thank you joel

It’s v good

What camera do you use? Any recommendations for someone to start? The motto you and Trent share of "just do something" is powerful and inspired me to start with camera work

@26 mic "This channel has no videos."

Do have a question, how do you wash your clothes?

This coupled with Dax's new film about the beginning of UKposts, hopefully it gets bigger and the human aspect returns.

Wonderfully said!

Which is why it will never be shown on the fornt page, or be viral, sad state of the world

Sneezing is just a spontaneous scream. I thought of this the other day and I just realized I could be making the same content I just have to make it look good and sound good. Also thought and laughed at the idea of someone having really long nipples. Not the boob, not the areola, the nipples. And that person trying to make friends with people but always awkwardly bringing up their nips at the start of any conversation. I do make content just not Joel content

I mean, god damn, some of the shots are just gorgeous

Thanks Zalinki❤️ Glad you like em, they’re definitely the area of my work I’m most personally attached to.

Aye it’s that boi Zalinki

Zalinki please

Agreed :)

I love your content :)

Definitely felt _all_ the 19 mins of Thor: The Dark World.

@@ostiariusalpha yeah, still feeling it after all this time

I love how people still reference that. Not unlike how Avengers: Endgame referenced Thor: The Dark World

@Clara I hate bots. Not unlike how I hate Thor: The Dark World

is there a running joke about how that movie is only 19 minutes long? i'm confused

@26 mic "This channel has no videos."

@26 mic you post this spam on random channels, just stop

Lol why even...

(Scoff, scoff) Truly the words of someone unacquainted with Marvelian (specifically the Asgardian branch founded by the great scholar Waititi) Philosophy! Thor Ragnarok is much more like the masterpiece that Joel has uploaded here, you can clearly see the parallels between how Joel travels in his van and Thor's journey back to Asgard reflecting the meaningless meandering that is life where purpose is often not realized until the destination, not only that but his dynamic with his friends clearly reflects the dynamic between Loki and Thor, the pretence of brotherhood masking deep-seated resentment due to perceived differences, truly a great breakdown of intrafamilial bonds through Friggian ideology. Really I'm astounded that this isn't more obvious, clearly people aren't as educated as I am, my master's in Marvelian history and philosophy with extracurricular courses in Odininian sciences are clearly the reason for this!

Thanks umami❤️❤️❤️

This channel is the best friend I never had

Spot on!

Absolutely creativity revival!

Joel's always gonna Joel

Unfortunately it’s hard to be original and not get buried, unless you’re able to pump out videos daily or weekly.

Same. Seriously, it makes everyone else feel like they're forcing some sort of "style" that just never really amounts to much, while these videos always feel so damn real and profound in a way that I very seldom see.

You should check out some of Werner Herzog's stuff. It's not quite the same as what Joel does but there is something about it that I find similar although I can't quite put my finger on what it is. Perhaps they have a similar approach to filmmaking but use it in different ways. In any case I think you'd enjoy his films.

@Clara bo burnham is the only person that comes to mind

@Joe Z , will do. I’ve heard great things about him.

after finding Joel, I have been re-evaluating what i've been watching on youtube - it just does not compare to Joel's work. this is real

Thanks Ryan❤️

Unlike the movie Thor: the Dark World

@@Cheezy_Bunz LOL great callback

Hell yeah

@@JW-qd3ol I forgot about the callback, so I just thought @CheEzy just hated Thor: The Dark World so much he posts about it everywhere.

Ya I was so sad when it ended

How do you feel being in this video

How do you feel being in this video

@Sean Robison Why is it commenting twice

@Sean Robison Why is it commenting twice

life ASMR is the perfect way to describe it. i was entranced.

thats perfect. i want more of this "life ASMR"

Slice of life

then ultra melancholy goes to Bela Tarr Philosophical orthodox mediations on existence goes to Tarkovsky

I think he knows he's doing it. I don't think he knows that he actually is doing it, but I think he's trying. And I think he's he's doing it.

Agreed. I think his response was interesting too. I wonder if he meant what he said after that, or if he kept his response sort of middle ground because the person could watch the video.

Agreed! Even I don't know him in person, I would love to have a mate like Joel. Do you know why he made this 3-month-trip?

Thanks for pointing that out

@@berndcornflakes If you haven't seen it, I'd recommend watching his video "I got a van and I'm leaving". It would probably answer all your questions

@@lukasloventomic Thank you! I've already seen it now, but I appreciate your message💪

I'd have a conversation with myself, but from the future. Or from the past. I guess it'd be both at once in either scenario, actually.

