how to document your life in a meaningful way
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- Опубліковано 14 лис 2023
- a little look at how I've been documenting my adventures the last few years :)
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Thank you algorithm for bringing this kind of content. I love this way of life 😍
Glad you enjoyed it! 🤗
I'm finally learning this lesson myself. As a Finn living in the US, when I recently visited Finland again I wanted to make a vlog about it, but I didn't know how to express the feeling of returning to an old home, and how I'd forgotten about the slow living habits I used to have when I still lived in Finland. I'm now in the process of scripting a voiceover to describe those feelings. This was a beautiful video & I hope you do indeed make enough income from UA-cam eventually to keep traveling and adventuring! 💕
Thank you 🤗 I hope you can translate those feelings in your video!!
wow, that 5 min video felt like a movie, keep going you're doing a fantastic job 🥰
I won't try in vain to use mince and half-ass words to describe it. This was the most eye-opening and best video on creativity that I could find on the internet! Very inspiring, thank you!
thank you for the kind words!! :)
I love this! People for some reason strive to work to live and get consumed in consumerism, we should be talking about working enough to get by without stress, and just spend on things that make us happy
Yes the devil is a lie!🩵
The way I smiled through the entire video, thank you so much for sharing something extremely precious with the world :')
I relate to this 100%. Ive been focusing on “making” photos instead of just taking photos. ig it’s important to realise capturing meaningful photos is what matters in the end. To be able to look back at them and feel what I felt when I took it.
Beautiful video.
This is such a great idea and feels like the exact thing I want to start doing with my memories. I've thought of having a big scrapbook, and who knows, I might still do that, but this is really what I need for my special memories. I find it cool that you just make the painting based off the photo from your phone: it doesn't need to be as realistic as possible, just captures the essence. Also by painting at the end of the trip rather than doing it live during the hike or whatever, you can actually gauge what was important looking back on the trip.
I haven't painted in over a decade and I wasnt great back then as a kid, so it would probably be much better off with something like colored pencils, but seems like a cool opportunity to learn a new skill also and find my own style.
same :)
I found your channel by chance. I love the way you describe your journey. I could listen to you endlessly. Your words are simple but have a deep meaning.
thank you so much!!
god....everything about this is so beautiful. You. Your paintings. Your cinematography. So beautiful. Keep going!
With such a beautiful 5 minute film you could easily add 5 minute films as well as your paintings and that way instead of a load of random clips you would have one film per each adventure plus one painting. How cool would that be. I can paint but I can't make films like that. It was very beautiful and I love the concept. For some reasons my sketchbooks make me remember the events of my life much more vividly then photos or writing a journal does. The sketches are much more evocative.
Great idea! :)
As simple as story telling can be! Amazing :) finished here from "be the mail character of your life" :)
wish I could paint like that😩 love it!
Get onto it pal, start training today
how often do you paint?
Wow! What an absolute magnificence! I have been documenting my life by writing a journal everyday for that past 6 years now. I write down raw facts, emotions and random thoughts there but mostly facts and recently I started feeling that I really don't make use of this journal and I just write to write. But instead I should do something with it. I love your video, it was well structured, beautifully said and put together, it kind of inspired me to do something more with the journal. However I don't know what exactly...yet. ~Usat
Glad to hear that!! 🤩
You should read your journal, you will learn a lot by reflecting on your experience , by reading your journal you will reflect a lot. You will start loving yourself more, this is what happened to me.
Beautiful! The video, the landscapes and the paintings! Also the sentence about not caring how much money you'll make, as long as you'll be able to go on trips like this that remind you what living life is all about, really resonates with me.
I really love this! What a great film! The storytelling is soooo good and love the paintings you did! I might try and do that as it really does make it more meaningful and memorable
OMG🥹🥹Thanks to the algorithm, for bringing this to my feed today! This is the content I want, the ones that do not overwhelms you, but calms your nervous system!
This video has so much beauty! Thanks for sharing this way of documenting life that you have :)
that's such a beautiful way of documenting your adventures, can't even imagine how aweinspiring it will be with even more paintings on the walls to look at. also really beautiful video 🥰
My problem is that I documented too little. Due to some health issues, my memory is deteriorating and I struggle to live in the moment, remember the past, and hope for the future, so I decided to hold on to as much as I can. Now I take dozens of photos every week, film random moments that seem mundane today, even record "interviews" with my friends and family, so I can have a reminder for the future.
