Man, the cinematography you put into each video is so cool to watch. I watch your videos and think man how does he come up with the lighting and scene layouts and all the b-roll. Very inspiring to watch, cant wait to see more have a great 202X i mean 2025!
@@kingshakey Every single week I tell myself I'm going to start making these things more pared down and easier to turn around and every week they become more complicated. I'm truly enjoying the filmmaking challenge of this UA-cam thing.
@@cinodrome I could make it look pretty, or I could complete the initial task, but not both! I look forward to you replacing a lightbulb shot with full motion control jib 😅
Instant subscribe - because Keith Mansfield skeewiff is in my everyday playlist. I thought I was the only one who loves those oddball needle drop tracks.
Comment prize winner of the month. I didn’t know Skeewiff & Keith Mansfield AND their library is owned by APM who I license my music from. In the queue.
8:43 - Brunswick …so you’re a southerner 😎 (grew up in the 80s in ‘the County’… Caribou) - just found your channel GREAT stuff both content and your particular production aesthetic)
Amazing the details that everyone teases from these films. I went to Bowdoin, so that must have been the Brunswick bit. Grew up just north of Bangor and I now spend six months of the year up near Houlton in The County. Check out the camp restoration films - right from your neck of the woods!
@ metropolitan houlton, cool. did you pick potatoes as a kid, too? … how bout climb katahdin? (twice for me) will definitely be checking out that cabin vid …and all of your videos. ✌️😎
Happy new year to you! I occasionally add things on I’ve already done to my lists of things to for a nice easy win. Also, thanks for the brush cleaning leitmotif.
An amazing video from start to finish. Im constantly trying to improve my own to-do list system, and as a fervent field notes user, I'm baffled that I have never once thought to use a post-it note for daily to-do items next to the month's list. Ingenious! I recently discovered your channel by way Adam's Tested and Van Neistat's work and continue to find endless inspiration from your videos as a working writer, father, and maker.
Thank you for the kind words. It took me ages to find the list-making balance between longer term tasks and quick daily tasks. Something I neglected to mention in this piece is that the daily post-if list makes for a good morning routine to set up the day. I typically create the daily list over my morning coffee.
Hi Dave, very nice! You've inspired me, now I need to get some field notes books. Thank you for another great film and happy new year! Always be knolling...I like it!
@@cinodrome I was wondering what those were, thanks! I don't like the Moleskin's with the more substantial covers and many more pages but haven't tried the other ones they have (like yours). I'll give them a try. Take care!
Field Notes is a dangerous game. It starts with a three pack of plain, then you’re into the quarterly editions, and special editions, and then you find yourself with enough to comfortably last you a decade. I speak from experience.
Dude! Just got this recommended randomly today, it is *awesome*, it’s like watching the better version of my own channel and my own workshop in a parallel universe where I suddenly have time to do the things I’ve wanted to do a long time ago - subbed and getting ready to binge this weekend :)
@ Hahahaha, I thought the name sounded familiar but couldn’t for the life of me place it (yes, memory is overrated) … and then I googled … and it all makes sense now :D
What a busy week! Its like your house is punishing you for being gone for 6 months and working on another house!😅 these weekly videos are great! I can't wait to see the bar train, and other 2025 projects! Happy new year Dave! Have fun snowboarding!
Spatial hard times. Desperate measures. I’ve had those speakers for about thirty years, by the way, and they’re absolute winners. They seem to handle the tripod mount just fine.
8:25 I had those monster finger puppet thingies, I forgot about them until now! I'm not sure why the algorithm didn't recommend your channel to me earlier, I happened to come across your video because of my interest in lists. I'd say it's a result of cross-pollination the algorithm couldn't predict. I really dig your channel.
I worked at a nuclear power station doing construction for many years. We had a similar process, it was called CRUPS. Circle (the item you are on), Read (make one slash through circle after having read), Understand, Perform, and once complete- Slash (creating an X over the circle). Every step in a written procedure would be required to have this.
Something I neglected to talk about here, and it's arguably the most important bit, is that I start every day by creating the daily post-it. That's the part of the routine that makes the whole thing work. If a task like that doesn't happen every day, it eventually falls to the wayside.
Oddly specific tool recommendation that will find it's way into unexpected places: hammerless hinge-pin tools. Super handy in any moment where something needs a whack and space is at a premium.
