ART/ARCHITECTURE: Andy Warhol
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- Andy Warhol was one of the great artists of the 20th century who understood the legitimate role that glamour and business should play in the production of art. He has much to teach the modern world.
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I think Andy Warhol would have loved CZcams
agreed.
Definitely
I think you’re right
Yes, It's the greatest testament for his theory: "in the future, Everyone will be famous for five minutes"
Yep
lol this artist definitely captures the essence of America and capitalism. A paradox, an eccentric attempting to portray the beauty in the mundane.
He makes us see the world of capitalism and consumerism as he sees it. It makes us aware that beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder. And if you look for what`s ugly and depressing that is what you train your brain to see. Warhol is a genius
I'm fascinated by the idea of finding beauty in the ordinary. Because we're told we can do anything, we all grow up believing we're gonna be rockstars and celebrities, when statistically, its very unlikely. Chances are, our lives will be unknown to most of the rest of the world and it won't pause to take notice when we die. When we become adults and figure out all the lies, we become depressed and bitter, but there's no need to be. Its enough to be normal and mundane. This rat-race of wanting to separate ourselves ahead of the pack comes with the price of feeling worthless when we most of us don't achieve it. There might be less depression and anxiety if society decided it was ok to be strive to be a nobody.
+Greg Moberg i have never taught about this subject like that before. Thank you very much!!!
You make so much sense to me. Our society worships winners but the bitter fact is that a majority of us will be nobody, leaving a mundane life
+Greg Moberg That's the ego unfortunately
+Greg Moberg I think it's an idea one have to get comfortable with eventually. It's nice to be ambitious but striving too hard to be somebody can, as you said, cause depression and anxiety. An ordinary life that strives instead for knowledge and art, understanding and helping other, should be enough in my opinion.
+Greg Moberg Fight Club.
He would have been fascinated by smartphones, CZcams (cheap and easy way to do videos), Instagram (easy way to be glamorous and show what are you eating), and the way people interact with social networks in general.
Can you do some african philosophy. It's a realy unkown area for me.
Be as a lion , let women bring the food just be there for her when she gets back .
African proverb
+Smokey Le Bear what is this supposed to mean? :)
+TheLEFE me or Smokey Le Bear?
+Mladen Kolev egyptians?
interesting idea
When I was younger a lot of people bashed him for his simplicity and rise to fame from things like prints of soup cans. But he's right. It's good to have ambition, but to also enjoy the fruits of everyday. The subtleties. And frankly I feel like there aren't enough people in the world that appreciate the tiny details of life, constantly obsessed with their visions of greatness or shallow interests instead.
If you look hard enough, you'll find meaning everywhere.
Not in smart assed insipid comments.
Maybe thats the point
An artist is someone who express their art through various medium; not just through paintings. This may also include comic books which are powerful medium that shapes the mind about younger generations.
This video made me really happy. Then I went down and read all the negative, vile, awful comments. I'm depressed now.
Nobody cares
That's called: "criticism" and you sir can't take it
Warhol didn't make the Burger film. It was Jørgen Leth
Beauty and inspiration are everywhere in our 'ordinary' lives. Have a wonderful day everyone!
this is one of the few videos I've seen or discussions on Warhol I've read that gives him the benefit of the doubt as a genius, and it's refreshingly positive! thanks
"He most famously made a video of himself eating a hamburger".
HE DID NOT! Jorgen Leth made that video as part of HIS project "66 Scenes from America"!
calm down
Amazing to think that one of his paintings sold for over $100 million a couple of years ago. He certainly knew about the influence of celebrity and commerce... and how to put them to good use.
Wow, I really enjoyed this look at Warhol! I'm not a fan of his art, but I really liked learning how his brain worked.
It's interesting to still see the ripples of his influence today. For me, it's neat to view Warhol as two separate people. The artist & the business man. I'd say that with a lot of artists, you don't see both of these sides often. In some ways there appears to be a curtain or mystery held by some creatives (either intentionally or not). Warhol seems to completely bypass any concept that art is some how secretive or a personal sacred process. He denies the existence of some artistic veil entirely. That is possibly, in my humble opinion, his greatest accomplishment & gift to the modern world.
Great comment!
