If you'd prefer, you can download the mp3 version here: / catastrotivity-5-impos... (the scrapped, stolen video idea in question: • so you're saying it's ... )
@@polyglottenforpain That half an hour just got instantly filled with more youtube videos every single time it happened in my life, so it's more of a "="
I absolutely love this series. - It's targeted at artists, yet many things there apply to just about every profession / hobby. (I think there is art wherever there is a way to express yourself, so that explains this.) - It kind of feels like one of those rambling podcasts about personal experiences, yet it is deeply insightful and smart. - It does not look at art like a business and does not promise this kind of success. Instead, it talks directly to people who need to express themselves in their specific art form, and promises they'll find some form of audience, however big, through their uniqueness. It's just great and profound and smart and uplifting in the same way the rest of your work is, exurb1a. Thank you so much.
I remember reading a while ago that we're probably almost at the point where we don't need pilots anymore, it's just that consumers couldn't stand flying in a plane entirely computer-controlled. Makes you thiiiiiiiiiiiiiink
Small info: the actual joke is that this line is stolen from a german comedian called Jan Philipp Zymny...if you know german and like completely absurd and surreal comedy I recommend watching his content :)
hey blue turtle, just wanted you to know, that this series inspired me to put together my passion project. It's a thesis on Late Roman religious art, and the merging of pagan and christian iconography. I.E did you know that our conception of an angel as a winged human comes from the Roman platonic "ideal form" of the human? the biblically accurate angels were swapped out for obvious reasons. So, I've been putting together a portfolio of panel paintings and study sketches in hopes of getting supervised. I listen to these bad boys when I paint and draw. May the Muses always be kind to you lad, take care
I'm afraid that's exactly where I stole it from. For those curious, it's amazing: ua-cam.com/video/GoPn-YVAW8I/v-deo.html (Also the line, "Jokes I could make about your looks, abundant. Your chastity vow....redundant," is a Shakespearean-level burn)
Crying like a baby when you said, “you’re a real artist”. Thank you. I love this series and it really helps me to keep my sh*t together and doing what I love the most. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and please make more episodes so I can use them as a fuel to drive myself forward when I breakdown on the creativity road. I don’t like to leave comments but I’d do it in a heartbeat for this godsend content.
I know this is me commenting on episode five of a three year old video but: I am seriously treading water creatively and as a person. I am struggling and trying to row to the shore and I feel so incredibly alone. This series has been a lighthouse suddenly showing up after 2 years of struggle. I've received platitudes, criticism, and dismissal; and all of them have made me feel so much worse. Your honesty and experience is so helpful and honestly life saving information. Thank you so much for being here and sharing how you felt, and reaching back for the rest of us.
You have impeccable timing. I struggle with this so much right now as my channel recently grew. I feel like everything I make is a just not valuable 😅 i really appreciate this series, man
exurba if you ever do feel crushed by imposter syndrome just remember that you are so incredibly good at your craft you managed to teach me what it is to fear flying. I didn't spend two months in my birth town before my parents up and moved to the other side of the country (no exaggeration). We spent two years there and then again (no exaggeration here its coast to coast) we went back to the west. Every summer since I have boarded a flight and flown 3000 miles both ways. From infancy I have been flying and so I never understood people who were afraid of airplanes. Your description of sitting in the terminal and boarding, clutching the armrests in terror and how every bit of that experience made it so finally helped to click just what is so scary about airplanes if just a little bit. I think that that was amazing.
Exurbia, I'm a theorerical atomic, molecular, and optical physics PhD student (basically I study all things quantum). In highschool I worried I wasn't smart enough. In college, I worried I wasn't good enough. Now I'm in my PhD at the #1 program in the world on a fellowship and I still have moments when I worry I'm an imposter. One of the constants that has helped me stay motivated has been people like you; people who inspire me and look for the best of humanity. I don't know where I'm going with this, but please don't stop writing and creating. Your bizarre takes on the world have inspired creativity well beyond the scope of just writing and sci fi - unless you set out to inspire a future physicist, then job well done.
God, this series couldn't have come at a better time for me. I just finished my undergrad with a degree in music performance. Obviously, this is a very bad time to be someone with a degree in music performance. It's cast me into a deep depression, doubting my worth as both an artist and a person, and it's spread into my other pursuits such as composing. But the way you talk resonates with me so much, and this series in particular has helped to remind me of who I am. So, thank you.
