- Hey guys, it's Jusine and today we're talking
about the brand new iPad Pro 2 that just came out.
I'm really excited about this thing and I've
been testing it out for the last couple of weeks
and this thing is amazing.
I told you I was gonna do a follow up video
for my unboxing video but I was trying to think of,
what is something different that I could do.
The specs are out there, you've seen all
of the Geek bench reports.
The screen resolution is incredible,
there's no face ID, there's no home button,
the new Apple pencil to is really fast,
you can dock it, you can charge it,
it connects automatically.
That's all really great but I think one of the most
important things to take away from all of this is,
you don't really need the latest and greatest tech
to create, which is kind of ironic coming from
someone who loves having the latest and greatest tech
but I started with basically nothing.
I made most of my first YouTube videos 12 years ago,
kind of crazy to say that out loud,
on just my computer with an eyesight camera,
using the built in microphone.
That's it.
One of the things that for me is important
is when you're creating, don't be hindered by
what you don't have.
Use what you do have and I wanted to introduce
you guys to my friend Corey, who I've known
for a really long time.
Basically before I even started my YouTube channel
and I've sort of followed his career creatively
and most recently he told me that the iPad changed
his life and I was like, what?
Tell me more so I sat him down for an interview,
hopefully we can get him to say that the iPad
changed his life 'cause that's a really, really great quote.
Anyway, let me introduce you to my friend Corey.
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- I'm Corey Basil, I'm an artist who does fine art
painting, illustrating, writing novels, poetry.
I'm also a musician, I sing, I write songs,
I play guitar, I play piano.
I currently live in Franklin, Tennessee,
it's a little south of Nashville and every day
I wake up in the morning, I ask myself,
what can I make today?
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As much as I love working with traditional mediums,
the Apple products have really revolutionized
and changed the way I do everything
and there's no way I could go back from it.
The most recent thing I've done is release two songs
and the iPad came in handy there.
I was able to lay down voice memos of different ideas
and how I wanted to sing different licks of the songs
and I hand painted the cover traditionally with oil pant,
took a picture with my iPhone, put it in the iPad,
laid some text over it and the cover's finished.
♪ Beauty in everything but not ♪
♪ That I have grown it's so hard to see ♪
♪ Past my mind that knows ♪
♪ Everything is falling apart ♪
♪ What am I to do with my heart? ♪
I think one of the greatest myths
is people think that success happens overnight
and that's not it at all.
I think that all success begins as a failure.
There's nothing wrong with taking risk and failing,
it's actually a quite beautiful thing to fail
because you learn and you get up and you try again
and then when you're finally successful,
you have really a mountain of your own failures
to stand on top of and it's,
it may sound negative but it's a really beautiful thing
to look back and see how far you've come
and what you've worked through and persevered.
I'm grateful for all of the challenges
in my journey as a creative and I wouldn't
have it any other way.
(yelling)
- Okay, cool.
(laughing)
- The liquid feature.
- Oh my God, look, we're out of here.
Just take a picture with your mind
and draw it later.
♪ The world was on fire and no one could save me but you ♪
♪ It's strange what desire will make foolish people do ♪
♪ I never dreamed that I'd need somebody like you ♪
♪ I never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you ♪
- We have been friends for such a long time like.
- Very long time.
- 2006.
I think before I even started my YouTube channel.
- That's correct.
- That's a long time.
It's kind of cool because I feel like I've been
following your creative career since that time
and you've done so many different things.
How did you even get started?
I mean I feel you've been into art for like
a very long time like since you were little,
was that your first passion?
- Yeah, art was first, drawing as long as I can remember
and wanted to be a Disney animator when I was a little kid
then I saw my first rock show when I was about
15, 14 maybe.
- Yeah.
- And that changed everything. - What was your first show?
- It was DC Talk.
- Wait okay so, weren't you opening for Kevin Max
when I met you then?
- I was, yeah.
So kind of a cool circle in many ways.
The digital transformation was amazing.