Ahhhh yes like myself and Mr Savage you love the 1st gen Sharpwriter #2 as well!!!! I was gonna leave a comment on it, before you mentioned what kind it was. 🤣
"Aaa! Aa! Aaaa!" - so here we share the same reaction to the same happenstance, the non-threatening WTF is strong. Hoomans we are indeed. Dang it, multiple points of the video I'd like to respond to... A list perhaps!? 1. I'll start with the most perplexing and important: why add a post-it note to the filed notes page? If it is explained in the video it flew way way above my head... Re-watched the video: the month page stays, the daily post-its go in & out. Makes perfect sense. So simple! Do you keep the done days or trash them on the spot? 2. Flip the door around: that's the big thing, _refactor the code!_; I've redone a cupboard door lately last year to make it magnetic! and chalk-marker friendly! and... my accumulated experience is that proper re-doings indeed require _years_ to get to it; any time sooner is premature (because head-shaving things are not refactoring, they are _hotfixes_; yes software and realware do indeed share the same universe). 3. New small mitre saw for my small studio: Me cries in shoebox tears. If it needs two hands to move around _it's huge!_. Seems to me that's the boundary I can't hack around with putting stuff on walls etc. I'd like myself at least a proper drill press for starters and my limiting factor is indeed just and only space(*). (asterisk - yes, I could buy myself more space but that route has _other_ limiting factors; money does not solve every problem). I'll continue working around creatively while minimizing overall abuse 😊 4. High-level movie making: Chapeau bas... As much as I cling to my idea of "unedited raw", ha ha... "urban blair witch shite", I did start editing instead of `ffmpeg concat` so I have a feeling that my dislike of Hollywood move-magic will not stand in the face of "make nicer videos, yo". 5. All the other stuff. Really it took me much longer to write even this semi-good comment than to watch the video 1.5 times. Which is as it should be, because I'm viscerally sure it didn't take you ~13 minutes to produce it 🙂 Thanks Dave and please keep the inspiration flowing! 🙇♂
That makes me happy. I got SO many asks about brush cleaning last week (strangely, I thought) that I had to toss it in there. The back and forth with viewers is getting to be one of the best parts of this bizarre UA-cam journey.
Love your videos Dave I watch just as much for the cinematography as the activity. I did though have to rewatch and pause on that sculpture of a pig, I thought it was a medieval torture rack with the pig remains on top initially. Got to love kids imaginations and interpretations. My son made a story of how milk is made, suffice to say that "milking the nibs" has been framed and taking pride of place on our wall. Had my wife in tears for weeks (laughter).
I love gizmos like my iPhone, but there’s an organizing itch that digital doesn’t seem to scratch like analog does. Ive been looking forward to the list making video for a while. Cheers!
There’s no shortage of data around the effectiveness of physical media - reading retention and physical books, etc. I’ve given lists on my phone a genuine try with no long term success.
I like what you did with that notebook for tasks. I’ve been thinking of doing similar. I know there are a million different types out there, but what is that book that you are using? I’d like to check it out a bit more, plz.
Ding ding, all aboard the negroni express. Destination, Wobblyville, stopping at: Yes, I’ll have another, Watch This! Random EBay Purchase, Bad Decisions and Blackout.
Loving this video, having previously exchanged mesages about to do list methodology etc. Ive also arrived at the impression that a Folger can return home at any time, to find a window replaced with a door, a wall repapered with japanese photography or some other non confirmist creative high jinks, and it will be met with a smile and resigned sigh
So I just went and bought a pack of 3x3 graph paper post-it notes on Amazon. 😊. I already carry a Schaeffer bullet pen as part of my EDC and a Field Notes book. I'm going to attempt to use your daily note method.
@cinodrome thanks for the quick reply! Been sitting here binging your content that the algorithm has failed to keep me up to date on. The Maine camp is coming along nicely!
Not entirely sure what you're referring to - they came in those little cases you see when I toss everything on the shelf. Bought them from B&H I'm sure.
@cinodrome They look like the mini Aputure lights minus all the logos on the back, maybe an older version?. I've been looking in to options for an RGBWW light for events/parties/art.
Yeah thanks, I thought I recognised it, building a small maker space in my garage and was looking to get a cordless bandsaw and maybe get a swag to put it in. I could go the savage DIY route too I guess.
My old nokia 1020 still works, so i record them as mp3s then put them in the calendar as the "reminder tune". When i have to do something, i "remind myself". Dunno if this works in Android, never bothered to find out.
