- Hey, everyone, long time no vlog.
Just making myself a coffee to start the day.
I took a couple of weeks off posting,
as I'm sure you saw many people did
after George Floyd was murdered
at the hands of the US police.
I just saw my whole social media timeline,
just going to crouch down while I talk to you,
I saw my whole timeline just be like a flood with messages
about black lives matter, the movement,
and I saw how important it was and how much I was learning
through having it be that, literally,
every time I checked social media,
that was what everyone was talking about.
It was really important to give space to that conversation
and yeah, to just, to,
to listen and share and amplify voices.
So that's what I've been doing
the past few weeks over on Twitter.
I realized that I didn't say anything on YouTube.
So I wanted to just address it at the start of this video
to say that that's where I stand on this matter.
I hope maybe that would have been obvious, but I don't know.
I've learned also over the past few weeks
about how important it is to actually say something
and to actually like put a stake in the ground.
And so, yeah, to any of my black viewers,
I know these past few weeks must have been
really, really hard for you.
I can't imagine what, what you've been feeling,
what you've been going through clearly.
But yeah, I hope you know that I'm, I'm there with you.
I've been donating to bail funds, signing petitions,
doing the things, sharing voices
and just learning a lot myself as well.
Obviously never considered myself to be a racist person,
but I've been learning a lot about anti-racism
and how, it's like, you have to do more
than just being not racist.
You have to actively push against it
because of the way our society is set up
and the fact that it is so systemic,
not just in the US but all around the world.
So I've been reading a really good book
called "How To Be An Antiracist."
I'll leave a link to that in the description.
If you are a fellow non-black person,
and you want to check that out,
it's been yeah, really, really good, learned a lot from it.
Then fucking JK Rowling comes out
with her anti-trans bullshit.
Just, I don't know, it's been a tough few weeks
for the internet, you know,
and I hope all of my trans viewers, as well,
know that I stand with you too.
And I just, yeah, it must be if you're a Harry Potter fan,
so disappointing, to have seen that.
I feel like I don't talk about all this very often in vlogs
'cause my vlogs and like YouTube channel in general
are so focused on my work.
And if you don't follow me on Twitter
where I am very vocal about this a lot,
you might not have known that that's what I believe.
So I just wanted to start off this video saying that,
saying that I stand with you
and let's keep this conversation going.
Let's keep learning and let's keep pushing against it.
It's been like, honestly, it feels like we're at,
at the start of a revolution, right?
Things are changing, laws are changing
because of people standing up, because of people protesting,
signing the petitions, doing all the things
and not just like those changing but people's minds
and opinions changing as well.
It's up to us to make sure that continues, you know,
it's 'cause we want this world to be a better place
for everyone in it not just the white people.
So, yeah, let's, let's keep it going.
This week I decided not to vlog with Workday
because most of the work
I was doing this week was very like not visual.
So I didn't have anything cool to really show you.
It was actually like one of those weeks
where I didn't do any design work until Friday.
Yeah, there was a lot of like campaign organizing
and writing and test analysis and stuff like that
going into my week.
So today is Saturday, I just made a coffee
to get on with a bunch of stuff I want to do today.
I have makeup on and my hair done
because I'm recording an episode of my new series today
Inside Marketing Design.
This has been something I've been recording
over the past month or so ish, yeah.
So got another episode today,
I'm going to get on with editing an episode today
and show you a cool new editing tool I've been using.
And then I'm also going to get started working on
a new gallery wall, which I mentioned
a couple of vlogs back,
but a lot of the pieces have finally turned up for it.
So I'm excited to get started on that.
So let me get off my kitchen floor and let's get going.
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This has been my setup for how I've been recording
these episodes because, okay,
I use my own camera for my video feed.
I record on Zoom for my guest video feed
and I try and like have Zoom sitting around here
on the screen, I don't know if you can see my mouse,
I'll point, so that when I'm looking at them,
I'm like not too far off looking at the camera, you know?
Then I record my audio separately in Audition,
coming from my microphone here.
Audio snobs, I know I need to get a better microphone.
I know this is like the cliche starter podcast microphone,
but this is, this is what we got for now
and we're working with it.
I think that recording went really well.
One thing that I'm really liking about doing this series
is that my guests are not like fellow influencers,
no shade to my fellow influencers,
you know that I love you a lot,
but I just think it's cool to have on people who
wouldn't normally go on a podcast
because they don't like, I don't know,
they're not building an audience of their own
or have anything to promote.
They're just excited to share with me
about how things work at their company
and so that's been really fun.
I wanna show you quickly that new editing tool
that I mentioned that I've been using.
Let me just pull it up here.
So it's called D Script, you might have heard of it before,
but it essentially lets you edit a video
by editing text, or audio if you want,
but you can also do video.
So here's an example of what it looks like
and you upload the file and then it transcribes it.
It's an auto transcription so like it's not great.
It can be a little, you know, a little off at times,
but then I can do things like,
say if I want to get rid of this "uh" right here.
I can just highlight it and delete it.
And if you watch down here where
it's like on the timeline, if I delete, boom,
it'll delete from my timeline as well of my footage.
And so it's been just like so much faster to go through
and edit the videos by like editing the text.
