Mankind has the power to be saved by ambition or to be utterly destroyed by it. how can salvation exist for society? for man is flawed and such mistakes are meant to happen. we may learn from falling, though rarely do humans survive from such heights.
Pruitt-Igoe was in St. Louis, MO. It took less then 20 years for it to be deemed uninhabitable by the US Housing & Urban Development (HUD) & it was demolished. It was literally a prison. A vertical ghetto. In my opinion I believe it was the biggest failure in public housing (in the US) to date.
@MichaelSirois Yes it's crazy how in the 50's Le Corbusier had these visions of "gardens in the sky" with these buildings. It worked in Europe but failed here because OUR government decided to cut costs. Of course that's capitalism at it's best. Who loses? The poor. Oh well, they're nobodys anyway, right? They don't vote or spend enough. Let's warehouse them. Yes Pruitt Igoe was another Cabrini
@MrChops1978 It certainly didn't work in Europe, at least not in Britain The only difference being that you guys realised the stupidity and demolished them while we were still building them. We still have them now although they are slowly being taken down.
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We dig through the ground beneath us... We lose the balance necessary for sustained life... Out of balance isn't about stepping incorrectly, it's about causing the collapse of your own existence--and we are doing that day by day.
Wow, I just think WTF? The same person designed Pruit-Igoe and the WTC towers. These are some of the ugliest architecture I could imagine. WTC was only impressive for it's shear massiveness. I admit WTC 1 & 2 had a certain industrial charm, but otherwise were just plain ugly.
Granted Pruit-Igoe was compromised by decisions beyond the architects control, but still god awful ugly.
this is an extroidionary movie. I love how he builds up the images of the giant buildings as somehow imposing, oppressive and immovable and then has them disappear, literally, in a puff of smoke. tis magic lol
Pruitt–Igoe was a large urban housing project first occupied in 1954 and completed in 1955 in the U.S. city of St. Louis, Missouri. (information from wikipedia)
Saw the Glass keyboard ensemble take on the cognoscenti at the St. Louis Art Museum in the early seventies.... concert REALLY blew em away - right out the door!
@sonicemotion Totally agree. I think it's because the buildings are familiar, but we never get that kind of perspective of them usually. And the music just amplifies that feeling, whatever it is...
@sonicemotion it is utterly terrifying. We are civilizating ourselves to death. Trapping inside bee combs like this. This kind of housing is utterly inhuman. Makes one wish back to stone age in a way. I must say seeing these "buildings" explode almost procures a sort of relief.
After having seen this movie a lot of times, I find this sequence the most impressive. Guess that these houses are all gone, but strange enough, these pictures make me feel run away from these scenes and, at the same time, go there and walk around in between the ruins to see them with my own eyes.
What hath the smiley glad-hands in government wrought ? Misery and wretchedness. Watch Walter Block's lecture called "interventionism". He specifically mentions the Pruit Igoe housing complex, and the causes behind this stunning imagery.
it is hard to imagine that land could be so valuable that those building could be demolished for redevelopment; one wonders how great the new ones will be.
@OohGoshYoureRight Unfortunately most of the rubble is still sticking out of the ground in St. Louis. I go by it all the time. The only thing they built was a school at it's outer edges after demolition.
@Trollercauster No, Troll., that ain't right because when these buildings were built and the same type built and remaining so, elsewhere, they solved many social problems.
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Social collapse, for example in Haiti, nowadays would do well with some nice apartment buildings, even brick ones.
@OohGoshYoureRight I could notice that you reacted about three times on someones comment. First, this video is about music, second stop being: Ooh Gosh Youre Right! You dont need to scan video comments to proove that you are an intellectual masturbator! Anyways on Youtube nobody gives a Fuck!
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@YesYesYouAreRight Wait...have you been creating accounts just to respond to people...on Youtube? For weeks about the same movie? I'm afraid nothing you say from here on out has any merit. It's like how the Unabomber killed people so they would read his work. Now, no matter how great his ideas were, no one will take them seriously because they were written by a crazy person.
i hope everyone dies instantly, thank fuck aliens are real, humans can never do the job of killing correctly, leave that to the professionals. earth will end very fucking soon "! and jesus its about fucking time right:?
@svdgrasshopper yes they used quite a few tracks from this film in Watchmen and it fit beautifully because Dr.Manhattan's scenes (in which Philip Glass's Koyaanisqatsi scores are used) are so incredibly philosophical and all about the nature of man and how puzzling human beings are to Manhattan. A lot of people don't like Zack Snyder (personally i think it's a bandwagon) but if he had seen this film and decided to use the score's so perfectly he has a respectable knowledge of film.
@kylethehannah Yeah Dr.Manhattan's scenes with this song were awesome and the movie was great too but the movie was not perfect and could have been much better and I think Zack Snyder is a great director, he has shown his potential with 300 and Watchmen and I look forward to Legend of the Guardians and Sucker Punch, from what I have heard of those films they could be awesome.
@Hordeman89 Well Pruit-Igoe was in St. Louis, which is in Missouri, which is in America. We're not Europe! It's as if the new fad sweeping across this country is to model ourselves after Europe. My ancestors left Hungary & the Ukraine to come here because Europe had problems, and continues to have problems.
@Hordeman89 I have a degree in Urban Planning so I go a little overboard, I'll admit that. Europe has some wonderful housing projects & some equally bad ones. The successful ones were built correctly and are for working/middle class people. It's frustrating that we can't seem to get it right here in the states. Your point... probably because half of us don't know where Missouri is.
Seen this film lots of times but this particular seqence never fails to blow me away. The music is perfect. I remember seeing Phillip Glass perform this film score live in London, it was the most amazing concert I have ever experienced.
