The Shape of Infinity
Nov. 15th, 2020 08:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
singedsunI mentioned this guy, Jacob Geller, back in my post about video essayist on YouTube that I enjoy but I find this video of particular interest and I think some of you will as well. If you've got 20-ish minutes to have an existential crisis about the nature of the world, or maybe if you just really liked the book Piranesi, you should watch it.
In the video below, Jacob Geller tackles the concept of infinity, using a combination of video games, artwork and literature (Piranesi by Susanna Clarke of specific import to the video). And if you like this video, I highly recommend Jacob's other work. He's the one that introduced me to the short story "17776" as well, in his video about Microsoft Flight Studio which I wrote about here. Even with the number of creators I follow, there are very few like Jacob, who combines information in quite the same way from a wide variety of topics and genres. And of the creators making in-depth videos to similar levels, not many of them can pack so much information in so little time. What hbomberguy does in an hour, Jacob does in 20 minutes and I don't think any of us are the worse for it.
Also of interest to this video and Jacob's work here, is the comment section. In this video Jacob talks about a game called Manifold Garden to discuss the concepts of infinity. Not too far down in the comments is one of the programmers for the game, talking about how much he likes not just Jacob's work already but the fact that he used a game he worked on to be used in such a way. Kind of a special corner of the internet when you find things like this.
In the video below, Jacob Geller tackles the concept of infinity, using a combination of video games, artwork and literature (Piranesi by Susanna Clarke of specific import to the video). And if you like this video, I highly recommend Jacob's other work. He's the one that introduced me to the short story "17776" as well, in his video about Microsoft Flight Studio which I wrote about here. Even with the number of creators I follow, there are very few like Jacob, who combines information in quite the same way from a wide variety of topics and genres. And of the creators making in-depth videos to similar levels, not many of them can pack so much information in so little time. What hbomberguy does in an hour, Jacob does in 20 minutes and I don't think any of us are the worse for it.
Also of interest to this video and Jacob's work here, is the comment section. In this video Jacob talks about a game called Manifold Garden to discuss the concepts of infinity. Not too far down in the comments is one of the programmers for the game, talking about how much he likes not just Jacob's work already but the fact that he used a game he worked on to be used in such a way. Kind of a special corner of the internet when you find things like this.