Wow that touches. I am impressed how his example of being raw human empower other to follow. You comment was an exclamation mark to me how much this expression of vulnerability is needed and how powerful it is. Thank you for your courage.
Thanks exurb1a, everyone suffers imposter syndrome in everything, especially professionally, there will always someone who knows more, thinks faster, works harder, jumps higher. But that is normal. And for this we all forge on, learning more, working harder, driving the outcomes more, perfecting what we do. So it's not just art, it's just a function of being intelligent meat that has been trying to fake it since we crawled out of the slime, climbed down from the trees, out run smarted the megafauna, and so on. It's what makes us, us. Thanks again for sharing, love your work.
A single man’s influence has thrown me toward my passions. A singular inspirational figure seems to have the ideas and understandingof the world that I do, while I had previously felt trapped in a world where I came to wonder if no one else loved what I did. Yet, from the ashes comes this turtle who slaps me with a “shut up and go be a beautiful artist you little bastard”. Now here I am, pursuing writing, photography, a list of things, and I can credit this inspiration as why my taste is so horrible to you. Jokes aside, I’m thankful to ye Exurb1a. I wonder/doubt if you’ll care to read this but if you found the time to waste, uh... well I have a cookie, so, here you are, um... cheers. Oh and uh... thanks for existing, we all appreciate it. Ok bye now.
Thanks for doing these videos, they're so much more helpful than any other advice books I've come across. I'm into writing as well, and I also enjoy reading writer's backstories. However, the one thing that always annoys me about them is that any biography forcefully highlights the artist's early efforts. I came to writing later (at 22 or so) and for so many years those things kept me from trying, because I felt I ought to have written a novel at 16. Your own story, as well as those of later bloomers, seem to be the outliers, perhaps because of a plot pushed by the industry that writers are born, not made. Anyway, thanks again for the encouraging words - they're needed and very appreciated.
i love this series a whole damn lot. it's so uplifting and the part where you talk about your dad being proud of you always makes me cry for some reason (i have watched this countless of times already, it always encourages me do continue arting when i feel like i can't). so, yeah, thank you or whatever
Just finished watching...damn that hit hard. "Learn to enjoy storms" indeed. Thank you, for reminding myself and many others that being an artist is, in the end, worth it.
I started writing recently, inspired by youand many others. I have always had this side of me, but kind of repressed it. Now, it is one of the things that brings me the most joy. To see the invisible world inside my head come to life as a bunch of nonsense what looks like random gibberish. Still, it is mine. And it is not gibberish. It is what I find to be beautiful. And after careful shit-throwing at the paper, I now have to cure it and choose the best of it. I love the process. It's the most crude expression of myself in every way. Thank you for being part of that inspiration.
I have always thought of you as one of those graceful arrow planes and believed that I would never be able to make something on the same level of quality as your videos but this series really reassures me that being a little turbulent is okay even if it takes a god awful amount of time.
today i've been having severe anxiety because a remix competition i entered a month ago is finally getting the top 10 announced, and i just really don't wanna see how bad i did compared to everyone else, all the actual professional musicians and all. this really helped me. i don't know much of what i'm doing, but yeah. no one else knows either, eh? this helped me a lot with keeping myself together. now just another half an hour until the announcement ^^
DUDE! I seriously got goosebumps when you said Starlight Brigade. I actually said, out loud, too myself, "No fucking way! You listen to TWRP!" That song is absolutely amazing and the animation for the video is wonderful. It's a relatively popular song, sure, and I guess I shouldn't be so surprised, but I couldn't help but get a little resonant shiver at the idea that you are among the few that, despite never having met, I could call a 'kindred spirit' (complete with all of the pretentious vapidity that label implies, lol). Anyways, this likely won't even pop up on your radar, but it was a moment that made me smile, and goddammit I'm gonna say something about it!
Thank you all for providing so much entertainment to me during my high school years. All of the music, how to, life videos, just talking about problems, etc. It has all been a great help to keep my mind off the horrible things that are happening on the outside. Can’t imagine what I would have done without you all there distracting. I wish I could repay you all but I am just a sad jobless teenager. But now, I’m going to college to hopefully train, get a real job, and then hopefully pay it all back; somehow. For now the best that I can do is just say thank you for now and know that I hope you never stop making awesome content. I hope that youtube doesn’t screw you over too much this day and age. Look forward to bringing your content along with me to college as well. And thank you once again for keeping my mind off all the horrible things that are happening these days. Really has kept me sane all these years. Thank you all sooo much!!!
