'REAL' MINIMALISTS DON'T OWN TECH
a while back I got a comment on my channel that I'm only actually using as a sort of topical debate for this video because it did actually despite me not really fully agreeing with it it did really bring to the Forefront of my mind not in the sense that they meant which I'm about to tell you so a while back I got a comment that said that real minimalist didn't use Tech or even further still electricals now that just blew my mind it blew my mind and at the time I did just think how ridiculous you know everybody is entitled to their own opinion if you do think that great for you but my personal opinion was that it was ridiculous because we live in a modern society there are definitely some things that I enjoy about modern conveniences while still I can appreciate some of the more Simple Times of not having electricals but they're definitely a lot of the things timesaving now I started to think about whether the person because they wasn't that specific meant just technological equipment or things that we use for entertainment or even further still Things Are around the home and I started to really imagine what a home would look like without any electricals I started thinking about all the electricals that I use every day and how much time would be taken up if I didn't have those electricals anymore but to begin with what I have actually been thinking about after this person said this to me was the tech that I have because as a lot of lovely people did support me in the comments and said was well hold on a second she makes videos you know she works online there are she's going to need a laptop she's probably going to need a phone probably a camera so you know they they three things already but what I did actually start thinking back to was in the early days of my channel I did just use an iPhone and sometimes I find S missing that Simplicity because you can just get it out whenever turn it on and record a video like what I've been discussing really in the last couple of videos but as somebody who is very very interested in film making and video making and has a little bit of a background in it I enjoy quality as well and that's what was mentioning you know a few videos ago I'd like to balance that sometimes do low F quality sometimes do high quality quality and my new camera you know my newish camera that I got sort of around what 6 months ago now I'm really enjoying playing around with it I love the fact that because I do live in a very dark home it has natural lighting abilities you know to open the aperture make it appear lighter when it isn't and in a way that actually cuts down on some of the equipment that I need and allows me to be more minimal in a broader spectrum of the things that I earn for instance now you know I've never had one but I don't now have a need to ever have one of these big lights that people have on their faces because it's so small because I went for one that wasn't completely ridiculous and needs like loads of different lenses by ridiculous I don't mean the people that have those lenses are ridiculous I just mean for my own personal needs I wanted one that was practical didn't need loads of lenses and that I could easily carry around discreetly if I want to start vlogging outside and that does doesn't weigh a lot you know we've seen people holding these massive cameras I definitely don't want to have to do that it got me thinking about all my tech so as you all probably have seen I have this box of personal possessions that are not clothing now as you're about to see about 2/3 of that is Tech and even if you count just the tech items themselves the thing is to go with that Tech there's other stuff to go with it charges and things and I started to think about the comment ringing in my head of what this person had said and I started to think well actually if I only did go back to having an iPhone which I know there are minimalists out there that do you would not even have a need for this whole tub now don't get me wrong I am not going to get rid of my tech I enjoy the tech that I have but it really made me think about everybody's own personal choices of whether we decide to have cut down on a whole perhaps box of stuff by not having Tech because they just perhaps prioritize in you know doing pieces to camera chats and talking to you guys or whether they want the videos to be high quality and what other things they hope to do in the future and obviously I'm contemplating a second channel that I'd want to be also high quality now the one thing that I've learned on my minimalist Journey with the tech is when you do film with just an iPhone and you use just the iMovie app unless you are dropping all your Clips onto the timeline Maybe boosting the volume and uploading it is very very hard to edit out mistakes it's also quite damaging for your eyes you know you have to edit on a very miniature miniature screen it's not even the full screen of the iPhone it's within that and some of you who have used the app probably know what I'm talking about you can't edit out the odd little ad lib thing that you've said because it's not precise enough in the iMovie app so I enjoy the Precision of having a camera and my laptop I mean you could do that with your iPhone and say a laptop but something bigger where the Precision allows for a little bit more sorry if I keep going out of focus it doesn't like me doing that I'll have to come over here so let me show you now I'm going to put the things to the side that I keeping here that are not Tech because obviously as I've mentioned in the shorts and things this is all my personal possessions that aren't clothing so let me just put the other things to one side even my partner's passport so what's left is really Tech all I've got is my paperwork and um oh sentimental items jewelry the rest is Tech so in here I have my camera obviously this is the case the case lens I'm using my camera this is the sunny tripod that comes with it where should we put this we'll put it here I have this pouch that I actually keep my laptop charger in because I don't know whether all of you know but the Mac laptop charger it's huge and then I have a couple of other little wires to go with that I have this other clipon extension for my tripod for if you want to use your phone with it instead of a camera and then I have a wire pouch for all the other wires so it's not it's it's not just the tech it's the tech stuff now I do not intend to downsize this stuff because I value having a camera and ironically I had so many people in the comments of some videos say to me oh well you don't have any hobbies as an extreme minimalist but the filming the filming and the editing as much as I love it and perhaps maybe one day it might become a full-time career or as evenly as with my academic writing