10 Things Zach King Can't Live Without | GQ

the cool thing about these notebooks too is you can make your ideas come to life [Music] what's up gq i'm zach king and these are my essentials [Music] legos legos have always been a huge part of my life i have a pretty extensive lego collection both at office and my studio space and there's actually a term i'm technically an athol which is an adult fan of legos for me legos are therapeutic it's like the thing i enjoy coming home from a busy day and i think what i enjoy about it is actually going through the manual and being told what to do i've kind of realized over the years following directions i get to enjoy and do in the lego process the rest of my life we're usually creating the directions as filmmakers one of my favorite series that they have is the architect series and i bought all of them and i buy them as i go but i don't build them until i go visit that city so it's a fun thing when you see it in my office that it's built that means i've been to sydney or wherever i love building sets that mean something to me like the movie theater here i got this when i was in high school when i went down to film school it represented like kind of the career path that i was off to i probably will never be making movies for the big screen but you know here i am making movies for little devices for millions of people so it's a different different world [Music] this is another essential item this is the flamethrower by the boring company and a lot of people have commented that it's not technically a flamethrower but i don't care it's still super cool i actually found it more practical than i ever thought one it's super entertaining for my kids it buys me about 30 minutes of parent time which if when you're a parent of two kids under three years old you know that's a lot of time we'll make marshmallows and s'mores i've also used this to help cook and some things you can do with desserts like creme brulee is burning the top it's really handy let's see if it just [Music] burning the mic i don't think that's supposed to be leaking i'll have to report that to elon [Music] this is one of my 3d printers and the reason the 3d printer is really handy for me and my studio team is it allows the brainstorming and the ideas to be really limitless because we know we can 3d print it most likely so if we're talking about a concept where we need a trash can that's an exact specific size that comes with a cute little bag we can print it out and spray paint it silver or whatever needs to be i did a trick once where i i was playing catch with myself and tossing the football and then it turned into a mini football in the foreground and we'll take a regular football eventually we scale it down to the right size and we paint it and it's just a really cute miniature [Music] it also comes in handy currently with corona we've been printing these masks so we don't print this plastic visor but we print the headpiece and the bottom clip here we're sending these pieces out to hospitals so that they can you know protect people if there was 3d printers when i was a kid i would be all about it and geeking out it'd be probably more important than legos to me but i mean you can kind of 3d print legos i've done it this is an essential item for me this is a boosted board i'm either biking or boosted boarding around my neighborhood to go pick up groceries or just to entertain myself or my kids i'll put one kid in the front one kid in the back and we'll just sit on the ground what's great is over the years i've i've had every version of the boosted board so i have three of them and so i can go out with two other friends and just do a little brainstorm session while we're boosted boarding these things go a deadly speed uh i've taken some pretty bad falls on it myself i've never clocked it but i do ride it 12 miles to my work and i book it so take the bike path [Music] these are some of my rc airplanes when i get into a hobby i'm kind of like my dad where i go really deep into the hobby and so i started with these maybe 10 or 12 years ago and then quickly was escalating up to these guys and then bigger wingspans and eventually i got my own pilot's license i fly both rc and real single-engine aircraft you know there's so much more stakes when you're flying a single engine aircraft with a friend or a family member so you can't mess around and do loops and like i'm gonna go dive down this tree and see if i can make it like you only get one chance at that so again i think that's why i enjoy the rc aircraft i actually fly with my kids i have two remotes so i give them each remote and then i have the master remote and so they think we're working together but it's really dad flying someday they're gonna watch us and find out their dad was flying the whole time one of the most important items that i have is my epipen the reason this item is important is because i'm super allergic to bees and i'm a beekeeper so let me get my suit so this is what i wear when i'm beekeeping it's a pretty thick material and what it allows you to do is be out by the bees you have a little smoker and the bees will come on you and and some of them will try to sting you but they usually can't get through this thank goodness because i was told after my first sting that landed me in the er that i was highly allergic and all i needed was to get stung like in the neck area which would uh potentially cause me to stop breathing but over the years i've learned how to actually beekeep and it's fun you get some beautiful works of nature it's really honey is kind of art so i absolutely love beekeeping i do with one of my best friends i think i'll be keeping the rest of my life even though i i don't know if my wife is a major fan of it because of the allergy to bees these are my essential three books currently that i've been reading a lot of this book big magic is by elizabeth gilbert incredible read if you want to figure out how to go about a creative lifestyle a lot of little good nuggets of gold and then another book with a lot of wisdom for artists is the artist way by julia cameron highly recommend a lot of cool practical tactile habits to try out and see if it works for you the other thing people ask me where i get my ideas and i actually have a very similar mind to gary larson i think his work is genius and brilliant i'll pull out some of his comics and read just a couple pages of one of the far side collections not only makes me laugh but like i'll get video ideas my thing with reading is i usually get a book and i'll read it through or skim it and take little sections and then kind of digest it by a chapter so for example in the artist way she talks about different things you can try out for a year and different habits you can put into your lifestyle i will try them um for usually a month at a time so i'll try it out for a month and if it seems like it's working i'll commit to another longer period of time like three months or six months that's what i love about reading you can skim grab a little nugget try it out in your life and see if it works and then if not move on and continue sorting through all the other great literature out there [Music] this is my canon 5d i absolutely love this series this is the mark iv but this is one of the cameras that changed the game for me when it came to filmmaking i got the mark ii when i was uh in high school and i absolutely like it changed the way the depth of field looked in my work it felt cinematic all of a sudden and i think canon makes some beautiful glass as well i spend a lot of my time looking through viewfinders i realize probably many days of my year is actually just looking through a viewfinder but i think it's special because it's your way of seeing the world and how you want it there's a million ways you can film this room even but i get to put my version out there in the world this is also my home video camera so i'll shoot my family videos with the 5d and i know it looks annoying in public now it's funny i like look like a youtuber which is a dead giveaway but i'm not vlogging i'm just making my home videos my kids are funny when they see me with the camera they always say cheese so they think i'm taking photos but i'm like guys i'm i got all these videos of you saying that now [Music] so this is an amazing set of tools this bug hunting kit especially if you have kids like i do you've got your little your grabber and we go bug hunting all weekend saturday sunday and sometimes after i come home from work this is a super fun activity especially here in california there's a lot of fun insects and bugs and toads that you can catch but this is a super special bug container because it allows you to catch some really neat creatures that you may not see with the visible eye like this tarantula here do we know if this one's poisonous how do you know if they're how do you know if they're poisonous this is uh kind of terrifying yeah we're gonna cut to the next thing i carry around with me all day every day one of these a moleskin notebook i go through about one every three weeks and i write down everything from what i'm gonna do that day i'm gonna write down ideas that come to me it's really helpful for me to get the ideas on paper and i know there's a lot of different theories on this from different creatives they'll say like oh well good ideas you should always remember them and don't write them down but i found that's with me never i just can't remember or recall the cool thing about these notebooks too is you can flip to a page [Music] make your ideas come to life [Music] well thanks for hanging out and checking out my essentials i'll see you guys next [Music] time

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Published: Thu Aug 13 2020