3,597 days of sobriety
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A pioneer in digital filmmaking, Van Neistat made his first internet video, The Holland Tunnel, in 2000. He went on to collaborate with New York City artist Tom Sachs, directing a series of short films shown at the Guggenheim Museum in Berlin. Van has since directed dozens more films for the Tom Sachs Studio. In 2010 HBO aired The Neistat Brothers, an 8-episode series of short videos made entirely by Van and his brother Casey Neistat. Van Neistat’s directorial debut feature, A SPACE PROGRAM, co-written by Tom Sachs, premiered at the 2015 South by Southwest Film Festival and opened in theaters nation-wide in spring, 2016. In 2018 Neistat Directed the short film Paradox Bullets, co-written with Tom Sachs, narrated by Werner Herzog, and starring Ed Rushca. Neistat has written and directed commercial projects for Nike, Hurley, Kate Spade, Tory Burch, J. Crew, Twitter, Sleepy Jones and Frances Valentine. His work has been exhibited in museums throughout the world. He lives in Topanga, California.
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Love mine!
Just got mine this morning and I love it! Thank you van!
Hey van can I get a hoodie?
Gonna get some merch after this one to show support. Nobody ever regrets the steps. Our job is try it fully and judge the results. No risk, big reward. Anything less is a scary gamble. It's made me unbelievably more spirited since 2002. Thanks for the great vids and work.
Waiting on mine to be shipped. Can’t wait.
Ive been sober for nearly 9 years, I wept when I saw your post today, l felt joy and gratitude. I wake up every morning and look at my 13 month old son and am grateful for this life. Love your videos
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God bless you
Are there RUclips video awards? This video should win one.
@Alex Cho finally? Hes been sober for over 3,000 days. You realize that?
Not even worth my time with you stating something like you did but here i am.
Gross.
Real gross.
You wouldn’t understand unless you at least know one who at least tried.
@Alex Cho what’s so great about being a negative jealous man
This spirited man has 4676 days of sobriety. Thanks for sharing. Well done.
More power to you.
Thank you Van!
Today marks 200 consecutive alcohol free days in my life. Stopped drinking because of this video.
Keep going Randy!
you got this mate!!
Math doesnt add up.
@@scoon2117 It does in fact add up.
Great! Whatever works. 200 days is a great start. By now you are beginning to remember some possibilities you had forgotten all about. I quit drinking after 30 years and went back to being an artist. I was miserable. Now I'm happy.
I will break my addiction, I'm writing it here so that somebody knows. It's easy to fail when I'm the only one who knew of the goal in the first place. I'll see you all on the other side.
sounds like your on your way. it's well worth it. your worth it. be healthy, wealthy and wise.
The first and hardest step: you want it.
You CAN do this. Peace and strength.
Im with you. Funny how I only feel comfortable sharing an anonymous comment on youtube to complete strangers. I'm trying
@@danielheiss3299 your not alone, so many have gone through the same thing, not wanting anyone else to know, now, chase your sobriety like you have chased your addictions of the past.
Good luck
1,539 days - Beautiful video
Clicking Van Neistat video is now a reflex action.
Made it 441 days after several years of drinking. Went on a 2 month binge and i'm back. Day 3. I needed this video. Thank you
I believe in you mate. You can do it.
It may not be easy for you, but it will be appreciated by you.
try to drink soda instead
Casey was right. He is the best youtuber ever. I haven't missed a single video, by far my most favorite channel out there. This movie and the one called "Men Cry in Private" really made me tear up. Thanks man.
Same. Powerful stuff.
I'm not sure who inspired who, but they both certainly have a similar style. You know I Neistat when you see one.
@@mattbahe Certainly it was Tom Sachs, who inspired them both. Check him out and you will see.
Yeah. This is some next level filmmaking.
whose 'Casey'???
