Hey everybody.
Acutally, hang on.
[buzz of beard trimmer]
Hey everybody!
As you can see, I’m back from BRAZIL.
I am currently working my way through all the Brazil footage, but I did want to give
you guys a sneak peak at what to expect over the coming weeks.
To start with, I had originally intended to upload small video from the trip along the
way, but for reasons you can read about on the postmortem post on Patreon, that didn't
end up happening.
But I do have footage from one of those attempts that was shot during first day in São Paulo,
so by way of introduction to Brazil, here’s that.
Hey everybody!
And welcome to beautiful São Paulo, Brazil.
I am here, in my hotel room, and I thought I'd give you all a tour of the place and see
how I'm getting on.
I also got a cool new piece of gear.
Check this out.
Huh?
Right?
I call it...
Joey Fameli!
Joey: Hello! Hey guys!
Drew: Cloth Map's intrepid contractor cameraman.
So this is the hotel room.
Let's start where the magic happens: the bathroom.
If you've never been to South America before, there's a fun little feature to bathrooms
down here: you don't flush your toilet paper, you throw it in there.
Apparently the plumbing's not very good.
Pretty easy.
I've actually washed this shirt already.
If you've seen my gear videos from Ukraine you know that I wash all of my clothes in
the shower or the sink and let them dry because they're synthetic, rather than doing laundry.
So this has become my drying rack, right underneath the air conditioner, which is very powerful.
I also wanted to show off this, this charging area.
I've talked a lot about my charging station before.
It is working full blast here, charging both my phones, my Google Pixel which is on the
Brazil cell networks, and my iPhone as a backup phone, my editing laptop.
In the event that my camera gets stolen or broken or something, I have footage on my
laptop and on this external hard drive.
Backup in multiple places!
I've also got my 3DS.
I played some Metroid: Samus Returns on the plane and here last night when I was trying
to extend my sleep schedule.
So far, pretty good.
Water in Brazil is apparently not great from the tap, will give you some bad stomach stuff.
So we went out and bought these waters ourselves.
Also very important: "Sem Gás."
I don't know about you but I'm not a sparkling water guy.
"Sem Gás" means "without gas."
"Com Gás" means "with." Very important.
One kinda weird quirk with this room is that there's a safe but it doesn't work.
Personally I don't mistrust hotel staff, but it is nice to have that peace of mind that
your stuff is locked away in case someone breaks into your room.
In the event that the safe doesn't work, I do have my luggage, which has a lock on it.
I guess they can take the luggage, but at that point they're taking everything from my room.
I did want to give you all kind of a heads-up about what to expect from this Brazil trip.
I've got a lot of things planned.
I think if half of them come through then we'll have a pretty good trip, so I'm pretty
excited about it.
Fortunately, almost everything I was about to mention there did end up happening.
So instead of just talking about it, I can show you.
Our time in Brazil was split between three cities: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Brasilia.
We went to Brazil’s largest game convention, we looked for bootleg game consoles in one
of São Paulo’s gray markets, and we got a taste of Brazil’s very favorite game.
[loud soccer chanting]
We also met a ton of people.
Collectors,
as well as developers,
and entertainers.
And, the one I didn't think would happen: we even got to see the favelas.
It’s a lot of footage.
But we’re trying something new with post-production.
For one, it’s not just me this time editing, we are dividing editing duties.
And number two, I’m experimenting with a transcription service, that should help me
get a handle on the construction of the piece overall.
Hopefully, this means videos will be able to come more quickly without sacrificing quality.
So there you go, a small taste of what’s to come.
And a reminder that we could not have done any of this without the support of our lovely
Patrons.
So thank you guys for making possible all the flights, accommodations, transport, camera
operators, tour guides, music licensing and everything else that comes along with a project
like this.
We literally could not have done it without you, so thank you and we hope to do you proud
with what’s to come from Cloth Map: Brazil.