I can't say how much I adore your art. You're one of my favorite artists. I'm in the middle of writing something. A podcast actually. But I'm crushed with doubts and thinking about how shitty I am at writing. But you remind me I have to keep trying. You remind me it's okay to be shitty. I needed this podcast and if some day I look at the things I created with a smile, I will remember you. Thank you turtle. Thank you.
I would absolutely love if you were to do podcasts, I think others would too.so we can inject ourselves with bigger doses of the wonder and dread of life that you Express so well!
Thankyou so much for these podcasts. I've been binge listening to these and yes i cried. But I feel alot better. I hope I can get back to my writing now. Thankyou, Really.
Just want to say these are the best. Thank you. Hope you write them down & turn them into a little book so more humans will stumble across your words as well. Best Regards.
As a guy who makes a kind of music that doesn't exactly have "mass appeal" ,these videos are really helpful in keeping me going. Thanks Existential Space Turtle.
I always write down my favorite sentence from each episode on my journal, but I couldn't do it with this one. This whole thing is pure gold. Your best episode yet. Thank you so much for what you do.
Here's a little added part to the plane analogy. The worst part is when you get high up and then the plane dips for what seems (to me) for no fucking reason. Glad to see another one of these. It's a good dose of inspiration to get up and be creative. Have a great day! P.S. If you read my comment on the last video, I've made my way to Croatia and I'm dying of heat stroke. Sunscreen is your friend. :D
This channel is the personification of that guy dragging you by your ankles and throwing you off the cliff repeatedly so you can learn to fly,and i love it.
I don't know if it was intentional but I highly appreciate that it's like a podcast more than a video so that we can just listen to this while creating art.
Hey man, gotta tell you, been watching your videos for some time and to be quite honest I dont get quite the same feel when anyone else uploads something new, it really makes my day. Have been watching your david berman ode, fucked me up a bit, got fucked up later as well for good measure, but damn I get what you meant. Anyway gotta go sober up, but just wanted to tell you, you might not be aristotle, but who the hell is anyway. You inspire the shit out of me and I guess lots of other people here. Keep up the good work and hey if you're ever in the czech republic, we could go for a pivo (tea). Looking forward to the headache at work tommorow..
i've been watching some (all) your videos (not during work hours i swear) and this here notion of storm hits home like a planet killing asteroid. So a bit like your recommendation in that Ode to Nashville video: mate, thank you.
I feel trapped, paralyzed by my ideas of perfectionism, external factors helped but I have this deep feeling that I'm worthless. So I refused for years to do anything creative and it's like I'm witnessing my burial every single day.
I want to put it out here that your videos are what has pushed me to write again. I went through several years of severe depression in which I lost the taste for doing almost everything I enjoyed doing. And now, thanks to you, I'm able to stick my toe back into the water and try doing this thing I have always enjoyed once again... Thank you.
On the other hand, if you feel like an imposter, it might be because you're genuinely lacking in talent. To quote one of my favourite lines from a movie about WC Fields: "If at first, you don't succeed, try, try and try again. Then give up; there's no point in looking like a damn fool."
Sometimes I don't care, and sometimes I care too much. The imposter within me likes to play games with my sanity. Highly recommend, by the way! My brain doesn't understand that sometimes I don't want to deal with it, and when my brain doesn't want to function, I listen to this podcast over and over again. Thank you for letting me turn off my brain and allowing it to feel flutters of hope and unity :)
I just wanna say thank you. These episodes genuinely give me strength. I’ve graduated a songwriting degree this year, and London is so mad atm, things feel so far out of my reach...anyway, I really appreciate you for creating this series, big love ❤️
I finally know what's wrong with me now. How much I needed to hear all of this... It touched me so much I'm actually writing a comment here, haha. I'm close to tears. You are so wonderful, such an inspiration, I Love everything I've ever seen/heard/... from you, as just one of the many people, but thank you
I love these videos they keep me working on my 3d modelling retakes. Eventhough I failed 4 years of college due to my own incompetence. You give me courage to say that I actually can do this. You are my favourite creator/artist by far and hearing you go to similar struggles as me gives me hope that I can maybe be one day as great of a creator/artist as you. Thank you for overcoming your demons I will try to do the same.
