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hello welcome this wasn't choreographed
at all
come on in i know you're here to see an
apartment
uh but i want to in classic nathaniel
drew fashion
tell you about a dream i have first come
on in i have a dream of belonging to
something bigger than myself of being
surrounded by people that are creative
and from around the world and are as
excited about life as i am except in the
21st century it sometimes feels like
that's not so easy to find it feels like
we're so digitally connected to one
another that sometimes what happens in
real life gets put on the back seat on
the back burner and to that i say
no more it's time we
for make a
presidential campaign
oh yeah true 2022. i've struggled with
feelings of loneliness and i've shared
some of the challenges that i've faced
in creating deeper connections
especially as an adult but i know that
this dream that i have is not impossible
and in the last episode i shared the
whole
crazy journey that i've been on over the
last six months to get the keys to this
apartment i'm supposed to be holding
them right now hold on here are the keys
and now i want to share with you what i
want to do with this space
okay let's start with the entrance space
i skipped over this entrance area
because there's not a ton of light right
now i don't have any light fixtures
installed yet as you can see right here
but
we've already done a little bit of
renovations already starting the
construction work
within not even one day so
no more time to lose basically as you
can see here we knock down all of this
uh which totally opened up the space i
don't know why they had that before and
i'd love to add some shelves and make
this like a really nice first impression
when you enter the space it's a little
bit strange because it's
it's you know
strange angles we'll make the best of it
you know
first of all i don't think my dream is
unreasonable because people have done
this before they've done it throughout
history
thousands of years ago
a man by the name of epicurus was asking
many of the same questions i find myself
asking about happiness what does it take
to live a happy life and he came to some
simple conclusions which included
spending more time with friends and
enjoying just basic simple pleasures and
to me that sounds amazing i want more of
that in my life
let me give you an example of some of
the quirky features of this apartment
this is really strangely shaped room
okay here as well we've already knocked
down some of the storage units that
we're in and it opened up the space
quite a bit i don't like the color
that's gonna change the thinking here is
that i gonna have like a second room
where i can receive friends and family
maybe a fold out couch right here what
we've done so far and the reason for why
this is stained is because we've already
redone the floors and i really like this
color this doesn't make any sense
whatsoever and i'm hoping we're gonna
see but i'm gonna see if i can knock
this down and make this all one big
window a lot more light coming in my
neighbors are gonna hate me from this
noise that i'm gonna make
but uh there is always construction work
going on even like right now it's
happening
in the apartment right next door or
above or i don't even know where it's
coming from moving on
this is some water damage in the
apartment i don't have to pay for it the
sellers insurance is covering it but
what i've learned in france is that
you can have a calculation in your head
for how long things will take and you
have to multiply that by 100. it's gonna
happen eventually but it's just a
question of patience so there you go
that's room number one
follow me
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this is gonna be my bedroom okay welcome
come on in i did the same thing here
there was storage units
here as well this really kind of choked
up the room a bit like it opened up
considerably when this came down i'm
going to have a bit of a different setup
here i think i'd like to have shelves
and a bunch of like books and maybe i
don't know what exactly yet but like
really make full use of this space and
then you know have some furniture to
store my my clothing and whatnot instead
of
i don't love this color this is gonna
change
but this room is really quite lovely for
the light that enters there's so much
light that pours in
now as you can see my sleep setup is a
little bit wonky still this is an air
mattress underneath the cheapest ikea
mattress i could get
i ordered a really nice mattress
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it's that way
when people say quiet as a mouse bro
mice are loud mattress time baby
there's a cigarette that burned the hole
wait i gotta try every single one in
this store
let's go follow me
oh
i love that one that one's so much
better than this one
oh this is so comfortable
this one gives me like spinal problems
i've always kind of known this but
recently i found myself rediscovering
the meaning of fun
fun is a word we don't like to use as
adults because we're supposed to outgrow
such trivial things but i think having
fun is an important reason to be alive
and recently in my life i'm having the
most fun i've had in a long time
i can't wait to get lice from all these
gross pillows
nah they cleaned them in you think yeah
so this is a remote controlled bed
right so
i should be able to like
raise it oh my god is it really it is
dude
good night guys
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is this all the clothing you want no i
have a little bit more in storage i've
gotten really good at living out of a
very small luggage for how long right
now would you say you've been living out
of a suitcase oh dude
nine months
yeah i'm pretty much over it i really
want to add so many features to this
space to add some charm you know for
example crown molding up there
and wainscoting across the walls you'll
see i'll show you everything but in the
meantime i already feel so happy to be
