- What's up?
This is my office, this is where I film most of my videos.
And it's getting pretty cluttered,
as you can see.
I don't need more space,
what I need is a nicer backdrop to film videos.
I thought I'd take the weekend to renovate
this little, this is pretty dark.
So I thought I'd take the weekend
to sort of renovate what's going on back here,
but I've got plans, do you want to see,
do you want to see my plans?
This is this, this is the big.
Let me turn this down so you can see here.
As you can see, this is the, oh here you go.
This is the window and then this would be the backdrop
where I film all of my video.
I have a nice little chair, a little tripod lamp,
maybe a little chess table or something.
Some shelving here, some shelving, some signs.
The back of all this is gonna be in barn wood.
So I went out and bought a bunch of barn wood
and now we've got to install it.
I haven't got the shelving yet, but I'm gonna do this.
And then we're gonna talk about some other stuff.
By the way, 1st playing cards are shipping.
It's coming, should take just a few days left
and we'll get all the orders done.
We've got thousands to go through.
I thank you so much for your patience, by the way
and I'm starting to see pictures pop up online
of you guys actually playing with the cards,
which makes me super excited.
So thank you for that.
All right, enough horsing around.
It's time to get to work.
If you don't have a stud finder.
Found one.
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Not bad.
All in a day's work.
So this is gonna be my new background
for a lot of my videos.
Obviously I'm not done.
This was the hardest stage of completion,
so I'm glad I got this done today.
If you don't mind, I'm gonna go shower.
But before I do that, I just want
to say one thing, I'm preparing a new series
on this channel and I know what you guys
were saying, the last series, what was it called,
what did we name it?
I think it was like
breaking...
I don't remember.
It was something about,
oh breaking down magic.
The breaking down magic series.
I didn't follow through with that,
I think one of
the reasons was... - Boring!
- But that being said, I am committing to something,
it's the funnest thing I've thought of
and this is gonna be something
that's gonna be weekly.
I think you guys are really gonna enjoy it
and it requires me to travel quite a bit.
But I've committed because I've already booked
plane tickets, some really special guests.
That's all I can say.
I will, however, give you guys a date on the next video,
as of right now I'm not exactly sure
when I want to launch this series.
Now if you don't mind, I'm gonna go change my stinky ass.
All right, I'm back.
Also just changed the light bulbs, ow.
Real Edison bulbs.
Before I get into the rest of the video,
I want to share with you guys,
actually my favorite puzzle.
I was gonna make a whole video on this,
and I thought there's really no point,
I already know how to solve this,
it was shown to me by Dan and Dave
at the Art of Play Warehouse.
I'll leave the link below
if you guys wanna pick this up.
So the same creator that did the bad radio,
it's so ingenious.
Look, so here's what it looks like,
it's a dice, is it a die?
Is one dice two die?
You can hear something rattling.
Here's the most impressive part
is that there's no seams,
there's no visible seams,
that's not a seam.
What looks like a seam, that's not a seam.
It looks like, 'cause the shading,
but it's not, there's actually no seam there.
Let me show you guys how this opens, this is pretty sick.
It uses a bit of logic.
You put the one on top and then check this out.
You look for the two and then the three
and then the four and then the five
and then the six, and once the six is there,
oh darn (laughs).
I put the three on top.
I'm looking at the monitor, let me try again.
One, two, three, four, five, six.
Once that's done, look at where the seam is,
look where that seam is hidden.
Okay, ready?
It completely vanishes.
The craftsmanship on this is insane.
And then you open it up and it is indeed a
puzzle box, seems to be something on the inside.
What is this?
What do we have, oh oh, looks like someone
dropped a like.
I guess they like dropping likes, I don't know.
If that's something you're into.
By all means, drop a like,
you know what I'm saying?
Oh hi, Obi, Obi, Obi came to see me.
Obi, hi, say hi to everybody.
Say hi.
Look, this is, oh my god, oh my,
the love pouring out of the puppy.
He's probably just like, "I need to pee."
(mumbles)
Okay, Obi, I gotta do a vlog.
See this camera, look over here.
Yep, look it's you.
You don't care, okay.
All right, Obi, I gotta finish this vlog.
Can you let me finish the vlog?
Wanna chill with me, you gonna chill right here?
Here's what I'm gonna do guys.
We're gonna do a bit of a contest.
