- We're filming, we're rolling
this is on, this is live...sort of.
(chill music)
So, my friends over at Art of Play
sent me a bunch of things, so by the way,
if you guys are not familiar with Art of Play,
I'm going to give you guys an exclusive screening
of the trailer for their shop, for their showroom,
for their store, which was filmed and produced by
Homer Leewag, Homer is a magician but not only
is he a magician, he's also an incredible film maker,
but works for David Copperfield and has been working
for him for twenty plus years.
He put together this amazing little snippet
of a trailer for Art of Place.
I'm gonna roll that right now, we're gonna get into
looking at this stuff in a second, so enjoy!
(ominous piano music)
(metal clanking)
(parrot squawks)
(music intensifies)
(door creaks)
So, that was the trailer, pretty sick, right?
I mean, puts my video making and editing stuff to shame,
but happy to share it, hope you guys enjoyed it.
Today, we're going to be looking at a bunch of those
things that they sent me, which are really cool.
Some of my favorite items in my office currently.
There's also a contest going on in this video so
stayed tuned to near the end of the video
to find out how to enter this contest, basically.
Up for grabs, I am giving away, 5 $100 gift certificates
to Art of Play, as well as 5 $100 gift certificates to
Puzzle Master, so if you guys are ever interested
in getting something for the holidays, whether
it's a gift for your friends or for yourself
...for me...I'll hit you guys up with how to win
and this contest, basically, will be ending
one week from today so next Sunday is when the
contest ends, you have a week to enter.
Alright guys, without further ado,
let's get into checking out some of these things,
literally, the coolest things on earth you will ever see.
Not click bait, let's get into it.
(piano music)
First of all, guys, this thing here
these are called...what are they called?
The bowls? The lessmore, lessmore bowls, lessmore, one word
(upbeat music)
(Reading a manual) An incredible optical illusion
that holds your snacks, perfect time for Halloween
(box falls)
(censored bleep)
store your snacks, let me read to you the adcoffee here:
"Inspired by the famous Jastrow Illusion which dates
back to at least 1873, these unique ceramic bowls appear
to grow and shrink before your eyes when
placed side by side."
Yeah, that's basically it, created by Adam Ruben and
produced by Art of Play in San Diego,
if you guys want to check it out,
but here is the cool thing about these bowls,
not only are they snack bowls, but check it out,
I'm gonna, this is a bit of a magic trick for you guys
which one is bigger?
Can you guys tell me which one is bigger?
Alright, you got it?
How about now?
Mind...blown, right? They're the same size.
Exactly the same size if you put them side by side.
Exactly the same size but because of the illusion
I don't know how that works but cool thing to
have on your counter with your snacks in it,
you can fool your friends and blow their minds.
That's one thing, again, this video is not a
sponsored video, I know some of you are gonna be like
"Sponsored post by Art of Play"
listen, guys, alright? Not even gonna lie
Art of Play, they are my friends, they are homies,
they are the ones who distribute my playing cards
which will be available soon, but they're just
friends of mine and they, literally, have the coolest
shop on earth and that's why I'm just talking about it
because their products are actually dope.
Not because I'm being paid for it, which I'm not.
But they did send me some free (censored), so...
We are going to look at the floating plant,
that's definitely not what it's called.
Google floating plant name, life plant?
So this product is called Life,
and basically what it is is a plant holder
that levitates, yeah...I know.
No strings, no magnets, that's not true, there's probably
magnets, but definitely no strings, no flaps.
What's cool about this is it's just a cool piece
you can set, whether it's on your desk or in
your kitchen and it's a cool little oddity
that is an illusion and that's literally
something floating and turning in the air
which is really cool, this product was actually
on Kickstarter and raised over $300,000,
but they now have it in stock at
Art of Play, I'll link that below if you guys
are interested, but if not and you just
want to enjoy it, you can check out this video.
It's the next best thing.
I'm probably going to leave it on the desk or
maybe in the kitchen or something, it's got this
cool little wooden base and this hexagonal?
Hexagonal? Octagonal? Pot, I'm bad at geometry,
geography, whatever, and it twirls
and it looks really cool, another little magical
piece you can leave on your desk.
My desk is getting pretty full with magical pieces.
(Phone rings) Who is this? One second.
Sorry, about that, that was the Pope.
Moving on, Art of Play has also sent me a curated
collection of brand new, sealed playing cards.
Check this out, this is a cool, metal, playing
card holder and display where you can display
either new decks or used decks or whatever you want to.
It looks really dope, check this out.
So here, what you're looking at right now is this
little holder which sits neatly on your desk
or if you want to have a pop-up shop, I don't know
what you would use this for honestly,
but it looks cool. I need a longer desk
to put all these items on, thank you.
I'm just going to leave the link to the store below
I think that's going to be a lot easier,
you guys can check out whatever you want,
whether or not you like it, next up,
what are we missing, what'd we do? Oh!
Spinning top.
(Cool music)
This is cool, too. Mystery tops,
by the way, these are all really cool gifts for
the holiday season, if you're looking, whether it's
a small gift like a spinning top, like these
little Mystery Tops here, there's ten different
Mystery Tops, so you don't know which
one you're going to get, but they're cool.
