LIVESTREAM February 25, 2022 9:00 am PDT
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A February 2022 session, among the earliest livestreams. Van takes questions and figures out the format in real time. The channel is two months into live sessions.
Transcript
and good morning everyone david lynch gives those weather reports he used to do it on the radio i don't know if he still does it on the radio
and um the joke was that weather's the same every day in los angeles so sometimes the weather reports would
be i'm looking out my window and i see someone carrying an umbrella
but um joke with my friends that the best weather in the united states of america
is in my yard where we keep the hammock okay so you know i'm trying to
refine this live cast as we go week by week and one of the things i'm
doing is when i make the announcement like live stream friday people leave comments
and then when i post the live stream before it goes live people leave comments and that i try to write down my
favorite comments or questions no questions i write down the questions from from the uh from the patreon page
so i'm going to start with those and then when i run out of those questions uh or
i see over like over here is the is the chat from youtube i'll glance over if i see something that catches my eye i read it and then
it just kind of gets chaotic in the end and i'm at the at peak hunger so i give up at some point okay so l
simmons asks how do you deal with perfection how do you make the leap to start a project
when do you know to leave it alone either in the planning stages or when you've reached your limits
so tom sachs has quoted me as saying and i don't know i don't remember ever saying
this he said the first i said the first rule of filmmaking is you must finish
the project it's it's it's an absolute i don't i've made thousands of short videos that are like standalone from
scratch short videos maybe i've given up on like three four
and i probably come back to them but you absolutely have to finish them because you need to be taught a lesson
about where your inadequacies are you need to like endure the humiliation of oh god this was horrible
what was i thinking and you need to fail and you need that discomfort and that
redemption for the next time it's like comedian stand-up comedians talk about how essential bombing is
and a lot of comedians can't handle it and they just cut and run and that's the end of them so to start
a a movie you really has to have to me and this is none of this stuff is
absolute i'm talking about the my favorite ones the ones that are that are that i think are my best work
it has to like kind of like three things have to happen and i know that sounds like a story code like beginning middle and end but like
you sort of need to like the ingredients for the idea
must have latent within them or manifest within them sort of like
three turns so like a setup a conflict and then a you know uh your solution which you might not know
at the outset so let me see what why did we i could i should just go grab
i should use a specific example so the film i or the video i posted
yesterday was an idea from one of you guys or from maybe several of you guys that said oh do about tool kits and then i did one
about the swiss army knife and then someone else said do one about like just the starter kit that's like
the next level up from from from the swiss army knife and so my thought with that is like thank you that's one less idea i have to
come up with but then just i don't know if it's habit or what it is but you know probably a guy who's
just like oh this is the milwaukee blah blah blah and it's blah blah and it has 400 rpms that video probably gets way more views
than the thing i want to make but the thing i want to make is like has a little bit more to it so mine is
just like it had like philosophy in it like do not buy cheap tools and don't don't if you're gonna buy if if the thing you want to make you're like i'm
just gonna buy the cheap don't make the thing because you're already saving the money by making the thing and
don't save the money by buying earn the expensive tool by making the thing and there's no such thing as oh i'm just gonna buy this tool i just need to use
it for this one project and then i'm not gonna use it again so i'm just going to get the the black and decker one
no you're not going to throw the tool away get good tools anyway i wanted to make a you know i've been using tools my whole life and the
my philosophy of tools is like i learned the hard way so i wanted to make something about modules
and the sort of hook was that well i'm going to make something with the five tools that
i suggest people buy for their first five tools and the thing i'm going to make and this was organic because i had this
incredible tool that tom sachs gave me and uh most people he gives them stuff they put
it on the shelf and i think that's [ __ ] greedy they give him a tool or something they give him he did spyderco knives he gives them a tool
uh spyderco he gives them something useful that you're supposed to use and yeah for his collectors that don't ever do anything like that sure i get it but
like it was important to me that one i used this thing and two it was a it's a leatherman
uh and two that this thing i can't lose it i can't you can't i can't i can't lose
it and it can't get stolen so because there's only 100 of them in the world and he has thousands of friends and thousands of
people he owes favor to and he picked me out of the hundred and i was very honored by that um
so i said well the first thing you do when you get tools in my mind because i have a new york city apartment mind the first thing you do is you build
storage for the tools for the whatever tool you bought and you use the tool you bought has now
alleviated the task of building because whereas before you had to like drill a hole in the wall with a screwdriver you just bought your
screw gun and now you know it's a little bit easier to make your tool holding things so
somehow i came up with the idea i there's there's these five dollar or two for five dollar magnets from harbor freight that are like super powerful
and you can't just mount the pa first of all it has a hook riveted to it and so you need one of the tools in my
suggested tool lists to to grind off the uh the hook and then below the hook
there's a hole and the hole you could just screw into the wall but it's gonna the screw is gonna pull out of the drywall and it's or
it's gonna unscrew because that that that uh you can't tighten a screw into drywall
