my favorite tech, my favorite mask, and a bonus hair tutorial

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Transcript
00:00Hey buds, let's do this thing.
00:05All right buds, bring it on. What do we got? What do we got?
00:09Did you ever have to review positively a product you hated? No.
00:13How did you realize that you were a camera nerd? I've always loved cameras.
00:16My brain works in images, not words, not letters,
00:20so I've just always documented my life with cameras.
00:22Favorite book?
00:25I'm pretty dyslexic, so I mostly like zines or like photo books,
00:29but Stone Butch Blues is incredible.
00:31Do you like long hair?
00:32On others? Yeah. On me? No.
00:34Favorite piece of tech ever?
00:36The hoverboard.
00:40How long have you lived in NYC?
00:42I moved to New York City in 2012 to go to the School of Visual Arts for cinematography,
00:46and I haven't left.
00:47What was your dream job growing up?
00:49I really wanted to be an architect, but I just think I really liked Legos,
00:52and I thought that being an architect would be like playing with Legos all day.
00:55Why buds?
00:56I wish I had a good answer for this.
00:57I think I started reviewing earbuds a lot,
01:00and then I just started saying the word bud a lot,
01:02and then I started calling my friends my buds,
01:04and look at us now.
01:06You're a bud. I'm a bud. It's nice. It's gender neutral. It's friendly.
01:09I think I'm gonna stick to it.
01:10Best Android phone you've used?
01:12I love my Galaxy S10 so much.
01:14I just want to keep using that phone for eternity.
01:16What are your plans for the vlog?
01:17Me and my wife love it, by the way. Heart.
01:19Ah, thank you to you and your wife.
01:22I appreciate y'all.
01:23The plan is to keep having fun and documenting it,
01:26and if that means traveling, that would be dope.
01:29Are you happy or fulfilled in life?
01:33Deep cut.
01:34Yeah, most days I am.
01:35Am I fulfilled?
01:37This vlog is certainly helping me fulfill my creative aspects.
01:40How do you do your hair?
01:42I get this one a lot.
01:43Dry it with a towel.
01:45Brush it.
01:46Blow dry it.
01:47Sea salt spray.
01:48Hans DeFuco quick sand paste.
01:51Everyone thinks that my hair takes a really long time to do also.
01:54It takes me all of about like seven minutes, I'd say.
01:57It's pretty quick.
01:58It's pretty well trained at this point, too.
02:00When's your birthday?
02:01July 11th, 7-11, like the store.
02:03Now you'll never forget it.
02:04And if you're fishing for my Zodiac sign, now you know I'm a Cancer.
02:07And if you know what that means, go easy on me, okay?
02:10Cancers are the best.
02:12What phone are you using right now?
02:14iPhone 12 Pro.
02:15But quite literally today, I'm switching back to my S10.
02:18I was using this to review Apple Fitness Plus for The Verge,
02:21but I am very excited to go back to my S10.
02:25And if you would like to hear more about that and more about why I love the S10,
02:29drop a comment down below.
02:31How's NYC in the cold?
02:32It's fine, but it's much better in the summer.
02:34How did you get into The Verge?
02:36Long story short, networking.
02:39But I think I might make a whole video about that.
02:41How tall are you?
02:43Why do you want to know?
02:46I'm 5'6".
02:47Can you send me a camera from your basement tech bin?
02:50That's a real fan right there.
02:51Retro tech you'd love to review.
02:53Oh, I got this dope Canon 814 Super 8 camera at a thrift store for, I think, 20 bucks
03:01a few months ago.
03:02And I really want to review it for this channel.
03:06I think I'm going to shoot with it next weekend.
03:08What a beaut!
03:09Oh my god.
03:10How are you doing mentally, emotionally, with the current state of the pandemic and society?
03:17I have hit my lowest lows and some pretty decent highs through all of this.
03:21I will say it has been incredible for my creativity to actually be locked in a place
03:28and be making stuff.
03:30So I am doing well.
03:32Thank you for asking.
03:34But I will be honest with all of you.
03:37It has not been easy.
03:38Have you ever been to India?
03:40I have and it was amazing.
03:42I was in Mumbai in 2015 on a school trip in college.
03:47If you live in Mumbai, I would really like to go back at some point when the world is
03:50a little bit more open and feeling healthier.
03:53So drop a comment down below if you could hook it up with some racks.
03:57I appreciate you.
03:58What mask do you use?
03:59This one I get asked a lot.
04:00Hold on.
04:01It is from my bud Francisco who I actually met in a parking lot here in Brooklyn when
04:07I was trying to learn how to skid stop on my fixie.
04:09All right, so we met in this Lowe's parking lot.
04:11Pretty weird.
04:12Really weird.
04:13He's incredible.
04:14He has a YouTube channel.
04:15I will link it down below.
04:16And currently he is in a van driving across America and it is absolutely dope.
04:21And I will link his website down below where you can get one of these masks.
04:25What would your dream film project be?
04:27Oh, that's such a good question.
04:29I really want to drive across America really bad.
04:32And I think it'd be dope to do that mostly on film.
04:36Ever visited the UK?
04:37I have for work and then I've stayed a little bit for fun.
04:40I have some very good buds that live in London.
04:44I still think New York's better.
04:46I said it.
04:46I said it.
04:47I said it.
04:49Share your happiness with me.
04:51Subscribe, bud.
04:52That's all we're about here.
04:54What's your experience as a queer human in the tech world?
04:56Although I know there are many, many queer people within the tech world,
05:00they're certainly not the loudest.
05:01They're certainly not the people that are at the front.
05:04And I wish that would change.
05:06All queers to the front.
05:07All people of color to the front.
05:09This is going to be our decade.
05:10We're coming for you.
05:11What tattoos do you have?
05:12I have eight tattoos.
05:14Four on my left hand.
05:15A piano on my ribs.
05:16And then this kind of nautical leg thing I got going.
05:20As a filmmaker, what part of it do you like the most?
05:22I love being on camera and hosting the most.
05:25I like filming, especially product B-roll.
05:27Next.
05:28And editing is definitely third.
05:30Because although I love it and I love finding the story in the edit,
05:33wowie, it can get very frustrating there.
05:35Are you single?
05:37Who's asking?
05:40I am.
05:40Grilling tips and tricks.
05:42Okay.
05:43When you're grilling, be patient, okay?
05:46Let your fire get super hot.
05:48Don't be moving your meat around all the time.
05:51Put the lid on and keep it on.
05:52Grab yourself a beer.
05:54Sit back and relax.
05:55Let the fire do the work.
05:57How does a stupid dumb person get started with film photography?
05:59Number one, you stop calling yourself stupid and dumb
06:01because you are none of those things.
06:03And number two, don't be precious about the film.
06:05Don't worry about how much it costs.
06:07And absolutely never think that you are wasting it.
06:09Are you from Northern California?
06:11I get this a lot.
06:12People really think that I'm from like the Pacific Northwest.
06:15Um, I am not.
06:17I'm from Rochester, New York.
06:18Home of the garbage plate, baby.
06:22I'm beet sauce.
06:23If there's a question I didn't get to that you'd like to ask me, drop it down below.
06:26I will absolutely be seeing y'all down there.
06:28I appreciate you.
06:29I hope you're well.
06:30Like, subscribe, you know the drill.
06:32I really wonder how I'm gonna cut this together.
06:36This is one of those videos that's gonna come together in the edit.
06:39That is for certain.
06:42Wish me luck.