Hey exurb1a. I just want to say that I love your content. Thank you for inspiring me to try and get my shit together, and convincing me that, despite how pointless life is, that it really is beautiful, and worth it to stay in the game after all. I sincerely hope that my gratitude isn’t lost on you, and that you might continue creating inspiring content for more like me. Thanks
What I would give for this video to have existed when I did suffered from imposter syndrome. At least I see self doubt in a different light though. It can be used as a motivator, and wielded like a creative sword Thank Exurb1a Imposter👍
I swear this guy is trying to be just like exurb1a.
Bruhhhhhhhhhh
IKRRR what an imposter!
FUCKING IMPOSTOR
HES HERE
but does he also have a cat? I mean, a cat exactly like the other cat? Identical?
Hell yes, the series that always makes me feel like doing something for the next half an hour continues!
Memento mori
once every episode of the series comes out I'm gonna cue them up and listen to them while trying to art and fail
.5 hrs > 0 hrs. Keep at it, friend.
@@ingloriousday8811 Unus Annus
@@polyglottenforpain That half an hour just got instantly filled with more youtube videos every single time it happened in my life, so it's more of a "="
Boogying is, infact, not my thing.
I feel the same
@@exurb2a114 I appreciate the work going into these videos. And I love them.
Yes
@@cabbagebeas whata looser
Mr Sleepwalk *crys while mumble about crap(me)
I absolutely love this series.
- It's targeted at artists, yet many things there apply to just about every profession / hobby. (I think there is art wherever there is a way to express yourself, so that explains this.)
- It kind of feels like one of those rambling podcasts about personal experiences, yet it is deeply insightful and smart.
- It does not look at art like a business and does not promise this kind of success. Instead, it talks directly to people who need to express themselves in their specific art form, and promises they'll find some form of audience, however big, through their uniqueness.
It's just great and profound and smart and uplifting in the same way the rest of your work is, exurb1a. Thank you so much.
You have made me an enormously, enormously happy turtle indeed - thank you ever so much
Just the comment i was looking for.
@@exurb2a114 I'm very happy if I did; you absolutely deserve it! I can't thank you enough for your creations!
I'm crying rn. Why is this turtle being so kind to us by uploading these episodes like every three days?!(:_;)
This is what we get after getting though 2020
@DATING HARLEY QUINN ok.
It just my have something to do with your cores envision with your life and that which you desire to have as company that surrounds you daily…
You look like an effortless plane, Exurb1a ❤️
Thank you :)
Hey axiom, how are you? I saw you on mystiverse live chat on podcast with exurb1a... I keep seeing you in comments often..
@@chigga5years173 can this entire exurb1a community become friends already? They all seem to be immensely nice people.
“Bye, baye bie bai, ... bah.”
Subtitle: “Hi. I am Dog. Everyone loves me.”
Lmao
Fun fact: Aircrafts can be flown almost entirely automatically. However, pilots are free to fly the whole journey by hand if they feel like it
Thats nuts!
I remember reading a while ago that we're probably almost at the point where we don't need pilots anymore, it's just that consumers couldn't stand flying in a plane entirely computer-controlled. Makes you thiiiiiiiiiiiiiink
@@exurb2a114 well since barely anyone actually can see the cockpit, what are the chances of some flights actually being pilot-free?
@@mog_dawg HI 👋
@@certifiedpossum8655 OH JAYYYYYYSUS
I never thought a simple "oh hi!" would give me so much serotonin, thanks wise turtle.
It’s like he’s genuinely happy we keep coming back, and I’m genuinely happy he keeps making these
Dancing is just rhythmic swimming on land...and I can't swim
Small info:
the actual joke is that this line is stolen from a german comedian called Jan Philipp Zymny...if you know german and like completely absurd and surreal comedy I recommend watching his content :)
In a Korean Imbiss/yoga studio that was racist but homely decorated
@@Jane_of_Us Mein Urin riecht nussig in der Nacht, wenn ein Kuckuck weint
@@mephisto_ow bruh
@@mephisto_ow ¡BÄRENKATAPULT!
This guy: talking about real issues and being a chill dude.
