Casey Neistat
Casey Neistat
Casey Owen Neistat is an American YouTube personality, filmmaker and co-founder of social media company Beme...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth25 March 1981
CityNew London, CT
CountryUnited States of America
hands interview kinda people sheet skill
One of my first questions when I interview prospective employees is, 'Do you know how big a sheet of plywood is?' Most people don't, and say they are different sizes, but it's 4' x 8'. Anyway, working with your hands is a very American thing that we kinda lost here, but it's an important skill to have.
everybody execution highly ideas
Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.
iphone
I am so disappointed in Apple. I don't even use an iPhone anymore. Their marketing sucks. It's embarrassing. It's just garbage.
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I was raised on Nirvana and flannel shirts and Rage Against the Machine, and I sort of describe my youth as rebellious and always fighting the system.
car great imagery salt shot
So many car commercials are shot in the Salt Flats, and so much great imagery comes out of that place, but I've never been there, and I'm curious.
branded built four million stories telling videos
I have 60-plus videos on YouTube and over 30 million views. Of those 60, only three or four are branded videos. I built that audience by telling stories the way I like to tell them.
concert stands u2 watching
If I'm in the stands at a U2 concert watching Bono, how can I capture this moment without interrupting it and making it fake?
including people race sure whatever
For all the marathons I've run, including the Ironmans that I've run, immediately after the race, I clean myself up, do whatever I need to do to make sure I'm okay, and I get right back out there, and I cheer people on. Because it's the people who come in late in the race I find most inspiring.
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I took my iPod to the Apple store here in Manhattan and asked them to replace the battery. And they explained to me that Apple does not offer a service to replace the battery in the iPod, and my best bet was to buy a new iPod.
almost art lots
Almost everything looks the same at art fairs - very hygienic, very white, lots of right angles.
son my-son
My son is about ninety nine percent of my life.
ultimate
Then HBO was the pie in the sky. HBO is the absolute ultimate.
curious capability
I'm definitely curious about what the new iPhone and it's video editing capabilities will lend to that.
thinking interesting creative
The technical process which is interesting in it's own right but I think the creative process is what's more intriguing to me.