As you know, 1st Playing cards
are currently shipping, as I mentioned.
We got through a couple thousand orders
and we got a couple thousand more to go,
so if you haven't received an email
notification yet, hang tight,
give it a few days, you will receive one
and that will have your tracking on it.
I've compiled some fan art from the past few years.
I'm gonna go ahead and then check a few of these out.
If you wanna drop some fan art,
whether that's digital or whether that's
actual illustration with a pencil or a pen,
go ahead and do so.
Next week, let's say next Friday or Saturday,
roughly around then, I will choose one winner
and I will feature your picture on my Instagram.
And I will also send you three decks
of 1st Playing cards, on the house.
Good luck to all.
Make sure to tag me on Instagram,
because if you don't, I won't see it.
Don't just comment my name, you gotta tag me
'cause I get a lot of comments
and I can't see them all because, whatever.
1st one, and this one's hella dope.
Really dope digital illustration,
knocked it out of the park with that one.
What do you guys think?
All right, this one (laughs).
My beard looks like spaghetti,
my arms are sweaty.
Beard spaghetti, vomit in my beard spaghetti already.
Mom's spaghetti.
Oh, this one's cool.
I don't know why I like this one,
it kinda feels like,
don't go anywhere, Obi, I know you have to pee, hold on.
Guys I'll be right back, I gotta make my dog pee.
- [Robot] 2000 years later.
- All right I'm back, sorry about that.
Yeah, I don't know why I like this one.
Kind of like a real, cool vibe to it.
Very cool, definitely like it (laughs).
This is really sweet, okay?
It's... what's in his mind?
Oh, I think he has 1st Playing cards on his mind,
that's really cool.
So this is me dressed up as
Conor McGregor for Halloween (laughs).
Sick job, nailed it.
Oh, this one I love.
This is probably my all time favorite,
gotta be my all time favorite
because it was done with a pencil.
It's just so realistic looking.
I can't believe how much talent some people have
to take some (laughs),
am I wearing a Phenolphthaline,
I've got a Phenolphthaline shirt on.
But man, the talent, the shading, what a skill.
Oh, this one's dope.
So this is a picture of me that I had.
I guess this guy digitally rendered it.
Yeah this one's sick, I remember this one.
Another one hand drawn,
I'm presuming hand drawn, I don't know
anything about drawing.
I got like the chess on my mind,
which is really cool.
Yeah just sick, love the colors,
nailed the eyes.
Got that dreamy, little bit pervy,
semi-pervy, semi-dreamy, let's keep it at that.
Sick.
I look like the wolf-man.
A for effort.
Oh, that's dope, another hand drawn one.
My face looks a bit squishy,
but again, nailed the tattoos.
Look at the detail on those tattoos,
definitely doesn't look like me, but it's dope.
Oh this one's cool.
This is funny because when was this?
This was like two or three or fours years ago,
how relevant is this right now
if you've seen The Avengers.
I mean, let's just leave it at that.
Oh, this is cool, Daniel Schneider did this,
this is a digital render, look at this.
So this is the original picture I took,
Peter McKinney took of me actually in Toronto.
And he actually cut me out,
he added the tags in the back of the hat,
the tags in the t-shirt,
even the inside of the sleeves,
it's just so magical to me.
It's cool, man.
I'm not gonna knock it because I can't draw.
I can't draw to save my life
and this is actually pretty good.
I don't know why, but I feel like this
could be my distant Lithuanian cousin.
Oh, this one's sick, look at that.
Kind of look like I'm on acid,
I might be tripping balls at this point.
And that's it, those were the ones
that I grabbed from my Instagram.
I'm gonna just close out the video,
I think we've thrown enough content to a video.
I'm super stoked about life in general,
especially with the project I'm telling you about.
About you guys getting the cards,
about this setup getting finished,
about the contest that I'm hosting.
Life's good, can't complain.
But remember, if you want to enter this contest,
just send me some, don't send it to me,
tag me on some fan art on your Instagram
at Chris Ramsay 52.
Make sure to tag me, not just in the comments,
it'll be immortalized in my tagged feed forever.
And I'll choose one of you and I'll send you
three decks of brand new, unopened 1st Playing cards
sometime next week.
So stay tuned to that.
(imitates shooting sounds)
All right, that was awkward.
All right guys, that's it for me.
Thanks for watching, we'll see you in the next video.
Peace out.
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