My younger brother even got mad at me for dumping all the 4 terabyte of stuff I have on the shared family cloud.
This sounds wonderful and I hope it will help you. Maybe print some books with the images, and notes?
That is such a cool idea! I’ve been thinking about ways to try to document my life better beyond my journal, and this gives me some inspiration. Thank you for sharing!
What a video! Beautiful storytelling, images, lesson...Just incredible.
That was so beautiful! Really touched me. Thank you for that! Also, it made me really think about how I want to capture my life. So glad the algorithm brought up your video ❤
Oh so lovely. Thank you for sharing. I wasn't expecting this, but its a really great idea
Love the way you document your adventure and the way you film this video. So beautiful. Hoping for more adventures in the future.
I love love love that you paint your adventures! So lovely!
thank you!! 🤗
Such a beautiful film and concept. Thank you for making it.
Such a beautiful film and adventure, you've inspired me to start painting again 🙏💜✨️
An adventure wall? What a fabulous idea! Love your video and love your paintings. Thanks so much for the inspiration.
This hits on a so much deeper level.
On the one hand, like Jonne, you have to live life and feel it.
On the other hand, you have to make it meaningful by picking moments and give them a sense.
As i'm also a hoarder of moments, i always thought: life passes just by.
And going all the pictures and tickets I got a glimpse of the past, you made me realize, that i have to pick the best moments and have to present them to have the moments live on.
Thank your for the awesome food of thought.
Love how you put this together! So inspiring, amazing visuals and message :) 🙌
Kudos to the algorithm who brought me to this amazing video content. Subsrcibed to see many surreal and amazing experiences❤
I loved your paintings and perspectives. You seen such a beautiful human.
Such a beautiful soul! I found you on TikTok a while ago, and seriously, you are teaching me to live a better life! Enjoying every moment is what life is about.
This makes me so happy to hear! Thank you 🤗
How beautiful 🥺 It's very inspiring. Thank you ♥
I really needed to see this. Thankyou. This reaffirms goodness and is very grounding for me in this moment. Thankyou.
This is so incredibly beautiful and inspiring. I am just so happy you got to find your magic language and style of keeping and reliving these memories. Thank you so much for also sharing it in this compelling way!
Thank you so much!!
Such beautiful shots and scenery! Your painting skills are also so great and having inspired to try and take up landscape painting to capture adventures. Thank you so much for sharing this! Big love from Zambia 🇿🇲
Fantastic video. Super inspirational to do something with the memories taken/ created on adventures (or even just life). Reliving good and important times just makes life better and the memories permanent, and I loved seeing your process. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Those drawings are so damn cool and pretty! i was so impressed at the moment where you showed the actual way of "meaningful" documenting everything, by those paintings. such a cool and inspirational idea! thanks :)
Thank you!! ☺️
A beautiful thing that we all have a unique perspective. Our own painting of the same thing. Great video!
wow that's really what i call underrated, you made me feel happy nostalgic and almost cried in one video !
and your paintings are beautiful glad i clicked on this video you gained one sub !
This was so beautiful and inspiring it literally bought me to tears. You are a talented story creator, through words, video, and paint. Thank you for sharing with us.
Thank you so much 🤗
These videos are soooooo impressive!!! Every video makes me want to live my life to its fullest!! LOVE your videos!!
so glad to hear that!! :)
"What kind of videos would you like to make some days?" Well, this.
what a compliment!! 🥹
I really love the story telling of your videos! Super motivating and encouraging
really appreciate it! 😌
great storytelling! I really like how you put this video together.
Thank you! :)
So cool! I started with a similar project during covid lockdown, but never made it past some sketches...as I still feel like I'm not good enough yet with water colors. Love your paintings! They motivate me to start working on this again and give watercolouring another try :)
Wow you are extremely talented in so many ways! I love this idea and it really spoke to me thank you for this video
just brilliant! I sure wish I could paint like that!
Beautiful paintings. My mom used to paint a decent amount, and we had a few up in my childhood home. I'm terrible at it, but these took me back.