My dumb ass: *amogus*
Ahhh yes the depression turtle motivating us. The world is indeed coming to an end.
I saw this near exact comment on Ep. 4 of Catastrotivity.
"Wait, depression turtle is actually positive?"
*aims space gun*
"Always has been"
The Grammar Crusader woahhh imposter alert
@@katjamolenaar2803 lol.
The great thing about dancing is you're supposed to look like an idiot. That's how you know you're having fun
hey blue turtle, just wanted you to know, that this series inspired me to put together my passion project. It's a thesis on Late Roman religious art, and the merging of pagan and christian iconography. I.E did you know that our conception of an angel as a winged human comes from the Roman platonic "ideal form" of the human? the biblically accurate angels were swapped out for obvious reasons. So, I've been putting together a portfolio of panel paintings and study sketches in hopes of getting supervised. I listen to these bad boys when I paint and draw. May the Muses always be kind to you lad, take care
Do you have your art online somewhere?
3:45 if you want to feel like more of an impostor a similar phrase was said by Sigmund Freud in an ERB.
I'm afraid that's exactly where I stole it from. For those curious, it's amazing: ua-cam.com/video/GoPn-YVAW8I/v-deo.html (Also the line, "Jokes I could make about your looks, abundant. Your chastity vow....redundant," is a Shakespearean-level burn)
Crying like a baby when you said, “you’re a real artist”. Thank you. I love this series and it really helps me to keep my sh*t together and doing what I love the most. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and please make more episodes so I can use them as a fuel to drive myself forward when I breakdown on the creativity road. I don’t like to leave comments but I’d do it in a heartbeat for this godsend content.
I know this is me commenting on episode five of a three year old video but:
I am seriously treading water creatively and as a person. I am struggling and trying to row to the shore and I feel so incredibly alone.
This series has been a lighthouse suddenly showing up after 2 years of struggle.
I've received platitudes, criticism, and dismissal; and all of them have made me feel so much worse.
Your honesty and experience is so helpful and honestly life saving information.
Thank you so much for being here and sharing how you felt, and reaching back for the rest of us.
You have impeccable timing.
I struggle with this so much right now as my channel recently grew.
I feel like everything I make is a just not valuable 😅 i really appreciate this series, man
CT is heree
Hey I recognize you from the austin video, I think your videos are great, keep at it man
Ya fans love you
Hey, you are the " colab with john green" guy from the last video
@@pressaltf4forfreevbucks179 yes haha
This applies to everyone except Kanye West.
exurba if you ever do feel crushed by imposter syndrome just remember that you are so incredibly good at your craft you managed to teach me what it is to fear flying. I didn't spend two months in my birth town before my parents up and moved to the other side of the country (no exaggeration). We spent two years there and then again (no exaggeration here its coast to coast) we went back to the west. Every summer since I have boarded a flight and flown 3000 miles both ways. From infancy I have been flying and so I never understood people who were afraid of airplanes. Your description of sitting in the terminal and boarding, clutching the armrests in terror and how every bit of that experience made it so finally helped to click just what is so scary about airplanes if just a little bit. I think that that was amazing.
Exurbia, I'm a theorerical atomic, molecular, and optical physics PhD student (basically I study all things quantum).
In highschool I worried I wasn't smart enough. In college, I worried I wasn't good enough. Now I'm in my PhD at the #1 program in the world on a fellowship and I still have moments when I worry I'm an imposter. One of the constants that has helped me stay motivated has been people like you; people who inspire me and look for the best of humanity.
I don't know where I'm going with this, but please don't stop writing and creating. Your bizarre takes on the world have inspired creativity well beyond the scope of just writing and sci fi - unless you set out to inspire a future physicist, then job well done.
God, this series couldn't have come at a better time for me. I just finished my undergrad with a degree in music performance. Obviously, this is a very bad time to be someone with a degree in music performance. It's cast me into a deep depression, doubting my worth as both an artist and a person, and it's spread into my other pursuits such as composing. But the way you talk resonates with me so much, and this series in particular has helped to remind me of who I am. So, thank you.
Wow that touches. I am impressed how his example of being raw human empower other to follow. You comment was an exclamation mark to me how much this expression of vulnerability is needed and how powerful it is.
Thank you for your courage.
