Liminal Spaces (Exploring an Altered Reality)

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In hindsight I probably should've been more selective of the images I showed in this video. Some people seem to be confusing them for just creepy/nostalgic images when it's more about transitional spaces. I think I hinted at that but I should have made it more clear. For example the bunker house I mentioned would not really fit in this category but more in the uncanny/eerie category. Liminal spaces can definitely include most of the spaces shown in this video but I need to make clear that they are not exclusively those types of creepy, nostalgic, or out of their designed context spaces.
Regardless, there is an emphasis on “transitional” and that should really be the greatest factor in determining what is and isn’t a liminal space. This is just a short addendum for anyone confused.
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@frugalbiscuit5476 3 года назад

I died when he said it was the background for a lego set.

@bradonlastname4494 3 года назад

I thought one was concept art for avatar the last Airbender

@fluffeecoffee6051 3 года назад

Same, I lost it

@JessmanChicken86 3 года назад

What happens after you die? We're all wondering.

@redcenteno7150 3 года назад

I thought they were background for visual novels. I actually yelled WHAT when he said they were for lego lolll

@IgneousGorilla 3 года назад

@@redcenteno7150 Same

@jasslang9636 3 года назад

I feel like they are like corpses. They used to be filled with life, movement, and potential. Now they are just a dead body left behind as the life moves on.

@theoreticalphysics3644 3 года назад

Now THIS is a poetic comment.

@THE_JACOB 3 года назад

Like The Langoliers

@loganorlikoski1743 3 года назад

the creepy and uncomfortable part about that is you'd expect dead things to decay and rot, and when they dont, a place like a school or hospital with bright lights, shiny clean floors, and no stains on the walls but looks like its been completely empty for a long time.. its reminiscent of looking at a person you once knew and talked to in a coma. Still alive but there isnt anything there.

@sunasday 3 года назад

Jass Lang I feel like this is fog. Just foggy. This makes me feel fog in the brain. It used to be a amazing cool fair! Now the fog has come in and the fun has gone.

@hellatze 3 года назад

At least it still alive. Not so many art i know of. Like dadaism.

@camh3958 Год назад

I once got lost at laser tag when I was a kid. The buzzer went off, everyone left the game room and I heard the doors slam shut. For five minutes I walked around in the dimly lit, foggy, silent room and continued to search for an exit. What was once full of life and noice was now dead. It was the most "liminal space" feeling that I've ever gotten. Someone eventually realized I was missing and they came in for me

@SplendidCoffee0 Год назад

You experienced the literal version of exploring an empty multiplayer map from Halo or Gmod or something like that. That must have been something truly surreal.

@destroyerofturtles5024 Год назад

I had that exact experience once.

@catprog Год назад

We once got a tour of a laser tag maze before going in for real.

@specialism640 Год назад

accidentally joined an empty server

@FreeportHometown Год назад

This sounds like a nightmare I had as a kid about a library.

@LeoMajors Год назад

"I'm Thinking of Ending Things" is a film that uses liminal spaces like empty schools, convenience stores at night, and childhood homes to great unsettling atmospheric effect.

@Le-ki8cd Год назад

That movie made me so uncomfortable

@SerAbiotico Год назад

That movie was unbearable boring but now that you comment it, you're right. The liminal settings are used there, indeed

@mightymilkmoose3291 3 года назад

I think it's creepy because it looks lonely, but it doesn't feel lonely.

@user-nk4dh1rv4w 3 года назад

Yes, that is exactly how i feel about them.

@youronetruegodcthulhu5043 3 года назад

Like you're lonely, but you're not alone

@Getcakedieyoung23 3 года назад

It’s designed to be inhabited by people, but there’s no one there So it feels abandoned and creepy

@motive-li1do 3 года назад

its creepy because it just might not be lonely. like how we're not afraid of being alone in the dark, we're afraid that we might not be.

@Daniel16180 3 года назад

To me, it feels like there should be people there, but you can't see anyone, but that doesn't mean there isn't anyone. It's a space that feels like it was filled with people right before you walked in the room, like a surprise birthday party, but instead of them popping out and cheering they just stay hidden, leaving this unresolved tension behind. When will they pop out?

@pajchoking8388 3 года назад

This is basically psychological horror, there's no real threat or a monster attacking you, but you are scared by the atmosphere itself and the environments that surround you.

@hotdogga 3 года назад

Whenever games try to replicate this feeling of being lost in another unpredictable dimension they never get it right because it only works in images, but there’s something else about it that isn’t right that I can’t describe

@spaceman9024_YT 3 года назад

@@hotdogga the back rooms game does it really good though

@Exiel 3 года назад

there are entities that attack you in the background

@dankpepe2110 3 года назад

The Uncanny Valley

@RandomGuy0400 3 года назад

@@hotdogga the stanley parable and superluminal do it And any time in a game where the music stops completely Also, minecraft cave noises

@ravenraynesnest Год назад

The abandoned malls always get to me. As a teen in the 90s malls were everything. We always went there and hung out. it was the place to be. But to see it empty and abandoned it feel so weird. Like you can hear and see what should be there and is not. It hits a nerve.

@10baileyb Год назад

I feel the exact same way... ❤️

@kkingstrickland Год назад

In my city there is a mall that no one visits and it's very unsettling. Some people are there

@browniboi2908 Год назад

I think something else is to consider is that when you were younger, rooms felt a lot larger and open. So when we see them this way in liminal spaces it can remind us of that feeling

@erawanpencil 8 месяцев назад

This is a good point, actually there's something intensely magical about those very, very faint memories we have of carpet stretching out to infinity or an impossibly faraway cliff with an outlet on it. This guy is too cynical about liminal spaces and personally I don't think he get's it at all, though that seems to be common. There's actually a Japanese word for the very specific feeling of wondering what's behind the crest of a hill that doesn't exist in any language, which is a powerful feeling I sometimes get looking at those treeless grassy horizons with blue sky.... it's not just remembering Windows 95.

@coda56 3 года назад

does anyone remember when you got to school, and some of the lights weren't on yet?

@jojo-dh7sl 3 года назад

Yeah like going to a before-school club or something that ish was freaky

@MonotoniTV 3 года назад

Nope, was always late at some point 😂

@user-zd6cn4zw8e 3 года назад

That wasn’t discomforting, that was the best thing that could happen.

@johnmaaate2833 3 года назад

I remember once being the first kid at school on a super foggy morning. It was most of an hour before people really started showing up. It was so quiet.

@targaghjj 3 года назад

I loved that. Favorite time at school.

@maixl8631 3 года назад

The Spongebob episode where he misses the last bus is a liminal space

@lry1368 3 года назад

Yea i know it is so eerie

@ararup5803 3 года назад

Or that one where squidward time travels, and he breaks the machine and is left in like a blank limbo. That gave me chills

@vamqiremoney 3 года назад

i was literally thinking that bruh

@pedrobernardo350 3 года назад

Coward the dog its ALl liminal too

@serpxn 3 года назад

I'm obsessed with that episode and now I just figured out why since I love liminal spaces

@noone_2425 Год назад

liminal spaces actually give me a rather librating and relaxed feeling. free from peoples jugments and the worries of the world. u got nothing to do but to look at the space, explore it and play in it

@teomaster32 Год назад

I see it the same way .a whole big place to just explore and walk around .no rush or judgment .just you and the place

@H3ntairican Год назад

Now it makes perfect sense why the first tomb raider game was so freaking fascinating to me as a kid.