What a beautiful video! And such a lovely and deeply meaningful way to keep your memories close x
Thank you so much!☺️
This was so beautifully done. I can imagine how overwhelmingly magical the moments of that trek actually was and the impossibility of capturing that feeling accurately, but I felt it anyways :)
thanks so much! 🤗
Absolute piece of art - i LOVE it!! so so well done
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This video is a piece of art!
love your aesthetic !
You deserve millions of subscribers
Very inspirational video. Thanks so much for your insight :)
Everything about this was amazing ! I started my very own docuseries with my cell phone and want to make it look better so I started using my canon and I would love to continue to improve and tell my story better . A lot of great takeaways from this video . Thank you. This helped a lot 💙
Really beautiful! Kept me thinking. Thanks for sharing your adventures, they are really inspiring.
appreciate it!! :)
Keep it up Ottilie!! Love the style and message! You are going places! 😄
Thanks so much!!
You are one hell of an artist. This was great!
thank you! ☺️
What a wonderful video! I think it's the best one you made so far. I personally feel different about my interactions with memories. I love my hard drive with hundreds of thousands of photos, I love scouring through it and finding memories that I had long forgotten, to reimmerse myself into past experiences as an active act. However, your memory wall seems to be something quite special, and I'm sure and it will look absolutely magnificient once it is finished.
Thank you so much!☺️
What a beautiful video. Makes me want to paint all day for some reason.
What a beautiful video. I'd love to be able to paint like that!
what an amazing idea! absolutely magnificent video
This is such a beautiful video! I like to draw, but I never make time for it. This had inspired me to draw some moments from my own adventures. Thank you 🙏
Thank you! Glad to hear 😊
Your acrylics are really great! Such glorious captures. I think I need some small canvases!! I have a Dutchie man too. LOL
Your voice's amazing and so is your story
Thank you for making this!
Great idea to paint 🎨 the memories, instead of filling harddrives (I’m guilty of that, too)
Sidenote: I really enjoy the calm tone of your videos. It has something really relaxing to me.😊
Thank you! :)
I had thought about doing the same thing, painting with watercolors all the inspiring, beautiful and worth remembering moments of my life. And today your video reminds me of this idea that I had and that I should not let go of. I also want to paint my adventures. I am excited to begin. THANKS!!
Amazing!!
I love this so much thank you for this video
Lovely video! That wall is such a great idea!
beautiful vid and beautiful paintings. Thanks for sharing
very nice and memorable video! I really like documenting my life and i try my best to do that on my channel! :)
I really love drawing and painting, but then I always struggle with what I want to paint (at least when I‘m not trying to process something through a painting and even then). I also love photography and take so many pictures. I started now to put them into albums or print the ones that are most important to me out. I somewhat also started to paint photographs I love. But your video now inspired me to do that much more often. It is such a great idea to document your life through paintings and it fits also extremely good to myself. Thank you so so much!❤
I’m so glad it inspired you! 🤗
Love your art work ❤
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What a stunningly amazing video. I am thinking of starting my own form of artistic documentation through collages and this has really inspired me :)
so glad to hear :)
This was a lovely watch.
So happyy I found your channel :)❤
Me too!! 🤗
Beautiful film! Truly enjoyed it, thanks for making this.
Glad you enjoyed it!🤗
i love this!
what a beautiful video and beautiful idea -- thank you.
fantastic! thank you so much for this.
I love your paintings
this was beautiful
You have a beautiful soul..keep it up!
Love this ❤
A wonderful story
much appreciated! :)
Nowadays i m loving my youtube feeds
Awesome video again 🤩If I start painting my "wall" of memories, it will be very unpleasant though 😢😥🤣🤣
Even i have the problem of over documenting my life, i do not share it on social media, just document it and way up my storage space. I wrote daily journals. I think i might need to make a discuss versions of my history to make them meaningful.
This video was lovely. Captures so much of my heart
Excellent video😁👌 makes me evaluate the sad fact that I have yet to spend days on end trudging through whiteout-level snowy conditions
Wow! Amazing storytelling
Thank you! 😊
Incredibly well made video!
Thank you! :)
That’s awesome!
Wow. Stunning!!
Really a nice video, made me to hear my inner voice once again
Obrigada pelo lembrete de vivermozy❤