Radiolab Presents Symmetry

[pmfd707]

I love this!

[jsaavedraz]

Poetry!

[RossetteTugade]

2:17 lol

[NerminaIbrakovic]

MIND FUCK

[School0Gyrls]

Bertie Gilbert sent me here :) <3

[SrKadajWill]

Uhuu Parabens,video perfect!!

[CharlotteLovesHim17]

Their videos make me think deep in thought... Simply awesomeeee~~~ ;DDDD

[Inacrediliveble]

show de bola, bem bolado !!!

[Alanvncs]

Lindo!

[herculanotopalov]

Puta que pareio que video fodastico ! parabéns mano

[MaahVignoli]

Muito legal.. parabéns!!

[Vinimagem]

genial esse video...

[Krekka200]

The final scene looks like a picture. I think at least one thing on the monitor to his right should be blinking or changing.

[pastadam]

Genius!

[LunaZola]

Symmetry means balance. Dark balancing out light and good balancing out bad. Salt to balance out Pepper. Digital balancing out atomic. Even things that are similar are conflicting. You may see two different clocks, I see old vs. new. But that's just my take on it.

[LordThanathos]

The fuck is this.

[taufikmarasabessy]

Wow a very amazing video

[matteocom717]

Was the man at the end really dead?

Please, I'm just asking

[hiltrishwes]

The last one...

[kessiius]

i think synonym is the more appropriate word than symmetry

[DariaSalmon]

it's great, but should be named antisymmetry I guess

[zaslater]

The ending scene is very powerful.

[Hawkey]

Nice.

[QuekanBronse]

5231 | 111

[HoTBreakZ]

Wow! Very Nice video!

[MyUsername156]

this is so incredibly well done. especially with the sound matching and all. so much talent and creativity, wow.

[MulticolouredMoogle]

mmm Sufjan Stevens.

[XTheFadedLineX]

This is Beautiful.

[ecksoe]

love your videos

[4evaGTB]

You. Are awesome.

[TheJonathanQuest]

Most Beautiful video i ever did see...

[Sum275]

1:19 - the difference between medicine and poison is in the dose.

[fiveminutefridays]

Holy crap. This is so good.

[stevoe05]

im trippin balls right now

[Dunderpul]

nice

[stairway2000]

i really enjoyed that.

[hickschick4]

I don't know why I find this so beautiful.

[metalversion1]

beautifull but Meaningless it have 3 minuts and escaped from the middle to the end and still like ive watched it for 10 minuts

[chughes415]

Meaning of symmetry: an imprecise sense of harmonious or aesthetically pleasing proportionality and balance; such that it reflects beauty or perfection. I think some of the youtube critics here don't understand the meaning of the word as it applies to this video.

[karikphan]

inspired

[ZachBamfy]

this is fucking stupid.

[rootvalue]

@ZachBamfy Well done, little guy!

[ZachBamfy]

@rootvalue I'm actually a big man, but thanks! sorry, I just don't get into pseudo-bohemian "meaningful" bullshit

[rootvalue]

@ZachBamfy What makes you think this is 'psuedo-bohemian "meaningful" bullshit'? Are you sure you aren't mistaking that for something with meaning?

[ZachBamfy]

@rootvalue yep, I'm pretty sure.

[HongKongBoyz100]

I like 2:16 ;)

[jamaic1aboy2]

Symmetry and contrast, nice video yeah!

[wolfoftherain53]

everything before the end moved me. but the ending...it didn't just move me. it moved me to tears.

[Gaborter]

fuck

[punkramon]

i think the video is ok, but it's name/concept is wrong. some examples are just opposite things, others are similar, others just a continuity (does this word exists?) of something...

[daltoni8]

@punkramon Yet one can find certain parallels in all of them.

[fiveminutefridays]

@punkramon I'm pretty sure that's the point. Not 100% sure, but I think it is.

[yootubesucks123]

@punkramon The symmetry could be the split screen and nothing more.

[DoubleDogDork]

@punkramon I think that's intentional though The confliction between the word "symmetry" and things that are opposites is meant to show that something such as "good" has to have another half such as "evil" to exist. Dark is the absence of light blah blah blah. The confliction between "symmetry" and the shots of "continuities" is meant to show a cause and effect kind of relationship. You start to do one thing and by effect you either have to keep doing it or stop. That's what I thought at least..

[MrJokou]

@punkramon These things aren't diametrically opposite of each other (that's not what symmetry implies). Like @LunaZola is saying, these entities are sided next to each other because they're in conflict with one another. One is holding one realm and the other its own, thus balancing out in an imperceptible but meaningful way. There's an indefinite contrast between the two, and that's what the video is trying to get at, I think.