@notinyourjurisdiction6903 Год назад

Wolfenstein 3D

@leonalynazucena3311 Год назад

i loved that game!

@chubeviewer Год назад

God damn the mansion especially the pool

@errorx_x1063 3 года назад

Empty Multiplayer maps have this feeling too.

@plutoniclol6589 3 года назад

Fun fact theres a horror game about that

@yul12twelve 3 года назад

@@plutoniclol6589 what's it called?

@enejfangirl364 3 года назад

@@yul12twelve i think he means "no players online"

@plutoniclol6589 3 года назад

@@enejfangirl364 yes

@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413 3 года назад

@@enejfangirl364 no players online sucks though

@LuxiBelle 3 года назад

The unsettling feeling you are experiencing is guilt for pushing all those people into the river in LEGO city.

@aa-ir6si 3 года назад

You feel your sins crawling up your spine

@Magical_Trash 3 года назад

@@aa-ir6si 😱😱😱

@dombjomb 3 года назад

HEY!

@harpseal9234 3 года назад

Lmaoo

@haroldsen4238 3 года назад

You’re making jokes about a guy who gets oppressed. He speaks his mind, and then he gets tortured. This is serious, and you should be ashamed. Join the Rebellion

@woahgabr2298 7 месяцев назад

17:34 it's great to see a once unpopular unrecognized photo like this being used in your video. I was recently watching a Wendigoon stream in which him, Kane Pixels, and Alex Kister were watching different analog horrors. When Kane said "he got the image of the rolling giant from a Solar Sands video". I think it's cool that I was able to find this out and see how other creators can influence eachother.

@Wote89 7 месяцев назад

I'd need to go back and check, but I think it was the other way around. He knew he and a lot of other had *seen* it in this video, but he found it somewhere else first.

@1030k 7 месяцев назад

i think he saw it already before seeing the solar sands vid

@johnsmithcarlog8323 7 месяцев назад

i remember freaking out when i saw the Kane Pixels video pop up in my recommended and seeing that thing again, considering it’s one of my favorite liminal space images, it made me really happy to see it used by Kane Pixels!

@spyrospy9941 6 месяцев назад

That image haunted me, so when I saw the Wendigoon video I had to try to find where I first saw it. Finally managed to find it!

@vongulli2495 3 месяца назад

17:37 love seeing mr rolling giant here!!! When I first saw that picture i did not think it was real at all, haha!

@ghdhfgh6125 3 года назад

As long as I'm not in fullscreen, nothing can hurt me

@trollsthatlol1 3 года назад

Poor anon

@fabulousjenny17 3 года назад

😭😭😭💀

@percivaldonunes3847 3 года назад

Oh man I truly understand u

@SashaGarcia 3 года назад

*laughs in mini player*

@MeemahSN 3 года назад

Fullscreen protects me from outside murder

@localomnivore4877 3 года назад

The reason I find the backrooms so terrifying is that there's this endless sense of anticipation. SOMETHING is going to happen, SOMETHING is going to jump out at you, but it never does. It's just this infinite horror that you are about to be terrified, but you never are.

@xCherryRedx 3 года назад

Well said

@ohnoitsthetrash128 3 года назад

That kind of feeling of impending doom would drive me insane.

@vbgvbg1133 3 года назад

The kind of horror where you scare yourself.

@LumiOfFrost 3 года назад

Except in the game. Then something actually happens

@alxndra1772 3 года назад

And there's no real place to hide

@karribies Год назад

If you've ever had an eye test and have seen that red-roof house surrounded by the greenest green field and the most standard blue sky, you'd probably have had an early experience in Liminal spaces.

@gonzaloagustinlopezfogel6656 7 месяцев назад

17:34 i knew i have seen the rolling giant before holy shit

@beatmasterbossy 3 года назад

You know when you have a dream and you're in your house, but it isn't your house, but it is?

@warmfrog6980 3 года назад

Dude, yeah..it’s unsettling - i’ve had a couple of those dreams

@angi4912 3 года назад

Now that you mention it...

@haydenwolf935 3 года назад

Those are the worst!

@booboosousa487 3 года назад

I had this dream where my house looked identical as it is irl but completely made of wood and had deer heads mounted on the walls. It was isolated in some grey Midwest winter setting, and I was completely alone. I would wander around everyday to find that there was nothing but plains and trees for miles and miles. Weeks went by and finally some dude came wearing a deer head and shot me in the face. Never had a dream so eerie before.

@kubistonek 3 года назад

i thought you meant when its my house but it isnt, but now i see you meant when its my house buy it isnt

@DforDenmark 3 года назад

I think Courage the cowardly dog, displays this ‘liminal space’ pretty well.

@imsacookie5773 3 года назад

getting some rule 34 vibes here

@DforDenmark 3 года назад

@@gregbarenick651 Honestly, any room in that show had a weird feeling. All the rooms seem to lack something, like the furniture was placed in such a manner that there was loads of empty space for no reason

@benguman2231 3 года назад

All these comment are just stealing from Reddit posts.

@sugky5236 3 года назад

@@DforDenmark true

@MK_ULTRA420 3 года назад

@@gregbarenick651 Or the lone farmhouse in the middle of Nowhere that you see every episode.

@dacksonflux Год назад

I've always gotten a weird ecstasy from visiting "liminal" places. I see pure, unbridled potential. It feels good, oddly freeing.

@robertchaney2704 Год назад

As a kid during summers my grandpa would take me with him to work. He was a volunteer custodian, and the places he cleaned were often small local churches/ daycares. And let me tell you, the feeling of being in those places was intensely like that of liminal spaces.

@robertchaney2704 Год назад

Also as a side note I wanted to posit something about the “liminal architecture” images brought up around midway through the video. I think the reason these are unnerving specifically is because the spaces are clearly designed, but not for humans. It makes them feel alien,Ike something else is meant to be here and “i” am not

@SadBlueGirl 3 года назад

“The Last man on earth is sitting alone in his house. There’s a knock on the door” Gives off similar vibes to these pictures for me

@ArthurLima-lp8ue 3 года назад

"the last man..." so it's a woman?

@supdude414 3 года назад

oh yeah isnt that a radio play or something. I remember listening to something that started with that.

@xelavi 3 года назад

@Darksider .- same

@AmeerHamza-qc1eb 3 года назад

knock knock, its the death angel

@Excaliburumbra801 3 года назад

@@ArthurLima-lp8ue the last womam knocked in the door se they can "Repopulate"

@alxndra1772 3 года назад

It makes you feel like you shouldn't be there. No one/nothing else is there, so why are you? It's empty for a reason

@fakestory1753 3 года назад

run

@ivanmunoz9055 3 года назад

Yeah but from my experience that only works if you expect the place to be filled with people. For example I live in the spanish countryside in a town with less than 3000 inhabitants so in winter nights at 2 am there is no one in the streets, for me this is totally normal but for my cousin who is from Madrid it's pretty unsettling to the point that he finds scary to go out alone.

@grunt2376 3 года назад

Get *Out*

@SquirrelKilnBTS 3 года назад

I know this is a hypothetical to drive your point but it feels like a threat.

@Studio_salesmen 3 года назад

Yes id define it as a transitional space isolated and contextless while obscuring sections

@Kali-Yuga-Peace-Corp Год назад

I was born in Scandinavia back in the 80's before we left. Back then it was a lot like the Soviet Union. Murals, very specific art and so on. Today I have a nostalgic, but sickening feeling seeing pictures of my old schools etc. Left and forgotten, with murals that "promised" us a better future. The Liminal spaces give me this feeling.

