Burnie: So on a of scale 1-10 how happy are you right now
Ashley: Like 11, I'm so happy.
We're at a new restaurant that just opened an Austin called Kula,
it sends all your food on a conveyor belt.
And then there's also you can order stuff on the screen
you don't have to talk to anyone.
And it comes out- see, look! Look at this!
Ashley: *Giggles*
I ordered some ramen, some little baby ramen, on the conveyor belt.
Yep. That's yours.
Ashely: We ate 15 plates of sushi and because we did that we-
Burnie: It encouraged us to eat more sushi.
Ashley: It encourages- Yeah, this tells you to eat more sushi!
Every time you eat five places of sushi,
it plays more of a story for you, and once you eat 15 plates of sushi then it beats the giant snake
and saves the world, and it gives you an apple to say thank you for your help.
I got a little puffy stickers.
Burnie: Of cats and sushi
Ashely: Cats and sushi. You know this looks like is a sushi version
of cat bug.
Sushi cat.
Burnie: Cat fish! Ashley: Cat fish *starts laughing* Cat Fish.
Ashley: I'm so happy.
*music starts*
Burnie: Testing one, two, three.
Hey guys a more relaxed vlog this week, there's no major adventure to show.
- But the big thing for me this week is that I
have been relocating to Los Angeles.
So I'm starting a new project and I wanted
to be able to relocate to really focus on this thing that I was talking with
Matt and I said, Hey how would you feel if I went off to LA for a couple months
I'll be in LA stay there probably through RTX I'll be here for E3 as well.
so just kind of make sense to come out here
And he was- said go for it with the
FunHaus office here, we have course have everything with Full Screen here, so yeah.
relocating to a new city has been interesting. I figured it out to where I have
been in Austin exclusively for about 25 years which doesn't even- When I
say it out loud doesn't seem like that's even possible, to you know, that I've been
somewhere for 25 years.
Since I'm moving and that's taking up so much of my time
I'm not going to have it doesn't really do all these huge epic drone shots or
anything like that. Except for that one, which doesn't even make sense, I think
that was New Zealand. I don't know why that would be in this at all.
Oh! but I've doing this thing where-
And uh, there's this thing I've been doing it's been vlogs all along but I really
kind of like broken open the technique on it,
Where you tilt shift shots and for
the intro for this vlog, uh, there was actually a construction site that's
right outside this window it's that effect where you have an image
that makes everything from real life look like it's a miniature,
like something it's like a stop-motion, like Lego, I do that with this lens right here.
This is a tilt shift lens, it's primarily used for architectural photos where they
want to get a super wide angle, but they don't wanna get that distortion that
happens with a wide-angle lens, especially when they have to tilt up on
a tripod and so what they'll do is they'll focus with this and then they
will use, the shift function- it actually looks more dramatic on a camera because
what I'm actually doing it looks like I'm moving this piece at the end but
this is the part attached to the camera moves the entire lens up and down but
then if you use the tilt function let me show you that here,
so I can tilt the lens both up and down. That tilt allows me to have depth of field that tricks
the eye, tricks the mind, into thinking it's looking at something that's much much
smaller than it is and I've always loved those shots I've always tried to find a
way to do them and I had a breakthrough this last week where I've had this lens
but it wasn't quite getting exactly what I needed out of it so I spent an entire
weekend and just worked with the tilt shift lens did some stuff in
post-production and so bottom line is I hope you like tilt shift shots because
you're going to be seeing a lot more of them.
I would recommend you look at some
post-production stuff look at what you can do in After Effects if you're
interested in this there's a lot of tutorials how you can kind of emulate
the effect and then if you really want to use a lot you can invest in the lens
to save yourself some time because rendering those shots takes a while.
*shuffles against camera*
B: let's go get to the coffee. Pretty dark hey look at you!
Since I've been spending so much time this week with personal life stuff.
I thought this would be a great week to talk about how I stay motivated and organized.