sleeping here it's amazing one huge tip
i highly highly recommend are
eye covers okay uh if i didn't have this
the second the light would come out i'm
awake lifesaver and also
listen to this
very very quiet so i feel very fortunate
about that as well that's a that's rare
in paris
there's pretty much nothing in here it's
a pretty minimalistic setup but i kind
of like it i like the space now look
there are no physical books in here for
me to read and that will change but that
doesn't mean i cannot cultivate the mind
in this day and age what other methods
do i speak of i can already hear you ask
well you can listen to audiobooks and
sometimes they're narrated by the
original author which to me is kind of
incredible that's my favorite way to
consume audiobooks that's exactly what
audible offers and i'm very grateful to
have their support in sponsoring this
video because it's going to help me pay
for repainting
these walls because i don't know why
they were painted this color but it's a
terrible color also this is the second
ad read that i'm doing on this freaking
bed
i'm hoping that it's the last now
audible offers an incredible selection
of audiobooks and podcasts across every
genre it's really easy for me to talk
about them because i genuinely love
using what they offer like i like to
read physically sometimes but thanks to
audible i can get through books that i
would never be able to physically read
i'm just too slow of a reader it helps
it helps when people read stuff to me
now if i may offer an audiobook
recommendation here stephen fry's mythos
about ancient greek mythology is
absolutely superb i'm really really
enjoying it and of course it's only
helped by the fact that he himself
narrates the entire thing i'm learning
so much from it and it's also just so
easy to listen to which is kind of cool
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for sponsoring this video and funding
the remodel of this place and this new
life that i'm living
and now let's dive back into the video
here i do have lights there's a lot of
character in this space a couple things
i do want to change namely the color of
these walls i think it would be nicer
white but i do love these tiles and like
look at this freaking shower the fact
that i have a shower head that
like pours water on me is amazing like
that's something that most people are
used to i think but in in france it's
very very common to have to hold the
shower head for yourself yeah it makes
it harder to shower so
i don't know while we're at it while
we're in the bathroom let me uh let me
give you some tips here everybody should
own one of these kind of gross but
even grosser is what's on your tongue
when you wake up in the morning you just
like
wipe swipe off all the stuff that's on
your tongue and
what is
this cool i don't know it's called the
thingy it's called a it's called a i
don't know what it's called
i'll i'll put a link to this or
something i don't know but everybody
really should have this there you go
here i
have a washer and dryer which is insane
i mean it came with the apartment i was
i didn't care much i don't care about
having a dryer to be honest with you i'm
not used to it
some shelves here
to store things
the toilet
right here
kind of funky there's a lot of funky
energy happening in this toilet this is
gonna change for sure i don't know what
they were thinking
because of how funky it is you know yeah
but
yeah not me classic
french
style to separate the toilet from the
rest of the bathroom it's kind of nice
honestly because you know whenever you
get back home and you're with another
person and one person has to and
one person has to shower
and you kind of don't want to do that at
the same time and together you can do
this you know what i mean so you know
separated tasks it's awesome i like it
okay before i share with you my favorite
part of this apartment let me give you a
little bit of context for what i want to
do with this space because that context
helps explain my vision paris has a deep
tradition of these energetic exchanges
with other people that i'm looking for
okay
way back in the 18th century
women of power would come together and
organize what were known as salons or
literary salons
in french they would come together and
they would discuss the sciences
poetry
art in general okay and this is a
tradition that actually lasted
throughout the centuries i am perhaps
the most inspired by gertrude stein who
kept this tradition alive okay she was
an american art collector who came over
to live in paris and was at the heart of
the art movement in the early 20th
century she would organize these salons
in her home and she was the one that
connected like ali matisse with picasso
in 1906 okay among many other artists
she was like hemingway's muse
incredible woman and i realized not long
ago that to have this in my life i'm
going to have to create it for myself
and so that's exactly what i'm going to
do i want to be this century's gertrude
stein i want to keep an old tradition
alive but updated for the world that we
live in now how incredible would it be
to invite the people that i care about
to my home a beautiful space where we
can exchange ideas and
share our excitement for life except for
the fact that these wouldn't be ordinary
parties this wouldn't be to get blasted
or to forget about our lives outside of
that evening right it would be more so
to have emotionally or spiritually or
intellectually stimulating conversations
there's something about that that gives
me so much energy and that's what my
living room is for all right so now
we've covered like that half of the
apartment here is the big kitchen slash
dining living space in the past i think
these were three rooms and you can see
from the wood the wood changes here and
you can also see it right here as well
they probably busted down the walls and
they made this one gigantic space which
i'm really really like excited to
maximize and utilize as much as possible
my vision for this is to have like a