There was a recent article in the New York Times. The article states that Warhol did not die of "routine" gallbladder surgery. That in fact it was emergency surgery and Warhol was critically ill when the surgery was performed. Warhol himself had delayed the surgery which had been recommended for some time but he was deathly afraid of doctors and hospitals. The idea that it was "routine" became an urban legend but not based in true fact.
Thanks a lot for portraying the great relevance of Andy Warhol!
I'm glad school of life did this. Worhol's work has always repelled me. And thus I haven't been able to appreciate what he was trying to say and do with his art.
His parents were from Slovakia, NOT from Czech republic...
Margaréta Baňasová not wrong but not exactly right. His parents were from Mikó, Austria-Hungary (now called Miková, located in today's northeastern Slovakia).
Yes, also they weren't slovak but rusin (not rossian) from what I know.
you did an awesome job. To me Andy Warhol is not much about being good he is about being great, iconic, bigger than real life but yeah i love this video because it's easy to forget those things that make him a good human~
I was writing my diary today and thought, The School of Life is such cool and meaningful business and it's strange but amazing how Alain can have an impact on my life through CZcams videos.
Thanks for regular inspiration and thought provocation, it makes my life better:)
Thank you School of Life! I really enjoyed it! Warhol is one of my favorite artists and has helped to shape the way I make my own art. It would be so nice if this channle covered just "tad" bit more on art, but I love everything you've produced thus far and look forward to seeing greater things to come! Thanks again! :)
As a fellow Pittsburgher, I *love* Andy Warhol, and he was certainly a very hard worker and a shrewd business/showman... but I think this is just one more video where I think people are trying to hard to read into and "get" Warhol and his work. Warhol just loved surface-level image and pop culture - and that's it, really. There's nothing to read into. He wasn't trying to "do" anything or change the world or society. I think this is beautifully illustrated by Warhol's own words. In his journal, Andy wrote this about Bianca Jagger: "And Bianca was driving me crazy, saying how she’s researching my days in Pittsburgh for her book on Great Men, and she went on and on about how I broke the system, broke the system, broke the system, and I felt like saying, “Look, Bianca, I’m just here. I’m just a working person. How did I break the system?” God, she’s dumb."
I think this about sums it up. But that said, I think Andy Warhol is a really fascinating person. (In fact, I lives just a block away from his house in Oakland, Pittsburgh, during college, and I grew up just a 10 minute drive from where he is buried. I still visit his grave every year and say a prayer for little Andrew Warhola and his parents, which are buried right behind him.)
Omg. This is actually very cool, I really love Warhol's vision on life. Thank you for this piece.
I've never seen such divided opinions in the comments box on any video, seriously, there's people who hate this guy, people who loves him, people who agrees with his point of view, but do not consider his work as "art", etc. I mean, Warhol creates controversy, I have to give him that one.
Personally i think his work is art, because he is leaving his opinions and feelings in their works, in a metaphorical way, I don't like his art, though. However I like his ideas, art maybe mass produced, but maybe not how Warhol did it. Instead of making people appreciate the beauty of mass produced things and tag them "art", perhaps we should make like the Ancient Athenians used to, and have art as a public good, so we wouldn't be stating that the masses aren't capable of appreciating the beauty of "high arts", but we would make them understand them that beauty.
You guys should make one about Basquiat.
Him and Warhol were great friends
I always loved Andy Warhol without quite understanding why - this video illuminates part of the reason why, I think. I've seen excellent docs such as Ric Burns', Ken Burn's bro, HIGHLY recommend y'all.
Actually his parents were from eastern village in Slovakia. But the video is good
I love your channel, but it was acclaimed film director Jørgen Leth who takes you through the iconic scene with Andy Warhol eating a hamburger from his film, 66 Scenes from America.
vimeo.com/100883453
I miss the Art / Architecture section... you should make more of these, School Of Life... There’s so much to talk about this topic.
An interesting video, thanks. I'm glad to have finally been introduced to Warhol, but I still cannot quite agree what he did was what I'd like to think art is.
"All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare." - Spinoza.
