LIVESTREAM FRIDAY FEBRUARY 28

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A February 2022 live session, among the channel's first. Van takes viewer questions and workshops the livestream format in real time. Everything is new.

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Spiel right e e e e e e okay good morning everybody uh in keeping with tradition and in honor of the late great David Lynch the weather report um I left the house at 5 am this morning it was still dark and I had to wear a down coat until my truck heated up on the drive down but I've lost my like hard Edge New Englander tolerance for the cold so we'll say it's probably gonna be perfect today all right so the way this works is uh I leave an announcement on Thursday on the patreon and then people in the comments of the announcement write questions and then I read them in first come first serve and I try to get through all of them usually it takes an hour sometimes it goes over sometimes I quit before I'm done okay from EV guy I hope you and your family are doing well thank you we are what is your current media consumption podcast books YouTube channels movies recent favorite artist okay so I'm making I think the next like big YouTube video I'm going to publish is about my addiction to podcasts so I basically listen to podcast all day long while I'm doing labor and when I'm writing and editing I don't listen to podcasts so what I've been listening to lately uh oh my God I'm gonna make enemies just by telling you guys that I'm listening to but I listen to Joe Rogan if the I used to listen to every Joe Rogan but now it's just if I'm if I like the guests or if I'm interested in the guests or curious about the guests I love Chris Williamson uh I love trigonometry these the pod I love um this past weekend with Theo Von my favorite the thing that like my crack um is Tim Dylan and he does he publishes twice a week he does one he has one of the biggest patreons um he does patreon on like either Fridays or Saturdays and then he does uh YouTube on either Fridays or Saturdays and his most recent one I think came out yesterday and Steve Bannon was on it was so crazy uh um uh what oh and then tetr gammatron Rick Rubin I just his voice the the ads are so good the sound of the ads is so good and I recently found out that the guy who does the ads is Nico's dad and Nico is on my son's soccer team and I was like and I saw that this man in uh I don't want to I don't want to dox him but I saw this man on uh in shanga the documentary about about Rick Rubin and I was just like oh my God I know that guy I talk to that guy soccer practice every or soccer every game so that's about long and short what I'm listening to as far as podcast books try to read one book at a time I read um No Country for Old Men which is amazing because it's just a mirror of the movie for a lot of it and then there's there's like a little bit more insight into some other stuff there's just a little bit more like plot with some of the stuff that you're like whoa whoa what happened blah blah blah but it's the same Essence and I also read and bailed on oil by Upton Sinclair which is um the book that There Will Be Blood is based on I'm just those two movies that came out I think they came out the same year and I they I cannot get them out I can't stop watching them I can't get them out of my mind they're both masterpieces There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men so There Will Be Blood was based on up in Sinclair's oil exclamation What and I am more impressed that Paul Thomas Anderson was able to mine out of that book the movie than I am impressed by the book itself it is he the story he was able to pull out of that story and the preent nature of the of of of like looking back at the very beginning of the oil industry in America from now I I'm so so imp I'm even more impressed by Wes Anderson's abilities and talents and genius than I am now okay but now okay so I I started I I read I don't know hundred and something pages of that then I started listening to it on tape to fall asleep and now it's just it it just goes in too many directions so I've kind of quit I'm not interested anymore and now I'm reading um I can't remember his first name his last name's Webb he was a senator from Virginia book called Born fighting about the scotch about the Scotch Irish of which like that's most of my DNA but I don't have any contact with that I don't really have any contact because I you know I never had a relationship with my biological father and then um I guess my mother's side is probably half Scotch Irish or two-thirds or three quarters or something like that so um it's just interesting to see like oh this is where your DNA descended from and there just like the most gnarly like stubborn pigheaded crazy wild violent Maniacs so I'm reading that uh right now uh movies I'm kind of I just watched a series that Casey sent my brother sent me to uh texted me called light and magic and it's about um industrial Light and Magic the George Lucas uh facil that made all the visual effects that makes the greatest visual effects in the world I don't know if they still do but probably um I it was so blown away I was so so so and then there's this point where they abandoned the Practical effects and then it just becomes the digital effects and they try to keep the story going and I just don't give a shit after that I like really don't it's like oh it's computers and then but but these are the allstars I mean these by the way my whole livelihood everything I have George Lucas to thank he invented the nonlinear digital editing system he invented that technology his team invented that technology but and there's this one character I can't remember it's Paul something fig Paul something he was like the he was like the monsters guy he made all the monsters in Star Wars he made all the monsters in Empire he made all them he's like a monster practical guy making these incredible puppets and all of this stuff and when they went digital he like it like crushed him it was like it was over for him but Lucas made him be in