@swirlingabyss Год назад

"Have we all noclipped into a different dimension as children, and suppressed these memories deep inside of us?" I used to have nightmares about these kinds of places as a child. I'd be stuck inside of some weird empty building trying to find my way out, only to end up deeper and deeper inside. Edit: And I just got to the part of the video where he talks about this kind of stuff.

@cubeice2811 Год назад

I vaguely remember a dream I had when I was like 8 or 9. I was running, trying to get out of this seemingly endless hospital. A less important detail, but one that helps me set it into the feeling I get from liminal spaces was that there was this sound, and whenever I heard it it was like time froze and I couldn't move. I was still aware, but it caused me to be unable to move like I was frozen in transparent concrete. That sound seemed to be a recurring thing from when I was a child, and I believe there were at least 3 instances, the latest one from when I was between the ages of 10 to 12. They all had the sound that left me unable to move. Liminal spaces being very dreamlike, I wonder now if I subconsciously made the connection that I'd be unable to move, or frozen in time, or forgotten. It's a strange feeling that I wish I didn't know.

@Luxcium Год назад

I have made a similar comment about dreams at the beginning of the video to later understand that the nature of dreams (at least from my perspective) is liminal because you are going through spaces and places wandering around and you know it’s unfolding and a way that is non-euclidian… it’s just weird how I am feeling now… I feel like it’s such a personal experience that even with someone else saying that he has a similar feeling I am still convinced that it is something so intricate to one self that it makes feel like it’s not something that would be easy for me to explain…

@m.filmtrip Год назад

All my trippiest most creative nightmares where in childhood.

@chikinbukit3531 Год назад

I used to have a recurring nightmare where I would crawl through a trapdoor in my closet and wind up in a large circular bedroom with baby blue or lavender walls and an incredibly tall ceiling. There was nobody there, but I felt like I was being watched, and I couldn’t escape. It was awful

@sillyperson1610 Год назад

i once had a reoccurring dream where i was in some sort of movie theater of liminal spaces. it was before i know what they were and it was rlly scary lol

@psuedomyspace 3 года назад

The fact that nobody really knows where the original Backrooms image came from just adds a whole other layer of ominousness

@AstralShot 3 года назад

Yeah

@johngill8125 3 года назад

It was taken in some old russian building that was gonna be demolished

@johngill8125 3 года назад

@cl.napoli look up david crypt

@rosinantedits7589 3 года назад

@@johngill8125 thats not the original one

@shadowkillz9606 3 года назад

@@johngill8125 thats not the original one

@koifrog 3 года назад

I think this concept is why The Shining is so creepy; it’s a hotel that should have lots of people living in it, but it’s completely empty.

@Hoopla10 3 года назад

Speaking of Kubrik, these spaces also remind me of the ending to 2001. It's surprising that it's not mentioned as it's a direct depiction of what liminal spaces are.

@TheHorseOutside 3 года назад

Also, ya know, the racist murder ghosts

@szuperrosszarcu 3 года назад

And the langoliers, also by stephen king, set entirely at an abandoned airport (in the past)

@scrawnyjonny8396 3 года назад

Holy shit, I’ve never put this together but this is extremely true

@BlueElitefromHaloCE 3 года назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0sUIxXCCFWw.html

@FatalShotGG Год назад

As a kid, my friends and I used to sneak into schools at night through open doors or windows and just run around and explore. AND IT WAS SCARY AF.

@themisfitowl2595 Год назад

I worked at a major theme park, Universal Orlando, and I had the privilege of being able to see the park almost totally empty at times. Walking into the park in early morning or late at night was always fascinating to me, I loved the peacefulness. Quiet empty paths, rides moving in their cycles without riders to fill them, no one standing in the queue lines, clear music wafting through the air. Such a stark contrast to the impossibly busy times when guests would crowd up the lines, stampede down the walkways and fill up the air with voices.

@Dizma_Music Год назад

That sounds incredible. 🌎

@TheLonnieMiller 3 года назад

I think the most unsettling part of these photos is that there's someone behind the camera

@Reventonn134 3 года назад

I agree. When I look at most of them I feel slight fear and I'm like "I wouldn't want to be there". But then I realise somebody had to take that photo and I imagine how scared I'd be if I were them. Which is weird because they surely weren't afraid at the time.

@alliexcx5576 3 года назад

yuh

@joels_hauntz8169 3 года назад

@@Reventonn134 Yeah same and I feel bad for the person that had to take a picture at 17:34

@istanbulmetrosu2485 3 года назад

@@joels_hauntz8169 ugh

@taylorclarke3914 3 года назад

@@joels_hauntz8169 yea nop nope nope 😂

@thatsmallcessna8300 3 года назад

A liminal space that really creeps me out is when you stop at a stoplight in the middle of the night. Nobody is there except you, it's very quiet. However, the lights keep cycling as if they're pretending the intersection is still busy.

@AstralShot 3 года назад

Yeah

@TraceurMovement 3 года назад

Traffic lights in the UK have weight detectors, so if it’s just you at a red light, it’ll know and let you go straight away

@scepticalchymist 3 года назад

I once came across a car accident site at night, with the accident have been happening hours before, so everything was abandoned except for the destroyed car. But of course, I did not know this in this moment. It was quite a creepy situation.

@Noah050 3 года назад

Reminds me of this lone light pole in the park by me that looks so creepy at night

@chumbomcwumbo9640 3 года назад

ya I don't stop at those 😎

@jordanmiller7978 Год назад

The new game "Stray" about a cat in a post catastrophe space that humans once dwelled in gives you this feeling a lot. You've probably touched on this before in another video but it's the empty city itself that gives me the creeps.

@GEMAPLYS 3 года назад

I'm kinda sad that I don't feel a thing looking at them... must be because building structures in Brazil don't look any similar to those in the US. It's actually kinda weird when people say things like "you can't deny you've seen a place like this!" and it's a classic american house. We rarely get to have front yards or modeled homes here.

@LuizFernando-ek9mh 3 года назад

Gema being a man of culture shouldn't be surprising, but it was unexpected to find ya here! I feel like our country's aesthetics are so underrated... things like those barebrick walls, plantlife growing along the walls of more humid states, old architecture and vast concrete plains, at least in the south... having visited some of PoA, I imagine that kind of aesthetic better fits the bill. Also, works like Seu Jorge's Life Aquatic too!

@guilhermeadam3157 3 года назад

Gemaplis, esse é o último lugar que eu esperava te encontrar, como vai

@nuska5813 3 года назад

i was abt to write the same thing, these are all well built places, even thoe they seem abandoned or "failed", they dont look anything like the actually decaying streets of not so well off places ive grown up with tons and tons of people. these all scream alien to me even if their designed context is achieved by people around them, etc because these are literally over the oceans for me.

@albums9874 3 года назад

gema???

@luizf.351 3 года назад

ok, esse comentário foi uma surpresa kkkk

@objectionable6693 3 года назад

Did anyone else get this feeling from Minecraft? Especially the time period when Villages were a thing, but Villagers weren't

@moogi3610 3 года назад

going back to the alpha stages of Minecraft after I haven't been for like 9 years felt so weird pretty much like this

@phalanxHH 3 года назад

I downloaded a city map and there this feeling is even stronger.

@MartinDerTolle 3 года назад

Cave sounds, mineshafts, the weird bro with the white eyes. I played Minecraft as a kid and it definitely freaked me out sometimes.