I too, would space the 2 lights apart to be able to access the controls. Only a deranged anarchist would turn one upside-down. I get a little queasy vertigo just thinking about it.
Man, the cinematography you put into each video is so cool to watch. I watch your videos and think man how does he come up with the lighting and scene layouts and all the b-roll. Very inspiring to watch, cant wait to see more have a great 202X i mean 2025!
Thank you thank you thank you!
Took the words out of my mouth, it's tough to make it look that easy!
@@kingshakey Every single week I tell myself I'm going to start making these things more pared down and easier to turn around and every week they become more complicated. I'm truly enjoying the filmmaking challenge of this UA-cam thing.
@@cinodrome I could make it look pretty, or I could complete the initial task, but not both! I look forward to you replacing a lightbulb shot with full motion control jib 😅
Instant subscribe - because Keith Mansfield skeewiff is in my everyday playlist. I thought I was the only one who loves those oddball needle drop tracks.
Comment prize winner of the month. I didn’t know Skeewiff & Keith Mansfield AND their library is owned by APM who I license my music from. In the queue.
@ how interesting, I had no idea that it was available for licensing, I have a lot of the KPM library in my collection of obscure and rare MP3’s.
Love this video.
Thank you!
8:43 - Brunswick …so you’re a southerner 😎 (grew up in the 80s in ‘the County’… Caribou) - just found your channel GREAT stuff both content and your particular production aesthetic)
Amazing the details that everyone teases from these films. I went to Bowdoin, so that must have been the Brunswick bit. Grew up just north of Bangor and I now spend six months of the year up near Houlton in The County. Check out the camp restoration films - right from your neck of the woods!
@ metropolitan houlton, cool. did you pick potatoes as a kid, too? … how bout climb katahdin? (twice for me) will definitely be checking out that cabin vid …and all of your videos. ✌️😎
Happy new year to you!
I occasionally add things on I’ve already done to my lists of things to for a nice easy win.
Also, thanks for the brush cleaning leitmotif.
Cheater!
@@cinodromeI think of it as a soft-start. You don’t rev a cold engine. 😅
@@PhilMakesThings I do it ALL the time.
An amazing video from start to finish. Im constantly trying to improve my own to-do list system, and as a fervent field notes user, I'm baffled that I have never once thought to use a post-it note for daily to-do items next to the month's list. Ingenious! I recently discovered your channel by way Adam's Tested and Van Neistat's work and continue to find endless inspiration from your videos as a working writer, father, and maker.
Thank you for the kind words.
It took me ages to find the list-making balance between longer term tasks and quick daily tasks. Something I neglected to mention in this piece is that the daily post-if list makes for a good morning routine to set up the day. I typically create the daily list over my morning coffee.
Hi Dave, very nice! You've inspired me, now I need to get some field notes books. Thank you for another great film and happy new year! Always be knolling...I like it!
I neglected to mention it, but I’ve tried a few different pocket field notebooks over the past few years, and Moleskin brand won out.
@@cinodrome I was wondering what those were, thanks! I don't like the Moleskin's with the more substantial covers and many more pages but haven't tried the other ones they have (like yours). I'll give them a try. Take care!
Field Notes is a dangerous game. It starts with a three pack of plain, then you’re into the quarterly editions, and special editions, and then you find yourself with enough to comfortably last you a decade.
I speak from experience.
@@charding4000 The one's I'm using weren't easy to find. I think I had to go directly to the Moleskin site.
Dude! Just got this recommended randomly today, it is *awesome*, it’s like watching the better version of my own channel and my own workshop in a parallel universe where I suddenly have time to do the things I’ve wanted to do a long time ago - subbed and getting ready to binge this weekend :)
Love it. Thanks.
@ Hahahaha, I thought the name sounded familiar but couldn’t for the life of me place it (yes, memory is overrated) … and then I googled … and it all makes sense now :D
What a busy week! Its like your house is punishing you for being gone for 6 months and working on another house!😅 these weekly videos are great! I can't wait to see the bar train, and other 2025 projects! Happy new year Dave! Have fun snowboarding!
You have mounted a tripod to you Linn speakers!? 😳
Spatial hard times. Desperate measures.
I’ve had those speakers for about thirty years, by the way, and they’re absolute winners. They seem to handle the tripod mount just fine.
@ hehe 😅 great to know! 🙏
fabulous. the water heater excitement was impressive.
Thrill a minute at Filbert.