@bigloadafishing What is the film that this piece is from? I recalled it from Watchmen, when Dr. Manhattan springs into existence, but I don't know from where it originates.
@bigloadafishing i saw a screening of Koya with the philip glass orchestra performing the whole soundtrack live, in torino italy a few years back. killer night.
@guitarslingeroflove This footage is just a clip of a full length film "Koyaanisqatsi." The best footage in this particular video were taken at a failed housing complex in St Louis MO. named "Pruitt Igoe." The complex itself lasted less than 20 years before it had to be demolished. MrChops1978 above summed it up pretty good.
Damn, whoever picked out the music for GTA 4 really did their homework... Hearing this song on the soundtrack to that game, I already thought it was awesome, but seeing this song in the original context makes it make a lot more sense. If you've played GTA 4 you know what I mean.
Actually, the Pruitt-Igoe experiment could have worked way better if they had had the elevator stop at each floor instead of only 1, 4, 7 and 10. If they had put playgrounds and basketball fields between the buildings and a shopping centre with cafés in the middle. And built it with better plumbing quality. Plus, I think, the brutalist architectural style does not work well for social housing projects, it's way too cold and impersonal.
@cosmonauta2001 - These buildings are part of Pruitt-Igoe, a public housing project that was built in St. Louis in the 1950s in an attempt to deal with slum living in the city at the time. They were considered to be a massive failure -- for a number of reasons, including poorly-designed living conditions that were trying to conserve space, cheaply-used building materials, and a high crime rate -- and were imploded in the early 1970s, less than twenty years after they were built.
@Aibheaog Thanks, that's quite impressive, not just the big project failure but also that kind of architecture and design. I mean that's a place so impersonal and I guess there's others lookalike around.
@cosmonauta2001 - Well, it was designed by Minoru Yamasaki, better known for designing the World Trade Centers, so it wasn't just generic public housing. :)
Godfrey Reggio is a master! today i saw his movies and i fell into love! i made a movie in his style but before i didnt see any movies from him. Watch it, click to my name! Fabulous Budapest!
One of the most horrific and enthralling passages in this film....... both for the images and Philip Glass's unbelievable score.........................GOD, this film is genius.
This is socialism. This is egalitarianism. This is the workers' paradise, where all shall have the same little space provided by those who know What's Good for Us, though they won't live there themselves. Thank you, Bismark and all the other Germans who brought us to this, and all the architects who thought a city was just a collection of the buildings they designed. Jane Jacobs had your number....
@theyetunusedname Pruitt-Igoe was just another in a long series of bad choices that began with Bismarck's (thank you) plan to buy off the lower classes with benefits- socialism, in short. Not a new idea but he had the power, and he hoped to forestall working class unrest. Cities are merely collections of buildings, architects felt unusually qualified to design them. Surely the clean, simple lines of towers in the midst of parks would be better than the crowded slums replaced by these horrors!
@ROBdeLIS That's an awful thing to say. How dare you judge those residents by labeling them "scum." THEY DID NOT CHOOSE TO LIVE THERE. They were placed there because St. Louis government officials saw an opportunity to significantly increase the city's population, thus adding $ to their already failing economy. Hoarding or warehousing a large group of socioeconomically similar people in the same location will ALWAYS FAIL. Take a Soc 101 course. You're an idiot.
@MrChops1978 They did not choose to live there? Clearly you are an idiot.
This is not a prison. But for the minors who accompanied their parents, the residents of these buildings would have been free to leave at any time, or to refuse placement.
@ROBdeLIS They were PLACED in units, they didn't pick out the prettiest one! Dear God! The Second Great Migration, which was brought on by Midwestern & Northeastern industries promising "good pay" & "nice housing." In other words the Blacks were deceived by these false recruiting tactics and 5 million of them came north assuming this was true. Instead they were victimized because the wages were much lower than promised and the housing was substandard.
@MrChops1978 Beggars can't be choosers. They were offered placement. They accepted. They were not obliged to say and could have left at any time.
PI wasn't a bad place before they moved the worst people in America into it; these human termites would have destroyed the Breakers or the Biltmore if they had been placed there instead.
And don't blame this on blacks, this ghetto was infested by a diverse rainbow of human waste - the worst whites, blacks and Amerindians the nation could muster.
@ROBdeLIS human waste? human LIFE more like. what gives you the right to judge others simply by the situation and surroundings, in which their corrupt government have placed them. You should look up the word empathy.
@MoaiMaea : i heard the other one first and got very attached to it, it's like when you see a movie dubbed 1st time and then in original language, it feel too weird and below... i hope you know what i mean; anyway in this video the song sounded more "retro"
@MoaiMaea : i know, that's why i explained.. i will probably like both after i get used to this version, but it shocked me at first! Anyway did he remake his own or someone else did? We don't know..
I mean come on ... who else would have composed them? I don't think he would have approved of anyone else changing his music for the rerecord, would he?
Reggio and Glass, I believe, hoped to create a sense of the strange cycle of industrial-strength economy-sized urbanisation, and to also instill a sense of panic that you would not get if you were somehow outside of it. They meant to immerse you and hold your head under the prospect that things will continue like this forever and shock you with the cold realisation that that is plainly impossible, and that the ending is not glorious or beautiful.
People sitting on steps with Garbage a step away. The want to clean their place utterly absent which only shows me how the government bleeds the need for decency out of humans with their help and "humanity".
Also, what the H was this director trying to show here with the demolitions of slums? Then injecting Productive works like Harbor cranes and BUSINESS buildings near the end to again slime back to the project to end it... Why, par tell?