@KurowChibifan1 3 года назад

definitely, especially early mc!! no wonder he used mc music in the vid lol

@syphilisgaming 3 года назад

imagine still not playing minecraft this post was made by playing without breaks gang

@hadriangonzalez607 Год назад

I used to work the graveyard shift at a mall... It was one of the most uncanny feelings in the world... Empty back corridors, empty shops with mannequins that seemed like they wanted to move since no one was watching, food courts that were empty, and an encapsulating smell that lingered throughout the premise.. not to mention the echos of your boots was you walked throughout.. yeah.. it was uncanny

@Olive_Jar Год назад

Liminal spaces are so eerie because they’re familiar which reminds me of an adventure time quote “something weird might just be something familiar viewed from a different angle, and that’s not scary, right?”

@toastbrot_junkie9037 Год назад

woooow thats so deep

@emerald7810 3 года назад

I think a lot of this "strange familiarity" comes from how many things in our lives are generic and mass-produced. School hallways all look alike because they're built with the exact same linoleum floors, painted cinderblock walls, and drop ceilings with flourescent lights. Fast food places have standardized architecture to make them instantly recognizable. And many houses (particularly those built in the last century) are cookie-cutter copies of a standard plan used by the neighborhood's developers to streamline construction. These places have no identity of their own, but we've all seen something exactly like them at some point in the past, so they look familiar yet unfamiliar at the same time.

@wpc456cpw 3 года назад

I thought exactly this too

@lexwithbub 3 года назад

But they're also places we don't pay much close attention to, because we're not there to admire the architecture or decor, but we take it in via osmosis, which is why so many of them seem so vaguely familiar, but we can't pinpoint where.

@coffinfeeder7732 3 года назад

The uglification of America, converting every town into bustling cities with the exact same shopping centers, stores, houses, the erasure of any previous unique identity will continue as we enter the end stages of capitalism.

@coffinfeeder7732 3 года назад

GHANI ZIYAD SAGIANSYAH This is just where it’s happening the fastest.

@ugro1796 3 года назад

Damn

@theaterpsycho8885 3 года назад

These photos make me feel like I was left behind in an evacuation. Everyone is gone, only for me to still be here in places I shouldn’t. I was abandoned and while I may explore, I don’t want to.

@thamyris8953 3 года назад

It reminds me of a post-nuclear apocalypse story, you've survived in some bunker, and you come back out- everything is the same but not and also empty.

@hjhiihjjhgguh 3 года назад

i mean welcome to 2020

@White_Recluse 3 года назад

It’s like the scary short story; You’re the last human being on earth, you hear a knock at the door.

@aronnecroman 3 года назад

@@White_Recluse you feel like you are being chased by unknown creature, you try to hide as far as you can. Until then, you realize... There is nothing there, only you and your brain try to make you still conscious as a human being by telling you that there is enemy even though there is nothing, and no one to harm you...

@coolbeans6312 3 года назад

Gone SpongeBob SquarePants: Season 6, Episode 4

@gavinthecrafter Год назад

I think the real meaning of liminal spaces is actually people missing the consumerism and economic prosperity of the 1980s and 90s, the shopping malls, the kids play places, all of it. Most of the places showcased in liminal spaces are either in a late 20th century styling, or take place in a place that's part of an industry that has considerably declined over the last few decades, with the rise in online shopping diminishing the need for many of these things. Take the backrooms, for instance. The mono-yellow walls and the fluorescent lights were most common in this time period, and the emptiness of all of these photos indicates how this era and the architecture from it is slowly fading away. This also explains why many of these images are seemingly in random indoor locations, as when we are young, our minds are fascinated by everything around us, including walls or buildings. These memories might also not always be very clear, which can also sometimes be seen in liminal spaces. During such a turbulent time like this one, sometimes we wish that we could be back during a time when we were safe, when were comfortable, when we were a kid. And that's what I think liminal spaces represent. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

@n.trushaev5132 Год назад

Yeah, I tend to agree more with this interpretation. I don't think it's just nostalgia. It's more a sense of loneliness and decline. These were once places that were very active socially and economically - in fact, for much of the 80s, 90s, and early 00s, some of these malls and other public spaces were really the center of social life in a lot of these communities. Now they're just forgotten and empty, and serve no discernible social or cultural purpose. I think you would definitely get the same kind of feeling, for example, in a recently built suburban housing development from the 2010s that had been abandoned before completion. It's less about nostalgia and more about the lack of social activity and economic prosperity.

@naysay02 Год назад

perhaps the 80s/90s nostalgia is specifically targeting teens from that generation who’d be in their forties, experiencing midlife crises and yearning for the nostalgia of a time that was relatively carefree and fun

@adambaca3642 Год назад

I totally agree with you

@josiahswanson1 7 месяцев назад

17:34 KANE PIXELS NEW VIDEO EVERYONE ROLLING GIANT I AM SO AFRAID

@_oceanstar 3 года назад

it's like ruins if they were in perfect condition. Unsettling and lonely.

@mallory1466 3 года назад

so abandoned ... lmao

@Nugcon 3 года назад

and nostalgic apparently

@huh3682 3 года назад

that's a great way to describe it, like modern ruins in good condition

@ketaminepoptarts 3 года назад

the photos of old houses with no furniture feel like if you went into an abandoned house that was last lived in during the 1940s and everything was in perfect condition with no signs thats its been empty for more than a few hours

@spartanwar1185 3 года назад

The fact that they're in good condition is what makes them even more bizarre If they were damaged and destroyed, it wouldn't be as big of a mystery why there aren't any people there

@desromic 3 года назад

When I was a kid, my dad and I went to see a movie, but everyone's tickets were printed with the wrong theatre number, and it turned out the theatre number was in a part of the building that was being renovated. So me, my dad, and about 20 people sat in this small half-finished theatre with insulation and wires hanging out of the ceiling, torn up carpet, and nasty seats. It looked like a cold war bomb shelter. We were early for the showing, so we expected to sit for a good 20 minutes, but it was a total of 40 minutes that we sat there before we figured out something was wrong, feeling weirdly out of place like we're the last people in existence. I half expected to walk out and the whole city would be abandoned.

@lovelycat5674 3 года назад

A couple of years ago I went to a movie theater with my mom at like 8 pm or something, the parking lot was empty, the lobby was mostly empty, and since we arrived earlier the theater was empty except for just me and my mom, the ads weren't even playing yet. And then ofc my mom has to go to the bathroom so I was left there alone for a bit (I think I remember). I felt like anyone could walk in at any moment and murder me.

@LordHedgehog 3 года назад

About like, 9 months ago, a movie theater in my city was closed. 2 New movie theaters were opened and so the old one went out of business, and I felt nostalgic because it has been there ever since I was a kid, I mean, the memory of my first ever horror movie happened in that theater, I was a toddler and we went to see coraline, ya know, with the botton eyes, and out of everything I got freaked out by the arm that was chasing coraline at the end of the movie while she was alone at a forest, not knowing something was crawling towards her, so my dad took me out of the room and into the hallway full of people so that I could breathe some fresh air. Some time after its closing, I went up to the movie theater with my friends, and although the place itself was unaccessible, we could see the inside through the glass, and everything was standing still, like its about to die, or like it has always been that way, meant to close. That same movie theater company still operates in other cities, but not in mine anymore.

@nicoblaytherealflamingo445 3 года назад

I kinda visually sat through your experience right now lol

@IxiaClover 3 года назад

until they renovated it, there was a cinema in one of the town centres near me that literally had stuffing coming out of the seats... it was as if people were actually using an abandoned cinema...

@JasonOzolins 3 года назад

Can imagine this as the premise for a Tom Stoppard play...