8:25 I had those monster finger puppet thingies, I forgot about them until now! I'm not sure why the algorithm didn't recommend your channel to me earlier, I happened to come across your video because of my interest in lists. I'd say it's a result of cross-pollination the algorithm couldn't predict. I really dig your channel.
Peak human design.
I worked at a nuclear power station doing construction for many years. We had a similar process, it was called CRUPS. Circle (the item you are on), Read (make one slash through circle after having read), Understand, Perform, and once complete- Slash (creating an X over the circle). Every step in a written procedure would be required to have this.
Love this. If my tasks had the potential to cause international crisis, I’d want a few more layers of complexity as well.
i can always use some more list/note taking inspiration. i’ve done weeks then days for a while, but i may add a general monthly one as well
Something I neglected to talk about here, and it's arguably the most important bit, is that I start every day by creating the daily post-it. That's the part of the routine that makes the whole thing work. If a task like that doesn't happen every day, it eventually falls to the wayside.
@@cinodrome noted! 😅
Oddly specific tool recommendation that will find it's way into unexpected places: hammerless hinge-pin tools. Super handy in any moment where something needs a whack and space is at a premium.
Researched. Noted. Thank you!
Ahhhh yes like myself and Mr Savage you love the 1st gen Sharpwriter #2 as well!!!! I was gonna leave a comment on it, before you mentioned what kind it was. 🤣
Not long ago, I invested in a couple nice mechanical pencils and lost them in a matter of days.
@ it’s funny how the nice ones get lost but everywhere I look in my shop and house sits a sharpwriter ready to go.
"Aaa! Aa! Aaaa!" - so here we share the same reaction to the same happenstance, the non-threatening WTF is strong. Hoomans we are indeed.
Dang it, multiple points of the video I'd like to respond to... A list perhaps!?
1. I'll start with the most perplexing and important: why add a post-it note to the filed notes page? If it is explained in the video it flew way way above my head... Re-watched the video: the month page stays, the daily post-its go in & out. Makes perfect sense. So simple! Do you keep the done days or trash them on the spot?
2. Flip the door around: that's the big thing, _refactor the code!_; I've redone a cupboard door lately last year to make it magnetic! and chalk-marker friendly! and... my accumulated experience is that proper re-doings indeed require _years_ to get to it; any time sooner is premature (because head-shaving things are not refactoring, they are _hotfixes_; yes software and realware do indeed share the same universe).
3. New small mitre saw for my small studio: Me cries in shoebox tears. If it needs two hands to move around _it's huge!_. Seems to me that's the boundary I can't hack around with putting stuff on walls etc. I'd like myself at least a proper drill press for starters and my limiting factor is indeed just and only space(*). (asterisk - yes, I could buy myself more space but that route has _other_ limiting factors; money does not solve every problem). I'll continue working around creatively while minimizing overall abuse 😊
4. High-level movie making: Chapeau bas... As much as I cling to my idea of "unedited raw", ha ha... "urban blair witch shite", I did start editing instead of `ffmpeg concat` so I have a feeling that my dislike of Hollywood move-magic will not stand in the face of "make nicer videos, yo".
5. All the other stuff. Really it took me much longer to write even this semi-good comment than to watch the video 1.5 times. Which is as it should be, because I'm viscerally sure it didn't take you ~13 minutes to produce it 🙂
Thanks Dave and please keep the inspiration flowing! 🙇♂
You made cleaning a paint brush entertainment, bravo sir.
That makes me happy. I got SO many asks about brush cleaning last week (strangely, I thought) that I had to toss it in there. The back and forth with viewers is getting to be one of the best parts of this bizarre UA-cam journey.
Love your videos Dave I watch just as much for the cinematography as the activity. I did though have to rewatch and pause on that sculpture of a pig, I thought it was a medieval torture rack with the pig remains on top initially. Got to love kids imaginations and interpretations. My son made a story of how milk is made, suffice to say that "milking the nibs" has been framed and taking pride of place on our wall. Had my wife in tears for weeks (laughter).
Fabulous.
I love gizmos like my iPhone, but there’s an organizing itch that digital doesn’t seem to scratch like analog does. Ive been looking forward to the list making video for a while. Cheers!
There’s no shortage of data around the effectiveness of physical media - reading retention and physical books, etc. I’ve given lists on my phone a genuine try with no long term success.
I like what you did with that notebook for tasks. I’ve been thinking of doing similar. I know there are a million different types out there, but what is that book that you are using? I’d like to check it out a bit more, plz.
