Austin's GRAVITY
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Going going back back to Austin.
0:00 Intro
0:47 Austin's gravitational forces
3:00 IMI Fest
5:18 The expanding city
6:35 This week on the Patreon
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seeing someone put New York City's heyday as a counter-culture artist mecca right next to Tony Hinchcliffe makes me want to fall to my knees and weep
its a pretty fucking insane comparison
It’s a great place if you love bbq, sweating all day and night, horrible traffic, cowboy hats, ironic tattoos, and swimming in cut off jean shorts. And queso. Can’t forget the queso.
why did i read counter strike? :D
I was waiting for the ending where Van says that he is now moving to Austin...
But, that never came.
what a relief
Cults it's all the same
Funny, the gravity that draws is also what pushes away. Most of ATX creatives like me have been pushed out. Relocated to San Marcos and am seeing history repeat.
RIP old Austin. Moved here in 2003. Been here and elsewhere ever since, but back here now. It's really sad to see what the city has become tbh.
I agree. I still live in Austin and I make art, but it's honestly quite inhospitable in a different way than being an artist already historically has been. Like, every artist knows they aren't gonna get rich (unless they do), but damn!
@@benjaminishere idk how long you been here but in the 90s and 2000s it was a great place to be an artist. space was cheap, you could work a part time job and have plenty of money for rent and bills, and still afford studio space especially if you combined with friends, there were lots of small upstart galleries in neighborhoods that are now totally gentrified.... back then Austin felt accessible and laid back.
I don't even know how to describe it now - it's like become this festering cesspool of hustle culture. It's just so anti-Austin in Austin
🤫 about the San Marvelous
@@Cousin_Gregg Too late bud it’s one of the fastest growing city in Texas, along with New Braunfels and Kyle.
The incredible irony of professing gratitude for both the arts and the stemlord/techbro/billionaires who would see the artists truly starve is both perplexing and somehow delightful.
Every now and again I remember that Van once said that Bert Kreischer and the like "are the most important artists of our time" and that's when the veil was lifted for me on Van. One of the funnier things I've ever heard someone say.
I have such a love hate relationship with Van. He’ll sometimes be spot on with a subject but then have the most flawed logic with some of his opinions. Still here for his unique storytelling style tho.
I think he is speaking more on achievement, creation, and extraordinary minds. Everybody he mentioned creates incredible things, and furthers their field, techbro or otherwise.
@@q_cup5871 Musk is a nazi, Rogan spread vaccine misinfo, Lex Friedman is a boot licker, and Tim Ferris just a venture capitalist. All of these people add negative utility to society.
why would the stemlord/techbro/billionaires see the artists truly starve?
Tech bros, podcasters and transplants.
I wouldn't exactly say the best place to be.
And a very LOUD city, too. If you want peace without the constant bombardment of traffic and development noise, you might look elsewhere.
If you told me 15 years ago a city in Texas was known for tech, I would’ve laughed at you. Looks like they made it work, albeit with that “bro” label.
@@stretch1807 Most cities are loud because of cars unfortunately.
I live a block from the corner you were staying on. Glad to have you in our city!
Very cool. Glad you're getting that recognition! Congrats!
This might be my favourite Van Neistat video. The creativity of that GoPro falling showing images and then falling into the star of Austin! I hope it is ones of those shots that sticks in my mind for a very long time
Find the movie 'Slacker.' Watch it. Write down a list of everything that you think is beautiful about it. Take that list and burn it because it's already gone.
Amen. I lived in Austin shortly after that film was released. The vibe was exactly the same as the one in the movie and it felt so ordinary that I didn’t appreciate it. Never cared for that movie until I rewatched it in 2005 and realized how much the city had changed. Every year since, the city continues to change and now I love the movie because it’s a time capsule of a place that once was. Like After Hours or An Unmarried Woman for NYC.
that movie honestly makes me fuckin melancholy because it was released the year I was born at Brackenridge; I saw it when I was in college and though 'damn what gives? This town used to be so cool.'
You might like the Texas hillcountry. It has lots of great roads for driving / riding.
Slowly disappearing. Last time I was down there, I saw hundreds of new neighborhoods being built. 😢
What an incredibly deserved award. Be well and keep it coming.
i havent watched one of your videos in a while. i almost want to apologize for that as i forgot the profound feeling of motivation and courage you spread to me through your videos. Thank you Van.
Austin would love to have you Van!
hi steezy
Such a great opening!