@ValerioFiorillo Год назад

17:34 I had the phone very close to my face throughout the image’s permanence. For the first time in my life I experienced heavy and persistent shivers of fear and discomfort by just looking at a picture, definitely something I wouldn’t desire to try again but still so interestingly intense

@endogladry 10 месяцев назад

It was about a decade ago when I had a really strong experience like this for the first time (that I remember of course). I was a young teenager and up late at night, watching a video about creepypasta images with next to zero knowledge of any of that now almost ubiquitous internet lore. Slenderman and indie horror games were rising to internet stardom at the time so it was all brand new to me. And man, when smile.jpg came up on my ipod screen, I was shocked to the core with a cold fear and revulsion. I threw the my ipod away from me into the couch and refused to look at the screen while I fumbled to exit out of youtube. It kickstarted a long and in-depth interest in all types of internet horror that has never left me, but I've never been as sick-to-the-bone scared as seeing that image for the first time, even if I don't think it's all that scary anymore.

@amaruqlonewolf3350 9 месяцев назад

The lovely part is that in reality, it's just a goofy looking sculpture of some bearded man too. Funny how a completely harmless sculpture trigger such intense response within someone the moment it's represented in a dark, low resolution picture. I had the same reaction myself, lol.

@goatprince1 8 месяцев назад

@@amaruqlonewolf3350 Another detail about that photo that makes the "Julien Reverchon" sculpture more unsettling than it actually is: You can't really make out its arms or hands at first glance, which makes its form less immediately recognizable as "human." In the picture, it looks less like a human figure and more like an indecipherable looming black mass that happens to have a deformed human head with an indeterminable facial expression. In that sense, the way the picture plays with your mind upon seeing it for the first time is even more stress-inducing than it would be if you could clearly make out the statue's arms and hands, as it forces you to consider far more possibilities as to what the horrible figure is about to do, or what it even is to begin with. The form appears so non-human that you can't simply jump to the classic assumption of, "it's going to reach out and grab me." Rather, you have no idea what it could possibly be capable of, which makes it that much worse. That was my experience with the photo three years ago, at least.

@LucillePalmer 7 месяцев назад

@@amaruqlonewolf3350 @valerioFiorillo i felt the same way when i saw this months ago but i came back to say kane pixels just made a short series inspired by that image and its nuts that he picked this specific one

@showery4361 7 месяцев назад

@@LucillePalmerI believe this is the video kane saw it from

@nnhhtnakewllleyt6958 7 месяцев назад

17:34 i remember going to that mall and seeing that statue thing fall on a trash can lol

@_just_a_random_artist_ 5 месяцев назад

What lmao

@Steveobrine_Official 4 месяца назад

THAT HAPPENED?! Wait can you tell me more? Lol I’m actually in a discord server obsessed with documenting stuff about that very statue lol

@TheTaleFoundry 3 года назад

"These rooms are future ruins." -Anne Lamott

@allcanadianteams3791 3 года назад

"The malls are the soon-to-be ghost towns. Well, so long. Farewell. Goodbye." -Isaac Brock, Modest Mouse - Teeth Like God's Shoeshine

@averydissatisfieddwarf1407 2 года назад

Tale foundry! love your work, I would love if you did a video on Liminal space maybe one day. I've always wondered ways to spark the same feel in writing.

@The-zc4yt 2 года назад

6:13 Patchy the Pirates House

@TheSpiritedFendron 2 года назад

they already are

@TimeTravelinc 2 года назад

Wasn’t expecting to see you here!

@reybladen3068 3 года назад

Whenever i see a photo of an empty room, i always assume there is a hidden scary face in it. Thanks internet

@turo3131 3 года назад

I feel like there is something to my right or left and i will turn to look at it or it will jumpscare me

@Keoma.1 3 года назад

@@turo3131 same lol im in a darkroom and the only light is my phone screen

@liquidbismuth1044 3 года назад

wHeN yOu SeE it...

@falteringnews 3 года назад

Liquid Bismuth you’ll shit bricks

@ThePortalGeek1337 3 года назад

I’ve learned to lean back when viewing photos like that because of the potential for it to be a gif

@ebonydarknessdementiaraven4610 7 месяцев назад

the weirdest part for me personally is that I feel nostalgic for a lot of these images although I don't live in the US. As u said, a lot of these places are taco bells, targets, those weird fast food places with puppets and American neighbourhoods with detached houses and square gardens. all of which we don't have in the UK or our versions look very different. I've tried searching UK liminal spaces but they never have the same nostalgic feeling even though they're definitely more accurate to my childhood lol

@MattiMCFC Год назад

I don't feel anything about liminal spaces, but it makes a lot of sense to me intuitively that it can make people feel uneased

@lucmik7859 Год назад

it's because they have been ruined by children

@Jeanne0805 3 года назад

I feel like The Shining perfectly captures the eeriness of liminal spaces: an abandoned hotel that, even before the danger shows itself, feels very creepy because the lack of people.

@luiseduardofontes33 3 года назад

Especially the ending and its music

@Jeanne0805 3 года назад

@@luiseduardofontes33 You should check out the video 'Can you name one object in this photo' by Solar Sands if you are intrigued by the music of The Shining. He talks about a music project by an artist called 'The Caretaker' (notice the obvious reference) which takes this feeling to a further level in a very.. effective way

@luiseduardofontes33 3 года назад

@@Jeanne0805 i know about the caretaker his songs are awesome and sad at the same time!

@DistractedGlobeGuy 3 года назад

And the tacky late seventies decoration of the Kubrick film actually helps with that effect. The Victorian gothic style of the Stanley, as seen in the Stephen King version, is too "traditional." It's what haunted houses are "supposed" to look like. Kubrick was an avid student of psychology, and he was probably well acquainted with this idea. While we're on the subject of horror movies that make good use of this idea, the original Japanese versions of _The Ring, The Grudge,_ and _The Depths of Dark Water_ all do a fair job of it, as well as the experimental short _My House Walk-Through._ That last one is actually available for free right here on RU-vid, and it's by far the purest application of the "liminality" concept.

@capitanharlock20 3 года назад

I think hotels are often scary per se

@THEkidNurCLOSET 2 года назад

I feel like this is what made the The Shining so disturbing. All the spaces in that film felt like liminal spaces.....

@AndrewJohnson-ny5nx 2 года назад

That's a real thing. There's videos on RU-vid describing various shots in the movie that display impossible geometry within the hotel.

@THEkidNurCLOSET 2 года назад

It’s so interesting, I’m glad I now have the vocabulary to describe how that movie made me feel. All the same feelings that liminal spaces evoke as described in this video! I just didn’t know what exactly it was that I was feeling at the time. I’m so glad I stumbled across this video and channel!

@utubekullanicisi 2 года назад

Exactly, when I stumbled upon these images one of the first things that crossed my mind was the scene from The Shining where a massive amount of blood was pouring out of the elevator in front.

@jefferylittleton1005 2 года назад

That was kind of the point of the film. They're in a usually bustling hotel during the off season. Something that should be full of guests, staff, and various hotel items, but is missing everything that makes it alive. It's missing the context. It's supposed to be so uncomfortable that people kill their families.

@taylordecaney9705 2 года назад

That's what I was thinking when I watched this video. Like Solar Sands described, these liminal space photos give attention to things that are mundane. There's several scenes in the movie that are like this. When Wendy checks on Jack while he's writing, when her and Danny were walking around the hedge maze, and when Jack was talking to Danny on his lap. All of these are seemingly normal, uneventful scenes, yet the music swells and causes us to think that something more is at play. It's that sort of juxtaposition that makes us uncomfortable

@jenkinomusic Год назад

the mysterious thing is that, born, raised and currently living in Japan, i have never been nor seen those places, yet i still have the sense of familiarity.

