@christophercampbell6884

2 жыл бұрын

@@catdust lol

@deergoat3468

2 жыл бұрын

@@jasonthealmighty2051 cutting him out of the pages and eating it

What's probably unintentional but really cool about the Where's Wally books is that as far as I've seen he's always looking serene and unbothered amidst the total chaos that he's surrounded with. He's also kind of the purpose of the world that he exists in, because he's the one who we're looking for. He always kind of creeped my out as a kid because if this, because he kind of transcends the chaotic universe he exists in and you can't tell his intentions from his quietly calm expression. Maybe there's a book that i haven't seen where he's reacting to something in the environment or involved somehow and I sound like an idiot, but as far as I know he's just this completely inconspicuous point of contact between his world and the higher dimension that us readers belong to.

@cringeproof100

2 жыл бұрын

I always noticed that too :)

@celestee2264

2 жыл бұрын

Your comment made me realize that while you are searching for him, he's always watching you, patiently waiting to be found with a smiling serene face. Kind of unnerving

@mato4334

2 жыл бұрын

when i was a kid, i had a wheres waldo book that, on the last page, had a scene that was ALL WALDO and they were interacting with each other, so theres that lol

@alexs5814

2 жыл бұрын

G Man is Waldo, confirmed?

@PrettyPinkPeacock

2 жыл бұрын

This is a good take. Like he's breaking the Fourth wall of the book, he's the meta reason to even look at the book, he's elevated from the rest of the characters.

i stood and watched this video while slowly sharpening a new knife i bought yesterday, before making lunch. i watched the whole thing in completely focus while doing something fun with my hands. thanks for a beautiful moment in my day

@user-cf8bx6ej1y

2 ай бұрын

Humans are so cute man

What really amazes me the most was the artist's dedication to drawing each panel by hand. I really admire him for the persistence in drawing an entire page of crowd scenes, something I can't imagine doing in my entire life.

6:13 GLORIOUS transition. After talking about bright and fantastical childrens' illustrations -- you flash right into the terrifying worlds of Hieronymous Botch with a stage spotlight sound/visual effect and an ominous backing track. I admire all these little things you do your video essays.

@defaultmesh

2 жыл бұрын

that transition scared the *_hell_* out of me

@mrpurple11

2 жыл бұрын

True, i was expecting the Bosch introduction and still was grear

@ace1234LIVE

2 жыл бұрын

Premium transition

That 27 seconds thing used to drive me crazy. My parents took me to a different museum every year on my birthday and I’d get so upset when they’d take a quick cursory glance at all the exhibits and move on. I kept glaring at everything for like 6min each because I was so desperate to unlock some deeper emotional reaction I though I was supposed to be having.

@SuperSMT

2 жыл бұрын

My problem is I just want to properly see everything in the museum, and some of them are just so big!

@cubicinfinity2

2 жыл бұрын

Same. I think we just have to be discriminatory and pick a few to spend time on.

I’m so happy you made this video. as an aspiring illustrator i’ve always tried to explain the type of illustrations I wanted to make and I finally found the word to describe it! the way these books excited me as a young child was unmatched and I want to make something similar in my own life.

Another amazing episode!!!! I love Bosch he’s one of my favorite artists this was so insightful

nothing felt worse than thinking you found him before your friends did, only to realise it was just his hat or a random person wearing something with red and white stripes

For a similar art style from a non-European context, check out “Along the River During the Qingming Festival”, a scroll painting from 12th Century China that depicts a panoramic view of Song Dynasty life, containing hundreds of figures from all walks of life, from rural peasants chasing an escaped cow, to spectators watching a public play, to merchants transporting their wares, to wealthy noblemen playing chess in a tea house. For its scope and detail, it’s often considered one of the greatest masterpieces in the history of Chinese art.

@PlasmaMongoose

2 жыл бұрын

Makes you wonder how many other cultures have their own versions of the detailed crowded artworks.

@isaiahsimmons5776

2 жыл бұрын

probably part of one of genre where it takes u to a view of a city or something. i forgot its name. to reply to plasma, i think every culture has one because no culture thats unique. besides maybe the one stranded or with no contact, like those sentinelese. but maybe they do, maybe it just made on the dirt or sand or wood, they do like little engravings even detailing it, or pottery. but even that lack of contact has been breaking so rather they dont, they will,.

@givemethedie8464

2 жыл бұрын

@@isaiahsimmons5776 the scope of this one is BIG-BIG though. I think it’s over 5 metres long if I’m not mistaken

@isaiahsimmons5776

2 жыл бұрын

@@givemethedie8464 yeah most of city paintings appear to just be for a illustriation book or something or maybe a picture frame, idk im just assuming on digitalness of it. never actually seen one in person, so cant say exactly. it all depends on how it digitally scanned i presume.

