this is a full tour of my home office in
Tokyo
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so several weeks ago I gave you guys a
first look at this home office there was
nothing really in here at the time and
we've been working really really hard to
get this place as it is right now as you
can see from behind me there is a lot
more furniture a lot more stuff going on
so in this video I'm going to walk you
through this whole place and show you
what we've done with it and a fair
warning Michael will probably be coming
in and out because this is her desk
right here but nonetheless I will take
you guys through this whole entire place
and show you everything first of all
let's start in the main office area
just behind me before we had just like
this full empty wall and what we decided
to do was just put three desks right
here we have two PCS and then just here
I was trying to figure out what to do
with this empty space and I decided to
put a TV on here you can watch Netflix
or we actually have a little PC that I
purchased and you can connect it it's
one of those super tiny like mini micro
PCS that I've just attached it to the
back and then I've hung it on the wall
just like so on four hooks so that it
should be pretty stable as you can see
it's pretty straightforward but you know
if we ever need help or someone needs to
come in and like work with us whatever
there's a little PC for them to come and
work with us uh it took a little bit of
time just to be able to get that TV set
up properly and then I've actually just
put some cable management down there
this being Japan and the apartments how
they have it set up you can't put a lot
of holes in the walls you can't really
do a lot of that kind of stuff so I just
put masking tape on the wall and put the
cable management on top of that so that
when we leave it's easy to take off and
then and just below the desk you know
one of the things that I really don't
like are the cables that are just all
over the place so they got some mesh
tubing to go through here and it all
goes down to over there I also decided
to color code all the cables so that you
know which cable goes to which PC just
to make it a little bit easier to track
the cables and where they go and then
just to clean up the excess cable you
put them in these like little cable
boxes and then we have our main server
just right there and our ups you know
God forbid that there's like a power
outage or like a power Spike so we have
a power supply all supporting the PCS so
this is Michael's desk right here just
behind me as you can see she really
likes plants so she has a plan right
there she has a planet in front of her
one of the issues that we had
all right okay so I guess Michael's
joining this part of the video having a
couple noodles as you can see
like so that's nice so um one of the
issues that we had with setting up
Michael's desk was that over here but
all of the server equipment our Nas is
over here with the power supply and
everything so we did need to Cable all
that stuff and having all the cables
come through this main walkway area was
kind of in the way so what we decided to
do instead was just run a lot of the
cable management along the wall here so
that her PC is also on the power supply
it's connected by Thunderbolt to the nas
so she can work all from right here
pretty straightforward I know that a lot
of people had some comments on what we
should do at this place so I appreciate
all of those comments let me know what
you guys think of how we've set things
up right here okay so here we go I'm
actually super excited about showing you
this part of the office you know I mean
it is small we had to do the best we
could again we live in Tokyo so we don't
have these like huge Studio warehouses
that a lot of other content creators
have so basically what we've done with
this space right here is we've turned it
into our studio space probably the first
thing you'll see is that I've set up
some acoustic panels All Along The Wall
just to get in a lot of the echo that
was happening earlier on Michael and I
have identical discs the only difference
is that I have a Mac Studio and I have a
few more arms and monitors than she does
so this is my desk as you can see I do a
lot of the data management as well so
taking up backups so it's nice to have
all the Thunderbolt ports on the Mac
Studio something that you guys might be
wondering is what desks and chairs are
we using and for this video I've
actually lucked out while we were like
moving we met with an awesome Furniture
vendor called kofo they actually offered
to send us these chairs and these two
standing desks it made our office set up
so much easier so first of all for the
desk itself you can just press this
it'll go up to whatever height you want
two and then there's three presets so I
have it perfectly set for how high I
want it to go and then if I want to drop
it down I just press the button like
that and it goes down what's also nice
about this desk it actually has a bunch
of accessories that you can get one of
them is are these like magnetic hooks
but it comes with like this the whole
bottom side is a magnet and it also
comes with this drawer which you can
pull out just like this you can just
move it around it also has magnets so if
I wanted to I can put it
here what's also cool is you get these
little magnetic straps and basically if
you have cables that are coming from the
top to the bottom you can just
stick it on like that so your cables
will not just be like dangling all over
the place it also has this magnetic tray
for all of your cables It's pretty dope
like I have so many cables I have power
strips and everything and it's holding
it all in place it makes Cable
Management so easy what more can I say
oh let me talk about the chairs these
chairs are pretty awesome so it has a
hook right here for your bag and then as
a coat hanger it has lumbar support
right here on for your lower back
already and it has kind of like a mesh
you know on super super hot days it kind
of ventilates everything and everything
is just so super adjustable the neck
rest right here adjusts just like this
down here you can see that all this is
adjustable but what I really love about
this chair is that it has a built-in of
footrest boom so that comes up like that
just like this and if you want you can
find the seat and then you can lock it
into place and
chill
so it's super comfortable I can't say
enough to the kofo guys for hooking us
up with this one I'll leave the link of
all their stuff in the description oh
another thing that I should also mention
is on top of the kofo desks and chairs
that we got also this kofo neck massager
Michael can you show them
like this you can choose the one with
heat and without heat this is the
strength I wanted with heat how do you
look at it this is electrical pulses
yeah yeah this gets really really strong
