 This video is brought to you by Skillshare. Yo, yo, what's happening fellas, welcome back to the channel. So, it's May, that's my birthday month, and the last recent pickups video was around March and in between then I picked up a lot of stuff. Mainly because this disease is slowly, but surely making me go insane. So I just resort to buying stuff to make me feel normal and that's very first world problems. I'm very grateful to be able to do what I get to do. But anyways, I picked up a ton of pieces, most of it with my own money, and I thought I'd like to share with you guys. And so if you guys are interested in anything that I talk about, I'll leave a link down in the description below. And so we're gonna start off with Uniqlo. This isn't even all the pieces, by the way. Uniqlo's probably one of my favorite fashion stores in general. It's always the place I like to recommend people when they're just getting started off with fashion. Or you just want good quality clothing at an affordable price. And I picked up a ton of stuff there. So that's gonna have to be a dedicated video. So we're just gonna breeze through all these items that I got. Anyways, the blue and brown shirt that you guys have always been asking me about, well, it comes from Uniqlo obviously. And if you guys have seen those videos, I've been talking about these boxy t-shirts because they are the perfect shirt if you are a shorter dude. I like this shirt so much. I literally picked up every single colorway from them. I don't have them all with me. But they also have this pink one, a black one as well that's in the washer. And what's so great about these shirts is it uses their Aeroism technology. So it's very breathable for the summertime. It cools you down. And you can just tell that this shirt is made very well. But yeah, like I said, that's gonna have to be a dedicated video. I've also got their straight cut black denim because you guys now have a lot of cargo pants as of late. These are just perfect for the summertime. You know, if you cuff them, you wear them with low-top sneakers, chef's kiss right there. I picked up their Block Tech Windbreaker, a bunch of no-show socks, boxer briefs, and another favorite for the summer, Dry X and more Aeroism. But yeah, like I said, it's going to have to be a dedicated Uniqlo video haul. So I'll talk about that in an upcoming video. But yeah, let's move on to the next item that I picked up. Next up, we got cargo pants from Orbit Gear. I know I just talked about the straight cut black denim and how I have enough cargo pants. No, I don't have enough cargo pants. I'll never have enough cargo pants, okay? But anyways, Orbit Gear is one of my favorite places to shop at for that technical look. You guys know I have a few sling bags from them. And what I really like about them from what I understand is they hand make everything that's in their store. Hence why a lot of their items are out of stock. With these pants, there are 10 pockets, plenty of storage, and it's also modular so you can pick up more items and attach it to it for more storage or whatever. And I know this style always crosses my mind. Is it waterproof though? Sadly, no. However, that's okay. It makes it very breathable for the summertime because I'm not really a big shorts guy. You won't really see me wearing shorts in general unless it's athletic training shorts. But anyways, the pockets are magnetic which is a lot easier than a zipper and almost as secure. And the pockets that do have a zipper are a YKK zipper system. The storage is insane. It's very stretchy, making it an everyday pants for me. Now the fit is more slim fitting although the opening I'd say is slim which is good for styling it with chunkier sneakers like the Air Force One. The next item I picked up is a sneaker and that is the Vans Old School Pro Skate Model. As you guys can see, I've been beating them up a little bit because I've been skating with these. All right, let me tell you guys something. Ditch the normal lifestyle of Vans Old Schools. Those things are meant for lifestyle wear and they will wear down easier over time than these ones. Guys, seriously, the Pro Skate Model is only $5 more. You get more comfortability. It's made to withstand grip tape and that's pretty much like sandpaper and it's also more cushioned as well. I honestly don't know why you'd get the $60 model over these ones right here. It's only $5 more and it's going to last you longer. Anyways, you guys already know about Vans Old Schools. They're classic, very versatile. You can't really beat them and it's one of the most affordable sneakers out there. Honestly, you guys should have this in your wardrobe. Next up, I picked up another sling bag and this one's actually going to be used a lot more than my normal sling bags that just carry the occasional chapstick, deodorant, tie to go pin and all that. This is meant to hold camera gear and it comes from the well-known Peak Design brand and Peak Design low key, their backpacks are perfect for the tech wear aesthetic. But anyways, this is durable as hell. It's got