@AntiFreak321 Год назад

I think that the sadness that comes with nostalgia is just mourning over childhood.

@willbroski6083 3 года назад

Courage the Cowardly Dog is literally embedded with liminal spaces.

@arnoldduran4953 3 года назад

omg it totally is! Like half the rooms courage busts in on are like that

@mateoordonez2752 3 года назад

So thats why it was so scary

@RfAlSiTpA 3 года назад

Great call, my daughters and I love courage for that extremely odd sense of reality

@-khushlush 3 года назад

ikr, but i strangely wanted to live where they lived. It seems like a peaceful place idk

@phil_cassidy 3 года назад

Not literally, I hope.

@aortaplatinum 3 года назад

They're like something you'd see in a nightmare, not jumpscare scary, but very unnerving and fake feeling

@asylumchoir4586 3 года назад

I have these dreams, nightmares as you call them, often. I can remember dreaming examples such as, “the inaccessible waiting room-turned into two bedrooms with a wall that you wouldn’t want to fall off of,” and, “The vacant inside malls-turned swimming pools and diving platforms while still accommodating shoppers,” etc. Could be because I moved constantly while growing up and had lived in some of these places/spaces. It can be unnerving and/or adaptable what, “uprooting and transplanting,” can do to the psyche.

@Qunia 3 года назад

I’d never thought I’d ever read something that describes my dreams so accurate. I be having sleepless nights because of that exact thing

@Healody 3 года назад

17:35

@QkayDG 5 месяцев назад

Recently I was in a back section of a very large mall, a place I could always remember but never put a finger on where I had seen it, since I had been there when I was much younger. I had believed it was in another country or something. As the mall began to close, I was walking through it with all of the lights on and the calming mall music but no people on any of the balconies or floors. It covered many of the points you mentioned, the strange lighting for an empty place, the lack of people, the nostalgic music and setting

@dirtysniper3434 Год назад

bruh germany past 3 am in any city feels like a liminal space. no animals no chirps no crikets. no distant traffic.. just the sound of your own footsteps on the sidewalk

@actionmissiles 3 года назад

Hi this is the artist from the beginning of the video, Chris Barrett, I just wanted to say thank you for featuring me, I recently lost my father and have put art away for the past few months and this video reminded me of the pursuit of the craft, and that I am definitely feeling the absence of it, among other things. I also found the subject to be rather intriguing, I have always "felt" the effect of liminal spaces, but never fully grasped the concept. I feel movies like Napolean Dynamite, Gentleman Bronco's, and Beverly Luff Lynn are made out of these such spaces. Brilliant work!

@caramelades2922 3 года назад

I'm really sorry to hear that. I hope things will be better for you soon :)

@standupyak 3 года назад

Finally, someone else who watched Napoleon Dynamite

@AdvancedGemini 3 года назад

Truly sorry to hear about your father. You are a very talented artist and I hope you feel up to it again soon.

@maleman4079 3 года назад

Obi-Wan Kenobi i've watched it too. it's good lol

@lorenazn6567 3 года назад

im sorry to hear that. things will get better and we all hope you come back to doing what you love and have a passion for.

@electricmagnetic 2 года назад

When you work as a janitor, these things don't phase you anymore.

@peytontajchman1484 2 года назад

Same. I feel like a combination of late night travels, going to empty houses with my real estate agent father, working as a custodian, and Covid leaving nearly every building empty, none of these are uncanny because my brain automatically places them in at least one of those contexts

@Nietabs 2 года назад

One of the Pros of being a Janitor lol

@onyourleft5648 2 года назад

Chad janitor mindset

@Cat-ki3hy 2 года назад

that sigma grindset

@davidonvcr671 2 года назад

I think that really supports the idea of context, Janitors are used to that context

@matthewboire6843 5 месяцев назад

This video so so nice and I don’t know why

@gardenvarietygames Год назад

I love this video! Your's and The Librarian's content on liminal spaces are my go-to videos when I want to get into that altered reality mood. I remember the first time I came across this video, almost 3/4 through 2020, suffering from both an abscessed tooth and COVID at the same time, out of work for three weeks, isolated in my room, exploring YT in the early morning hours. Watching this again, and thinking back to that time, just floating along, not really doing anything (not that I could at that time anyway), just "existing", elicits some strong nostalgia right about now.

@koalawithchaingun53 3 года назад

I was like “hmm yes I see I see” trying to analyze the art and what it could mean... “They’re all backgrounds for Lego sets” ....oh

@actionmissiles 3 года назад

The whole point of these backgrounds is to allow the product to pop and to not call attention to themselves, while still providing a mood, so when we hone in on them, they can be strange. For something I made with the idea of it "not being noticed" it's definitely getting a bit of attention now.

@michaelboydston313 3 года назад

ikr

@llawliet7241 3 года назад

I feel like "The Shining" also uses this creepy feel of liminal spaces for its atmosphere. The almost entirely empty hotel lobby or the long hallways could also be described as liminal spaces.

@leinahstarr7007 3 года назад

That's a super good point! A big emphasis Kubrick tried to put on the film was how vast the hotel is and how alone the family is in that space and how that increased their paranoia throughout the film.

@MCDreng 3 года назад

Not just the size of it, the decor is hideous in just the right way. Look at room 237, those God awful carpets, the curtains pattern clashing with the walls pattern, the feeling that the room goes on for a bit too long... it's such a well designed set

@franks8462 3 года назад

@@MCDreng Not only that, but the layout doesn't make any sense. Some hallways aren't supposed to lead anywhere, but somehow they do, etc. There are a lot of videos covering this topic.

@ambassadorx3273 3 года назад

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DONT REMIND ME OF THE BEAR SCENE

@therandomshow1265 3 года назад

O yes

@foxlyticalxd2562 Год назад

It may just be because our brains think "It's quiet, There's no people, Something must have happened. Maybe I shouldn't be here."

@mysteriouschaos3849 Год назад

We always referred to these as "Stephen King Land." But I'm also reminded of a dialogue: "Why do you like to look through old houses?" "Because they make me feel sad." "Why do you want to feel sad?" "Sad is happy for deep people. I don't expect you to understand."

@Dizma_Music Год назад

And that quote is from the episode “Blink” of Doctor Who. :3 I highly recommend this episode to anyone (it works as a stand-alone story). Timey wimey stuff!

@aghitsaplane4262 3 года назад

"People might be manufacturing false memories with these images" Is a thought that scares the shit out of me

@randominternetbro6562 3 года назад

Oh my. Is this what happened to me? I have perfectly clear memories of all of these images. I can see things, remember people talking, subjects, smells, sights, even feelings.ican remember it when seeing g these images. What happened?

@noelk.3653 3 года назад

Memory error is a really common thing especially when people are susceptible to suggestion that there is more importance to the images.

@icantthinkofaname8139 3 года назад

Wait till you hear about Lucid Dreams

@innocenttheinexorable6610 3 года назад

@@randominternetbro6562 It’s advanced technology messing with you because you can’t connect to source.

@myh6274 3 года назад

@@icantthinkofaname8139 ohh yeaah my room looked really minimal there when i think about it

@SequoiaSleeps 3 года назад

The most common and early example of this feeling I can think of is when you were in school, and you had to leave the classroom for whatever reason in the middle of class. (bathroom, nurse, etc.) And everything was too empty and your footsteps were too loud.