Loving this series. Motivated me to stop doubting myself and not showing my projects to the world to doubting myself and showing it anyways
Thanks exurb1a, everyone suffers imposter syndrome in everything, especially professionally, there will always someone who knows more, thinks faster, works harder, jumps higher. But that is normal. And for this we all forge on, learning more, working harder, driving the outcomes more, perfecting what we do. So it's not just art, it's just a function of being intelligent meat that has been trying to fake it since we crawled out of the slime, climbed down from the trees, out run smarted the megafauna, and so on. It's what makes us, us. Thanks again for sharing, love your work.
A single man’s influence has thrown me toward my passions. A singular inspirational figure seems to have the ideas and understandingof the world that I do, while I had previously felt trapped in a world where I came to wonder if no one else loved what I did. Yet, from the ashes comes this turtle who slaps me with a “shut up and go be a beautiful artist you little bastard”. Now here I am, pursuing writing, photography, a list of things, and I can credit this inspiration as why my taste is so horrible to you. Jokes aside, I’m thankful to ye Exurb1a. I wonder/doubt if you’ll care to read this but if you found the time to waste, uh... well I have a cookie, so, here you are, um... cheers. Oh and uh... thanks for existing, we all appreciate it. Ok bye now.
Thank you for putting my thoughts into writing, my gratitude is truly immeasurable
When I heard him mention starlight brigade I was like HELL YEAH!
First. The clueless dope part hits hard. Lol, the Reddit story is so true. I must have 'Reddit. Hmm...
second?
3rd
4th??
@@shubhamjha8896 FOURTH
@@exurb2a114 Why is forty spelt like that and not fourty?
I always come back to this series, and it always makes me cry and feel inspired. Thank you!
So i should relax about the fact that i feel like a pair of books wearing shoes when i try to do anything.
I defeated my impostor syndrome by having an idol and striving to be better than them. It just happens that this Idol is you.
I love how the "bye" repeats and cuts off at the end, it's just a very wholesome yet somewhat perfectly funny way to end this video 💕
Why is it always that out of all chanels in this universe you are the one that make me constantly cry? Answer me turtle!
two in one week? what is this? I love it!
Thanks for doing these videos, they're so much more helpful than any other advice books I've come across. I'm into writing as well, and I also enjoy reading writer's backstories. However, the one thing that always annoys me about them is that any biography forcefully highlights the artist's early efforts. I came to writing later (at 22 or so) and for so many years those things kept me from trying, because I felt I ought to have written a novel at 16. Your own story, as well as those of later bloomers, seem to be the outliers, perhaps because of a plot pushed by the industry that writers are born, not made. Anyway, thanks again for the encouraging words - they're needed and very appreciated.
i love this series a whole damn lot. it's so uplifting and the part where you talk about your dad being proud of you always makes me cry for some reason (i have watched this countless of times already, it always encourages me do continue arting when i feel like i can't). so, yeah, thank you or whatever
What's cattington, destroyer of worlds interested in right now? How is she doing? What's she up to?
Exurb1a is that close unknown friend that we dont deserve but need.
TWRP and Dan Avidan together always make absolute boppers of songs!
God I am so glad that you're continuing this series!! Thank you, seriously man, it's helped a lot.
Just finished watching...damn that hit hard. "Learn to enjoy storms" indeed. Thank you, for reminding myself and many others that being an artist is, in the end, worth it.
I started writing recently, inspired by youand many others. I have always had this side of me, but kind of repressed it. Now, it is one of the things that brings me the most joy. To see the invisible world inside my head come to life as a bunch of nonsense what looks like random gibberish. Still, it is mine. And it is not gibberish. It is what I find to be beautiful. And after careful shit-throwing at the paper, I now have to cure it and choose the best of it. I love the process. It's the most crude expression of myself in every way. Thank you for being part of that inspiration.
3:45
Top ten sentences I've never thought I'd hear from Ex but enjoyed regardless
Ah yes, turtle boy is here for my existential crisis, but this time, with *WRITING*
This is the best birthday gift I could ask for now. Thanks a lot, depression turtle! It's...soothing to hear your voice again!
I have always thought of you as one of those graceful arrow planes and believed that I would never be able to make something on the same level of quality as your videos but this series really reassures me that being a little turbulent is okay even if it takes a god awful amount of time.