[jordichriqui28]

@punkramon there are many ways at looking at symmetry one of which is balance. i think most of the opposites are commenting on the balance of the world.

[falang78]

@punkramon

Exactly - some things are cause and effect or linear in nature. Still love the vid regardless, but Moments is more touching.

[dooltabolger]

@punkramon IT MEANS BALANCE

[yazzybear327]

Whats 1:19, 1:22, and 1:51

[Araraquara]

@yazzybear327

1:19 - Good drugs and bad drugs

1:22 - Faith and Science

1:51 - Not quite sure... coming and going, maybe

[ualsuck25]

i dont know what happened to me.. but the end.. just brought me to tears... incredible.

[a252973]

The best part is about the half-empty glass & half-filled glass

[MegaKidDynamite]

@a252973 i disagree i think the part at 2:17 is the best...

[thecircleofmylife]

This was just incredible.

[djin1412]

this is simply BRILLIANT!!!

[Alyxclay1]

thumbs up if you watched the turtle instead

[bastard15]

Every this kind of video makes me want to make my own. Just incredible. I could go on hours just looking this symmetry.

Breathtaking.

[sparky9278]

Symmetry Left and right balance. THAT AIN'T NO BALANCE

[johnmichalak85]

1:13 TIDE COMES IN, TIDE GOES OUT.

[countY1337]

@johnmichalak85 TIDE COMES IN, TIDE GOES OUT - YOU CAN'T EXPLAIN THAT

[yazzybear327]

Baby freaking out 2:25:)

[elmalinquilino]

precioso

[mark84j]

I've been looking through the album "The Avalanche", and I can't find this song on there. Care to point me in the right direction, sir?

[Italygirl125]

0:47, 1:13, 2:27 are sad in their own ways

[demonblond14]

@Italygirl125 1:13 is just tide in vs tide out

[3ATPAXEP]

shit

[TheLongHolidays]

Did anyone else see this at the UCLA live show? The ending gives me goosebumps every time.

[UnifyBro]

lawl at 1:05, you pervs

[Hostcu666]

WTF? 

[Dynarc524]

last one is the BEST

[FreedmFightr]

I fear for our race desperately, in looking at these comments.

[BBLumber]

@FreedmFightr please don't judge humanity based on youtube comments.

[FreedmFightr]

@BBLumber You're right... I'll go to ebaum's world to do that. :P

[shareliszz]

i like turtles

[CamiilaRaga]

ayy la niña del 1:36 solo daa ganas de seguir durmiendo :) Se ve tan apasible :)

[DestiniMAdams]

wow,

[jlkurenei]

from 0:11 to 2:27 Me and mom were like: oH nice! this vid is interesting.. but we when we saw the new born baby and the dead poor old man... it was like: "......" i mean from 2:27 until the end no one talked.. and i dont know why...

[pointguardball10]

goosebumps.. wow

[thattristan]

0:22 - intense flex

[RandomicityTTM]

i dont think thats the meaning of symmetry...

[EleCoR]

@RandomicityTTM

i think what they wanted to convey was not bound by the literal meaning of symmetry..

if i understood right,if you look at it in a different perspective there are things/words that pop into mind that make them similar....

[TheVivianable]

@RandomicityTTM I don't think so too, but very nice filming anyway.

[BlazinStar5]

ok i dint expect the video to end wit the last one it was kinda sad o.o x)

[SizzlingPoutine]

goodwork

[SangxNguyen]

creepy. mike song

[Frenny85]

bellissimo

[elmohasaposse]

the last one mad me sad

[novaphoenix70]

This was great. Just that simple.

[roberti0]

por cosas así uno dice: WOW

[kelsamba]

Incrível

[blackeyes1987]

I bet all of u dragged back to 2:18

[sweepswoop]

@blackeyes1987 not everyone is like you, blackeyes.

[3rkie]

loved it

[And8But]

Simplistic, obvious, and overall a waste of my time. Consider the song choice.

[TheDueI]

lol at Google

[nequefus]

Why the first suggestion from this video is Rebecca Black? :(

[TheSethman95]

@nequefus now THAT is true symmetry

[cifi10]

Duality 

[Brickwalker]

White People

[djazr]

voldemort at 0:42

[NegativeSlags]

wonderfoul

[toria695]

the ending gives me chills

[strangelman]

Well...it is fascinating to watch so many shitty comments on such an amazing video.

Good job! :)

[powscience]

This is called 'Symmetry' why? While we're on the subject, why didn't we pick a palindrome for the word that means 'Symmetry'? Or 'Palindrome'?

[Fearlessroby]

STUPENDO

[ARSOSA14]

great <3

[thehandwarmers]

@GisforGorillaz no I know the girl that is the girl!!!!!! she's a girl! both of them are girls infact, the point is that they have different hair styles

[blackrobe2007]

1:05-1:08 kinda made me wana pee!

