LIVESTREAM: FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8 9 am PDT
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About This Video
A November 2024 Friday session. Van fields patron questions heading into the holiday season. End-of-year planning on the bench.
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soon and the you're live can you hear me oh can you hear me yeah it's showing
that it's working does it sound good is it good sounding
audio okay I also have a mute button on the microphone Let's test that okay so I'm I'm push and now now am I
unmuted okay all right good okay thanks all right unmuting all right I've unmuted the mic putting away tech support thank you
Braxton although how the hell are you gonna get in touch with me if uh something goes wrong okay I'm just assuming that
the live stream is working how does it say yeah okay I got dots on
the am I loud and clear okay good morning weather report in keeping with the tradition of the David Lynch weather report down jacket on the way to work
today at 400 am and down jacket at Bobby's Restaurant at 7 am but I have a
feeling it's gonna be perfect okay so this is how I normally do it uh I do an announcement the day
before the live stream and then you all write in the comments section you all write out questions and then I answer
the questions in the order in which they came according to patreon so the first question comes
from Andrew and it's hey van what are your thoughts on the new Land Cruisers any interest in do any interest in doing
a video on one I like them I think they're cool they're doing that Ford Bronco thing I think where there's a whole bunch of different levels of
models but they I've seen them all and they all look pretty good and I really like that one of them I believe comes in the color brown which I think is one of
the most underrated colors for a car because cars come from like horse carriages and carriages were like brown
and wood and wooden but um yeah they seem pretty cool but I think they have like a Hybrid engine I don't know maybe
that's a good thing that's what the Formula One guys are doing too um this one's from 28th attempt
opinion on Klein canvas tool bags and what was is the story behind the kill Spencer bag so I used to have those
Klein tool bags they kind of they have like a steel frame around the mouth and then they open like this and close and fasten with two buckles and the problem
is I think the buckles may be made out of like nickel or something or something I used to call particle Steel and they just break the P the buckles like the
frame around the Buckle snaps and then you got to get in there and try to I don't know what I had to fix one once
for a knockoff Klein bag at the repair station and it was a nightmare fixing it it was like I didn't have the right stuff but I didn't want to give up took
me forever so uh they're great but those buckles are a real weakness and then yeah the kill Spencer with a story is I
met Spencer niosi who owns kill Spencer I met him in I think 2010 2011 something like that I met him
through Ariel Schulman and uh Henry juice and he said I'll design a camera bag for you and we worked together and
designed it and we designed it sort of off of the um Klein tool bag which I had used for a little while as a camera bag
and um yeah we just kind of worked it and did a couple prototypes and now it's
like basically perfect but it's really hard to make so um they're expensive but
I've had mine for since 2011 I'm pretty sure so I've had mine for 13 years and it's awesome it's solid
and I like it like gets better and better it breaks in that's the story okay from case hey van I named my son
after you thank you I'm I'm flattered um he's six years old now what advice would you give to someone growing up with the
name van uh anytime you can find something manufactured with your name on it if your name is Van buy it and I
guess in Vietnam the the name van is is is um common so you can find things in
Vietnam I have a van belt buckle that I wear I don't know if you can see it on the camera but uh two people gave
me two two people each gave me a van belt buckle because it's an unusual name but
other than that uh just uh I don't know write it out no you probably won't get
any nicknames like I don't really have any nicknames oh vanimal that's what
um Sarah Hoover calls me vanimal um do you have a PO Box for us
to send you mail yes but I'm horrible at checking it I maybe check it once every
six months and stuff probably gets sent back and the PO Box is uh
325 toena California 9029 um but I should get better at that
um maybe with the new studio I can have like a mail system okay Raphael asks on your video
the obsessive details of my custom uniform while you do the voiceover I had the impression you're saying something while suggesting something else with tone and
breathing thanks guys after getting the blue work shirts made in America of Japanese fabric followed by a sigh are
these intentional and should production process probably a
little both but probably mostly intentional but like um I don't remember the context of the thanks guys after the
blue work shirt but the made in America of Japanese fabric it was like two of my favorite
places combined collaborating to make something awesome so maybe that's why I sighed a little bit or I was just like
there's also this like you're kind of cheating then but not really I mean doesn't make any sense if you're
collaborating okay Arthur Miller if that's in fact your real name I'm a 30-year-old old and
considering buying a motorcycle but I've never ridden one before I've always been afraid of dying but for the past two years I've been riding a super 73 to
work every day do you think this qualifies as some sort of motorcycle experience or is riding it definitely
qualifies as a motorcycle experience but it doesn't have the acceleration of like a clutch bike so that will be the real
difference it when you decide to ride an actual motorcycle uh I would advise you to
I think the perfect first motorcycle kind of for everyone is a tww is a sorry a Yamaha tww2 200 and it
has like fat tires like the super 73 and it's a 200cc bike but it'll go 70 if you really want it to go 70 it'll go
70 and Isabelle rode hers down from Lake Isabella like up in the mountains on very not on the freeway but on like high
speed limit mountain roads and she was just fine uh on it I mean it doesn't feel that great going
that fast on a little trail bike but that's the one I recommend and also I recommend because you said you're afraid
of dying on one I recommend that try to be in touch with your intuition like when you straddle a
bike that you're considering buying see if you hear a voice that says I'm not gonna die on this bike or if you hear a
voice that says this bike will kill me which I've only gotten the this bike will kill me once I was in Hawaii and