When you give someone something for nothing they often do not respect what they have received. Do you not treasure what you have to work hard for. The true failure here is that people get demoralized and lack the motivation to be a useful part of the working society.
@colascguy Please be cautious of whom you are pointing the finger at. Public housing recipients were not given anything for nothing. It was based on what they earned... or whatever their taxes show they earned. Would you "treasure" such a beautiful place to call home? Those highrises at Pruitt-Igoe in St. Louis were horrendous. When they were demolished they were only 17 years old. Segregating black people in one place to keep them away from everything else. NIMBY politics at it's best.
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This is what President Barack Hussein Obama is trying to save us from you ignorant fools. Those who question his wisdom do so at their peril. The future is Hope, Change and Obama over all.
necrophagi- "Governments dont produce, they consume. They take from the people who create things and convert some of those resources into benefits. These benefits are, more often than not, bribes to ease us into letting them keep spending our money like mad. At some point, a long time ago, they stopped caring about we wanted and started telling us what was good for us. " James Hudnall
This is where Obama's HCare will take us again, into poverty.
@OneOfTenVirgins But still originally the government's were the people themselves, the representatives. too bad the times of those don't exist anymore. the government has changed into an island in the middle of the mass of the people, just like the illuminati logo with the pyramid is, although i don't believe in the illuminati conspiracy theories.
wow. what's the wisdom been so far? Throw billions of dollars at something and cross your fingers? Fat chance. You see in this film Lyndon Johnson's billons spent to fight poverty and nothing has changed. It took 20 years for the buildings to come down. It's the same result for anything government wants to "solve"
@qwertyburger49 THANK YOU! You use "solve" so facetiously I love it. Our government's way of solving problems is to demolish it and pretend it ever existed. Fix it. Solve it. What about the people who were placed there? Good God. Can they just demolish all of the memories and, I would guess, the racism that was brought on by places like Pruitt-Igoe (prisons)? Thank God for the internet and youtube, etc.
Incredible. The segment showing the urban blight at Pruitt-Igoe (2:50-5:40) literally gives me chills. That our own federal government could cut costs which ultimately led to it's failure horrify me. What's worse is that this "model" of modernist architecture for housing low-income families was repeated over and over again in practically every major U.S. city in the 50's & 60's. The government failed it's people in the worst way possible, by segregating & dehumanizing them. How sad is that?
@Maxobillion How dare you? Families were warehoused like they were pieces of meat. 17-years after the construction of Pruitt-Igoe it was deemed UNINHABITABLE. Appreciate the "architecture"? Absolutely not. They were uneducated and had never seen a highrise, let alone lived in one. It failed... period, the end. They were a failure the day they were built. Concentrating one class of people doesn't work; a FACT. Levittown was all WHITE, yet it's failed; you can't blame THAT on African-Americans.
@MrChops1978 The architecture is not to be blamed the fact that corners were cut is to blame Pruitt igoe did not have enough money to be finished properly.
@ Maxobillion Please do your homework on Pruitt-Igoe and you'll find that the city cut costs.
Heating? If you're referring to the steam pipes that would burst and burn those poor children. Most buildings did not have working heating. Elevators didn't work and central air was out of the question. The apartments had concrete block walls... NOT PAINTED, concrete floors with no carpet. I'll try to make this brief. Would you like to call that place home? Answer that and maybe I'll understand.
I would take Pruitt Igoe over living in a Slum in India any day.
The issue is that people don't own property in public housing and they treat it like garbage. My opinion is this, if they are going to trash the place, let them live in their own filth.
@MrChops1978 Public housing projects like this fail not due to lack of money, but due to simple economics. If you pay people not to work, they won't. They also have no incentive to take care of the housing and thus destroy it and let it decay. The design of the "architecture" itself was hideous and dehumanizing, I agree (I am not surprised the same architect also designed the WTC towers).
@MrChops1978 I appreciate your insight into the problems of public housing and Pruitt-Igoe in particular. Too many people are over simplifying this as a case of the poor being ungrateful or simply writing off public housing as "government waste". There are issues of sociology and psychology at play that are extremely intricate. I am a fan of Le Corbusier and modernist architects as a whole but even I must admit Plan Voisin and over-planned projects in that vein can't work.
@haroahyuokei Thanks. It's refreshing to know at least one person besides myself finds the whole concept profoundly disturbing; perhaps even criminal. Decades later city governments are still doing this... they just build more low-rises on a larger land parcel. Some cities have taken enormous steps to have mixed-income sites, and they seem to work well when done correctly. I too am a big fan of Le Corbusier - his art was so visionary for that period!
The music makes me shit my pants. Everytime.
phatcheck 1 year ago
Mankind has the power to be saved by ambition or to be utterly destroyed by it. how can salvation exist for society? for man is flawed and such mistakes are meant to happen. we may learn from falling, though rarely do humans survive from such heights.
dark4ngelic 1 year ago
22 people would rather see Disaster Movie!
Fettbulle 1 year ago
just like gta 4 first trailer and in new york 2
MrGiovanni1234567 1 year ago
Pruitt-Igoe was in St. Louis, MO. It took less then 20 years for it to be deemed uninhabitable by the US Housing & Urban Development (HUD) & it was demolished. It was literally a prison. A vertical ghetto. In my opinion I believe it was the biggest failure in public housing (in the US) to date.
MrChops1978 1 year ago
is this in ukrania? or russia?
xpertvisions 1 year ago
@xpertvisions USA
ernestomiguel 1 year ago
Great song, too bad it was used in a long scene of a blue penis.
tonmandude 1 year ago
philip glass in Mexico aion.mx/noticias/philip-glass-llena-explanada-de-bellas-artes.html
revistaaionmx 1 year ago
Cabrini Green...
