- I think every desk tour should include a thing there
to calm you.
Can you hear?
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Can y'all hear that?
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Here we are doing the desk tour.
We're doing it.
I may or may not have had to clean up my entire desk
to do this video.
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Hey everyone, I'm Hallease, Endeavoring to Persevere.
As always, if you're new here,
I make videos about my chaotic good life.
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Welcome to my desk.
In my last apartment tour video,
so many of y'all said yes to the desk tour.
So here we are coming at you with two camera angles,
because I felt like it's a desk tour,
I'm just gonna be sitting here the whole time.
You need to have something else.
If you're feeling the two camera angles,
lemme know in the comments below.
Also, I got new glasses.
This isn't, we are off topic already,
but I got new glasses.
How do y'all feel about 'em?
I'm still deciding.
In this video,
I'm just gonna show you some of the things that I feel
for me have been crucial
to having a productive work from home life balance,
and how I like to desk.
Something I will say,
quick disclaimer about this desk tour video,
this is what I do for a living.
So, that's why I have what I have.
Don't spend money if you don't need to spend money
is the point of the story.
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So, starting off with just the desk itself.
This desk is actually from Ikea.
I didn't buy anything crazy,
just the regular legs that you can buy
that fit on any desk as well.
I really enjoy the color of this desk.
It's like this really enjoyable,
like sort of baby blue cobalti baby blue thing.
And in general for me,
I find blue to be a very calming color,
and it vibes with the rest of this room,
as well as the rest of the apartment.
Hard drives.
You get a hard drive.
This one actually has the show on it,
so that's cool.
So hard drives.
Right now, I don't really,
I'm not like beholden to any one hard drive brand really
from my desk.
I just kind of get whatever I can find
that has at least five terabytes of space or more on it.
I'll probably keep this G-Drive
for at least a year and a half,
and be able to fit about a year and a half's
worth of YouTube content,
YouTube 4K content on it.
Right now, this G-Drive actually holds my pilot.
This could have been an email.
Yeah.
So actually bought these for that show.
I was using these for a little while though.
These are the LaCie Porsche Design hard drives.
I'm noticing that they're not really
making these anymore though,
or they're just kind of harder to find now,
which kind of sucks,
'cause I really enjoy 'em.
I liked the size.
They also are powered.
You can get these to hold up to like 10 terabytes of space.
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My microphone.
So I have the Rode microphone arm,
I ahead and invested in that.
And also the Rode,
I forgot this is, NT-USB.
And I have both of these,
because as part of my residency
actually have to be in the Adobe community a lot.
I also was actually doing the lives on my Patreon
for a little while as well,
which I'll probably bring that back Patreon producers.
I think I'm definitely gonna bring that back.
That was fun.
The audio on this thing is really amazing.
I would actually highly recommend this microphone.
It's like, it's a really, really good microphone.
I've got all the Rode stuff,
which they would send me something, Rode.
That being said,
keeping in line with the whole like having a go live thing,
one way that I actually do my lives
is through my Sony cameras.
Hey everyone, stepping away from doing this desk tour
to talk about the sponsor of this video,
which is Skillshare.
Skillshare is this amazing online learning platform
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for quite some time actually.
And like I said at the top of the video,
this is my livelihood.
This is what I do for a living.
And one of the things I do is actually teach on Skillshare.
I love teaching on Skillshare,
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with literally thousands of other classes on it.
So, I love that in just one place,
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So, I've been a teacher on Skillshare for over a year now,
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I love teaching everything I've learned
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Y'all really seem to love it.
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I loved making it.
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But when I'm not teaching on Skillshare,
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Right now I'm really vibing off Lisa Fang's class
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I have an iPad Pro and an Apple Pencil,
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it's just something far enough
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It's just a way to engage and just draw
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Back to this desk tour.
On my desk,
I actually keep my Sony ZV-1
constantly hooked up to my laptop,
and I use this as my live streaming meetings camera
with the audio coming out of my Rode NT-USB.
And I just really like this little camera.
It's a really versatile little camera.
Sony has also made it
to where you can use most of their mirrorless cameras,
or point and shoots like this one
as a live streaming camera without needing an HDMI cable
or anything like that.
It's just like a software upgrade that they did,
I wanna say last year.
And so I can stream using any one of my cameras.
My a7C, my FX3 or this guy.
I really love the quality that comes out of this little guy.
And I just have it set up on my Leofoto,
little short tripod,
which is also the tripod that I travel with.
I did a whole video about why I enjoy this tripod,
and compared it to other
sort of smaller handheld tripods as well.
I will link to it in the Eye of Sauron.
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These are Lume Cube lights.
They actually stay connected to the desk.