*pushes button*
B: -And what that means is over the course of 15 years I've had to stay inspired, to work on lots of
different stuff all the time. Movies, Podcasts, Vlogs, the ability to stay
inspired to do those things usually people will tribute that to motivation,
they'll say how do I stay motivated, how I get motivated to do this and I was on
a panel last year at VidCon, and it was really cool panel, It was me and John Green
and Hannah Hart and Lilly Singh and Casey Neistat, it was amazing panel and
somebody asked that question how do you stay motivated and I gave an answer that
I think was fairly unpopular at the time which is I don't believe in motivation.
I don't think the motivation is something that actually exists and it also gets
something that you could cultivate because motivation is a emotional
component of inspiration I read this really great post on Reddit one time that said
Motivation is fickle you have to cultivate discipline in order to get
stuff done. Motivation is not something that you can
force, it doesn't something you can get, it's something you just have to have and
it comes to you of its own volition, and that by cultivating discipline by
working on things even when you don't want to,
that's how you can get things done over a long period of time and
that's so much more reliable than the
emotional component of motivation. The trick they said is not figuring out how
to get motivation, the trick is figuring out how to work without it
B: You don't have any- no more of those ham croissants? Barista: No.
B: I might have eaten all of them over the course of a week
Barista: You ate all of them *chuckling* B: I might have.
Barista: I really like school of life , school-of life
is this dude and he like, it's like this kind of short. Talks about like
psychology it's really fascinating.
B: -Veritasium and then there's V-Sauce as well those are great.
SmarterEveryDay is another one that I love but
he's all like more science, like hardcore science,
You know, less philosophical, less psychological stuff
Barista: -Oh you know that Avocado toast is the reason Millennials can buy their own-
B: *laughing* Yeah. Barista: Yeaaah.
B: So then what does disipline look like. Well for me discipline looks like- lists.
Lots and lots of to-do lists.
I always want to make sure that I'm working on
what I need to be working on every single day so I make recurring to-do
lists I usually use a program called to-do-ist. Not an ad.
And I use that to give me a short list
of things that I should be getting done every single day
and then I can add individual things to it that come up during that particular
moment of my life, you know one of the things that can be tough and
one of the reasons I have to have lists, is because things come up all the time,
like this week I got to go to this Destiny event that's going to last all
day that's going to eat up an entire day, and its gonna be great but that's definitely
to eat into my normal routine of production. So I like to keep my to-do lists
very routine and stick to them every single day.
The other part of my organizational strategy that I use
is a methodology called streaks and there's a
lot of apps for this as well, and I learned this from an interview with
Jerry Seinfeld where he said that he wants to write every day for his comedy
routines and how to develop them and the way that he does that because a calendar
on his wall and every day he writes and then he puts a little X on the dais then
writes, and then when he builds up enough of those X's he doesn't want to break
the streak, and so I did that on my iPhone I have a little app called
streaks and I can use that app to take the things that are truly really
important things I want to keep going over a long period of time, like writing
or shooting, or things like that, and I can make sure I build calendars for
those and I'm building up my streak, and trust me when you get to a 115 days
of doing something, On that 116th day when
it's hard to get out of bed, and you don't have motivation, and it doesn't
exist is that discipline and that reluctance to give up on a 115
previous days, that's going to get you to do that thing that day.
Reading an article about the unending power of the human spirit and the infinite
possibilities of the human mind, that's not going to be the thing that gets me
to get out of bed and work on something, it really isn't, that's an emotional
thing and if I don't connect with that emotional thing that day in that moment
guess what I don't have my motivation that I think that I need to get
something done. You know and that doesn't have to apply to just you know
production work or career or anything like that or whatever that you do it
it also applies to family, and relationships, and any personal goals you have as well
and what I've discovered over time is that instead of relying on motivation
every single day to get stuff done if I can rely on discipline then what I find
is I make that emotional connection to that thing that I'm doing
I get invested in it and then what I'm doing, is I'm building motivation instead
of relying on it.
Alright so fun things this weekend, I hope I can show you some
of the Destiny 2 stuff I'm doing later this week as well here in LA.
Next week should be a little nuts. See you guys then.
*outro music*