MichaelSirois 1 year ago
@MichaelSirois Yes it's crazy how in the 50's Le Corbusier had these visions of "gardens in the sky" with these buildings. It worked in Europe but failed here because OUR government decided to cut costs. Of course that's capitalism at it's best. Who loses? The poor. Oh well, they're nobodys anyway, right? They don't vote or spend enough. Let's warehouse them. Yes Pruitt Igoe was another Cabrini
MrChops1978 1 year ago
@MrChops1978 It certainly didn't work in Europe, at least not in Britain The only difference being that you guys realised the stupidity and demolished them while we were still building them. We still have them now although they are slowly being taken down.
Le Corbusier is now reckognised as being an arsehole
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Wow, I just think WTF? The same person designed Pruit-Igoe and the WTC towers. These are some of the ugliest architecture I could imagine. WTC was only impressive for it's shear massiveness. I admit WTC 1 & 2 had a certain industrial charm, but otherwise were just plain ugly.
Granted Pruit-Igoe was compromised by decisions beyond the architects control, but still god awful ugly.
phatcheck 1 year ago
this is an extroidionary movie. I love how he builds up the images of the giant buildings as somehow imposing, oppressive and immovable and then has them disappear, literally, in a puff of smoke. tis magic lol
samisacool1 1 year ago
*goosebumps*
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deliman 1 year ago
Minoru Yamasaki designed the buildings in Pruitt Igoe. He also designed the World Trade Center... Pretty strange.
JahWillLove 1 year ago
What does pruit igoe mean ?
supercrevette 1 year ago
@supercrevette It is the last names of Wendell.O Pruit,an african american fighter pilot in WWII and William.L Igoe,a Former congressman at the time.
Aerozyphyr 1 year ago
@supercrevette I looked it up in wiki which says that it had been a failed program for social housing somewhere in missouri.
13Filmrisse 1 year ago
Pruitt–Igoe was a large urban housing project first occupied in 1954 and completed in 1955 in the U.S. city of St. Louis, Missouri. (information from wikipedia)
JumpMax 1 year ago
@GrimsGaming11 Yep, '82
IasKev 1 year ago
Those buildings fall just like the World Trade Center.
SethHesio 1 year ago
@SethHesio And interestingly, both projects were designed by the same architect.
PhoenixUT 1 year ago
@SethHesio would you believe it's the same architect?
loknloll 1 year ago
Pure art
milkchat 1 year ago
The scale and deserted nature of the sweeping buildings makes everything seem small, like a model
cuppajoesugar 1 year ago
I saw this performance of philip glass and his orchestra(ensemble) in new brunswick underneath the images from this movie..now you know..
h92o 1 year ago
Saw the Glass keyboard ensemble take on the cognoscenti at the St. Louis Art Museum in the early seventies.... concert REALLY blew em away - right out the door!
WimGrundy 1 year ago
something about this movie is utterly terrifying. this part especially.
sonicemotion 1 year ago 16
@sonicemotion Totally agree. I think it's because the buildings are familiar, but we never get that kind of perspective of them usually. And the music just amplifies that feeling, whatever it is...
SethHesio 1 year ago
@sonicemotion it is utterly terrifying. We are civilizating ourselves to death. Trapping inside bee combs like this. This kind of housing is utterly inhuman. Makes one wish back to stone age in a way. I must say seeing these "buildings" explode almost procures a sort of relief.
13Filmrisse 1 year ago
@sonicemotion urban decay is terrifying.
phatcheck 1 year ago
amazing scene!
GamerX7800X 1 year ago
who made this film?
i0like0jaZz 1 year ago
@i0like0jaZz Godfrey Reggio, music by Philip Glass
IasKev 1 year ago
Bad ass song. This is music right here.
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varanasi04 1 year ago
After having seen this movie a lot of times, I find this sequence the most impressive. Guess that these houses are all gone, but strange enough, these pictures make me feel run away from these scenes and, at the same time, go there and walk around in between the ruins to see them with my own eyes.
varanasi04 1 year ago 2
The infection and decay of the north side of my poor city, STL. The site is an abandoned, vacant sore still today.
BevoBill31 1 year ago
One of the BEST music by one of the best composers of the century. This litteraly defines urban-life of the 20-21 centuries.
DeusVivus 1 year ago
What hath the smiley glad-hands in government wrought ? Misery and wretchedness. Watch Walter Block's lecture called "interventionism". He specifically mentions the Pruit Igoe housing complex, and the causes behind this stunning imagery.
032125 1 year ago
3:22 where is that location
nyamcz 1 year ago
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The former Pruitt-Igoe housing complex, St. Louis, Missouri.
noun12345 1 year ago
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Note: things are looking up.
March 16, 1972 — less than 20 years after construction — the first of the complex's 33 buildings was demolished by the federal government.
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YesYesYouAreRight 1 year ago
@nyamcz the location is at the pruitt igoe public housing projects in ST Louis Missouri USA shorty before the demolition in 1972
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supercompression 1 year ago
breath-taking. best bit of koyaa,
kaini 1 year ago
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MrMusicofthesoul 1 year ago
this music would befit for an Inception............
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flavoredwallpaper 1 year ago
@flavoredwallpaper ?
terminator6267 1 year ago
Beautiful, absolutely beautiful music. Just a question. Is this from the actual film, Koyaanisqatsi?
paranoidandroid192 1 year ago
@paranoidandroid192 Yes it is.