First time I drew digitally, it was on one of those
little tablets with the pen and it was very minimalist,
it was probably like a three by three.
- Oh, that's crazy.
- And I was just blown away that I could draw
and it would translate.
So I got an iPad and the Apple pencil and that changed
everything, I mean I use it for almost everything.
The only exception is Photoshop, which I'm waiting
for that to happen.
- That'll be so soon, which is super exciting.
- Soon?
Amazing.
- Yeah, I mean 2019, I'm assuming.
- Yeah, I've written two books on the iPad,
110,000 word novel, a lot of poetry and short stories.
I've done a slew of digital paintings.
I then reproduce prints of and sell those
at my gallery in Franklin.
Laid down scratch ideas for songs.
- [Justine] And what do you use for your illustrations?
- I use Procreate.
I love Procreate so far.
- That's cool because you showed my that you can
do time lapses of the drawings.
- Yes, you can animate it.
This is my first piece trying out the new iPad Pro
and the new Apple pencil 2.
I titled this piece, The Boy Who Hung the Stars.
- [Justine] Tell em about the lunchbox.
- Justine wanted a lunchbox so we have a lunchbox
in the painting, it's a Fishboy lunchbox.
- [Justine] What's Fishboy?
- Fishboy is my novel, The Perils of Fishboy.
And there's a lunchbox.
- Co creates.
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Do you have a favorite piece that you've
created like on the iPad?
- I think my favorite piece is called,
Lost in an Ice Age.
It's got some primitive graffiti work.
- So you also have a gallery. - I do.
- So people can come in and buy things or see your work.
- Yeah, I've got a little gallery in Franklin, Tennessee
and it's appointment only or the first Friday
of every month we have an art walk,
which is really fun and I have wine and donuts
and great art and there's a little trolley that goes
by my place to pick you up and take
you to other locations.
- That's cool.
- Yeah, it's great.
- And donuts?
- And donuts.
- I'm sold, if any of you guys are in Franklin,
you should definitely check it out.
- [Corey] It's called Imaginebox Emporium.
- I keep talking about how many things you've done
because it's just, it is really overwhelming.
I mean you're a graphic designer, I even remember
sending you my old flash files.
You guys probably don't even know this
but I used to be a web designer and I was real
into action script and flash and then you started
getting into it.
- Yeah, I loved it and I was having the hardest time
figuring out mathematics or what have you
of the animation and so you'd zip me up
and send me a flash file and I opened it
and I remember I just drew this rough sketch of a guy
and I opened up the file and I hit the space bar
and the guy's eye fell out and I was like, I lost my mind.
That's amazing, it moved!
- So you also just released two songs.
- I did.
- And I feel like, I don't know if a lot of creative people
I feel like go through kind of like this round
about way to get back to something that they
have always loved to do.
- Yeah.
- And so for you, you kind of were into music
and then kind of pulled away from it?
- Kind of like everything, you just, if there's a door
that opens, you just walk through it.
I've been learning that the more and more,
the older I get that we do as much as we can
to try to plan and plot out, okay this is gonna happen,
this is gonna happen.
What's worked best is just to you see a door open,
you just walk through it and whatever happens, happens.
If the door shuts, so be it, another one will open.
- Or maybe you're stuck in there and you're somewhere cool.
- Yeah.
- I just want to.
- Just open a window.
- What if there's no window?
- Then I would leave.
- Okay, that's true.
- I need windows.
- It's just crazy how technology has really changed
everything and I think even for me to,
if people weren't doing the things that I wanted
so it's like you make your own career path
and when people tell you no, this isn't something
that you can do or should do and you should
stop doing that, it's like if you're passionate enough
and you just don't quit, I think that's another thing
that has been interesting.
- Please don't quit.
- Is like well how are you still.
- If you feel it, do it.
- Yeah, like how are you still making YouTube videos
after like 12 years 'cause I haven't stopped
and I still really love what I'm doing
and I think that is important so if there is something
that you love doing and it may not be working now,
I mean maybe several years later.
- Yeah.
- Now you're releasing music and it's super exciting.
