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  • @brian1010101 art spiegelman tells about a film scene in which a psycho boy who's trying to be sculptor, hits the clay yelling BE A NOSE! BE A NOSE! BE A NOSE!

    art said that he felt indentified in his own creation process, so when he published this three skechtbooks collection he called them 1)be 2)a 3)nose

  • This has too much thumbs down. :(

  • woooaaahhhh.

  • WHAT was THAT ?

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  • Can I be a testicle?

  • Your nuts! ;P

  • intresting and somehow confusing.

  • I am a nose.

  • I tried to get Art to sign some Garbage Pail Kids about 4 years ago but he doesnt do that anymore. Apparently his autograph is worth cash, people where getting it and selling it on ebay.... where as i just wanted to complete my autograph collection =(

  • this is like a dream

  • A bit too abstract for me

  • Whoohoo Spiegelman!

  • werd

  • it's all about the cigarette ...

    BE A NOSE !!

  • It looks like someones dream.

  • YES!!!

  • whoa, thats bizzare! very cool though.

  • maybe it's supposed to show the stupidity, uselessness and loathing of smoking? at least it does.

  • huh..... i didnt understand the vid can some one explain?

  • Fantastic soundtrack. Is it avaliable anywhere else as mp3 ? It's fucking great!

  • pasal jangan merokok kot.. haha, but love the soundtrack.

  • Ii am proud to say i don't get it - can someone help me out here?

    link comments welcome

    :)

  • Genius!

  • video merepek..

    mesej tak sampai!!

  • music and video fit so perfectly!

  • i loved the music. is it available anywhere?

  • copy it from the video, with a program like: 'VideoGet'

  • whats the message?

  • recycle, i think. the nose is that arrow from the recycle logo

  • I just got the sudden urge to be a nose

  • I don't know what that meant, but it looked really cool. Good soundtrack too.

  • Hey, has anyone seen the book yet? I flipped through the sketchbooks at a store last week... great stuff! So far, my favourite is the 1983 sketchbook. (But they're all good ;-) )

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  • very well constructed :)

    JLYI:dot:NET

  • Goddammit, I love Art Spiegelman.

  • Follow the arrows. FOLLOW THE ARROWS. FOLLOW THE ARROWS. FOLLOW THE ARROWS. FOLLOW THE ARROWS. FOLLOW THE ARROWS.

  • Cool Show timothymcsweeney!

    Nicely put together!

    Nicely done!

  • nicely done!

  • Funny ^_^

  • Trippy...

  • what is the sound track?

    cracking cartoon

  • Esta Super cajita este video !!! me encanto :)

  • awesome use of pat's music

  • trippy, but what does that have to do with being a nose?

  • @brian1010101 Does the phrase "follow your nose" mean anything to you?

  • @brian1010101 one sketch book has a "bee" on it then the other sketch back has an "A" on it then the other one has a "nose" on it so its "Be A Nose" you have to get the sketch book to understand.

  • woow xD

  • Timothy McSweeney

    Timothy McSweeney

    He takes a pen and paper and he writes things down.

  • may seem random... but it has a message, and a great one too :)

    cool animation aswell

  • You all tried to understand it? I just watched and listened and ahh awesome

  • Who was a cooler teenager and Actually

  • it means that people always do what another does so no self stuff (the peoples with the banners with arrows) && we are fuckin up the world and pull other things with us (the fishes)

  • Was that supposed to have a point?

  • I don't understand it very well. But the animation is very good!

  • Awesome. Let all the naïve idiots alone. I understand the various messages in here. But my adhd tells me to make videos like this faster.

  • well, i think it was awesome! =)

  • I'm not going to pretend I understand what this video is about. but I'll give it a 4/5

  • best vid ive seen in a while

  • i dont think its just about quitting smoking, i think theres a few messages in this video that im seeing that go deeper then just that. could be just me though.

  • well i dont get it

  • The director of this animation, Lars Edwards, is a super-talented illustrator and animator. Check out his website called "and so..."

  • Great animation! The mood is great, especially for Spiegelman.

  • love this video :-K

  • Whoa. Trippy.

    NICE.

    X3 I'm seeing an antismoking message here but a lot of people don't seem to be...

  • lol wut

  • I friggin love maus by art speigalman. I really recommend the great book. :D

  • ??? no entiendo...

  • that was definitely a trip

  • no entendi

  • WTF IS THIS?

    lmaooo this just like made me so spaced outttttt.

  • Whoa what a video I cannot take my eyes off the screen! haha this is very interesting stuff to know about.

  • I think that was a piece of art of a schizophrenic! It can't be otherwise :P

  • its awesome!!

    congratulations. psicodelic!!!

  • oh wow, liked it very much. See this is why I do not smoke. lol

    very cool

  • i dont understand it but i like the music and art work. :)

  • don't understand the whole video, but i like it very much!

  • WTF!?!?

  • good  ........................

  • Loved it, & it's unique and playa-riffic. So, as we say Panch yO Nose, cause you know it's StanKe.........