dining table here where people can sit
and or work
over here i want to have like lots of
comfortable seating and couches and
whatnot i i imagine this being like the
center of like the salons and where
people are having discussions and
whatnot a lot of creativity is required
here because there's no lights
up until yesterday i was sleeping right
here here you can see a brief summary of
my life
okay
kettlebell for working out tripod that i
carry around with me everywhere wi-fi i
got the most powerful internet
connection i possibly could let's go
fiber
min oh my god i'm so done with being in
airbnbs that have horrible internet and
then this is what i'm using temporarily
as a light i'm bouncing it off the wall
this is just an led panel
just bounce it off the wall these are
light stands i just bought i've never
owned light stands before
so i can now use them i'm still not i'm
still using just the ground but
soon i will here's the thing i can't
show you the view that i have in this
apartment because you will know where i
live and i don't want to dox myself if
you see me walking around paris please
come and say hello i love talking with
you guys but if you figure out where i
live please do not come here okay i'm
not going to be very receptive to that
it's just a privacy thing i know you
guys are going to understand so i can't
show you the view
even though it's
i'm so like that's a big part of this
apartment but i can show you the
reactions that people have had seeing
this view that's the best i can do
dude yeah
sixth floor oh okay
i've never been this close to the eiffel
tower before
this is an amazing view look how do you
like the view cooper
it's amazing thanks man
oh
oh my god
it's like completely uninterrupted
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i can come out and stand on this tiny
little balcony big enough for a couple
people to stand i want to try and
utilize the space as best i can uh like
you know placing like a thing here that
you can eat off of some plants you know
there's a lot i can do god damn it it's
so awesome
i love this so much it's this is
definitely my favorite allen d small the
bali
so this is what i mean the balconies are
separated but kind of cool like you know
you could talk over to the other balcony
yeah
now i'm thinking of calling this space
let me break that down for you if that
sounds like a lot of french in one go an
atelier which is actually by the way an
english word as well is an artist's
workshop
and lutes is the old french name for
paris it was actually lutetia which was
the roman name for what was paris before
it was paris i don't know i feel like it
has a nice ring to it but if you guys
have any other ideas on what this space
can be called i'm totally open to
suggestions
welcome to the kitchen i i like it but
there's some changes i'm going to want
to make but let's just focus on what
it's like right now literally the first
thing i bought was this coffee machine
i'm not like a coffee connoisseur i know
like every other person on youtube is
like a coffee bro i'm not that yet but
i'm enjoying making my own coffee it's
really nice what's cool about this too
is that there's no like pods so less
waste same sort of thinking with this
sodastream i do love the european
obsession with
soda water sparkling water with this you
can just have like an unlimited supply
basically so one of the very first
purchases that i made as well beyond
that this kitchen is not super well
equipped in terms of materials just yet
i will say our place sent me this
this guy and
they're not paying me to say this but it
is an insanely amazing
pan this is ceramic which makes it no
stick extremely easy to clean i love it
i also have this black electric i have a
little oven right here i have a
dishwasher i've never owned a dishwasher
before i have yet to use it because i'm
so not used to using a dishwasher that
uh i just hand washed stuff still but
it's kind of cool maybe for the future i
don't know here we have a fridge please
don't judge my food consumption habits
in a freezer with absolutely nothing in
it still so there you go and then we
have some
cupboards here more cupboards more
cupboards more cupboards more cups more
cupboards and that pretty much covers it
for the kitchen i could imagine myself
making some cooking content potentially
if you guys are interested you'll have
to let me know there you go that's a
tour of my apartment
unless i come up with a different name
for it i like actually
go into it yeah or the lutest studio
that's easier
as i've said over and over again i want
to take you along this whole journey and
that's partially because i didn't pick
paris for the incredible past that it
has had i've picked the city for now and
the future gertrude stein said something
in 1945 that really stuck with me and
that i find just absolutely brilliant
she claimed that her ambition for
literature and art in the 20th century
was to kill the 19th century
and that is exactly what i want to do a
century later
my ambition for art and storytelling is
to kill the 20th century well what does
that mean i think it's not so much meant
as a way to be destructive of the past
because we inherit all the things that
our ancestors have constructed and built
it's more so about not getting hung up
in the past it's more so about not
getting
weighed down by everything that has
happened before and allowing that to
prevent you from creating new things
from breaking the rules from
giving a new interpretation on what life
can be about it's like having the
feeling and the liberty to create a new
now things instead of being tied solely
to
reproducing the past yeah exactly man
there were different phases of paris's
history where they described it as like
la belle book right like the beautiful
period or les any fall right like the
crazy ears
why not create our own version of that
in the present
and that's what i'm here to do tell them
how you feel tommy life is what you make
it
to be continued
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