- [Hallease] It's funny the different
ways people procrastinate,
for me, I just focus my productivity somewhere else.
Right now I'm sitting at a Jiffy Lube
getting my car inspected. On time.
Just so ya'll know that's very rare for me
to do it on time.
That day, I also balanced and rectified the company's books
and shot this vlog.
All of which are very productive things to do,
but are not what I should actually be doing right now.
(mood music)
Anyway.
(mood music)
- [Woman1] Good Morning Blog, we are on set here at KLRU
Austin's PBS Station, made possible by viewers like you.
We are shooting an episode of "Say It Loud"
(laugh) this is about Afro-featurism
so you may or may not be dressed,
gonna be dressed as your favorite...
You'll see, you'll see.
(chuckle) Okay, so, click here to watch interview
with Tony Ballantyne, author of
"Children and Blighted Thumb" a fantasy novel.
- [Woman2] Ah, oh yeah. (both mummble)
That's why you're a writer.
- [Woman1] (chuckle) Ya know, I'm like some feels...
- [Woman2] I just produce this.
(laugh)
- [Woman3] That's true, with the way you said it,
I was like okay.
(all laugh)
Okay, Let's wait a sec. (mumbles)
- [Woman1] We done. (laugh) Cockado.
But, here comes,
the better part. (laugh)
Here comes the part I was excited about this morning.
You'll see!
(laughing)
- [Woman2] Oh yeah I should get my phone out of my pocket.
(crumpling noise) (laughing)
Oh you are like artsy-fartsy with the angle and everything.
(lauging) (high pitch whistling sound)
Oh here we go.
Here we go.
- This is awesome!
(mood music) -Get it! Okay!
(laughing)
(mood music)
- You going to break a leg. (laughing)
- [Hallease] Hey, everyone, its me Hallease,
endeavoring to persevere as always if you are new here
I make videos about my chaotic good life.
Subscribe, social media, those things.
I got a new Pelican case.
And no this isn't a sponsored video.
I'm just kind of nerdy and wanna show ya'll that
I got a new Pelican case.
And I'm trying to figure out how I want to uh,
switch all my stuff from the old Pelican case
into this new one.
So I figured, ya know, I'm just going to vlog about it.
And this video probably won't do well
cause most of ya'll don't watch me for tech.
At all.
But, I'm excited.
So, there.
(background music) I upgraded from the
Pelican Air 15-something or nother to the Pelican Air 1637.
I don't know what the numbers mean.
Don't ask me.
Ask Pelican.
I got this one with the pick and pluck foam in orange,
off of Amazon.
I have a Prime membership.
Mr. Hallease is there on the couch.
Hanging out.
Living his best life, ya know.
Meanwhile, currently how the living room looks...
Okay, hi.
So, what I'm currently working through is how best to
set up my new Pelican.
This one is significantly bigger than my old one,
and the old one really, I could only use it to hold
my light panels, and that was it.
If you have been following me for a while,
then you probably know these light panels
from a video that I did last year.
On how I light My Melon In.
That's what its called.
And I showed how I used these, actually very affordable
light panels to light myself.
Four of them fit in my old Pelican, but not much else.
So now I'm really excited.
This new one, um, I will be able to fit all four of the
light panels in here as well as two shorter Manfrotto
light-stands and I really like these light-stands
cause their like nice and compact.
I am in the process of buying four,
so that way I don't have to have super,
normal size light-stands anymore because I love these.
They're expensive though.
They're like 60 bucks a light-stand
or something crazy like that.
And the big thing, figure out how I want to put
all of my, right now I keep all of the batteries,
just in like a little, cloth sack.
So, ya know all my batteries and stuff.
Figure out where, I want to place those in this Pelican.
And I also, not on camera, which I'll show it in a minute,
I also bought a new Tenba rolling case
too for my light-stands and some of like the longer things.
Um tripods and stuff.
They will all go in the Tenba, that's actually to my right.
I'll show it in a minute.
I used to have, one of these larger Tenba car case things.
But, its so big, its such a hassle, and you fill it up,
so much and then you can't really carry it.
So, I'm happy to be getting this rolling Tenba,
so that way now, when I'm on set, ya know,
I can bring all of this myself if I need to. (mood music)
And, its not terrible.
- So here's how I packed it.
(background mood music) The bottom most layer of foam
two of my light panels, and a stand.
The second layer of foam, is the reverse of the bottom.
So it holds two more light panels, and my other stand.
(mood music)
The topmost layer I have my charger
packed for my batteries.
And my cords and extensions
to power my lights via an outlet.
While packing, I remember that I had an old Tenba
carrying case and all of my batteries fit perfectly into it.
This is like such a huge monumental thing to realize
in the packing world.
I also, own two aperture MLAX lights, which I love.
Finally, like I said, once I buy my other two light stands
I'll place them here.
I also think I'll probably transfer an extension cord
to one of these bottom sections as well.
So essentially everything I need to light a subject
or an interview is all in one place.
I'm just really excited about this guys.
Let me know how you pack your Pelican below,
and I'll see you when I see you.
(mood music)