What a powerful video. The part where he says he can’t do anything right is so relatable
1 year, 9 months and 10 days clean and sober. I too miss the meetings. Thank you for doing this movie
I just turned twenty three today and I'm ten months sober. I can't believe how close I was to cutting my life so short and I am still coming to terms with what it's like to be sober when you're an age famously known for being the partying years. I've spent my teenage and early adult years associating my birthday with substance use so today was hard. This helped
Juiceboxbrian, I hope you’re still doing well. I totally understand that. ‘Big’ days (or any days, really) are hard at first, but the more of them that pass, the easier it gets. I’m at 901 days today (consecutively, from drugs and alcohol), so quite a few big ones have come and gone, and at 31 I’m just so grateful to have the rest of my life. Please try to be patient and kind to yourself. All the best to you and anyone else reading this.
Also, thank you Van for this video.
I have 588 days of sobriety. I, too, wouldn't be able to experience the joys in my life currently without it. I nearly lost everything including my kids, my family, my friends, my home, my life (narcan on 2 occasions), and I did lose my job of 11 years. I take my sobriety extremely serious and applaud anyone that finds strength to dig themselves out of the darkness of addiction and share their story.
More power to you, ma'am.
Good for you! Well done.
Wisdom to know the difference, thanks Van
Thanks, Van...I'm 1374 days currently...so far the best chapter yet.!
Keep it up SM(Spirited Man).
More power to you.
Congrats to you Van. This is something to be extremely proud of. Sobriety is the final cheat code to unlock all levels!
Thanks, Van. Keep at it.
I'll be angry iif you don't reference this man in your videos in some way
Big fan of your useless information videos
fancy seeing you here
So glad you’re a fan
Shut up Austin
This is by far one of the best videos I've watched on RUclips. I've been on RUclips since 2005!!
I am currently 21 days sober.
This is the message that I needed today.
Great stuff, Van. Thank you for sharing your story.
Right on. You got this. One day at a time.
Good luck with your Journey! You got this.
Good on you sir.
You can do it, man.
Nice. Keep at it brother.
"He is grateful for his soberity and he protects it with all his might."
I have 2 years now fro when I wrote this post
Thanks for your strength and for sharing your story.
Garry thankyou, I learn a tremendous from you. I am from India where these resources about tech and entrepreneurship aren't easily accessible. You with help of internet have have helped me a lot :)
Very powerful! Thanks van! Congratulations!
I'm sorry but this is a masterpiece. The music, the old footage, the story telling...to me this is perfect
Why are you sorry then?
@@pramath_bhat he's not sorry. He's grateful.
@@pramath_bhat lol
@@Pantera1001 fair enough, to each their own
That last sentence hits home SO hard. Its so easy to miss the love and beauty in everything little moment when you’re not sober. You realize how much you gain when you’re actually in the moment
Touche. That was really well put
brilliant.
org
Sobriety is undervalued, I am currently on day 2375. I appreciate every time someone talks about this, since it happens way to little. Also, stunning video storytelling as always, to me it's fascinating how footage that spans over years finally comes together into finished work for us to see, really inspiring.
I'm re-watching this video because I'm putting off writing for my work. I am debating whether I talk about alcohol and quitting again. You saying that you appreciate when someone talks about this was all I needed to read to reassure me of the importance of the topic.
I've never been obsessed with sobriety enough to count it for 2,375 days. IF you think about your previous addiction everyday and can't stop counting the days, then you are still an addict in my mind.
@@smeaglerG that's the point. You can't cure addiction. You don't ever beat it. You come to terms with it and you choose to no longer consume.
@@smeaglerG Some have different ways of processing it, and that's the point. No man (mankind, not men) is any better or any worse for being born with or without the properties of the brain that enable severe addiction. What makes a person strong knowing they have a predisposition to addiction, and learn to COPE with it, because you cannot defeat it, it's built into your brain.
I've never had an addiction, despite being surrounded by alcoholics all my life, I'm just lucky I suppose, but I'm always greatly inspired by addicts who turn their life around. I think it's humbling, knowing my own struggles with life, and then seeing others struggling just as bad and worse, but overcoming it, it gives me hope.
@@kaio37k Very well said
Congratulations, Van. My mom's been sober for 37 years. I am so proud of her.
this video helped me come to terms with my need to get sober. this is day 105 completely clean. thanks for all you do van ❤
This has to be the most raw RUclips video I’ve seen
Thank you Spirited Man.
