Omg our garage is a mess. Can't wait for our organization episode lol. We are working with Lincoln this week to show off one of their more affordable welders woo 🙌 (140 MP)
Going to build a little shelf for it above our 210 MP and hopefully start welding today for our zombie weapon build 😁
You guys have been asking for this for quite a while and we are really excited to share all this knowledge! This podcast is going public on Monday but wanted to share with y'all first.
If we messed up in any big ways let us know and we'll try to potentially fix it by Monday. If patreon's audio player is messed up you can get an RSS feed in your podcast with this guide:
Hope y'all are having an awesome Friday! We are because launch day is always like a little Christmas morning we get to enjoy each week :) In this aftershow...
- The struggles behind the scenes (of which there were many)
- Rushing through a video vs taking our time
- The benefits of failing
- What we cut out
- Trying to make good content that does not take as long (to the benefit of all)
- More thoughts about the controller
- How it's holding up so far
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2019-05-31 16:31:58 +0000 UTC View Post
GUYS... this is beautiful <3 (hopefully this shows up for y'all as a gif)
-Evan
edit: if you can't see it on your phone I made a hidden album here: https://imgur.com/a/8bxrfDt
2019-05-29 15:38:27 +0000 UTC View Post
So we've wanted to make a zombie weapon for a while and while we were at it of course we we're going to film a skit! We also thought it would be fun if I did Katelyn's special effect makeup :D we filmed it and sent it off to one of our gaming editors to see what he can make of the footage. Hopefully we can get a main channel video from it but there is a strong possibility it will be a second channel video.
Anyways I got distracted. We were going strong on that video but we ran into dela...
2019-05-26 15:07:34 +0000 UTC View Post
- Our further thoughts on thrift store shopping
- Did we actually make things better?
- Thoughts on the marble technique itself
- How simple is actually hard!
p.s. Sorry for the faulty audio, we're trying to troubleshoot it - been having a lot of issues lately!
Evan
2019-05-24 15:17:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Well Katelyn's turned out great at least :P
Mine had... some slight imperfections and I might have panicked some
But I mean hey, it would not be a true E&K video without getting real about how failure is just part of the process. As you might guess the main problem was me going too far again (mainly adding too much resin and overflowing the little lip I meant to stop at). I'll learn ...
2019-05-23 15:31:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey y'all! Just got back from Bay Area Maker Faire and it was awesome getting to meet and hang out with so many of you guys there :D Can't believe this might be the last Bay Area Maker Faire they do... that would be really sad so we're keeping our fingers crossed. We gave a talk about how to start and grow your youtube channel, similar to the bulleted notes we uploaded here the other day. We were so nervous that we'd talk for too long we actually went through it kinda fast but then had time f...
2019-05-20 20:29:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Fire, art, technology, and a space cat... all the ingredients for a fun video for us! In this aftershow we cover...
- this was not the original plan
- further thoughts on Shou Sugi Ban
- further thoughts on penetrating epoxy and how it affects CNC machining
- further art struggles
- things going wrong and how we view failure now
Hope y'all are having a great weekend! Now to fly to San Mateo for Bay Area Maker Faire!
-Katelyn
Hi y'all! Continuing to try and get ahead before our trip, this time shopping for some antiques we can upgrade with resin via a faux marble look :D
2019-05-13 14:13:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! This video won't be up til next week but wanted to share the finished Shou Sugi Ban art! Ended up not doing the glow in the dark resin since we switched designs but we really love how the burnt wood and carved out wood look together. Also I know the Space Supurrvisor is a little random but it'll make (slightly) more sense when you see the video. Ok, getting ready to hop on Twitch for a stream (at 2pm CST) so maybe we'll see some of y'all there!
-Katelyn
2019-05-11 18:19:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone!! Just wanted to share an early draft of our YouTube guide with you. It's a bit rough since it is a mashup of our notes from a few different intended purposes (YouTube video, podcast, and talks we've given).
It's also 14 pages in outline form :P
We've gone back and forth on how to make this advice available to people and what form it should take and I think we've settled on our Podcast. Just one realllly long episode haha.
I know that some meat is missing without...
2019-05-09 18:30:44 +0000 UTC View Post
All of your questions for our Q&A podcast segment ( https://www.patreon.com/posts/q-segment-to-26308019 ) were so good I thought I'd do something similar for an upcoming podcast. (We're still going to get to more your questions from that last post in future episodes BTW)
For this upcoming episode though, we're going to be talking about how we got into making and our recommendations for others...
2019-05-06 21:11:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Phew, we've made it to the next buffer week wooooo!! :D Think adding them into the schedule was one of the best things we've done to balance our life a little! Especially since we seem to have some sort of trip planned each month.
Going to start working on the next video and get ahead which will be us playing with fire/shou sugi ban and some glow in the dark pigment!
2019-05-05 15:55:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Check out this aftershow for:
-How to make Ethernet installation fun - the struggle!
-Alternate ideas we considered for this project
-Adding stories and skits
-A moment of remembrance for Katelyn's pants
Thanks y'all!
