- Yo guys, Jonathon here and welcome
to the 2017 office tour.
(upbeat music)
So by far one of the biggest changes from the last office
tour, which crazy enough, was two years ago,
is the giant wall behind me, back then it was empty,
pure white, it could be a little intimidating
and overwhelming because of how massive it looked,
but since then, we've painted it this really nice
dark gray color, which I love because it absorbs
pretty much any color you throw at it.
So this right here has kinda become the product table
where we shoot a lot of the B-roll for the videos,
got a couple of target lamps in the back here,
although there are some very similar ones on Amazon,
in case you're looking for a style like this.
Now as far as the lamps go, I'm sure by now you've seen
them in many of my videos, they're both from Tomon's,
this is technically the newer model, whereas the white one
has got that classic Toy Story Pixar action
but I really like the contrast, the black and the white,
and then like I was talking about, the gray wall
really absorbs the color, so I couple hue bulbs
that each of these splash up against the wall,
pair that with a light strip
and you got a really cool-looking combo.
Now one of the things I've been wanting to do forever
is outfit this entire space with Philips hue
and I can now say we have successfully done that
so giant shoutout to Philips for sponsoring
this office tour and making that a reality.
So instantly through voice, you can turn
every single light in this place.
Turn off all the lights.
I really like Google Home because
it is super responsive at changing colors.
Turn all the lights purple.
And then lastly, the Amazon Echo works fantastic
if you wanna instantly change scenes.
Turn on Savannah sunset downstairs.
Now jumping back over here, you're probably wondering
what this crazy setup is, and it's actually a custom
Xbox console that was built by Chris
over at Four Eyes Furniture.
We've kinda turned it into this little product showcase
area with that classic circle LED,
a really awesome-sounding speaker from Naim,
this is actually custom right here, we got a crispy AF
and a TLD logo, huge shoutout to Dan and Lincoln
over at What's Inside, we got that cut in half golf ball
action, and then this is the giant Xbox One collection.
So if you wanna see more of that,
Mr. Kevin Kenson just did this crazy ultimate Xbox setup
that I'll link to here and also down below.
Moving along, this is my desk right here
and the one thing you notice is I wanted to keep things
kinda uniform, so we've used the Ikea Oppeby,
and I'm probably slaughtering that name,
across all of our desks here, these are some of my favorite
looking tops, I've always really liked the glossy look
from Ikea, so these are a little bigger, a little wider,
give you a little more room to play with,
then that pair with the legs, which are actually
technically a dark brown, look super classy.
Back at it again is Mr. Toy Story Pixar lamp from Tomons,
little Homer Buddha, I'm not sure if he's still available
but I will link him along with everything if I can find it
down below, and recently I've got a ton of questions
on what speakers do I use, and these right here
are the Adam Artist 3, and by far, they are my
favorite-sounding pair of speakers, they are incredible.
Kinda got a little hack here going, in the sense
that these are actually audio engine speaker stands
but they work really well with the Adams.
My mouse of choice right now is the Logitech MX Master
paired with a wireless Apple Bluetooth keyboard,
that is being powered by a 2016 MacBook Pro
straight into an LG Ultrafine 5k display.
I talked about it a little bit in my latest
What's In My Bag video, but this has been my setup,
I'm not using an iMac, I'm not using a Mac Pro,
this is my desktop when I'm here and then I just take
the MacBook and go when I'm on the road.
Now the other uniform thing you'll se across the office
are the chairs, these are the Sayl by Herman Miller,
we kinda got that white and gray look
that looks really clean and I think matches
the aesthetic of the wall, of the white desks,
they're also extremely comfortable.
Really like the looks of this mesh back right here,
and what's awesome with these is you can pretty much
customize them any way you want, down to the color
and the legs, the feet, and I know it might seem crazy
to invest any sort of money into a chair
but if this is something you do on a day-to-day basis,
where you're sitting down for long periods of time,
then it's not that crazy.
Moving this way again, along with the tables, the chairs,
we have 5k monitors across the board,
so here at Ralphy's desk, we got that lamp,
MacBook Pro docked in, Ralphy's weapon of choice right now
is the Sony A6500, which is arguably the best
4k YouTube camera out right now,
this is also a secret weapon, the Road Video Micro,
which is hard to beat for the price.
Over here, we got a little Lego action
and if you haven't watched Ralphy's Legos videos,
they are really really good, you should go check them out.
Curiosity Box, by VSauce.
Shoutout to Jake, I love you, man.
