- The city is a super interesting mix of like old and new.
Some stuff is positively ancient
and other stuff is super modern,
and they're right on top of each other.
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So I haven't really even explained why I'm here
in Reykjavik, Iceland.
About a year ago, I found a video from Matt Johnson
where he had gone on a trip to Iceland,
filmed a whole bunch of stuff,
and he did this crazy drone footage which was unbelievable.
And it was all done with a Mavic Pro.
And that's what made me decide that I wanted to get a drone,
that I wanted to get my commercial drone license,
which end up being my very first video on this channel.
So about a year ago
I was flipping through National Geographic
'cause I still have a subscription
to the actual print magazine,
and there was an ad for National Geographic Journeys,
which looked pretty cool, and so I looked those up.
And a lot of 'em were crazy expensive,
like 20, 30, 40, 50 and above thousand dollars.
So I was looking for the less expensive ones
in areas that I wanted to go to,
Iceland being one of those places,
also being the cheaper tour at $3,000,
which is still super expensive,
but for a week-long tour, it's not bad,
Here's the weather forecast for home for this week.
That's a pretty cool week for mid-June.
106 being the cool day, 112, 113 being the hottest days.
Here's the forecast for this week here.
Super cold, cloudy, and rainy the whole time.
Perfect.
I've only been to the United States, Canada and Mexico.
And that's basically it.
So this is my first time off the North American continent.
First time to Europe.
So this is Day One. I got here yesterday.
Flew overnight from New York.
I think I was awake for like 30 hours.
Came here, expecting not to have a room ready
and definitely not to have a room to myself,
and they said, oh your room is ready,
and it's a super fancy, swanky, like ultra modern room, so.
There's these switches everywhere
and I don't know what they do.
(machine whirring)
Oh, the window opens.
There's a view of a construction site.
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One thing about Reykjavik that's totally surprised me
is the amount of graffiti that's everywhere.
I didn't really expect that.
I guess in an effort to deter people
from graffiting the city,
the city actually hired a bunch of painters
and graffiti artists to try to install
big murals everywhere to kind of counteract
the more scribbly, defacing types of graffiti,
so it's really interesting.
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Me and my friends in high school
could have painted this one.
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Now in the last year it seems like Iceland has become
the most popular place to visit
and take pictures and videos of.
The toughest part is to really capture
the overall experience
and the scale and sort of epicness of it.
I'm glad that I knew that going in,
because that is going to be one of my main goals
over the next week
is to really try to capture that feeling
of just sort of vastness,
other worldliness that exists here.
So we'll see.
Also I should mention real quick,
that coming from the super bright California desert,
having everything just be nice, soft,
diffused lighting all the time,
where it never really gets dark
but it never gets crazy bright,
is my favorite thing to film stuff in.
Card holder,
you know how you always lose your cards on trips?
When you put your card in there,
it turns on all the lights and stuff,
and when you're ready to leave,
you take your card out and everything shuts off.
And the window even closes.