Beautiful view of an industrial park!
You're one of a kind, Van! We're captivated by your work, and can't wait for what's to come.
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I'm a fan of all the Van Neistat thumbnails, but this might be my FAVOURITE Van Neistat thumbnail. It has the feeling of a greatly underrated rap mixtape from the early 2000s.
Van! I haven't finished the video yet but I must warn you. If you're thinking about moving to moving to Austin you've got to visit in the summer when it's the hottest to see if you can handle it. I'm from the south and the heat of Austin broke me. We couldn't do anything outside during the summer due to the heat.
It breaks us all every year.
@@earpig Literally why I moved
I’m so excited you’re going to be here… hope I run into ya at some point!
I had some of the best years of my adult life in Austin in the 2000's but I left for good in 2011, the writing was on the wall. I don't even recognize today's Austin, its vibe, energy and development offend me and my memory of what it once was and represented. For those moving there today I wish you well but I fear you've missed the boat and by a long shot. That city will always hold a special place in my heart but I'll never be able to revisit or recreate those memories as the place is a hollow shell of its former self.
I almost blew my ... mind on your dope intro!
Some of your best work here. Kudos.
Usually your videos have some great insight. Usually. I hope the next video will be a return to form!
Lots of good times in Austin including my wedding, live music everywhere all the time and a town with spring fed city pools with the gem that is Barton Springs. Also can be 100 degrees with that humidity on Christmas Day.
Nice love letter to Austin. I love the people and energy there.
I used to struggle with the idea of where I should be to do what I want to do... And then I realize that the best place I can be is a place that I am. Not that I need to move to a place to be, there's a lot of work where I am. So much in fact I would need multiple lifetimes to make more of a reason to move. Because if I move, I would have to start all over again and get momentum over there. But maybe that's purely for me, my work can be done where I am. For some, and for those who are roped in If not taken by gravity to go to these places where the work is for them that's very different for me.
Also, Rally Ready driving school!
Most fun you can have legally and learn stuff at the same time.
Splendid movie Van! You're why I make these aswell
A humble speech delivered by a humble man. Congratulations on your award, Van!
love it
Congratulations on your award. It's well deserved, sir.
Meditative Video
Cool!✌️
This channel is turning into a diary like how Caseys was but in its own unique way.
I look forward to your Fanny and Alexander and The Sacrifice.
I visited Texas last year. Such an amazing state. Lots of nice Mexican and barbeque spots. Good eats. I am in the process of moving from Connecticut to Georgia but if circumstances were different Texas would be the move for me.
I am always amazed at the list of incredibly influential and inspiring people that you're exposed to and that you collaborate with. I don't know one influential or particularly inspiring person (other than maybe my ex-wife and her new husband).
Congratulations on that award 👍
I very excited to not see a patreon pre roll ad.
you inspire me as a person that never done anything DiY @@ thank YOU
I like Austin, but it’s so overrated. There’s just not that much there; it doesn’t feel special in anyway. It’s just a good city.
I recently moved there for 6 months and liked it but ended up moving because I knew nobody out there and the heat and a lot of the people there are just kinda stuck up/ bougie or take too much pride in being “weird”. And the homeless has gotten insane and will likely only get worse. The cost of living is shooting up. Good place to buy a house if you can afford it but
It is still trading on it's old reputation, by people who don't realize the glory days are over. It's just like any other big city in a blue state now, with less income tax and subsidized gas for your huge truck.
Where are you from?
@@josh_boak Detroit originally but I’ve been living in Dallas for a long time now. Why?
It used to have that special feeling
Short and sweet.
It seems like the same people just move around, completely ruin an area, and then flee to the next trendy spot. Yeah it gets a cool art scene, food, gentrification but also turns into a HCOL area, overrun with homeless people, where crime is completely ignored. Then they all search for the next haven.
An uber driver in Austin told me the road situation is difficult and after many studies has been deemed unsolvable. If you have a bunch of cash that might not be an issue
I've lived in the Austin area for many years and witnessed the transformation, especially in downtown Austin. I can see why so many relevant industry and media folks like Van are noticing. Having Van Neistat make videos locally would be super exciting. I can't wait for that to happen.
As long as he does not bring the California crap with him... other wise he should just stay in California.....Austin is turning to crap because of that....
What would be the California crap? Do you mean the liberal thinking, Hollywood, pop culture, the caching bling-bling, and all that? His videos are mostly about tools, fixing, and making stuff; that's very Texas-like. Van is not even from California, he's from NYC.