tight enough so that it will hold the magnet from spinning so i make i do this for hooks
too i make these little wooden flanges mount the mount the uh magnet to the flange and
then mount the flange with four screws to the to the drywall uh
and that was the like that was the hook that was like the payoff it's like okay it's these five tools and then and then um
mount it and then while i'm i riveted the the um magnet
to the flange and that's sort of uh you know encouraging you well there's more tools
to get you don't this wasn't in the five the rivet gun wasn't in the five but this is what a rivet gun is used for
and now that i'm posting every week another factor is can i get this done in a week and i'm struggling with that even
though i've made so many of these things and that's all i've really been doing for 20 years that time budget still
is sometimes i'm working way too much and i'm like you know ignoring my family just because like i thought i could accomplish i thought i
could get it finished i thought i could i thought i could you know bring it across the finish line
just working you know my regularly scheduled work hours and those that you just have to grind
and it's part that guy ave you know that guy that youtube channel ave he um he says sometimes you just have to
eat a [ __ ] sandwich and that's that's what it is it's just you just gotta grind and and get through it but
yeah the process i mean when you get to the point where you're like oh [ __ ] this sucks i hate this i
don't want to do it you're on to some that's the point where your subconscious is on to something and
there's this great quotation from sol lewitt in his i think it's called sentences on
conceptual art and one of the sentences is an artist must not
change his plan halfway through or it must not change his plan until completion or else he will just simply repeat
himself because you're gonna make a compromise and know what the pro the point of all these things is you're gonna like get
some you get some little tiny little the more you do the more of these things you do the more little bits of wisdom
you get in completing them in the beginning you get gigantic bits and it's not necessarily wisdom it's
more gigantic like slaps across the face like oh you just ruined
a eight like uh you just ruined five people's days because you didn't bring the
correct chord you know um so how do you make the leap to start a
project so now i write it out um now i write it out some uh and i you
know sometimes i that you a lot of times your idea for a video like oh i got an idea for a video uh
brushing your teeth it's like well that's not an idea for a video like a lot of times your idea for a video is like
one of the acts of the video it's like because to me a story is like it's like i said
it's like it's about three things so a lot of times your big idea is the end is the payoff
so you know when i feel like when i have that or when i have like three things that are floating
i'm like oh okay okay that's it and then i just out of out of wisdom i try to connect the tissue
as carefully as i can and you also have to give yourself multiple days i don't know how casey did it in one day
i don't know how the hell he did it casey neistat i don't know how he's able to do that that's super human and also he's in very good filmmaking
shape which is like any other thing um but usually you gotta plan sleeping on it
because you'll get to a point in the puzzle you'll push your brain i can't figure out blah blah blah and then you sleep on it and your
subconscious digests it digests it and then generally speaking you got to put in three hours of like worthless
labor worthless writing labor and then it'll just come to you and it'll come
from without you'll be like whoa it's a total mystery
and then i go so for example uh i guess i could i'm not going to give away
i did a a a peer discussion like almost a month ago because the video is coming out fro this coming
friday a week from today and um the theme that we came up with was pretty hard there was a lot of
directions to go with it and oh it's hard to talk about it in
just general terms but anyway the hook for this video where i'm ready to like start i started shooting today i don't
have the script or anything but i do have the beats i have like the three and then and then and then things
and it sort of just revolves around this birthday present that i gave i give a friend of mine the same present
every year and it's sort of the story because the first time i gave him a
birthday present i didn't give it to him it was a commission someone hired me to make me and casey hire me and casey to make his
50th birthday present and it was a video and the night of the
screening of the video was the most important night of my career and
will remain no matter what happens that was the most important night of my career important day of my career no
matter what happens if i become president of the united states that will have been the most important and i knew it
and it went all to hell and somehow whatever but the present i give him every year is not
the same present that i gave him that casey and i were commissioned to make him that night but anyway i haven't even told you right now what
the theme is supposed to be what we're working towards but that's what the video is sort of about and
i did the yeah so that one i'm ready to make but you know i'm on a tight schedule that's another thing
put your light yourself on fire put your back against the wall and then you will you'll you'll surprise
yourself you'll come up with stuff sacks tom sacks when he would go i'm always quoting saks because he's my teacher and like
we've been working together for so long um and i kind of remember everything he's ever said
and uh i remember when he was young he was like 35 or 36 and he was doing he was either doing an ah he might have
been both he was doing like an interview over the phone for a magazine and then i heard the same advice he was
at an art school and he was like if you guys really want to be artists he was like you should drop out of art school right now
go steal a car and drive it through the front window of a 7-eleven and start there you know and
he also said get into debt as fat like if you're an artist and you start making money a little bit of money get into debt as fast as you can buy go like
overspend on something so that you have to keep going you have to keep doing it which i don't recommend that that's insane and that's i'm [ __ ] still in
that [ __ ] right now okay so that's question number one oh when do you know it says when do you