- I mean I was okay with just not going back to music.
- Yeah.
- I mean I have an old piano, imagine that,
it's like 1900's.
- He likes old things, like vintage.
- I love old things.
And I've always song written on the side just to.
- Yeah.
- To fulfill that inside of me and play my piano
to take a break from painting but I never thought
that I would put anything out or just kind of okay,
now I'm doing the writing thing and I'm doing
the illustrating and fine art painting
and now I'm putting out music again so you never know.
- You know, it's really cool.
- Sorry, step on it.
- Oh no, I was just saying that's cool.
- It is cool.
- So you actually did a painting for me
and it's in my place and I think we talked about this.
- It was a lot of fun.
- Like two years ago.
- We did.
- [Justine] Yeah so I just recently got it, it's amazing
and I feel like this is a different style
than what you're normally doing.
Is this like a different thing?
- I've never been that into abstract painting before
and I took three or four months and used that time
to fail over and over again, took the risk to discover
what abstract painting would be for me.
- [Justine] Yeah.
- I studied color theory, how that worked,
how the balance works, composition work of others.
So after all of that, all the color study,
I was able to birth a whole new era of me
that was abstract work and I thought who is gonna
need this the most, who could use this,
who could benefit from this vein of my work
so I decided to start a whole branch and I call it
Maison Basil and it caters to new home builds,
interior designers, businesses, restaurants,
that kind of thing.
- As far as inspirations go, like who are your
biggest inspirations?
Art, music?
- Inspirations in music, I've been listening
to a ton of Sting. - I thought you said Stain.
I was like, you guys remember Stained?
- I do remember Stained.
- Me too.
- My cousin loves Stained.
- I used to be a big fan. ♪ And it's been awhile ♪
- Mike Shinoda is from Lincoln Park and they were
a big influence on me, not only sonically, musically
of Chester's voice, all time favorite.
Just in the spirit of how they wrote lyrics
and music to really touch people and to really
hit people where they are and that's always
been such a huge part of why I write
and really all of my art is just to touch a place
in their heart that they didn't realize needed.
- Yeah.
- Needed it, you know.
Both Hemmingway and Bukowski taught me to keep it simple.
Painting, Carvagio is my favorite painter hands down.
I feel a lot of similarities with Van Gogh.
- Well thank you so much for sharing.
I've always been so inspired by just the massive
amount of work that you have created
and I've always wanted to tell your story
so thank you guys so much for watching,
make sure you go check out Corey on Instagram,
you're not on Twitter anymore.
You're on Facebook.
But go check it out, I'll put all of his links
below so if you guys are in Franklin
or anywhere nearby, Nashville,
how far is Nashville to Franklin?
- Nashville's just 20 minutes up the freeway.
- Oh cool, go check it out.
Thanks for chatting with us.
We'll see you guys later.
Bye!
- Thanks, bye.
- Shut up!
Like a lot of it is self taught as well, right?
- Yeah, all of it is.
(laughing)
So I got an iPad with the iPencil and that.
- It's called the Apple pencil.
(beeping)
- I made the leap into the.
- The iPad?
(laughing)
He got an iPad!
- So I made the leap and I jumped into an I.
- Pad.
- So I got an iPad Pro.
- Okay. - So I got an iPad Pro.
- When did you get the. (laughing)
- When did I?
I got an iPad Pro - You got an iPad. Wait.
Wait, you got an iPad?
(laughing)
So you told me before
(laughing)
that you got an iPad.
Okay, the sun's gonna go down.
So when did you get an iPad?
(laughing)
is that my dog?
- Yeah, it is.
- That's my dog, okay.
So you got an iPad, that's cool.
(beeping)
(laughing)
- Okay, ready?
- Yeah.
- Alright.
♪ Show my something beautiful today ♪
♪ I don't have time to waste ♪
♪ Show me something beautiful today ♪
♪ I don't have time to waste ♪
♪ Don't let it fade away, don't let it fade away ♪
♪ Don't let it fade away ♪