@nxone9903

2 жыл бұрын

Reading this comment is like looking at one of those pictures

Excellent video! I love the way you transition from one artist/style to the next & then tie it all together at the end.

dude, your videos are so fun and educational to watch, thank you so much for all the effort and time put into these videos, much love

2:15 My brain did a tangent "If you poured over this cover like one would do with any where's Waldo books, you may be rewarded with Waldo holding the top of the cranium of president Kennedy's skull on the back of the Lincoln Continental"

In Hamburg, Germany there is a place called the Miniature Wunderland (miniature wonderland) . It's basically a small world build around the concept of model railways, with mountains, cities etc. There are also crowded scenes that remind me of these pictures, where they tell a lot of small stories and jokes. It's interesting to see how much these drawing have actually influenced.

@kotzpenner

2 жыл бұрын

I love that place, have been there twice already, it's just a work of love. There is so much to see lol

@semi-automatic0

2 жыл бұрын

Yoo I loved that place when I was there for holidays

@FilmscoreMetaler

2 жыл бұрын

You are right and now I just hope there is a mini Wallo hidden somewhere around there! Can anyone confirm?

@marcst3199

2 жыл бұрын

Imho, I think they were also or even more influenced by the "Wimmelbücher" Like the old ones of Ali Mitgusch. There a very similar with huge "slice of Life" crowd scenes with little Hidden jokes

@henriqueprado9205

2 жыл бұрын

In Gramado, Brazil we have a similar place called mini mundo.

Beautiful video! Editing was so crisp and the content on screen displayed what you were saying so well!

Fascinating insight! I have a whole new appreciation for Where’s Waldo! Im going to go dust off my old book and fall in now!

You know I just realized, these are like the opposite of liminal spaces. Instead of being eerie, empty, and vaguely familiar, these are crowded, in-your-face with detail, and at least for the children's book ones, quite pleasing and down-to-earth (if not jam packed with ridiculous gags). Going between the two I imagine would be quite the shocking experience.

These books played way more of a role in my childhood than I’d like to admit… as a near-sighted, neurodivergent weirdo, these books kept me company for pretty much all of primary school. i probably spent hundreds of hours admiring the illustration, figuring out all the visual jokes and gags. I rarely actually found Wally himself, and I barely actually looked for him. The sheer scale and detail of the scenes was more than enough to keep me interested, often for an entire afternoon. i also just realised there’s a reference to this painting at 8:25 in Asterix & Obelix In Belgium

@bigredjanie

2 жыл бұрын

I feel the same! My favourite was the Hollywood book, which has some of the hardest images to find.

Loved this essay, all your essays actually. So unique and fun!

This video is incredible, very informative and brought up memories of my childhood.

I would have never thought that one day I would be in one of your videos, at 3:12 that is a photo from my old school where we all dressed as Wally. I’m on the left with blonde long hair and no hat . That is incredible

@Game_Hero

2 жыл бұрын

wow

@christopherroa9781

2 жыл бұрын

That's very cool! You're the wally of this picture

@alexjonathanwhite606

2 жыл бұрын

@@christopherroa9781 HA, guess your right!

@swaree

2 жыл бұрын

that is insane

@Justpassingby204

2 жыл бұрын

Congrats

i got so excited when you brought up hieronymus bosch on the topic of chaotic and crowded drawings, he's a favorite of mine since he reminds me of a more "grown up" version of searching picture books which i loved dearly when i was younger

@mikethegoo

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, it's spelled "Jheronimus"

@worldprops333

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikethegoo umm it's spelled yaronimaz

@BlueRoseFaery

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! I had paused the video right before that section to actually relate it to Bosch myself because I'm a big fan so when that was the next thing he brought up, I literally said "yay" out loud, lol

SUCH great videos thanks so much!

This is legitimately one of the most interesting videos I have even seen. I dont know what, but you did something to make this a next level video.

i think alongside where’s waldo it’s also worth mentioning the photographs in the i spy books. waldo illustrations are rewarding to explore for all the subtle details and visual gags, but i think walter wick’s photography for i spy is just as captivating just with how impressive the scenes are. the photos are all so intricate and charming in how theyre usually made out of stuff you could just find in your house and range from actually looking like photos of ordinary places to being these fantastical dreamscapes made by just the same means. i used to look through the books just imagining how i could create the same kinds of scenes, and nowadays i find myself thinking just the same way with more appreciation for what actually goes into them

@ruthspeer8475

2 жыл бұрын

Omg couldn't agree more you put this so well

@thisisbetterthanmyprevious6674

2 жыл бұрын

I hated Waldo with a passion as a kid. Those eye spy books were the antithesis of where’s Waldo. Whimsical joy for many hours.

