The Missing Piece Meets the Big O

[Irrelephancy]

the music is so good in this...

[Klempika]

I just wasted 5:20 mins of my life!

[algolagnian]

sounds like my sex life....

[DudeyLad]

Cast in the name of god, ye not guilty

[2142Fritz]

@DudeyLad thought it was going to be about that too still this is awesome

[gedankentraining]

Eine wahrlich wunderbare Geschichte, die das Leben zeigt.

Rollst Du schon? :-)

[annmsparks]

A great analogy that I use often, for myself and others... regarding co-dependency... and perceptions.

Love the animation and music!

[shahoney]

A line was missing...? The part about having too many pieces, period. Also, I love that you used music from About A Boy. hahhaa...

[MegaMozartfan]

Who gave this one dislike????? Does someone have no soul?

[Knorwurzel]

sweet

[mironasee]

I get the metaphor and i think it's beautiful, but how come in the end the "missing piece" still becomes like the Big "O" and the how come the Big 'O' has a MASCULINE voice and the missing piece has the FEMININE voice!!????? HUH ? PAY CLOSE ATTENTION. I wonder if this can be done without gender bias?

[thedoctor33]

@mironasee but ponder this who says a deep voice is a masculine and a soft voice feminine? Is that itself not gender bias?

[NTorris]

@thedoctor33 You get it dude. Sensationalist feminism, or masculinism (I suppose it's called) often proport directly, the things it resists in and of itself.

[realcajunrecipes]

Can I just thank you 5000 times for this? I come watch it about every 3 months.

[InvisibleProductions]

You did a nice job but the last couple pages of the book are very important and you left them out altogether. Food for thought.

[davidjonescua]

My teacher read this to us when we were kids. I only realized it was about dating a few years ago.

[pwn2132hat1]

@davidjonescua its not about dating its about finding ur independance and not dependng on other people...close though

[cool9282]

i love this story. When i was young i dont know what the missing peace means. But now i know it.

[xrockthe40ozx]

I thought this was gonna be about giant robots.

[TY98315]

same :(

[jimmyboo12]

so...this isn't a metaphor for orgasm?

[shipcomesin]

i dont really get the deep point of this story and view of life... Life is not a place where you can actually roll by yourself, you need others, you need the love, in order to roll and be more or less happy, in order to survive and feel alive in all ways

You can't just find happiness within you, that's too egoistic to be true. That's what I think, at least.

[molemeister91]

But in the end, the Missing Piece does get to be with the Big O. He also gets to retain his identity. He's free to grow and be his own person. I never realized it when I was young, but this story is all about dependency in relationships. Great work by Silverstein as usual.

[InvisibleProductions]

@shipcomesin Read the actual story, it satisfies what you mention. This person left the last couple of pages out. The story ends with the missing piece becoming its own "Big O" and it ends up rolling along with the other one at the end of the story -- together but without needing to be a piece of each other.

[donsrleone]

This is for girls, guys do not have this kind of life

[crimsonx190]

I'm glad you've furthered the stereotype that guys lack feelings. Well done.

[disneypassholder]

Wow, you're horrifyingly sexist. You make me embarrassed to be a man, and a guitarist. Pretty creepy, dude.

[MagicalRevolverRoad]

This stuff is deep. When you're young, you get it enough to like it. But when all of this comes true, it makes so much sense.

I want to roll on by myself..

[sploogersmoof]

you know, watching this, im kind of shocked. it reflects life perfectly, i think we have all been through this. i think im still getting to the rolling part though, but whatever...

[VistarMonei]

This is such a true story. It was what I needed right now.

What a great metaphor for life.

[MSYification]

u got it

[hahhahlife]

simple and deep.

great.

[yerk3]

This actually made me cry. I remember being really into Shel Silverstien when I was a kid, but I never realized how deep some of it was. I feel like the missing piece.

[supaawes0me]

Nevermind! I found the song I was looking for. "The shining" by badly drawn boy. :)

[supaawes0me]

ahhh its driving me crazy because I recognize part of one of the songs you used in the video. Can you please tell me where the audio came from.

[alkalinefan]

What was the music used? It's beautiful. :)

[fankiem]

well if you pay close attention, this book is made for adults in a way, because it talks about relationships and how people look for mr right or mrs right, and this shows that you don't need anybody to be whole!

[ragemanchoo82]

Sort of a giant anti-valentines day thing. And i can't blame it, either :p

[Kdzanis]

I don't think anyone realizes how inspirational this is when drunk.. children's books r always the best

[danceract]

this was made on my b-day! how nice!

[gssq]

Great.

Basically, in order to become independent you must lose most of yourself in a prolonged and agonising process.

Why privilege rolling over standing still, and motion over stillness? Why do we need to roll instead of staying still?

[Guazutembo]

Would you consider animating my story, "The Big O and The Little O Roll?"

[asassinoooo]

Beautiful version, but the last part is missing... the little O that meets again the big O, rolling together... why? :(

[guhraceee]

waaaaah! really? thats the last part?? yeeeeeey! i thought it was really meant to end that way and i became sad cuz i thought the small o will just be alone 4ever. yeeey! im so happy :)

[asassinoooo]

well, the ending i've seen on the book is absolutely better :D :D

[surejano]

very profound! ;-)