These five videos are the first thing from your two channels (what I see now) I was recommended by UA-cam and it's great experience. Thank you
today i've been having severe anxiety because a remix competition i entered a month ago is finally getting the top 10 announced, and i just really don't wanna see how bad i did compared to everyone else, all the actual professional musicians and all.
this really helped me. i don't know much of what i'm doing, but yeah. no one else knows either, eh? this helped me a lot with keeping myself together. now just another half an hour until the announcement ^^
How was the announcement?
@@redountilgreat I didn't place, but oh well - the people who did place 100% deserved it
@@darksentinel082 Great reaction. I am happy for you, stranger.
DUDE! I seriously got goosebumps when you said Starlight Brigade. I actually said, out loud, too myself, "No fucking way! You listen to TWRP!" That song is absolutely amazing and the animation for the video is wonderful. It's a relatively popular song, sure, and I guess I shouldn't be so surprised, but I couldn't help but get a little resonant shiver at the idea that you are among the few that, despite never having met, I could call a 'kindred spirit' (complete with all of the pretentious vapidity that label implies, lol).
Anyways, this likely won't even pop up on your radar, but it was a moment that made me smile, and goddammit I'm gonna say something about it!
Thank you all for providing so much entertainment to me during my high school years. All of the music, how to, life videos, just talking about problems, etc. It has all been a great help to keep my mind off the horrible things that are happening on the outside. Can’t imagine what I would have done without you all there distracting. I wish I could repay you all but I am just a sad jobless teenager. But now, I’m going to college to hopefully train, get a real job, and then hopefully pay it all back; somehow. For now the best that I can do is just say thank you for now and know that I hope you never stop making awesome content. I hope that youtube doesn’t screw you over too much this day and age. Look forward to bringing your content along with me to college as well. And thank you once again for keeping my mind off all the horrible things that are happening these days. Really has kept me sane all these years. Thank you all sooo much!!!
I can't say how much I adore your art. You're one of my favorite artists. I'm in the middle of writing something. A podcast actually. But I'm crushed with doubts and thinking about how shitty I am at writing. But you remind me I have to keep trying. You remind me it's okay to be shitty. I needed this podcast and if some day I look at the things I created with a smile, I will remember you. Thank you turtle. Thank you.
The funniest thing is that professionally trained dancers struggle to dance at parties. I always think my dancing is weird and everyone will stare
I would absolutely love if you were to do podcasts, I think others would too.so we can inject ourselves with bigger doses of the wonder and dread of life that you Express so well!
"There is a technical name for someone who never doubts themself, a d**khead".
I had to write that one down for future reference.
Thankyou so much for these podcasts. I've been binge listening to these and yes i cried. But I feel alot better. I hope I can get back to my writing now. Thankyou, Really.
You are such a beautiful human. Keep doing what you're doing! It's great ❤
Starlight Brigade is honestly one of my favorite songs of all time and one of the best I know. Good taste man.
Just want to say these are the best. Thank you. Hope you write them down & turn them into a little book so more humans will stumble across your words as well. Best Regards.
As a guy who makes a kind of music that doesn't exactly have "mass appeal" ,these videos are really helpful in keeping me going. Thanks Existential Space Turtle.
I always write down my favorite sentence from each episode on my journal, but I couldn't do it with this one. This whole thing is pure gold. Your best episode yet. Thank you so much for what you do.
I wish this series never ends until there is nothing left to discuss
Here's a little added part to the plane analogy. The worst part is when you get high up and then the plane dips for what seems (to me) for no fucking reason. Glad to see another one of these. It's a good dose of inspiration to get up and be creative. Have a great day!
P.S. If you read my comment on the last video, I've made my way to Croatia and I'm dying of heat stroke. Sunscreen is your friend. :D
I literally just rewatched this series (twice😅) a few hours ago, thank you so much Ex! ❤️👍
This channel is the personification of that guy dragging you by your ankles and throwing you off the cliff repeatedly so you can learn to fly,and i love it.
Extremely grateful for this series of videos because theyve been exactly what i needed. Thanks for all of your videos exurb1a
god im saving your updates to listen again every now and then
loving this
I'll be going back to this every now and then to remind and help myself
I don't know if it was intentional but I highly appreciate that it's like a podcast more than a video so that we can just listen to this while creating art.
