I have no idea...
I have no idea why I decided to film in here today.
This is my gear closet. It's a mess, there's no room.
I even brought my Aputure light in here, but uh...
The window light seems quite nice.
I think I have a stool under here somewhere.
I'm also repping my Mango Street merch today.
They sent me this
This hilarious sweater. Thanks guys.
Okay, does this work? Is this light?
Is there audio? Do I need to adjust things?
This looks terrible right now, hang on.
This needs to come down...
It's hot in here, there's no air.
Can't tell... Everything's crooked right now. What is happening?
That looks pretty good.
Do I need this light?
Overkill.
Just start the video man
What's up everybody, Peter McKinnon here
and welcome back to yet another Two Minute Tuesday.
It's so great to have you here, and see all of your smiling faces.
Ooh, that feels good to say.
Today we're talking about what happened to Two Minute Tuesday
So let's go ahead and throw two minutes on the clock
and let's go ahead and take it right off, because
this is gonna be much longer than two minutes.
I'll give you a spoiler alert right now.
Let's roll that old intro.
Okay, welcome back guys.
Two Minute Tuesday, it's been a while.
It's been a minute. It's been two minutes.
Such a bad joke
Okay, so let me start this video, this is just kind of like...
I don't even know how it's so hot in here.
I don't really know why I even...
I had no idea you guys would love Two Minute Tuesday this much.
Like the amount of emails and support and tweets
and Instagram, and comments on YouTube.
Everybody wants to know, where's Two Minute Tuesday?
Is it coming back? Why did you stop? Is it stopped?
Welcome to Two Minute Tuesday.
Isn't it... W...? Today's not Tuesday, Peter.
"Peter's no longer doing tutorials!"
Like I even saw a Twitter thread would've been like
"Yeah, no he stopped doing them completely"
"He's shutting down his channel!"
"I am deleting everything"
No. None of that could be further from the truth.
Literally, I just decided to stop putting the title card
at the beginning of tutorials that were never two minutes anyway
That's pretty much as far as it goes right there.
But I figured before I talk about where Two Minute Tuesday is going
if it's coming back, all that stuff
I should probably tell you why I started it in the first place.
But please hold. I feel like I'm dying with this.
Ooh! It is hot!
The dumbest place to film something.
Ooh, much better.
I created Two Minute Tuesday because I just wanted a video
that I could make every single week that was only two minutes
and I could make it about anything I wanted.
It would be an easy way to get content, a consistent way to get content,
people could latch onto that. Two Minute Tuesday, it sounded good.
Has a nice ring to it, and I can talk about these stickers
these big owl decals for two minutes if I wanted
I could talk about this power brick for two minutes.
I could talk about... I could ride my snowmobile for...
Whatever I wanted. A two minute video, every single week.
That's easy to do, so it took no time to get off the ground
and it was an instant success, people loved it.
People still love it, which is why I'm making this video
But you see, the first video I made was
how to get rid of the background in your photos in Photoshop.
And then the next one was another camera tutorial
And then it was another tutorial of sorts
And then it started to kind of just become this assumed
Every Tuesday would be something that you would learn.
It would be something to do with cinematography or photography
or something that I would teach.
And the problem with that is there's a limit to everything that I know
with regards to this craft that is photography, cinematography.
I don't know everything. There is... I run out of ideas.
There's times where I'm sitting there thinking to myself
what could I possibly teach today? I feel like I've done everything.
I don't know anything else, I've got nothing else to give.
And I never want to be in a position where I just have to
force something out when I'm feeling like that
And Two Minute Tuesday sort of started to get there.
I never got into this job so that I could just make videos
I didn't want to make, or HAVE to make videos because
it's Tuesday, and I HAVE to teach something.
That's the complete opposite of why I started to do YouTube.
I wanted to work for myself, and just have fun and share my passion
So when it starts feeling like a job with regards to forcing out videos
or trying to come up with content that I wasn't necessarily amped on
to meet a deadline, which was Tuesday
I was like "I'm not going to do this anymore"
because I just want to make videos because I want to make videos.
I don't want to actually have to make a tutorial every single Tuesday.
That's never what I wanted that series to be.
I think it's fair to say that consistency is key.
If you're constantly updating, and uploading videos to your channel,
to your social networks, photos to your Instagram, whatever.
Technically, staying relevant. That's good. You want to put out
a constant stream of content, so that your fans, and people
that enjoy consuming that content get used to coming back
every week and seeing the stuff that you're making.
So, I think the fact that it became tutorials every single week
is what kind of burnt me out about it. So the new year came, and I decided
just keep making videos. I'd still do tutorials, I'd still do vlogs
I just wouldn't label them Two Minute Tuesday
I can still put out videos on Tuesday.
Maybe it's a vlog, maybe its a tutorial.
It's just not called Two Minute Tuesday.
And some people would be on Twitter, like I said at the beginning
and they'd be like "No, he's not making tutorials anymore"
"he said this new y--" Not the case at all.
I still love teaching. I'm just only going to teach
when I feel passionate about what I'm teaching
and if I have something that I really want to teach you guys.
I'm not just gonna make stuff up so that I can
fill up a Two Minute Tuesday, and that was the decision I made
going into 2018 when I decided not to do them anymore.
However, you guys really really love Two Minute Tuesday.
I love it too, so I've decided to start doing it again.
I'm just not going to be doing tutorials every single Tuesday.
It could be pretty random, like one Tuesday it might be a skit.
Maybe it'll just be me making coffee.
Maybe I'll be talking about a new lens.
Maybe I'll be talking about a new camera.
Maybe I'll just be doing a Q&A.
It could just be anything and everything, and that is, and has
always been what I wanted Two Minute Tuesday to be.
I think the underlying message of this whole thing is like, uh...
Stay true to yourself, and create the stuff that makes YOU happy.
Because ultimately, that's going to yield better content
And it's going to keep you happier longer.
So forget the naysayers, the haters in the comments,
the people that want to dictate how you do your life.
Forget that. Let them sink their own ships.
You've got your own plans. Stick to those, keep creating
Do what makes you happy, stay true to yourself
You'll make better content. Yeah... Yeah, I'm happy with that.
See you later.
Welcome to Two Minute Tuesday, brought to you by Casey.
Today is Wednesday.