Too Many Plantain Chips (NEXUS ONE)

[afranke86]

Btw, I'm glad you didn't give up on Four Eyed Monsters...if anyone criticizes it they just aren't open to originality

[afranke86]

I a have already started writing a script similar to this. Thanks for the inspiration Arin. It's good to get your personal thoughts on paper...I will send you a link when I'm done...how can I contact you?

[obikrystle]

he cant say plantain right

[vanjastanic]

you could change everything by selling camera and nexus one

[347eoeo]

This is brilliant. This is how I feel most of the time.

[CineEsquemaNovo]

Hi Arin!

I am Morgana, from Brasil.

I sent you a message by Youtube, please answer as soon as possible.

Thank you!

[MaxLaguiz]

Vraiment bien!

[Darknight127]

I like the music in this video, what is it?

[julesster]

I love this as much as I love my Nexus!

[principio25]

Wow Arin -- you hit a home run with this one:)

[TheFrekelFace]

wow, this is actually brilliant.

[marcoolivergibson]

Seriously dude, this is amazing. Good job on making this amazing video

[millamulisha]

I'm not a big fan of the product placement stuff, but good job... very cool.

[saskiawb]

nice video-- srsly.

[GarebearShields]

Found out you can only store 190MB of apps.. pathetic.

[vitradesk]

have you been approached by eli lilly or McNeil Pharmaceuticals yet? what other product can change our lives?

i know i know im being a big stupid baby, u gotta pay the rent

[blythe025]

I love the internal monologue. It's so much like a lot of people's thoughts I think.

I'm turning 30 this year, so I know the age thing for sure. I doubt the level of adulthood that is supposed to mean.

[parallelworlds]

Google is an amazing company. I use a lot of their products. Most of which are free. Thanks for posting this (I know you were paid) but it was well done and I can tell you put some great effort into it. I love videography and would love to do it as well. Maybe someday I can start it back up. I haven't picked up a camera since High School. Any suggestions on how to get back into it? Where do you get your ideas? How much of it is RAW vs planned? Where do you get your ideas?

[arincrumley]

ParallelWorlds,

In terms of where to get started making videos, I'd say just pick a topic your passionate about and shoot some material about it then edit together something small in iMovie or windows movie maker. See how that goes then take it from there.

Arin

[parallelworlds]

Thanks for the advice. I'm going to give it a whirl again. I use to be very passionate about video editing. Regrettably life has taken me down another path. But it seems like now is the time for me to re-focus on things that I once enjoyed. It's funny how life takes you down paths you wouldn't have imagined as a child only to turn back into the dreams and aspirations you had while a child. Thanks for sharing your works with us.

On a side note... how's that Nexus treating you?

[julesster]

Nice!.... Can't wait to get my Nexus.

I like this alternate marketing strategy from Google.

[arofluv]

this vid was so gud, i dont even care its about a phone...

[nibzTM]

Great video. Watched it several times. Can we have some info on the music?

[GarebearShields]

This pretty much describes my life, lol. I could feel the rawness of the video, and reading the description really confirmed that this was made from the heart and is true for you.

I've always been split between Apple and Google, I love both companies. I had always been leaning towards the iPhone but this Nexus One is looking very promising. Apple also doesn't have the cloud that Google does yet, so perhaps this is a good place to start.

[GoApeShyte]

What kind of camera was this shot on?

[GoApeShyte]

Awesome video! Very cinematic, I liked it a lot.

[jasmu]

great! would be even better w/o the voice over.

[isisMasoud]

the video was so awesome that I went to subscribe at the end... then I remembered I was already subscribed... ha ha. the call to action could have been "pick your nose" & I would've done it. LOL. but seriously, great video!

[mrmagoo662]

I hate it when someone say "Good Job but". Why couldn't you just leave it at good job. If it's a good job, there shouldn't be criticism of such a minute detail as fee ate the end of insufficient funds. Wow. Some people just can't go through life without finding fault in something. To me, it's like this guy is documenting my life. keep up the good work. Kinda Fight Clubesque

[FatoDrunkoAndoStupid]

The Nexus One may not change his life but if the Nexus One can vibrate it might change his sex life.

[PnutFilms]

don't ever stop being a kid, becoming a grown up is propaganda.

[ocwicked]

You messed up the video by puttin the clip where it says "insufficient funds fee" makes no sense!!!!! How could you even get a Nexus One if you dont even have enough money???? You do know its a very expensive phone right?? Anyways i like the video just that part kind of messed it up for me! Keep up the good work!!!!!

[arincrumley]

The insufficient funds reference in the video is not from being broke, it's from being disorganized and forgetting to transfer money to an account that had an imminent auto withdrawal.

[stokedfish]

how many hours did you work on this? great piece of independent filmmaking. keep it up man!

[arincrumley]

Took me a few weeks to stress about making, a day to write & re-write & a day with me and an editor on two machines going through hundreds of hours of life log material.

[YoungGunna203]

this is excellent... great job man. Its like a damn movie! lol

[NCATDJTNT]

This is independent esque movie/video making at its finest man. Good Job

[JiMMaRu]

great job man , keep it up XD

[bioike]

fantastic video!