[TheTitanHobo]

91 people are symmetrical.

[Op3d]

that creepy music at 2:00 reminds me of Koyaanisqatsi

[n3xxxxx]

Why the hell is Friday featured here?

[welshhero21]

@n3xxxxx symmetrical to a good video and a god awful video?

[drunksmokingjurkk]

i jsut see smilritaiteis

[dtom55]

I think people who cannot appreciate this need to look deeper when they watch it. Not everything is about perfect symmetry at a visual sight. Look beneath the picture you see.

[Pferdesalami]

And it is Symmetry it is Ying and Yang. Good and Evil. For every good thing, a bad thing happens. Without death, there wouldn´t be birth.

My Interpretation. You can have your own. :-D

[Frisbieinstein]

@Pferdesalami For every good thing, a bad thing happens.

Oh bollocks. Then saints would commit the evilest acts, so that others might experience the resulting good. Good people would be criminals, as others must suffer to balance their good actions. Nonsense.

Instead, I will say this. While there is no limit on how bad things can be, there is also no limit on how good things can be. I choose good, for obvious reasons.

[iaevvlteriii]

nice but not shocking enough.

[MsKatinka666]

the ending is tough. but nice job.

[onthedesert]

I love how everything is a reflection of humanity in some shape or form... shows so much about the beauty and joy of living. Even the pain is beautiful.

[demoun]

@onthedesert even the pain sucks ass. cmon youre sarcastic

[TheValvesoftware]

looks like it gowes from complimentary to oppisite to complementary to oppositeiver and over again

[667985]

2:16 gave me a boner

[mangaas]

Hmmmm, it would seem hipsters are trying to redefine symmetry.

trying.

[TheWealthnow]

I will call different things at different times

[naranx700]

Carpe diem

[oDevilx]

1:28

thumbs up if u saw the big mind XD

[ballark]

1.07 I love to use the middle, because I can compare with the others, not because of symmetry.

[GisforGorillaz]

1:00 im guessing dude is chick and chick is dude

[flicker0546]

@GisforGorillaz Nice one! I thing you're correct. I didn't pick that up ,yself though...

[IMakeBoyzJizz]

@GisforGorillaz HAHA i was thinking the same thing

[Chrischn89]

@GisforGorillaz what is seen cannot be UNSEEN OMG!

[GisforGorillaz]

0:22 those cookies look fucking delicious!

[eXpEquin0x]

2:14 SEXY TIME!

[0oSMNo0]

Osama Bin Laden @ 1:24 O_O

[thathoodedkid]

swag

[willowpuff]

Wow. Modern photography at its best.

[animalsROCKhard28]

i. love. this.

but maybe you should've chosen synonyms OR antonyms instead of both.

[jiniton]

not really symmetry

[magyardzsentri]

the opposite of sex is turtle sex??

[crazydave431]

@magyardzsentri No, the opposite of fast sex is slow sex, hence the turtles

[JacobSpetzler]

@magyardzsentri And the opposite of the sun is a lightbulb? I don't think you are the audience that this video is meant for.

[ShadowSoldior]

@magyardzsentri Turtles have sex slowly and silently, why not?

[MOFOiknow]

@magyardzsentri No The Opposite Of Human Pleasure Is Animal Pleasure

[magnetixxx]

@MOFOiknow We are animals.

[JIAsheraw]

@magyardzsentri symmetry is balance and similarity... not opposite.. u serious man? jesus

[MinGophers]

@JIAsheraw It was a joke....u serious man? jesus

[krfilms]

@magyardzsentri i like turtles

[nolose1997]

@magyardzsentri no pero es como qe mas hermoso buenoo eso creo acompaacion

[TheGosu]

@magyardzsentri It's supposed to portray symmetry not asymmetry lol. Or what is related in our digital life and in the analog life. Or us humans related to the animals.

[CHOOCHOOYO]

@magyardzsentri if you have noticed, its not all opposites, its also things that relate to each other for ex school relates to getting grades and brain is related to a heart, saying that they are both organs of mammals and so on

[jose2c]

@magyardzsentri you got it all backwards

[prodrivebrasil]

@magyardzsentri LOL



[prodrivebrasil]

@magyardzsentri Maybe was "fast" vs "slow"? ;]

[gunithdev]

Wow... Very strong... Kudos to the makers!

[Shlovingit]

Which Suf is this? Palm Sunday Tornado?

[room28ministries]

No a fan. Although the concept is amazing, and the ending gives me chills, I can't get past the idea that:

1. Not all images hold the same idea (some are synonyms, some are antonyms--one or the other!)

2. Some images cross over into the next frame, it breaks symmetry.