know to leave it alone either in the planning stages or when you're reached your limit i'd say you definitely leave it alone if it's in the planning stages it's
probably just not ready yet you gotta really think it through just leave it alone that but once you start you gotta finish it even if it's different from what you started out set out to do
um so jonas asked process what's my process for organizing
a new space i love this question okay um i don't like okay i like the process of moving into a new space but i love the spaces i leave behind and
there's like a sadness like a that's a life thing like when your kids he's out of the crib you know like if you have a child and
it's like he transitions from the crib and now he's in a bed it's like you're glad he's in the bed but you're also
like oh man the crib days are over so i think this is my favorite um
this is my favorite studio so far and i think i say that about every single one and i've had five or six first thing i do
is the floor the floor has to be great um so when casey got us the spot in um uh i'm sorry in tribeca
floor was great thing about new york city spaces in general is that the floors are great
and i believe tribeca is where they made the sales they made built sales
let's see there's tribeca or soho i'm pretty sure it's tribeca is where they made sales when new york was a big like
shipping place for with sailboats and so the the spaces are very long and big and the ceilings
are high and the floors generally are beautiful so that had beautiful floors we painted them gray and then whenever we hired someone new like their first job was to paint
the floors gray which is a [ __ ] because because we worked around the basically around the clock and you'd have to figure out when you could get in there and paint it when we weren't going
to be there you need to put everything up on little blocks and then remove the blocks and paint the ball anyway so i start with the floor i had a space uh
i've moved i've lived in los angeles on two separate times and when i lived in los angeles from 2010 to 2013 i lived in
a in a house where rodrigo amarante the musician rodrigo amerante now lives and it had a little annex it was a tiny
little annex next to the house i think it was smaller than this room i'm pretty sure and that was my studio like my editing studio and little workshop in
there and it had cork floors and those were i was like these are [ __ ] amazing because you can drop
fragile things on cork floors and it doesn't break it just kind of bounces off and also um
but it's also hard and tough and like you don't they scuff a little bit but it's tough and you can kind of use it as a cutting board
you don't really want to slice up the cork floor but you know if you're too lazy and you're cutting something you can cut it on the so i love cork is my
favorite surface so for this space this was just like a a shed like it's called a tough shed i think you buy them at home depot had a little porch in the
front we added three extra feet and then no we enclosed the porch which bought us three extra square feet or three extra feet
not three extra square feet um and so i said oh i want the cork floor i want a cork floor in there here because
it just had like a deck floor like two by fours or whatever and so i knew i wanted a specific kind of cork
floor i found it was at lumber liquidators it was like one of the eight items that they would not ship so i had to find it luckily i'm in a big major
city i had to find like the distribution center where they have them and i went and i drove it was far away it was like
two hours away i drove what car did i have must have drove the land cruiser and i drove
it was so far away and uh it was like a warehouse it was
unbelievably huge on the inside like way bigger than like force football fields it was gigantic inside and then they
brought all the tiles i ordered uh and it was just like you know the
boxes that were like this big in this enormous space like on one little pallet
i brought them home you have i had to get special glue so i had to look up like a place that was a floor place and i found it and it was this special glue
that's designed for this and then you have to and then i had to go there's a whole diagram that comes with the tiles there's a whole tech method
for un for unboxing them uh and for putting them down and i had to do like a template of matching them all because
the glue dries like sort of fast and also super slow it's like the [ __ ] worst i i it was [ __ ] hell i'm never
doing it again and i said isabelle don't you ever let me do anything this messy ever again because you had to work and also it was summer it was boiling hot no
air conditioning in here and it was like you had to troll this adhesive on the floor
and it it dried like so that it wouldn't adhere the [ __ ] cork that it was like 10
minutes and you wouldn't be able to adhere the cork but then it took like eight days to dry completely it was one of those [ __ ] nightmares
so okay so i started with i start with the floor i don't regret it it's wonderful i'm never doing it again but i start with the floor i don't know the floor
has to be it's also i judge restaurants that way too like a restaurant is only as good as how cool the floor is and like my favorite restaurant there's a place called
fenelli's in new york and they just have the hundred-year-old floor and i think that's what i love about that i mean it's a great restaurant sorry
okay and then you know i've done this a bunch of times desks to me are the most important you have to have the desk the working
surface and so i sort of build everything around the desks and shelves where everything goes and um
beyond that those are mounted to the wall beyond that almost everything has is modular because that's another new york
thing it's also like a japan thing it's modular so there's it uh i'll just do it this way
so in front of me is um is uh a long wide desk uh is a wide desk and then a a smaller desk so this is a desk that's on casters and so this is mounted whoops this part is
mounted to the wall and then this part rolls so i can move it in front of the chalkboard and i can wherever
and then i have a trunk here that's also you can sit on it and it also contains all my super 8 stuff
um but so i do that and then i'm really conservative about stuff
i abs if i had a billion dollars tomorrow probably the first thing i would do is get rid of almost all of my stuff
because i don't like storing things i don't like oh i i i it drives me crazy because it all has to be maintained and
