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A glimpse into this particular spirited man's analog, hands-on world, and the genesis of Neistat's 20-year collaboration with world-renowned artist Tom Sachs.

The old dishwasher broke beyond this spirited man's will to fix it and his family was gifted a new one. Fancy stainless expensive german. Thank you barry. One flaw, though one temporary flaw the front panel ships separately without the weight of the front panel.

We have a problem once the frustration subsides. This is the sort of problem that the spirited man loves to solve. It's the sort of problem that gives the spirited man his spirit. Strangely, solving this problem conjures up a sort of giddy feeling in the spirited man.

Like he's not really supposed to be spending time on this problem, like he's skipping school like an outlaw rush or therapy fantasy jobs, lots of people have fantasy jobs, a job they fantasize about when frustrated by their actual job, chopper pilot, that's a fantasy job pool man. Also a fantasy job or olive farmer. For this particular spirited man, there are two fantasy jobs, land cruiser mechanic and especially when faced with problems like dishwasher doors that won't stay down, repairman repairman repairman, the repairman fantasy was begot, was begotten, was begotten was born of a summer and fall nearly 20 years ago. When this spirited man was, for all intents and purposes, a repairman, a professional repairman in a museum for a project, he helped build an art installation, a repairman for an art installation.

This spirited man helped build the art installation in a greasy new york city warehouse. That's now luxury apartments, there's even a shot of it in mean streets. It took dozens of people to build the installation and they boxed it up shipped it to berlin and installed it in a museum and out of the 60 or so people who built the installation. It was this spirited man who was chosen to live in berlin to keep the installation going during its museum run, and why? Why him? Why this particular spirited man, because everything eventually breaks and he knew how to fix nearly everything or he could at least figure out? How everyone gets a gift, this spirited man's gift, is the ability to fix things.

Well, not computers, computers are his curse, always broken computers, but he could fix the little cars he could fix the mcdonald's model. He could fix the mcdonald's itself. He could fix the ring of fire, he could fix the dj booth, the boombox. He could fix the bong hit station.

He could fix everything, so he was the caretaker he's always been the caretaker, so he got to live in berlin on the museum's dime. What a summer, what a fall! Every man has a turning point from here. This spirited man reached his and very obviously a fantasy was born from here working from here from the repair station. The repair station housed all of the tools needed to fix the art installation, but a funny thing happened during the art installations.

Museum run visitors to the museum thinking the repair station was for everyone, not just to fix the art, installation began, bringing in their own broken stuff from home for the repair man to fix and the repairman why he went along with it. He fixed their broken bobbles gadgets and trinkets, and he loved it and the museum visitors why they loved it too. This spirited man cannot help himself he's not a replacer he's compelled to fix, compelled to improve a thing when it ain't right or fix a thing when it don't work, cut a rake on the tape, dispenser, broken fix it with plumber's epoxy and a jigsaw blade truck Air conditioner breaker keeps flipping fix it with plywood and a finishing nail. Keep dropping the effing remote fix that with a homemade case, co-worker keeps messing with you.
Install a hatchet in your desk. That'll fix him as for a dishwasher door that won't stay down, pose clamps quarter, inch, plywood and a dumbbell, and with the giddy feeling the feeling from successfully fixing a broken thing. This particular spirited man wondered how he could maybe bring his repair man fantasy on the road.

11 thoughts on “Van neistat: fantasy fixing”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Christopher Sines says:

    Just make a bold claim one day but nobody appreciates the dishwasher and since they don’t, make them wash dishes for a month by hand.

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Cade Hole says:

    I love the videos on Tom Sach’s channel, but there isn’t very many. So, I come here to the maker of most of those videos and feel and abundance of inspiration and motivation. Thank you for the originality. I just listened to the Rich Roll podcast and it had me engaged the entire time. Make it out of that 5-10 year window. I’m cheering you on!

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Optime Energy says:

    The day I learned I'm a fixer. My daily frustration of people I work with not fixing it. I need these people or I would have nothing to fix. Life changing brilliance. Thanks you Van from a frustrated fellow fixer.

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Rombout Versluijs says:

    This is by far the best inbetween story ive seen till this far on your channel. I almost lost it on how the story began.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Rombout Versluijs says:

    Amazing how your style has kept the same of the years. Its an art form, to me it is. I really do see now who was the teacher and who was the student. Thats how the brothers have the same style, AMAZING!

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Rombout Versluijs says:

    ALways find it interesting how you grade and tone the footage to make it look much older and kinda 70-80s style

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Michael Twing says:

    Adjustment in the spring to correct tension on door. Adjust spring to correct tension in head. I can fix most anything. Specialist in broken hearts.

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Tammy says:

    My father would judge our boyfriends; if they had a tool box they were ok. If only I had brought home a Van Neistat….

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Joseph says:

    I just spent 7 minutes of my Friday watching an amazing short film about a zip line in a playground 🙃 well done Van

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars James Williamson says:

    I LOL'd so hard in the beginning watching you slam the dish washer door back down after it kept going in over and over, while you calmly narrated it 😂🤣😂😂

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Please Don’t watch this says:

    Wow really unique way of visually telling a story instead of what other YouTubers do! There is only a small amount of creators( I have seen )that have done this on YouTube so well done!

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