They're made of wood, I think they're hand crafted,
they have really nice embossing and work on the
little box here, so you guys can check that out.
They're pretty cheap and great for like
stocking stuffers or whatever you want to do.
Or, if you just have an obsession with spinning tops.
Also, go help...alright? Alright, so there's
a whole bunch of things they sent me, I'm not
going to get into detail with every little thing.
Cool things, just packaging like tote bags,
little bags for your puzzles, like if you wanna
gift like a cool little hanayama puzzle,
they've got a whole selection of those and those
are also pretty affordable, if you guys can check those out.
As well, and I haven't gotten to this yet,
but this is like a sort of a cogwheel puzzle
that you assemble yourself, I will do a video
on it eventually, just not right now,
but I will get to it, and lastly,
the coolest thing in my office to date,
probably the most amazing thing that I've seen
in recent time and recent memory,
is this thing called Slow Dance.
So what you're looking at right now is a frame
and inside this frame you have this little Tesla-like
coil that holds either a leaf stem or a feather
and what it does, is the optical illusion it creates,
there's this vibration, this frequency that it vibrates
at and when the light hits it, I guess,
the frame rate of your eye picks it up as though
it's moving in slow motion, so what you're seeing
right now is actually not slow motion.
Now, the footage that I took, it was really hard to
capture it because of the frame rate or the
shutter speed or what have you to not get
it to flicker, but in real life, this is a clip
of their own website, their own product page.
In real life, this is kind of what it looks like.
You're looking at like a feather or a leaf
moving in slow motion before your eyes,
and let me tell you...it's trippy.
It's like the trippiest thing I've seen
and everybody who stares at this is just mesmerized,
so it can either be a frame which you can hang
on the wall, or you can leave it on your desk
or whatever and you can swap in and out
whatever light, leafy product that you may have.
Probably, my favorite item to date, I'm definitely
going to hang it up or display it in my office
in some way because I think it's just
a cool conversation piece and something
you can show people, it's unbelievable.
It's literally a physical art piece that
is also a magic trick, blew my mind when
I saw it, still blows my mind right now as
I'm looking at it, so if you guys want to
check that out, also, at Art of Play.
Something for you and your friends to enjoy.
Alright guys, enough of that product placement.
If you skipped to this portion of the video
to find out how you guys can win and enter the
contest, welcome back!
This is my computer set-up, by the way.
I went with Ironside Computers who built me
a custom computer using liquid coolant,
RGB, LED lights on the inside.
I got 128 gigs of RAM in this bad boy.
I also have a Titan XP, a lot of really
technical stuff that I don't really know much about
but, thankfully, my good friend, Xavier Spade
is a wizard, not only with cards but when it comes
to computers, he helped me set this up.
We've got three monitors going, I've got my
streaming monitor, like my OBS, my game,
I've got a stream deck, which is really cool,
which allows me to shortcut between scenes and stuff
anyways, just a lot of really cool things,
as well as these nanoleafs, how dope are these
by the way, these change with the music and stuff.
If you can't tell, I am super, super hyped about
making a jump to Twitch, that doesn't mean
I won't be uploading YouTube videos,
YouTube is my passion and magic is my passion,
but I game a lot and I play a couple hour video
games maybe every day and I thought, well,
why not just stream what I'm already doing?
So, it's not really considering any more of my time,
that's where you guys come in, so the link below
is to Gleam, I've done contests before with Gleam.
Basically, you click on it, and there's
different tiers of, basically, the more things
you do, the more points you collect,
the more of a chance you have to winning one
of these prizes, so the contest ends in one
week from now, so next Sunday is the deadline
of the contest, all you have to do is click that link
and follow what it tells you to do in order
to collect points and then I will choose a winner.
One of the top things you guys can do
to support me is go follow me on Twitch,
I'll be streaming some Overwatch.
(Overwatch game)
I was Highmasters on console and probably
like gold right now, on the PC, but I'm climbing.
I'll be playing with a lot of my friends as well,
and I'll be playing with some of you guys, some viewers
if you guys have Overwatch or any other games
I'll be playing, I'll set up a private discord,
where we can chill and we can stream together.
It's gonna be a lot of fun, I'm really stoked.
Probably be streaming 3-4 times a week regularly.
Mostly in the evening, if not during the weekends
it'll be during the day, so make sure you
hit the notification bell on my Twitch
to know when I'm going live and you guys can chat with me.
One of the fun things about Twitch, too is that I got
a big following on YouTube, and if I held a live stream
here, the chat would be going nuts, and it would be
spammy and you wouldn't be able to get your
questions in, and the fun thing about Twitch
is that there are a lot less people watching me
play video games, so if there's any question that
you have to ask me, that's a great place
where we can actually chill, almost face to face.
So guys, that's it. I just wanted to show you
and keep you updated on what's been going on,
my life is chaotic right now with a lot
of renovations going on with my house,
so I'm trying to keep steady uploads coming,
and thank you by the way for all the love
on the last video on the Halloween special.
If you guys haven't checked that out,
go watch that, it's pretty scary.
Yeah, and that's it, so, stoked for this new chapter.
Incredibly excited to see what you guys have to
say about that, and I hope you enjoyed this video,
if you did like/smash, all that stuff, subscribe,
and we'll see you on the next video. Peace.
(Chill music)