this is a hobby as well so really the camera equipment itself that I'm actually that I'm actually making these videos with is my hobby so I find it quite bizarre when people when people have said that in the comments before and also I might just point out although it's a bit off topic there are as I'm sure many of you will know that are watching that are also minimalists there are many hobbies that we can all have that are not to do with necessarily earning stuff for instance I candle make that involves getting a little consumable kit in that I use make the candles use the candles up it's gone I sometimes have gone to classes and make Ceramics and then you know you can use the Ceramics as gifts for people you don't need any stuff for that you can make herbal remedies using essential oils they get used up they're gone there there are hundreds literally hundreds of hobbies that we can all do that don't really involve earning much stuff macrom I do macro sometimes and they involve just buying the kit once making the macro macro piece and then perhaps gifting it away if you don't want to keep it but it's an enjoyable activity to do that you can then give away so my camera kit is what I'm getting at to bring it back in is all my camera stuff is my hobby my enjoyment and sort of a bit of a side side career as well I definitely need my laptop though because that is where I work I work online I do academic writing there's no way I could ever be completely tech-free because what I'm getting at in a roundabout ways I started to think about in the future I would like to fully see and embellish the idea of what was mentioned in the comments of a short period of time with no electricals now obviously I have to have an element of realism as that in that we've got lights in our house I'm not going to start getting rid of all the oven you know or not using the oven for a week and starting a fire outside in the street cuz we don't have a garden but what I mean is personal electricals that I would normally use so obviously I've mentioned my hair quite a few times in the recent videos and I wondered what that would truly be like to not cuz I already don't have a hair dryer I let it dry naturally but to not straighten my hair perhaps for a month to do I'm already thinking should I make it a week should I make it a week I don't know if I can do a month so but you know what I mean to to see what that would truly feel like and see what else we are perhaps what creativity or creative designs with my hair would arise if I couldn't straighten my Fringe and smooth it out you know from time to time would be forced to do other things I've not even got all my electricals here cuz I've left one out from before Oh sunglasses oh that's actually currently empty but normally I have my airpods in there as well so let me just get let me get all the electricals out and then we'll see what they look like one second right I'm back I'm going to use this as a little perch so that you guys can at least see at the side of me so the laptop for me is absolutely essential I use it for work the airpods are a growing essential thing for it because people are just getting noisier and noisier when you're outside and it's just a great device to be able to block that noise out now don't get me wrong when I go out for a walk that is away from people I'm loving the Sounds of Nature and you know being in the reality and feeling all my senses but in a town center when people are talking at like a 100 DB and putting them in new one this is this is going to be a part of the outside vlogging because of the reason that I've just said microphone kit so that I can walk far away from the camera not hit not worry about too much of about outside noise and noise interference so a microphone kit wires an extensions for all that stuff the actual camera now don't forget I also have the tripod but I'm using that review guys my straighteners I did used to have some cardless one guys but they weren't powerful enough for my very curly hair they got sent back and just swapped for some of a little mini straighteners cuz I like them to be as short as possible for packing finally the Kindle now I've saved this one until last because really this is the biggest area of contention for myself now I do like real books I am a sentient person tactile I like to touch things but it's just the amount of space that books take up now luckily I am also the type of person that once I've read a book I have no problems giving it away because I very rarely want to revisit a book and I remind myself that should I want to read you know a book again one thing that I do actually really love is far from the Madden crowd that is a book you know by Thomas Hardy that I can constantly revisit but the one good thing about Kindle is any class like that are often free on the Kindle unlimited so that's one perk to the Kindle they're often free from libraries though so what I enjoy about the Kindle is that it can keep up to 6,000 books without us having books all over our home especially if we're the type of person that likes to keep books and does you know does have an issue with giving them away afterwards but this is a growing thing that I've been thinking about now what I'm getting at is if I didn't work online and need my laptop I would highly consider having an iPad instead of this because then the iPad would be two items in one there you could read on your iPad you can now even get a little keyboard that you know goes with them you could do a little bit of word processing on there and you'd also have a perhaps a little screen for if you did want to watch watch you a movie or something it would be the perfect Allin one item they're also very small for packing but I haven't I've got my Kindle but it's something that in the future I would give a lot more thought about because I even thought we could read on the Kindle app on our phones but I don't think it's particularly good for his iight even if we use the black screen just how how small it is I think would give us a lot of eye strain so whilst I'm not advising this I'm saying I have seriously been reconsidering my tech and I would advise or ask the everybody questions when I really thought that I had and I'm still happy with my choices because at the end of the day I want to make videos but if you are not going to if you are not going to ever want to make videos of a particularly high standard or quality and do lots of editing on your videos I think it is perfectly okay to make videos on YouTube with just your iPhone and just using the iMovie app but I like to play around with my editing and that's definitely better for your eyes on my laptop I also do you know academic writing coaching and my own academic writing and creative writing so I need something bigger to do that but I can