[zahrock12]

good for u dude its good

[smmcla]

greeatt video arin.. must have watched it a couple of times. i checked out you website and believe in your cause.. to bad im a broke college student can't afford to much haha.. but i am a computer science major about to graduate if you need any help let me know

[imlonnie]

Absolutely amazing.

[TheGeorgiaSaurus]

This is amazing. I haven't seen a youtube video like this in a long time. Wow. I'm speechless.

[chillyssx]

This is so magnificent, I didn't know it was a phone add until the end, I was confused about the google in the beginning. But wow, so creative .

[englishgroove]

Arin...that was DOPE! I actually didn't know it was a Nexus ad until the very end.

Awsome Job! I hope they paid you at least enough to buy one of those phones.LOL!

[arincrumley]

Englishgroove, glad you were into the video. Google did pay me very well. Good people over there, they've got my back.

[shaymus2]

I love it.... GREAT job..

[dredre30]

I like this a lot

[morethansalt]

Really wonderful atmosphere Arin- thank you for being, for making and for sharing your creativity.

[irwinita]

Wow very creative and great storyline!!!

[kingdom272]

Best add for a phone ever, of all time.

[reelcat1]

Awesome bit o' Crumley-style promo work. If only all products could be promoted with real creativity and insight. Speaking as a Blackberry user, yeah, a great phone can change your life...or at least let it flow to a greater realization of its potential.

[REdirectURL]

Interesting idea. ;)

I found this video by accident and I think you were the guy who made the four eyed monsters film. Hmm... you probably are told that too often.

[babybuddybear]

too bad it wasn't for art, it was for a cell phone. -_-

[arincrumley]

I shot all the material in this video with no idea how I'd use the material but hoping I'd be able to make something autobiographical. But I've been too busy to actually make that happen. Until now, I look at it like Google just gave me financial incentive to make a video I probably should have made either way. And I really do need to get organized and really am inspired that this phone will help me grow in that direction.

[zombieferoxmovie]

Great job Arin!

[coopfreak]

wow dude, that's a lot of work to sell out. I really respected you as a visionary film maker. I'll gladly retract my statement if you truly believe this phone is the answer to all those questions.

[AngeliqueRussell]

Yes, because technology is never the answer.

*rolls eyes*

[arincrumley]

It would be insincere for me to say that this phone would help the fact that the elastic in my underwear no longer works. Or help me organize how many plantain chips to eat.

But it is clear to me that I need to get organized. And this will definitely be aided by having a smart phone. I've been moving in that direction with google calendar and other organizational tools I've begun using. But having a good phone like this is also key.

[coopfreak]

perhaps I'm a little over sensitive towards keeping art and business separate. I have no problem with you making money to support yourself, or using tools to organize you're life - it's just the thought that you proposed a phone as the answer to all these real important life questions made me slightly perturbed

[rhwinter]

were you led into believing that having something that you don't need will solve problems that you need solved? are you trying to proxy us that belief?

i'd answer "yes" to both questions. the first is your problem and your problem only. the second... well, the second is a bit more complicated. first of all it directly and inevitably shows that the first question had to have 'yes' as an answer (probably that is what makes you feel bad and 'apologize', as you seem to do when you say 'insincere').

[rhwinter]

so, what's the problem with 'proxying' it to us? why does that make you feel bad (if it does as I infer)? well, the answer has already been given in the formulation of the first question: being led into believing that we need something we actually don't need. and why don't we need it? the answer is not straightforward, it is not simply a matter of necessity, but it is ideological.

[rhwinter]

it lies in the fact that we know that if you abide to this now (buying this product), you will have to do that repeatedly from now on. that is: next year (or whenever) "nexus two" will be launched, and then "nexus three" and so forth, endlessly (and these 'upgrades' will certainly not be only in hardware, they will be in software as well, which means you'll have to learn how to use your 'better calendar' over and over again; re-syncronising your files and updating formats over and over, etc.).

[rhwinter]

all that will certainly just shift the problem of 'organization' to the problem of 'having nexus n+1', thus clearly showing that the problem of organization has not been solved: it is just (eternally) delayed. (not to mention the 'extra problems' that come with the nexus one, such as, for instance, the many degrees of pollution it produces, etc.)

[rhwinter]

even worse: we know that even if you can control yourself you can stick to your "nexus one", but not indefinitely, since, as we all know, these things never last. but then again, what lasts?

[arincrumley]

Or maybe I have a moment like at the end of The Devil Wears Prada where I throw the nexus one into the pond breaking free from the digital shackles I'd blindly walked into.

[jaimedelgado]

very awesome!

[PhiyaK]

Excellent!  Brilliant and Hilarious!

[JoeSomebody2]

We all want a little control of our lives, especially when it feels like we can't control anything. And to be honest, we really can't. We can only control what is us. It's up to the rest of the world to make room or reject.

And I certainly didn't see the Nexus coming into this! :D

[rogeringraham]

Bravo!

[zoewut]

very good question, now you have to prove it.

[ditzclues]

The way you edit and produce your videos is just breathtaking, it's full of emotion and I never get sick of it.

For some reason, this video reminds me of FourEyedMonsters, the ambiance settles.