The Government Controls Nothing

The Government is no longer in control in America, I don't mean to cause a panic but IT'S HAPPENING PEOPLE! I also don't mean to really dampen any happiness which people might have despite the level of world suck increasing (Santa's not real and all of your friends will die someday). Let me tell the true Glassfans who actually read my blog why and why the hell I made this video. I offered up my video making skills to a friend who had noticed that I have a YouTube channel, so when he asked me if I would make it for him I said yes. I don't know why I did most of his assignment for him I just do stuff like that, I guess it makes me a sucker. So he wanted to make it about crazy conspiracy theories which I am quite good at since, most people doubt my sanity and logical decision making skills. So my friend and I spent around an hour making it sound as bat-snot crazy and as badly produced as possible. I as an actor felt a little bit annoyed when I asked for a script or anything resembling one. Nope. Instead I got a page of ideas, most of which were kind of tame for a crazy person. 

                   So the filming began. Now I don't know how good my improv skills are because nobody who knows anything about improv has every said anything about my improvness. I thought I did a really good job making stuff up and keeping it funny and crazy. Surprisingly easy. I really got into the character of Dr. Stan Steinbeckerblacker (I think I just found my costume for next year). After the easy part, I had to decide how to edit out 10 minutes of foootage so that we didn't have a television pilot. Luckily, Tai left me  up to my own devices which I am still not sure is a good thing. 

One more quick thing: the spelling mistakes are intentional and the swearing is censored with speeeeeze toys.

Thanks for watching/reading. DFTBA

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Survey Season

Spring/Autumn is the season to be surveyed. Alex Day who is a YouTube man/thing created a survey to go around YouTube and everyone could just have a single theme for their videos, him. So I thought I could do this and that if I did this I wouldn't have to think of any video ideas for this week.

First kiss: I was planing on having it with my Mafia piggy-bank in the video but I couldn't get a good angle on it since my room is quite confining. So I went with one I made up, I don't know if it shows but its made up, I don't know anyone called Candice. I never got round to kissing my semi-girlfriend of 2 years, I'm not sure if that's good or bad. I am going to be 18 in a month and I still haven't kissed a girl.

Most Expensive Item of Casual Clothing: My jeans, thats about it. Everything else has been below $15 if I remember correctly. If it was formal, then my Parisian suit which no longer fits me, welp.

What Would You Name Your Kids?: I want to name my kids after something I love and is quite nerdy, however, it's hard to do that without being tacky or having an ugly name. So I went for elvish names in Arwen and Galadriel. Then I went for Eowyn because it's beautiful and the character is strong and from Rohan, my favorite human kingdom in Middle Earth. Boys names I couldn't care less about.

School Friends: I think it's self-explanatory.

I had fun doing this and if you want to answer the survey feel free, its open to anyone. Have a good week, and DFTBA.

I'm a hipster, you're a hipster

A single flannie does not a hipster make. Well in my case it does. I tried to explain what hipster culture means and stands for, but I quickly found out it doesn't stand for much. More of a non-culture. There is a certain style that hipsters typically have but that is centered around finding stupid things to promote, ironically.

Hipsters are very protective to all those that they hold "sacred" which confuses me since they deny that they really ever honestly enjoy something. But there is a sort of right of passage into becoming a hipster, one will be approached by a hipster type person who will then begin to quiz you on your favorite bands, movies and places to eat. The safe response to any of these questions is to say that your most listened to band is Synonymous Repercussions and that they are based in San Fransisco and that you went to see them last year while you were there. A safe response to your favorite movie should be Cargo, which is a Swiss/German sci-fi movie with great cinematography (hipsters love foreign cinema, the further away from Hollywood the better). Acceptable favorite eateries and drinkeries include any farmer's market or Whole Foods, any place that sells coffee or teas that aren't Gloria Jeans or Starbucks. Sports clubs are right out! Thats where the tradies commune.