i basically want my space like the fundamental of my space is that when it's it should be relatively easy to reset
and everything has a space where it specifically goes and you should be able to remove just about
every single thing with one hand and no stacking things and no
things behind things so no like i have to move this to get to this and those are like the those are
non-negotiable i mean obviously you have to break rules every now and then but like one out of out of a hundred
applications you can do that maybe less um so those are sort of my design principles and then it's like how cheap
can i make it and how fast can i make it if i have to make it like with the desks you can get these big deep
they're like reinforced shelf brackets and you can just use them for an 18-inch desk there's like 14-inch ones yeah
they're 15 each which is expensive but you know an ikea desk is gonna be more you know you need four of them for
this thing and ikea desk is gonna be more than 60 bucks um i don't know i think i start with like
the computer and electricity stuff like how's that going to go and then kind of work around that but
what i'm aiming for like the the thing i am my guiding organizational principle is space conservation what i
want more than anything is an open open space that's the most valuable thing and so
that's that's what that's what guides me and that's kind of how i set it up and i just you know i build a shelf put my
books on it unpack from the box put the books on it you know i have these four
you know weatherproof military cases that i kind of use as like on-site storage and then i also use them as transportation to move my stuff from new
spaces so that's kind of how it's done okay acid kawasaki asks what do i remember most about meeting inverter herzog
he was incredibly generous and he was so integrated into his life
he was so it was so natural the thing his work in his life and he was so gracious
so we hired him for a film saks hired him for a film to to narrate a film called
paradox bullets and i believe herzog budgeted it was a flat
fee but herzog budgeted four hours to do the voice over and he said oh i pat you know i gave you
extra you know i put extra time in there so that we can you know we can hang out and that's beautiful
because less generous people would just want to get through it as fast as possible and get the hell out of there
but he four hours it took us 30 minutes you know we went in there bang he just he's
a pro i mean he just and i one of the one of the not the most memorable was something that was
incredibly memorable was he's in the booth we're in the control room with the headphones on
and then he has mice or tom and my script and then you're like okay and you're like and you hear him read it
and you're like oh my god it's just like a burner heart sock movie it sounds exact cause you
when you know you're writing for werner herzog you write it like verner herzog but he took us you know
we were in the car and we were driving and i said i said i i said
what do you think of la because la is my favorite city in the world and i've been to almost all of the major cities i've been a lot of places and i lived in new
york for 20 years and la is my favorite and he i said what do you think of l.a and he said los angeles
it's the most vital city in america and probably the world and that was like right in the beginning
and i thought that was so beautiful and then he bought us fish and chips for lunch he treated us to fish and ships on the chelsea pier and i don't think he'd
ever had fish no that's not possible that's not true i made that part up he he i had fish and chips i don't remember what tom got and i don't remember what
he got he's just super super generous super cool guy i mean i remember that day very well
but you know he he donated all of the film rights to his
foundation all if he doesn't own his um his films they belong to his like the
werner herzog foundation or something and i think they sort of support independent filmmakers
but uh i said to him i s i was writing i was writing a movie and i had never
really made a feature and oh i had we had made a space program tom and i and i said you know i don't know it's weird the
whole movie system is weird and you know i don't really like it and uh i said the kind of movie i want to make i said
i know you don't he's famous for not watching movies he watches like one or two movies a year i said i don't
i know you don't watch movies but i want to tell you about what my favorite movie is
and i'll just i'll just tell you i'll tell you the name of it and i'll describe my favorite movie to you just to give you an idea of like what i
aspire to make and i said it's called the rider and he said what did he say my foundation voted that
the best film of the year or something like that like he had been working with chloe zhao like he told me all this
all these like little inside things about that movie and and i don't know that was beautiful that
the one movie maybe he watched that year so and then you know she made chloe zhao went on and made um
made a nomad land and won the best director i think best picture maybe best screenplay like the big three maybe not
um so yeah those are some of the most memorable things um but probably i remember his generosity
he also showed us a cut of his film that he was working on and it's the one called like something like love inc
or llc like family love llc something it's about a japanese man who's a professional like
they have this thing in japan where you can hire if you've lost a husband or if you get a divorce you can hire an actor to come and pretend he's your
kid's father or something like this i don't know it's very strange but it's super cool so he made a film about that
and he um and he was the he had a team of of two editors and they were editing it and they built a sequence for him
and he watched it and it wasn't color correct or anything it didn't really look like a movie yet because it didn't have the color correction and the grading and all of that it just looked
like kind of like video and it was video um you know most cinema these days is video
and um he said to his editor he was like look up gregorian wedding
music no georgian wedding music baroque or something like that and the kid looked it up and then he started
playing it he was like yes that one and then they dragged it in and it went from looking like kind of nothing kind of like awkward
video of these two people in a boat in tokyo to a herzog movie just he just put the