  • Great but makes me feel kinda stupid because I didn't understand it...

  • its greatttttttttttttttttttttt

  • yea wtf is that even possible?

  • were the hell is the subscribe button?

  • cool vid

  • seems like you have no life.

    making a profile like that running across videos making mean racist comments like thos.

    Get a life you Fat loser

  • hey im learning about him in comic book history class

  • and those thingys they have on their head, and a bagel

  • Wow, what a great vid...

    My friend, a smoker, always tells me the only way you can quit smoking is by getting somebody else addicted - I need to ask him why, but could this be part of what Art is saying w/ the fish thing? I know there could be other interpretations but this one struck me because the messages could be similar. Any thoughts on this?

  • yup fuck you all

  • wow, i felt so dumb just now for not realizing what the video was about. now that i understand, good video!

  • that was scary

  • what it is, is that no matter what the guy did he couldn't get away from the reality that he's addicted to smoking. So don't try it...unless your stupid

    . ARE YOUR STUPID?

  • Very interesting. I love the surrealism.

  • 1:32 naked woman in heels.

  • kinda creepy, but i'm pretty much terrified of drugs so nice vid!

  • hey youtubers! wanna see a bunch of random ass shit put into a microwave? wanna learn how to make a gun out of a pen?

    GO TO MY CHANNEL, ITS FREEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • what this means is drugs are enforced into our world from a previous world for means of controlling people.

  • ok i haVE A QUESTION... when ze book coming out and wut it about

  • I have a question to, was your comment in english?

  • Props to Pat Carney.

    What does it mean to, "Be A Nose!"?

    What's the story?

    If you know...please share.

  • smoke a bowl, youll like it

  • Be a... what was that you said...?

  • my rational brain doesnt like that story...

    I got feared xD

  • Does anyone have the book yet?

  • As I recall, Art Spiegelman is a heavy smoker. has he quit?

  • wat up

  • The animation was good, and I thought it was funny, but that was the weirdest anti smoking commercial thing I have ever seen. Was it an anti smoking commercial, cause if it wasn't then I am way off

  • that made a lot of sense ...

  • weird

  • i did not get it at all........but it is kinda hard to do an animation.

  • from this day and on i like weird animations!

  • This video is about smoking. Be a nose meens in other words, be a bother to a smoker. By any means, get the person to quit smoking, if it means you losing something as well. As for the little guy going threw a ton of events, is just telling you there will be obstacles in the way.

  • nice

  • te kuidas

  • whats name of the song?

  • is it anti smoking??? honestly LOST!!! lol

  • umm is there actually anytin to do with NOSES? xPPP

    how/can/a/FISH/SMOKE/under/WHA­TER/???

    xD

  • the animation was nice, but i dont really get it. I would love to, but i just cant. :D

  • ...

  • dnt fcking understand this shit!

  • oh i undertsand it! the small maincharacter who's in the big guy's head is the smokeaddiction, and to get the addiction out of ur head it will have to go through a lot of stubborn, and it won't be easy, the way the addiction has to walk to get out of the mind

  • So what is name this song??

  • look at the start

  • im confused

  • weird...

  • This video means (smoke em' if you got em')

  • OMG I DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS STILL ACTIVE!! <3 Maus! sooo going to buy it :D

  • huh I really like this and I don't know why...

  • Yeah, me too. I think it's the style of music, the style of animation and the very immaginative scenes!:) - Salut from Indonesia

  • im trippin balls

  • so thats what its like to be on acid

  • ummmmmmm ok?

  • There is some symbolism to it and you I appreciate the flowing animation leading one piece to the next. It's not just about making sense, it's art, it's the suggestive emotional reaction as you see the pictures evolve. The guy coming out of the smoker's head, a journey in freedom. A really nice effort and with Art Spiegelman (the mirror man) you can't really go wrong. If you're into filmmaking, check out my profile, I have an invitation for you.

  • The video means to be your own leader...

  • holy shit that was confusing..........wait.. where am i!?

  • Totally tripped me out. Well, not totally. Tripped me out.

  • yo, wat up

  • animations awesome... but...

    whats teh meaning???

  • I saw Maus once in a library, and now, i'm kinda regretting not reading it.

    Wicked surreal.

  • uhh that was really weird lol, but creative i'll give it that :)

  • i liked the background song

  • LOL

  • (@ binkie)

  • didn't understand

  • cool, but confusing :O

  • cool music

  • Love the animation.. i saw this a few days ago on the McSweeney's website, better the second time

  • def got an anti smoking vibe from this...

  • Trippy...

  • omg this is sooooooo cool

  • anyone knows the name of this song?

  • in the description:" the results are as candid, sharp, and funny as the relentlessly innovative man behind them." this was funny?

  • good animation but boring stuff!

  • That's Redundant.  DUH!

  • spiegel means mirror in my country...

    but what is this vid about?

  • It's about 2:18

  • That was so good I forgot to blink.