Annodomino2007 1 year ago
@paranoidandroid192 This IS the actual film koyaanisqatsi
ANONONTHEJEWTUBE 1 year ago
The power of Minimalism in its Megalomanic form. Mr. Glass may your days be blessed with eternal creativity. Amen
Rastini 1 year ago
i love this because it gets soo intense at about half way and is a perfect combination of instruments
yamumsbum007 1 year ago
bloastemoep
PurpleVolvagia 1 year ago
looks like pripyat
rob1loxley 1 year ago
Thumbs up if the music made you think of GTA IV
rathat48 1 year ago
@rathat48 there you go mines XD
burra007 1 year ago
it is hard to imagine that land could be so valuable that those building could be demolished for redevelopment; one wonders how great the new ones will be.
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OohGoshYoureRight 1 year ago
@OohGoshYoureRight Unfortunately most of the rubble is still sticking out of the ground in St. Louis. I go by it all the time. The only thing they built was a school at it's outer edges after demolition.
mrjohnnynofear 1 year ago
a home can't fix social collapse, no matter how well designed.
it wouldn't have mattered of each of those residences was a mansion, the failure was have been just as dramatic and depressing, only more expensive.
Trollercauster 1 year ago
@Trollercauster No, Troll., that ain't right because when these buildings were built and the same type built and remaining so, elsewhere, they solved many social problems.
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Social collapse, for example in Haiti, nowadays would do well with some nice apartment buildings, even brick ones.
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Read more books.
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OohGoshYoureRight 1 year ago
@OohGoshYoureRight I could notice that you reacted about three times on someones comment. First, this video is about music, second stop being: Ooh Gosh Youre Right! You dont need to scan video comments to proove that you are an intellectual masturbator! Anyways on Youtube nobody gives a Fuck!
Rastini 1 year ago
@Rastini Dear Ratsarse., Thank you for your comment on my response.
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YesYesYouAreRight 1 year ago
@YesYesYouAreRight How very thoughtful of you. Thank you for showing me how insignificant i am among all the users on Youtube. You must be very lucky to be able to proove your position in life, but what is the deal with all the virtual alter egos? A jeste musim podotknout ze jsi obri velrybi curak.:D:D
Rastini 1 year ago
@Rastini
Dear ratsarse,
Still no video contribution of your own?
What are you camera-poor or simply conflicted?
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Read any books lately?
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YesYesYouAreRight 1 year ago
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Jesus Christ, dont you have anything better to do? Judging from your inteligence i must have read more books than you could ever imagine. And those videos of yours have propably the same significance as me having none. So unless you put on something that has sense, please dont bother me again.
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@YesYesYouAreRight Wait...have you been creating accounts just to respond to people...on Youtube? For weeks about the same movie? I'm afraid nothing you say from here on out has any merit. It's like how the Unabomber killed people so they would read his work. Now, no matter how great his ideas were, no one will take them seriously because they were written by a crazy person.
iamthegame04 1 year ago
@Rastini Internet arguments are like Special Olympics. Even if you win, you are still retarded.
markkuwerkko 1 year ago
@markkuwerkko beautifully said...
Rastini 1 year ago
i hope everyone dies instantly, thank fuck aliens are real, humans can never do the job of killing correctly, leave that to the professionals. earth will end very fucking soon "! and jesus its about fucking time right:?
JimmyMcCbob 1 year ago
"I killed people, smuggled people, sold people. Perhaps here, things will be different!"
- man, GTA IV killed this tune for me. Now all I can think of is that mindless video game.
mrbrockpeters 1 year ago
omg this world is shit... if you like this song you'll love that one:
clint mansell - lux aeterna
EduWestCoast 1 year ago
@svdgrasshopper yes they used quite a few tracks from this film in Watchmen and it fit beautifully because Dr.Manhattan's scenes (in which Philip Glass's Koyaanisqatsi scores are used) are so incredibly philosophical and all about the nature of man and how puzzling human beings are to Manhattan. A lot of people don't like Zack Snyder (personally i think it's a bandwagon) but if he had seen this film and decided to use the score's so perfectly he has a respectable knowledge of film.
kylethehannah 1 year ago
@kylethehannah Yeah Dr.Manhattan's scenes with this song were awesome and the movie was great too but the movie was not perfect and could have been much better and I think Zack Snyder is a great director, he has shown his potential with 300 and Watchmen and I look forward to Legend of the Guardians and Sucker Punch, from what I have heard of those films they could be awesome.
svdgrasshopper 1 year ago
we have a lot of buildings like Pruit Igoe in middle and western Europe
Hordeman89 1 year ago
@Hordeman89 i mean eastern
Hordeman89 1 year ago
@Hordeman89 Well Pruit-Igoe was in St. Louis, which is in Missouri, which is in America. We're not Europe! It's as if the new fad sweeping across this country is to model ourselves after Europe. My ancestors left Hungary & the Ukraine to come here because Europe had problems, and continues to have problems.
MrChops1978 1 year ago
@MrChops1978 why so serious...? ;]
Hordeman89 1 year ago
@Hordeman89 I have a degree in Urban Planning so I go a little overboard, I'll admit that. Europe has some wonderful housing projects & some equally bad ones. The successful ones were built correctly and are for working/middle class people. It's frustrating that we can't seem to get it right here in the states. Your point... probably because half of us don't know where Missouri is.
MrChops1978 1 year ago
@MrChops1978 We in Europe know where Missouri is. In contrast to Americans who doesn't know where Missouri is. LOL.
Hordeman89 1 year ago
@MrChops1978
So, Mr.Chops, You are saying that Missouri has problems, then?