understand why there are many many minimalists out there that just stick to to a phone it would definitely simplify life and what I actually got a while back is if you did decide that you wanted a little bit of a microphone because one issue on the iPhone if you are filming is as soon as you get more than 2 MERS away it is really really hard to pick up the volume sometimes even if there is a lot of outside space so what I have for that which sort of goes with my iPhone is I have a mini microphone it simply plugs in to your iPhone and you can move quite far away from it you can get these leads longer up to 3 m away and it's a real good way of just simplifying your Tech now what I am getting at cuz you may think I've waffled on quite a lot in this video is obviously I said I want to try a time with no electricals but I obviously want to continue to make videos for YouTube while I did that for perhaps a week or a month so I would I wanted to see what it would feel like to go back to basics after having had more so I would perhaps just use my mini tripod my phone and this microphone for just a week and especially because I'm beginning to think about how I might experiment on a new second Channel and being able to constantly carry around my tech with me so that I can vlog spor radically anywhere and anywhere that I like unplanned just whip it out where is my phone actually while I'm talking about this let me go get my phone I've not even included my phone in this right I'm back so this is what I'm calling my new Mini Tech kit it is going to be what I attempt to perhaps use for I haven't set the time period yet it might be 7 days it might be 14 days it might be a month and I might do a little bit of everyday Vlogs or even just making the general YouTube videos with it but I want because I'd be making more it to be as simplified as possible I still would like to do the video each week that I put effort time thought into and use perhaps my high-tech stuff and do it all very well edited but this is so many I think I found the world's tiniest tripod like it is as big as my hand so I'm minimizing my tech for a month I haven't decided when it is yet I wanted to show you all this really to really make us all think about what tech we have what tech we use and I even went further obviously and even started to think about all the tech in our house uh is it on camera there but we have a little projector we have you know even the ovens are electrical if not Tech but some people could say it is technology because at one time it was an oven was advanced technology I mean we don't have many kitchen appliances but you know now with all the slow cookers blenders microwaves you know at one time they were all Tech we've tried to limit that as much as we can in our kitchen obviously I've discussed my partner as an air fryer we have a coffee machine we now even have a blender or is it a juicer I don't know the difference so we have actually three things in our kitchen that would be considered appliances but there are so many things that you know other people may have and I just found it bizarre that somebody said that they didn't use any Tech or electricals as a minimalist and what what would that life look like so out of just sheer entertainment and bewilderment I'm going to at least try to do it on a personal level for 7 days to a month no hair straighteners no big bits of tech you know just my laptop for work my phone and this mini kit I want to know what that feels like and in in indirectly maybe it will make me appreciate my other Tech more because I know that when I went to wear to grease for 3 weeks and I did only take my phone to do videos with I look back now at those I think it was two or three videos I filmed in Greece and they were incredibly hard to film trying to prop the camera up with no tripod so obviously that made me appreciate having a mini tripod being so close to the camera and worrying about outside noise even more because I had no mini microphone and then trying to edit on there is a task all to its own sorry again for the outside noise so if I was going to advise anybody to get to the point if they were make thinking of making a YouTube video ever I reckon all you really need is your iPhone and a laptop so you don't get I strain if you want to do a little bit more Precision editing if you're happy to just load it up as it is or drop it on a timeline and load it up that's enough I hope you've all you know found this video food for thought I will announce on the community post when I intend to do this little trial run with the um with the mini with the mini kit and what I actually thought not to not to go on for much longer but the mini kit Vlog for a week might actually even be an experiment of what the second channel would be like like a preview for you all going around making it really realistic vlogging just with this using a different style and it would give you all a taster for if you want to come over to the second Channel as well but what I'm very mindful of with the second Channel that I am thinking about doing is I am not even going to get stuck just in vlogging you know it's going to be about lifestyle it's going to be about topical discussions and debates yes it's also going to be travel when the opportunity arises for me but there are a few things that are highly topical that I want to talk about that I'm not sure whether some of the minimalist crowd and public viewers here on this channel would be interested in but there is some big discussions I want to perhaps discuss separately that would be maybe considered very off topic for this channel so yeah so I want my channel to be a mouthpiece really for everything and everything everything and anything that I want to talk about and show you all because I mean just look guys that Tech takes up half of that box the other stuff in my box I don't know why my passports are separate today I must have been looking at them for something onethird of the Box half of the Box Tech a quarter other stuff and there is about a quarter currently free space so what do you think guys do you think that real minimalists don't have Tech I think the answer to that for my personal opinion is it depends on their lifestyle and what they do nobody said that as minimalists we don't have to have technology you know one of my Joys and passions is film making video making writing so some of the tech I value and it's essential for my lifestyle and if you know your value of minimalism is Going Back to Basics living with no sort of modern conveniences then fair enough but nobody ever said you know that real minimalists had to have no technology I think it's just being about being mindful just like with everything about what of these items we really use and we really value see you all in the next one bye
2024-06-06 02:16
