What's going on everybody? Welcome to
Venice Beach California, and this is our
home. Welcome to Vagabrothers, Venice. We've
changed a few things around since we
moved in , so let's go give you a tour.
Let's go.
This is our living room; this is where we
spend the majority of our time.
This is where we "ideate." This is where we eat.
This is where we have coffee; it's where we
watch TV. This is where a lot of magic happens.
You might remember these
walls were green, but we noticed and a couple
people commented that our faces were
turning purple in the videos that we
shot here, so we decided to fix that.
Marko is like, "Why is my face purple"?
It could be related to the
walls, but it could also be related to the
fact that you always forget to wear
sunscreen. So wear sunscreen. Or I was
just like a drunk, and I had one of those
ruddy complexions of someone who drinks too
much.....the Rudolph
the red-nosed drunkard nose.
Yeah ,anyway so let's just show some of
the things right here. We got a TV. This is the
first TV either of us has ever purchased.
Black Friday. This was a 55 inch LG TV. We got
it on Black Friday at Best Buy for 400
bucks...a petty good good deal. And then
down below, we have...these are some
of my LPs. We have a collection going
right here ,but behind it are some of the
things we hid. We got this at Target
something like that for 100 bucks and
assembled it ourselves, and then we just put
in these little screws to hide everything
behind it. And what's behind it is
all of our hard drives organized from
oldest to newest. There's
probably about 20 or 30 hard drives,
maybe about a hundred terabytes plus of
footage down there. It's better hidden
with cool album covers from back in the day.
Marko, what's your favorite record?
We're going to ..I don't know
I think we need to a video about
this because there's a ton of them that
I collected during college, but we'll save
that for a separate thing. What about that?
I found this at the Long Beach
flea market for 25 bucks.
It's a 1960s
school wall map. If you look at the details,
coolest thing I love is the shipping
routes going through the Panama Canal
and stuff like that. This tells the distance between
cities. I also love that they have all of
the geography. What's it called?
It's got elevation so it's color-coded by
elevation. You can see some of the
highest places on earth. You have the
Andes; you got some of the brown
the Rocky Mountains.. Over here the
Himalayas .If you come over here, you can see
there's North and South Vietnam. There's
a couple anomalies....it says the
Soviet Union, so it's definitely from way
back in the day.,'60s..I think this comes
from 1967. It's always interesting to
look back at history and see how the
world was divided up. The idea is that
behind it we have a white board that
we can use to do some ideation.
Can't show you what's behind it.
It's all secret plans, but we can
basically have that down we're doing
business, and then we want to have
friends over, we can just cover it up.
Tin Tin.. mandatory . Got to love Tin Tin.
We have this nice......
this couch is the one thing that we
pilfered from our parents' house.
Sorry Mom and Dad. We just had to take it.
It was the one thing our parents were
always complaining about. It doesn't
really fit in the house, but it fits
perfectly here. We got this table for
fifty bucks at the Long Beach flea market.
If you look at the details, it's Chinese.
There are all these sort of like...
the Buddha in certain areas.
It's supercool and was only 50 bucks.
Just great.
This is a another Long Beach flea-find.
It's pretty decrepite it, but it holds
some of our books and coffee
table books which we try to swap out.
Silver play button
Thank you guys. Honestly, we wouldn't be
in this house if it weren't for you guys.
So thank you. Got this beautiful little
painting in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala when
I traveled as a senior in college
way back in 2010, and I just kind of like
how it's the last thing.... a little bit of color
on the way out when you flip the lights.
Our table, breakfast and work on this thing.
It doesn't really fit. We're contemplating
listing this table, selling it, and then
building some drop tables that would
be right up against the window so you
have natural light and then when you
need a table, you can use it, and when you
don't , you can get rid of it and kind of
reclaim the space. We have one of my
favorite posters. This is a
picture from the Berlin Wall, which I
bought in Berlin last year. 1989, right?
It's the fall of the Berlin Wall, which I think is
really symbolic of a beautiful era of
openness and taking down walls,
building bridges. And that's a very
strong principle of mine, personally.
I think that's the basis of our channel.
It's kind of cool to look at this
and and see some reminder of freedom.
No wall. No wall. Speaking of which......
This room is the best room.
This is the chill room.
This is the reading room. We don't have a lot of
books in this room, but we bring books
into this room. We have a bit of a disagreement on
that, right? I want our house to be open
and clean and spacious. Mark and I,
maybe one of our biggest character
clashes is the fact that I like
things a little bit more sparse and
minimalist, and Marko likes to
elaborate and put more and more.
I think we found a pretty good middle
ground, Bro, in here honestly. I just
like bohemian style houses where you
have little trinkets and cool little
knickknacks from all around the world. I want
a house that's looks more like a
curio shop. But you know what? When you
get your own house, you can do that.
I like Alex's sparseness. I just watched a
documentary Minimalism. I see the
aesthetic pleasures of it,
and we're basically reducing. It's working.
Check out what we got here.