@Blakeneyd

2 жыл бұрын

I love Walter Wick! His books are amazing and the work he and his team do to construct the scenes is incredible!

@rosiefay7283

2 жыл бұрын

For anyone puzzled by the reference to I Spy books: these are not the well-known spotter's guides for children, but a 1990s series of picture books by Jean Marzollo and Walter Wick. (Descriptions from Wikipedia.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Spy_(Scholastic)

As a kid in the UK, whenever I heard "Waldo" referenced on TV, I just assumed it was done by TV shows to avoid copyright. I was really surprised when I learned he really was called Waldo in the US, it's weird...

@notsyzagts7967

2 жыл бұрын

Not really. Every country is familiar with a certain style of naming convention so character names are altered to fit a recognizable form in that particular region. Same thing happens with video game characters all the time. It's actually a common practice in popular media, not weird at all.

@abifoggy2469

2 жыл бұрын

It's called Where's Wally here in Australia too

@SophisticatedGoat222

2 жыл бұрын

@@notsyzagts7967 But I think Wally is still a more common and recognizable name to Americans than Waldo. I've certainly never heard of a real person named Waldo.

@tofuontoast45

Жыл бұрын

he's a man with many names

@DrewFeille

Жыл бұрын

"Waldo" is a much more unique and goofy sounding name, it immediately brings the character to mind. "Wally" sounds more common and ordinary, so it sounds less distinctive. At least, that's how it seems from the perspective of an American who's always known him as Waldo.

Loved this content, amazing work!

Damn i really just got hooked into a 14 minute video about art ive never even seen before. Great video!

I remember hearing all the different names Waldo had It's mesmerising

@soggyflipflop

2 жыл бұрын

@Flower Don’t click, it’s just a bot who spams religious videos and also report them

@deepfriedmochi

2 жыл бұрын

Kazuh

@cakeisyummy5755

2 жыл бұрын

@@soggyflipflop I reported the Bot... Hopefully the Comment will be deleted.

Now I’m tempted to see “Where’s Waldo” in Bosch landscapes, but I have a feeling he’d stick out

@Finrirthegray16

2 жыл бұрын

Not if dressed in period attire.

I am so glad I subbed to this channel, these are fascinating...

This was a fascinating video, thank you!

Solar Sands is like a solar eclipse: It doesn't happen often, but when it does, you know it's going to be special!

@Sxkielecior

2 жыл бұрын

i like your profile picture

@crisismoon880

2 жыл бұрын

How many times is this comment going to be copy and pasted?

Excellent video! Really made me think about art a lot closer and how I would like to draw this type of picture.

Excellent video by solar sands as per usual

I have an intense hate for Waldo. Just before Christmas 2021, we were doing themed dress-up in my high school and one of the days was 'candy cane.' I wear a striped red and white shirt and red beanie and got the 'I found Waldo!' comment from around 20 people who thought they were oh so clever. -_-

@salty7631

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you didn't choose the Waldo life, the Waldo life found you

@theman933

2 жыл бұрын

I found Waldo!

@idek4973

2 жыл бұрын

Cute hahahahaha

@aerpods

2 жыл бұрын

@Logan Roof ayo wtf who invited this mfer

There’s an epic couple that cosplays as Waldo and Carmen San Diego! If you find them at cons and stuff, they’ll take a picture with you acting like they’re swearing you to secrecy of their location. It’s really epic!

Awesome stuff! I was happily suprised to hear about Boush in a Where's Waldo video. The owl watches.

This is... my favorite art channel on youtube? Congrats Solar on the quality.

As someone who has almost all of Jan van Haasteren's jigsaw puzzles that are 5k pieces, solved and hung up on a wall somewhere in our house - there's a lot of stuff that's in every one, not only the shark fin, there's also the crab, the fingers or the full hand sticking out of somewhere, the eyes in the dark, the pink toilet paper, the little yellow note, the list goes on...

Solar Sands always comes off as being a fairly serious channel, and then the occasional Sam Hyde and uncanny Mr Incredible throws me for a loop 🤣 love it

@briggy4359

Жыл бұрын

Don't you know that Sam Hyde is a N... not so good man?

@sunbirth4795

Жыл бұрын

wheres the Sam Hyde

@danielalorbi

Жыл бұрын

@@sunbirth4795 0:14

This was great . I look forward to more videos.

amazing video - i love what you do, keep it up

If Waldo is a horror movie villain, the movie tagline would be like _"FIND WALDO BEFORE HE FINDS YOU"._ That man is truly a champion of hide and seek game.

