Metropolis II by Chris Burden (the movie)

[shoejosiahsmnw]

This guy's theme song is "To Much Time On My Hands"

[Kraglord]

I am one of the 27 people who disliked this video. Shame on VSause for bringing me here....

[MultiMonster69]

KONY 2012 look him up

[faethon85]

an idea for my hotwheels

[DoctorLea]

So this guy spent 4 years playing with hot wheels and a couple of train sets...LETS GIVE HIM 20 MILLION DOLLARS!

[apocalipticaftw]

where's godzilla when you need him... fantastic i like the vid! keep the good work

[chickenhawked]

KONY 2012

[username951100]

Why do people have the need to say somebody sent them every single time

[MrDrewBonez]

@username951100 Because they want to see if anybody else was sent by the same person.

[username951100]

@MrDrewBonez its kinda obvious they did if they liked a video the people just want thumbs and its annoying

[ilikemunting]

PEDOBEAR 2012

[zerho21]

Amazing! This could easily be a scale model in a futuristic city for filmaking.

[80msAgo]

Vsauce2 brought me here.

[BlastC0R3]

Vsauce?

[CuriousComposer]

Dream Theater, anyone?

[elporto]

a second in and I recognise the TNT track.. and I'm even more intrigued.

[sorhsee]

KONY 2012

[charmor66]

@sorhsee what is kony?

[BoDaClown]

@charmor66 just look up Kony 2012, allot to explain lol

[zoltanie]

went to see it today in the LACMA, very cool. Hope he makes a bigger one!

[ldiller98]

My wife, 25 year-old son and I were at LACMA for the first time (he lives here, we were visiting from SF). Hadn't really heard of Metropolis II until we arrived. Saved it for near the end. A complete hit for all of us. Saw children as young as three and I'm sixty completely enthralled. We all loved it. Would love to see a video of the view from one of the cars (It might be too fast to see much at a purported 240 mph at scale). The future...?

[cdlimbo]

Pure joy to see at LACMA. Loved the train cam.

[kameraguy]

Loved this. Especially the ending shot showing the massive scale of it all. WOW!

[maggieanton]

I saw the exhibit at LACMA yesterday and it was incredible - awesome in its true sense of the word. The buildings are even more interesting than the cars and trains.

[gernb76]

yeah though "hey kids no concern for tiny driver if accident have more combustionengine future oh by way insurance premium due and muffler needing replacement coincidentally price of which just went up future..."?

[2011minmi]

now thats art

[higheddy89]

Nice. Filmed very well tooo. Really interesting.

[OneTwentyMN]

The kid in me loves the idea of a giant Hot Wheels tracks, the more analytical adult loves the statement that's made about how we travel. Especially when it comes to how efficiently we travel.

[ewang7855]

Very cool. Invokes in me a childlike sense of wonder. I also like how you played tortoise at the begining of the video. They rock!

[ewang7855]

@team noob thats a great idea!

[teamNOOB]

You have to stick a camera on a train and car to show what it would be like to travel through Metropolis II in first person view! PLEASE!! :D

[kakeych]

@teamNOOB Watch the last 30 seconds of the video and you'll see the train cam.

[Reinierbonis]

@teamNOOB GoPro HD HERO2!

[cars675]

@teamNOOB I agree he can buy one of those hot wheel cars that have a built in camera I think they make work well 

[leech1191]

aspi 

[89jq]

Amazing piece of art! I would hate to live in a city like that though. I like driving on my own and being able to go off-road from time to time.

[sunshinetickles]

Of course this came out of Los Angeles. Not a single pedestrian anywhere.

[CubanoLA]

Think of all the creativity unleashed without all those drugs to retrain them!

[TheWhiteDevillll]

It took Chris Burden 4 years to develop autism

[grievuspwn4g3]

@MrIrishBilly Who do you think should run this monopoly on travel? And why precisely should people be penalised for showing in visiting/living outside of the major cities?

[spacecab1]

@MrIrishBilly Hemp.