I don't know why I have like slept on this app
for so long 'cause it's not new, you know?
But yeah that's, that's been,
that's been my process so far, I've only edited two.
But, yeah, import the footage,
do the edit the first like rough edit by looking at the text
and taking out parts there,
then bringing it into Premiere Pro
because you can export this to Premiere
and then import sort of like as a timeline
with all the cuts in the same places.
It's like one of those times where I'm like,
technology is magic, I don't know how to do this.
So I've just been finishing this morning
editing, like doing the full edit of an episode
that I did interviewing Brent, the designer at Proof.
And yeah, I'm just really excited
with how the series is going.
If you haven't heard me talk about it yet
and I don't know if I already touched on it already
in this vlog, but the series is going to be called
Inside Marketing Design.
You can go to InsideMarketingDesign.co
and subscribe to be notified when it goes live,
but the episodes will be uploaded to this channel too.
So if you're subscribed you will see
whenever episode one comes out,
which will probably be in July.
I think I'm gonna make myself like
completely finish that edit
because there's just a couple of things
I have to touch on at the end.
And then I'm going to let myself get into these frames that
that I have hanging around my room
and start filling them with art
so that I could extend my gallery wall
and tidy up the mess that is currently on our spare bed.
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Okay, so I have everything framed.
These are like sitting a few things deep back here.
I feel like I don't have as much art as I expected.
There are still a couple of empty frames I have
because some pieces haven't arrived yet.
But the problem when you don't live in the US
and you order things from the US is
things can take a long time to arrive
and sometimes they can get lost in the mail.
So I don't know if I actually need to like,
reorder some of these things, but anyway,
I'm going to go ahead with just arranging what I have now.
So now I'm going to like lay it on the floor, I guess.
My plan is to add like, one more row of art on this side
to sort of fill in that wall
and then start coming onto this wall.
I'm gonna to have this piece here, sort of like,
you know, up on the wall, like imagine there-ish,
as like the centerpiece there
and then the blue one a little bit further along.
So then, yeah, I've just got to arrange
all these other bits to look good around it.
Let's get going.
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Good morning, folks, we're now into Tuesday.
So, yep, forgot to end this vlog for a few days, my bad.
This is what my gallery wall's looking like
I'm so excited about it.
It's turning out how I hoped.
I just wanted this whole corner to just feel like
an explosion of art, just all over the place
thorough overwhelming and you know, looking really cool
and it's turning out how I hoped.
I stopped hanging up after here, obviously.
I've still got all these pictures down here to go,
but I decided I didn't want the two Anthony Burrill prints
too close together.
Like I said, I think earlier in the vlog,
I've got these empty frames around here still
because there's some art that hasn't arrived yet.
And like, it'd be ideal if I had the big piece
that's supposed to fill this frame to go in here.
And I also have ordered this like banner flag thing
from a company called Oxford Pennant.
I saw it on my friend Brent Galloway's Instagram
and I loved it, says, You'll Think of Something.
I wanted that back in April
when I did like my big art shopping spree
and it hasn't arrived yet,
so I just followed up with them
'cause I hope that that didn't get lost on the way,
'cause it was not cheap.
And it would also look really cool on my wall in this spot.
But we don't want to rush things and I want it to look good.
So I'm just holding off on these last few pictures,
just hanging out on the floor right now.
Some very exciting news, over the weekend
my sister had a baby so I an now an aunt,
which is so exciting.
Sami, if you're watching, super huge congratulations.
I'm so happy for you and so proud of you
and how well you did now.
Now I just need the world to calm down a little
so that I can get back to New Zealand
and meet the kid, you know?
I'm hoping that's something I can make happen
later this year.
You saw in that last clip from the weekend
that I was wearing the mask as I went to the supermarket
that's like mandatory in Spain,
but most things are pretty opened up here now.
Like you can go to restaurants, you can go to shops.
It's kind of like a new normal as we keep calling it.
But because you have to wear a mask out and about,
it's just not fun.
Like it's unpleasant to be walking around wearing a mask.
It's difficult to breathe, you're not getting like
the fresh air benefits, so for that reason,
you probably won't see me out and about much in vlogs
'cause it's just, it's just not very fun.
But I am hoping in the coming weeks to finally
meet up with some friends after so long,
you know, that'd be nice.
And yeah, hoping to travel back to New Zealand
later on this year.
New Zealand have a thing where, at the moment I think it is,
they're only letting Kiwis in
or apparently if you work on advertising
you're allowed to get in too,
but when you enter the country,
you're supposed to stay quarantined for two weeks.
And so, you know, that's such a long journey
and I'm like, you know, wanting to see my family,
to be like in the country
but having to stay two weeks by myself in a hotel
that doesn't sound very fun.
I know it's for the best, but you know, it's still annoying
and I'm still allowed to complain about it.
Anyway, I'll end this vlog here.
I'll spin around so you can see my gallery wall again.
Ah, I love it so much.
Thanks for watching this vlog.
Thanks for your patience with my a few weeks off,
I've got some exciting videos coming up.
One about the full process of making my font,
one about building the web store for my font,
something about user testing,
there's just lots of fun stuff coming up.
So, subscribe if you're not already
and I will see you in my next videos.
Bye, everyone.
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