-Katelyn
Is actually about our journey of running Ethernet and HDMI cables through our walls to clean up the "temporary" ones we have had running through our hallways for 2 years :P
We initially thought we'd only get a short video out of this (~6 min) but of course there were the usual misadventures and we had to throw in a "bad infomercial" skit at the beginning and the video ended up being almost 17 min of (hopefully) good stuff :D
2019-05-02 17:34:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Meet Billy, our newest team member! Billy will be helping us on a limited time basis for this weeks project!
2019-04-30 14:56:17 +0000 UTC View Post
First off - Mochi/Joob/Supurrvisor LOVES the catio! She's had it for about 4-5 days now and she goes into it every day. She still isn't used to using the cat door so we tape it open for her during the day but she'll get there.
Check out this aftershow for
-More thoughts on the size
-Our favorite features
-Thoughts on alternative designs
-Mochi's history with outdoor experiences
-Trim vs sharpies
-Roof internal struggle!
-Unexpected benefit of painting the frame
-...
And SUCH a success with the Supurrvisor guys, we're so happy hahaha. We really hoped she would like it but are surprised that she spends so much time out there we almost feel bad that we didn't make it sooner.
Really excited to share more of the design behind it this Friday with y'all. The one thing Mochi has not gotten over yet is the cat door since it's pretty new to her. She goes in and out freely when we tape it open and we're working to train her so she can open it herself :)...
2019-04-24 15:20:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey y'all! In one of our upcoming podcasts we want to have a Q&A segment and we wanted to give you guys first dibs on submitting questions! Open ended questions are best, allowing us to tell stories or share ideas :D
Not sure if they will make it into this next podcast since we need to record it early (today) before we go to spring make, but want to do it soon!
2019-04-23 16:46:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Looking good so far, hopefully our Supurrvisor likes it :D
Think we're going to paint half and seal half so it's the netting blends in with the frame but there are some wood elements still present!
2019-04-21 22:53:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This video was a rollercoaster to make! You can see how unsure we were about how it'd turn out in the aftershow.
- How long it actually took us
- Thoughts on Bob Ross paintings
- Uncertainty about this edit (will it be interesting? Ahhh!!)
- What we'd do differently
- Challenges of doing a video that you do in one single sitting
- Balancing making a good video and trying to do the painting right
- Mixing up our content
- Future art challenge brainstorming
We w...
2019-04-19 16:40:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Wanted to show you guys how the Bob Ross paintings turned out! Not the the video is really about the paintings, more about the struggle to get there haha. But they're not bad! Of course, we put the spoiler alert warning in case anyone wants to wait for the video to see how they ended up. Now we just need to figure out what to do with these two identical paintings... maybe the parents will want one? Guess that means we have to pick our favorite... haha!
Excited and kinda nervous to post ...
2019-04-18 19:27:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Going to try and follow one of his tutorial videos this week! :D
2019-04-15 18:32:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Check out this aftershow for:
- Avoiding butt prints
- Average-height person problems
- Plant stand options! Fake Rainbow Plant? Flamingo Fern??
- So much dry time!
- Glitter gradient thoughts
- Bucket warping?
- Almost didn't include the experimentation scenes
- Tilting feet FTW
- Transparent rainbow thoughts
- Taping off vs dripping clear coat
- Why resin is so addicting
We're pretty excited about this one y'all!
Yes, I (Evan) chose the legs and Katelyn can't really sit comfortably on hers but we LOVE how they turned out. (We'll probably use Katelyn's as a plant stand)
Curious... can you guess which of us made which one?
2019-04-11 18:29:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes you have an idea and then you realize you're not very funny, your lighting is terrible, and your cat doesn't even show up on camera 😭😭
We have an idea for a new skit but thought it'd be funny to share the one that was just... meh. Sometimes you just gotta scrap an idea and start over!
On the bright side, the catio project is back on the table! Supurrvisor is pleased 😺 Happy Tuesday my dudes!
-Katelyn
2019-04-09 16:27:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! Wanted to share the project we've been working on this week since there was no video this week. It ended up being the perfect week to do this project because there was so much curing time involved, we wouldn't have finished it by Friday. We each made a resin bucket stool based off the original bucket stool idea from Ben Uyeda (Homemade Modern) but you know... in resin instead of concrete. It's a LOT of resin haha. Mine is rainbow stripes on the left, Evan's is holographic tinsel and...
2019-04-06 15:12:28 +0000 UTC View Post
We know video games might not be your thing or what brought you over to our Patreon page but I thought we'd share some exciting news related to our E&K gaming channel and our business in general.
We've started outsourcing more work!!
We're using rev.com to get captions which used to take a lot longer than you might think.
We've tried Fiverr ( http://bit.ly/ekfiverr )for some website help (jurry still ou...
2019-04-02 13:55:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Wooo lots of behind the scenes stuff in this one. The fail at the end of the project was quite a whirlwind. In this aftershow we've got:
-After shot truth
-Original accent wall idea
-Semigloss paint
-Hinges...better?
-Goofier scenes
-Evan's editing ideas
-Outsourcing some help!
Thanks!!
-Katelyn