"One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare." - Nietzsche
+William Rupp Alternatively, you are quoting the spouting snobbish nonsense. Things don't become less good as they become more available or more people like them. Why abhor what is affordable and widely adopted just because it is affordable and widely adopted? One can think of societies like the ancient Athenians where art was a public good, lauded by a majority of the society and integrated into the everyday life of members of the society. An alternative formulation of this is the old chestnut that just because something is rare doesn't make it valuable.
+hiota45 I'm not against many people experiencing great art or that its mass dispersion devalues its merit (just think how many of Shakespeare's works have been printed, or how many people have visited the Uffizi gallery!), only that great art itself is rare in conception. If everyone could have conceived of Michelangelo's 'David' or Raphael's 'School of Athens' then it would hardly seem as great or valuable to us, but Warhol's art is mass created in the sense that the 'art' he chooses everyone already knows. For example, Warhol photos an ordinary can to convince us of its beauty, whereas the Greeks took their ordinary 'cans' (pottery) and painted them, making them beautiful. I'm sure most people would rather visit the British Museum than the can factory!
I'm less of a snob than Warhol, I think the masses are capable of loving great art so I wish to 'bring them up to it' like in the Athenian Theatres and Shakespearean playhouses, rather than him despairing of their ability and so push art 'down to their level', which is the snobbish idea that is destroying great culture - that is, the notion that great art is only for the cultural elite so we have to create a 'common' art that the masses will love and buy, and leave great art in the feudal past.
Well you sound fun 😟
This a great channel. Making such deep topics so accessible. I feel like i've been exposed to so much I would have otherwise been too busy/lazy to learn.
Art has always been stuck too far up its own ass. It was inevitable that someone like Andy Warhol would come along to challenge perceptions. The fact that we're still debating his influence to this day proves that he succeeded in the end.
Welp, first time I've heard a flattering recount of Warhol's life and exploits. Bold choice, Alain, and well exectured. Thanks for the fresh perspective.
His parents weren't czech. His parents were ruthenians from eastern Slovakia. And I think when they left the home country, it still belonged to the austrian-hungarian empire.
+ The School of Life - AW wasn''t born to Czech parents. They came from Czechoslovakia (at that time), but they were Ruthenian, not Czech. Fun fact: you can find a museum of art dedicated to AW in a small town in today's Slovakia called Medzilaborce (his parents were from a nearby village) because of this.
Warhol didn’t make the video of himself eating a hamburger. Danish poet/filmmaker jørgen leth did, as part of a film called 66 scenes from America. And as you can see, jørgen forgot to buy him a drink.
what an interesting outlook on art. I don't know if i necessarily get it or agree with it, but it is certainly an aspect i've never considered before.
You opened my eyes and mind to Andy Warhol and I thank you. Now it makes more sense that Andy Warhol was a believing and practicing Catholic who went to mass every Sunday if not every day.
Whoa wait. My whole life I've been seeing on tv, shows with people joking and hinting at how Andy Warhol was an asshole that just did crazy stupid things. Now I am finding out he was actually a really great dude that tried to think outside the box. That is awesome.
+Jeremy Orr TV is a very closed minded sphere, anything considered "weird" is shunned for not conforming
+Jeremy Orr "I'm supposed to think someone eating a hamburger is deep and interesting? Fuckin Hippies!"
Its only pretension if you don't understand it
+Greg Moberg "It's only pretension if you don't understand it"
That's a pretty pretentious thing to say.
+Jeremy Orr I'm not saying what you previously saw on TV was necessarily a fair depiction of Warhol.
But throwing everything you previously heard about him aside and fully adapting what you're told in this video isn't a good idea either.
Don't get me wrong, I'd consider The School of Life a good source of information myself, but you shouldn't just blindly take everything they say as a fact. Stay critical. They'd probably be the first people to tell you to think for yourself.
+Jeremy Orr I'd agree with this video in that Andy Warhol can be seen as an inspiring figure, but that doesn't automatically make him a "really great dude".
For one, his opinion that good in business is the best art is highly debatable.
At worst, his motivation might have been making easy money by crafting himself the image of a genious artist that people would pay good money for rather than being truly convined by his art.
Most of his works after the 1970's for example were made by studios he never even visited, but still put his signature on when they were finished:
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2013/jul/24/andy-warhol-legacy-foundation-lawsuits
Wow, a book on him in a few minutes. Wonderful exposure, Bravo. What a figure.