I’ve tried a few - Moleskin holds up best in the back pocket.
What is the cool looking shot holder thingie by the camera gear? Wonderful as always.
It’s a shot holder thingy that also pumps shots into the glasses. They’re findable in an eBay kind of way.
Did someone say Cocktail Train!🚂
We all need a few things to look forward to in the new year.
Ding ding, all aboard the negroni express. Destination, Wobblyville, stopping at: Yes, I’ll have another, Watch This! Random EBay Purchase, Bad Decisions and Blackout.
You have ants in the shop, at least i think they're ants. Hinge knolling scene.
12:32 Happy New Year! Here's to a fruitful 25!!!
Winter rains are here. There’s always minor incursions into the house when the ground becomes saturated. They move on as soon as things dry out.
Being a Massachusetts plumber for 30years I’m really curious what was wrong with the water heater? Great video, Thankyou
A crack in the something, causing gas to leak into the something.
@ ah that makes sense. It’s good not to mess with gas. Can’t wait to see the video on the train transporter
Geez, did I feel the “I didn’t ‘finish’ finish it” comment…
The surprising thing is that I actually got around to finishing them finishing them this time around.
Loving this video, having previously exchanged mesages about to do list methodology etc.
Ive also arrived at the impression that a Folger can return home at any time, to find a window replaced with a door, a wall repapered with japanese photography or some other non confirmist creative high jinks, and it will be met with a smile and resigned sigh
Fantastic. You're not far from the truth of the matter.
So I just went and bought a pack of 3x3 graph paper post-it notes on Amazon. 😊. I already carry a Schaeffer bullet pen as part of my EDC and a Field Notes book. I'm going to attempt to use your daily note method.
Let me know how it goes. I begin my day with the small list and it has proven to be a helpful routine.
The concert ticket collection. Kids today will never know.
What kind of coffee do you drink? I wish I had this much patience and energy.
Oh, lord…coffee. I’d need to start a new dedicated channel to answer that. I’m on a constant journey to make better coffee.
I have my pen/pencil of choice but what notepad are you using? I like Field Notes, but I'm not married to it and its a little too small and spendy.
I tried Field Notes and didn't find them sturdy enough to spend their time in my back pocket. These are Moleskins.
@cinodrome thanks for the quick reply! Been sitting here binging your content that the algorithm has failed to keep me up to date on. The Maine camp is coming along nicely!
Is that a de-baged version of the those mini studio lights or did you find a different source?
Not entirely sure what you're referring to - they came in those little cases you see when I toss everything on the shelf. Bought them from B&H I'm sure.
@cinodrome They look like the mini Aputure lights minus all the logos on the back, maybe an older version?. I've been looking in to options for an RGBWW light for events/parties/art.
Ah - they are the Apatures, I just have an intense aversion to branding so remove logos whenever possible.
Workshop infrastructure is the bomb. Happy 2025, Dave.
And to you!
Is that a SWAG portable bandsaw station for your Dewalt Dave? I have it on my to do list to buy, just wondering how you find it?
It’s just the standard issue Dewalt, but I’m horribly allergic to branding so I had to slap a little paint on it and remove the labeling.
Hold the phone. Thought you were referring to the miter saw. Yes on the bandsaw table. It’s terrific. No complaints.
Yeah thanks, I thought I recognised it, building a small maker space in my garage and was looking to get a cordless bandsaw and maybe get a swag to put it in. I could go the savage DIY route too I guess.
In this case, I reached the conclusion that I couldn’t beat the quality of the SWAG by doing it myself.
My old nokia 1020 still works, so i record them as mp3s then put them in the calendar as the "reminder tune". When i have to do something, i "remind myself". Dunno if this works in Android, never bothered to find out.
Just when I think I’ve heard it all. That’s a fascinating system.
Literally the earliest I've ever been to a UA-cam video.
Welcome! Settle in. Make yourself at home.
I too, would space the 2 lights apart to be able to access the controls. Only a deranged anarchist would turn one upside-down. I get a little queasy vertigo just thinking about it.
I went there for a split second, but symmetry demands aside, the stand mounts would then be trapped in the middle!
So cool; and yet... Hot Water System, or just Water Heater. Technically it's a cold water heater, and yes, I need to get a life...
The next time my cold water system catches on fire I'll get it right.
13:15 2025🎉🎉🎉🎉