thing on there he just was like no yeah that one he put on i was like whoa and then after you know the grading and stuff then it's like
anyhow that's another thing i remember okay what do i remember okay what causes people to shy away from repairs slash
making objects how do you think about getting them to make this change in their lives i think people just don't want to do it they aren't interested
they don't care and if people are a little interested or if something breaks and they're like i should fix this they don't want to break it more
i think that's what it is i think people like they don't they just deal with it
being broken because they don't want to like take it apart or blah blah blah and they don't want to deal they don't want to break it more
and then like things are just so unbelievably cheap these days a lot of things are unbelievably cheap
these days that it's like i'm the fool for fixing certain things because just buy the new one for 10 bucks
but i think that's what deters them it's just you don't want to break it more and then it's like a [ __ ] mystery i don't
know i you know i don't know how to fix anything this i'm going to open this thing up like i couldn't imagine
owning a car with one of those 1500 keys and you can't get them
duplicated you have to like go to the dealer and show the title and it's like a whole process because you don't want your car to get stolen like
i don't think i'm gonna ever cross isabelle might but i don't think i'm ever crossing that rubicon to having the
1500 key car where you like push no i can't i can't we got it like i have four keys for all of our cars
um [Music] how do you and then he says uh how do you think about getting them to make this change in their lives i don't really i just try to
show examples not trying to change anybody oh what's the worst advice i've ever
received that's easy the worst advice i've ever received is do what you love and the money will come automatically oh really
oh okay all right so they just they just give it to you i love um milkshakes i love eating
milkshakes so they're automatically going to pay me it's horse [ __ ] no it's it's almost the other way around
um okay now i'm going to look at the comments over here time is it 9 36 cool so
uh [Music] how to buy your first fixer-upper motorbike never buy a fixer-upper vehicle that's my mom i think taught me today's my mother's birthday my mom i think taught me that it might have been my dad
it's like don't buy it if it doesn't work like that's the that's the bottom
that's the bottom because you know there's systems and there's a chain in there there's like a chain of things that aren't going to
work if something doesn't work but i guess fixer-upper could mean it's not as good as you want it to be but that's a good idea
but then i think i would have to for a fixer-upper motor but for a fixer-upper motorbike i think i would
have to buy one and do it or buy one for somebody else and do it i'm going to write it down though
so that's who who said that oh jp davidson how do you buy your f how to buy your first fixer upper motorbike
we call motorcycles in america um okay this is a great question uh uh clay rodri good morning everyone van i was curious would you consider making a limited
number of higher tier patreon levels where you might comment on users projects i'm sure there'd be a few of us who'd pay big
yes i would consider i'm gonna do this i'm gonna build the patreon i don't know maybe in quarters
like you know like uh finance fiscal quarters maybe do that see how much like it's really working
out right now because it has actually had the effect that i wanted it to have where and it's because you guys give me so many ideas and
you also like um sometimes there's a consensus for like things that i should be making
that it's one less thing i have to think about also it um all the little patreon projects
further give me more ideas for um videos i should make and it's it's working out so yeah i have
considered higher tiers people have suggested that um the thing that's hard about this is that the the profit
margins and stuff like um you know the five dollar tier is kind of the best for everybody
because it's scalable you know like everyone has access to this thing whereas if i'm doing even if it's
like you sort of have the money no the dollar figures just sound crazy because if you work in a job if you work in a job even if
you're making a hundred thousand dollars a year that's two thousand dollars a week right and
if someone working in a job like isabel my wife is the kind of person who has a job that makes she
doesn't have a job now but the the jobs that's the kind of range of what she's paid i mean it's more than that but if you were to take a job it
would be over a hundred thousand and that's a couple thousand dollars a week right and so
oh god i don't know i would have to have someone help me figure out that what what would be the most what would be the most
financially financially uh optimized way to do it because it's gonna bump something else out it's gonna you know something has to
move in order to be able to do that i'm taking time away from some other thing and then when you get to these kind of
more exclusive things they don't scale as well and then the price you have to pay to offset the scaling stuff the price i would have to
pay is like stupid it's like ridiculous it's stupid and um
but yeah i'll consider it um also i wouldn't you know the little technique
like it might seem simple in your mind as an idea of oh you could just do it this way this way this way this way you just do a separate youtube channel and
people upload and you watch it and blah blah blah blah but like that would all have to be worked out like how what is exactly the process by which you do it
but i don't know it's a good it's a good idea okay what else good morning
my comment on users projects i wonder how you do it though just like one day a week i don't know it's a good idea
it's a good idea um oh rachel padilla do you wear the same thing every day or just when on camera are you a uniform dresser
i have different seasons so yeah i wear the same thing every day but in the summer i have like white pants and like a light
tan shirt or a white shirt that i wear and um and then this is a gift from sax this is
like a filson hunting wool hunting shirt and i wear it when it's cold in here i wear it over my
cotton shirt and it's just so that i don't it's for continuity editing for when i'm on camera and then it's