charge of the just like the the mo the motion of the animated animals in the like in Jurassic Park like how would these things really move and then he would do that practically and then they would digitally build it from his practical animations he's actually make the vi the films and stuff um anyway and also movies like kind of got shitty after it went digital I was like oh but these movies these movies suck and those other movies that's probably just because I was growing up and becoming an adult and they were always making kid movies and when you're a kid Star Wars is cool but if you're 40 and you're seeing Star Wars for the first time it's probably really dumb so I don't know and they're all masterpieces and God bless him and thank you George Lucas for inventing all the sound and all the the editing systems and one of the guys on ilm who started working there like right out of I want to say high school or college um he was like yeah we had this software where you could take pictures and manipul and he he's like and then it became Photoshop and it's like he invented Photoshop and then he went back also and worked on like I don't know cookon or something so uh yeah that's movies recent favorite artists uh I don't have any new ones it's all the same it's all the Comedians and uh shop Journal yes no do you keep one not really I mean I keep a I write a list of like things I need to buy and things I need to make that's sort of a shop Journal um but it's not a conscious like thing so I just have like a kind of a to-do list and I guess that does become retroactively a shop journal and if it's crossed out in red that means I actually executed it and that was from Mory Ivan asks what is the making model of your electric motor bike okay it's an Eide Pro SS so it's like the top-of-the-line Eide Pro but it's cheaper than the I think it's like it's cheaper than the um suron of the same and it's also faster um what oh okay let's see Sabia asks I've been struggling with procrastination when it comes to making videos and I think a big part of it is self-doubt especially about original ity I've realized that my artwork is heavily influenced by you and sometimes that makes me hesitate I start thinking if I'm copying someone else's style and concept is it still ethical is it still original what points does your influence become imitation and how do you break through to find your own voice do you ever struggle with your this yourself when you start out you're only imitating I think unless you're a one in a million genius who doesn't need to ask anyone any advice ever until you're like a multi-millionaire super uh influential Steven Spielberg C caliber filmmaker and you've like reached the end of something and you want to start working with other people but I think everyone else starts out imitating don't worry about it I think there's this thing now that's not helpful but it seems helpful where people are just like publish publish publish publish I'm gonna publish this I'm gonna make a video in five seconds and I'm G to publish it no no no no don't do that don't do that like just work on the thing like work on making the thing and work on making it good and don't publish because you'll just turn everyone away so be like oh this is crap because everyone's work for the first I don't know five years is crap so uh that's what I would say I would say don't publish it and then it just doesn't matter if it's good it doesn't matter if you're imitating but you're going to learn you're going to learn through imitation and then you're eventually going to just Veer away from it but you know we're all imitating Edison so um don't worry about it uh Stephen asked I'd like to know why you never want to go to Mexico City again how was your time there uh I just think it's too confusing and too big and too there's just I don't like it I just don't like it I'm not a big fan of cities I know I've lived in Los Angeles and in New York and that's why I'm not a big fan of CI ities like to go visit for fun is like I've already lived in cities um I mean Paris obviously is incredible and uh Tokyo is incredible thing about Tokyo is it's not as foreign as you think it's like it's more like Toronto than it is like uh onomichi you know like which is another place in Japan like it's if you're a city person you go to Tokyo and you're just like oh it's just the the characters are different but they also spell it out in English and it's just like oh I'm in a different sub I'm in a different burrow of Toronto or something because it's all this post-war American Western built everything um but the people are incredible and everything works perfectly and it's very quiet and Immaculate and the everyone has great manners and everyone takes their job with the utmost like uh Integrity uh so so in that respect it's great but Mexico City I just don't care it's just too big it's just too big for me that's that's that's that's the that's fundamentally what it is like I got lost in the peripheral freeway that goes around Mexico City once and that's when I swore I'm never going back here and uh you know all the signs are destroyed and all those stre this was you know 15 years ago or something um 10 years ago how do you regulate screen time for your son from Nathan this is a great question okay this is how for every little book he has these booklets he hates reading he's he's inclined for math he probably is um he's probably uh dyslexic he hates reading it it it it spins him out he he's six I don't think he knows the alphabet yet um you know opro was reading at 4 she was like reading book like fullon books uh so the way we do it is there's these little uh reading books that are like 10 pages long and they're and uh you know whatever 20 pages long or something for every one of those he reads he gets five minutes of screen time on the iPad um and he's not allowed to watch YouTube because he just gets CRA he turns into an addict just a crazy maniac addict he starts acting like the YouTuber and he watches annoying YouTubers he starts acting like them and talking like them so extreme special occasions less