Now I’ve watched two more:
The one about the marathon in the 1904 St Louis Olympics, and the one about 1990’s DeVry-Troy NCAA basketball games.
Both are lovely and profound, and sport is just the incidental subject-matter-starting-point for musings and explorations into mortal fate, attitudes, coincidences, perseverances, heroism, extraordinary performances, meta-humanism, and wonder at the universe.
And then there’s the fun he has with meaningful - and and also with pointless - data and data displays.
Don’t be put off by sport. These funds are story and philosophy, without any condescension or reductivity. Completely accessible. Filled with soft-spoken, even deadpan, decency and awe.
Don’t be put off by philosophy. These film are, potentially, everyperson’s version of human story.
Jon Bois could convert a phone book into a stay-up-all-night best seller, if he had the editing of it.
Dammit. Now I have to watch all of them.
/giphy story
And a special salute to Bois’s exquisite choices of soundtrack music. Perfect for this setting.
I didn’t have time, earlier, to explain why I pulled that incredibly self-indulgent performance of that so very starry-eyed and unironic song out of YouTube in reaction to Bois’s work.
the vision of the graphics “sailing away” at the end of part 1 if the Bob series brought that song to my mind.
And I thought the matchup of that over-the-top-to-getting-boring performance of what is really a very sweet song (if left alone) was funny.
That simplistic song, placed next to the hyper-deadpan-oddball-stat-obsessed-cool- complexity-millennial mind of Bois, with his unique version of narrative.
Something about “sailing away” with data, large and small, and finding some notable or precious glory in the journey, as Bois does.
His work is much much greater as narrative than that song is as a song.
But the matchup still funny to me.
And Bois is a reason to watch videos again.
Part 2 is out. It’s just as amazing.
@Kawa
/giphy Bob come sail away
I don’t care much about sports, but I started watching and this is outstanding. His visuals are great and his storytelling works well.
I’m halfway through the first one and will watch them both as I have the chance.
This is great. I am surrounded by Bobs!
Completely unexpected and excellent.
And riveting.
Moar.
https://m.youtube.com/user/jonbois
Now I’ve watched two more:
The one about the marathon in the 1904 St Louis Olympics, and the one about 1990’s DeVry-Troy NCAA basketball games.
Both are lovely and profound, and sport is just the incidental subject-matter-starting-point for musings and explorations into mortal fate, attitudes, coincidences, perseverances, heroism, extraordinary performances, meta-humanism, and wonder at the universe.
And then there’s the fun he has with meaningful - and and also with pointless - data and data displays.
Don’t be put off by sport. These funds are story and philosophy, without any condescension or reductivity. Completely accessible. Filled with soft-spoken, even deadpan, decency and awe.
Don’t be put off by philosophy. These film are, potentially, everyperson’s version of human story.
Jon Bois could convert a phone book into a stay-up-all-night best seller, if he had the editing of it.
Dammit. Now I have to watch all of them.
/giphy story
And a special salute to Bois’s exquisite choices of soundtrack music. Perfect for this setting.
@f00l Just wait until you read what he thinks football will be like in the future. It’s a masterpiece.
As I said, Bois crafts narrative - he’s a storyteller like no other.
@Kawa
/youtube come sail away live
@Kawa
I didn’t have time, earlier, to explain why I pulled that incredibly self-indulgent performance of that so very starry-eyed and unironic song out of YouTube in reaction to Bois’s work.
the vision of the graphics “sailing away” at the end of part 1 if the Bob series brought that song to my mind.
And I thought the matchup of that over-the-top-to-getting-boring performance of what is really a very sweet song (if left alone) was funny.
That simplistic song, placed next to the hyper-deadpan-oddball-stat-obsessed-cool- complexity-millennial mind of Bois, with his unique version of narrative.
Something about “sailing away” with data, large and small, and finding some notable or precious glory in the journey, as Bois does.
His work is much much greater as narrative than that song is as a song.
But the matchup still funny to me.
And Bois is a reason to watch videos again.