This really inspired me to do some werid crowded art of my own so thank you solar sands for this inspiring video

@Scrofar

2 жыл бұрын

Same! For something so complicated to look at, it could also be oddly therapeutic to do.

@tylerdamelondragon

2 жыл бұрын

@@Scrofar I know right

I really enjoyed this video. it was a treat!

can't believe you didn't talk about blue ball machine, great video anyways, thanks so much for introducing us to those !

Fun fact: Interestingly, Brazilian portuguese kept the name "Wally" when the books were translated, instead of giving Wally a more traditional brazilian name

@swaree

2 жыл бұрын

same in Spain

@HomeofLawboy

2 жыл бұрын

Já pensou ele se chamar "Walter"

Omg Jan van Haasteren! As a kid my family's dentist had hung a Van Haasteren illustration on the ceiling, I was always kind of excited going because I got to look at it forever, as a kid with ADHD it's honestly miraculous how well I got to focus on this illustration. It was specifically one of a swimming pool that was filled to the brim with people. Hilariously, the shark fin was not in the water. Also when I got a bit overexcited, my dentist just instructed me to look for certain things, smart guy...

Amazing video, thank you for the history refference

I love these types of videos!

As a Brit, every time I hear him called “Waldo” instead of Wally, I die a bit inside

@ahuddleofpenguins4842

2 жыл бұрын

Ok

@seldom_bucket

2 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad it's not just me, I don't mind most Americanisms but waldo hits me deep, it really jars in my head.

@quandarioustoddricioushorn9292

2 жыл бұрын

Shut up, bri'ish

@handlename88

2 жыл бұрын

Waldo

@quandarioustoddricioushorn9292

2 жыл бұрын

@@YodaOnABender im not a redditor, im just a romanian, which is debated to be just as worse.

I have a print of Brueghel’s “The Triumph Of Death” on the wall at the back of my desk, which I face as I work there. I frequently sit back as I take a break from whatever I’m painting or drawing, to just sip some coffee and lose myself in the artwork. I first encountered Bosch when in the 6th grade, and was immediately enthralled, eventually expanding my artistic obsessions to include Brueghel and others. I’m amazed that even today, I can look at “The Garden Of Earthly Delights” (especially the “Musical Hell” portion) and still find new details, after first studying it in 1986. I grew up on Richard Scarry books, and have always enjoyed very busy scenes with hundreds, if not thousands, of little details to search out. I didn’t come across the “Waldo” books until much later, and while I can appreciate them, I just never found them as interesting as the old artworks. Now that I’m older, I’d be very interested in giving them another chance- my tastes have really evolved over the years, and many things that I once dismissed have a new appeal for me. Thanks for the great video!

amazing video and very inspiring way of looking at art well done on this.

The painting “Children’s Games” was in my social textbook in the seventh grade. We even analyzed the different things going on within the picture.

I really like the direction the channel has gone over the years. Went from laughing at bad drawings on deviant art to deep analysis on various topics. Very cool stuff

Everyone always asks where's Waldo, but no one ever a- *Congratulations! You've gotten the "unique and original joke" achievement!*

@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770

2 жыл бұрын

Some jokes get funnier the more you hear them.

@patifuso7562

2 жыл бұрын

This joke is so fucking funny I'm tearing the skin off my bones, I would love to read it a gazillion other times.

Jan Bajtlik also creates a similar style. Bajtlik has been cooperating with the Hermes fashion house since 2016. His latest project is 10 scarves from the "Animapolis" collection, which present a futuristic vision of Warsaw.

*Awesome pop culture analysis Solar Sands!*

Super cool that you talked about Jan van Haasteren. I didn't know he was known at all across the Dutch border. My father has completed countless of his jigsaw puzzles. They're a lot of fun to solve and appreciate afterwards

When I was a kid, I always really like looking around and become immersed in the scene. I really like looking at what's happening around. Finding out what happens sometimes leads me to where Waldo is at by chance but it was not my intention.

I love how many other related artists were unpacked here! I’m a big Richard Scarry fan and Waldo fan and now it all makes sense

I love those crowd scenes, you can ALWAYS find something new and funny in them.

I want a whole video of you just naming off medieval expressions

Waldo is a legendary character!

@pippi2285

2 жыл бұрын

His name is wally

this is the best channel on youtube and nobody can change my mind

i was hoping you’d mention bosch. i love the garden of earthly delights. truly revolutionary in art

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That's one of the sickest album covers I've ever seen. I'm listening to it just for that

@ohivonmenisunuoya

2 жыл бұрын

Which one, lol 😆

always loved discovering and trying to interpret the mini narritives strewn about the pages.

This was awesome. Thank you