than maybe once a month he can watch YouTube um and then I for like the last hour of my day between seven and 8 after it put the baby to bed um he and I like will watch an hour of like what I consider a masterpiece so we're watching uh Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade right now um what tool do you wish you could get rid of but is just to useful to throw away the computer I wish I could get rid of this and throw it away and never use it again too useful bicycle for the mind um that was from Oscar Faith asks what's your biggest life lesson so far something you wish someone would have told you when you were 20 you really got to stay focused stay focused on one thing pick a Target it could be a short-term Target and just get really good at it and exploit all the all the virtues are true the virtues will serve your success all of them you know uh I have them written down where are they I'm getting them I'm getting them I know exactly where they are okay Cardinal ver virtues these are from Plato Prudence courage Temperance which means self-control and Justice so you get those right stay focused work card also in this one I struggle with even to this day and it's annoying gotta kind of stay up on technology can maybe just pick one thing and stay up on The Cutting Edge technology of that like if you're an editor stay up to date on all the latest editing camera camera technology uh welder welding any CNC whatever I think that's really important as much as I hate it and that's just me being lazy because I'm have like trouble learning things okay so that those are the two how has the presence of a life partner affected your creativity both in output and diversity of ideas it's a it stabilizes my production focuses my production and ideas and then Isabelle will have these gigantic ideas like big strategies that'll she'll just like blurt out like you should start a patreon you know that was her idea and others like that so on a technical level she's helped a lot with big picture ideas uh but uh yeah stability um and then there's a negative side stuff I have less time to do work I have to be I can't just get carried away with projects the way I used to I'm more tired but that's probably because I have children and I'm old um okay khil and that's from Thatcher so khil uh asked what's been your favorite and least favorite thing about having the new Studio H gosh my favorite thing is the space and the speed I can do things much more quickly and just readily I don't have to move anything around everything's there and I love that about it and then uh the least favorite thing is um it's a little lonely here it's the Solitude although I do love the Solitude it gets to be a little extreme if I'm not like scheduling meetings and meeting with people but I also love the Solitude I don't know there's very little to not like about this space is freaking incredible there's great restaurants around here and it's just amazing it's right off the freeway it's so cool okay how do you deal with ungrateful people especially in the work environment uh if you're talking about a boss like an ungrateful boss you have to just roll with it and not take it personally if you're talking about an employee oh God I don't even know ungrateful I say just them I mean if you're ungrateful you're gonna be miserable and they'll just burn out or flame out or quit um that was from Joshua G Funk asks hi van I heard you talk about your love of Easter European Cinema Bellar tarkovsky's book sculpting in time Herzog as well as the hearts of Darkness do kubric and was curious if you could recommend a few of your favorite most influential most inspiring films do you have a list of essential viewing I don't have a list of essential viewing but I should make one um I think okay here's some essential viewings you got to see this movie it's a Pixar movie It's called inside out and it's got to be the the most sophisticated screenplay ever written it is unbelievably abstract and it's a children's movie about how your mind works it's incredible it's so thorough it's so well thought out the plot is great it's incredible it's incredible inside out um then there's another movie called um there's this great movie directed by uh uh Michelle gandre called uh Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind incredible um let's see I wrote some down oh there's a movie called rat Catcher by Lynn Ramsay watch all the yorgos Lanos movies they're all great and then uh the Les the less blank films like he made hearts of dark no see hearts of Darkness um which is about the making of Apocalypse Now and Then Les blank did um the burden of Dreams which is that would be on my my list okay Nathaniel asks after what you saw with this recent round of wildfires has your disaster preparedness mind set or go bag's vehicle setups changed at all no that like the emergency preparedness stuff we got right and having the studio like remotely from the house is helpful I think we kind of did everything right it has made me like Los Angeles for me is on probation right now and I want to see how they I want to see how they handle this so far they've been they've been just as much garbage as far as the leadership is concerned like I feel like people should either be I think what I would say is illegal I can't say it but I think people should be jailed for Life given how irresponsible and corrupt they've been like the leadership here and and um that I it's I the the Inc I mean this is like my concern like this is the thing in my life that has affected me the most is like you know there'll be a hundred yards of dirt on on the one of the main arteries that connects the valley to PCH which is like to panga Canyon Boulevard which is my main artery there'll be 100 yards of dirt on it and they'll close it for five months and it's like no you park a front loader down there that and you hire a guy for 60000 a year or whatever you have a hundred million budget to maintain that road and it's not that long of a road um and if the thing slides out you shovel the mud off and it's and you just let the people drive and