@Robin-234 3 года назад

Definitely. I remember I'd try to be as quiet as I possibly could. But because I was the only one in the hallway, my footsteps would still sound too loud to me.

@BrocksJellyFilledDoughnuts 3 года назад

Lol I used to take a bathroom break just to play hopscotch on the hallway tiles 😂

@vay5540 3 года назад

Yeah I usually ended up sprinting down the halls (I was a paranoid child)

@somestupidfurry2649 3 года назад

{UwU}Lord{ wow I thought I was the only one who did this except I would usually sprint full speed out of bathrooms because it was just too quiet and I felt like I wasn’t supposed to be there

@aarontheperson6867 3 года назад

I used to "get the door" in kindergarten and close it behind me and look around outside for like 3 seconds

@NeoMullen Год назад

Just today, while at work I was browsing RU-vid when I found this video about liminal spaces. It describes my feelings so incredible well! I have very vivid dreams of visiting my primary school as it is empty and thinking of all the memories I have with my friends back then. I do have these dreams as well of my dormitory when I was a student. The building has now been stripped and the fact that I will never visit those places again, while having the most precious memories there gives me a strong melancholic feeling. The photos you show in this video have the same vibe: they used to be happy places, but are now abandoned. I never knew that this subject was so wide spread. I really think none of my friends experience this the same level as I do, so I'm really glad I found these videos. It makes me feel less alone and more understood. Thank you!

@techoeastveld Год назад

Finally someone who can explain what I always feel. The emptiness but yet the familiarity is something I tried asking my friends about. Noone except for you has really explained this phenomenon. Thank you for explaining this as best as you can. Finally I can understand why I always have the sense of familiarity with these images.

@lukebogert599 7 месяцев назад

17:35 if you are coming from Kane Pixel's video

@TomboyCEO 3 года назад

I recognized the “You’ve definitely seen this before” photo of the house immediately. It’s Patchy the Pirate’s house from Spongebob.

@thatemonerd2600 3 года назад

Okay wait my brain was just like, that doesnt create confused weird feeling thing that's just patchy's house and I literally thought my brain was just relating a childhood thing to the photo but I fkn could never have forgotten it cause I have a phobia related to him and his house is engraved in my brain I THOUGHT MY BRAIN WAS LYING THANK YOU FOR THIS COMMENT

@shortbr3eaf 3 года назад

"That's it?"

@thisisntausername5724 3 года назад

@@shortbr3eaf THAT WAS JUST A BUNCH OF CHEAP DEVIANTART OCS

@her0966 3 года назад

i thought that immediately as well

@RyuETwo 3 года назад

Where in the video is it? @

@weaselwolf 2 года назад

I worked night shifts at a gas station for years. There were times when I felt like the only person awake within miles. I used to just stand outside and look at the empty world. I lived in liminal spaces... It was a weird feeling but eventually it kind of became comforting. Safe.

@deklynn2732 Год назад

This is beautiful in a way :)

@treeonahill3557 Год назад

Creepy...

@liquidgoldsoup2833 Год назад

That's how I feel in the middle of a roadtrip at 3 AM stopping for gas.

@hadriangonzalez607 Год назад

@vive335 Год назад

@@hadriangonzalez607 you’re lucky don’t call it creepy. It’s an honor to be alone

@Vamp_1111 Год назад

17:31 this one looks so familiar, I can recall 3 different times I’ve been in a room like this

@Norabarnacle1922 Год назад

I feel like any building that Spirit Halloween sets up shop is a liminal space. Or old KMart /Zellers stores if you’re from Ontario. I rewatch this video every few months. The images unlock nostalgia (and what feel like hard wired memories, but probably aren’t). I’ve continue to use windows XP Bliss background to this day. Love your channel, consistently thought provoking; videos I come back to regularly

@markiplierfan9273 3 года назад

It's weird to think that, while these places are "taken out of context", they will inevitably become those places. An office will get shutdown, and you get places like the backrooms. Arcades will shut down and you get these images. Leaves me overwhelmed personally.

@Dbobola 3 года назад

I definitely agree that it's overwhelming to think about. Everything is in a constant state of transition, even our own places of comfort and joy. It's a bit scary to think that these places become a sort of liminal space once the human aspect dissolves.

@draugnaustaunikunhymnphoo6978 3 года назад

In Track and Field, I would always see my school empty. It's not so weird when you walk so fast to get it over with quickly. Post Soviet era buildings have the best sense of abandonment that I've seen. Most buildings were left alone since the 1980's. Nothing has changed. As a young kid, I went to a camp, there was multiple versions of cabins. Old and new. The oldest cabin was a wooden, unpainted with moss all around. 5 crooked steps to go inside. The light bulb still worked. Metal-rusted frames for bunkbeds with 3 inch bedsheets. It was so freaky to me when I was a kid, I wish I had the balls to actually explore inside it. The old bathrooms were the scariest. The plumbing didn't work. 😆 How did that scare me?

@natefrusher6741 3 года назад

An artist who I love and you might consider the “originator” this is style is Edward hopper. Although his paintings do occasionally contain humans, they maintain the haunting, uneasy, lonely, aesthetic that is trademark of luminal spaces. I recommend his 1942 painting “nighthawks”.

@benjaminartroom7910 3 года назад

I was just thinking about him

@1o1nah 3 года назад

YES when Solar started describing these images I first thought of the backrooms and that painting

@jesuschrist6531 3 года назад

I think the lowlit background contrasting from the lit front of the image is what gives it the effect of liminal space

@user-ur2pp7sc8w 3 года назад

Oh wow! I saw his 1942 painting in my art class.

@katiegaffney4066 3 года назад

Well no looking threw google images most of them have a vocal point

@lordbarristertimsh8050 5 месяцев назад

Solar Sands, this was the first video of yours that I ever saw. I have been a fan of your channel ever since.

@barbarastevens9598 Год назад

You've just helped me acknowledge and deal with about half of the nameless anxieties of life. The context discrepancies, the transitions between, the loss of balance. This will require some thought before I can even adequately thank you. This is actually a really big deal. You have a very good brain, sir.

@HoseTheBeast 3 года назад

Something in common to all these "spaces" in my mind is silence. All of the photos are silent. I hear maybe the Air conditioning humming and thats it. Other than that is only crushing silence.

@aft3999 3 года назад

I can even hear a distinct buzzing sound coming from the ceiling lights in the office images

@smokingsnake8276 3 года назад

To be honest, silence, in my opinion, is the most horrifying thing in existance. Just... the abscense of such an important sense, one that is so connected to our survival instinct. Not being able to hear anything at these spaces gives you the feeling that there MIGHT be something dangerous that can be sneaking right behind you without your knowledge.

@scpguard6677 3 года назад

@@smokingsnake8276 that’s really what deaf people go through, right?

@smokingsnake8276 3 года назад

@@scpguard6677 Lol I didn't mean to deminish anyone, but I still think that silence is quite disturbing

@mongoosemonsoon899 3 года назад

I think silence is terrifying when you’re not used to it.

@ffloat 3 года назад

well put together as usual solar sands

@janegohtintin 3 года назад

Oh hey it's you

@Paradox_Brother 3 года назад

Fancy seeing you here too my dude

@RosenthalBros 3 года назад

Love your videos. Do more of the phobia ones. Always open for new phobias.

@ognotapussyslayer5917 3 года назад

Sans*

@Reklesssss 3 года назад

Was it really though?