I've actually had many different kinds
but like I'm so sore a lot of it doesn't
even work but this one it goes really
high so like I really like it thank you
so much for your demonstration
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website I think a lot of you have
probably seen this sofa and I've mounted
all of our lighting equipment the camera
and the display all on this table so
it's quite movable just rolls on these
little wheels down here you can adjust
the height if you want it a little bit
but I keep it pretty steady we have our
microphone everything is just a setup is
so easy one of the reasons why I set
this up when we first started YouTube I
think I mentioned this before but we are
in our old studio apartment which was I
don't know maybe 35 square meters and
every time you wanted to film home video
we had to like set up the camera set up
the lights set everything up it just
took so much time that I ended up not
wanting to film anything because it just
took forever to like put everything on
the tripod so I decided when we moved
that I would have something that's super
portable that's easy and just we put it
all on this desk and I'm pretty happy
with it it's like lasted us for several
years now it makes everything super easy
and one thing I do want to mention you
probably hear that it's less echo in
this area just because of all this like
sound absorption going on also just
looking above you can see I got a bunch
of Lights here it was actually equal on
both sides six and six but Michael
didn't like having so much brightness in
it on her side so I took two of the
lights took them off and put them on
here I just love working the lights so
there you go you can just move this see
the lighting set up probably you guys
won't see this normally but this is how
it is oh and that said let me show you
one more thing this cabinet shelf thing
right here is our charging station
basically have all the cameras and the
lenses at the bottom and then all the
charging on top sometimes I come back
from a shoot and there is just so many
batteries I've gone through throughout
the day so it's nice to have multiple
charges just to throw all the batteries
in there and better charge for several
hours or maybe even overnight but yeah I
mean at the end of the day I pretty much
just use one camera for my main setup
for all my videos I'm still using EOS R
I do have the R5 but it doesn't work so
well with the gimbal especially since I
shoot super wide on a 15 mil oh and then
for the studio right here I put a little
cover plate on the light switch because
actually our whole like this studio
system is just connected to the ceiling
right here so you know if someone turns
off the lights and they turn off you
know me filming when you have it coming
from the ceiling it just makes things a
little bit cleaner so not a lot has
changed well I guess just down here
let me kind of show you we've set up
this little table area so if you want to
have lunch here we can might go put some
paintings on there just to make it a
little bit more homey but aside from
that it hasn't changed too much oh sorry
sorry I forgot one more thing okay so
what we did here is we put a white board
on this side so if we need to brainstorm
ideas or anything like that we can do it
all here on a whiteboard let me show you
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there you go see so here is a kitchen
area
not too much different than before just
added these water drainers added hand
sanitizer and then we added a small
refrigerator and also an espresso
machine and a Little Teapot so fairly
fairly simple
as far as the toilet area I might go
just gonna put her little touch on it
added some paintings added some more
plants added a mat so yeah it's pretty
straightforward and then for this
hallway area we added our two silver
play buttons one for Palo from Tokyo and
then also another one for Tokyo zebra
this one is quite funny because I wanted
to add Mica on as well so you put and
Michael the gold play button is actually
in our house as you guys probably saw in
the previous video one thing that I'm
quite happy about is what we did with
the bathtub I know that many of you guys
had some suggestions on what to do with
it let me show you what we did
okay so this area hasn't changed so much
the washing machine still there I think
still there nothing changed but what we
did with this bathtub is turn this whole
bathtub into a little photo studio kind
of just took the idea from that photo
box he had and the bathtub itself comes
with these little rods that are used for
hanging clothes but I actually use that
to hang some photo paper I guess or like
a plastic paper and just roll that all
the way down so that creates a backdrop
I use the old photo studio light and
just put it all around so you get some
reflection as well in terms of power
there was some lights here before but
there was no electricity actually coming
into data which makes sense there's no
Outlet so what I did was I took the
light bulb out and I got a little
adapter that changes it into AC adapter
but also allows you to still make use of
the light bulbs these LED lights that
are sitting right here are from the old
old photo box and just reuse them so one
of the biggest concerns was the water
obviously you don't want any water
coming out so I was actually able to
shut off the water there's like a screw
that you can just like screw it tight so
no water will come out worked out really
well and then just to make sure in case
something else happens I put a little
bit of masking tape around the water
handle just as a precaution but yeah I
don't think any water will come out I
think that's pretty much it and you can
see you got the camera the tripod and we
can shoot all of our product b-roll here
makes it really really easy to do now
and this bathtub doesn't go to waste
quite happy how it all turned out one
thing I should also mention is that I
got these cool headphones from Ola dance
they were sent to me for free I told
them that I'd put it in the video
because they look so cool and I wanted
to try it these are really interesting
headphones and once you just like put it
on it just like connects to your phone
as you can see it's not actually going
into my gear or I can talk to Michael
and can talk to each other or I can walk
around I can ride my bike and do all
these kind of things without just
blocking out all the sounds so I can
hear everything the sound quality is
pretty good it actually has kind of like
a deeper base to it so people that
really like bass then you might like
these headphones it's waterproof sweat
resistant and you can make phone calls
on it as well player stop music start
reject calls adjust volume or activate
voice assistant you can all do it from
just touching the side of this headphone
okay so that is a full tour of the
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