you buy insurance in case you get sued because the thing slides and somebody gets hurt but you know Karen bass who's our mayor extremely incompetent person extreme incompetent person I will bet you if something went wrong with her if she couldn't open the cup holder on her car she would have to take it to the dealership she's an extremely incompetent idiot um I remember in this press conference they did at the Palisades firehouse and and the the president was saying you know he was focused on you got to let these people clean up their mess if they choose to and she was saying the most important thing is safety no it is not no it is not the most important thing in this country is freedom let us decide what is safe because if you're saying the most important thing is safety then you're in control of what is considered to be safe not me so that's a tangent about this is a tangent about have I changed my uh GO bags and disaster preparedness and it's like yeah I think I'll I'll I might move to a place that's where the where the where the where the leadership is prepared for disasters and connects Ute and that's not extreme like Gavin Nome I decided oh he's an idiot savant like he's extremely stupid extremely no he's a savant like a genius at keeping his job but he's extremely stupid at doing his job um could we get it oh wait okay can we get a tour can we get a detailed tour of the new studio how does it compare to your last studio is it is having a studio that's not in your backyard difficult no it's much easier it's better it's awesome so I'm going to do I shot a little video not edited just like one shot of me walking through the studio it's on my iPad and uh here I'll I'll turn the audio so that you can hear it and let me just see what this looks like on the live stream how I have to hold it it's easy to get disoriented I'll close the blinds oh didn't work oh you're just going to have to deal with the this is harder than it looks um little out of focus and then sorry about the mic's going to sound okay so I'm going to push play oh I hate the player on this thing it automatically plays it back muted this is my book my library this is my yearly calendar I haven't put anything on it yet these are the uh cracks when you first walk in this is where I do the live stream from God this iPad lens is really bad and very too long not wide enough um that stuff coming here this is my I can't remember what I called this is like my Supply station like everyday office supply station I think this is what this is called there's where the backdrops go I spent basically two hours this morning organizing this into milk crates organizing all my spare Lumber in the mil crat I think I'm just going to call this part the fort which was the name of my old apartment up in the upper west side and the reason I'm calling it the fort is because I wrote the fort on the Ola knife for my apartment that meant that belonged to my apartment and now uh it belongs there so I'm just going to call it there the fort there's a chemical tray there's a hot gun and you get the idea and then this I call my battle station this is the overhead shooting table and then the bathroom in here as soon as this oh I just I did that this week uh as soon as this live stream is over I'm going to reroute that wire um as um one of you I can't remember your name sorry suggested I indulged like crazy maybe three days adding all this new stuff to my treasure wall so much more time consuming than it could you would possibly imagine uh so there's the you recognize that and then this is a cooler so that when you're shooting uh with the GoPro it doesn't overheat this is just a lot of props from my old movies this is a i re-bought the first camera I ever used the original one Josh safy has there's my old Studio there's the zipline and all this stuff can just come off of the Shelf easily if I need to use it for movies and then uh yeah that's it we're back all right here's a tour of the studio this all right cover your ears it's going to be a thud oh there we go uh okay I hope you can hear me still okay so that was um that was the tour of the studio thank you for that suggestion um uh Tessa asks you have extensive experience in pitching to clients without the resources of a massive firm what advice do you have on pitching something big I've never pitched something big if I've ever had to deal with a client I'm always on like the very lowest this how I mean advertising the money is so crazy um you you you know people who are like creative directors at ad agencies they have like 15 million houses like the money is crazy in advertising so I'm whenever I'm doing something I'm at the very bottom you know and like you've seen the stuff I've made for this Channel and so I cannot advise you on how to pitch something big I have no idea how to do it my friend Andy Spade would know how to do it though um Charlie asks um hey van I use mol skins for different purposes and always personalize the cover with an embossed illustration and phrase filled with Pentel Correctional ink for example my bucket list has momento Mor and the handshake illustration from Von gets Breakfast of Champions I need some inspiration for a notebook unless skills learnings Etc that I randomly come across Andor seek out struggling for ideas and really appreciate your creativity so I would just do that symbol that's on lawnmowers because this is life lessons and stuff it's a symbol that's on lawnmowers and it's like a hand with a chunk cut out of it and then blood dripping down find the actual one and then just do that one and then um I don't know I would call it wisdom or something um John asks hey van in your video about what you would do if you were 18 you discussed starting a just shelves business you said you would create an Instagram page what kind of content would you produce for your business curious about your brainstorming process well I imagine you'd be in all different kinds of houses so I would just do like maybe before and after pictures or like maybe see if they I would you know have the client maybe take a picture after they were