As well as the rest of America.
And that your ancestors may not have bothered leaving Europe. ()
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Cheers.
from,
del-boy.
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OohGoshYoureRight 1 year ago
Wasn't this song there in Watchmen too?
svdgrasshopper 1 year ago
Seen this film lots of times but this particular seqence never fails to blow me away. The music is perfect. I remember seeing Phillip Glass perform this film score live in London, it was the most amazing concert I have ever experienced.
bigloadafishing 1 year ago 28
@bigloadafishing Absolutely agree with you.
onomatoh 1 year ago
@bigloadafishing What is the film that this piece is from? I recalled it from Watchmen, when Dr. Manhattan springs into existence, but I don't know from where it originates.
TheOmegaParadigm 1 year ago
@TheOmegaParadigm Lol. From Koyaanisqatsi, of course.
LightStijn 1 year ago
@LightStijn Well, pardon me. I assumed Koyannisqatsi to be something related to the theme, but not the film itself. Thank you for the information.
TheOmegaParadigm 1 year ago
@TheOmegaParadigm No problemo.
LightStijn 1 year ago
@bigloadafishing i saw a screening of Koya with the philip glass orchestra performing the whole soundtrack live, in torino italy a few years back. killer night.
loknloll 1 year ago
great song..great video
anusk1313 1 year ago
Where is this footage from? There's some really great shots in here.
guitarslingeroflove 1 year ago
@guitarslingeroflove This footage is just a clip of a full length film "Koyaanisqatsi." The best footage in this particular video were taken at a failed housing complex in St Louis MO. named "Pruitt Igoe." The complex itself lasted less than 20 years before it had to be demolished. MrChops1978 above summed it up pretty good.
gimme2utah1 1 year ago
This is a great song for speculating dark things, driving in a black car while it's raining, ect.
tyIerz06 1 year ago
Damn, whoever picked out the music for GTA 4 really did their homework... Hearing this song on the soundtrack to that game, I already thought it was awesome, but seeing this song in the original context makes it make a lot more sense. If you've played GTA 4 you know what I mean.
irarawkstarr 1 year ago 3
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this music is fucking amazing
Wolfreys44 1 year ago
Actually, the Pruitt-Igoe experiment could have worked way better if they had had the elevator stop at each floor instead of only 1, 4, 7 and 10. If they had put playgrounds and basketball fields between the buildings and a shopping centre with cafés in the middle. And built it with better plumbing quality. Plus, I think, the brutalist architectural style does not work well for social housing projects, it's way too cold and impersonal.
mischnix 1 year ago 2
@mischnix I agree; Rococo is best for social housing. Cafes would have been good, but liquor stores would have been better.
ROBdeLIS 1 year ago
@mischnix your answer is overly complex if they did not cut corner because of money the project would work.
Capitanvolume 1 year ago
i fooking love this song, goddamn.
mindingosafado 1 year ago
YES!
cam2211 1 year ago
What place those abandoned buidings were from?
cosmonauta2001 1 year ago
@cosmonauta2001 - These buildings are part of Pruitt-Igoe, a public housing project that was built in St. Louis in the 1950s in an attempt to deal with slum living in the city at the time. They were considered to be a massive failure -- for a number of reasons, including poorly-designed living conditions that were trying to conserve space, cheaply-used building materials, and a high crime rate -- and were imploded in the early 1970s, less than twenty years after they were built.
Aibheaog 1 year ago
@Aibheaog Thanks, that's quite impressive, not just the big project failure but also that kind of architecture and design. I mean that's a place so impersonal and I guess there's others lookalike around.
cosmonauta2001 1 year ago
@cosmonauta2001 - Well, it was designed by Minoru Yamasaki, better known for designing the World Trade Centers, so it wasn't just generic public housing. :)
Aibheaog 1 year ago
@cosmonauta2001 St. Louis, MO
ROBdeLIS 1 year ago
Godfrey Reggio is a master! today i saw his movies and i fell into love! i made a movie in his style but before i didnt see any movies from him. Watch it, click to my name! Fabulous Budapest!
Damjan547 1 year ago
Genial!
Nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything is transformed ......
The end is inevitable, however painful
Pios
PiosRodamanArt 1 year ago
One of the most horrific and enthralling passages in this film....... both for the images and Philip Glass's unbelievable score.........................GOD, this film is genius.
NuovoPiero 1 year ago
see how much we did to mess up the world - just see all of them !
RENTAMOB1 1 year ago
always, goosebumps.
piterdivries 1 year ago
this film is the best
VerdammtVerabscheut 1 year ago
Philip is a great composer and conductor, and Godfrey is a great director. :)
tall32guy 1 year ago
the rich are getting richer and the poor are becoming poorer...
ArnoldtheDestroyer 1 year ago
i would love to be able to play this
pikachops 1 year ago
This is socialism. This is egalitarianism. This is the workers' paradise, where all shall have the same little space provided by those who know What's Good for Us, though they won't live there themselves. Thank you, Bismark and all the other Germans who brought us to this, and all the architects who thought a city was just a collection of the buildings they designed. Jane Jacobs had your number....
TheLpbrennan 1 year ago
@TheLpbrennan How the hell are the Germans and Otto von Bismarck - that's the "Bismark"(sic) you mean, isn't it - to blame for Pruitt-Igoe?
theyetunusedname 1 year ago
@theyetunusedname Pruitt-Igoe was just another in a long series of bad choices that began with Bismarck's (thank you) plan to buy off the lower classes with benefits- socialism, in short. Not a new idea but he had the power, and he hoped to forestall working class unrest. Cities are merely collections of buildings, architects felt unusually qualified to design them. Surely the clean, simple lines of towers in the midst of parks would be better than the crowded slums replaced by these horrors!