also one less thing i have to do and i just don't [ __ ] care anymore i lived in new york it's fashion i've been in italian vogue i've been on uh paper
magazines beautiful people issue you know i just don't [ __ ] give a [ __ ] and um i'm like a dad
and i have a boy and it's just i want tough clothes that last a long time that fit well that i don't have to think about i do have my shirts tailored
though and i have a little little patch a little a little label sewn on them
uh okay did you yeah so yeah i am a uniform dresser why is la the best city okay a lot of it has to do with my individual point of view it's the best city
probably for me and therefore in my mind it's the best city for everyone but that's not true okay if you don't love cars and motorcycles and moving around
and the day time then you know new york city is not the best city for you it's not the best city in the world but i love the daytime
i love being out in wild places i love moving my body through physical space at
an irresponsibly fast rate of speed i like cool cars i like to be able to get out of where
i'm living with relative uh enjoyment to adventure places
um la so la has this thing about it it's extremely expensive to live here and i know new york is extremely expensive too
and i've lived in those two places but like la for the homeowner like the taxes and the income taxes and this taxes it's
like brutally expensive and they the the people whoever determines the politicians that determine those tax brackets and all of that
um they know that they can leverage because this is the best state in the country it's unbelievably great
california is unbelievably incredible it's like my favorite country in the world is california and
you get the public stuff in la there's like an accessibility to the regular people whoever you are you have access
to the things that the ultra rich people have for the most part that the ultra
rich people also enjoy and and a lot of the things here are world class you know a lot of the things here are
are world class and to me world class means when you go there you hear accents from all over the world you hear people from all over the world with different
accents from all over there and they've come here from wherever they're from and la has and one of the i think like a particular like
example of that is the malibu country mart which is basically a strip mall but it's a world-class strip mall in the
you know in this in the in the city of strip malls and like numerous people are like yeah i
see jerry seinfeld there and you go and once i was there with my son we were going it was like a saturday morning and
we were just going to get he wanted oh these things called yogis which are little tiny little like mentos but they're made out of yogurt and i was we
were searching the whole city for them and i didn't internet search it because i think i was trying to make them false get them to fall asleep but anyway wouldn't give up so we went to malibu
country mart which you know you drive up the pacific coast highway to get there it's [ __ ] unbelievably beautiful and we pull in
there's a classic car show going no it's like a car show not classic car shirt there's like four gts lamborghinis like roush porsches
uh land cruisers um you know ferrari gt250s and then there's just the regular teenager kids and then there's the kids from all over the city who are you know in there and then across the street is malibu lagoon which is like
and then there's surfrider beach which is this you know it's from big wednesday that was their beach and it's just kind of for everybody and the i think there's
some law about allowing access to the beaches here and you know between mansions there's little
like walkways that go down like in point doom there's like little walkways that go down into the into the ocean that's a huge part of it also la is like a city
within a country i'm sorry it's like a country within a city like i live in vermont in la you know there's like a new jersey
in la that's right over the hill over there there's like there is a sawmill in downtown l.a where
that's where we got our kitchen table from they mill all of the the trees that fall down in storms that the city chops down
so there's on the bottom of my table it says sycamore uh hollywood boulevard or something like
that that's where it came from like written in like that grease pen [ __ ] um what else
uh there's an ocean i'm on top of a mountain right now six miles down there there is the pacific
ocean and it's full of surfers that i have run into in bali indonesia
okay and in mexico and i'm not even a real surfer and the people who come here and you know david lynch lives here
werner herzog lives here um it's warm that's a huge factor i'm sorry weather is
huge weather matters and guess what mammoth mountain which
holds a candle to the alps and is like america's it's like the west's best secret because i think people are just
like oh that's for people from los angeles and san francisco like mammoth is [ __ ] unbelievably great and i've
skied jackson hole and aspen and vale and telluride mammoth is [ __ ] great and
you know we have you know you have access to that you have lax you have and then the people are friendly and
then you have mexico it's i don't know i just i love it i love it here um i also
i'm i love topanga a lot and it's it's no place like it okay so that's my mexico i mean that's
my la spiel so joby cole says back to mexico soon and when i get that when we get the
truck done when we get the engine swapped which is supposed to be i mean i can't afford it i have to do all this work so i can afford it but
um [Music] i bought the engine in the transmission but now i have to do the labor and i've been online i've been there was supply chain disruption it took like
eight months six months or something to get the actual engine and then there's this company who does them they have such a back order
of doing this engine swap that i'm like not quite in line i'll be in i'm not quite at the end of the line and i think
in four more weeks i deliver the truck up there and it's in montana and i'll drive it back from montan not the truck the lancaster and
i'll drive it back from montana to make sure it works to test the reliability and then at some point
after that we'll start doing like mexico trips with the family but i need like a really good
vehicle the tacoma's also broken i got to fix that but i need like i need the land cruiser
to work and that's that's the mexico plan and i just pray that i can afford the whole thing