He's alive so you could meet him

@@catpoke9557 you can talk to your future self right now though just get a response pretty late

I would have a conversation with Stephan Sondheim. His art forms a lot of my philosophy with both life and music, and as an actor and singer I think I would get a lot out of the conversation.

you're welcome

Thanks for giving it a chance❤️

Got that same feeling over here. I'm really thankful for Joel giving us the possibility to get a glimpse of his unique journey. Right now, I'm heading towards the (most likely) end of my (second) apprenticeship in May/June this year and I'm still quite unsure of how exactly I will be going on from there. Heading towards a kind of crossroads with my decision on which street to turn into still pending is quite a bit exhausting. Some day(s) I'll travel across the foreign landscapes of North America. I don't know when, but I know it will happen before I die. Thank s Joel Greetings from Weimar, Thuringia, Germany, Europe.

going to camping deep in the woods tomorrow after this. joel just simply enjoys life for the little moment somthing i think we tend to forget

@@highfighter22 Good luck man, I feel the same way in that I'm not quite sure what road to take in the near future. Coming from Florida, I've always wanted to visit Germany because many of my relatives are from there. If you ever travel to America, I highly, highly suggest visiting North Carolina and the Blue Ridge Mountains. It's absolutely gorgeous, especially in the Fall where the leaves are orange and the weather is just right.

Ain't it something that we find a video of a guy hanging around not doing much of anything on a road trip this inspiring. I mean, now I want to go play with goats, but yeah.

@@jonanderson3050 I think it's because it's not filtered bs that we see from other influencers where they're spending way more money than they should and doing all sorts of other activities for glam. It's an appeal to achievable realism.

I was about to make almost this exact comment.

hope this week is better

You have a crushing amount of stress and trauma from being in war. Humans should know better than to do that to each other, but some are able to just break through and not feel that empathy. It can even be traumatic to have that empathy trained out of you to prepare for warfare, buch less make it to the front. You should find someone you want to talk to about it who also happens to work as a therapist. And I think at some point in time, when you feel like it's right, you should go back, as a civilian, and experience other cultures as a single human, not as a member of an occupation, which draws with it so many other stigmas and social walls.

Why is it too personal?

@@sparkstudies1675 idk, I just want to be cognizant of the parasocial relationship dynamic, because I don't know Joel REALLY aside from the videos he uploads, and he certainly doesn't know me at all. And I feel like what I was saying could have been interpreted as a judgement on his character, even though it comes only from a place of support. Maybe I was being more apprehensive than I needed to be, I was just trying to think about how I would feel if some random stranger on the internet started commenting on my relationship with love and intimacy and interpersonal relationships. It's pretty personal stuff I think.

@@Canyon_Lark You did the right thing. People nowadays pass the border between being supportive to basically getting obsessed with the content creators they are watching. They do not realise that even watching hundreds of videos of the certain content creator won't make them know any more about them personally than someone who has watched like 2-3 videos of theirs.

@@Canyon_Lark I feel a bit like the other stranger, and feel your words are very thoughtful, at least from my perspective. Thank you for your comment kind stranger

My haters throw rocks at me and IT hurts. I hope they don't throw The Rock at me because I like him as an actor. GAGAGAGAGA!!! I am funny!!! I am the funniest UKpostsr EVAH! Please agree, dear pha

And it's hilarious when my staunchly conservative southern dad practically spits in the direction of people like this, calling them cowards that don't want to work and be "real Americans contributing to society." It's bitter jealousy. I need to get out of this house, it's strangling me.

@@AxxLAfriku You okay bud?

More like the Canada Dream. American Dreams are about cheese burgers and trying to get the latest game.

I recommend the Up Series of documentaries if you love to see people talking about (and then working towards) their goals and how they change.

I think the fact that it was without intent or knowledge of how he'd use it plays a big part in its authenticity, its intimacy, and its poignancy