[Venom71717]

23 Dislikes must be stuck in the traffic jam

[darknirvana9]

Wow!! this is so amazing and inspiring to me.

excellent video by the way....

[KynsleyOmega]

Ahhhh I can't wait to see this up close!

[richieboi81]

Makes my scalextric look teenie

[Mp3Astra]

It feels a little like TrackMania. But mostly it feels like the best toy in the world.

[BingBongGump]

way better than Metropolis 1

[IIIQzIIIII]

to stop this world just push the button

[marrrtin]

This is conceptual art I can relate to. "Metropolis II" is completely and utterly awesome.

[scoobymaster2000]

This is awesome! Being a car fanatic, I would love to have one of these! Well done mate!:o)

[CharlieDraper]

An amazing sculpture, and one which reminds us quite how visionary the original METROPOLIS was.

[clistere2]

this is, like, dude. really. thank you.

[Prodeo1986]

Палец вниз тому, кто делает развязки (пусть и игрушечные), затрагивая колокола церкви!!!

идиота кусок ;D

[coolersmoke]

Very, very good camera work. And a fantastic subject.

[drspeed01]

Well done.

[batdog2nd34]

It's a fantastic 'homage', what an excellent thing to do for a living!

[kellzsanator]

your stupid art project is a crappy idea. nobody will live in your city where they cannot drive their own cars. good luck trying to get me to give up my car

[WaRxDrifter]

@kellzsanator LOL HATER ALERT

[MJCastellanos]

@kellzsanator Calm down. Did you not listen to anything he said? Try living in LA and be in traffic jams everyday. Im sure he enjoys driving his car on the countryside but this would be more efficient in areas that rely on transport such as SoCal.

[lazyfireball7889]

@kellzsanator U SIR ARE STUPID!!!

THIS IS THE BEST HOTWHEEL TRACK EVER!!

[PsiStarstormOmega985]

why don't you guys tell him to put a camera on one of the cars.

[MJCastellanos]

@PsiStarstormOmega985 Did you see the full video?

[pnelmatirian]

This sculpture makes me anxious as hell.

[RAS0302]

A READING RAINBOW!!!

[marlenestrauss]

Beautiful film. Nicely captures the perpetual motion of Los Angeles.

Marlene Strauss

[1gmarquez]

dang I need a hair cut.

[dartrax]

This, honestly, is Art. Sorry, @sillystar.

[sil0star]

This, honestly, is kind of stupid. Sorry.

[TheUrbanMammal]

Hang on ... 'before it was moved ...'??? And I thought moving house was a pain ...

[Kg277]

This more of that "high art" shit that nobody understands?

[PetrMores]

Pure poetry, pure art, and wonderfully filmed. I'm really thankful that there are people who spend years on such "useless" magic.

[seniorgoatse]

@PetrMores pure autism

[someman7]

Ehm... It's a very long track. Wasted 5 minutes. And he wasted 4 years. *shakes head in disbelief*

[freebearride]

waw..dem cars 

[OhanGeorge]

Art.... indeed! Great work by the film crew and the artist!!!

[agustingtkr]

incredible but,,,how do you stop them?? hahahah

[TheInveditor1]

i wonder who would need to clean that up if someone tripped

[MCWHAMMER]

Dude did a really good job of not answering a single question Catfish asked. Weirdo.

[ks1rkz]

very nice *_*

[Evi1M4chine]

Now: “The idea that a car runs free, those days are about to close.”

Tomorrow: “The idea that a human runs and thinks free, those days are about to close.”

Passive driving. The ideal way for the passive cattle of today. They got no own free will anyway.

[NeonFraction]

@Evi1M4chine Well, to be fair, there are tons of car accidents caused by drunk drivers with free will. If there was a system in place that could prevent those deaths, or even just deaths caused by NON drunk drivers, I would be all for it. It wouldn't work in rural areas of course. The idea is nice though.

[KryssMoc]

Fabulous kinetic piece of Art (with a big "A").