I discovered your channel yesterday on my 6,189th day of sobriety, and the 16th day since the death of my beloved mother. I can not understate just how dumb RUclips's algorithm is if it took it this long to recommend to me one of your videos. You have brought me much needed belly laughs in this most recent time of darkness. When she died, the light left the world, and now I just use the tools I have gathered in the last 6,190 days to put one foot in front of the other, until light and joy returns.
I'm sorry to hear about your pain Rex. Congratulations on your sobriety. That is a lot of days.
@@walterkempbruce4907 Thanks for your kind thoughts. Looking through just a few of her voluminous photo albums yesterday brought me joy.
The way these videos just grab a hold of you and teleport you somewhere else, only then to teleport you back into your chair. Where you are a little wiser, a little more spirited.
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Well said. I think we all finish watching his videos a little wiser and a little more spirited. How many other people on this platform can enrich you that way.
Damn. This was incredible. I've been sober since March 4, 2010. When Van said "and then I lose my mind" I knew exactly what he was talking about. This video was really beautiful. One day at a time is all we have. That book saved my life too Van. Thanks for your beautiful work.
I run into that “Decided To” & “Doesn’t want to do it” every day Van. Glad “Decided To” won out this time for you, because this is amazing. - Eric.
Thank you for sharing, Van.
"I'm either the happiest I've ever been or I'm having a nervous breakdown right now..." I like that one
Congratulations my Brother! I'm coming up on 16 years on the same path. Love your work and spirit, Thank You.
This is pure storytelling extract, no plugs, no ulterior motives, no agenda, only effin golden stories. Thanks, it is infinitely inspiring for people alike, we, who also wanna tell our own stories
It’s not easy for me to describe how i feel after watching this. In the place between joy and fear with whisps of death and a incline of new hope. Thank you Van
THANK YOU VAN!! I’m 23 years sober I was choked, been watching you from day one, thanks to Casey, but more thanks to you I’m now knocking the dust from my book long overdue.....
Van. This is without doubt my fav video so far, well done mate.
this is the most pure and raw you've ever been on this channel, and that says a lot. I really appreciate this video
5 years clean here. It's just amazing how a lot of us have completely different stories on how we became addicted, but in the end.. all end up being grateful and caring about the same things we gained through sobriety. Some things are just meant to be.
Addiction comes in many forms and is an everyday battle.
Crazy how much footage Van has from years that we are just now seeing. I love it
I've been sober for 30 years now. Some days truly suck and some are beyond beautiful. Meetings keep you sober but the steps help you grow. The people we've hurt need to know that WE KNOW that we hurt them. I loved this! Stay sober forever! No matter how much things suck sometimes I don't ever want to drink again!
I hope you have confronted the emotional trauma that drive you to addiction In The first place. If not than you will always be a slave to it. I would say I cared by I do t. That is your karma. Deal with it or suffer in the next life even more.
@@thisone. I had too. I wouldn't have stayed sober without doing this important work! I am fairly certain it was carried through a past life...
@@jcsrst Thank you for not being angered by my comment and how I worded it. It shows that you understood my words and indeed confronted and dealt with that trauma. I agree with you, some of my trauma was also carried over from a previous life. I never succumbed to drug/alcohol addiction but it affected my life in other ways. I applaud you for dealing with it so as not to pass it on. May your next life be rewarded for your efforts.
And now I'm on Amazon buying the big book.
This is a fascinating series and a very unique way of telling a story. I honestly don't know if I like it yet but I keep tuning in.
Same here.
I cant stop watching.
Probably means you like it
same
@Alaska Pirates So much stuff on RUclips is "more watchable" because it is a dopamine dump that flashes before your eyes. These are masterpieces because they tell a story with depth and purpose and without baiting the viewer and without forceful, viewer-demeaning hyperbole.
Thank you Van for all the wondering things that you make. This one is my favorite.
The only downside to this video is that I could only like it once.
I'm turning 26 on july 27th.
I am a year and 5 months sober.
I used drugs from 14 until I was 24.
Starting with psychedelics to everything in between up until starting heroin and $10 bags of meth to go along with it and using only those two for the last year of substance abuse.
The 10th year of abuse.
I met my fiance 2 days after using heroin for the first time september 17th, 2018.