TheLpbrennan 1 year ago
IPNOTIZANTE!! ALUCINANTE!!
koyaanisqatsi - UMA VIDA EM TRANSFORMAÇÃO
bambuzalbin 1 year ago
Those poor buildings, to think that the government filled them with the scum of the Earth. :(
ROBdeLIS 1 year ago
@ROBdeLIS That's an awful thing to say. How dare you judge those residents by labeling them "scum." THEY DID NOT CHOOSE TO LIVE THERE. They were placed there because St. Louis government officials saw an opportunity to significantly increase the city's population, thus adding $ to their already failing economy. Hoarding or warehousing a large group of socioeconomically similar people in the same location will ALWAYS FAIL. Take a Soc 101 course. You're an idiot.
MrChops1978 1 year ago
@MrChops1978 They did not choose to live there? Clearly you are an idiot.
This is not a prison. But for the minors who accompanied their parents, the residents of these buildings would have been free to leave at any time, or to refuse placement.
ROBdeLIS 1 year ago
@ROBdeLIS They were PLACED in units, they didn't pick out the prettiest one! Dear God! The Second Great Migration, which was brought on by Midwestern & Northeastern industries promising "good pay" & "nice housing." In other words the Blacks were deceived by these false recruiting tactics and 5 million of them came north assuming this was true. Instead they were victimized because the wages were much lower than promised and the housing was substandard.
MrChops1978 1 year ago
@MrChops1978 Beggars can't be choosers. They were offered placement. They accepted. They were not obliged to say and could have left at any time.
PI wasn't a bad place before they moved the worst people in America into it; these human termites would have destroyed the Breakers or the Biltmore if they had been placed there instead.
And don't blame this on blacks, this ghetto was infested by a diverse rainbow of human waste - the worst whites, blacks and Amerindians the nation could muster.
ROBdeLIS 1 year ago 2
@ROBdeLIS human waste? human LIFE more like. what gives you the right to judge others simply by the situation and surroundings, in which their corrupt government have placed them. You should look up the word empathy.
ArnoldtheDestroyer 1 year ago
@ArnoldtheDestroyer I wouldn't hesitate to judge, but my opinions constitute opinion and no more.
ROBdeLIS 1 year ago
@ROBdeLIS dick.
ArnoldtheDestroyer 1 year ago
@ArnoldtheDestroyer suck mine.
ROBdeLIS 1 year ago
@ROBdeLIS interesting! but your still a dick.
ArnoldtheDestroyer 1 year ago
This music is so haunting...
SammiiDoogles 1 year ago
So this one is last one of original?
sarangkorean 1 year ago
pruit igoe this is so unbyutifll
its like walled city of honk kong
Tomaniahailhynkel 1 year ago
this old version music is better, only slightly different though
negativethoughts 1 year ago
@negativethoughts not slightly, it's VERY different and original version is WAY BETTEr, this is bad.. :/
sarangkorean 1 year ago
Wow, big words. So where can I find the "original version" to review your opinion?
MoaiMaea 1 year ago
@MoaiMaea if you download the CD you should get the right one, it's also in GTA IV
sarangkorean 1 year ago
Found it. Well, it does sound different but only in a small way. Calling it "VERY different" and "WAY BETTER" is unjustified imho.
MoaiMaea 1 year ago
@MoaiMaea : i heard the other one first and got very attached to it, it's like when you see a movie dubbed 1st time and then in original language, it feel too weird and below... i hope you know what i mean; anyway in this video the song sounded more "retro"
sarangkorean 1 year ago
I see your point but I don't share it. Both ones are good. Calling this one bad is pretty rude and cocky to Philip Glass' work.
MoaiMaea 1 year ago
@MoaiMaea : i know, that's why i explained.. i will probably like both after i get used to this version, but it shocked me at first! Anyway did he remake his own or someone else did? We don't know..
sarangkorean 1 year ago
Of course we do o_O He did remake it and wrote two additional songs even.
MoaiMaea 1 year ago
@MoaiMaea : ok i didn't know!
sarangkorean 1 year ago
I mean come on ... who else would have composed them? I don't think he would have approved of anyone else changing his music for the rerecord, would he?
MoaiMaea 1 year ago
I want this music to play when the world is going to end.
betrayerillidan 1 year ago 30
@betrayerillidan:
Sic transit gloria mundi.
zero420 1 year ago
Reggio and Glass, I believe, hoped to create a sense of the strange cycle of industrial-strength economy-sized urbanisation, and to also instill a sense of panic that you would not get if you were somehow outside of it. They meant to immerse you and hold your head under the prospect that things will continue like this forever and shock you with the cold realisation that that is plainly impossible, and that the ending is not glorious or beautiful.
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colegegrad 1 year ago
People sitting on steps with Garbage a step away. The want to clean their place utterly absent which only shows me how the government bleeds the need for decency out of humans with their help and "humanity".
Also, what the H was this director trying to show here with the demolitions of slums? Then injecting Productive works like Harbor cranes and BUSINESS buildings near the end to again slime back to the project to end it... Why, par tell?
DirtinSky 1 year ago
That's exactly what Francis Ford Coppolla wanted to show here. It's life out of balance.
