- Hey you guys, Jonathan here.
Welcome to the secret office tour.
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So by secret you guys have seen
multiple iterations of this space
and I'm sure you've seen bits and peaces of this spot
but I've never really given you the full in-depth tour.
Now there are still a ton of things
I would love to do to this spot
in terms of upgrades, tweaks, enhancements,
if you guys have any suggestions,
feel free to drop me a line down below
but kinda consider this tour version 1.0
and big shout out to Purple for sponsoring part one.
So this is a plant, very, very important part of the office.
Upstairs, we got the guest loft area
where if someone wants to come down,
crash, or play the piano, they can.
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Welcome to upstairs!
Behind me, we got the other half
of the massive shoe wall display.
I guess these are the right shoes.
There's a couple exclusives though.
We got the pair of Rock Under Armour Kicks,
these are courtesy of Dan from What's Inside,
gifted these to me, so thank you dude.
They're size 13 so I can't fit in these,
I'm like a size 11 but nonetheless,
they look rad and I'ma throw 'em on the display.
To my left is a piano that I kinda picked up
with the intention of learning
because when I was a youngster,
I took piano lessons for like two months,
gave it up and that was one the things I regret most.
I remember like two things from piano lessons.
There's one song that just like stuck in my head.
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That and I just figured out Rugrats today.
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Drop a like if you watch Rugrats,
that was one of my favorite shows growing up.
Over there, that's Drew.
- How's it going?
- This is actually the guest editing station
so if they wanna crash here, we got the bed back there
and also an iMac so they wanna work on projects
like the video he's editing right now,
we actually shot a collab over on his channel.
He grilled me with some pretty good questions
so if you guys aren't subscribed, do it,
he's entertaining, he's smart, he's a mad man
and he grilled me pretty good
so make sure you guys check out,
and he's not the Apple sheep that he claims to be.
You know what he's rocking as his daily?
Galaxy Note 9, so he's actually an Android fanboy.
Confirmed.
So we got the Artifox desk, iMac,
the Tomons lamp, this is like the classic Toy Story lamp.
And of course, we got that comfortable Purple mattress.
So we know it's comfortable but the reason
why it's comfortable is the Smart Grid
Technology packed inside.
This stuff is actually jam-packed in the mattress
and that's the reason why it's so pliable,
it's so squishy, it's so comfortable
and naturally from there, we had to do some scientific test
to jump on it and see how the Smart Grid Technology held up
and I'd say it's safe to say it passed with flying colors.
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Also what's kinda cool is this tech
is packed inside their pillows and let me tell you,
these are not your average pillows.
These are so heavy, but as heavy as they are,
they are equally as comfortable and cool
like both sides of the pillow.
And that tech applies to the bed,
it stays cool throughout the night which is amazing.
It contours to however you wanna sleep
so if you're on your back, you're on your side,
or the Jeff Goldblum, it's gonna have you covered.
Now I don't wanna assume but this might have been
the best night of sleep, Drew's ever got in his life.
- Confirmed.
- So if you wanna be as happy as Drew,
if you wanna experience the amazingness
that is the Purple mattress, check out the link below,
it'll change your life.
Beyond the bed, we got kind a little side table over here,
this is just chaos, it's a bunch of shoe boxes
so those are the shoes, those are the boxes,
we got kind of like a guest closet, right?
So actually there's nothing but iPhone X in here,
those are all Drew's, he's just playing the part
with the Note 9 right now, I'm kidding.
He's actually using it.
And now we should head back downstairs
to check out the rest of the spot.
So next from there, we got the Linus Tech Tips kitchen,
every studio needs one of those.
Behind me, that's like a limited edition,
one of like three TLD posters
that was like never made or produced
but if you guys want a chance to win one,
just drop a like, leave a comment
and I will randomly send one out.
Next to me, we got today's sponsor,
I'm kidding, Bounty, the quicker picker upper,
that's the same brand?
Behind that is a V-Mount charging station
so all these go on the back cameras,
we got like four charging at once.
Very, very useful and as you start to see,
this is kinda more so of the studio set
where we got lots of gear that's hiding out.
We got products that either have been used
or are in use in the next queue as they would say.
Too many products to go out.
Here we got the Philips Hue master collection.
So I like Hue and we're always using them for projects,
for videos, for desk setups,
and we kinda always have some on hand.
Behind me, we got this beautiful,
beautiful tall Ikea storage locker?
Like in that TLD blue, this is also where we have
way too many products.
