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Directors Commentary: France Still Has an Empire

Hello all!
I hope you are getting some warm weather where you are, or if you are one of the lucky few who has had warm weather this time, just know that we are all envious. 

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Behind The Scenes: Mapping US Bases

Hello friends!

I am excited to share this behind the scenes with you because the video ISNT POSTED YET!

I worked with David Vine to create a dataset of US military bases, and this BTS e...

SCRIPT: Liberia

Hello everyone!

This video was posted before the holidays, but I want to share this script, not only because this was a massive project, but also:

1) Because there is a whole entire ch...

Map - How The US Stole Iraq

Hi all! Here is a version of the map used in my recent video about Iraq.

Thank you all for your support, I really can not express how grateful I am for the community on here!

Behind The Scenes: Graph and Data Animation

Hey everyone! I was working on a graph animation that I plastered on real footage. Many of you have asked how I did this type of animation in my video about Iceland on the beach. Let me know what y...

Script: How The US Stole Iraq

Hey all! This was an interesting video to make. It's a subject I have been studying for years and years. What did you all think? This script is formatted slightly differently than usual, since I us...

Directors Commentary: Liberia

Hey friends! This video is a breakdown of my recent video "Where the US Hides its Secrets" that was a recent deep dive of mine. I hope you all enjoy this video, and as always, let me know what you ...

Jenkins Map Update

Hello Friends!

I hope you have had a wonderful past few weeks. I have received some messages that the Jenkins map Dropbox link had expired. I went and updated the link and it will not expire ...

Script: France Still Has An Empire

Hello Friends! 

This is the script for the recent video about France. I left in some notes to myself, as well as other things that didn't quite make it into the video. I hope by doing th...

Map Background: France Still Has An Empire

Hello everyone! I hope you are all having a wonderful December, and you are staying healthy. If you saw my recent video about France and its overseas territories, this map will make sense to you! &...

Behind The Scenes: My Mapping Process

Hi friends! I released a video this morning about France's overseas territories, this video is a behind the scenes of the behemoth of a journey it was to set up that map. I hope you enjoy!

JENKINS!

Hey friends!

If you watched the video I posted today about how I make maps, I promised my massive, vector based, "Jenkins" map that I spent years refining, so that you can try it out for your...

Map Background: Where The US Hides Its Secrets

Hey all! I hope you have all gotten the chance to watch this recent video about Liberia, the US, and the international economy. These are the videos I want to make more of, and this map was absolut...

Behind The Scenes - Nostalgia

Hi friends! Wow, it has been a crazy month. I hope everyone is holding up well. I focused this "see how its made" on my nostalgia theory video. Let me know what you think!

Directors Commentary - Why New York Is So Huge

Hello Friends! This is a commentary on my recent video about New York City. Let me know what you think!

Script: The US and Canada Are Fighting Over This Rock

Here is the script from my video about the United States and Canada's border dispute - over a lobster-filled piece of ocean. What did you guys think of this video? Let me know in the comments! Did ...

Behind The Scenes: How I Script

Hey friends, this months behind the scenes I am not going over an animation or program, instead, I am talking about how I script, generate ideas, and how I wrap my mind around video concepts.

Map Background - Why New York is So Huge

Out of curiosity, how many of you live in the area shown on this map? Bonus points if it's along the Erie Canal!

Directors Commentary - My Quest To Photograph A Galaxy

Hey friends! This is the most requested directors commentary of them all! I hope you enjoy!

Script: Junk Mail

Hey All! Here is the script for my junk mail video. I was bot frustrated and intrigued with this concept and all the niche categories of this industry, the scripts depth certainly reflects that. 2020-10-19 17:33:35 +0000 UTC View Post

Map: Can you guess the next video?

Hey All! Let's have some fun with this one. If anyone has a curious mind, my next video will be focused right here. Comment below where you think this is, AND what you think the video may be about....

SCRIPT: How The US Stole The Middle East

This is the script for my most recent video, How the US Stole the Middle East. David Vine, an expert on the subject was extremely helpful in the making of this video, I consulted him several times ...

Wow!

What an outpouring of support lately. I'm so grateful to those who have been here supporting my work as well as those who have recently joined since hearing about Borders. 

Let me tell y...

Behind The Scenes: How The US Stole The Middle East

Hey friends! This is a recording I did of a map animation for one of the upcoming videos I am working on: How the US stole the middle east. I am breaking out some tricks I have up my sleeve to make...

SCRIPT: How the US Stole Bird Sh*t

Hi Friends,

here's the script for the Guano video. this one was very cut and dry. it started with a question: why does the...

How it's made coming soon (Maps!)

Hey friends I'm working on this video "how to the US stole the Middle East" and I'm doing a bunch of map stuff. I'm be recording some of it and posting this week. Please let me know what aspects of...

MAP: Islands claimed by US Citizens

Hi Friends. I published a video yesterday about how the US grabbed a bunch of Islands in the Pacific and Caribbean. Here's a hig...

PR/AE workflow?

Hello to top tier Patrons! thank you all for your amazing support. I only hope I can provide some helpful perspective to you. 

I've been getting  lot of questions about how I animat...

Sneak Peek on a Future Video

Hey Friends. I got a really intense stroke of inspiration today (Doesn't happen often) where I saw exactly how I video is going to play out. so even though I have other stuff I should be doing toda...

Behind The Scenes - August

I would love to title this post more specifically, but it is somewhat of a SECRET project I am working on right now. Watch to find out more! Comment down below this post questions you may want answ...