Willem De Kooning. Jackson Pollack. Mark Rothko. Can you talk about some of the Abstract Expressionists? They shaped Warhol in a way that no other artists could; because they were around at the same time.
+Theodore LaCava The Abstract Expressionists rejected Warhol, despised Warhol, and inspired Warhol to outmaneuver them. There's a story of De Kooning confronting Warhol at private opening in the in the Guggenheim, in the company Peggy Guggenheim and about 20 critics and host of dealers.
It was meant to sink Warhol, for who most critics and curators were coming around, slowly, cautiously, but had not made up their minds. De Kooning had a plan. To point out everything that was wrong and send Warhol back into commercial art where he had been for 13 years.
He called him every homophobic slur in book, derided his his personality, blamed him for everything in the world. But everyone just stared at De Kooning. When it became apparent he was embarrassing himself, he walked away. Ms. Guggenheim was not pleased.
Warhol turned to Ms. Guggenheim and said "Gee whiz that's too bad. I always liked Willem's work".
There was a nervous laugh. But Ms. Guggenheim, who was Pollack's most significant patron and career promoter, had an epiphany: Warhol wasn't the problem with world. It was people like De Kooning, with their biases, their intolerance, their ignorance, their unkindness, their lack of basic civility: it revealed a viciousness then strongly associated with fire houses and attack dogs.
She, the most powerful woman in the art word, decided, then and there, that was what wrong was with the world.
Times were changing. It was no longer OK to call a person a faggot to their face. It was ugly. The attack was, by-and-large, without substantive merit, it was a rage: a personality indictment. De Kooning did not make a case for the validly of AE over Pop. He left the most powerful people in the art world thinking that he was out of touch with all that was going within the social context of the sixties. They wondered how did he feel about the Civil Rights movement, the Women's Movement, or was his hatred merely confined to homosexuals?
Warhol's bland passivity in the face of this struck them. He idly stood by while De Kooning dug his own grave. He was the smarter man.
It was on that day, that the shift that eventually the ushered out Abstract Expressionism, a white, heterosexual, homophobic, intolerant, nearly entirely male movement, took shape. It was that insane spiel of vitriolic disdain that cost the Abstract Expressionists their hegemony. And spelled a critical free fall in the genre. It was a club no longer in the best interests of the gatekeepers to endorse, as it was apparent that to follow would be swimming against the tide. It is not the artist that holds the power.
That’s a great story. I’ve never liked the Abstract Expressionists.
@@673Joe1 I 100% forgot about this comment, and that is a really beautiful story. Thank you.
The true Sage willingly opposes the student, so that the student can create their own path, even if the Sage knows the student is wrong. They would rather the student determine that on their own. The True Sage doesn’t teach by logic, but by action.
Where as the fascist Sage wishes to destroy the students budding creativity, so as to inflate their own ego, at the expense of the student. (Just some reflections from my time at art school. The second Sage is the most common by far, and stories like these make that abundantly clear.)
Be uncommon.
Wow. Fascinating discussion. Who doesn’t know Mr. Warhol and at least some of his works? But you have inspired me to reconsider his never-ending 15 minutes of fame in an entirely new context. Thank you so much for the video.
Steve K.
Very inspiring & informative! Jean Michel Basquiat?
I hope they do basquiat
Basquiat? Fad Gadget, graphically titillating graffitti / utterly historically / culturally meaningless .. hence Warhols fascination .. a panopoly of nothingness.
Yes please!
Oh yes That would be fascinating
@Bety Melba that is his real name
Nice video as always! What about Bill Hicks and Jim morrison?
+Matteo Davide Fabio That would be quite interesting to do a video on comedians or musicians in our culture. How their ideas have impacted how we think of politics, fashion, and the way we live.
Lenny Bruce, George Carlin. For music, perhaps John Lennon, Leonard Cohen, Dylan.
yessss, more of these!!
As an Andy Warhol fan, I love this video ~ would love to see you do more on AW!
Warhol did have a "Chat Show".// 15min with Andy Warhol on MTV .... he "Interview"'d Duran Duran, Blondie, Madonna, INXS among others!!!