loaded all of the shelves were loaded with stuff and have them send that to me or something and then I would post those I don't really know I don't really know until I'm in it uh Vincent asks what's up Van what's your favorite part of Breakfast of Champions do you agree with all of vag's beliefs such as determinism for example did you ever sell the large vaget piece that you showed in narciss I never sold the vaget piece I'm sort of holding on to it uh my favorite part of breakfast of Champions I don't know the one that I remember most is him like in his white sunglasses and he's like and that when that person is De and then there was a person at the bar smoking cigarettes wearing white sunglasses that look like this and that person was me I like that part uh that's the only thing I really remember um from the book I'd have to go through it piece by piece or just look at it and then I'd remember uh I don't really under I don't really know what his beliefs are but I believe the one about the the breakdown of the extended family is reflected in the breakdown of our like happiness in this country of our qu standard of living I think that's a big I think that's true everybody we got so rich we could go live wherever the hell we wanted and we just left our F I did this and just left our families behind and then it's just so incredibly Annie Annie's the one who recommended the to reroute the to reroute the uh wire for the for the kettle okay uh I am building a long bar table attached directly to a wall a piece of 8 foot by two foot 3/4 inch plywood board that will be used as the bar top there are seven studs available across this area of drywall the table will be for General use I would like safe enough to hold at least 150 pounds how would you mount the bar top to the wall I will tell you let me see if I can dou shoot this in real time with this thing this iPad but you get these they're called like shelving brackets and they're like the heaviest duty ones they cost 8 a piece and sometimes they're not in the shelving area you got to kind of like look for them um or they're like you're at the shelving area you're looking at all the shelving stuff and you have to turn around and they're like down low but um I can't uh camera okay we I'll just do a photo photo uh hold on uh there are these things these things and they're like the extra heavy duty ones like that bottom that angle is like a V of Steel and it's confusing when you buy them because the numbers they give is the size of shelf they're recommended for it's not the actual dimension of the brace so those ones they they're probably like 8 in by 10 in or something like that but they say like 12 by 15 or something whatever and so that's what I use to do all the everything in this studio basically and you can get gigantic ones and you can get those ones but yeah Home Depot that's where I got them they're like eight bucks each uh and then just I don't know sheet met screws to mount them to the wall okay um okay have you seen the hot Berta Kettle a 650 1989 Philip Stark design pouring water out of it was a horror there are videos online and manufacturer called it our most beautiful Fiasco God I hate stuff like that but no I haven't seen the video but I can only imagine I can very much imagine hope all is well will you make another video about your friend Chloe God I hope so God I hope so she's hard to track down she's a rolling stone um any future Repair Station events coming up from Annie and uh and where I don't have any planned I really don't it's heavy it's a heavy lift I would want to do it with two other people I think or at least one other person no maybe two others I don't know I just I'm getting old and I'm getting tired tired of just the details of setting everything up it just seems easy and it is relatively easy but it's really detailed and I don't want to do it I'm just lazy uh just watch your coffee station video and wishing the cord behind the kettle ran along the Shelf then to the wall breaks up that nice curve of the spout I was thinking exactly that when I installed it and made it for the video so I'm just that's the ne that's what I'm doing as soon as this thing is over okay thank you Patrick asks how do you organize your video creation process how do you decide what to create and when do you plan your videos in advance do you have a list of potential ideas or do you make the videos that pop in your head each week how do you recommend working to create constant flow of of videos thanks uh constant flow of videos in the beginning if you're just starting out it should I mean I kind of feel like it should be an addiction in the you don't need to I don't need to explain anything to you kind of think it should just be you're compelled and you can't stop yourself and I've been doing it for 25 years now so I'm a bit like I've I've squeezed the the the sponge a lot so what I do is I have an piece of paper in my back pocket and a pencil always and uh if something occurs to me I write it down um and then I have like poits and I write the title down if I come up with something and then I stick it to a piece of paper and then I have like a Bo like a mailbox thing like a a um H it's like loose site like clear plastic thing that hangs on the wall that you put papers into that's eight and a half by whatever so that it holds the papers perfectly and I just have a stack of those with IDE for episodes on them and then if certain ideas come up that contribute to those ideas I'll pull it out and write it down but um I don't have that mind that's flooded with ideas anymore because I'm just it's just ideas all day long and everything so I really have to sit down and like um distill like what I'm G to make and um how do you recommend working to create a constant flow of ideas of videos I mean get yourself in trouble and then get yourself get yourself in trouble and in a situation that you can only get out of by making videos and have the alter alternative be hell and that's my that's how I've kind of I mean starting out that's how it just happened naturally for me um if you were to break up this is