The Where's Waldo Legacy
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Published 2022-02-05
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Music in Order of Appearance
Dizzy – Dr. Luigi
Herb Ellis and Remo Palmier - Windflower
The Vapors – Turning Japanese
Herb Ellis and Remo Palmier – Windflower
Kevin Macleod – Voice Over Under
Metatron Omega – Sanctum – 04 Trinitas
Johann Christian Schickhardt (c.1682-1762) - Flötensonate h-moll
Haircuts for Men – EARLY TAPE WORKS (1981 – 1984) VOL.1
TOBACCO – Refbatch
Pronunciation help by:
Shuck
Peachii
Sources:
slate.com/culture/2017/03/where-s-waldo-didn-t-just-get-harder-to-find-he-got-80-percent-smaller.html
www.randalolson.com/2015/02/03/heres-waldo-computing-the-optimal-search-strategy-for-finding-waldo/
www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/01/bosch-bruegel-joseph-leo-koerner
www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/where-s-the-brains-behind-wally-6261459.html
www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-nov-26-ls-57728-story.html
unrememberedhistory.com/tag/martin-handford/
ew.com/article/1990/12/14/wheres-waldo/
www.dailyartmagazine.com/hieronymus-boschs-paintings-and-his-owls/
www.jvh-puzzels.com/extra/about-jan.html
www.puzzlewarehouse.com/blog/2014/12/28/puzzle-maker-interview-anniversary-article-on-jan-van-haasteren/
www.bennozuiddam.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bosch-the-devil-and-his-works.pdf
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Faca0000049
jhna.org/articles/homo-ludens-pieter-bruegels-childrens-games-humanist-educators/
All Comments (21)
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Many Dutch people have told me they just call him "Wally." Some Italian people have said they don't call him "Ubaldo" either. I got those name variations from these: ew.com/article/1990/12/14/wheres-waldo/ waldo.fandom.com/wiki/International_variations I guess they must just be wrong? Whatever the case, there's plenty of other weird variations people have given me such as "Effy" in Israel.
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waldo's been sporting the same drip since '87 and it hasnt failed him once
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Finally someone brave enough to ask 'why's waldo?'
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I gotta say - large crowd painting incorporates a level of creativity that's hard to find elsewhere in art. Technically you're making one illustration, but abstractly, these artists are really making HUNDREDS, maybe thousands, all around a central theme! There can be so many stories distinguishable from each other; a picture can be worth a thousand words, well here's a thousand pictures in one. How does one even keep track of that?
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Waldo has always scared me as a kid, he would always stare at me while i try to find him, I wouldn’t notice until I found him staring at me the whole time
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I really appreciate the use of the "Mr Incredible becoming uncanny" meme when talking about all of Waldo's different names
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That Bosch turn was unexpected, but extremely cool! I've always loved his paintings, they are so active and alive
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There's a book called 'A Street Through Time' that takes the same street by a river and each page is that place in a different time. Its made in a Waldo style, filled with characters, but its all for learning what life was life in different times. You see items come back up as archeologists discover buried shields, you see how the buildings grow and what happens to the local castle. Its a really good book, especially for parents and teachers trying to make history more accessible for kids.
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Fun fact: Waldo is actually in every picture or media in the world, he’s just so hidden that you’ll spend forever searching for him
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As a Dutch I've never heard him being called Govert, we call him Wally too Edit: gotta love the attention to Jeroen Bosch! Coming from his city, it is always a pleasure to see his work in the wild
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12:24 This just unlocked a memory i had forgotten for so long, but i used to do the exact same thing as a kid, i remember i would draw my friends as stick figures and bring the drawings back to my school so my friends could stare at it trying to find their characters in the drawings. They were stick figures with a hat or they were holding something recognizable in a sea of stick figures fighting or just living in a weird hyper-detailed environment.
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3:07 I never heard anybody refer to Wally as Ubaldo, to be honest. Just Wally, rather than Waldo. also I remember staring for countless hours at children games when I found that in the art book. It looked so different from the usual medieval art we studied, and I was fashinated by the sheer ammount of detail and lack of focal point, everywhere you looked was the focal point.
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I kinda want there to be a fantasy travelogue series hosted by Waldo/Wally. The POV keeps taking you to different corners of a scene, with Waldo explaining them and asking "Am I here?", and at the end you "find" him and he brings it home with the closing words face-to-face.
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This and ‘I spy’ were my two favourite picture books as a kid. I literally spent hours looking through all the pictures for every single detail
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Ah, the return of the one person who can convince me that art history is actually an interesting topic.
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I love how you can really tell how much effort and research he put into this video.
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Wally is a great guy but he is really shy
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There's gotta be someone out there who flipped through a where's waldo book for their first time, and by pure luck and chance, on every single page their eyes just happened to land on the exact correct spot as the first place they checked, for every single page... eh?
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I always liked looking at the background for funny jokes and situations instead of the main focus of the book which was finding Waldo
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Fun fact: Wlado's in Twenty One Pilot's music video of "Car Radio".
