Chronicled in a high school notebook the audio here, which I had read but not heard, is for a school assignment while at Oak Glen HS, for which he interviewed his classmates about their feelings about various colors. So, yellow... When Daniel first experienced serious depression in junior high school he sequestered himself in the school library to avoid socializing. He had wanted to be a visual artist since childhood so while there he spent his time paging through art books and discovered a kindred spirit in Vincent Van Gogh. Mostly he looked at his art but he read about him too and that's how he wound up diagnosing himself with manic depression, recognizing much of himself in Van Gogh's own experience of the same condition. For Van Gogh, yellow was the color of happiness. In the mid-80s in Austin, Daniel met members of avant-garde Austin band Glass Eye and invited them to his apartment where a yellow sheet hung on the wall. When asked about it he told them it reminded him to be happy. This a treasure of a film. Thanks for sharing it.

Beautiful mind.

D.J. makes TED talks now 👌

his unfiltered artistry was glorious

Awesome

💛

Thank you

Very nutritious video!!

Brilliant being he was

Amazing art all around

in a world that's so cheeseburger it might be too late now Casper is out walking the cow yet and still wish you will wherever you're at still killing monsters... thank you to the late great Daniel Johnston! -unprofitable servant #9 A.K.A. R3-lyt

Merci, Monsieur Daniel 😌

WE ALL LIVE IN A >>>>>>>>>

Thanks Daniel!

He raises many good points

Amazing

Le blanc est l’activateur de la couleur 🤩

thank you for uploading!!

He would have been interesting to meet !

This video is perfectly n sync to everything DJ. To newer viewers you see his brilliance brought to the forefront, which otherwise could be hidden under layers. All the while, his long time fans may feel to some sort of payout from what was already known, and elite for understanding the other layers of DJ. Amazing work!

Very good.

so cute and heartful

Lovely. Still hoping something like this can be done with Dan's book "The Dead Lovers Twisted Heart"!

This is better then most video essays I’ve seen lately!! 🤯

Awesome!

I hope the Estate of Daniel already is taking action but Ed Sheeren and Taylor Swift's "The Joker and the Queen" is bang on "The Story of an Artist" and I see no song writing credit to Daniel on Spotify. After that Apple commercial there no way they didn't know.

This is glorious

This is truly amazing, this is honestly a really cool art piece to come out of such a unique brilliant artist

Awesome video ❤DJ

Yeeees

Was Daniel a fan of Ken Nordine?

If god spoke and said “let there be light” that would suggest that god itself is darkness. Otherwise there would be no reason to let there be light. The vibration of consciousness, the spoken word, creates light and color

My yellow in this case is not so mellow

Amazing

Awesome