japan
it's high on the list for so many and
why wouldn't it be
just look at it many want to visit
many want to visit again and many want
to take the leap
and move here it's completely
understandable why but
before you do any of that there's one
important thing that i think
everyone should do
good morning guys i am in nara right now
deer
everywhere and i'm on my way to kyoto
there's this documentary that i want to
make out in kyoto it's
it's a bit of a roll of the dice also
victor's with me
over the past half year so i've been
trying to share more of the beauty of
japan or
at least what i see is the the beauty of
japan
also this park behind me here there's a
bunch of deer in there
partially because there are so many
people who just can't be here right now
and
partially because with any luck japan
will hopefully never be this empty again
i feel and i mean this in the most
delightful sense of the term
of responsibility of swords to kind of
capture
share and immortalize this this point
in time hey norm go over there
let's go over there
[Music]
[Applause]
i have no idea where victor went and did
you know that baby deers sound like
squeaky toys
really enjoying this area also i'm
standing on a hill so
weird angles and all that but a bit of a
question have you ever wondered how your
parents are more likely
grandparents felt while going through
some of the toughest
times in their life i i do
i do or for that matter even their
hi or for that matter even their day to
day what
what was it like for them when they were
younger i think about it a lot
do you i know what you want i know what
you want
here there you go
[Music]
you want the leaves too i got some
leaves with me
[Music]
i gotta find vic
hey victor i got a bit of a question
yeah
if your grandparents had a podcast would
you listen
like if they sat down with a tape
recorder and just
recorded their mundane lives like a
tuesday with dirty and howl
would you would you listen to that i
mean like yeah i mean of course
thank you i asked the deer over there
and he just gave me the cold shoulder
it's pretty rude
all right sidestepping on this topic for
a second on music
music before coming out to nada i
already had a playlist
picked out for this specific spot wait
you
you had a playlist set for the unnamed
adventure as well yeah
yeah i did yeah i do it often in fact
everything from specific scenes to
entire adventures themselves
have been born of me finding a song that
just inspired an idea the point being
that music is kind of a big deal so
i did something i reached out to art
list the people who make the music that
i use for a lot of these videos and i
asked them if they'd be interested in
partnering up maybe for
this video or maybe some in the future
and they said yes
what i wanted to be a surprise and that
deer is sneezing
i surprised that i'm actually i'm very
excited about them
i'm excited to have them as a bigger
part of the adventure a bigger part of
all the content i just
but we we haven't done any exploring
here yet we've we've been here for like
see they squeak
they sound like squeaky toys they do
[Music]
all right man i'm gonna go here take a
picture okay
[Music]
finally got a little sunshine today and
i'm happy about it so i'm gonna put the
camera right here
victor had asked and yes i've used other
services
before many of them have a lot of
similarities for me artless
biggest feature is that i can use it
everywhere obviously i can use it for
youtube and instagram and everything
like that but i can also use it for like
corporate stuff and that's actually
pretty rare we're gonna
there's there's like deer coming up
behind me here we could get
the deer in the background but that's
actually pretty rare to just
once you download it it's it's yours
that's it and separate from
artless there's also art grid for stock
footage and all that
mini river like all those opening drone
shots with mount fuji and everything
that was all from our grid we were
supposed to be going to mount fuji today
but
weather what a beautiful space this is
not a park by the way i don't think i
mentioned that you've probably
already figured out but getting back to
my point there's something that i wanted
to say and that's
i think that right now especially
everybody
should be making content of some shape
or form at the very least i think we
should all be documenting life
as it happens to us right now it doesn't
need to be something as complicated as a
youtube video it could be some instagram
stories or reels you could do a podcast
even just keep a weekly note on your
phone where you talk about life and
what's changed and how you're reacting
to it
something that you can look back at and
it's that wanting to look
back at stuff that kind of gave me the
idea to share this with you guys because
when we come to japan for the first time
you may have already taken your first
trip or it may be down the road but
everybody ends up wanting to document it
in some way whether it be videos
or pictures i did the exact same thing
15 years ago walking around with a sony
handycam
and then you get back and you look at it
all and you're happy to have it but also
if you're anything like me you look back
and think ugh
i wish i had learned just a little bit
more about how to use this camera or i
wish i had learned just a little bit
more
about making videos before i went can't
do this whole camera talking thing
and this is that opportunity you can
start now start
before you come start while you can't
come
learn to capture it in a way that's
going to please
you the best part is you don't even need
to post anything it can all just be for
you
even i made videos for myself for an
entire year before i kicked off this
channel
i got distracted by deer
but if you do choose to post i only ask
two things
number one it's pretty easy just
understand why you started understand
your
your motivations behind it really
understand that and keep that in mind in
each pose
and number two
get distracted by squeaky deer and
number two
never take criticism on your content
from somebody who doesn't have the same
goals that you do
like a lot of people are gonna have
opinions about your creations
don't let them your creations are kind
of like your goals they're uniquely
yours do you have any idea how many
people who weren't interested in living
in japan at all told me that it was a
mistake for me to go and try to move to
japan
i did probably exactly what you would do
which is just laugh and
occasionally tell them where they could
kindly place their opinions
the point being that their opinions had
zero impact on
my goal of coming to japan and you need
to hold your
creations with the same result it can be
a really discouraging process not just
externally but internally as well
is a constant uphill struggle and while
in the short term it may not always
feel like things are getting better if
you stick with it long enough
it pays off
does that make sense i think it feels
like it makes sense
but like with your goals your ability to
stick to it is
really everything we uh let's go this
way
okay so i have a little bit of a request
no matter what your situation is right
now i want you to start
creating i want you to start documenting
life as it is document the exciting
document the stressful document the
mundane
i promise you won't regret it and
recommending our lives to you is also a
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not only helps me but it gives
you an extra two months for free but
whether you use artless or not the point
doesn't change
learn to create something that you love
or at the very least like
learn to organize learn to push through
learn to stay consistent learn to
just learn to love the process of
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art list
for one person down in the comments
i'll pick a winner in let's say about
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i'll do is i'll make it so that
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that way anybody can win wait so can i
win
no you can't win go over there
a lot of the trees are still green but
some of them just
some of them are starting to get some
color we uh we were just
just a touch early to come out here i
think but anyway anyway the point i
haven't even finished this yet
leave me something down in the comment
let me know
what you want to use this for i advise
maybe against using links
since youtube likes to block links
sometime
but let me know what you would use an
art list
subscription for try and think of
something imagine go browse the catalog
or
don't i'm just happy to have you here
and it is it is a beautiful day
this is the beginning of what is going
to be a very
very challenging week i uh
oh that's bright the video that we're
going out to to kyoto to make is
is is a doozy wrapped in a whopper
i uh do you how do you think it's gonna
go
one or the other i don't know i can't
reveal too much this is gonna be an all
or nothing kind of deal and well i guess
we'll see we'll see
we took the thumbnail that was
that's exhausting for you
we're done yeah i never i never thought
we would be
especially when i thought i lost all the
footage but here we are
it's uh it's proper evening now the
sun's cutting through the trees looking
all beautiful
how's it been to carry around the gimbal
all day it is heavy i am tired