Casey and I this was like in 2005 maybe we rented Rockets we rented like track
bikes like I rented a r six and he rented like a um CBR600 or something like this and those
are those like they call them like crotch rockets and I straddled that thing and I pulled it off the kickstand and I was
like this thing will kill me because they're super light the front tire is this wide you have almost no contact
with the RO you know no rubber Conta patch contact with the road and they're
very aerodynamic so they don't slow down fast and they're very Revy they're like low compression engines so they also
don't engine break very fast and um I remember riding it around town and it didn't really have any torque and just
being like what I don't get what why do people ride these things they're not fast and then we got to a stretch in
somewhere in aahu where there was like a green light and a long straightaway and then after like I don't know 6,000 RPMs the thing just explodes you hit the
power band and it's just like bang I was like oh I get it I get why people love these but point
being be have that intuition of like is this bike gonna kill
me um okay SA or Sab they say film making is a highly collaborative art form and you can't make a good movie
alone do you think you have proved everyone Wrong by independently writing producing Distributing the spirited man what do you think about YouTube as a platform for
filmmakers um well I think Cinema you can't really do alone although people have done it and if you're I think if
you're really good maybe you can do it but the it's better if you can involve more people and I'm sure there's a sweet spot in there somewhere like kubric is
famous for having some very small super capable Crews that like he worked to
death um I think YouTube is the platform for filmmakers I think if you're starting out get good on here and just I
don't know that the thing about it is that like I think I think about this a lot is that you know we evolve as an
audience so the cinema like the feature length film is kind of becoming a little bit obsolete because we're just accustomed
to very short delivered content so I don't know I think there's a lot of room for Mastery
and a real like um uh pioneering voices and techniques
in um YouTube and you know you just all you need is your phone and you can get a free account so yeah I think we're going
to start seeing um I think we're in a golden age of YouTube and you know there's that famous quote from
um from Francis W Copa at the end of Hearts of Darkness the documentary about
the making of Apocalypse Now and he's sitting in a chair like at its Vineyard and he's like the dream with these now that they have oh
and the movie was made in like 1995 or something and he's like the dream is that now with these little handy cam
video cam recorders that you know anybody all these new people who could never make a movie will be able to make a movie and some little fat girl in Ohio
will become the next Mozart and so I think that's where we are right now
but that's when you got like hip hop you know we got all this original stuff we're not in that kind of an era right
now we're in a very conformist era we all have the same phone yeah when the phones came out everybody I knew had a different phone there was like if you
met someone with the same kind of phone as you be like oh you have the star Tac or whatever the hell you know it was um
just for instance so and then you know the YouTube uh to game it to get viewers you
have to sort of work within certain parameters and the parameters are not originality they're more like keywords
and so forth I don't know Braxton understands it much better than me and um I'm always trying to get him to tell
me the secret um okay what kind of paper do you use for your typewriter I'll be right
back um whoa whoa It's hard I'm trying to do it South wor
Earth um white with red rule wo 20 lb paper ideal for legal documents and pleadings it's called pleading paper
isn't that crazy I love that and I think it's like the it's among the most
expensive type paper that you can get of course and it's the fact that it's 25%
cotton I think does it say that yeah 20 something about it and also the your type your the keys won't punch through
it it's like strong um so that's the kind I use and then this goes in my paper Supply and when I get down to this there's like 50
sheets left after this card and that's why it says order more on there
um uh okay Jordan like a normal family schedule and I sort of cheat it by getting up very very
early but you still got to I like I want to I don't want to miss the kids growing up like I hear the story of these
standup comics where they're they have a kid at this point in their career where if they're on tour they'll set their family up for life and the kids can go
to whatever colleges they want and they can live in a nice house and have the right health insurance and all of that stuff but they like miss the kids
growing up and um I there's no for me there's not just nothing that uh I'm not
I don't have I don't there's nothing more important to me than seeing them grow up so I'm like just surrendering to
the kids and like you know I don't I don't have the impulse to travel like I don't really want to travel unless it's with them and that's kind of a pain in
the neck too um like yeah the second kid there's a lot of transition stuff
with the second kid like I got the new studio and like we're getting like work done to the house so that we have enough room for the kid and it's just there's
like a lot of chaos right now um but I'm just trying to I'm less productive too but I you
know I indulge in and procrastinate by working on little Studio Projects so I'm not making as much video work as I'm supposed to be but um I'm going to try
try to get back into that um new to this patreon space love your work and going to become a father myself oh
congratulations um how's the new studio going can you take talk a little bit about the change over things that are working well new
challenges and what's coming up yeah so the challenge really is to focused on making videos instead of
focus on like making stuff in the studio and I know the obvious thing is well just make
videos about the stuff you're working on man but it's mostly shelves and like how many videos can I make it like I'm putting up I put up a shelf this morning morning
Products & Tools Mentioned
- Klein canvas tool bags uses — tool organization discussed
- Kill Spencer (camera bag) uses — CW Morgan bag, designed 2011
- Bobby's Restaurant mentions — local restaurant
- Toyota Land Cruiser (new models) mentions — new models discussed
- Ford Bronco mentions — SUV discussed
- Yamaha TW200 mentions — motorcycle discussed
- Super 73 mentions — electric bike discussed
People Referenced
David Lynch, Braxton, Andrew, Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost, Spencer Niosi, Sarah Hoover