@@AlexCallesFilmVan is from Connecticut.
But more importantly the stuff that other guy is complaining about hit Austin about ten years ago and there’s no going back now. Honestly Austin is more like California than some California cities.
@@AlexCallesFilm New York is another state that is messed up....sometimes when New Yorkers move to free thinking states they bring their messed up way of thinking with them.... and the states they are moving too do want them to leave there messed up way of think behind.
Yes, I agree. There is NO going back. It's too late already. Someone wrote that story in a book and printed it long ago; metaphorically speaking. @@dustyoldhat
Congrats on the award and thanks for another great video!
Congratulations Van. You are an inspiration.
So your moving to Austin?
as someone who's british and goes back and forth between austin and london (so i agree austin wants me in austin)
Are you familiar with geomagnetic/ poles reversal. I would love to hear your thoughts on it as well as the adam and eve story that became declasified in 2016
If you leave Topanga and move to Austin you're making a huge mistake. I just left Woodland Hills and moved to Nashville 3 months ago and I was the biggest mistake of my life.
You're going to absolutely love it. I cannot wait to see how this inspires your content.
I'll be moving to Austin on Saturday, This beautiful work of art helped me realize it was indeed the right decision. Thank you Van.
Get ready to be disappointed!
Congratulations Van! We hope you decide to make the move down here to Texas.
I think I stayed in that exact same hotel room…. No lie!
could you reach to Revival and ask their thoughts on the svartpilen 401 porfavor , mods, improvements. own a 2022 model wanting some upgrades. love both of your channels
That’s not really what they do
Very few nice parks in Texas, like I find in other states.
98% of Texas is private land
here
Van congrats
6:03 New bike lane?
Alternatively, you can create your own gravity in any town or city. Start investing in your own community and you will see growth and prosperity.
hope you can be on JRE one day
Thought we were going to get a grand video on why you and the family would be moving to ATX. Disappointed the gravity didn’t keep you here.
What is happening to my state will either make it the greatest or destroy it.
Speech prep video, note production instructional video
Austin, my home town, is a wacky and fun place. I love that city with every fiber of my being, but the best decision I ever made was to leave. Few who were born in this city are thriving because of the extremely appropriately named 'gravitational pull.'
You think they're building well in TX? Have you heard about their grid?
I love that Van considers Tim Dillon, like we all should, a national treasure
man i was going to go to ut-austin but changed my mind last second for university of wisconsin. every time i see the shit going on over there in all cultural categories .... i should've gone there and i should go there when i graduate. a new renaissance, truly
edit: somehow forgot about the political environment over there. hopefully it can shift more central some day.
Austin is not Texas
Congratulations Van, very well deserved!
The wider sidewalks do look better lol
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My gravity? Are you calling me fat?
Not sure what you were trying to say with the sidewalk. But that widening was a well-needed change. Even if it's just a slight improvement for pedestrians. It will pay off by making the city less hostile towards people without cars. That's true for most cities. I am not hating on Austin. Just saying: there was something wrong with the sidewalk, it was too thin.
👍
You missed Joe Rich and Chase Hawks
Van mentioning a lot of people I watch lol
Congratulations on being recognized for your work. If only you felt there was any value to you by reading this comment section.
Austin is a good city I enjoyed living there in the early two thousands. But I had a hard time living in Texas and not being able to roam. Too much private land.
Massive congrats on the award! From first hand experience of moving from TX to CA, spending 17 years there watching all of it's glory spiral into disarray & division just for starters, then moving back to TX I can tell you this...CA is about surviving, TX is about Living! I mean that from a life perspective not a financial one. Would love to see you and your family soaking up the Lone Star Life!! Thanks for all the epic content!
Too bad Austin has been thoroughly Californicated
Love ya Van! Love your work and creativity. Austin: My hometown. Born and raised. I lived there through the 70s, 80s and all of the 90s. Went to UTexas-Austin. Great place to grow up during those decades. Been gone for nearly 25 years though. Not my kind of weather (not quite Florida sauna, but close). It's been growing like crazy for the past 20 years - mostly due to high-tech. I don't recognize it any longer when I go back to visit fam. A plethora of hipster vibe on the core of the city, Texas conservative on the outskirts --many would argue the two work well together in Austin than in most places. I don't mind hipster-common sense moderate, but hipster-liberal/woke, like the cancer that they are, will have Austin going to s(*&(* in no time. Bad, bad homeless problem there. It's like little-L.A. when viewed from that point of view. Shame.
whether you love or hate the cities in Texas, there's a lot more opportunity there than New York nowadays
I just wish it wasn't hell for 5 months every year.