@Deep_in_the_Reads Год назад

I guess Stanley Kubrick really knew what he was doing when he made The Shining. Or that scene in Titanic where Rose is wandering empty hallways looking for help. Other artists who play with liminal spaces are Ed Ruscha, Lynne Cohen, Uta Barth, William Eggleston, Edward Hopper, some Tiina Heiska, certain scenes in David Lynch movies, Henk Van Rensbergen, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Martin Parr's 'Home Sweet Home' series, 'The Splash' by David Hockney, Toshihiro Yashiro... I'm an artist myself and have always been drawn to this sort of stuff without ever knowing it had a name 'til now, so I love finding new artists that work with this often unnamed weird vibe in their work! Thanks for making this video and putting a word to my favourite spaces and aesthetics! :)

@dazedaze4457 4 месяца назад

A lot of the liminal space images remind me of the layout in the 007 game on the Nintendo 64. It’s such a specific feeling of nostalgia that I can’t describe

@tf2_engineer_real 3 года назад

Here's why these images look so eerie but familiar: Every copy of Reality is personalized

@kota86 3 года назад

Is that an SM64 Iceberg reference?

@zarthy4169 3 года назад

Kóta Yes.

@misterhydra7285 3 года назад

oh my god lmao

@pookydookyneo4011 3 года назад

Despite the terrible meme, you are right. Reality is shaped by the person that perceives it, for the person perceives it.

@notevenusingthisanymorelol 3 года назад

I mean, you aren't technically wrong

@user-vu7ls1vm9h 2 года назад

When I was attending university, I'd go to hallways late at night sometimes, and even though I didn't know the term "liminal spaces" at the time, I understood the profound feeling it would give me. The feeling of empty yet, brightly lit hallways normally filled with people now empty without any sounds. It was truly some of the most dreadful yet fascinating feelings I've ever had.

@trevorblade2337 2 года назад

Be strong buddy.

@darkyelox 2 года назад

I had that feeling with the airport of my city, is not a big one so when i went at night some places there were like that and at this time I'm only realizing about this concept and yet I feel amazed by those sensations

@duchessedeberne3909 2 года назад

Or working night shifts in a huge office

@GohanMystik 2 года назад

Is this why I don’t like highways at night

@zetametallic 2 года назад

I'm UK born in 1976. Still I get liminal spaces totally; there is a certain kitsch to it too.

@davidalaimo2300 Год назад

i think the person says “any target” gives them a liminal space vibe because more often then not, Targets seem weirdly empty, as opposed to a Walmart which seems packed full with people all the time. so Targets tend to feel oddly vast, and you can be in the main hallway feeling like you are by yourself. just my guess. i think Target works in the vague sense more than you give it credit

@screenwriterjohn 11 месяцев назад

Target literally has less consumer goods and more modern furnishings. Targets have empty aisles.

@neverleavesthehouse 9 месяцев назад

You did an amazing job with this video- and I love how sentimental you got. So much about art is based in psychology. The power to evoke memories, thoughts, or emotions is what separates art from good art.

@hauvrichunter2488 3 года назад

"this is all background art for lego sets" i actually didn't expect that lol.

@ctf1077 3 года назад

It surprised me like a slap to the neck

@VoicesOfTheVoid. 3 года назад

Spoiled it

@sfoliata_9053 3 года назад

The hotel from the movie “ the shining “ is a liminal space

@yeetyotegetoffmyboat8214 3 года назад

It totally does! I think that is what Kubrick was going for too. The absolute isolation from pretty much anywhere else gives it that vibe of "oh, we arent supposed to be seeing this but here we are".

@ismth 3 года назад

For sure. AHS Hotel too

@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs 3 года назад

R E D U M

@benguman2231 3 года назад

All these comment are just stealing from Reddit posts.

@ehNokka 3 года назад

maybe thats why its so terrifying 🤔

@saifmohamed9592 Год назад

i cannot tell how spot-on the choice of YMO's Absolute Ego Dance as the intro song was. It feels so counterintuitive yet works perfectly for the unsettling topic. Well done sir.

@wheatbread4593 Год назад

12:56 That photo is actually from a mall I frequent often, it Southroads in Bellevue, Ne and it is actually a pretty mall, the upstairs follows the same color palette as the photo, and is just super 80s feeling

@kat-jj5xj 3 года назад

this is the whole reason why the shining is a terrifying movie

@liamobrien6044 3 года назад

Duuuuude you’re so right the overlook is empty as fuck and that’s why even when nothing bad happens it feels haunted

@vazzaroth 3 года назад

The shots in the shining really make me want to go towards them. It's like a moth to a flame. I revel in discomfort. There's something nice knowing that you are in a place that others turn away from, a safety from being discovered. If I suddenly ran across two twins at the end of a dark hallway I'd shit my pants though, fasho.

@1gnore_me. 3 года назад

also, the layout of the hotel doesn't make any sense. if you were to map it out, rooms would overlap, windows would exist that shouldn't show the outside, and staircases would lead nowhere. I think our brains pick up on that kind of stuff subconsciously and that's another reason why the movie was scary.

@kat-jj5xj 3 года назад

@@1gnore_me. i agree. it has to do with control, and subconsciously knowing where you are, which would normally bring you comfort and security in a movie, but you lose that in the shining. which is why setting is so important. it becomes an additional character

@silverblue73 3 года назад

The right carpet can set the mood for terror, while the right rug can really bring a room together

@agravemisunderstanding9668 3 года назад

When I see the solar sands logo on a couch all I can imagine is a tiny hourglass with legs and arms shouting

@kenoVampire 3 года назад

That exists in cuphead, in the bottom right corner of a loading screen theres a mini hour glass with limbs

@guy7408 3 года назад

*Solar sands in cuphead confirmed*

@juango500 3 года назад

@@guy7408 *Well, he exists but he doesn't serve his purpose of talking about art, he just is a loading screen element.*

@mobmilkk 3 года назад

@@juango500 you dont know his secret life

@juango500 3 года назад

@@mobmilkk you neither.

@irisheartt Год назад

I think all of us have seen similar scenes to these in our own dreams. The way our subconscious constructs spaces from our memories oftentimes results in spaces that feel familiar but are arranged weirdly and have an otherworldly feel to them. When I am traveling on the highway in my dreams, there will be sloped sections that are ridiculously steep and sometimes even _vertical_ . Or the road is suspended from pillars hundreds of meters in the air, or is in the middle of the ocean. One time there was even an entire city in the middle of that ocean that this road passed through. And that's just the highway, don't get me started on the confusing maze of suburbs I often find myself wandering through, and the downright surreal scenes in those yards.

@autumnm.4254 Год назад

You did a great job putting this together! Thank you

@frhorizons 3 года назад

Every single art movement is just the “oh to be a kid again” feeling by that generation.

@briggy4359 3 года назад

@Electro_blob 2 my thoughts exactly.

@nathanmcgill7249 3 года назад

The surrealists must have had really traumatic childhoods. And the minimalists must have been bored all the time

@OSCARMlLDE 3 года назад

Lmao false

@grigoriyefimovichrasputin7897 3 года назад

@@nathanmcgill7249 That's a big assumption there.

@Draber2b 3 года назад

Not every single art genre is escapist.. Although the one that aren't, usually hit obscurity and are rarely successful.

@tokiWren 3 года назад

Imo, the wierdest ones are the rooms that are lit in a way that everything is the exact same brightness. Those ones make my brain say, "Whoa, this shouldn't be possible." Those ones are _it._