It's kind of a Mexican themed room.
We got this Zacotec style
design blanket, which we threw
over this couch, which folds out.
It's a futon couch. When we have guests
they can sleep on their own little bed, if
they want. They can sleep on the couch.
We've hosted quite a few people. We have Raya and Louis,
FunForLouis and RayaWasHere, have
been here, but Louis doesn't fit on that
couch. No
This is not Louis standard couch. It fits
everyone else, but not Louis or Will Darbucher
They're just a little bit
too long, but I this thing's pretty cool...
open beers, you know .Show us some of the
characters. We have these guys which
are Oaxaca painted animals.
They're actually also...these were our
mother's. Elephant, candle, used to be a
rabbit. Our dad is from New Zealand; our mom is from
California. She's a flight attendant, and
she was always bringing back
cool little trinkets. I think Marko, honestly,
that might be where you get the
curios shop vibe is from Mom.
She has good taste.
Here we have the Holstee Manifesto,
which is always good to look at and
remind yourself of.
Shepard Fairey ,Make Art Not War.
I went and bought a bunch of these cool
ceramic light covers, which I got in Ensenada,
Mexico for four bucks each.
Then we have a bar. Alex, do you want to explain the bar?
It's got lots of alcohol; its kind of
collection of our booze from around the
world .Whenever we travel to a new place,
we try to visit a craft distillery
and pick up a little bottle to take home.
A couple of scotch whiskeys. We are
having a housewarming party tonight.
The house is clean, and
we figured we should take you guys along
and show you, also. One of the cool
things that I want to show is in the
kitchen here. Marko, who has very good
taste
bought me a gift for Christmas that I
really like.
These are scotch glasses that actually have
some of the bigger mountains in the
United States in the bottom of the glass.
They have an imprints of the peaks.
This one is Mount Denali ,Mount Rainier. It's got
Half Dome in Yosemite and my favorite ,Mount Whitney
in the Sierra Navadas, the highest mountain in the
continental United States in California.
When we drink whiskey or scotch, we drink it in
these guys and also a big fan of the
stemless wine glasses. These things are legit.
Some cooking books right, Marko? Your ones.
Jerusalem and Plenty by Ottolanghi
This thing I got in Thailand.
See no evil.
Hear no evil. Speak no evil
Works well with the yellow walls.
What do we have in the fridge right now?
We have a lot of beer in the fridge right now.
We have party supplies in the
fridge.
We have a couple Take and Bake PIzzas from
Costco because we were in Costco today getting party
supplies.... lots of cheese, beers. We got
some mementos from friends who have been by
here. These are our lovely grandparents.
They are the best, our favorite people in the
world. And here's a thank you card from
Louis and Raya, along with a photo from when
we hung out in Long Beach. Robbie and
Gisela, our friends from San Diego are getting married.
We're saving the date. Then some photos of all the
friends from Friendsgiving party, as well as
nice card that got sent to us from
Manitoba, Canada of me catching a drone
on a boat.
This is a really fun. And me lurking
extremely uncomfortably piloting the drone
into Marko's hand on a boat.
There's also here.....
we have the record player ,which is
tucked in the corner, and let's see
what's on right now. We've got
the Clash, Sandanista. We got
love for Frieda, Tiki from New Zealand,
pull-up bar for when we are feeling like
we need to do a pull-up.
Cow's head ceramic thing,
also from Mexico. I got
a little crazy in Mexico , nesting a
little bit after not having possessions
for a long time. He called me at the
border and was like, "Bro, you're not going to
believe what I got." And he listed it off, and I
was sitting there going ..Got an attic up
here for all our extra stuff, which does
open ,but we won't go up there today.
The bathroom.
What I like about the bathroom.... we have
I put this Botero painting, which is a
woman looking into a mirror. It's a painting within
a painting.because when you
look at the reflection of our mirror, you can
see it. We've got shaving equipment here.
I use a straight razor, so I like to have that
set up, but for some reason Alex put hand
soap on top of my shaving soap, Bro.
What the hell, man. Lowball.Since when do you
shave, Mark? Occasionally I do shave.
It's known to happen.
Got a little magazine rack here with Tin Tin.
Latest magazines, incense holder for when
things get stinky. Pooh Pourrie
If you don't know where it is, use it.
Your friends and family will love you for it.
One of the major design flaws is that
my lights to my room are outside.
I sleep naked ,and if I forget
to turn the light off , I have to get up out
of bed, either put clothes on or just hope
no one's looking and come out here
and turn the lights on.
Not great, a design flaw.
i'll just turn the lights off for you, Bro.
My room has evolved a little bit. Not done too
much in here. The walls are still green.
This is the original color of the whole
house. I got a desk I put in. I put up
this is zarape because we just have huge
all spaces.
I have this Tibetan mask right here,
Indo board. I put my towel to dry next to
the heater so that it warms up. My bed.
I got this at the swap meet for 7 bucks.
I left plenty of space so that I can do
yoga in the morning
theoretically , although i've never done it.