September 19th, 2018 was when I first met her. A manager at the pizza hut I had gotten a job at so that delivery driving could fund my heroin that i knew i was already unable to give up.
She was 25. She had a 2 year old named pepper. She had a party phase that lasted about a year when she was 19. She was sober ever since and never wanted or needed to touch substances. She met me.
We fought. We had joy. I had that I was an addict. We had tears and begging for more. Angry and wanting of less. We got pregnant. I hid that i was an addict. We had a miscarriage. I broke and slipped and she found me out. My double life.
She yelled, belittled, understood and contradicted understanding. She was confused. I was confusing.
She couldnt leave and I would need any reason to keep using.
We got pregnant again.
Not even 2 months after our miscarriage.
I kept using.
We grew and grew apart.
We fought and fought to stay together.
I hurt her in more ways than i could've ever imagined with my self destructive manic episodes.
I went to jail for the first time.
My mother picked me up after 7 days in city jail.
I bought heroin that night with my commissary check with my left over funds on it.
I lied again.
I went to rehab soon after.
I begged my pregnant fiance to let me smoke heroin one more time.
I went inside december 20th, 2019.
I came out 7 days later for the birth of my daughter. Our second daughter, december 27th, 2019.
I used again.
January 2020. The new year. I have a daughter now, my first born. A step daughter and a fiance.
My fiance gets a lead position at frito lay and kickstarts the rest of our life as soon as im sober.
A stay at home dad.
Something i could've never imagined being.
Living with a sound mind.
I don't use again.
I haven't used again.
Everyday I chose until somehow it didn't feel like i had to choose.
I have been free from it for almost a year and 5 months.
I am getting married to the strongest and most dedicated woman I have ever known in just 6 days.
In all facets of her life she has conquered thus far.
I am grateful.
I am lucky.
I'm loved.
I love.
Thank you Van.
For making me feel so in tune with this work of art. For letting myself and others soak it in and share ourselves.
Wow. Awed here.....the confessional, the edits, the COURAGE it took to tell your story...... You're not a RUclipsr, you're a FILMMAKER. On a higher plane. #Genuis
Agree 💯%
Great videos, I'm happy to see videos so different from the internet you are truly gifted man
This is what you call brave. Everything around you turns to gold once you decide to take your life into your own hands.
hell yes…I am here for everything this channel is putting out
I had to give this a like when I saw the stop motion of the heroin incident. Too good!
Wow, this is gold amigo.
This ain't youtube. This is art.
Your channel is a breathe of fresh air to this platform and an inspiration for all of us to do better in everything.
I found this channel on the 22nd of June. Exactly 2 years sober that day. Thank you for this.
Very wholesome and emotional. I love this channel.
A request for a vid on Grey Gersten - the music is powerful in a subtle way. Beautiful.
You’re a good man Van. Quality guy!
So amazing thank you and congrats! My sister was just locked up for the millionth time because of drug use hopefully she can find a path similar to yours and recover. Addiction is a strong force in my whole family and I constantly battle against falling victim to any substance !
3 videos in to this newly discovered channel and I am grateful, impressed, enlivened and subscribed
Having a great day, and then van uploads and it gets that but better
That last part broke me in the most delightful way possible.
Thanks van. As a sober person of 7 years with a little child now I feel this deeply
Van, I do not know, how you do it. But you speak a language of words and pictures, that hits deep down, itches and scratches something there. Your spirited man gives so much back.
I hope you truly know that your work inevitably comes at a really invaluable time for a lot of your viewers. However long this gig lasts, these uploads aren't going anywhere, and they'll keep meaning something until the website goes down, likely even after that. Each story means everything, and each one of them alone is enough. You're leading a vision quest man.
I love this channel, seriously. It is so refreshing, your videos are such treats.
06:33 exactly what I needed to hear today... thank you!
Nice work Van.
I gave up cigarettes in July 2020, alcohol and substances in December 2020. ~730 days sober.
I was not at any point of reliance or abuse as others in this comment section, but did feel a grip that each of them had on my life.
This video touched me in a way I never knew possible. Thank you.
You make powerful videos. Thanks for sharing your experience, strength, and hope. We live one day at a time.