from Joel if you were to break your life as an adult into three to four chapters what are those chapters and what's the lesson learned from each one oh my gosh H the first is like education second is like moving to New York third is like going pro and then fourth is is uh Parenthood and what what's the lesson learned from each one I think the overall lesson is don't try to reinvent the wheel just go just do it the way that it's meant to be done and then you can reinvent tiny little you can't reinvent The Wheels on the car but you can reinvent the little tiny wheel that you need to open the glove compartment in your car don't reinvent the wheels don't like I have this business kind of situ no no no that shit's all been figured out by the smartest people in the world just do what they do don't apply your creativity where it don't belong you know and then work with experts and professionals yeah hire professionals that's a big thing even if you can't afford it work something out um Mato says considering that you were already making videos when you started working at Sax's Studio what are in your experience the most valuable Concepts or values he mured to you through your work there thanks I think like the importance of details and the compromises that you can't make like one of the things that Tom imparted on Casey and me he was like he was like you got to have your studio in Manhattan everybody else was in Brooklyn everybody was in Brooklyn Brooklyn Brooklyn Brooklyn that's like when you know you know Brooklyn went in a very short time Williamsburg Brooklyn went from scrapyards to like the most valuable real estate in you know maybe in four of the five burrows and it was like the big hipster scene and it's where all the scenesters were and blah blah blah blah blah blah Manhattan was more expensive you got less space But the thing was is like because saxs was like if I have a collector at my studio and he says who should I need someone to make a video who should I work with I can just send them to your studio if it's in Manhattan but they don't want to cross the bridge so that's one tiny detail something you know that's a detail be in manhatt but there's tons of little things like that there's tons of little just little little beats like that uh you kind of got to charge like double or quadruple what you think is crazy it's like well I'll I could do it for 50 bucks charge 6000 I'm not and I'm not exaggerating I'm not saying like if it's a dollar charge 20 billion dollar no if you can do it for a hundred bucks charge 10000 like and I remember when I was doing my patreon I'm sorry when I was doing my Kickstarter right I sent you could you Kickstarter is amazing and you can build a draft of it that you just keep working on and chipping away at and I sent saaks a link to the draft and he said to me he was like double all the prices and then he said have a category that's really expensive like 10 grand and then have the reward be nothing and I did it and it worked and it happened so I mean I don't know if those numbers are I don't know if the 10 grand is exactly right it might have been five grand but I'm pretty sure it was like 10 grand where it was nothing and it wasn't him it wasn't Tom Sachs who gave me the 10 grand so um just little little things like that but um considering that you're okay uh Andrew as a graphic designer I'd like to see your take on a on a business card yours of course and whether you even think them necessary I guess maybe the art show and bite real could well be this keep up the content love it I can't can't remember oh I do remember I do remember hold on give me bear with me oh okay it's in one of these two books it's in one of these two books which are full of awesome little how to be a professional creative person lessons Okay I I think it's in whatever you think think the opposite because he has a thing about business cards and it's all pick piur so I can go through fast oh boy I'm G to give this two two minutes max it's 943 I'm GNA go to 945 I think I can remember exactly what the picture looks like oh gosh come on where is it where is it where is it this is called Dead air okay where is it where is it where is it where okay might not be in there let's see is it in here is it in here God I don't think the payoff is very good the payoff might not be even good enough for this but I can't help it wait whoa whoa nope that's not how to improve your strike rate how Junior accountant can make a big difference how you can make your company great do not try to win Awards NOP get out of advertising don't be afraid to work with the best suppliers that are only as good as rough layouts sell the idea better than polished ones oh come on where is it where is it it's a whole thing just about business oh I found it yes play your cards right okay it's about business cards so you have can I just read this to you I'm just going to read it to you the person in the left column is the same person as the one in the right column but we regard them very differently the person in the left column is saying what he is John Ranson pump attendance John C Ranson petroleum executive the person in the left column is saying what he is the person in the right column is more ambitious it's how he wants others to perceive him Anthony Taylor architect Anthony Taylor Architects uh when Charles Sai started his Ad Agency Sai and sa it was the biggest in the world when I was in the 990s when these books were written um started his Ad Agency it was regarded as a creative Boutique his brief for the company stationary was to make it look like a bank about 15 years later they tried to buy a bank he also invested a third of his capital in a full page advertisement in the times the effect was to make his creative Boutique appear to be an established company okay so this is what I took away from this at the bottom it says Theodore Smith chairman and chief executive worldwide and that's the left that's that's the left column that describes what he actually is and then in the right column it says Theodore Smith owner no card I'm the owner no card all that for