[WhiteWilard]

I would never live here.... EVER

[feysalmelaih]

even this metropolis has traffic jam

[v8media]

The camera on the train at the end is phenomenal!

[jnickence]

I love the train passing through the city at the end.

[NhatNguyenTV]

He should try putting some loops

[JosephMontemarano]

I love it. 'This is every boy's dream to have Hot Wheels track set up like this.

[Myria83]

Nowadays cars are the predominant element in our urban environments...

[FleshyPink]

dude must NEVER get chicks.

[bankstare]

I want a car named after me.

[tanpopo24]

It is a beautiful forming.

[hansdorsch]

cool traffic and cool soundtrack.



[sohrosune29]

Reminds me of Sesame street. That is a good thing.

[mslaerik66]

i wouldnt want to pay the electric bill for that thing tho :p

[WeblionX]

I imagine the future will be opposite of what the video shows, with rail-based transport getting faster and faster, and vehicles keeping about the same speed and being used more for areas that are low enough in population that high speed rail access isn't particularly useful or where long commutes are rare.

[victotronics]

Fascinating. Next time I'm in LA I'm going to sit in front of this for at least an hour.

[perfectionbox]

Would love to toss a bunch of feral cats and dogs into the middle of that thing :)

[Conzales]

I admit this movie has some nice camera work, but further more the movie tells no story. It doesn't show how future problems in transportation are solved. How will cars be stopped at any point on this 'track'? What about the friction on the cars? These are 'litle trains on wheels', nothing more! This is art, a concept; nothing more and this will never be a reality because engineering problems is not something for 'DREAMERS'!!

[mycompanynameismtn]

Nice!

Chris, your 3 day locker piece inspired me to do an experiment at Cranbrook in 1990 where I scaled a 30' wall and built myself into a cocoon-like structure and lived in it for three days. I knew about your locker piece, but I was curious about how my living in a sculpture might change the perception of the object afterwards.

Dan

[set972]

@mycompanynameismtn where can i see this?

[ravibangalore2008]

live camera is already there...see end of the movie

[StephanConstantial]

He could have made something useful or pretty during the 4 years it took to build this. @thedigitaldragon Mythbusters has jumped the shark unfortunately.

[PaulGrunwald]

I'm sure it will be fine, just look what they did with the economy!

[blendergasketsquared]

That is most definitely a thing.

[thedigitaldragon]

like this if you're watching it because Adam Savage from mythbusters wanted you to

[ntheory]

If you look closely, you can see a VW Beetle zipping around with a little man nailed to the roof.

[ninalogan]

It's wonderful and amazing and i'd love to see/hear it. Music is perfect - sound like something from Bjork?

[Xiph1980]

@ninalogan

music by tortoise (Ten-Day interval) & Mahogany (Windmill International A)

As per author's description

[AGTW31]

he drives a BMW.what else is there to say?

[lifehackertips]

@AGTW31 douche

[wiredstranger]

Genius!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nygge]

could you get this installation to Aros mseum in Aarhus, Denmark? Would love to see this installation with my own eyes!

[ShaolinPete]

that sculpture is just breath takingly beautiful

[wishdj]

Words can't express how amazing this is!

[Dragonas77]

Man, do i hope this is a city of the past, not the future! Its so crowded, i hope somthing new comes along to free us! Amazing piece though, really captures the chaos of the city

[siryounger]

@Dragonas77 Something new, like an incurable virus? A mass extinction? Government-controlled birth rates? Nothing else will stop the progressive increase in population. Water quality is declining, famines are increasing, and wars fought over these precious resources will be more aggressive and brutal until large segments of the population, if not the whole human race, will be wiped from this planet. Hold on tight.

[ZachahryHD]

This is Awesome!! It's like God's Vagina.

[technonickhun]

when it said metropolis i thought it was about superman....

[YourNumberOneHero]

Subway FTW.

[ShinytjeNL]

Awesome!

[faridou93]

This is scary ! ! ! You have to stop this insanity before our cities are completely disfigured !