This whole series is a huge mood and just the push (kick on the butt) I needed to start doing things again. Thanks a lot
You have a inspired me so much Exurb1a, thank you for being you.
Now here’s something I’m familiar with
This video is one of my favorite videos of all time
Hey man, gotta tell you, been watching your videos for some time and to be quite honest I dont get quite the same feel when anyone else uploads something new, it really makes my day.
Have been watching your david berman ode, fucked me up a bit, got fucked up later as well for good measure, but damn I get what you meant.
Anyway gotta go sober up, but just wanted to tell you, you might not be aristotle, but who the hell is anyway. You inspire the shit out of me and I guess lots of other people here. Keep up the good work and hey if you're ever in the czech republic, we could go for a pivo (tea). Looking forward to the headache at work tommorow..
YES! thank you so mutch for continuing the series!
I’m grateful I get to start my day off with one of my favourite series of videos from you, so far. Big love to you, Mr. 🐢!
i've been watching some (all) your videos (not during work hours i swear) and this here notion of storm hits home like a planet killing asteroid. So a bit like your recommendation in that Ode to Nashville video: mate, thank you.
The last bye is what inspired me the most
I feel trapped, paralyzed by my ideas of perfectionism, external factors helped but I have this deep feeling that I'm worthless. So I refused for years to do anything creative and it's like I'm witnessing my burial every single day.
I want to put it out here that your videos are what has pushed me to write again. I went through several years of severe depression in which I lost the taste for doing almost everything I enjoyed doing. And now, thanks to you, I'm able to stick my toe back into the water and try doing this thing I have always enjoyed once again... Thank you.
On the other hand, if you feel like an imposter, it might be because you're genuinely lacking in talent. To quote one of my favourite lines from a movie about WC Fields: "If at first, you don't succeed, try, try and try again. Then give up; there's no point in looking like a damn fool."
This series makes me really happy I don't know what it is but it makes me very happy
I listen to these while I paint minis, and they always put me in a good, motivated mood. Thank you, exurb2a
Sometimes I don't care, and sometimes I care too much. The imposter within me likes to play games with my sanity. Highly recommend, by the way! My brain doesn't understand that sometimes I don't want to deal with it, and when my brain doesn't want to function, I listen to this podcast over and over again. Thank you for letting me turn off my brain and allowing it to feel flutters of hope and unity :)
Today I was thinking of giving up music after 12 years (piano and saxophone). Nice timings
Those byes were something
Love your stuff man, really looking forward towards each new episode
thank you for this series, I really needed it
Lovely video man you’ve helped get me though the transformative years of my life and i really appreciate it much love from the states ❤️
Really enjoying this series.
This is a really great series. Thank you!
I just wanna say thank you. These episodes genuinely give me strength. I’ve graduated a songwriting degree this year, and London is so mad atm, things feel so far out of my reach...anyway, I really appreciate you for creating this series, big love ❤️
I just love how you can simply switch the theme of the series from 'art' to 'life' that it keeps being great.
I finally know what's wrong with me now. How much I needed to hear all of this... It touched me so much I'm actually writing a comment here, haha. I'm close to tears.
You are so wonderful, such an inspiration, I Love everything I've ever seen/heard/... from you, as just one of the many people, but thank you
This series is so god damn good I love you
I love these videos they keep me working on my 3d modelling retakes. Eventhough I failed 4 years of college due to my own incompetence. You give me courage to say that I actually can do this. You are my favourite creator/artist by far and hearing you go to similar struggles as me gives me hope that I can maybe be one day as great of a creator/artist as you. Thank you for overcoming your demons I will try to do the same.
Hey exurb1a. I just want to say that I love your content. Thank you for inspiring me to try and get my shit together, and convincing me that, despite how pointless life is, that it really is beautiful, and worth it to stay in the game after all. I sincerely hope that my gratitude isn’t lost on you, and that you might continue creating inspiring content for more like me.
Thanks
What I would give for this video to have existed when I did suffered from imposter syndrome. At least I see self doubt in a different light though. It can be used as a motivator, and wielded like a creative sword
Thank Exurb1a Imposter👍
Thank you for bringing me so much joy.
I'm so happy you're continuing to make these
Ok so this guy is really good at analogy’s
Damn being an egomaniac sure as hell is nice. I love myself.
Probably my favorite series on UA-cam right now, shit hits home