um oh connor ferguson van as a hat guy would you ever consider putting your logo on headwear i think friday next friday i think we launched the hats and they just look like
i only have the rejected one over there i could run out to the i'll go get one 15 seconds
[Music] so oh it's sometimes they open easily and sometimes they don't anyhow it looks like this can't see it hold on it looks [ __ ] great i think took like
four tries to get it right but um i think they come out next friday we're trying to deal with
we have a company that we work with we're trying to organize some kind of like discount for patrons and like early release for patrons i guess i have to talk to isabelle about doing that this
week i mean cat's out of the bag now but uh yeah so yeah the hat's coming out i think next week okay do you have old
tools that may belong to someone important do you use them or keep them aside as reminders of that relationship i have
when i first started working at tom sachs's studio he i was kind of new i was like a year in
and he gave me this and he was like i bought you this in tokyo and uh this stays in my desk because i
love it so much um and then one of you guys gave me these beautiful swiss tools screwdrivers i also have this is a number two and number three there's also a number one in my toolbox in the
workshop and then i have that multi-tool that tom gave me
um if i went through my tools i could pick out things yeah so-and-so gave me this but generally i buy them myself
oh what's i love to see patreon content on your process
techniques behind the scenes like the way you showed your script last time or spoke about videos having
three turns access yeah so logan dean says um would love to see patreon content on your process techniques behind the scenes i just someone else
suggested that and i wrote it down and put it in the ideas creative process
from scratch is what i wrote it's hard to do because
wow everything's hard to do so yeah yeah okay well i'll probably will do
that i probably will do that um [Music] van please ask nick garza to buy us hats well nick garza buy them hats
do i have a bucket list i found one once i was like
i don't know when it was i was like packing or something and i it's probably up there i could go through i'm not gonna do it right now but it was in one of those and i had found one it was it
was before the movie came out the bucket list movie so i called it something else like things to do before you die and there were so many on there that i
had done between the time i wrote it and the time i uh i i did it but i don't really have one i
just have things that like i just feel like i guess so but i feel like i'm in the process of doing i think that's the way to think about
these things is like oh no no i'm in the process i'm doing it like i'm going to mexico with my family like that's a bucket list thing like a big [ __ ]
awesome mexico adventure and a truck i want to drive to uh with the family i want to drive to panama
um you know that would all be youtube stuff i have to figure out how to you know do the youtube i'm going to turn off the heat
you know to keep the youtube pace up i don't know it can be done but yeah that's all i mean that's step
one getting this truck built is like step one of my overland
life which i haven't really touched i mean there was the baja videos and stuff but i haven't really touched on
in real time because of uh kovid so yeah bucket list stuff no it's all coming very slowly to me because the
task at hand you know i've been so busy like living my dreams that i've not been dreaming them i think something like that
um but i definitely have things that i that i want to do but you know when you have a kid it all
it kind of changes it's like i want to do these things with my family like a lot of these things my son keeps
talking about africa i don't think he knows what it means he's like three he's like keeps telling me all these stories and it's like in africa they
have cotton candy and it comes in and uh i want to take him to see a volcano because he loves volcanoes but you can
do that in north america um what else patches for the workwear i have patches maybe we should figure out how to do
that too what are the other rules of filmmaking you discovered with tom sachs uh
gotta have a bunch of them written down rules i don't cut on action you know that that's like that's all you need to know really for editing cut on action cut
when something's happening i don't really know is there anywhere we can watch the nice brothers episodes yeah just on youtube i
think can you just i think if you uh search on youtube nightstand brothers
hbo thank you a bunch of people have uploaded them so you can find them
mishka moreno on youtube most of what you're looking for is there thank you mishka what's an all-time favorite lyric of yours
oh my god that's great someday everything's gonna be different when i paint my masterpiece i love that one that's such a beautiful song man oh my god i know that feeling oh do you know
that song when i paint my masterpiece by bob dylan the streets of rome are filled with rubble
she said she'd be there right there with me when i paint my mask that's a great song that's a great song
um i get this is this the same is colin harmon are you the same person who keeps asking me about 3d printing because i'm this is the this is like the third time i'm answering this question this week do
you have have you dabbled with any of 3d printing for custom solutions uh i have not
i've um i sort of come across things every once in a while where i'm like ah i need to do this with a 3d printer like
for instance these super 8 i want to do a video about how i make these things because they're so effing hard to make
so this little gear right here this is a super 8 cartridge with a 12 foot loop in it which is about
at i don't know it's about three minutes long at eight frames per second or something like that i don't really know because you crank at
your own speed anyhow um the film is in here right and it goes into a loop right here and then in the middle
this thing this is a a sprocket or a cog and it's got little teeth in it that fit into the super 8 film in there and in order
to get the cartridges with the sprocket that fits the super 8 film that you buy off
the shelf and get developed at i think one of two labs left in
america that develops super eight film uh there's got to be more but there's two in the valley um in order for that film to work in
that machine you have to buy the vintage cartridges because you can go to toys r us well i guess towards the rest you can order new