The joke at the beginning where a say "a pelvic, giant, combustible, gaseous solar body" might require some explaination. That sort of defeats the point of it being a joke but meh. Pelvic means hip and giant, combustible, gaseous solar bodies are all descriptors of stars, ergo hipstar. My inner comedian is getting angry at my nerdier side for needing to over-explain everything. Speaking of nerds, Jonah Ray of the Nerdist podcast has a great little rant and explanation of hipster culture. Its about 10 minutes from the end. Nerdist Podcast Defines Hipsters

Thank you all for reading and watching what I put out into the world. Please enjoy.

Thoughts from places: Sydney

The VlogBrothers influence strikes again! I have been harboring this footage (no pun intended) for a month or so now. I filmed it while on youth conference in Sydney (no duh), and I though I might have something profound to say. It turned out not to be the case but I made a video anyway.

              The main goal of this video was to make people laugh (as is with all my videos), but also to get people to think about connotations particularly about locations. The actual "Thoughts" part of my video seems a little disheveled, because it is, and lets pretend I meant it to be this way. It's really hard to make things seem organized when they aren't organized in your mind. Organization is  good skill to have, but so are good improv skills. Seeing an old looking church in Australia shocked me a little; firstly because I didn't know Australia was ever religious, secondly because I didn't know things were that old in Australia and thirdly because I realized I don't know that much Australian history (I have a good excuse though). Thats how I got the idea to do a "Thoughts from Places" style video.

                   There was a lot of footage I wasn't able to use because some people got in the shot or because I forgot to press the red button which allows the camera to capture the photons. I hope you got the jist of what I am trying to say in this masterful piece of Internet Culture. Thank you for reading my blog and watching my videos, I would send out love to all of you but I don't have the appropriate organ for compassion or empathy. GET OFF MY LAWN HIPSTER!

VidCon but you can't

Lets see some rationale here. VidCon (short for ViddConn) is the annual YouTube gathering which held in Southern California and founded by the VlogBrothers: Hank and John Green. Most of the worth while YouTubers show up unless they are doing something better for the world, so naturally Ray William Johnson didn't go. Because he isn't worth watching not because he is doing something better. All the people I draw to as inspiration and influences from YouTube are there and having a good time, partying and meeting their fans. I thought that meeting my idols would be the best way to get them to meet me and find out who I am. If I approach them on the Internet I feel like just another nerd pushing up his glasses and saying in a nasally voice "hey, you guys are awesome, maybe you would like my stuff too." This makes sense in my head. They probably get a lot of requests like that. And I also think that my real persona is my funnier side, and If they saw they would like me more. I just need human approval and if it was from masters in the field it would mean a lot more. But I realized I would make videos weather I got anywhere with it or not, just because I have to be funny and I really enjoy the process. I am happy with the stuff I am putting out and apparently other people are too.

     *If you noticed, before I confessed that I didn't actually attend VidCon, I inhaled. So Inhalation for Confession is the name of my Maroon 5 cover band, you would be surprised how many people didn't get it.

Get off my lawn, hipster!

Hey people who might know who I am, thanks for reading this far.
I have been putting content out on the Internet for about a year now, so I thought a blog might be a nice, quicker [than making videos] way to share my thoughts. My name is Joshua Glass from Brisbane, Australia but I live in Canberra now. I only spent about five years living in Brisbane but I still identify myself as a Queenslander. I have spend most of my life in Canberra but who really cares about that? I love to travel but I hate getting lost in foreign cities, it happens to be my worst fear. I have been to more countries than I have birthdays, it's not like I planed it that way or even wanted to go to all of them (#humblebrag). I started making little video blogs or vlogs if you are a fan of portmanteaus, and some people think they are pretty funny, maybe I will keep it up. 
                    You will find out the things I like and would like to do in the future, or just look at my profile and my YouTube channel.  http://www.youtube.com/user/JoshTheLostAuzzie?feature=mhee <------
More posts will be on their way, please be my friend.