Definitely a fascinating figure - really like his attempt at getting non-artists, business people to share the glamour of art. but by that definition, isn't everyday mundane work art too? If running a good business is an art, how's running/maintaining a good home any different?
Always loved his work, very interesting man
Thanks for a great video, just to point out, he wasn't born to Czech parents but Slovak hence the orthodox cross on his grave. I am Czech btw and was for a bit startled to hear for the first time Warhol had Czech parents but nope, they were Slovakian.
Actually Rusyn from Slovakia.
rip andy warhol i just know you would have loved uncut gems
Ahh, art and science. I live for these two.
It wasn't Andy Warhol himself making the film of him eating a hamburger. It was made as a scene for the film "66 scenes from America" by Danish film director Jørgen Leth. :)
In "Just Kids" Patti Smith said something along the lines that Andy Warhol didn't appeal to her as much as he did to Robert (Mapplethorpe) because she preferred artists who affected the societies they were in, not just reflect them. But after watching this video I'm disagreeing with Patti (surprisingly)! It seems like Warhol was one of the artists who actually affected society the most.
+rollership We have apps that make repetitive 4-up Warhol silk-screen style self portraits,our pocket. We carry an apparatus with the capacity to stylistically replicate 1 artist, on command. That is the very definition of casting an epic shadow.
Picasso is rightfully credited with as having the 20th Century's greatest work of art: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Not the first modernist work, but the one that planted the flag for the genre. No single Warhol approaches it. Warhol was more about overwhelming the world through all media available. Warhol is the most ubiquitous, the most culturally pervasive, even when measured against Picasso's prolific output.
The two were so different, had such different objectives, they defy comparison. It's subjective and we should not have to defend ourselves, we should foster the appreciation of art.
Which is not to say Patti Smith is wrong. Yet when we love someone and they die young, while they can still be forgiven, while we can envision a future in which their ceiling remains forever unlimited, they undergo the inevitable apotheosis. In love v.s. anyone, love always wins.
She will always love Robert, her objectivity is tainted, but in the most noble way. Just Kids is considered by many her masterpiece. I have not listened to all her music, read all her poetry, seen the legendary performances. I can't say if it is her best work, it is definitely a masterwork.
Patti doesn't know what she's talking about
patti is a woman who shreiks into a mic. not much talent.
The washing machine thing wasn't that weird. As an artist, he probably also spent some time with the camera, and the chemicals might have reminded him of the comforting scents of the darkroom.
It's more likely he helped his mother with the wash as a child and as the technology became modern and eventually concentrated in a laundromat, it combined his past sensations about the smells of the soaps with the multiple machines and commercialization of the ritual of washing.
I love those art videos! Please do more artists!:)
Noooooo. Sorry Alain, but I thought Hannah was going to present the video.
+4478nick :(((((
me too!
He was a better Movie director than Michael Bay.
Beautiful
Nick Rhodes, one of my favourite musicians ever knew him well and described his way of thinking very well.
Nice presentation. One comment: Andy Warhold didn't make that video of himself eating a hamburger. That was was created by Danish filmmaker Jorgen Leth.
I would love if you put together book recommendations that explore the topics discussed in these videos at length.
excellent video
Well done...excellent.
Inspiring. He reminds me so much of myself except he made it far. I haven’t yet lol
Drop the "yet"
does somebody knows the music used for this video please i love it ??
btw this is an amazing channel, really interesting and meaningful
+The Scholl of Life .You guys really embrace Warhol's lesson, don't you? (Mass production businesses, etc, need to reliably produce and distribute the good things in life, career advice, beautiful architecture, quality health child care, psychotherapy, etc).
Thanks for noticing!
I greatly enjoy Warhol's Work. His superstars label I think still applies to many of the people on the list. Joe Dallesandro is super cool. He was as wild as a wild card can get. I think he is the only one on the list that is still alive.
I'd love for you guys to do an episode on salvador dalí, if you haven't already.
i love this channel!