plenty of storage, actually feels pretty rigid and it's water resistant as well so that you don't damage your camera gear. You don't need to be a photographer or videographer to own this. Honestly, if you just take the dividers out of here, you can store a ton of stuff here and just rock it like a normal sling bag. Next up, we got another sneaker and that is the New Balance 997S. New Balance is extremely underrated. I mean, you still see it often on the gram but not as much as Nike or Adidas. These are comfy, has a sporty futuristic design to it and it's just overall a great switch up from the sneaker kings out there. Don't sleep on the New Balance, guys. Don't limit yourself to just Nike and Adidas. These are just a great switch up and they were very cheap as well. Now this next item isn't really fashion focused per se but I still feel like you guys might find this useful. So a few days ago, I picked this thing up right here. It's a timer and what makes this so cool is it's minimalistic design. It looks really good on your desk setup and all you gotta do is just flip it to whatever number is on top and the timer starts from there. A lot of us have been working from home nowadays or you just have a bunch of free time and you can use this as your time manager. So I definitely recommend picking this up. Usually I leave it on the 60 and then I work for 60 minutes and then I usually take a 15 minute break, go back to 60, back to 15 minutes. If you work from home or you just wanna manage your time well, definitely pick this up. Now next up is something I'm sure all of you guys are gonna find useful and that is this accessories holder. I'm sure you guys can relate. For me, I've just had my accessories scattered around all over the house. It's just a huge mess or I can't find certain items cause they're just everywhere. You can put all your bracelets, rings, watches, shades and all that all in one place and it saved me a ton of time and headache trying to find the right items for a fit. And speaking of accessories, I actually picked up this watch right here from Casio. I've said it in many videos already. This is probably one of the only watches you'll ever need. It's very versatile. You can dress it up or down. Unfortunately, I haven't caught the watch bug yet so I'm not spending a ton of money on watches and so it helps that this is only like $40. And you know, for a $40 watch, it looks pretty nice and it looks kind of expensive from far away. Now the next items come from Vitale and to be totally transparent, they actually sent me these items for free. I've got these gridlock rings which have been another favorite for the fits. I got it in dark gun metal and gold plus this barbed wire ring is also pretty dope. And my favorite item that they sent is definitely this gold chain bracelet. I got it a little bit too short because I didn't know the size of my wrist so I had to buy another gold clasp from Amazon just to extend it and so that it could fit my wrist. That's my fault though, but yeah, gold suits my skin tone more hence why I have so much gold accessories. Now another non-fashion item is this keyboard right here. This is the Keychron V2 I believe. Basically it's a 65% keyboard. I'm low key, a keyboard nerd and it has the Cherry MX blue switches which are my favorite switches out of all the switches out there because it's very clicky. You know, it sounds dope. I just like that sound, it's very satisfying. You know, here's a little bit of ASMR for you guys. But yeah, I just wanted to shrink my desk setup just because it was starting to get so cluttered and my mouse kept on hitting the keyboard whenever I was playing CSGO. But yeah, it's just a keyboard. This isn't a tech review channel or anything. What I like about it is just the RGB lighting so you can always change the lighting of it. You can't really see, but you guys will see the B-roll clips of it. And because I edit videos and work with the computer all the time, pretty much all day long, you're gonna wanna invest in things that you like. You know, a nice chair, a nice mouse, a nice desk, a nice monitor and all that. But yeah, this is definitely one of my favorite keyboards I've had since I got into keyboards and is decently priced as well. Last but not least, my girl and I, we picked up a Corgi very recently and her name is Ahsoka. If you know, you know, if you guys watched the Clone Wars, Ahsoka's a badass, right? Yeah, she's super awesome. She's adorable and you guys can follow her down below. And you guys are definitely going to see her on the second channel. If you guys haven't already subscribed to my second channel, it'll be linked down below as well. But hey, just in general, click all those links I linked down in the description. Open a bunch of tabs. But yeah, those are the recent pickups. As you guys can see, there's a lot of stuff you guys can pick up and check out and all that. But you guys know what else you guys can pick up. How about a new skill with the sponsor of today's video, Skillshare? 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