But again, because I'm constantly doing live streams,
I'm in meetings and things like that,
I really wanted my home meeting livestream set up
to be pretty good,
but also not need to be set up and taken down,
and set up and taken down over and over again.
I really like these lights
because they also are bicolor lights.
So that way, whatever your ambient light is,
you can kind of adjust them to match that.
These lights are also really neat,
because they're dimmable as well.
They can get pretty bright,
which is awesome.
And then finally,
they're pretty mobile.
You can move them around to find your light if you will,
and be as nice looking on a video call as you can be.
So I have two of them,
so that way one can be a key and one can be a film.
And I really like them actually.
I kind of hate how much I like them.
'Cause it's one of those things where I totally bought them
'cause I gave in to ads and stuff,
and it ended up being like a really positive reinforcement
of like, that's right, watch an ad,
get something that you need.
It's like, no.
The next part of my desk tour, of course, MacBook Pro.
Gotta love it for better or worse.
This one is the 2020 iteration,
but yeah, I've got like four terabytes of space on it.
I have basically,
you can set up your MacBook Pro
to kind of be a little more tricked out
than just going for the base model,
which again, this is my livelihood.
This is what I do for a living.
So, I actually invested in a MacBook Pro stand
for my laptop as well,
just to get it higher up on the table,
so that way I'm not living my life like this all the time,
which is not good for you,
the carpal tunnels,
the back stuff, all that.
I actually use,
I think it's called Rooster.
I use the latest version of the Rooster stand.
This latest iteration of it is actually pretty neat,
because you can actually change at what height it is.
So, if you're someone who's a little bit taller,
or like me, a little bit shorter,
they give you more ways to change what height
your laptop will sit at when you're putting it on the stand
on a desk.
So really helpful, really like it.
Keyboard and mouse.
Man, keyboard and mouse.
So yeah, this was actually a Christmas gift
I gave to myself,
which is the MX Master 3 mouse.
Carpal tunnel who,
carpal tunnel who.
I don't know her.
I don't know no carpal tunnel.
I also really like this mouse,
because it has a lot of different
programmable keys in it as well.
So that way you can,
your editing can go that much faster.
So on my mouse, for example,
since again, I'm a video editor producer.
For my mouse,
I actually have the top one to be Shift + Command + K,
which is how you can cut everything in the timeline.
And then I also have the bottom mouse
to be set to Command + K,
which is just cutting whatever is Marqueed or highlighted.
And I'm just able to like bang, bang, bang, bang.
And I also have the keyboard that goes along with it.
So the Logitech MX Keys Mini.
Y'all hear that.
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So, I have the 16 inch MacBook Pro.
But to edit, I also have the HP Z monitor.
Really cool monitor.
The thing about this monitor that ironically
I think is the neatest thing about it,
and what I enjoy the most about it,
it can charge my MacBook Pro through it.
So for me,
that's like one of the hugest selling points of this monitor
is that it doesn't just act as a monitor,
it acts almost like a station for your computer.
It's great.
It's got like every port ever,
it's got multiple ports.
You can have things charging to it.
I'll charge batteries to it while I'm working.
I'll plug in hard drives directly to it,
and then they show up on my laptop.
Like it does all that stuff.
And also acts as a monitor in a really great way.
Rounding out this desk tour,
I have this little mini Sony speaker.
I didn't pay for this.
I was given this for free.
I think these retail for like 79 bucks.
Again, I'll find it for you.
But I have this so that way sometimes when I'm editing,
I'll actually listen to music from my phone
through this speaker,
just to have like some low five beats on and stuff,
even though I'm actively editing and need to hear the audio.
I'm weird.
But yeah, I really like the speaker.
The last, last thing on my desk
that I think is one of the most important things to have
is some sort of like comforting thing to calm you down.
I think every desk tour should include a thing there
to calm you and bring you comfort, like recenter.
When you have that stressful meeting,
Jill won't stop talking about the thing
that's just like, okay, Jill, we get it,
mute yourself already.
And it is a silicone sponge that I found at H-E-B
when I was there grocery shopping with my husband,
and I just picked it up and it was just like, oh my gosh,
this sponge feels amazing.
This is gonna be my new desk thing.
And whenever I'm getting stressed out with an edit,
can you hear?
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Can y'all hear that.
Sometimes I'll even rub it on my face.
Oh my God.
I'm instantly soothed right now.
I love this thing.
I think I paid less than a dollar for it.
It's a silicone sponge.
And with that.
That's literally just trash.
With that, that's my desk.
Big shout out to my Patreon producers, patreon.com/hallease,
there you get early access to these videos,
as well as private weekly vlogs from me.
It's a good time.
If you made it this far in the video though,
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Stay awhile.
Take your coat off.
Get to know each other.
Okay.
Fine.
Again, I'm Hallease, Endeavoring to Persevere as always.
And I will see you when I see you.
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