I love this videos i want more
I enjoyed this
you should make one of Frida Khalo I quite enjoyed this one!
i think we have a feeling for tinking that all upon art it is always "good" first, what is good for you? then why is it good for your idea of good? art it's one way to express somthing, beneath some espesific things, that then you will make your own idea, you will change the meaning of everithing, just being you, so you are just peer at art and you are peer at you, but in a indirect way, so i think art is as every little thing at universe endless-usage and we as humans just look at it as humans, and look as humans means that we can use art for fun, love, happiness, hate, power, tenderness, disdain, longing, sadness etc. so, is art and none of them are "good" or "bad" just when you close your insigh of the universe is when you achive get some insight of art, yet close your sight of the word does not mean you are daft, just that when you look at the universe with philosopher eyes you cannot cling of only one think, but art allows you cling and something deeper, the art allows you go throught you, on your vein, whithout leaving out your-self; and more important does not with prejudges like "good" at least you want to. in humans feelings that's what "have power" means, the capacity of feel safe having the control, the art allows you have the control of your-self again as well. yet i don't like this artist, just sell art, saying art is this and this, and has reazon but just for him.self. i think.
the curriculum series it's amazing it's on the playlist;
Great work -
I was born on the same day as Andy 🔥
What a nice take about Andy Warhol AND Art!
without any offense, please bring back the old, charming narrator from previous episodes. her beautiful voice was only matched by her obvious love for subtleties!
I didn't knew Lily Collins was in the same chat show with Andy.
Great video as always! I'd like the next philosophy video to be about the Kardashians, that would be magnificent
I know this is random but you guys should do some videos about the universe and how it's expanding and etc....
So helpfull on my Andy worhal project and so what you finished eating a hamburger!
I looooooooooveeee yoooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu so much
where is the red head who normally leads this course her voice is divine
andy warhol was a genius artist because he forced you to see everything in a new way, and he purposefully didn't want to leave anybody out. he figured it was hardly worth it if one's art was only distributed to art museums and rich people. he was being artistic in a way that many have a hard time understanding. of course simpletons were drawn to his work, but that didn't bother warhol. think how many posh artists strive to put as much meaning in their work as possible only to end up with few followers because the work ends up being too prudish or intellectual for the common man's interest. it's much easier to start an artistic movement from the bottom-up by limiting any extraneous meaning and keeping the work simple--and in the process end up producing rather high-level work that is filled with meaning when placed in the right context. warhol was redefining what art was while simultaneously making a momentous statement by "living the life" and "playing the part" of a stereotypical eccentric artist, but with much more expansive ideas and a very different attitude concerning how to proceed with his career. all of these things made warhol the unique individual he was, which in itself granted him fame. people were now paying attention to the "high art"; and with people paying attention, warhol had the freedom to make statements that would be taken seriously. it was all a way to manufacture a new sense of meaning in art, an art that can live and evolve to take many forms, and continue to grow and be influential.
Dear School of Life, can you please make a video about the Dada movement and Dadaism?
Actually, he was born to Slovakian parents in the very eastern part of Slovakia, which was back then considered to be a part of Czechoslovakia.
Actually, he was born in the US. His parents were born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
@@kenster8270 it's Slovakia !!
This dude killed art..
I think everyone should read his book ‘the philosophy of andy warhol’ it put his work -which i still somewhat dislike- in a much better view for me
Can you do a clip about (insert name of obscure cultural figure who being able to name makes me look cool) next?
It's magic! I’m a fan of Andy Warhol, I sing his life and his death "Warhol’s Word", played on my channel!
It would be interesting to see a video on Basquiat
LEGEND
WHAT IS THAT SONG IN THE BACKGROUND???!!!?! Fucking amazig melody.
Also Warhol rocks too of course
My favorite story is of a society matron wanting him to do portrait of her, he said he would for $14,000 (60's $). She agreed and he told her to meet him in Union Square - a rough place. She arrived and he led her to a photo booth which produced 4 pictures - he charged her 4 X $14,000 - and she paid. True story
And yet he'd stick the unfortunate Edie Sedgwick with the dinner bills. The art, of the truly absurd.
Inspiration is the ordinary - perception is the inspiration.
WOW !!!
Why the nude at 4.23? Why not a shoe drawing? Would love to show this to my middle school students... can't now. It would be nice if you had rated "G" versions of these great videos teachers could show. We need awesome resources like this.