now form of beauty is a lot different to
the Japanese yeah so that's why I like
it kind of expands your mind into
thinking a little bit more about why
it's beautiful not just because it's
great
hey everybody Tyler here with Doga TV
and today we are in the bonsai museum
which is pretty cool I've never really
known a lot about bonsai hell I thought
bonsai was a type of tree not an art
form but I figured I'd make a video kind
of telling you a little bit about what I
learned about bonsai while I was at the
bone side Museum and if you've ever
thought about owning your own bond side
but just weren't sure if you could
handle that there's something really
cool I want you to see at the end of
this video so stick around it's gonna be
worth it if you're even a little
interested in bonsai
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this is the 1 million dollar tree there
likes about 800 to a thousand years old
when I worked on this tree about six
years ago
it was completely different he wants to
express the the line and really open up
the trunk to show all this wall I like
the lights of the wide wood and they're
kind of like starting to die I asked you
know a little bit more of a personal
question like how did you get into
bonsai like I started I started when I
was 16 and my mom actually drove me
passed his bonsai nursery was one day I
just really didn't want to go to school
and my mom being the mom that she is she
let me have the time off and we drive
around and yet can't pass this bonsai
nursery and we did a workshop not just
loved it we're gonna teach you a little
bit about bonsai and of how we can stall
a bonsai so half the art of bonsai is
actually putting it into some form of
shape so you could imagine if you were
out in nature the weight of the branch
is bringing it down do you have all of
this interesting movement that's
mimicked and what you see in nature a
little I know about bonsai it's like
it's supposed to mimic like a bigger
tree it's supposed to like a mini tree
so it's but not like actually me a tree
take a bigger tree it's like scale
balance we kind of talked about with
with the line hmm so the line meaning if
I were to tilt it this way that doesn't
look that doesn't look right but if I
were to put it down here this way so
there's always one main branch that
stretches out the longer oh okay so the
wraps around it they're gonna give it
yeah like this is where you're going guy
yeah yeah you don't get a chance to the
matter to this this branch right here
so these two branches basically the two
that are being wired at their current
all right so you want to need this
around down here and it got even fits
with in between the lines think of it as
like like they're like
you want to keep them close together so
number one rule is we don't want to
cross that Wow okay there we go all
right so that means I would want to go
this direction and then if possible move
yep
that way very good job I'm not doing
delicate things not the most delicate
person my hands smell like bones I smell
like smell like pawns yeah things like
this yeah this will be the main branch
right you can choose with it oh you go
do you want it on this angle or just
just right happy with this I don't like
kind of like one of the things I was
looking but cascading the one you were
talking about the cascading I think
thinking with the things I like about
the whole making it go down in certain
directions it makes it look like the
tree has will like it's like oh I want
to go this direction yes it's like it's
struggling yes yes hope now it looks
like more of another line
yeah it's like standing up and it's
gonna slow up you're over you could even
have it really far what what is like the
most important thing I think guys really
show the line of the tree as well to
express all of its all of its movement
and show all of the struggle that it's
gone through and then you get to the
foliage and then you can see that it's
still pushing out new growth each year
as well hey everybody so we just got
back from the okay earlier in the week
we went to a bonsai garden and the
reason why we did that is because
today's video was sponsored by commie
bonsai and I'm joined by the lovely so
yummy and so call me bones I basically
are these cute adorable little paper
mache Oh Miyagi I guess like a souvenir
but yeah so they actually cool they have
these little like packages right here
which one do you want to do you get to
pick first as basic that's what you
figure you're making the easy one in
English and Japanese instructions and
the English is actually good so we're
good to go
okay so first I think we need to do is
fold all this up right no no
you know what you need to do one thing
you need to do is like before you fold
in and make sure the dangles are nice
and tight step 1 we're done that's into
the video we're done okay okay now we
need this part I think wow you just
rough with it I'm just like like all the
night on so yeah you want to fold all
the pieces yeah you got it
okay wait wait wait wait I'm sticking in
the wrong hole
that's that's no good so we have a pot
and we have to put to the soil in the
pot now now what the first one I put
together was a little bit more tricky to
figure out but once I got the hang of it
they were super easy to put together I
put my second one together in less than
10 minutes the perfect souvenirs for
like the office or your house you can
just set them up where on your computer
or just run your TV and it's not too
offensive and just really pretty to look
at if you're interested in purchasing
these little commie bone side you can
usually find them in those tokyo hands
department stores but we recommend the
one in shibuya because it's really big
and not that hard to find the pricing is
pretty reasonable as well it's about
1,500 yen or 15 bucks if you come in
Japan and you're interested in kind of
like the Japanese cultural aspect of art
and things like that or if you just like
arts and crafts I think this is a really
good souvenir for one cuz they're cheap
and they're tiny like I mean you could
buy like 20 of these and just give them
to all your co-workers and it wouldn't
be that big a deal so I highly recommend
the commie bonsai as a great souvenir
and thanks again to commie bonsai for
sponsoring this video anyways guys thank
you guys as always for watching and
thank you seeing me for coming and
hanging ok oh dude I was just mostly
just swearing just like damn it anyways
guys take it easy and I'll see you guys
next time
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