The Spirited Man is Van Neistat's monthly show about tools, craft, and using AI to live more analog. It's the culmination of a career early to every medium it touched , iPod's Dirty Secret (2003), an HBO series, a Werner Herzog collaboration, an SXSW premiere.
Latest Flagship
This Is My Computer: Long-Form Ep. 1. Van builds a multicam switcher cart using ChatGPT, ranks his 5 best computers, fixes a GoPro tripod shoe, and argues that AI will finally break us free from Apple's glass cage. Full show notes →
How It Works
One 30-minute flagship drops each month. Inside it: a rotating kit of segments , The Build, A Thing We Love, Ranked List, Fast Mock, and more. Across the following weeks, each segment releases as its own standalone video. One show, many entry points.
All videos → | Things I love → | Books I reference → | Films that matter →
Essays
Best maker YouTubers → | AI and analog living → | Filmmaking YouTube → | YouTube for makers → | Watching YouTube differently →
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