that anyhow uh business card okay Kun all ready hey I remember you saying that you listen to a lot of podcasts I usually lose track of ideas when I try to listen D so can can you describe your experience with it I've been listening to Rick Rubin and it's great okay I'm making a video about this about like the podcast addiction thing and I think the conclusion is that it's kind of a good thing and it's not like a unhealthy addiction addiction um Akash asks video on motorcycle rituals and Packing Tips when going on a motorcycle ride to the mountains okay maybe um GBM asked uh oh he wants me to join his uh patreon I probably will Brentley asks are there any plans to collaborate with your brother Casey in the future in the near future no no plans and I'll just tell you a little anecdote about that so Jack kti who's the founder and probably the biggest shareholder of patreon he invented patreon um he did an interview with me for his digital spaghetti Channel and he did an interview with Casey separate interviews for his digital spaghetti Channel I had never watched Casey's Casey had never watched mine okay and then kti did a mashup of him of Ki asking the same question to both of us like how how do you consider your audience or do you consider your audience right and Casey had exactly the opposite answer for each question that I have like do you plan your videos okay like absolutely not I'm just shooting blah blah blah I have no idea until the minute I I don't know what I'm even going to make until I click public you know like craziness and I'm like yes I planned them 40 years in advance this video I planned when I was three years old and I've been writing down and acquiring tools that you know it's just so yeah get those two crazy Alpha Maniac Brothers to work together um and also one of them's like a Deca millionaire just like can overpower you with every resource possible so no I don't think we're going to work together intentionally but we'll see I don't know maybe somebody will put us in a documentary together H oh so dcom writes sitan Kip was there ever was there ever a situation that felt like a failure but then evolved into a success uh or looking back that perceived failure generated huge opportunity yeah I mean uh so failure failure is just school you go through these things called that I call a failure cycle and it's happening when you're trying to do something new or you're trying to learn something new or you're trying to make money or whatever you just have these failure cycles and it's part of the process um um I was watching there's this show from like 10 years ago on National Geographic and it's called Uh uh bearing straight gold or something like that or Bearing Sea Gold where these guys that I really identify with they kind of they Cobble together these re really dangerous rigs like super homemade uh super shitty Rigs and they go out and they vacuum the floor of this water of of this day um looking for like gold dust and they all make money they all do very well and they only have a hundred days a year to work because it's Alaska and there's this one team that I just really hate and the guy's super super belligerent he's super mean he's super angry all the time and he'll go out and something will break on the boat and then he'll come back and then he'll yell at everybody else he never takes ownership of anything and then he'll uh just say this day was totally worthless this was like I I got nothing out of this day this is nothing worthless I really need this money he like no pal no no no this is your education you got a lot of knowledge you got a lot of knowledge on this day like and just as a side note for that particular thing these guys only work 100 days a year and yet their rigs are totally unprepared and totally like and yes I understand it's 100 degrees below zero blah blah blah blah blah blah blah but they almost do no preparation they're just out there failing and failing on the thing and that's a lesson in and of itself prepare prepare but no failure is just your teacher it's like a very Stern teacher unforgiving and it's just part of the thing it's just part of the thing you listen to everyone and they were like like I was listening to an interview with Trent resner today on Tetra gammatron and he was like you know he was like in the beginning I did all this music and he was like I wish I could just erase it but it was like when some people had video cameras you know and that's just part of the thing um so this is the last one wow perfect timing you've settled into your lifestyle with the Land Cruiser but you've had trucks and said in your starting over at 18 video that you would get the utility style bed for your hypothetical shelf business what do you think of Vans and mini vans for the type of work you do and are there any vehicles that you think you could have committed to are there any other vehicles that you think you could have committed to great question my favorite kind of question okay remember the question about Tom Sachs and somebody was like what are the lessons that Tom Sachs taught you okay one of the things about Vans and we have owned my brother and I owned a van once and we drove across country on patreon the movie we made um and one of the things Tom Sachs told me me and this is absolutely true he said about Vans girls and women are afraid of Vans because they're super creepy and super scary and so from then on I've just it was like the the van that we Casey and I had was just it wasn't our car it wasn't you know it wasn't we didn't run in it was just the van and then we sold it probably for more than we paid for it um so that's the main reason why no Vans pickup trucks are sexy girls think they're cool girls love pickup trucks girls they love that bench seat because they can sit like right next to you you know um but Vans are scary and weird and people you know Gabby petito remember her what were they driving they weren't in no pickup truck so um yeah Vans are scary weird murder wagons and pickup trucks you can see out the back window you can see there's nothing in there nothing to hide blah