So moving over here, this has kinda become video gear world,
we got C stands and sliders and monitors, a crazy sky panel,
I know some of this gear might be a little intimidating
and overwhelming, honestly it's more of the stuff
we use for the higher-end and crazy production stuff,
but really, most of the time, these airy low-casters
are what we end up using, you could do some crazy good stuff
with just a single LED bounce like this
and that's honestly what I use for most of my talking head
stuff that you guys have seen in recent videos.
So it's safe to say as we've gotten a little further
into this video world, we finally upgraded some gear,
for the longest time, honestly, we used Home Depot lights
for like I'd say three or four years,
so don't feel intimidated if you see
any of this crazy stuff, because you can do some really
spectacular stuff with budget gear.
Closing it up over here, this is Mr. Matt.
As we were recording right now, I saw this sweet transition.
Get ready for it.
Bam!
So if that's not enough to entertain you, and maybe pique
your interest, you should probably go watch that video
while this truck outside here interrupts me.
(laughs)
- Geek Squad, man! - It's the Geek Squad, dude!
- Geek Squad!
You screwed me again!
$200 to change a hard drive.
How do you sleep at night?
So closing out Matt's desk, it's very similar to mine
in the sense we've got the Pegasus,
he's got those Adam Artist 3s, which are phenomenal,
and then again here, just closing out the matching desk set,
we got the LG Ultrafine 5k display,
ready to go at any given time to dock a MacBook Pro into.
Now before we move on, a shoutout to Dude Perfect
for making us waste many many hours
shooting baskets and not making videos.
Also, before I forget and you guys yell at me,
those Disney posters, found those on Etsy,
printed them at Costco where they did the canvas,
the frame, everything, not sure if they're still available
but if they are, I will link them down below.
Moving over to the Ikea case of doom,
this is actually meant to be a closet
but we've turned it into a gear container,
we've actually had this for a couple years now.
That's a lot of batteries.
On the flip side, actually, you wanna know what
two many USB cables looks like?
Look at that rat's nest.
We've kinda got it organized.
- Some Splinter action. - Lightning, micro USB,
USB-C, Thunderbolt 3.
Lenses galore, and then this mess and this mess
has kinda become the tech under 50, 25, 100,
testing area where I'll just go on these Amazon rabbit holes
and add many many many things to my cart,
order them, test them out to see if they make a video,
and that's kinda where they live.
Eh man, why are you in my mouth?
Continuing along, this is some kitchen stuff,
not really anything that interesting.
Water, half an eaten cookie.
No pears, unfortunately.
This here is kinda like the little entertainment,
get around together, watch some YouTube video center,
home to the Google Home, couple Xbox controllers,
TV, another really awesome speaker from Name
and then the Amazon Echo right here.
Now this guy right here is actually from Ikea
and it is extremely useful in terms of being a gear cart,
so we got this power extension kinda mounted here,
so that's not going anywhere, this is probably my favorite
extension cable from Blue Lounge because it's blue,
really easy to see and not miss in the massive amounts
of rad action cable land, it's a magnet,
so Jesse would approve, and that's about it.
Now, if we go over here, if you don't have a motion sensor
in your life, you should, because that is honestly
one of the coolest things we've done here
and it's not that important or that cool right now
but when it's night and there are no lights in here
and you walk by, it's the best.
So as far as upstairs, this has kinda become
the entertainment center of sorts.
Back in the day, that used to be actually my desk
and speaker setup, but since then, we kinda went
with a similar theme as we did downstairs with that dark
gray wall, say hello to Rich and the ice light.
As far as a TV goes, we got that beautiful
curved OLED from LG, tons of consoles,
this has kinda become the game memorabilia area,
virtual boy, holy crap.
Here's actually one of my favorite pieces that I've used
in a few different time lapse shots,
the Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt clock,
really really cool, shoutout to the Bulls,
who are back and forth this year.
Last but not least, we got this Halo Needler action.
This is also part of the ultimate Xbox setup,
so don't normally have this around,
but you can check out why we got it in that video.
Also you might notice, there's a closet back there,
that is just boxes and more nerf.
- Wanna go check? - No, nah,
we can't show them that, they'll never come out of it alive.
They'll never come out.
Hey hey, you son of a!
So that wraps up the 2017 office tour,
hopefully you enjoyed the video,
if you did and you are feeling like being awesome,
make sure to smash that like button.
If you have any ideas or suggestions for the next tour,
drop a comment down below where I'll post everything
we talked about in this video along with this sweet shirt.
This is Jonathon and I will catch you guys later.