Sixth episode of Earthlings 101, the crash course for alien visitors.
What is beauty?
What is the evolutionary purpose of beauty?
Why are things like landscapes and flowers beautiful?
What about beautiful women and men?
What is pomp?
Is abstract beauty a tool to solve problems?
What is art?
Why are earthlings so crazy about beauty and art?
Is music an imitation of bird songs?
And what has all this to do with lolcats, porn and diet drinks?
Links
– Concept, artwork and text by Martin Kuppe
– Music by OcularNebula (http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/407324)
– Speech synthesis by Ivona (http://www.ivona.com/en/)
Disclaimer
Please note that most things in these videos are either conclusions based on personal observation of earthlings, or ideas found in earthling literature. Although they seem pretty obvious to me, most of them are still to be scientifically proven. In terms of earthling science, those are hypotheses, not theories or facts.
Full episode text: http://tinyurl.com/E101-EP06
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5:55 I just realized that is Euler's identity.
ANOTHER great video >< other animals (and other things, I suppose) developed what we, humans, in some and, perhaps in every point, call 'music'… the consonance of frequency from vibration waves feel's pleasant because of our natural mathematical sense; rhythm is a speed changing reference constant, as the root tone serves as a 'constant framework of wavelengths possibilities' (geographic and social interactions may do or do not play a main roll here), and music, along with all types of arts, is nothing but the aesthetic appreciation of chaotic constants…Â
(wich I love, by the way)… now, with a more personal opinion,Â
it's beautiful how a wavelenght double or half the distance of another wave sounds basically the same thing, with compressed waves sounding as high pithced notes and loose waves sounding as low pithced notes… its how we know what note is what note… and we can see a clearly pattern in all notes in a mathematical constant, aswell, I think that the complex the music is (increased complex harmony and melody along with breakings in rhythm constants), the harder it gets to 'understand it', making it so, a game within the music…
That… really doesn't explain why I find desert landscapes so beautiful.
4:34 is that a girl laying down…!?
Art, an imitation of pleasure. Well in this definition, then porn is a form of art, a substitute of sex… ¬_¬ that is sad and depressing, coz it means you fail to obtain the real thing.
Your genetic code is crying for you.
But when I see fresh snow, that hasn't been stepped on at all, a beautiful white plain, I go out of my way to avoid damaging it, and I would probably behave similarly when faced with a beautiful landscape, and would settle somewhere near, but not as pretty.
You are forgotten spore pr atleast inspired by him
About 10 minutes in I was worried he wasn't going to say, "except for the microbes." Fortunately, Zogg comes through once again!
so every theme has a different ship?
Mona Lisa= US$780 m.
Mona Lisa= 7 m Republic Credits.
1 Republic Credit≈$111.5
The theory of the happy box ahah
>lolcats
These vids are so good :3 please make more
4:35 I see what u did there. 😀
A aspect of "Beauty" IMHO is a resonance in the observers mind with the world that aids in survival. A bowl of fruit that looks edible brings us pleasure. A still life of fruit sympathetically stimulates the same pleasure response, we find it beautiful. Even abstract paintings can do this. A Jackson Pollock drip painting is beautiful because it has fractal patterns the mind unconsciously recognizes.
its a little funny but also pretentious bullshit
Actually Mona Lisa painted on wood.
happy box reminds me of Stanley Kubrick's 2001.
Is this what I think it is at 4:34?!
I always used to think why Cars have faces. Lol. I know now.
10:24, untrue microscopic lifeforms are sometimes depicted in art and some like diatoms may be consider pretty.
Wow… Zogg really went out of his way to buy a new M-38156 class ship for the intro
8:37 "like flowers, jewels and hyperbolic paraboloids"
It's interesting to me that music was only briefly mentioned and compared with bird noises and then there was no further analysis about motives or appeal.
I only now realize that that's Euler's Identity at 5:57
Why do I get the feeling AdSense wanted to censor the channel based on the content of this video? :/ =(
when i saw this mona lisa… how do i say this, i got a boner
this series helped me understand human psychology so much! and i'm only on episode six! thank you sooo much!
bro im high as fuck this shit trippay
You sir, have made my life possible.
I need an happy box
Really tho I had such a hard time figuring out what was the difference between beautiful and hot before this in my teenage years so thanks
Hit the like button if you found the e^iπ +1 = 0
5:56 The e^pi*i+1=0 with the alien language and the visual representation is beyond amazing!
pow(e, i*pi)+1=0 is indeed beautiful, and it's only taken me two re-watches and nigh on 10 years to notice it!
That happy box seems curiously similar to the monoliths in Space Odyssey…