[psychosulk]

holy moly... seeing the entire thing in the end was a little too much for me. so cool!

[10RRASK]

4:05 yay GM Aerotrain

[ginablackhawk]

Well done. Imagine how happy any boy of any age will be experiencing this!

[cglaurer]

Beautiful. But it reminds me much more of scenes from Koyaanisqatsi than anything from Metropolis.

[LigerZer077]

Sorry, Maybe I'm missing something but I don't see the point?

I cant understand how people spend so much time on something that it completely useless.

I guess I just don't get art.

[bleunt]

@LigerZer077 Well, you apparently enjoy kyte buggying. How is that more useful than this?

[LigerZer077]

@bleunt This took 4 years to build. So im guessing that this is what this guy does for a living. As for me, well I can honestly say that I work in a field that will, in time effect the human species as a whole.

You're right. I do love to jump in the buggy and throw a kite in the air. But thats a past time, you know a hobby??

What do you do? Just tell me your an 'artist' so i can rip into you some more!!

[bleunt]

@LigerZer077 Why are you being so hostile and defensive? So you look down upon people who don't work in a field that will eventually affect the human species as a whole? He's doing something he loves to do. Something that makes people smile. I don't know how that's a waste of time. You're shallow to think all art is a waste of time.

But if you're going to look down on other people, at least make sure you use your words correctly. It's "affect", not "effect". It's "you're", not "your".

[Waxer3929]

@LigerZer077 So let me get this straight.

Say there's a writer who is both a master at literature and an artist in his style and he spent 4 years writing a book that not only won multiple awards, became critically acclaimed, had tons of both negative and positive criticism, but literally changed the world as we know it and how we perceive it.

All of a sudden he's an idiot for being a writer for a living? Because he writes, which can be a hobby or past-time, but all of the sudden he's less than?

[MitsTheTiger]

Fantastic job!

[ronpelto]

nice when it is turned off!! If only!

[frankly1970]

This is the guy that had himself shot?

[KernArc]

Impressive machinery, crappy film making. What's with this razorblade-shallow DOF, anyway? I'm sure you're super excited with your ultra-fast lens but I doubt anyone cares when it's all claustrophobic and plain painful to watch.

[jonesisdying]

astounding

[jack390]

Thumbs up for autoblog bringing you here

[pflichtvergessen]

simply awesome... 

[ThriteenEns]

LACMA has stuff scheduled through 2012 on their site! But didn't see anything about this on there! Anyone know when it will be on display?

[phildawgydawg]

Awesome! Done by the Catfish guys, I see - so long as that's a proper moniker for Joost and Schulman. It's worth mentioning in the event that J/S check these things, Catfish was an AMAZING name for your film given the story told by the husband. The Joost/Schulman style is also present. Now to the star of this film, the artist and more so the installment. This "thing" goes beyond comprehension - there is something mesmerizing about the functionality and continuity that leaves me captive. A+

[bbkillme]

the dislike bar is as long as justin bieber’s dick

[HBCLabrat]

wow

[ChodaBoyUSA]

I certainly hope the taxpayers did not have to fund this crap, a.k.a. "art".

[paultspringer]

Beautiful, wish I lived on the west coast so I could go see it :)

[sunnysang]

"Cocaines a hell of a drug"

[xahnborealis]

Thumbs up if thinkgeek on Twitter linked you here!

[UTUV2]

batter than hot wheels !!!!!!!

[UTUV2]

batter than hot wheels !!!!!!!

[timrs2001]

Absolutely outstanding!

[ryanthomastew]

awesome.

[forresto]

Ooh, they should put a tiny stereo camera on a car and let people ride it virtually live...

[Borin81]

@forresto but what if someone had jizzed on the tracks, and the car with the camera comes and get stuck in it?

it would be like a slow, unstoppable travel into sex.

[mrcheektocheek]

@Borin81 WOW. what a strange and awesome reaction to a video.

[TheUrbanMammal]

@forresto isn't that what the credits sequence shows?