Congrats on the award! Hope Texas dos not end like California
Too late
everyone in Austin is either a musician, public servant, UT student, queer person, or a tech worker. it's like a blue island in a deeply red state--its the only place in the country you can buy an overpriced artisanal coffee and hipster brunch, then drive a few minutes out of town and shoot machine guns in the desert. "the drag" on Guadalupe St is great for some excellent tex mex food.
There's no desert for hundreds of miles. We are deep in hill country here.
I’ve lived here my whole life. It sucks you won’t like it ;)
Congrats on the award Van - I know you don't read these comments, but it's a cool award from what sounds like a good organization. As for Austin itself - Gravity...... hmm, maybe. I was relieved to hear you weren't moving here. You represent what's good about LA so well.
I've lived in Austin on and off for over 20 years now. I would never be one of those "Don't move here, stay in California" dicks, but honestly it's not what it once was. The last ten years have absolutely re-shaped this city and not for the better. It's still a good place to live but it's lost a lot of what made it special, the more it's homogenized with tech bros and white dude podcasters and teslas and short term rentals and cookie-cutter fourth wave coffee shops and boutiques. SoCo (south congress) used to be a funky and chill place to hang out, now it's barely recognizable, the Rodeo Drive of ATX.. The east side is completely gentrified to the point of satire. The cost of living is such that you might as well stay in California, at least compared to a few years ago. When I first moved here it was possible to be an artist or musician and survive on a bartending job or other part time job and afford your own small house or apartment, with a yard, walkable to coffee places and bars. Now those places are unaffordable and musicians and artists are moving away every day. To be replaced by transplanted tech and crypto bros, "influencers" and rich kids from Houston and DFW. Everyone looks, dresses, and sounds the same.
Many date the death of real Austin to the death of Leslie Cochrane, our long beloved and somewhat troubled homeless transvestite mayoral candidate and pager company spokesman. He passed in 2012 and he was truly the spirit of Keep Austin Weird - it's been less and less weird ever since. RIP Leslie. You were one of a kind, and you represent the Austin before social media, overexposed SXSW, and tech money destroyed the spirit of this place. THere's two kinds of people here - those who know who Leslie was and why he was important, and those who only care about the "cool" things in Austin they can post on their IG. Ironically, Leslie would have made a killer influencer, had he lived to see it.
You should visit Tulsa. I like to imagine Tulsa is what Austin once was.
@@daveforz I like Tulsa! I think it has a ways to go before it comes close to the opportunities for artists in Austin given the film and music industries but I do think it has potential. Thanks :)
Great city, except for the small chance you'll find yourself outside of the USA and the week every year it turns into the Purge when the power grid fails.
You're always welcome in the 512, Van!
At least the sidewalk remained a sidewalk.
Over a period of a few years i saw a park turn into a carpark and then back to a park..... corrupt government spending at it's finest
Apart from Joe Rogan and Elon I have no idea who any of those people are that were read out at the start.
There is life out Austin and America folks
I feel like the only way to truly get the genuine Austin experience is to go to San Marcos instead.
The only way to get the real Austin experience is to get in a Time Machine buddy
@@dustyoldhat you’re right buddy
Better roads and at under half the price in gas taxes than Cali. What is this magic?
Texas's public resources are ass. Just moved to Colorado and it's a night and day difference
Texas roads are awful. The state has more roads than any other and the sprawl is unsustainable.
I fell asleep, what happened?
As an Austin native, your intro made me sick to my stomach 🤮
Sorry, not buying the Austin hype. It became too self-referential years ago. Once the creative types align with the tecno-libertarian-nihilist right-wing it's not particularly net social good. Can you see the capitol building and not see a citadel for some pretty abnormal instincts?
Most of the creative types (real creative types, not "influencers" or marketing/branding or small business wannabe tycoons) were forced out a while ago. You can't afford to live here anymore unless you've got a trust fund or a tech job, so it's no different than the Bay Area or NYC in that regard.
no
Must be nice to be accomplished. Maybe next lifetime
your loose watch kinda threw me off, love your channel ofc
How could you forget Jesse James of West Coast Chopper fame? Now Austin Speed Shop.