blah blah uh and then what I would have committed to I mean I had this F350 this 4x4 F350 with the 7.3 L and the five-speed transmission and it had a granny gear so I think it was a six-speed transmission really ah that thing was unbelievably cool but it was just I really needed the money and um I was living in New York and I just never used it it was just a thing I had to pay for parking for and pay all the insurance and all that stuff but man every time I see one I'm like that is an excellent excellent car it was like a n it was a 2002 F350 fullsize bed super cab which is the crew cab is four doors and the super cab is like three doors because it's like two it's like two one and a half doors it's got like a door that you open from the inside it's like a half door on each side and um yeah that thing was you had to put um uh what was it called I think e-rated tires on it you couldn't put d-rated tires on it you had to put e-rated tires on it or else the thing was too heavy when you loaded it up and the tires would just be like ready to pop something I didn't really know about you know when you go heavy you got to do a whole bunch of stuff breakes Transmissions got to be anyway that thing was incredible uh but nope minivans and vans NOP it's too murdery uh let's see we got five minutes and let's see if there's in the see what I got over here in the comments uh on the YouTube side your advice for someone who wants to shoot daily routine Moto vlogging to work and back and edit it and upload it for 365 days it will be helpful artistically um okay your advice to someone who wants to shoot daily routine Moto vlogging to work and back and edit it and upload it for 365 days it will be helpful artistically um pick one either with two work or back don't do both one um or do both but don't do both on the same day N I would say do one and I would say I don't know you pick um that's one thing the second thing if you're doing 365 days you want to be in insanely okay crazy short like two minutes long um and you want to be insanely detailed and then you got to have a plot each day I don't know it's it's I'm trying to think how I would do it because my and my commute is beautiful if I were commuting to work how could I make that work 365 days oh I have something you you it'd be hard to do it without being self-conscious and without forcing it but one of the movies I made about my motorcycle ride is I just went on a motorcycle ride and then I kind of all the thoughts that I had while I was riding was what went into the video so that could be a structure you could do you could just either you go it but you gotta be really disciplined you're not going to remember you're not going to remember no matter how great of an idea or thought or whatever you are not going to remember you gotta like speak it into a camera or maybe set up a mic rig or something I these could all be videos like how you address this problem could all be videos like if there's a mic with a Bluetooth which is a nightmare nothing that you have to push record blah I don't know how long your commute is but um you know you know just insights every day maybe about the ride maybe about nothing having to do with the ride maybe I don't know maybe someday your bike is broken and you have to take a car or walk whatever my bike broke I was on my way out to do an interview with uh digital spaghetti I'm pretty sure that's what it's for uh and the front sprocket the the threads on the inside of the front sprocket stripped and I had to just thank God it was like right out front and I had to just like push it back um but yeah that's what I would do I would do my thoughts because I mean what are you going to do 365 camera angles like what are you gonna you know but I again I don't know what your commute is like I used to think I wanted to do that with my bicycle commute to um work every day but I was working in Manhattan and there would just be like so much so much incredible incredible things happening like you know sometimes there'd be cab accidents sometimes there was like once a lot of this stuff I have shot like once I was driving South and there was just a Convoy of um Humvees with army guys with like 50 caliber machine guns in them it was for a movie you know it was for like some post-apocalypse once I rode down I was riding down Broadway and the set you can go on to sets I don't think they can legally close the road to you or something but um I rode onto the set of uh I Am Legend like the set that was near and even that is like if you're shooting that's Manhattan you know that's Manhattan commuting six miles each way Manhattan um yeah I don't know that's that's how I would do it I would concentrate on the structure of how you're going to do it and then make it extremely easy and simple because it's very hard to do all right 10 it's 10 uh thank you all very much have a great weekend and um I we'll have something new for you next week

Products & Tools Mentioned

Eide Pro SS uses — electric motorbike Van owns
Sur-Ron mentions — electric motorbike comparison ('Suron' in transcript)
Moleskin notebooks uses — notebook brand
Pentel correction ink uses — white-out tool
BMW motorcycle uses — Van's motorcycle
Ford F350 7.3L mentions — truck discussed
Toyota Land Cruiser essential — Van's vehicle
Photoshop mentions — software reference

People Referenced

Joe Rogan, Chris Williamson, Theo Von, Tim Dillon, Rick Rubin, Trent Reznor, David Lynch, George Lucas, Casey Neistat, Tom Sachs, Jack Conte, Vince Lombardi

Books Mentioned

book discussed (by Jim Webb)
book referenced ('pressman' in transcript) (by Steven Pressfield)
book that inspired There Will Be Blood (by Upton Sinclair)
book discussed (by Kurt Vonnegut)

Films & Media Referenced

Cormac McCarthy adaptation discussed
Paul Thomas Anderson film discussed
ILM documentary discussed
Pixar film mentioned
Michel Gondry film discussed
Lynne Ramsay film ('Rat Catcher' in transcript)
documentary discussed
Les Blank documentary discussed
film referenced
National Geographic show mentioned
podcast mentioned

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