We're kinda trying to get it organized
so below is headphone land, we got monitors,
we got cables, we got backpacks,
we got smartphones, like we got
some old, old, old, old phones in here.
Like old school.
So if we wanna go retro,
we kinda try to build the collection.
A little messy but we're getting there.
Here, that's kinda like the boring stuff,
power bricks, USB cables, miscellaneous stuff.
As we hop over, we got kinda again, this is like gear land.
We got a six by six frame, C-stands,
microphone boom, headphones, tripods everywhere,
sliders, this guy in the wall
is actually a Wescott Flex Light
so the dream here and you'll see in a second,
this tall piece right here is called a FOBA,
that's what we use for all the top-down shots.
Right now we kinda just use that with a softbox
in the middle of the room which takes up a lot of space
so eventually, the dream is to mount a couple
of these Flex Lights against the wall,
shot them through like a six by diffusion grid
and then bring that whole operation right here.
That way, we can utilize the rest of the studio
and not take up so much space in the middle of everything.
So showing you how the FOBA works, it's really awesome.
Say what's up to Rich monitoring audio
but yeah, you could throw some really heavy
camera rigs on this and it's just gonna
really change the way you do top-down.
So I don't know what you would call that,
like it's not pressurized
but it's really, really, really fun.
This is one of the old tables we had initially
like back way in the original office.
This is a Beadboard which you gotta use
to balance light which works amazing.
Honestly I wish I knew about this like way back when.
Bouncing light is one of the simplest,
most amazing things you can do
to get that like soft, beautiful light.
Now behind me, we got a Kessler slider
which you guys saw in the original office tour,
we use that for all those crazy parallax shots
so this is kinda one of our most used tools.
More stands, we got a desk for an upcoming video,
kinda top secret.
This guy right here, I gotta say,
it's like a $99 Amazon special and it's not built well
but for some reason, I really love the cheap laminate top.
I use it for top-down shots a lot and it looks cool.
So it's kinda made it into the rotation,
I think for the most part, there's a lot of space in here
that could be utilized better.
There's definitely some echo so with these
like tall, tall, ceilings, especially because they're metal,
it just kinda just echoes and resonates everywhere.
So I'm gonna try to get some sort of like
sound dampening up there, just kinda help fix that echo.
So for the last part of the office,
you've probably seen this most in the videos.
Over on this corner, that's where I set up
for a talking headshot.
You've probably seen this angle
and this is really kinda how I have everything rigged up.
It's just one simple light,
the Aputure 120D Lightdome Softbox,
it creates this beautiful soft diffused light
and you can see, I probably look
a little under exposed right now
but if I get into the soft light,
it's going to look a lot better.
I actually used it for one of Drew's recent videos,
if you guys want to check that out,
in addition to the interview,
I'll drop a link to that down below.
Drew has never looked prettier.
From there, we got some miscellaneous stuff.
This is just like a cheap colored cardboard
that we got from Hobby Lobby and that's something I use
for top-downs, just kinda mix up the wood look.
This is a foam acoustic sound panel,
dampens the sound so ideally, if we had these everywhere,
that's going to muffle the sound
because again, it is very, very echoey in here.
Now this guy right here, I'm gonna stay under the light,
this is intended for like a TV, it's a media console
but we really just use it for B-roll,
for products and more so than anything,
that's where we have the internet hooked up,
and without it, it would look like a rat's nest.
So last up we got the corner desk which is Artifox,
you guys may have seen a ton of these
in the main office tour.
I really, really dig the looks of this,
it just works very well, it doesn't take up a ton of space,
that is paired with an LG UltraFine 5K monitor
so it's kinda dual purpose, people can set up
a laptop here to work or again, it looks kinda great
with the background in the main talking headshot there.
Now I've got a ton of questions on what this chair is,
I don't know the name but I know it's from Ikea
so I'll drop a link to this along
with everything down below.
We got this custom DIY beautiful little light
that JD made from Ikea.
Plant, an egg from the test earlier.
That Tomons Toy Story lamp and of course, Ink
which is from a VSauce mystery box a while back.
So this kinda always made its way and snuck in the videos.
And that's kinda the office tour
minus the Ikea rug below me.
Again, it's kinda like 1.0, tons of things I wanna do.
If you guys have any ideas or suggestions,
drop a comment down below.
Thank you guys very much for watching.
Again, check out Purple, it'll change your sleeping life.
Link down below, see you guys later.