Closet right here for all my
clothes, and I put my hats on the wall like
this. If you guys are wandering Village HatShop.com
This is where I get my hat. Everyone's asking.
These are three of the same hats in different
colors: black, brown, blue. That's my style.
This is my dresser that was my mom's when
she was a kid, .and I'm trying to keep top clean by putting
magazines on it, I've got Esquire, Monocle
the Economist, Rolling Stone, my current weekly
subscriptions, and meditation couch, which
I also picked up in India. When I used to
live in India, I bought a bunch of things
before I left for the one day that I would
get an apartment. Now that time's come.
It feels good to finally sit on the
floor
This is my room. Like I said, trying to
keep it a little bit more clean and
minimal. I have a queen size bed from
Tuft and Needle, two little dressers. I have
some books in there. Im reading Stuff
Every Man Should Know. That was a
gift from Dad.
I'm reading El Nuevo Kama Sutra.
in Spanish. That was my book.
Yeah but I'm using it. And the Lost City
of the Monkey God, which I just picked
up, which is pretty cool.
It's about a myth of a lost city in Honduras.
Just got this yesterday and installed it.
Finally have a dresser where I can
put all of my clothes and stuff.
Try to be organized. Having lived out of
a backpack for so long. It feels really,
really nice to have a place and be able
to organize your possessions
instead of having everything jammed into a
backpack. That feels good. Got my Spanish
guitar. Bought this guy when I
was living in Galicia, in Pontevedra, Spain.
It's an Alhambra. Vincent Van Gogh
Got a Van Gogh painting Starry Night
Van Gogh's my favorite artists.. Love
impressionism ..big fan of that genre of
art. I have this little guy, this quote from
Ira Glass which is all about
how most people who strive to be in the
creative field or try to do what they
want never get there because they don't
put in the the hard hours in between
when you're a beginner and making it.
I still don't think that I've made it,
and I still look at my work
still critically sometimes. So it's good
to be able to read this and get a little
bit inspiration. I also have a couple of
photos I took. The reason I still have
all of this space on the wall is that
I'm going to start going through some of my
favorite images that I've taken in the
last couple years of traveling, and I
want to get them blown up onto either
metal or canvas and have a couple of
choice photos for that wall. Got this
little guy from Costa Rica, my first ever trip
without my parents. I was 14 on a surf
trip. This little painting on a piece of
wood is a nice reminder of that
very first trip and that feeling of
freedom and my life long love
relationship with the Spanish language. s
The closet...all this up here was covered
with my pants and boxers and stuff
because I didn't have a dresser.
This side is more shirts, like t-shirts and stuff
and this side is more jackets and
overcoats, organized by color.
I've got my boots collection down here.
All of my backpacks.
We travel quite a bit, and I never really
get to unpack them. And then way back
here, I have the panniers for my
motorcycle , which I'm really hoping that
soon, Bro, we can go camping and fill the
panniers and make some moto-vlogs.
Please, let's make that happen. This is
from our Auntie Sal. She is really
awesome.
She lives in Humboldt.. big fan of the
Grateful Dead, and she's also a big fan
of the Dalai Lama ,and so every year she
sent us these really cool inspirational
messages.
This one is from His Holiness ,the
14th Dalai Lama ; it's really nice.
The true meaning of life is that basically
if you contribute to other people's
happiness, you've found the true meaning of
life. Here we are. Here are the
skateboards: my two Santa Cruz skateboards
Alex's Sector Nine and this is Louis's
Penny Board because he's staying with us.
When you leave the kitchen ,there's a
side door, and it takes you into the side yard.
This is my bicycle. I've had it since
college. It has survived four years in
Isla Vista, and hopefully it can survive
many more here in Venice Beach. This is a
my surf shed. I've got my wetsuit and then in here
I have my boards. I have a 5/8 neckbeard
from Al Merrick This is my
pride and joy. This is what I've been riding a lot lately
It's a 5/6 mini Simmons. It paddles like a
longboard and it shreds like a short board,
and I've been having so much fun on this.
It's pretty much all I've got to show.
This bike right here is a 1967 Schwinn
Varsity. It is my grandfather's. Perfect bike
for going around Venice. I'm trying to get
panniers. I want to get a nice
little panniers set up here so I can
just go to go work at a coffee shop.
We've got a banana tree. We've got a
grapefruit tree.
We have a lemon tree, and we have a chiminea.
We actually have two chimineas.
As we said tonight, we're having a
housewarming party.. a little keg, a half keg
of Blue Moon from Colorado. Wanted to get
an IPA, but Alex cautioned me :people
can't drink IPAs in tons of quantity. I don't
know. You guys let us know. If you like
IPA, put IPA in the comment section.
The keg is officially tapped. Boom. It flows.
Alright guys well that was the tour of
our house. Hopefully, you enjoyed it.
Let us know your thoughts. Let us know if
you like the white better than the green.
We definitely do. Hopefully, you guys
had a good time and thanks for watching.
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