PsycadelicShack 1 year ago 2
Coppolla isn't the director of this movie, Godfrey Reggio is. Coppolla is only one of the executive producers.
giopagoda 1 year ago
When you give someone something for nothing they often do not respect what they have received. Do you not treasure what you have to work hard for. The true failure here is that people get demoralized and lack the motivation to be a useful part of the working society.
colascguy 1 year ago
@colascguy Please be cautious of whom you are pointing the finger at. Public housing recipients were not given anything for nothing. It was based on what they earned... or whatever their taxes show they earned. Would you "treasure" such a beautiful place to call home? Those highrises at Pruitt-Igoe in St. Louis were horrendous. When they were demolished they were only 17 years old. Segregating black people in one place to keep them away from everything else. NIMBY politics at it's best.
MrChops1978 1 year ago 4
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This is what President Barack Hussein Obama is trying to save us from you ignorant fools. Those who question his wisdom do so at their peril. The future is Hope, Change and Obama over all.
necrophagi 1 year ago
necrophagi- "Governments dont produce, they consume. They take from the people who create things and convert some of those resources into benefits. These benefits are, more often than not, bribes to ease us into letting them keep spending our money like mad. At some point, a long time ago, they stopped caring about we wanted and started telling us what was good for us. " James Hudnall
This is where Obama's HCare will take us again, into poverty.
OneOfTenVirgins 1 year ago
@OneOfTenVirgins But still originally the government's were the people themselves, the representatives. too bad the times of those don't exist anymore. the government has changed into an island in the middle of the mass of the people, just like the illuminati logo with the pyramid is, although i don't believe in the illuminati conspiracy theories.
gaastra12 1 year ago
@ necrophagi
wow. what's the wisdom been so far? Throw billions of dollars at something and cross your fingers? Fat chance. You see in this film Lyndon Johnson's billons spent to fight poverty and nothing has changed. It took 20 years for the buildings to come down. It's the same result for anything government wants to "solve"
qwertyburger49 1 year ago
@qwertyburger49 THANK YOU! You use "solve" so facetiously I love it. Our government's way of solving problems is to demolish it and pretend it ever existed. Fix it. Solve it. What about the people who were placed there? Good God. Can they just demolish all of the memories and, I would guess, the racism that was brought on by places like Pruitt-Igoe (prisons)? Thank God for the internet and youtube, etc.
MrChops1978 1 year ago
Does anyone know what house it is they're blowing up at 6:13? That one seemed to be in quite good shape.
Justusson 1 year ago
Incredible. The segment showing the urban blight at Pruitt-Igoe (2:50-5:40) literally gives me chills. That our own federal government could cut costs which ultimately led to it's failure horrify me. What's worse is that this "model" of modernist architecture for housing low-income families was repeated over and over again in practically every major U.S. city in the 50's & 60's. The government failed it's people in the worst way possible, by segregating & dehumanizing them. How sad is that?
MrChops1978 1 year ago 33
Beggars can't be choosers. The homes these people have are better than the shantytowns of the past which are still found all over the world.
Giving the poor a place to live with amenities such as running water and heating is luxurious by the world standards.
Besides, do you think the poor can even appreciate good architecture?
Maxobillion 1 year ago
@Maxobillion How dare you? Families were warehoused like they were pieces of meat. 17-years after the construction of Pruitt-Igoe it was deemed UNINHABITABLE. Appreciate the "architecture"? Absolutely not. They were uneducated and had never seen a highrise, let alone lived in one. It failed... period, the end. They were a failure the day they were built. Concentrating one class of people doesn't work; a FACT. Levittown was all WHITE, yet it's failed; you can't blame THAT on African-Americans.
MrChops1978 1 year ago
@MrChops1978 The architecture is not to be blamed the fact that corners were cut is to blame Pruitt igoe did not have enough money to be finished properly.
Capitanvolume 1 year ago
@ Maxobillion Please do your homework on Pruitt-Igoe and you'll find that the city cut costs.
Heating? If you're referring to the steam pipes that would burst and burn those poor children. Most buildings did not have working heating. Elevators didn't work and central air was out of the question. The apartments had concrete block walls... NOT PAINTED, concrete floors with no carpet. I'll try to make this brief. Would you like to call that place home? Answer that and maybe I'll understand.
MrChops1978 1 year ago
I would take Pruitt Igoe over living in a Slum in India any day.
The issue is that people don't own property in public housing and they treat it like garbage. My opinion is this, if they are going to trash the place, let them live in their own filth.
Maxobillion 1 year ago 4
@MrChops1978 Public housing projects like this fail not due to lack of money, but due to simple economics. If you pay people not to work, they won't. They also have no incentive to take care of the housing and thus destroy it and let it decay. The design of the "architecture" itself was hideous and dehumanizing, I agree (I am not surprised the same architect also designed the WTC towers).
WheelsRCool 1 year ago
Not as sad as the fact that most people will die without ever having scrutinized our society.
MoaiMaea 1 year ago
@MrChops1978 I appreciate your insight into the problems of public housing and Pruitt-Igoe in particular. Too many people are over simplifying this as a case of the poor being ungrateful or simply writing off public housing as "government waste". There are issues of sociology and psychology at play that are extremely intricate. I am a fan of Le Corbusier and modernist architects as a whole but even I must admit Plan Voisin and over-planned projects in that vein can't work.
haroahyuokei 1 year ago
@haroahyuokei Thanks. It's refreshing to know at least one person besides myself finds the whole concept profoundly disturbing; perhaps even criminal. Decades later city governments are still doing this... they just build more low-rises on a larger land parcel. Some cities have taken enormous steps to have mixed-income sites, and they seem to work well when done correctly. I too am a big fan of Le Corbusier - his art was so visionary for that period!
MrChops1978 1 year ago
@MrChops1978 - What is this a video of? Just another human failure... Because I've read up on plenty of those. What happened this time?
MarvelsofaLifetime 1 year ago