TLDR- a bit long, but a few thoughts of mine on the lack of appreciation and where it stems from, and how we can relate this to more personal history. It's a bit of ramble, but a basic summary would be technology and the size of society has caused a sort of disconnect between certain professions and the general population, despite the fact those professions have always been extremely important to our development and continued existence. I would say that storytellers do still matter, and they are still seen as important, it's just that the personal aspect has been somewhat removed. If you go see a theatre production or oration, it feels much more like that traditional storytelling practice, and the same goes for any other in-person performance. It's just easy to feel disconnected when you observe everything through a small (or large) screen. Honestly this goes for any aspect of life now performed through phones and other technology when you think about it, and it has very real roots in our own neurology because it's more difficult to recognize people as, well, people when you aren't directly looking at them, this even goes somewhat for seeing people at a distance where you can't see their face easily. I think this disconnect in turns leads to a lack of realization concerning the contribution of a person, just look at modern society, are low level labour jobs appreciated? Are farmer's? Or sanitation workers? Not really, but they are vital for our society to exist, people just no longer see them directly, they don't experience their contribution, and so they see them as inconsequential if they even acknowledge their existence at all. I would say that while I don't consider storytelling as vital as science, engineering, or essential labour (like agriculture), it has a HUGE impact on social and cultural development, and was historically how we influenced successive generations by trying to give them some context for the world around them. It still provides that function, and it's still meaningful in a cultural, political, and social context, but it's easy to see the people on screen as somehow "fake", that they don't exist outside of that, and that these stories just appear (because the effort going into making them isn't apparent). Combine that with shorter attention spans and the instant access to so much in the way of entertainment, and it's easy to see why the professional recognition of storytelling has sort of vanished in many people. If you look at the Ancient Greek τραγούδια ( or Tragedies and other types of theatrical performance like Κωμωδία, or Comedies) or Roman Spectaculum, the size of the production increased, and traditional storytelling evolved from being very personal, told around fires, dinner tables, or in front of guests, to being orated in front of a large audience in places like the Greek Θέατρον (which is where we derive the word for theatre indirectly via Latin) or the Roman Theatrum. It was more impersonal, but there was still that human element as a result of being able to see and identify with the performer's. It was the beginning of what we see now though, a larger shift away from a single storyteller or orator towards large scale productions that were increasingly distant from the individual audience member, but the society as a whole viewed these positions as very important despite that increased distance. This was due to the fact that the performer's were there, the production happened right in front of you, and there influence was far more when you were constantly distracted by other forms of entertainment. I'm not saying theatre is somehow better than cinematic media, far from it, I much prefer television and film to theatre production's, but it's necessary to sort of reinforce that realization that these are actual people performing an important role in our society. You can get this through a more abstract form, like Joel has presented here, snippets of life, but there's still that disconnect, and if you don't have good abstract empathy it's difficult to make that connection between what you see on the screen and what this person is contributing. That's my incoherent thoughts on the matter anyway.

@@AveSicarius that’s a very interesting comment, thank you for sharing. Are you a storyteller yourself?

lmao, I mean yeah, that's what making a film/short is after all

@@Prengle Joel is literally living in a film continuously. If you have seen his long duration feature films like "pretend that you love me" you'll understand that there is basically no difference between living and acting for him

I really enjoyed the way that the first minute was like two 8 year old kids who just met and are becoming best friends lmao.

it's beautiful

That's what I was thinking the whole time, too! Beautifully shot.

That could literally be true. My guess is most were people who he met online first.

@@Sashazur I was guessing childhood/old friends

You would be surprised by how easily some people will offer help or have a deep conversation with you if you are just nice to them and look non threatening. Then add something like living in a van and they're even more likely to at least chat with you. Other factors can affect how willing strangers are to do something as well. For example, I have a very cute service dog and she has gotten us free stuff on countless occasions. Typically it is just from a worker who wants to give her food, but it has also gotten me some very good discounts at stores when all I really did was ask the employee about one nicely or sometimes as a joke.

It was so great visiting and finally meeting in person! Love ya, Dan

@@Joel-Haver meeting up one one of the coolest creatives experiences in 2021. Hope will run into each other someday. Love ya buddy.

thank you jozef, they're really special to me as well

beautiful and rare

@26 mic "This channel has no videos."

Going to join in on the random nobodies advertising stuff. www.youtube.com/ It's a website that has videos and stuff.

Thanks White Nationalist Fett

would happily watch 2-3 hours of Joel

Good for you man

Thanks for the beautiful comment and thanks for sticking around! There is a bit of a struggle of just letting yourself be when traveling in a van. I had days where I had to fight the urge to get a thousand little things done. Taking a nice hike was always a nice way to clear the brain. Love that you've been traveling and capturing music and I love to hear that you've been inspired to make a movie, go for it! When you do it'll be added to my list :) Wish you the best! I hope our vans can kiss someday as well

Absolutely. The day that Joel sells himself out to “The Machine” is the day we all might as well give up on life

he hasnt changed a bit, except grown. Such an inspiring guy. He's gonna be one of the big ones. You just know.

@@ComedyBros5 It'll be adult swim. (Please don't sell to anything Adult swim, time warner, or connected) - you're too good for them!