Wow, Van.
Thank you for sharing this journey you have taken.
The man having his cast removed is unrecognisable to the Spirited man we see now.
The first ever youtube channel, where I've put a 🔔. Thanks Van for putting this channel together, for us.
Van, you are an intense soul with a powerful story to tell. Thank you for letting us into your world and offering us a glimpse into your remarkable spirit. It is a rare privilege to receive what you are sending. Please continue. You have our attention and our gratitude.
That right there is: art, integrity, human, real.
Thank you 🙏
This spirited man has been sober for roughly 4380 days. Thank you for the video and glad you found your way. Happy to have stumbled into your videos.
Welcome to the club hun. It's it great to be back.
Anyways that's how I fell is GREAT. Not having that crap in my body any more makes me fell ALIVE AGAIN!
Great video Van. Be safe & God bless,
Chris from Missouri
4 years as of november. I appreciate this. The format alone is beautiful, your story is so helping
Powerful stuff Van. I'm waking the path of sobriety too. Your videos are like poetry man. Thank you.
With me struggling with my own sobriety this video hit me hard.
Thanks for sharing, Spirited Man. Keep after it!!!!
You always leave me mesmerized with your story telling & creativity. It hits home everytime because it's coming from the heart. Raw emotions. I guess Scorsese was right when he said that 'The most personal is the most creative.'
Hi Van, I'm a 22 year old man who is by no means sober and this video is one of the most touching and beautiful things I've ever seen. Alcohol has been a factor in some of the best and worst nights and days of my life, and I know that one day it will stop feeling like the good outweighs the bad. When I inevitably decide to quit drinking, get sober, be substance-free or all of the above, I will have this video to credit as the catalyst for my decision. Thank you for now, and thank you for then.
amazing storytelling
Thank you for your courage and honesty Van.
Van, this was beautiful man.
Just what I needed to watch today. Thank you, thank you.
Well done Van. By making this video you are in service to others. I hope people will recognize you now for sharing your vulnerability and honesty, and that maybe you can change one or two peoples addictive behavior. They'll thank you for it. I thank you for it.
Get back to meetings, they have zoom A.A & N.A meetings online now. I need one to shut my head up actually, thanks for the reminder. This is my fave so far ( little o.d guy's blue face and chain around his neck!! ) xo
So glad to see success stories, my father was an alcoholic for a large portion of my adolescent life, unfortunately for all of us, he could not overcome his disease, he drank himself to a suicidal stooper one night, and took his own life.
Sorry to hear that brother
Congratulations on your sobriety!!! I am 3,768 days sober
Thank you for sharing. Those stop motion scenes are devastating. I'm glad you and your friend are OK.
Almost feels like he’s still convincing himself to not give up even after all those days sober, reminding himself that all other lovely things in life happen due to his sobriety. I’m barely into my sobriety and it feels the same. My brain constantly convincing me to go back while I argue in my head giving myself reasoning and sh…it is what it is i guess
That's apart of the AA/NA literature. We know that we are powerless over drugs and alcohol, and all it takes is one slip up to be right back in the thick of it. Gotta take it one day a time.
Oh Van, this really touched me. Thank you for this channel
Dear Van, thank you for this video and its simplicity, its lack of resolution. This has been a good reminder to me to appreciate my own sobriety, which I often take for granted -- I've been watching your videos for quite some time now, totally captivated though afrai to admit it. Until now, I think I had been resisting a feeling that goes something like "I really like this guy, he reminds me of so many of my favorite people, and a part of myself I want to nuture. The earnest part. The part that gives energy to turning simple things into art. The part that is not afraid to step forth and let it be known that I dont really know what I am doing"... I had been resisting this because I told myself a long time ago that I was done collecting white male role models. The world has enough, I have enough. Let's find someone else who looks more like me... and well, I think your approach in this video, the sort of "I can't explain it, it just works" has given me just what I needed to let go of that hang up. I just want to say thank you for your spirit and vulnerability. We take the inspiration/motivation in whatever form it comes.
Thank you for this Van.
So well done.
Thank you Van, I needed to be reminded off ALL that today.
I feel… gratitude