ones of these machines from the internet but the film stock has a different hole pattern
on the film and a different hole pattern on the sprocket and so for that that would be something that like i would have to i could like
3d print if i wanted to like make more of these cartridges out of the newer cartridges
which i would want to do because the new cartridge the lid is screwed to the box to the container and the old
cartridges it's glued and you have to pry it up and bust it out and you have to buy them vintage from
ebay and i they're kind of expensive vintage from ebay i just bought like three because i'm gonna do a uh i think
i'm gonna do a video about making those but yes i've thought about it also i'd like to make a blower basket for my um
for the heater ac in the in the land cruiser because they're kind of hard to find oem and i'm worried that it's like god imagine you're air conditioned you're
driving to mexico and the just the basket for the blower it's like the fan blades uh like breaks and you don't have heat i
mean you don't have electricity down there in the summer so i kind of want to that would be a good experiment
but i'm yeah it's a total mystery to me like that whole thing and i just
a lot of my life is dedicated to freeing myself from having to use a computer like i don't know how old you are colin but
um the computer to me trying to think of something that's
analogous that it's an extremely annoying machine that i'm forced to use all the time because that's i don't know it's a bicycle for the mind
and it's like all the stuff's made on it and i just do not enjoy i mean i like sitting here talking to you guys but
you know i'd much rather like drive ride my motorcycle right down to spectre which is the
vintage land cruiser parts place down in chatsworth all right i'd rather get on my motorcycle ride down to spectre go to the window look through the catalog get
the blower basket and then ride back here then like program in the oh wait no i haven't oh
i have to do this oh yeah i didn't set i like do that for the [ __ ] blower basket thing like
i don't know but i mean i should do it i should you know it doesn't pay to be a luddite and i should
but i don't know 3d printing kind of seems like it's like the same kind of the same
thing as buying something i don't know though but i'm probably wrong okay what else cam radio operator i saw the radio on
your shelf during the grey girth and what this this is just a walkie-talkie that i stole from saks and then i broke
and uh we just use it as a walkie-talkie but maybe it is a ham radio it's super cheap they're like 30 bucks and they have
cb and all this other stuff um goes to the electricity house and the
bones of her face yeah that's great what's in the indianapolis one oh that's tom sachs's wedding it was like i gave him one of these things he and sarah for their
wedding present and that's just like the leftover the leftover super eight that didn't fit
in tom and sarah's uh cartridge uh matthew b crawford on the podcast yes i'd love to uh my favorite artist i've seen him live 10 times wow
someone asked what makes tarkovsky the goat i did i say that i don't know that i said that he's the goat i don't think i would say that
but he's uh what is it it's just it's the trance that he's for me that he's able to like put me into and then these like unbelievably sophisticated ideas
i don't know i just there's something about him it's like almost
also his book is incredible but his you know his cinema is almost like literature
so complicated and good i also like how crappy it all kind of looks i also love that tarkovsky made
this movie called um the sacrifice pretty sure it was the last film he made
and um it was like a knock-off bergman movie he shot it in sweden
and then he used one of bergman's most um he was like the guy who played the
husband and scenes from a marriage not the remake that just came out the bergman scenes from a marriage he's like the star and it's a
you watch it and you i think it's in swedish and you're reading the subtitles you're like whoa no no this isn't bergman this
is turca and uh also he's like it's low tech what he's doing i mean hard to do super super hard to do but not high tech
and there's something that talks to me about that um
aside from the obvious liking sharing subscribing etc this is from business aaron um is there anything us patrons
can do to help you out other than ask you to do more stuff oh my gosh not yet but there will be
um i guess spread the word i don't know spread the word i'm so psyched i have over 600
patrons now i'm very happy and it's very very helpful and it's uh it's um it's
there's that humbling word and it it's it's pretty [ __ ] great i gotta say it's very cool
um send an effects kit to build can i send you an air fix killed to build i love scale models legacy no you cannot send me an air fix kill to build i don't know what that is
i have too much don't send me stuff i have too much stuff uh let me okay
all right i'm hungry i love you guys uh the next one of these is um
i think in two weeks i think a week from friday and then this coming friday is gonna be the
on the patreon is going to be a peer interview that i did with someone and then hopefully thursday but maybe
friday will be the youtube video that we discuss the ideas for in the patreon peer discussion but thank you guys so
much and have a good weekend and these pa these live streams they get automatically uh archived and so they're
on the patreon and you can go back and watch them or if people want to watch them they're they're there they live there so
um this is all recorded and thank you very much oh and i'm going to attempt we'll see if it
works out but next friday i'm going to attempt to do also with the podcast i'm going to attempt to do a um audio only
version i don't know what that means like if you download an mp3 or if you can play it like a spotify thing i don't
really know but there's an option on patreon that says like audio so i'm going to do a video and the audio only version i'm going to make an
attempt at that next week uh okay guys have a good weekend thank you
Products & Tools Mentioned
- Lumber Liquidators mentions — cork floor material source
- Filson uses — hunting shirt mentioned
People Referenced
Werner Herzog, Chloe Zhao, Sol LeWitt, Bob Dylan, Rodrigo Amarante, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman
Books Mentioned
- Sentences on Conceptual Art
Films & Media Referenced
- Van's film with Herzog
- Chloe Zhao film, Van's favorite film
- Chloe Zhao film
- Tarkovsky film
- Bob Dylan song discussed